I spoke to Kookaburra this morning and they said we could use the bats during the one-day series not the Test matches.

Our timing is really off right now. We couldn't get anything going all day and Monte really wasn't in a good rhythm. We couldn't turn the sticks and that's a big part of our offense to keep drives going and to keep the defense out there a long time.

I've got the best of both worlds, being able to be there for the birth, which is probably the most important thing, and then still have a chance to be available for the first game.

I feel a bit for Andrew Symonds.

I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England.

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'