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Australia skipper Alyssa Healy is retiring pursuing India's upcoming tour, ending a 15-year planetary vocation including 8 World Cup titles.
The 35-year-old Healy has scored much than 7,000 runs crossed each 3 planetary formats with 275 dismissals pursuing her nationalist debut successful 2010.
The wicketkeeper has won the T20 World Cup six times and the ODI World Cup doubly and has been the skipper since the extremity of 2023.
Healy's records see the highest idiosyncratic people successful an ODI World Cup last (170 against England successful 2022), the astir runs successful a T20 planetary (148 not retired against Sri Lanka successful 2019) and the astir dismissals successful T20 internationals by a pistillate oregon antheral (126).
“It’s with mixed emotions that the upcoming India bid volition beryllium my past for Australia," she said connected Tuesday. "I’m inactive passionate astir playing for Australia but I’ve somewhat mislaid that competitory borderline that’s kept maine driven since the start, truthful the clip feels close to telephone it a day.
“Knowing I won’t beryllium going to the T20 World Cup this twelvemonth and the constricted mentation clip the squad has, I won’t beryllium portion of the T20s against India, but I’m excited to person the accidental to decorativeness my vocation and skipper the ODI and trial broadside astatine location against India — 1 of the biggest bid connected the calendar for us."
The bid with India features 3 T20s from Feb. 15-21, followed by 3 one-day internationals from Feb. 24-March 1 and finishing with a trial successful Perth from March 6-9.
If she plays 5 of the matches she volition scope 300 internationals.
Healy has besides done tv commentary for the past respective years including during the caller Ashes bid that she missed due to the fact that of injury. She is joined to Australia accelerated bowler Mitchell Starc and is the niece of erstwhile Australia wicketkeeper Ian Healy.
“Alyssa is 1 of the all-time greats of the crippled and has made an immeasurable publication some connected and disconnected the field," Cricket Australia main enforcement Todd Greenberg said. “We look guardant to celebrating her achievements passim the bid against India.”
