Lisa Sthalekar on Uncovering the Secret to Sports Broadcasting and Being the Only Girl on the Boys' Cricket Team

Lisa Sthalekar is a former Australian cricket captain who sits very comfortably at the table of trailblazers.

Lisa was the first player in women’s history to score 1,000 runs and take 100 wickets and she’s been inducted into both the Australian and the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

Lisa is now a high-performance coach and an accomplished and much-loved cricket broadcaster - travelling the globe covering Indian Premier League, World T20, and the Tokyo Olympics.

In our chat, along with giving excellent tips on sports psychology and how to be a great sports broadcaster, Lisa talks about being adopted as a baby - she was originally named Laila and had been at an orphanage in Pune, India, for three weeks when her dad, mum and sister arrived… actually looking for a baby boy, but they fell instantly in love with the little baby girl before their eyes.

Lisa talks about returning to that orphanage during a trip to India in later year, and also about growing up in Sydney in the 80s and 90s, and for a very long time being the only girl on the boys’ cricket team - and not even knowing that there was such thing as a women’s comp.

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**Lisa Sthalekar on Uncovering the Secret to Sports Broadcasting and Being the Only Girl on the Boys' Cricket Team**

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