Australia women’s national cricket team has suffered a major blow as their captain Alyssa Healy has suffered a serious injury midway through the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025.
Alyssa Healy has suffered a calf injury and has been ruled out of the high-profile ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 match against the England women’s national cricket team.
Australia concerned about Alyssa Healy’s availability for semi-finals
On Tuesday, 21 October, Cricket Australia (CA) revealed that Alyssa Healy will be ruled out of the match against England to be played at Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore on Wednesday, 23 October due to a calf injury.
In Healy’s absence, Tahlia McGrath will take over the role of captain and lead the Australian team, while Beth Mooney will take over the wicketkeeping duties.
Additionally, with Alyssa Healy out of the playing eleven, 22-year-old opener Georgia Woll is expected to replace her in the team. Australia will be hoping that their captain makes a quick recovery as they are likely to play their semi-final match on October 29 in Guwahati.
Australia undefeated in ICC Women’s World Cup 2025
The Australian team entered the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 as one of the favorites to win the championship, and so far, they have played exceptional cricket.
Australia is one of two undefeated teams along with England in the tournament and has already qualified for the semi-finals of this marquee tournament.
They started their tournament with an impressive 89-run win over New Zealand, and their next match against Sri Lanka was washed out due to rain in Colombo.
After this, Australia scored a hat-trick of victories by defeating Pakistan by 107 runs, India by 3 wickets and Bangladesh by 10 wickets. In the match against Bangladesh, the Australian team chased 199 runs in 24.5 overs, with Healy making 113 and Phoebe Litchfield making 84 not out.
We tried our best, but the execution wasn’t good – Alyssa Healey
Speaking after the match with Bangladesh, Alyssa Healy expressed disappointment at the lack of execution of plans, but was happy to get the two points. He elaborated:
“I feel like, they played well (on Bangladesh). We tried our best but the performance was not good, although happy to get two points. It is very difficult to be honest, today I was disappointed with my glove work, but I made up for it a bit with the bat, I really enjoy the challenge. We have been here for a while, we will go to a new venue, we have not been to Indore before and there is a new challenge coming against England.
“It was amazing for her (over Alana King), it was great to see her dominate and get an award for her. The players coming in have played very well for us – Darcy was excellent in the front row, like I said, we’ll make changes according to the circumstances and match-ups. I thought she was excellent today (over Phoebe Litchfield). We pride ourselves on professionalism, we played well today to get two points, we’ll be back.” Will come and be ready for the next match also.”
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