The Australian girls’s cricket group’s wicketkeeper and opening batter Alyssa Healy has stated she’d be honoured to captain the aspect.
Key factors:
- Meg Lanning’s sabbatical has left Australian girls’s cricket with no chief
- Veteran keeper Alyssa Healy has stated she could be honoured to imagine the function
- Healy has beforehand served as vice-captain
The group is with no skipper, with veteran Meg Lanning taking indefinite go away after the aspect received the Commonwealth Video games gold medal.
Vice-captain, Rachael Haynes has retired, doubtlessly opening up a spot for Healy as her alternative or as captain if Lanning continues her go away into subsequent 12 months.
“I have been vice-captain within the Australian aspect earlier than and that is been an incredible alternative, however yeah, if the decision did come my manner there is no chance I would flip it down,” Healy stated.
“I feel it could be an unbelievable honour and it one thing that I’d actually take the problem of and hopefully go away a mark on the sport the place I can.”
The ladies’s group aren’t as a result of play till subsequent January when they tackle Pakistan at house for a sequence of one-day and T20 Internationals earlier than heading to South Africa to defend the T20 World Cup.
Healy stated she had thought-about taking over one of many official management roles.
“I’ve given a bit little bit of thought — I imply it could be impolite to not as one of many senior performs within the aspect — about who they could lean on to to take over the reins,” Healy stated.
“However, from my standpoint I am trying ahead to the WBBL first, and if that cellphone name comes then you definitely magnificence.
“There’s so many leaders inside our Australian group and Australian squad in the meanwhile and clearly Meg’s on a little bit of a break in the meanwhile, so hopefully she’ll come again and be as contemporary as a daisy and need to play a component within the aspect.
“However I suppose from our standpoint, I am certain somebody goes to step up take the reins and do a incredible job.”
Healy at the moment captains the NSW Breakers within the Ladies’s Nationwide Cricket League.
The 32-year-old stated she hadn’t spoken to Lanning lately as she’s travelling abroad.
“Final time I spoke to her she appeared to be going rather well and hopefully we see her again within the atmosphere sooner,” Healy stated.
Healy stated the aspect maintained a robust want to win and defend the T20 World Cup it received in Melbourne in 2020 and did not really feel any strain because the group everybody desires to beat.
“We go on the market to win each sport of cricket we presumably can, so it’d put a bit little bit of strain on us main into that, however in saying that it does not actually change the vibe across the group,” Healy stated.
“I imply, you by no means need to be the group that form of does not win or lets it down, so I feel that drives everybody each single day to only be higher
“I feel the best way we’re as a bunch, I feel the best way we perform on and off the sector is without doubt one of the huge the reason why we’re profitable, so if we keep that tradition and the values inside our aspect I feel it goes a protracted option to as having success on area.”
Healy was talking at an occasion in Sydney to advertise the Males’s T20 World Cup which begins later this month and stated she was trying ahead to watching the video games.
“Simply seeing the massive gamers out right here in our nation,” Healy stated.
“We’re such a multicultural nation and I feel sporting occasions like this actually showcase that.
“Seeing the very best gamers on this planet right here in Australia I feel it is an incredible alternative for everybody to get on the market and witness it.”
