Grace Harris works hard, plays harder

Whooo-ee, Grace Harris! You know her as the collector or funky socks, giver of fun interviews, patron saint of "just whack it and see what happens." But she's also built of absolute granite when it calls for it. Case in point, the Brisbane Heat vs Adelaide Strikers game in which she split the webbing of her hand and tried to convince everyone else not to send her off the field to fix it so she could continue bowling. And she was mic-ed up for all of it so here's what happened in real-time.

Harris split the webbing of her non-bowling hand, which would have set the rest of us mortals howling, but she very nonchalantly called for the physio to tape it up, instead of going off to get stitches on it, so she could finish her over. And finish she did, taking the wicket of Madeline Penna caught and bowled the very next ball.

Harris fans had already had a glimpse of her grit in a previous episode that went viral - when she hit a six with a broken bat in WBBL 2023, and "stuff it, I'll still hit it" became the stuff of legends. Never change, Grace Harris.

It's been a relatively quiet WBBL for Harris so far - she's featured in four games for Brisbane Heat, scoring 94 runs and taking two wickets - both of which came in this game. Last season she was the top scorer for Heat, with 227 runs from 12 games, at a very Harris strike rate of 133.17. Heat are also currently languishing at the bottom of the table, and it'll take some hard work to magic themselves into the knockouts. But when they have someone like Grace Harris in the side, anything's possible.