![\"Voll\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/425703709e7cac41684a26a06e776807.jpeg\"\/)
<\/p>\nGeorgia Voll reckons she was always a better rugby league player than cricketer.<\/p>\n
That seems unbelievable given the 22-year-old is about to fill the shoes of one of Australia’s greatest ever cricketers against India this month.<\/p>\n
The breakout star of last summer, Voll will officially replace retiring captain Alyssa Healy at the top of Australia’s T20 order at the SCG on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Georgia Voll thought she was on track to be an NRLW star, but she has since impressed in cricket. (Andrew Cornaga\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n
The spot is soon set to be Voll’s in one-day cricket too when Healy retires at summer’s end, with the youngster averaging 59.6 in seven ODIs since her 2024 debut.<\/p>\n
But for much of her childhood and teenage years rugby league was Voll’s first love, playing in Queensland state programs alongside several current NRLW stars while juggling underage cricket commitments.<\/p>\n
“I’d always been a footy player,” Voll told AAP.<\/p>\n
“That was always my dream to continue that and go on and play for Australia and be the best possible player I could be.<\/p>\n
“But obviously that wasn’t to happen and I turned cricketer, which is pretty ironic. I would never have picked it.”<\/p>\n
Voll’s rapid shift to putting cricket first was partly due to timing with COVID-19 killing off her chance to play lock for Queensland in under-18 State of Origin in 2020.<\/p>\n
At the same time she was being fast-tracked through cricket, going from an underage state talent to helping Queensland to a WNCL title as a 17-year-old in 2021.<\/p>\n
Ultimately cricket won out with Voll one of the very few to have excelled in league and cricket this century, with Manly prop Nathan Brown and England half Courtney Winfield-Hill going the other direction.<\/p>\n
“It’s obviously very different sports,” Voll said.<\/p>\n
“You see players like Phoebe Litchfield playing hockey, something that resonates with cricket. It’s definitely helped her being able to bat right and left-handed.<\/p>\n
“But footy, there’s not much that correlates which is pretty sad to be honest because I was definitely more gifted playing footy than cricket.<\/p>\n
“Really it’s just work ethic that crosses over, otherwise I was definitely starting from scratch.”<\/p>\n
![\"Voll\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/30a0e65ee479c7b48ae35b872b9a223b.jpeg\"\/)
<\/p>\n
Voll is locked into the Thunder until 2027-28 after bursting onto the scene at the Sydney WBBL club. (Darren England\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n
Identified as Healy’s long-time replacement ever since she blasted runs for the Sydney Thunder last summer, Voll looms as one of Australia’s hardest-hitting openers.<\/p>\n
She hit a century in her second ODI last summer while filling in for an injured Healy before making an 81 against India through limited chances there late last year.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes it’s difficult trying to sit on the sideline and then try and take your opportunity when you get it,” Voll said.<\/p>\n
“But that’s what I’ve tried to do.<\/p>\n
“I’ve just tried to keep learning off those players and finding ways to deal with different conditions.<\/p>\n
“That’s probably the best thing being a part of that in India. When I got a chance I messed up in the first one, before being able to fix it and adapt.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georgia Voll reckons she was always a better rugby league player than cricketer. That seems unbelievable given the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[31021,64,63,55392,240739,760,159,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-471913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-alyssa-healy","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-cricketer","12":"tag-georgia-voll","13":"tag-rugby","14":"tag-rugby-league","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471913","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=471913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}