Source: ICC

Secret Life of Winning ‘Wello’

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‘Wello’s’ TikTok channel: ’The Secret Life of Wello’ provides a personal narrative of Amanda-Jade Wellington’s epic ICC World Cup winning journey (2022) and hotel room isolation, quarantined around NZ for protection against ‘Covid.’

*She expresses elation whenever selected for the Australian’s winning team, and understandable disappointment when missing out on playing in the final match against England.

*Amusingly, ‘Wello’ is seen persuading blindfolded team-mates including Tahlia McGrath  within her bio-bubble to ‘taste the NZ snack’ that they can’t buy back home.

*Other episodes show how she and her team-mates spent their rest days: trying vineyard archery, kayaking through artificial rapids and riding down a mountain-side zip-line.

*Apart from hard-won cricket medals, ‘Wello’ is seen collecting Japanese animation memorabilia that create an escape from her life as a full-time professional cricketer and thus enhance her mental health.

Secret Life of Wello caption: 2022 ICC World Cup Tour | New Zealand | Ep.17 – Grand Final Against England – WORLD CHAMPIONS!! Youtube at URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwEDnxvJAQQ

For background, All-rounder ‘Wello’ played for Australia, to win the 2022 ICC Women’s World Cup

*As a skilful leg-spinner, Wello returned to front-line Australian duty after a three-year hiatus (through the Covid pandemic) and now plays for ‘Australia,’ ’South Australian Scorpions’ & ‘Adelaide Strikers’.

*Apart from her World Cup medal, last August whilst playing in England, she bagged ‘The Hundred’ Hero of the Match cap and medal for her ‘4-fer’ (4/14) for ‘Southern Brave’ (on 1/8/21): that guaranteed ‘Brave’ a place in the final.

*She also bagged a runners-up medal for ‘Southern Brave,’ playing in the inaugural ’The Hundred’ final (21/8/21). *‘Wello’ returns to ‘Brave,’ playing ‘The Hundred’ during August-September 2022.

Southern Brave player profile at URL: https://www.thehundred.com/players/4130/amanda-jade-wellington