Ellyse Perry decides to move to Victoria for state cricket from next year

Australia  all-rounder Ellyse Perry has decided to shift base from her present team New South Wales to play state cricket for Victoria next year onwards. Perry has been a NSW regular since 2007; she will move to Melbourne at the end of the 2018-19 season with her husband Matt Toomua, a rugby player who has signed on to play for the Melbourne Rebels .

About her association with New South Wales, she said, “At the end of the day, it was really very much a personal decision for family life. The opportunity to play at NSW for the last decade or so has been an absolute honour,” Perry told The Age.

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“Going back before that, playing all my junior cricket for NSW and their pathway programs, I was lucky to do that. I am very much an NSW girl. It is definitely sad but, at the same time, having played for a fairly long period now, it’s kind of invigorating to have a new opportunity and experience in a different state,” the 27-year old all-rounder added.

The all-rounder Perry still has two more years left on her contract with the NSW-based BBL franchise, the Sydney Sixers. She wants to see through that period. “I’ll wait and see how that looks but I have a lot of very strong ties to the Sixers and, particularly, the coach, Ben Sawyer, who I loved working with. I started with the Sixers in the first season, I feel very loyal to him as well and owe him a lot. There are a lot of things to consider. I probably wouldn’t think about it until I am off contract.”

“A lot is changing because from next season the WBBL is moving to October-November,” she said. “I think that means that states that have two teams in the competition … whether or not you do your pre-season with the Big Bash team instead of your state program, there are quite a few unknowns. I haven’t thought about that,” she added.

Perry had decided to take a lay off from this season’s Kia Super League in England to spend some time with family ahead of a packed international schedule wherein Australia are bound to play a three-match T20I series against New Zealand and a series against Pakistan in the UAE before heading to the Caribbean in November for the World T20.