Lisa Sthalekar on Being the Only Girl on the Boys' Cricket Team

Send us Fan MailLisa Sthalekar is a former Australian cricket captain who sits very comfortably at the table of trailblazers.Lisa was the first player in women’s history to score 1,000 runs and take 100 wickets and she’s been inducted into both the Australian and the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.Lisa is now a high-performance coach and an accomplished and much-loved cricket broadcaster - travelling the globe covering Indian Premier League, World T20, and the Tokyo Olympics.In our chat, along with giving excellent tips on sports psychology and how to be a great sports broadcaster, Lisa talks about being adopted as a baby - she was originally named Laila and had been at an orphanage in Pune, India, for three weeks when her dad, mum and sister arrived… actually looking for a baby boy, but they fell instantly in love with the little baby girl before their eyes.Lisa talks about returning to that orphanage during a trip to India in later year, and also about growing up in Sydney in the 80s and 90s, and for a very long time being the only girl on the boys’ cricket team - and not even knowing that there was such thing as a women’s comp.SHOW NOTESLisa social media: Twitter: @sthalekar93 Instagram: @lsthalekarWebsite: http://www.lisasthalekar.comNeed help with your next media appearance? Head to our website at stephaniehuntmedia.com or chat with us on Instagram at @stephaniehuntmedia or Facebook.This podcast is brought to you by Charles Sturt University - where I studied Communications and I’m proud to be a member of their alumni.We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we have recorded this podcast, the Darug people. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.Support the showWe love that you're listening! Thank you. 'And We're Rolling' is produced by Habari Productions and Stephanie Hunt Media. You can find more words of wisdom on our website stephaniehuntmedia.com and join us on substack at rollingwithstephaniehunt.substack.com and on our socials at @stephaniehuntmedia.We truly appreciate you.