IND vs AUS one-off Test: After canine chunk incident and 50 stitches, Alyssa Healy able to preserve wickets

Australia ladies’s cricket workforce captain Alyssa Healy on Wednesday revealed she had suffered extreme accidents to her proper index finger after being bitten by her pet Staffordshire terrier puppies, and the wicketkeeper-batter added she is happy to be again on the sphere following a surgical procedure and 50 stitches.

Nearly two months after the incident, Healy is not going to simply lead the facet as full-time captain for the Test and white-ball sequence, she can even be conserving wickets.

Alyssa suffered grievous accidents to her proper hand in October making an attempt to separate her two Staffordshire terrier puppies.

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The 33-year-old mentioned throughout a media interplay on the Wankhede Stadium right here forward of the one-off Test towards India that she nonetheless “cannot feel any sensation on the inside part of her right index finger”, although she is happy to put on the large gloves throughout the match.

“Finger-wise, all good. It has been nice to get back into the game. I did not realise how much I would miss it, watching the WBBL (Women’s Big Bash League) at home and coming over here and getting the opportunity to keep again and have a bat,” mentioned Healy, who performed only one sport for Sydney Sixers earlier than the incident occurred.

“(The) finger has pulled up really well and, yeah, I’ll have the gloves on tomorrow, which I’m excited for,” Healy added.

The one-off Test right here would be the begin of a brand new period for Australian ladies’s cricket with Alyssa taking cost as full-time skipper following the retirement of Meg Lanning, who led the facet for 13 years.

Alyssa had additionally led the facet within the one-off ladies’s Ashes Test earlier this yr in June, which Australia gained by 89 runs at Nottingham.

“It is unbelievably huge shoes to fill in the sense of replacing Meg Lanning. The success that she had not only as a player but obviously as a leader of the Australian cricket team, is fairly unmatched right around the men’s and the women’s game,” she mentioned.

“Big shoes to fill on my part. But one that is really a challenge. My approach to it (captaincy) is about taking this group on (to) the next chapter. We have built an amazing legacy over the last 10 years with Meg, Rach (Rachael Haynes) and (former women’s coach) Matthew Mott,” she mentioned.

Healy mentioned it’s time for the following era of gamers to take centre stage after a robust previous couple of months.

“We have had a lot of change over the last 12-18 months within our squad and around our team as well. The opportunity (is there) to create something new and give the floor to the next generation of players to leave their mark on the game,” she mentioned.