Mooney has more good days than bad, and there are few players more suited to rescuing a side from 76-7 in a World Cup match, as was the case against Pakistan this month.<\/p>\n
“It was a bit dire, wasn’t it?” says Mooney. “You go into games having a bit of a plan, an idea of how it’s going to pan out and that certainly wasn’t on my bingo card when I woke up.<\/p>\n
“I thrive in those situations, wanting to be the person that can change the outcome of the game and I enjoy the problem-solving side of it, having to adjust and adapt as the game goes on.”<\/p>\n
If there’s one message that consistently surrounds this remarkable Australian side, it’s the need for relentless hard work. Mooney epitomises this attitude.<\/p>\n
In the third T20 international of Australia’s 16-0 win in the 2025 Women’s Ashes, the Queenslander ran 54 of her 94 runs during a match-winning innings. No Australian player had previously scored as many in a T20 with non-boundary runs.<\/p>\n
“I probably didn’t really understand what it took to play at the elite level until I left home,” she said. “And there’s one thing about knowing what it takes but there’s another thing about learning how to work hard and be uncomfortable.”<\/p>\n
Time and again, Australian players are quietly pushing themselves to the limit.<\/p>\n
“There’s a real sense of pride with the way we work,” Mooney says, “and people not having to be told that they have to go for a run or go to the gym, everyone just does it because they know how important it is.”<\/p>\n
Even though you don’t get the impression Mooney would ever put in less than everything, she knows to be successful is to be relentless: “You know that if you let your guard down slightly, it doesn’t take much for someone who’s playing really well in domestic cricket to take your spot.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mooney has more good days than bad, and there are few players more suited to rescuing a side…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-229622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}