Australia Captain Alyssa Healy Makes Triumphant Return To Competitive Cricket After 6 Months<\/p>\n
Healy, who last played for Australia at the end of January, smashed 27 off just 18 on her return<\/p>\n
Australia Women captain Alyssa Healy<\/a>, who last played competitive cricket at the end of January this year, returned to competitive action in the T20 series against India A<\/a>. Healy smashed 27 off just 18 deliveries opening the batting with five fours punctuating her innings, before being dismissed by S Sajana.<\/p>\n However, Healy neither led nor kept wickets for Australia A, as that responsibility fell on Nicole Faltum. Despite Healy’s brisk start, the middle-order could not capitalise as they managed just 137\/6 in Mackay. But that proved to be enough as the hosts went on to claim a 13-run victory.<\/p>\n “[I got] off to a good start … another disappointing dismissal, but that’s okay,” Healy said after the game.<\/p>\n “I’ve done a lot of hitting in the nets, and haven’t really had any time out in the middle for a long period of time, so it was nice to just get back out there, and hopefully the decision making will start kicking back in at some point.”<\/p>\n Healy missed the majority of the 2024-25 season, including last year’s T20 World Cup, due to a foot injury and, later, a knee injury ruled her out of the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n She was also forced to bat as a specialist batter in the MCG Test against England, missed the New Zealand tour after that and also the Women’s Premier League (WPL).<\/p>\n Australia A and India A will next be in action in the second match of the series on August 9 (Saturday) at the same venue. After the third T20 on August 10 (Sunday), the two teams will clash in a three-match 50-over contest and an unofficial Test, starting August 12 (Tuesday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia Captain Alyssa Healy Makes Triumphant Return To Competitive Cricket After 6 Months Healy, who last played for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-52113","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\/52113","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=52113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}