Australian captain Alyssa Healy appeared emotional after Australia’s shock loss to India within the Girls’s ODI World Cup semi-final on the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, hinting that the sport could have been her remaining look in a 50-over World Cup. Healy, who returned from harm to guide her facet within the high-pressure knockout, might solely watch as Jemimah Rodrigues’ unbeaten 127 and Harmanpreet Kaur’s 89 guided India to a surprising chase of 339, the best profitable chase in Girls’s ODI World Cup historical past. The seven-time champions have been left shocked, and their captain reflective about what would possibly come subsequent.
“I feel everybody contributed fantastically all through this event. That is why it is actually disappointing to be standing right here proper now,” Healy mentioned within the post-match interplay. “We created sufficient. We created strain. We created alternatives. We simply weren’t capable of capitalize on them.”
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Phoebe Litchfield had earlier impressed with an outstanding 119 and Ellyse Perry added a fluent 77 to assist Australia put up 338. At that time, one other step towards a World Cup remaining appeared nearly inevitable. Nevertheless, Healy’s dropped catch when Rodrigues was on 82 shifted the sport’s momentum. Rodrigues capitalized absolutely, taking India house with 9 balls remaining, a second which will symbolically shut a dominant period in Australian ladies’s cricket.
When requested whether or not she anticipated to be a part of the following ODI World Cup cycle, Healy responded with out hesitation.
“I will not be there,” the 35-year-old mentioned with a smile. “That is the fantastic thing about the following cycle, we will see it unfold. There is a T20 World Cup in the course of subsequent 12 months, which is de facto thrilling for our group. However I feel our one-day cricket will in all probability shift just a little bit once more.”
If that is certainly her remaining ODI World Cup chapter, Healy leaves behind a outstanding legacy. Throughout 123 ODIs, she has scored 3,563 runs at a median of 35.98, together with seven centuries and 18 half-centuries, with a strike fee near 100. Her newest World Cup marketing campaign, producing 299 runs from 5 matches at 74.75, once more showcased her influence on the world stage.
Reflecting on the workforce’s future, Healy acknowledged {that a} generational shift could also be underway.
“Once you’ve seen gamers my age stroll away, it is form of a bizarre expertise to look at the following era go about it,” she shared. “Phoebe was sensational at the moment, set us up fantastically and went on to make 100. It has been enjoyable to look at her unfold. The subsequent 4 years main into the following World Cup are going to be actually thrilling.”
With Ellyse Perry additionally aged 34, Australia may very well be nearing the tip of one in all its most dominant intervals in ladies’s cricket. Regardless of the frustration, Healy expressed full perception in what lies forward.
“We’ll study from what we did fallacious tonight. We’ll develop, we’ll get higher. The chance for some younger gamers to step up on this facet is a extremely thrilling factor for Australian cricket.”
Australia’s exit could shut a historic chapter, however Healy’s phrases clarify that the story of Australian ladies’s cricket is much from completed.