Australian captain Alyssa Healy is a “trooper” however is but to be cleared to play in Saturday‘s first Ashes T20 against England as she manages two broken fingers.
The skipper hit the nets at Edgbaston on Thursday, having travelled to Lord’s on Wednesday to look at her husband Mitchell Starc return to motion for the boys’s Test workforce, nursing the accidents that hampered her throughout her workforce’s personal Test victory at Trent Bridge.
Healy performed with fractures in her left index and proper ring fingers, gobbling painkillers as she stood behind the stumps for greater than 170 overs in addition to including a match-defining half century within the second innings.
She’s more likely to take her place on the prime of the order, and behind the stumps, within the first of three T20s that might outline the multi-format sequence Australia leads 4 factors to nil.
“She’s tracking along really well,” Australia coach Shelley Nitschke stated earlier than the coaching session.
“She’ll be assessed over the next couple of days, and we’ve got training so we can see where that lands, and hopefully, she’ll be out there for us come Saturday night.
“She‘s a trooper. I thought she kept really well (in the Test), and her batting in the second innings was pivotal for us, to come out and make that 50 and have a really important partnership for us when our backs were probably against the wall a little bit in that second innings.
“She captained brilliantly for someone in their first Test match.
“She‘s a big part of this group, so hopefully that she proves OK to keep going in the white-ball formats.”
The Australians are returning to Edgbaston for the primary time since securing the primary Commonwealth Games gold medal on the venue in 2022.
Of Australia’s 14-player squad, skipper Meg Lanning is the one one lacking from that victorious outfit.
Her place within the aspect is more likely to be taken by Annabel Sutherland, who made a maiden Test century final week in a powerhouse show batting down the order, having additionally reached three figures in a warm-up recreation.
“We’re still working through a few things after the Test match and working out our options and having a look at the conditions today,” Nitschke stated.
“The advantage of this group (is) everybody‘s always pushing for their spots.”
The second of the three T20s will be at Lord’s the place the Australians final performed in an ODI in 2013, a workforce that featured present squad members Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt and Jess Jonassen.
Australia wants solely to win two matches to attract the sequence and retain the Ashes, and England must win 5 of the remaining six matches, with three ODIs to observe the T20s, to win the trophy.
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