Sydney suburbs to T20 WC via Scotland: The Saskia story

SASKIA Horley started playing football and cricket in her backyard with her dad while growing up in Sydney. She was a part of the Gordon Women's Cricket Club while playing some football for Northern Tigers FC. One thing led to another and she got to feature in an episode of the series called 'Undercover Coach' by Disney Channel in Australia, where an international athlete would coach the young player for a day.

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Naturally, Horley's coach was dual international Ellyse Perry, who had represented her national side in both sports at that time.

It has been years since that episode aired, but Horley still gets plenty of questions about the experience of meeting her hero, even from her Scotland teammates. And she never shies away from answering. "People still ask me about it to this day, even on this team so it's great," Horley told this daily before the World Cup. "I love it when it's brought up. It was an experience that I was very grateful to have that a lot of people didn't have the opportunity to do that. It's going to be fun to see Pez around the hotel. I was a very young child at that point, but different now," she added.