While she may not be an asset on the pitch, the Diamond Creek accountant has become one of the linchpins of the Diamond Creek Cricket Club, where her son played and her husband still plays.

The 48-year-old has devoted countless hours to the club. She is a fixture at Saturday and Sunday games, where her husband plays in the senior and the veterans’ teams, and she is on both the junior and senior committees. She also does the club’s merchandising.

Faulkner became involved with the club when her son, then eight, joined the juniors. Four years later, her husband Greg joined the seniors’ side.

‘‘Hopefully, cricket keeps them fit and keeps them out of trouble,’’ she says.

The Faulkners have also found time to be on the committees for their local kindergarten and primary school, basketball club and the netball club where their daughter plays.

‘‘Thank goodness we’ve only got two kids,’’ she laughs.

Faulkner says the cricket club is run entirely by volunteers, including its coaches and umpires.

‘‘You do it because it needs doing. Any club is only as good as its volunteers,” she says.

Last year the club found a way to repay her. When Faulkner suggested that the club get behind the McGrath Foundation’s Pink Stumps Day to raise money and awareness of breast cancer, the club rallied to the cause.

Faulkner’s circle of family and friends has been affected by breast cancer.

Her childhood best friend was undergoing treatment for breast cancer when Faulkner found out her sister-in-law and her mother-in-law had both been diagnosed.

The scariest thing, she says, was having her 16-year-old daughter ask whether she was at risk and not being able to reassure her.

For the Pink Stumps event last year, Faulkner organised a girls’ day at the cricket club, complete with jewellery stalls, manicures, hair stylists, Champagne and a raffle. The event raised just over $1500.