{"id":507543,"date":"2026-02-27T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/507543\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:48:10","slug":"cricket-news-2026-australia-v-india-womens-second-one-day-international-result-sophie-molineux-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/507543\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket news 2026 | Australia v India women’s second One Day international result, Sophie Molineux injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

A chance to lead the nation through an international series has been cut short for newly appointed Australian captain Sophie Molineux due to an unfortunate injury.<\/p>\n

Molineux was named the all-format captain of the national team last month after Alyssa Healy announced she would retire from all forms of cricket after the India series.<\/p>\n

But Molineux has now been forced to the sidelines just weeks into her tenure as captain, having been ruled out of the India series due to back soreness.<\/p>\n

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Cricket Australia confirmed the 28-year-old had been experiencing back soreness since the first ODI win over India on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Healy confirmed at the toss for the second ODI in Hobart on Friday that Molineux would not take part in the series any longer.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately Soph has got a little bit of a niggle, so she’ll be missing out the rest of this series sadly,” Healy said.<\/p>\n

\"Sophie<\/p>\n

Sophie Molineux of Australia fields during game two of the Women’s T20 International series between Australia and India.\u00a0Cricket Australia via Getty Imag<\/p>\n

“It’s a great opportunity for someone like Nic Carey to come in, she’s played a lot of cricket out here, in particular the last few summers.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully she can play her role.”<\/p>\n

Cricket Australia also confirmed that Molineux will be monitored in the build-up to the tour of the West Indies, that is set to take place over March and April.<\/p>\n

Molineux is not the only Australian star on the sidelines for the second ODI, with Ellyse Perry and Kim Garth also absent from the game-day squad due to quad injuries.<\/p>\n

Perry and Garth, though, have not been ruled out of the series. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A chance to lead the nation through an international series has been cut short for newly appointed Australian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-507543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}