Australia captain Meg Lanning has begun her return to cricket, enjoying her first sport since lacking the Ashes in a warm-up match between NSW and Victoria.
Lanning was on Friday not included in Australia’s squad for subsequent month’s Twenty20 and one-day worldwide sequence towards West Indies.
Alyssa Healy, who together with Ellyse Perry (knee) is predicted to beat harm to function within the six matches, will captain the facet.
The squad is basically unchanged from the one which retained the Ashes in England in July.
It continues to be lacking Lanning, who was dominated out of that tour for unspecified medical causes.
Lanning attended a Cricket Victoria camp on the Sunshine Coast final week and performed in considered one of three video games towards NSW.
Victoria have six Women’s National Cricket League matches to open the summer time, earlier than the whole Women’s Big Bash League is performed forward of Australia’s multi-format tour of India in December and January.
Chief selector Shawn Flegler mentioned he anticipated Lanning to return in a kind of competitions.
“That’s the plan. We’re hopeful she will come through domestic cricket first up and see how things progress,” Flegler mentioned.
“She was up at the Sunshine Coast and I caught up with her there. She’s progressing well, just part of that return-to-play plan.
“She’s going well, Meg. We’re very hopeful that she’s back on deck at some point during the summer for Australia.”
Lanning’s absence means Healy will keep on as captain after recovering from fractured fingers, with Tahlia McGrath her deputy.
Australia missed Lanning’s batting in England, as they had been overwhelmed in 4 of the six white-ball video games however retained the Ashes on a factors draw.
But there aren’t any wholesale modifications to the squad forward of the primary T20 towards West Indies at North Sydney Oval on October 1.
“It was a great challenge throughout the Ashes. We didn’t play at our best and England certainly played very well,” Flegler mentioned.
“We reviewed that series, we still think we’ve got a great group of players who can take us through to the T20 World Cup (in Bangladesh next year).
“We want to give these players an opportunity to keep pushing the game style we want to play.”
AUSTRALIA SQUAD:
Alyssa Healy (c), Tahlia McGrath, Darcie Brown, Ashleigh Gardner, Kim Garth, Grace Harris*, Jess Jonassen, Alana King*, Phoebe Litchfield, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Wareham
*Harris will function in T20s solely; King within the ODIs.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
