Next week, Lauren Smith will take the field for her first domestic match of the Australian summer after making headlines during the off-season in England.
The NSW Breakers and Sydney Thunder all-rounder has recently returned from a four-month stint in the UK, where she's been hunting game time right around the country thanks to her long list of contacts and the British passport she inherited from her father.
Smith had experienced one of the leanest campaigns she's had in her young career across the 2021-22 season, for a range of reasons – another La Nina summer, a busted hand and a bout of COVID – that made it hard to build form.
