Grace Harris will play in the T20Is, while Georgia Voll has been selected for the ODIs.
Sophie Molineux, a left-arm spinner, suffered a knee injury during the WBBL, where she led the Melbourne Renegades to their first championship, and the issue flared up again following the ODI series against India. Molineux was unable to play in the recent trip to New Zealand and will now be sidelined for another period of time. All-rounder Sophie Molineux has been ruled out of the multiformat Ashes series due to a knee injury that will require surgery, and captain Alyssa Healy is unsure if she will keep wicket because of her current knee problem.”Next month, Sophie Molineux will have surgery on her left knee. After that, we will give you more information about when she should be able to return,” team physiotherapist Kate Beerworth stated.
Whether Healy can hold onto wicket after giving the gloves to Beth Mooney in New Zealand will be one of the main questions Australia must address before the Ashes. In what she described as a decent test for her knee, Healy has been named in the Governor-General’s XI side for a 50-over warm-up match against England on January 9 at North Sydney Oval.
At the MCG, Healy told reporters, “That’ll be a great opportunity for me to take the gloves for a little bit and see how everything’s progressing.” “I truly am unable to provide you with any other details beyond that. Right now, you have to rely on your intuition to see how things work out.”But I really enjoyed running around the field in New Zealand, so if that’s the option and less disruptive to our side, then that might be the way going forward. But the goal is to take the gloves, and hopefully I can do that.” “Having an angry joint in there and flaring that up, and knowing the really tight schedule with the Ashes as well, probably managing that and not wanting to blow it up too much that it’s going to affect my ability to play at all…”Moving into the series in ten days will be the true test, I believe, to see how that holds up and how it reacts to keeping again. We’ll just evaluate as we go.”Georgia Voll has been selected for the one-day and Twenty20 International series, which make up the first two sections of the Ashes, after she had a spectacular debut against India, scoring 173 runs in three One-Day Internationals, including a century. Grace Harris will play in the Twenty20 Internationals at the SCG in Adelaide and Canberra.
That will be the true test, I believe, in the next ten days as we move into the series to see how that holds up and how it reacts to keeping again. We’ll just evaluate as we go.”The one-day and Twenty20 International series, which comprise the first two phases of the Ashes, will feature Georgia Voll, who had a spectacular start to her international career against India, scoring 173 runs in three One-Day Internationals, including a century. Grace Harris will play in the T20Is in Adelaide, Canberra, and the SCG.”It was pleasing to see Alyssa Healy return to action against New Zealand and looked in good touch, along with a number of batters continuing their strong form on from the recent series against India,” said Shawn Flegler, the national selector.
Georgia Voll has had an outstanding start to her international career and will be a formidable batswoman if needed in her first Ashes series, even though she did not play against New Zealand. It will be crucial to have a diverse bowling group when facing a formidable England batting lineup.
In the upcoming weeks, a team for the day-night Test at the MCG in late January will be announced.”I think you look at the way we’ve probably shaped up in Test cricket over the last couple of seasons, it’s looked a little bit different to what we’ve done in the white-ball format,” Healy stated. There are various explanations for why that Test team hasn’t been revealed, and we’ll likely examine them over the coming weeks to find out where all of the domestic cricket bowlers are, how much they’re carrying, and how they plan to get ready for a Test match.The first ODI of the Ashes will take place in North Sydney on January 12; subsequent games will be played at Melbourne’s Junction Oval and Hobart.
Fast bowler Darcie Brown has been replaced by legspinner Georgia Wareham in the Governor-General’s XI team to give Wareham additional playing time before the Ashes. Wareham has only appeared in one of Australia’s previous six ODIs, during which she was not asked to bat or bowl.
