The star Australian wicketkeeper batter and captain Alyssa Healy suffered a left knee injury on Saturday, ending her stint with Sydney Sixers in the Women's Big Bash League and putting in doubt for the next month's home ODI series against India.
Alyssa Healy has been ruled out of the India vs Australia T20 World Cup 2024 Group A match in Sharjah. Cricket Australia revealed the reason behind the Aussie skipper missing out on the high-voltage clash.
In a major boost to their preparations ahead of the India game on Sunday, the Australian cricket team brought in Heather Graham as an injury replacement for Tayla Vlaeminck. Australia are favourites to secure a semi-final berth from Group A regardless of the result against India.
Australia kicked their campaign off with a win against Sri Lanka but it wasn't in the usual convincing way as the six-time champions are habitual of, in the Women's T20 World Cup 2024. Sri Lanka failed to get a huge score and captain Chamari Athapaththu's dismissal was a key moment in the game.
Superstar spinner Jess Jonassen has been left out of the 15-member squad despite her superb performance in the recently concluded Women's Hundred. Jonassen picked up 12 wickets in eight games at an economy of 6.62 runs per over for Welsh Fire.
Alyssa Healy captained Australia women to a white-ball series win in Bangladesh in March-April. The Australia women won the three-match ODI series 3-0 and followed it up with another clean sweep (3-0) in the T20I series.
The hosts Bangladesh and Australia will play a three-match T20I series against each other at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka. The first T20I of the series will be played on Sunday.
BCCI announced their central contracts for the 2023-2024 season with 30 players in the list across four categories while UP Warriorz captain Alyssa Healy encountered a pitch invader in WPL match against Mumbai Indians. Here are the top 10 trending news stories from the sporting world on February 29.
Alyssa Healy-led UP Warriorz finally opened their account in the 2024 Women's Premier League (WPL) against the defending champions Mumbai Indians on Wednesday, February 28. UPW chased down the target of 162 runs without breaking a sweat with Kiran Navgire smashing a 25-ball fifty.
South Africa women are playing their first-ever Test match against Australia women. The Proteas have been put into bat by the Australian skipper Alyssa Healy.
Australia are heading into the one-off Test on the back of an eight-wicket loss to the Harmanpreet Kaur-led India. The Aussies are set to participate in their second Test since the retirement of Meg Lanning.
Australia won the first ODI of the three-match series by a convincing eight-wicket margin. Kim Garth was adjudged the Player of the Match (POTM) for her figures of 2/18.
English batter Ollie Pope registered a sensational 196-run knock in the second innings of the first Test match against India in Hyderabad and is among three nominees for the ICC Men's Player of the Month award for January 2024.
The veteran batting all-rounder Marizanne Kapp scored 75 off 48 and Chloe Tryon contributed quick 26 runs to help South Africa post a big total of 162 but in-form Beth Mooney's 82 was enough for Australia to chase the total with five wickets remaining.
After thrashing India away, Australia women's cricket made no changes to their squads for the upcoming ODI and T20I series against South Africa. Alana King remains out from the T20I team but is set to replace Grace Harris in ODIs.
It was another disappointing outing for the Indian women's team in the T20 series decider against Australia on Tuesday, January 9 as despite a solid start in the powerplay the middle-order failure came to haunt them back yet again. Australia chased down 148 runs comfortably to win the series 2-1.
India and Australia faced each other in the third and final ODI at the Wankhede Stadium on January 2 (Tuesday). The visitors had already won the series with wins in the first two matches and piled on the agony on team India smashing 338 runs after opting to bat.
Australia women continued their unbeaten ODI record against India with a thrilling win in the second match to seal the three-match series at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium and will be looking to kick off the year 2024 with a win on Tuesday, January 2.
"Full credit to the Indian team, they just put too many runs on us. If we would have batted the first full day, we could have been in the game. Winning the toss and not putting the runs on the board and then leaking too many runs in the afternoon," Alyssa Healy said.
In-form spin all-rounder Deepti Sharma top-scored with 78 runs off 171 balls to help India score 406 runs in their first innings and then captain Harmanpreet Kaur shone with a ball to put India in complete control of the one-off Test at the end of Day 3's play in Mumbai.
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