Australia skipper Healy ruled out of the WBBL season as she faces race to be fit for India series starting December.
Australia skipper Healy is racing the clock to play in Australia’s looming ODIs against India. She has been ruled out of the remainder of the WBBL with a knee injury.
Australia’s captain will not play for the Sydney Sixers again this tournament, the team announced on Saturday, due to a left knee injury. Healy is seriously doubtful for international duty as Australia’s three-match ODI series begins four days after the WBBL final.
Healy sustained a foot injury that interrupted her T20 World Cup early, and she was unable to play in Sixers’ last-start loss to the Brisbane Heat due to body management. Before visiting New Zealand for three additional one-day matches during Christmas, Australia hosts India in three One-Day Internationals.
Healy will reportedly be evaluated throughout the next two weeks before to those two series, and a squad will be revealed the following weekend.
Her injury is not thought to be severe enough to put her in doubt for the multi-format Ashes, which start on January 12 with an ODI in North Sydney.
When she first returned from her foot injury, Healy had cautioned that she would require summer management.
“There are higher powers sitting above that are quite vocal in what can and can’t happen. Which I completely understand,” Healy said earlier this month. “Being skipper as well is a fairly big role for me. I want to be available for as much of the summer as I can.
“I’ve hardly played a game for the Sixers for the past two seasons. And it’s a place I really enjoy playing cricket. I want to be available for every game that I possibly can. But the reality is that might not be the case.
“It’s going to be managing the pain, function and what I can and can’t do [all summer]. How I pull up from games is going to be really important as well.”