RICHMOND resident Ashleigh Doble has been picked for the Australian Indoor Cricket Team.
Doble, originally from Queensland, is a firefighter with the RAAF and has lived in the Hawkesbury since late 2015.
Doble will compete in the 2017 WICF Indoor Cricket World Cup, which takes place in September.
Doble played as part of the Queensland squad at the Australian Championships earlier in July.
“We went there to win the national championships which we hadn't won in three years,” she said.
“Making the Australian team was just that extra bonus and I guess it is extra motivation to go that next step and win the world cup.”
The 28-year-old said she was an allrounder, who opened the batting and bowled medium pace cutters, with the occasional effort ball.
Doble said over the next month she would fly back to Queensland just about every weekend to train with the rest of the squad in preparation for the world cup.
“I am that excited. It is only seven weeks to go,” she said.
Doble said she her passion for indoor cricket happened accidentally.
She said when she was at school, she refused to go on an indoor cricket trip, until that is, she found out the team was going to a Brisbane Broncos match.
As it happens, she found out she thoroughly enjoyed the team and started making representative sides as a result.
“I could throw and hit the ball so they wanted me in the team,” she said.
“I had played cricket coming up through my younger years, but it never really got serious until about 2006 or 2007.”
Doble said she also played hockey, but stopped playing about a year ago because she knew the world cup was coming up and wanted to focus on indoor cricket.
