Recruit Redmayne ready for new start
SHE is yet to play a game for her new club but Gold Coast Dolphins recruit Georgia Redmayne is embracing her unofficial leadership role with the young Katherine Raymont Shield squad.
The 24-year-old wicketkeeper will make her Dolphins debut in tomorrow’s Round 2 one-dayer at home to Ipswich-Logan.
Redmayne was crowned the Betty Wilson Young Women’s Cricketer of the Year in February following a breakout season with Tasmania in the Women’s National Cricket League and Hobart Hurricanes in the Women’s Big Bash League.
Despite a looming move to the Coast when she begins a new job at Tweed Hospital in January, Redmayne will continue to juggle WNCL and WBBL commitments with her Dolphins duties.
The Alstonville product has spent the past two seasons with Cricket Tasmania while living on the NSW north coast, after failing to make inroads beyond a sole appearance for NSW in the 2014-15 WNCL final.
But coming off a stellar domestic season that included Tasmania’s first ever
WNCL ton, Redmayne is ready to pass on her experience to a youth-filled Dolphins squad.
“You always want to play your role in the team and get runs and dismissals (but) I know a few of the younger girls playing up there so if I can be a leader to them in a way and help them out with they’re cricket, that’s something I’m really looking forward to,” Redmayne said.
“Obviously I’ll be finding my way a bit as a new person in the system but would definitely love to help people and the team develop in any kind of role that I can. I know there’s quite a few north coast girls who travel up.
“Young Grace Parsons is just starting and Amy Riddell has done quite well for them the last couple of seasons. Sammy-Jo Johnson, I grew up playing cricket with around the Lismore area so I’m looking forward to playing with her again, rather than against her.”
Having toured Sri Lanka with Australia A last year, Redmayne said she was keen to continue her rise towards Southern Stars selection.
“It’s just a matter of the little opportunities that you do get, to try to make the most of those.”
The Dolphins had a 160run loss to Sandgate-Redcliffe in Round 1 but there were signs of promise from Rebecca Van Helvoirt (102no), Chelsea Gan (80) and Parsons (2-50).