In the first match of the Women's Big Bash series, Australian captain and Melbourne Stars skipper Meg Lanning starred. Making 90 runs off 58 balls, she was out LBW to fellow national representative Delissa Kimmince.
"She's furious," an onlooker observed - and Lanning looked it.
Head bowed, she strode off the pitch with the air of someone thoroughly embarrassed by what had just taken place and keen to leave the scene of her indiscretion. She was not angry, just tired, Lanning insisted. Well, maybe a little annoyed. 
Lanning says she was an incredibly competitive child, in sport or at card games. She hated losing. You need to be, she says, to play elite sport.  But becoming a leader forced her to gain a bit of perspective.
"I'm always cranky when I get out, I'm never happy," she said, "I usually go into the changerooms and fuss around and then I come out and I'm fine, I need a moment to get over it."
"Captaincy's taught me to focus less on my own game, if I make a duck and we win, the overriding feeling is it's been a great day, and that's been a really good thing."
No one said being captain of the Australian cricket side was easy and at just 23, Lanning is also part of a major push to make it the sport of choice for girls. The runaway success of the first Women's Big Bash League was pleasing, she says; now it is a matter of maintaining the momentum.
From a family of five children, it was Meg and her younger sister, Anna - not their three brothers - who would spend hours with the bat and ball in their Sydney backyard. It was daunting when she started playing in the boys' team in year seven at school. Her coach encouraged her to give it a go with assurances she could drop out at any time. She played with the boys for the next six years.
Lanning says the experience took her out of her comfort zone at times but it was great for her game. She would often play school cricket on Saturday and then club cricket with a women's team on Sunday.
"The men's game is different to the women's game, they bowl faster and hit it to different areas."
"We played a lot of two-day cricket [at school], that was good for my early career to get used to batting for longer periods and learning how to build an innings."
Her transition to the big time was not completely smooth. Lanning's first couple of seasons playing for Victoria did not go well and she began questioning her future, so getting picked for the national team as an 18-year-old came as a shock. But from there she quickly came to be considered one of the best in the world.
"I was useless, I couldn't get a run, I got dropped heaps of times," Lanning laughed.
"That season of state cricket was the first year I actually put some good runs together and I got called up straight after that, so I didn't have a lot of time to think."
Lanning insists she made her first trip with the national team, to play T20 cricket in New Zealand, with no expectation of even appearing in a match. She opened the batting in the first game.
Confidence was the key to her improvement, she said. When she can play an over well, she's on a roll. Do it, so you can believe you can.
"Cricket's a funny game, one day batting looks and feels so simple and the next day you feel you've got no idea," she said.
Three years later she was Australian skipper. At just 21, she was named vice-captain and then Jodie Fields got injured. Lanning had never captained any team. "They must have seen something I didn't," she says. After some prompting, she said her calmness might have made her seem like the right choice.
"I'm not the loudest person in the group, but I just sort of do things," she said.
It is not a role Lanning takes lightly - she is a student of cricket and an admirer of Ricky Ponting's captaincy.
"It was a follow him sort of thing, without being the huff and puff sort of guy," she said.
"It's really difficult to ask people to do something if you're not doing it yourself."
Leaders need to accept that they are not going to get everything right all the time, Lanning said, and new challenges arise daily.
Former Australian men's captain Michael Clarke released a book towards the end of last year, exposing rifts between national players and reigniting a public slanging match. That must be the nightmare scenario for captains, surely?
"The thing is, not everyone's going to be best friends and that's impossible to expect, so you've just got to work out how to get everyone being able to perform on field," Lanning said.
It is important, though, that everyone in the team feels comfortable enough to be themselves and enjoy their cricket. "We're pretty lucky at the Southern Stars and the Melbourne Stars, we all get on really well and that certainly helps with the performance on field."
Like many athletes, Lanning was good at several different sports when she was young.
"Usually hitting things, I'm not very good at basketball or netball," she said.
In years seven and eight playing hockey at the Olympics was her dream and Lanning still manages to play in a handful of games a year. She loves the two sports for different reasons. Hockey offers second chances, the ability to make up for a mishit shot. But the sheer brutality of cricket, when one mistake can end an innings, makes a good performance all the sweeter.
Ellyse Perry famously plays soccer and cricket for her country, debuting in both national teams at 16. It is an impressive double act but not one Lanning can see herself emulating. Getting picked for the Australian cricket team made up her mind on which sport to pursue, and as women's sport gains greater recognition in Australia it will only become more time-consuming.
The popularity of the WBBL surpassed all her expectations and although she is not naturally drawn to the spotlight, Lanning is happy to see the women's game gain recognition. Interviews with journalists are uncomfortable but Lanning chooses to do them as a personal growth opportunity. She tries to take them in her stride.