Australian wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy appointed as captain by UP Warriors in WPL 2023
Lucknow. UP Warriors appointed star Australian wicket-keeper batsman Alyssa Healy as their captain for the inaugural Women’s Premier League (WPL) to be held in Mumbai next month. Capri Global Holdings Pvt Ltd’s team UP Warriors has made a balanced team for the franchise based league. Healy is the most popular face of women’s cricket and also very experienced. She has scored nearly 2,500 runs in 139 T20 Internationals for Australia, including one century and 14 half-centuries.
She is also among the best wicket-keeper batsmen of the game, having dismissed 110 players in T20 Internationals. Healy said, “I am delighted to be given the responsibility of captaining the UP Warriors in the opening phase of the historic WPL. We all were eagerly waiting for WPL and UP Warriors is a fantastic team. Looking forward to play in the tournament. “He said,” We have a good mix of young and experienced players in our team. ,
The team is coached by England’s John Lewis and assistant coach Anju Jain while Australia’s Ashley Naufke is the bowling coach and four-time world champion Lisa Sthalekar is the team’s ‘mentor’. The league will be played in Mumbai from March 4 to 26 with a total of 22 matches being played at the Brabourne Stadium and DY Patil Stadium. UP Warriors will begin their campaign against Gujarat Giants on March 5 at the DY Patil Stadium.
the team is like this Squad: Alyssa Healy (c), Sophie Ecclestone, Deepti Sharma, Tahlia McGrath, Shabnim Ismail, Anjali Sarwani, Rajeshwari Gaikwad, Parshvi Chopra, Shweta Sehrawat, S Yashashree, Kiran Navagire, Grace Harris, Devika Vaidya, Lauren Bell, Lakshmi Yadav, Simran Sheikh.
