Dr Redmayne goes west to continue her great juggling act

The Tweed Hospital Emergency Department is a world away from the WACA Ground.

But for Perth Scorchers recruit Georgia Redmayne, a temporary relocation to the wild west is just the latest phase in one of cricket's great juggling acts.

Through 2019, Redmayne has been combining cricket with her first year post-medical school, working at Tweed Hospital on the New South Wales-Queensland border.

After completing an intense first two rotations on general medicine and orthopedic surgery, Redmayne has more recently been able to work part-time in the emergency department, allowing more time to train with Queensland in the lead up to the start of the domestic season.

And in the middle of all that, Redmayne toured the United Kingdom with the Australia A squad in July.

Now, she’s been granted two months leave from her hospital, allowing her to pack away her stethoscope and scrubs for the time being in order to ply her other trade with the Scorchers.

It's the latest step in a juggling act Redmayne wouldn’t change for the world.

"I knew I wanted to keep playing cricket (after graduation)," Redmayne told cricket.com.au.

"It was hard to see my life without cricket, so I decided I’d have to do my internship part-time if I wanted to balance both.

"I’ve been lucky they’ve been pretty flexible with me."

If anyone had suggested to Redmayne seven years ago she would be living this life post-graduation, she would never have believed it.

The NSW native didn’t even have a state contract until 2016-17, unable to crack the star-studded Breakers squad.

But her form at club level through 2015-16 was enough to attract the attention of then-Tasmania coach Julia Price, who lured Redmayne to the Apple Isle to play for both the Tigers in the WNCL and the Hurricanes in the WBBL.

It proved a masterstroke, with Redmayne becoming a key member of the Hurricanes XI and scoring the state’s first ever century in the domestic 50-over competition.

"If you had asked me about five or six years ago whether could I see myself still playing cricket at this stage after when I’d finished medicine, I would have laughed at you," she said.

"I never thought I had a future in cricket.

"It goes to shows how far the game has progressed.

"I was lucky enough to be given an opportunity in Tasmania midway through my uni degree and I fell back in love with cricket again, so I wanted to push myself and see how good I could be at state level.

"I’ve been really lucky with the opportunities I’ve been given and I just want to try and be the best player I can be.

"The way the Big Bash is developing and the way women’s sport as a whole is progressing it’s not something you want to miss out on at the moment.

"It’s just a really exciting time to be involved."

Her graduation from medical school and the distance from Tasmania necessitated a move in state this year with Queensland proving the perfect solution, only a short drive from Redmayne’s new Gold Coast base and her place of work just across the border.

Her schedule has remained hectic, but Redmayne believes it allows her to have the best of both worlds.

"In a weird way, they’re kind of similar, professional sport and medicine," she said.

"If your head is too focused or you’re doing one thing the whole time, you can go a bit crazy.

"So if I’m coming off a bit of bad form, you go back to the hospital and you realise it’s not the end of the world if you get a duck or drop a catch, there’s more important things going on.

"And if you have a rough day at the hospital, it’s nice to go back and hit a few balls in the nets.

"So it is a busy schedule but it’s also quite nice to have that balance and to be able to flip between worlds."

The Scorchers will host their WBBL Festival Weekend at the WACA Ground from Friday to Sunday, with Perth to play the Melbourne Renegades on Friday night at 5.40pm local time (8.40pm AEDT).

Saturday’s action will see the Renegades meet the Sydney Sixers at 12.10pm (3.10pm AEDT) before the Scorchers take on the Melbourne Stars at 3.55pm (6.55pm AEDT).

On Sunday, the Sixers and the Stars will go head to head at 11am (2pm AEDT).