HAIDEE’S LOVE OF THE HEAT
THE BIG Q&A WITH BRISBANE ALL-ROUNDER
QHi Haidee, great to catch up with you. Let’s start with your North Queensland roots. How did you find the sport of cricket growing up in Charters Towers?
AEvery Sunday we’d go out and watch the cricket as a family and run around with the other kids. I always watched but never played. Mum suggested once that I should play and I shut it down, but towards the end of one season I decided to give it a go. I played a game and absolutely loved it, but unfortunately then it was the end of the season, so I had to wait about six months until I could play again.
QIt seems you displayed a fair bit of talent from the get-go – I understand things began to move pretty quickly from when you
AI was lucky enough that Roma Bailey, who’s still got a lot to do with Charters Towers junior cricket, and Tony Hampson from Townsville put my name forward and got me a run in a President’s XI. That was when I was 13 – I started playing at 12 – and then I made the under-15s Queensland side after that.