England fast bowler Issy Wong has become an unexpected internet sensation at The Hundred Women 2025, not just for her bowling prowess but for her delightfully quirky answers in a rapid-fire interview that’s been making rounds on social media. From explaining the geometric logic behind pizza packaging to pondering the existence of extra-terrestrial life, Wong has proven she’s the friend everyone would want to hang out with during downtime.
Issy Wong explains her wonderfully random worldview
The 22-year-old pacer kicked off the interview with refreshing honesty, choosing Babybel as her favourite cheese – a choice she defended as not being “try-hard”. But it was her cosmic perspective that truly shone when asked about aliens. “The universe is infinitely big. It’s going to keep on until infinity till they find a solar system where there’s aliens,” Wong reasoned with the kind of logic that makes you pause and nod.
Her practical side emerged when she revealed her favourite kitchen appliance is a coffee machine = a choice that suggests she’d be an excellent host for impromptu visits. But it was her explanation of pizza box geometry that truly captured viewers’ attention and demonstrated her surprisingly analytical mind.
Wong’s Pizza Box revelation makes her an instant engineering hero
When posed with the age-old question about why round pizzas come in square boxes, Wong delivered an answer that would make any logistics expert proud. “Because they are easier to tessellate when stacking them in the back of a lorry so they don’t roll everywhere. There would be empty space between them [if the boxes were circular],” she explained with the confidence of someone who’s clearly given this considerable thought.
Her geometric insight aligns perfectly with industry practices. Square boxes are indeed manufactured from single sheets of cardboard, making them cheaper to produce and more efficient to stack and store. The tessellation principle she mentioned – the ability of square shapes to fit together without gaps – is fundamental to efficient packaging and transportation. Wong’s explanation touched on the core reasons why the pizza industry has stuck with this seemingly mismatched pairing of round food and square container.
The interview revealed more entertaining contradictions in Wong’s personality. She firmly believes cereal becomes soup once milk enters the equation, finds the kazoo particularly annoying when teammate Charlie Dean plays it, and admits to being terrible with directions while also being stubbornly resistant to admitting wrong turns. Perhaps most endearingly, when asked about survival skills for The Hunger Games, she noted she’s “quite fast, but not very good at murdering people” – a quality most would consider a virtue rather than a limitation.
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This article was first published at WomenCricket.com, a Cricket Times company.
