Cowra's Amy Edgar is having a ball, playing representative cricket for Western Australia.
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Last weekend Edgar helped steer Western Australia to victory against the NSW Breakers in the WNCL Final played at North Sydney Oval.
The victory marked the first time in the competition's 24-year history that Western Australia have won the title.
A former Cowra Sportsperson of the Year recipient Edgar batted in the middle order for WA on the weekend, contributing 21 runs from just 26 deliveries to the WA total of 231.
Her 34 run seven wicket partnership with Piepa Cleary gave the WA innings momentum to post a big run chase in the 50 over match.
In reply NSW was all out for 189 in a match Amy described as an even affair that could have gone either way.
Edgar has steadily built a reputation as a reliable middle order batsman since making the move to WA to the point where she is now a regular in the state team and also a squad member with the Perth Scorchers in the Women's Big Bash League.
I've been here for three years now, I got a call from coach Lisa Keightley back then and she offered me a contract to come over and play in WA.
I took a while to think about it and here I am three years later," Edgar said.
The coach Edgar refers to, Lisa Keightley, went on to be named as the first full-time female head coach of England's women's team.
Keightley, was the first woman to score a century at Lord's.
Edgar was still based in Cowra when the offer to play in WA came.
Asked how she appeared on WA's radar Edgar said she wasn't sure.
"Someone must've given them my name, I'm not sure actually to be honest," she said.
When not on State or Big Bash duties Edgar plays for the Meville Club in Perth.
Since debuting for Meville in the 2017-18 season she has amassed 1009 run in all forms of the game at an average of 33.63 with a top score of 126 not out scored in a 50 over match against South Perth in January this year.
Edgar opened the batting in that match combining for a 319 run partnership with fellow opener Mathilda Carmichael.
While not bowling at state level Edgar still rolls the arm over at club level and took 1-32 in that match off 6.1 overs.
"We've got plenty of bowlers in that team," she said of the WA side.
"I've worked a bit harder on my batting as the years have gone by
"Now it's the opposite," she said of the observation she bowled a bit as a junior in Cowra.
"It's been a long time coming for WA," Edgar who has played 15 games now for the state side after last weekend's win.
While women's cricket has made huge inroads in recent years in terms of the financial rewards Edgar, who is still in her early 20s, is still juggling work and playing commitments a situation she says hasn't been a burden to date.
"We're part time athletes but we basically train full time, during the season we're training five or six times a week at different hours."
She put her ability to be able to do so down to an understanding workplace.
As for the future Edgar said "I'm pretty happy where I am, I don't like to look to far ahead, maybe one day I'd look at coming home but for the moment I am pretty happy here, especially after the result this year".
Edgar credits her success at the senior level to her parents Bruce and Robyn Edgar and also her junior coach, Chris Baratto.
"I can't remember who old I was when I first started hitting with him, probably 13 or 14, " she said.
"I hit with him all the way up until when I left, I probably owe a lot to Chris, he spent a lot of hours throwing balls at me.
"And my parents, all the hours they spent travelling and the carnivals we went to, they're probably the main influences on me," she said.