ENG-W vs SA-W | Issy Wong calls her outing for England a 'dream' debut

England finds themselves on the cusp of victory in their final Test against the visiting South African side, who are playing red-ball cricket after a gap of eight long years.

Debutant Issy Wong's double-strike on Day 3 put her side in a position of strength, claiming crucial wickets of Laura Wolvaardt and Lara Goodall.

Wong, who was roped in as a replacement for Emily Arlott after the latter failed to recover from coronavirus, has called her outing for England a 'dream' debut.

Describing her first match for England, where she has scalped three wickets across two innings, the right-arm fast bowler said," It's something that I've probably been dreaming of since I started playing cricket when I was five, so just to be able to live that dream has been really special this week,"

"My mum had a little cry; my dad didn't. It was probably something I wasn't expecting at all."

"It hasn't sunk in yet, to be honest, but I'm sure in the next couple of weeks or so, I can put my feet up for a couple of days, and then it will begin to sink in a little bit." 

The 20-year-old revealed that she is looking forward to enjoying her time in the middle, with one day remaining of the Test.

"It's been wild, to be honest. We've had a bit of everything; we had some nice weather, we had some rain, we had some wickets and some runs; it's probably had everything so far," Wong said.

"But I'm really enjoying it, probably didn't think it was going to happen until a couple of days ago, so just trying to - I guess not think too much about it and just enjoy it for this one, but equally trying to impact the game as much as I can.", Wong said in an interview with England Cricket. 

With one day to go in the Taunton Test, South Africa trails England by 78 runs, with Tumi Sekhukhune and skipper Sune Luus batting on 4* and 1*, respectively.

Wong has represented Sydney Thunder Women in WBBL and the Birmingham Phoenix side in The Hundred league.