Watch: When a cricket legend scored a stunning goal in football World Cup

One of the stars of Australia’s recent women's Ashes victory over England was none other than a former professional football player.

Ellyse Perry was born to play sport.

Perry always had the athletic attributes that would encourage most girls to take up either basketball, tennis or perhaps, cricket.

But Perry, after spending the early years of her life kicking a football into the rival net as a member of Australia’s national women’s team, finally decided that cricket was her calling.

Which thankfully, for Australia, was a great decision despite the fact that she had exceptional skills on the football pitch.

As the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup began in Australia and New Zealand recently, espncricinfo, the popular cricket website, reminded cricket fans of Perry's football skills by tweeting a video of the wonder goal the Australian scored against Sweden in the 2011 Fifa Women’s World Cup.

Perry found space outside the box and sent an unstoppable left-footer into the back of the net, sending the Australian fans into a state of frenzy.

Perry's magical goal was not enough on the day, though, as Sweden went on to beat Australia 3-1 in that quarterfinal.

And Perry, who made her international cricket debut for Australia in 2007, eventually realised that juggling cricket with football at the highest level was impossible.

Perry is the first player to amass a combined 1000 runs and 100 wickets in T20s and holds the record for the highest scored by an Australian woman in women's Test cricket (213 not out).