"I'm supporting Australia," says the Canberran citizen, Rammanee Shivakkumar.
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She has every reason to be grateful to the country and the city. Australia took her in after she left Sri Lanka as it tore itself apart in the bloodiest of civil wars.
She is now honoured to be one of the official scorers in the Test against her one-time home country on the island to the south of India.
As a scorer, she will be scrupulous and neutral. The figures are the figures.
But as an Australian, her heart is here.
More than thirty years ago, at the age of 20, she left war-torn Sri Lanka, firstly to India where she got a university education and then to Australia, sponsored by her sister who had fled the war to Darwin.
She doesn't talk about the conditions in Jaffna, the northern city where she was educated at a missionary school, but it was the stronghold of the Tamil Tiger rebels. It started to see serious violence, with assassinations from 1975 and then full-scale civil war, with the loss of thousands of lives in the city.
In Canberra, she has found peace, prosperity and happiness. She is modest but with a loud, infectious laugh.
Her job in the Australian capital was as a molecular biologist. Her interest was and is: family.
And cricket.
Her sons and her husband are mad on the sport and she found herself scoring at their games. Small matches became bigger and now the ultimate honour - to score in a Test match, and the first in her home city.
She said, "I was very good at sports in my school days."
But she didn't play cricket when she was growing up - women weren't allowed to play at Jaffna College - but the thud of leather on bat was all around her.
Similary in Australia. One son captained the Marist College First XI, and the other played for the same side and for the ACT Under-13s, 14s, 15s, 17s and 19s from 2008 to 2014 and for Queanbeyan for eight seasons from 2008.
When she was scoring in a match involving one of her sons, another scorer, Catherine Polglase, approached her and suggested she start scoring for ACT Cricket. She is grateful for the approach which set her off on the route towards scoring in bigger events - and now the biggest of all, a Test in her home city of Canberra.
Sri Lanka still has an emotional pull. The family has had a temple there for centuries, the custody of which is always passed down the male line and so not to her. But it still exists as the family temple, a temple built around a tamarind tree.
Her roots are in that tree. Her heart and soul are in Canberra and Australia.
As a scorer, she has no emotion.
