Alyssa Healy Appointed As Captain Of Australia Women’s Cricket Team

image-lpxio4p4Australia Women Announce New Skipper (X.com)

Following the retirement of highly experienced Meg Lanning, the start wicket-keeper batter Alyssa Healy is all set to assume a full-time captaincy position for the Australia Women’s team in all formats. The 33-year-old who led Australia against England, West Indies, and Ireland since June was announced as Australia’s full-time skipper across all formats on Saturday.

Moreover, Tahlia McGrath, who had a phenomenal run leading the Adelaide Strikers Women in the recently concluded WBBL tournament has been named as her deputy. Currently aged 28, Tahlia has showcased some immense leadership abilities in the WBBl leading the Stikers to two consecutive titles. She is poised to take over from Healy sometime in the near future.

Healy was thrilled to hear this news and expressed her excitement to lead Australia across all formats. The Queensland-born cricketer further added that she has been grateful to receive the continuous support and encouragement of her teammates who have instilled a lot of positivity in her. Besides, she is also looking forward to transforming and taking her team to new heights amidst an unprecedented resurgence of young exciting talent.

"I've really enjoyed the support of the players over the past few months and their encouragement to continue to be who I am and lead the group like I normally would from within. It's an exciting time to be involved with this team, we're seeing the emergence of incredible young talent and are challenging ourselves to continually evolve as a group."

In addition, the former Australia Women’s skipper Meg Lanning heaped a lot of praise on Healy and backed her to lead the Women’s team to unparalleled glory.

"Alyssa brings a wealth of experience to the role, and we have great confidence in her ability to successfully lead the Australian women's team in tandem with Tahlia as vice-captain."

Lanning retired from the international arena last month after leading Australia to four Twenty20 World Cup titles, one 50-over World Cup triumph, and a Commonwealth Games gold. Nevertheless, the 31-year-old will continue to feature in domestic competitions.