Cricket Australia will send an under-19s women's team overseas for the first time to play South Africa and England in a 50-over tri-series in Pretoria.
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The tour will run for roughly three weeks in April, and includes two matches against each nation plus a potential final should Australia's youngsters finish in the top two.
A squad will be named for the tour at the end of February, and many of the selections will be picked from the under-18 national championships.
It marks the first time an Australian women's 19s have been involved in an international tour in 15 years. Australia hosted an England under-19s team back in 2003.
"My first under-age trip was my first time overseas. It's just the opportunity to go away and play some great competition and be in such a high-performance environment with some wonderful coaches.
"It's scary how good these girls are going to be in five or six years' time because the opportunity they have now and the access to resources and how strong the pathway programs are. I think they're all going to overtake all of us who are currently at the top level and take the game to a whole new level."
The 19s tour is part of a revamped CA pathways program for young females looking to break their way into the Australian team.
The under-21s Shooting Stars have been scrapped in favour of an under-19s team, an Australia A team and a CA XI, which brings it in line with the men's set up.
Youngster Stella Campbell is on the selectors' radar for the tour, despite still being just 15 years of age.
The towering right-arm quick who stood at 184cm last measurement spent two weeks with the Sydney Sixers during Women's Big Bash League as the team's under-18s rookie, allowing her to train with the WBBL champions and sit in the dugout on match days.
Campbell played underneath Perry in last season's Governor General's XI fixture against South Africa, fielding an entire innings after a last-minute call up as a 14-year-old.
"Going overseas would be awesome and going over there to play cricket is a dream, it would be such an awesome initiative from Cricket Australia as well to have that tour," Campbell said.
"It just shows the upcoming ability that cricket has in females as well."
"It's how resilient they have to be as well as being strong and having confidence and being able to apply all those skills in the games," Campbell said.
"How much it takes just to get to that level is so important, there's so many different things that you have to be good at, not just batting or bowling, you have to bring it all together to get to the top.
"They're super professional athletes and they just take it so seriously. It's their job so they have to."
