Sporting allrounder Ellyse Perry may try her hand at English cricket, joining her fiance Matt Toomua after his move to club rugby side Leicester. Perry, who has represented Australia in both football and cricket, says she will still be available for all of her current commitments despite Wallabies utility Toomua’s offshore move after the 2016 season.

“Nothing really changes for me. I’m still very much available for any cricket and soccer matches that are played domestically or internationally,” Perry said. “But there is certainly an opportunity for me and also a number of other girls with the Super League starting over in England next year to spend some time over there.

A number of female Australian cricketers already spend their winter in the English county competition, and the advent of the women’s Twenty20 Super League competition there is only likely to increase that number.

“I’ve spoken in depth with Cricket Australia about how I will spend my time so I can go over there and spend a bit of time with Matt,” Perry said. “We have a number of camps over the off-season in Brisbane but girls have taken the option to play county cricket in England instead of doing that so it might be something that I consider as well.”

Perry’s star has shone even brighter in Australian cricket since she was omitted from the national women’s football squad at the beginning of 2014. Her international batting average has risen by more than 26 as she has averaged 48.4 since the start of last year, while she is also conceding 3.7 runs less per wicket with her pace bowling while averaging 17.3 in that time. However Perry believes this may just be a coincidence.

“To be quite honest I couldn’t pinpoint it down to that,” she says. “I’m still quite involved in soccer but it could just be a case that I’m quite a bit older and have a bit more experience under my belt over the past couple of years.”

Despite still juggling her domestic playing time between the two sports – Perry has only missed two games for Sydney FC this summer – she has been prolific in the New South Wales Breakers’ run to a 20th straight women’s national cricket league final on Sunday.

She will again be a key player in the final against South Australia at Sydney’s Hurstville Oval, where the team will look to win a record-equalling 11th straight title, a figure only matched by rugby league’s St George Dragons between 1956 and 1966 in major Australian sport.

The 25-year-old scored her first domestic century last weekend against ACT and has struck 385 at 76.6 throughout the tournament, proving she has come a long way from the young bowling allrounder who batted a little. “One of the key factors in that is that we’ve had players retire and move on from the game so I’ve always worked at it and waited until I had some opportunity to develop those skills and I’ve really enjoyed doing that in the past couple of years.”