UP Warriors appoints Australia’s Alyssa Healy as captain for inaugural WPL season

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UP Warriors appoints Australia’s Alyssa Healy as captain for inaugural WPL season

UP Warriors have a captain for the 2023 Women’s Premier League (WPL) season. Australia’s explosive keeper batsman Alyssa Healy. The franchise owned by Capri Global Holdings Pvt Ltd introduced John Lewis as their head coach and Lisa Sthalekar as their mentor.

Healy, who’s at present a part of the Australia girls’s squad within the 2023 T20 World Cup, has featured in 139 T20Is for Australia, scoring round 2,446 runs together with one century and 14 half-centuries. Regarded as probably the greatest wicket-keeper batsmen within the recreation, Healy additionally has 110 dismissals in T20Is.

“I’m delighted to have the chance to captain UP Warriors within the inaugural version of the historic WPL to be performed in Mumbai. The WPL is a match we have all been wanting ahead to, and UP Warriors have a implausible squad ready to make a splash as soon as issues get underway,” stated the 32-year-old Healy.

He additional added, “We have mixture of expertise and youth together with potential and we’re wanting ahead to placing on a present for our followers. We are right here to win and be ruthless in our model of cricket.

Last December, within the absence of Meg Lanning, Healy led Australia to a 4–1 win in a bilateral collection in Mumbai.

The inaugural season of WPL can be performed in Mumbai from March 4 to 26, with a complete of twenty-two matches being performed at Brabourne Stadium and DY Patil Stadium.


With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS

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