Ellyse Perry and Ashleigh Gardner lift Alyssa Healy on shoulders (Source: Screengrab/X)
Australia Women’s skipper, Alyssa Healy, has finally called time on her 16-year-long glorious international career. Healy’s illustrious career came to an end with Australia’s memorable win against India Women in the one-off pink-ball Test.
It happened to be the 11th Women’s Test in Alyssa Healy’s international career. The moment turned emotional for Healy when her teammates performed a special gesture on her last day in international cricket. Earlier in the last ODI against India Women, Healy was given a guard of honour by the Indian players, in respect of her illustrious ODI career.
Alyssa Healy gets a special and memorable farewell
The senior team members, Ellyse Perry and Ashleigh Gardner, decided to sit down on their knees to lift the retiring legend, Alyssa Healy, on their shoulders. It all happened immediately after Australia Women defeated India Women by a massive margin of 10 wickets in the one-off pink-ball Test at the WACA in Perth.
The video of this heartwarming moment on Healy’s retirement also started making the rounds on social media as soon as it was shared by an Australian media outlet.
Sophie Molineux to succeed Healy as captain across all formats
After Alyssa Healy’s retirement, Cricket Australia named Sophie Molineux as the team’s captain across all formats. The 28-year-old spin-bowling all-rounder will succeed Healy across all formats. She also led the Aussie Women’s side in the T20Is against India last month.
Now, Molineux will lead the side in Tests and ODIs when Australia Women face West Indies later this month. Molineux has had one of the most successful careers for Australia Women in her eight-year-long journey in international cricket. She was also a part of the Aussie side that lifted the World T20 title in 2018 and 2020.
Alyssa Healy’s glorious career at a glance
Alyssa Healy made her international debut for Australia Women in the Adelaide ODI on February 10, 2010. After making her international debut at the age of 19, she started her Test career with the Sydney Test against England Women on January 22, 2011.
Since then, Healy featured in 11 Women's Tests, 126 Women’s ODIs, and a record number of 162 Women’s T20Is for Australia. In these appearances, she scored 502 runs in 17 Test innings at an average of 29.52, with three half-centuries, including a 99-run knock, when she unfortunately missed a well-deserved century.
In ODIs, the 35-year-old scored 3777 runs in 114 innings, averaging 37.02 at a decent strike rate of 100.69. She also scored eight centuries and 19 half-centuries in her ODI career, alongside being a part of Australia Women’s multiple title wins in Women’s ODI World Cups.
Speaking of her ODI career, Healy aggregated 3054 runs in 143 innings at an average of 25.45, hitting a century and 17 half-centuries.
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Australia Women outmuscle India Women in pink-ball Test
In the one-off pink-ball Test, Australia Women completely dominated the India Women at the WACA in Perth. The Aussie skipper Alyssa Healy won the toss and invited the visitors to bat first. Harmanpreet and Co. were bundled out at the score of 198 runs in the first innings before Australia posted a big total of 323 runs.
Later in the second innings, the hosts bundled out India Women at the score of just 149 runs, and the latter could take a lead of just 27 runs. While chasing the 28-run target, the Aussie openers, Georgia Voll (16) and Phoebe Litchfield (11) comfortably scored 28 runs for no loss in 4.3 overs to clinch the 10-wicket win.
Star Australian all-rounder Annabel Sutherland won the ‘Player of the Match’ award for her brilliant century in the first innings. Apart from that, she also scalped six wickets with the ball in the game.
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