'Legends don't need to play for personal milestones' - Fans react as Ellyse Perry shows no regret over missed century in Women's Ashes 2023

The veteran Australian all-rounder Ellyse Perry missed a well-deserved century by a margin of just 1 run in the ongoing Women’s Ashes 2023 one-off Test. Notably, England Women and Australia Women are locking horns in the only Test at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. Aussie skipper Alyssa Healy won the toss on day 1 and decided to bat first.

Perry played an outstanding knock of 99 runs on the first day of the match but eventually, she fell prey to Lauren Filer and couldn’t complete her century. Later on, she also spoke about missing the century and went on to say that she has no regret of missing a personal milestone.

"A century is just a number and it's one that we talk about a lot in cricket. I've loved every opportunity, sometimes things just go that way, it's hard to be disappointed,” said Ellyse Perry while talking about her knock.

Subsequently, a section of cricket fans also praised Ellyse Perry for his commitment and his selflessness for the team. Fans took to the micro-blogging site Twitter to come up with some praising remarks for the star Aussie batter.

Here’s how fans reacted:

Legends don't need to play for personal milestones🐐

— Khush Thakkar (@Khush_Thakkar12) June 23, 2023

Respect @EllysePerry 🫡

— Lucky (@sanataniboy8275) June 23, 2023

Congratulations 🎉🎉

— Narayan Barada (@NarayanBarada1) June 23, 2023

Queen ❤️

— cricket is love 😍 (@Sarandeep__) June 23, 2023

Lady Goat ❤ - 🐐

— 𝙍 𝙔 𝘼 𝙉 ⚡ (@Marcmarques_) June 23, 2023

Kitni cute he yrr ye😍🥰

— Priyanka (@Lostgirlprii) June 23, 2023

Goat 🐐 ellyse Perry 😍😍😍

— King Kohli 👑 (@JaySola71596178) June 23, 2023

Champion mindset🐐

— 🌞 (@surajviratt) June 23, 2023

Speaking of the action of the match, Australia lost Phoebe Litchfield early on the team’s total score of 35 runs after they started batting first. Following that, Beth Mooney went back to the pavilion after stitching a 48-run partnership with the star of the day Ellyse Perry. After Mooney’s dismissal, Ellyse Perry and star number four batter Tahlia McGrath stitched an amazing partnership of 119 runs for the third wicket.

Perry scored 99 runs before getting caught by Nat Sciver-Brunt and McGrath also contributed with the knock of 61 runs before Ecclestone got the better of her.

At the end of the first day’s play, Australia had posted a total of 328 runs for the loss of seven wickets in 85 overs. Annabel Sutherland and Alana King were there in the middle on the individual scores of 39 and 7 runs respectively.