Massive news about Ellyse Perry confirmed after leaving home for ex-husband
The Australian cricket star has spent the past six years playing for Victoria, but will be back in blue this season. 'The last six years I've spent in Melbourne and at Cricket Victoria have been extremely fond ones and I'm incredibly grateful for all the opportunities and memories that I'll cherish,' the 34-year-old said. 'I'm really looking forward to being back in Sydney and closer to my family and longtime friends.'
Leah Poulton, the head of Female Elite Cricket in NSW, said Perry's return to the state is a significant boost. 'We're thrilled to welcome Ellyse back home to the Breakers," Poulton said.
"She's not only one of the world's premier cricketers, but also a role model and leader whose impact extends far beyond the field. Pez' professionalism, experience, and approach to the game make her an incredible asset to any team, and we're excited to have her back in our program.'
Perry played for NSW from 2007 to 2019, helping the Breakers win a staggering 10 titles in the Women's National Cricket League. Despite playing 20 games for Victoria across the last six years, Perry remains 10th on the list of all-time WNCL run-scorers for NSW, and is the state's third-highest wicket-taker.
She decided to up stumps and move to Victoria in 2019 when ex-husband Toomua was based there while playing for the Melbourne Rebels. Her five-year marriage with the former Wallabies player broke down in 2020 and they went their separate ways, but Perry remained playing for Victoria.
"At the end of the day, it was really very much a personal decision for family life," she said in 2019 about the move. "The opportunity to play at NSW for the last decade or so has been an absolute honour.
"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 a 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."
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Perry is notoriously private about her personal life, and hasn't spoken much about her sad split with Toomua in the years that have followed. In 2022, he opened up on the divorce and said: 'It was tough. Not fun at all. It sucked. You can see why it breaks people. It was brutal.
"I'm very fortunate that we had no kids, and of the divorces, it was a good one in the sense of the separation of those things. The one unique thing being it was public. Getting sprayed while I'm goal-kicking or getting abused on some social media platform isn't great, but they're minor things.'
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