White Ferns batter Sophie Devine says she's like to bottle up her current form so she could have it forever as she dominates the women's Big Bash League in Australia.
Sophie Devine Photo: Photosport Ltd 2019
Devine tops most of the batting stats in the Australian T20 competition.
The Adelaide Strikers opener has scored 593 runs in 12 games so far for an average of 74.
She's hit seven half centuries and has a strike rate of 130.
She's also doing well with the ball, grabbing 15 wickets at an average of 18 and an economy rate of 6.3.
"It happens in cricket doesn't it, you find a bit of a purple patch and you've got to make the most of it while it lasts because we all know as cricketers that it can be a pretty fickle game at times so I'm just enjoying the form that I'm in at the moment but also the way the teams playing so that we're getting a few big wins on the board and booked a place in the finals."
The Strikers are second in the standings and still fighting for home field advantage in the play-offs.
Devine has enjoyed batting alongside White Ferns team-mate Suzie Bates and admits she's made a few adjustments this year in her approach to the shortest form of the game.
"Some of the innings I've had over the last couple of games have certainly been a little bit slower than I guess I'm use to and probably what other people have been use to seeing, so it's been adjusting and adapting to what's required."
"I think it helps when I've got Suzie Bates down the other end who has been going at a really good clip so it takes a bit of pressure off me to work myself in and bat deep in the innings which has happened and then being able to tee off a bit more at the back end of the innings."
Sophie Devine Photo: PHOTOSPORT
This year the women's competition was separated from the men who will play over the Christmas-New Year period.
Organisers felt the women's competition was being overshadowed when they played at the same time as the men and Devine agrees.
"Everyone was probably a little nervous to how it might pan out after the previous four seasons had been played alongside the men, but I think it's been fantastic, successful not only in terms of the crowds but also tv ratings and how it has been received by the public has been fantastic."
"As a player the structure of the competition has been awesome, playing more weekends which gives you more time to work on things at training and then implement, so I think it's been a great success."
Devine says the Brisbane Heat, which contains fellow White Ferns Amelia Kerr and Maddie Green will be the team to beat in the play-offs.
