Alyssa Healy plays down any potential experiments vs NZ as they look to fine tune their preparations for the T20 World Cup.
Alyssa Healy, captain of Australia’s women’s team declares that they will not be experimenting and that they intend to release their best lineup. As both teams get ready for the approaching T20 World Cup, New Zealand is trying to recover from the terrible trip of England.
Since the beginning of April, Australia’s women have not participated in an international series. During their tour of Bangladesh, they experimented a lot with their starting lineup, opening with Grace Harris in one match and batting Georgia Wareham at No. 3 while Healy was ranked No. 10.
But Healy announced that Australia would field a full strength team for all three games of the series, which is being used by both teams as a warm-up for the T20 World Cup, which gets underway in the UAE on October 3. This was on the eve of the series’ opening match in Mackay.
“I think when you look at our side as a whole, we’ve been pretty settled in the T20 game for a long period of time,” Healy said on Wednesday.
“I guess Bangladesh was a good opportunity for us to try a few things that are just in case, what if scenarios, if some of our key players go down, who can fill those roles. But I think for us now, having some consistency around our XI leading into a World Cup, you still use all 15 players I find in a World Cup to win it, but everyone knows their roles.
“I think we’re in a good place in that regard.
“We’re going to get very different conditions here to what we’re going to get in Dubai. So it’s just about us playing our best XI at every opportunity and putting some things in place, knowing that we do have a World Cup at the back of our mind.”