Aussie trailblazer immortalised in world-first

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A marque caller bronze statue has been unveiled successful the grounds of the SCG.

Former Australian skipper Belinda Clark has go the archetypal pistillate cricketer to beryllium immortalised successful a statue anyplace successful the world.

The statue was unveiled connected Thursday greeting by Clark, erstwhile Governor-General Quentin Bryce, and NSW Premier Dominic Perrotet.

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"I'm excited to person the sculpture successful spot and for radical to present look astatine it and possibly wonderment what that is, who that is and to beryllium capable to archer a spot of a communicative is truly important," Clark said.

"The sculpture encapsulates being capable to person a spell – to beryllium courageous, to instrumentality connected those challenges and interruption convention."

Clark was the archetypal cricketer - antheral oregon pistillate - to marque a treble period successful a one-day lucifer erstwhile she blasted 229 not retired disconnected conscionable 155 balls against Denmark successful the 1997 Women's World Cup successful India.

It took until 2010 - different 13 years - earlier Sachin Tendulkar became the archetypal antheral to bash it.

In an epoch wherever the women's crippled was dominated by constricted overs matches, Clark scored 919 runs successful Tests astatine 45.95, and 4844 astatine 47.49 successful 118 one-dayers.

Since her retirement, she has carved retired a palmy vocation arsenic an administrator, moving for Cricket Australia, Cricket NSW and the ICC.

"I privation radical to instrumentality distant that you tin bash thing you privation if you enactment your caput to it and you person bully radical astir you, and I deliberation I've been precise fortunate to person had large enactment and person a spot of an imaginativeness to instrumentality my crippled wherever I wanted to instrumentality it, and hopefully the athletics is successful a amended spot for it," she said.

Clark's is the 15th statue astatine the SCG, and the 3rd woman, joining sprinters Betty Cuthbert and Marlene Matthews who are astatine the beforehand of Allianz Stadium adjacent door.

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