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Australia captain Alyssa Healy, who additionally captains Lucknow-based franchise UP Warriorz within the Girls’s Premier League, has hinted at doubtlessly lacking the 2025 version of the league.
The keeper-batter has been tormented by a recurring foot damage which notably flared up through the T20 World Cup within the United Arab Emirates and through India’s ODI tour Down Below final yr.
The problems, arising from ruptures to her plantar fascia, took her out of motion a number of occasions, together with from the Girls’s Massive Bash League. When she returned, her load was lessened, with the wicketkeeping gloves handed to Beth Mooney.
“Unfortunately for me, I’ve got a couple of months feet up,” she mentioned after the sequence win. “I’m pretty bummed by that, but at the same time elated to have a little bit of downtime and try and get my body right. But I’m looking forward to sticking my feet in an ice bucket.”
This places her participation within the 2025 version of the Girls’s Premier League doubtful. Healy additionally revealed that she is likely to be uncertain for Australia’s three-match T20I tour of New Zealand later in March.
Healy with a moon boot on after injuring her foot through the T20 World Cup
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Healy with a moon boot on after injuring her foot through the T20 World Cup
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“It’s been a really frustrating probably 18 months for me … you get yourself right, back playing, and something else goes wrong,” Healy mentioned. “(I’m) going to have a look at a couple of things and how I can be better, maybe a bit more disciplined in some areas, and make sure I’m right to go in particular for that ODI World Cup
“It’s going to be a huge load coming off not a lot of cricket for a lot of the girls in the winter, so just managing things to get right for that.”
Healy would be the second high-profile withdrawal from the 2025 WPL after Sophie Devine introduced her unavailability resulting from a break from the sport.
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