The 18-year-old University of Otago student has been asked to opening the batting with skipper and regular keeper Katey Martin.
The new partnership has shown some potential but there is still plenty of room to improve, Crowley acknowledged.
"We're hoping to get a few good partnerships going," Crowley said.
"It didn't start off too well last week but, hopefully, we'll improve a wee bit."
The Otago Sparks split their opening two one-day matches with Auckland, losing the first by five wickets but holding on to win the second by 12 runs.
Crowley scored just four and nine but did share in useful partnerships of 30 and 38, with Martin scoring back-to-back half centuries.
In a way, while she missed out on a decent score, she accomplished her mission.
The left-hander's role is to rotate the strike and tie up an end.
And it is a role she feels well-suited for.
"I find it a lot easier than batting down the order.
"I find there is less pressure because you go out and play your own game, as opposed to coming in at eight or nine and feeling like you have to smack it around."
Crowley got her start in cricket during year 8, when the Kavanagh College sports co-ordinator talked her into making up the numbers for the school team.
"I wouldn't have given it a go otherwise."
She took to the game "pretty much" instantly and by year 10 had cracked the Sparks squad.
"I went away to Northland and didn't really play.
I was just the water girl for the last round. But by the next season I'd worked hard enough in the off-season to make the team."
She is in her third season with the Sparks and is hopes to continueimproving.
The Sparks finished fourth last season, narrowly missing a place in the final in a tight tournament.
This year, the team wants to reach the finals.
The Sparks were reasonably satisfied with their opening games.
"There was a lot of small things that would have won us that game [against Auckland] on Saturday. Just little errors in the field or some leaky spells of bowling. We picked up on Sunday to win so at least we improved and know what we did wrong."
The Sparks play Northern Districts in a twenty/20 fixture in Whangarei today and in back-to-back one-dayers this weekend.
