Ebsary made her senior debut for South Australia in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) during the 2000–01 season at the age of 18.

At the start of the 2008–09 season, Ebsary gained selection to the Australian national team and made her One Day International (ODI) debut in the home series against India.

"[2] Ebsary was initially a tall and gangly pace bowler who mixed testing deliveries with erratic ones, including many wides.

[2] During her teenage years before she acquired a driver's licence, Ebsary's mother drove her to the state capital, Adelaide—more than 100 km away—to play for the Flinders University Cricket Club in SACA's district women's competition on weekends.

[3] Despite the lack of success at youth interstate level, Ebsary was promoted into the senior South Australian team in the 2000–01 season at the age of 17,[2] playing in all of her state's eight matches in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL).

In the last match of the season, she was finally given a substantial opportunity against Queensland, taking 3/21 from seven overs, as South Australia proceeded to a six-wicket victory.

[3] She was somewhat more successful in the WNCL than in previous years, bowling 28 overs and taking five wickets at 17.00 at an economy rate of 3.03 with a best of 2/19 in the last match of the season with Victoria.

[3][11][12] She played in three matches for Australia Youth against New Zealand A at the end of the season, scoring 29 runs at 29.00 and taking three wickets at 16.66 at an economy rate of 4.54.

[3] In the 2005–06 WNCL season, Ebsary struggled to make an impact with the ball, taking four wickets at 43.00 at the relatively high economy rate of 4.91.

Her figures were flattered by a haul of 3/32 in the final match of the season against Western Australia, in which she also made 26 to help seal a three-wicket win.

[3] Ebsary later said "Looking back, the move to the West has been the best thing for my cricket...After settling our line-up, it gave me a chance to let loose at the top of the order and helped my confidence to be aggressive at the batting crease...Under the leadership of Avril Fahey, the West Aussies were very welcoming and I found my groove at the top of the order.

[3] Nerve damage in her toe ruled Ebsary out of contention for the first match at Hurstville Oval, which the hosts won by eight wickets with more than 12 overs to spare.

[16] She took a single off each of the five balls she faced, rotating the strike as her partner Lisa Sthalekar completed an unbeaten century.

[2][3] In the seventh over of India's reply, Ebsary's throw from the boundary ran out Jaya Sharma as the opener attempted to take a third run, leaving the tourists at 2/9.

[16] She then claimed two catches to complete the eighth and ninth wickets—those of tail-enders Amita Sharma and Nooshin Al Khadeer—as Australia won by 86 runs.

[3] She then made 32 from 43 balls as an opener, hitting six boundaries in the fourth ODI at Manuka Oval in Canberra,[2][3][17] helping to set up a 118-run win.

[3][15] In the final match, she took 1/13 from four overs, taking the wicket of leading Indian batsman Mithali Raj and was not required to bat in a seven-wicket win.

[19] Ebsary made 34 and 25 in her two T20 matches for the season, but had no success with the ball, conceding a total of 36 runs from three overs without taking a wicket.

[3] Despite her inability to take a wicket in the WNCL, Ebsary was retained in the national team and in the next five months of international cricket, she did not bowl a ball.

[3][20] In two warm-up matches ahead of the World Cup in Australia, Ebsary made 18 and 8 against England and Sri Lanka respectively.

7 in the closing stages of the game,[17] attempting to hold together the Australian lower-order as they fell 16 runs short of India's 5/234.

3 in the following match, making 51 from 71 balls against Pakistan after Leah Poulton and Shelley Nitschke had put on a century opening stand, as the Australians completed a 107-run win.

The Australians hosted New Zealand for a three-match series in tropical Darwin at the beginning of June before the World Cup, and Ebsary made 17.00 at 8.50 in her three innings.

She made a duck as Australia lost their opening match against New Zealand, and was not required to bat in the win over the West Indies.

Ebsary made 23 run out in the final group match as Australia defeated South Africa to reach the semi-finals.

[23] This ended a 77-run partnership with Beth Morgan and left the hosts at 6/136 but they recovered to reach 268, still enough for Australia to take a 41-run lead.

[3][23] The WNCL was expanded in 2009–10 with the addition of the Australian Capital Territory, so ten round-robin matches were scheduled, and Ebsary played in all, scoring 211 runs at 21.10.

[24][25] After being wicketless the previous season, she took seven wickets at 31.28, although opposition batsmen did attack her bowling, scoring 5.17 runs per over.

[3] Ebsary had a successful time in the domestic T20s, now part of a full interstate tournament instead of a series of one-off matches,[26][27] scoring 137 runs at 22.83 and taking four wickets at 26.25 at an economy rate of 7.50.

[15][20] Ebsary played in the first four T20 games, scoring 39 runs at 9.75 before being left out of the final match as New Zealand took a clean sweep.