Grace, 14, has been named in the Victorian under 15 girls squad after being part of the Victorian Primary Schools national title team and Western Waves under 14 team in the past couple of years.

She said yesterday she expected some fierce backyard battles on their Hawkesdale district farm in the lead-up to the coming summer.

Grace also plans to continue her involvement with the Hawkesdale under 16 colts team and said that enabled a smooth transition to girls cricket.

"It's not such a big step up when I play with Hawkesdale. I've also got two younger brothers Jacob, 9, and Adam, 12, who play under 13s at Hawkesdale," she said.

"We have some pretty good games at home in the backyard.They are not bad. Sometimes I even let them have a bat," she said with a laugh.

Grace said her favourite player was Michael Hussey because of his focus and ability to make runs under pressure.

"The past three years I've been in the Western Waves pathways program. My best performance was scoring the winning runs for Victoria against Queensland in the national primary school competition," she said.

"When I went in we needed about five runs batting at No. 8. I also took 4-1 off three overs playing for the Western Waves against Barwon Rockets in the under 14 titles last season."

Grace is a right-hand top-order bat and right-arm medium pace bowler.

"I generally bowl outswingers and bat second drop," she said.

"This under 15 squad was picked on past performances but we've also had two training runs already for the Western Waves at the Warrnambool Action centre.

"I've improved a fair bit over the past couple of years. I'm bowling faster and making more runs. Playing with the boys really helps improve your strength and concentration."

Grace said she lived on a beef and fat lamb farm about eight kilometres out of Hawkesdale and somewhat surprisingly her parents Maria and Colin previously had no interest in cricket.

"It's something I've just had a go at and it's gone from there," she said.