“She bowls a natural swinger but has excellent range with a good slower ball and can hit yorkers,” Harvey told ESPNcricinfo. “She’s quite short, but she bowls very skillfully.”
Suwandewi arrived in Perth on Saturday and had an early influence on the entire training. “She has the potential to play a role for us in the tournament,” Harvey said.
“She bowls a natural swinger, but has excellent range with a good slower ball and can hit yorkers. She is quite short, but is a very skilled bowler.”
Scorchers top efficiency boss Kade Harvey on Ni Made Putri Suwandewi
“We are going to be missing some international players at different stages. It was a good opportunity to use the rules in terms of the associated rookie. But we wouldn’t have done it if we didn’t think she was capable of contributing.”
Suwandewi’s signing emphasizes a growing partnership between WA Cricket and Persatuan Cricket Indonesia with an initial focus on building women’s cricket.
This led Grundy and Harvey to check in with Bali on a four-day trip in April, where they saw Suwandewi play a starring role for Indonesia against Mongolia in various white-ball formats.
“We were really impressed with the level of Indonesian girls’ cricket,” Harvey said. “They play on artificial grass, so we think a big part of their development is getting good grass pitches.
“But the potential is great with 200,000 women playing in 21 provinces, which is more than we imagined. They’ve just been given one of these impressive paintings, ethics and fervor for the game. They probably just want a minute of help with advice on how channel that.”
While believed to have been first played there in the 1880s, cricket is a minor sport in Indonesia, but encouraging progress has been made and the women’s team is currently ranked 21st in T20Is.
“They need to be a supremacy crew on this planet,” Harvey said. “They have been given a truly clear role and we hope to facilitate a change in their maximum efficiency climate to help them get there.”
