SYDNEY:
Alyssa Healy, a mainstay of Australia’s dominant ladies’s cricket crew for 15 years and latterly its captain, has introduced that she’s going to retire from the sport after the upcoming multi-format sequence in opposition to India.
The 35-year-old wicketkeeper-batter was a part of two one-day worldwide World Cup triumphs and 6 profitable T20 World Cup campaigns earlier than taking up as skipper after the retirement of Meg Lanning in late 2023.
“It is with blended feelings that the upcoming India sequence shall be my final for Australia,” she stated in a press release on Tuesday.
“I am nonetheless obsessed with enjoying for Australia, however I’ve considerably misplaced that aggressive edge that is saved me pushed because the begin, so the time feels proper to name it a day.
“I am going to genuinely miss my teammates, singing the crew tune and strolling out to open the batting for Australia.”
Healy made her Australia debut in 2010 and scored 3,563 runs with seven centuries in one-day internationals and three,054 with a single hundred in Twenty20s for her nation, in addition to making 275 dismissals behind the stumps.
As a mark of her standing in Australia, Healy was by no means outlined by her relationship along with her uncle, Australia wicketkeeping nice Ian, nor her husband, take a look at paceman Mitchell Starc.
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese led the tributes after her announcement.
“Alyssa Healy is a real legend of Australian cricket. As a batter, keeper and captain she has been one of many brightest stars in a golden period,” he stated in a press release.
“But Alyssa’s influence and instance off the sphere has been each bit as vital. She has helped drive and develop ladies’s cricket and impressed a brand new era alongside the way in which.”
Healy had already introduced her retirement from T20 internationals and can play her final matches for Australia in three ODIs and a single take a look at in opposition to India in February and March.
Girls’s cricket has come on in leaps and bounds throughout Healy’s profession however, regardless of having missed solely two for Australia since her debut in January 2011, her ultimate match shall be solely her eleventh take a look at.
