00:00 Yeah, I think it's brilliant and that's something we're trying to really build in our team culture.
00:05 Like yes, not many of us are Welsh, not many have got that much connection to Wales, but
00:09 actually that's part of the uniqueness of this team.
00:12 There's no other team in the 100 that can represent our country as a whole.
00:16 My fiancé served in the Royal Welsh Regiment, not Welsh either, but he absolutely loves
00:22 the Welsh culture and he's trying to teach me and my teammates all about it and really
00:26 get stuck into that.
00:27 Like last night we had a chat with Welsh international sports people trying to vet in what it is
00:33 to represent Wales.
00:36 And I think all these little things are just helping to show social interaction with the
00:39 girls and I think they've been loving each other's company and I think that's been our
00:43 main focus as I've said before.
00:45 And hopefully when we hit the ground, we hit the ground running on Wednesday.
00:48 We've taken on the word 'foil', which I'm trying to kind of...
00:52 Did I say it right?
00:54 We kind of take that as the team and use that value and that word that the Welsh really
00:59 kind of hold dear.
01:01 So yeah, we certainly are desperate to really kind of connect with the Welsh culture.
01:07 I'm trying to learn some Welsh language, it's not going very well.
01:10 I'll say 'diolch' at the end.
01:13 Really looking forward to it.
01:14 We had a bit of a team meeting last night and that was sort of centred around sport
01:19 in Wales and what it means to people.
01:21 We really want to try and connect with the people in Wales and obviously the biggest
01:28 thing we can do is probably to play good cricket.
01:30 But yeah, how we go about things and the brand that we want to play is important as well.
01:34 I can't speak for them, I'm not Welsh myself, but I mean since coming to Welsh Fire we've
01:39 gone on two holidays in North Wales.
01:41 We were in a shepherd's hut up on a farm last week and absolutely loved it.
01:46 My dog's Welsh, born in Carmarthen.
01:48 So yeah, for me I feel like I'm trying to really immerse myself in it, absolutely love
01:52 it.
01:53 I think every time someone asks me I say I'm an adopted Welshman now, I've been here long
01:57 enough to qualify I think.
01:58 So yeah, it's nice to be playing in front of a home crowd at my home stadium.
02:02 It's somewhere I really like playing my cricket and I've had relative success with Morgan
02:07 and I, like I said, I love playing here.
02:08 So really looking forward to Wednesday and the rest of the month.
02:12 Really excited we've got a team social down at the Millennium Stadium watching Wales
02:16 take on South Africa so we'll certainly be cheering on Wales that day.
02:20 So yeah, I think we're really trying to immerse ourselves in Welsh culture and I think potentially
02:24 cricket is something that's maybe been left behind a little bit in Wales over the last
02:28 kind of few years and hopefully if things kind of go well with Welsh Fire we can change
02:33 that around a bit.
02:34 I guess it's just the pride and everything associated with it and I think we've got a
02:37 unique point here obviously.
02:39 We're probably the only franchise that's kind of linked to a country and I guess that national
02:43 pride and everything and what it is like to be Welsh.
02:47 For me that kind of also links in to professionalism.
02:49 I think it's something when you put a shirt on there's a pride associated with that shirt
02:52 and a responsibility and hopefully the girls get what it feels like to be Welsh.
02:57 I mean obviously Glamorgan do it and everything like that.
03:00 It's just a great place to be when you represent something.
03:03 (laughter)
