It was good to find out how the guys are preparing for their tour of England and how they compare to our preparations.

We don’t leave for the UK for another month, while the men’s team is off next week, but we both face similar challenges in our preparation and it is always useful to learn from the very best.

It’s great to have interest from the likes of Graeme and Paul Harris, who was also really supportive of our efforts, and hopefully we’ll have an opportunity to meet up at some point in the summer in England.

It would be great if our schedules permit the opportunity the chance for us to watch them in action this summer or if they could perhaps come down to some of our games.

I’m not so sure I would want to have a joint training session though and face Dale Steyn in the nets, who was one of the big award winners on Tuesday night! The interest from everybody during the course of the awards evening is a reflection of the increased interest in women’s cricket at home since the Qualifiers earlier in the year.

The media support we are receiving on the back of that event, seeing features on the side in publications like Sports Illustrated this month, is a big motivating factor for me and the whole of the team to do well as we want to do our country proud.

And if this time next year I’m writing about the great competition I faced from my team-mates in trying to win the Player of the Year award, as a result of brilliant performances at ICC events, then I will be a happy captain!