Gender diversity ‘Females In Sport Are More Realistic About Where They’ve Come From’: Cricketer Alyssa Healy She fell in love with cricket reluctantly, not knowing women could play for Australia. Now Healy is at the forefront of gender equality in sport. FW meets her. By jitendermittal Published 10 July, 2025 Gender diversity ‘Females In Sport Are More Realistic About Where They’ve Come From’: Cricketer Alyssa Healy She fell in love with cricket reluctantly, not knowing women could play for Australia. Now Healy is at the forefront of gender equality in sport. FW meets her. By jitendermittal Published 10 July, 2025 Previous article Everything Is Always Working Out For You Next article ‘We’re 100% In This Or Not At All’: Zara Madrusan On Running Melbourne’s Best Bars With Her Husband Cricketer Alyssa Healy can’t pinpoint the exact moment she fell in love with the sport that would later become her profession, but she does have a friend to thank for encouraging her to pick up a bat.“I started playing when I was seven,” she tells Future Women. “And I was a very reluctant cricketer. A friend from school took me down to try it, and I never wanted to play. Obviously my family play heavily and it didn’t really interest me that much. But I think once I learned the game, and once I started playing, and I had some friends in the game, I sort of fell in love with it from there.” The T20 World Cup is aiming to break the 20-year attendance record for a women’s sporting fixture, by getting over 90,000 people to the MCG for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Final in March. Purchase your tickets and support the movement here. career leadership womeninsport Best Of Future Women Leaders This is an exciting article title By Ben Tweedie Leaders Testing the article duplicate function By rosa762070 Leaders How this CEO stamps out passive-aggressive behaviours By jitendermittal Leaders This is an exciting article title By Ben Tweedie Leadership New FW partnership to boost number of women in cybersecurity By jitendermittal Gender diversity Soft Power By jitendermittal Gender diversity Be honest. Did you think Bluey was a boy? By jitendermittal Gender diversity Cyber expert laments “lost generation” in online misogyny panel By jitendermittal Your inbox just got smarter If you’re not a member, sign up to our newsletter to get the best of Future Women in your inbox.
