Sutherland Stakes Her Claim

GH sees others step aside

Detraining today for the Melbourne Cricket Ground, your correspondent was accosted by this pale vision.

Curious, really. For it’s not like Ellyse Perry bowls much any more, or even looms so large - as the day unfolded, in fact, Australia’s once and future poster child was hardly to be seen at all, tending an indeterminate hip injury. In her stead, slotting directly into her role, was Annabel Sutherland - eleven years Perry’s junior, and now officially the next big thing of the women’s game.