SYDNEY:
Australia acquired a lift of their build-up to this 12 months’s girls’s Twenty20 World Cup after captain Sophie Molineux stated she was match and able to return for the upcoming white-ball collection in opposition to West Indies.
The 28-year-old was dominated out of the rest of Australia’s multi-format collection in opposition to India after struggling decrease again points following the opening one-day worldwide in Brisbane final month.
The white-ball tour of West Indies begins on Friday.
“(I’ll be) enjoying within the T20s, (I’m) obtainable and looking out ahead to enjoying a task and getting again on the market,” Molineux stated.
The bowling all-rounder, who captained Australia in three T20 internationals in opposition to India earlier than Alyssa Healy returned to guide the one-day and take a look at sides, is about to formally take over the captaincy for the Caribbean tour.
Nevertheless, her position stays underneath evaluation, with uncertainty over whether or not she’s going to function as an all-rounder.
“Most likely simply to see how we go, particularly in the direction of that again finish with the one-day video games,” she stated.
“We’ll simply maintain assessing however I am trying ahead to getting again on the market once more with the ladies.”
Australia have performed solely 9 T20 internationals because the final World Cup version in 2024 and Molineux stated each match could be essential as they aim a seventh title.
“I do not assume we’re far off in any respect… It is rather arduous in T20 cricket to play the excellent recreation,” she stated.
“It is simply being higher for longer and realizing these moments that may go both approach and successful these.
“We’re doing every thing actually intentionally to have the ability to align ourselves to that model. We have got a actually hungry group of women and workers that actually wish to purchase into that.”
The ladies’s T20 World Cup begins on June 12 in England and Wales.
