Cricket hasn't just provided Mikayla Hinkley with a sporting career, it's also allowed her to connect with her Indigenous heritage and become a role model for aspiring athletes.
The 26-year-old was the first player to represent four Women 's Big Bash League clubs, and has returned for a second stint with the Perth Scorchers , seven years after her first."I think when you're young, sometimes you get caught up in wanting to be more like a particular cricketer that is successful," Hinkley said."That's something that I've really embraced probably only over the last 12 to 18 months.
"That's in any sport; it's allowing our athletes if they need that space and time to go home and back to their community, or have some members of their community brought to them. "I still think we're at the very infancy stage of that, but the trajectory is up, which is great," she said. "I think representation is everything. We hear it a lot, especially by First Nations women, representation is so much and just to have more presence in communities is the starting point."As former South African international Johan Botha's cricketing career was winding down, he was bitten by the ultramarathon bug. Now he's targeting some of the world's longest runs.
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