Australia Women’s National Cricket Team, their captain, Alyssa Healy, suffered a serious injury in the middle of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025.
Alyssa Healy picked up a calf injury and has been ruled out of the high-profile ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 match against the England Women’s National Cricket Team.
Australia worried about Alyssa Healy’s availability for semi-final
On Tuesday, October 21, Cricket Australia (CA) revealed that Alyssa Hetty’s calf injury will rule her out of the match at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Honor on Wednesday, October 23.
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In Healy’s absence, Tahlia McGrath will take over the captaincy duties and lead the Australian team, while Beth Mooney will take over the wicketkeeping gloves.
Also, Xi, who played alongside Alyssa Healy, is expected to replace her alongside 22-year-old key Georgia Voll. Australia would hope their skipper recovers quickly as they can play their semi-final match in Guwahati on October 29.
Australia unbeaten in ICC Women’s World Cup 2025
The Aussies entered the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 as one of the hot favorites to lift the Championship and have played an exceptional brand of cricket so far.
Australia is one of two unbeaten teams in the tournament alongside England and has already qualified for the semi-finals of the Marquee Tournament.
They started their tournament with a dominant 89-run win over New Zealand and washed out their next game against Sri Lanka in Colombo.
Australia then defeated Pakistan by 107 runs, 3 wickets and Bangladesh by 10 wickets, registering a hat trick of winning by 10 wickets. In the match against Bangladesh, the Aussies, Phoebe Litchfield, who hit 84 runs in 199 in 24.5 in 24.5 with a hetyly thrashing of 194.
We tried our best but the execution wasn’t great – alyssa healy
Speaking after the Bangladesh clash, Alyssa expressed disappointment at the lack of execution of plans but was happy to bag two points. Raised:
“I think they played well.
“For the king of Alana), it was great for him to prevail and get his rewards.
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