UP Warriorz captain Alyssa Healy to miss WPL 2025

Australia Women’s captain, Alyssa Healy, will miss the upcoming season of the Women's Premier League (WPL), starting on February 14, due to a stress injury in her right foot. Healy, who captained UP Warriorz in the last two seasons, made the announcement after Australia hammered England in the one-off Test to win the multi-format series 16-0.

Healy played the Test but didn’t keep wickets. The 34-year-old, however, missed the entire T20I series. "Unfortunately for me, I've got a couple of months with (my) feet up, so I'm pretty bummed by that. But at the same time (I am) elated to have a little bit of downtime and try and get my body right. It's been a really frustrating probably 18 months for me.

"You get yourself right back playing and something else goes wrong. So [I am] just going to have a look at a couple of things and how I can be better, maybe a bit more disciplined in some areas, and make sure I'm right to go in particular for that ODI World Cup. It's going to be a huge load coming off not a lot of cricket for a lot of the girls in the winter. So just managing things to get right for that. But I'm looking forward to sticking my feet in an ice bucket for a bit."

Following the third ODI against England, Healy reported pain in the same foot she injured during the T20 World Cup in October. The 34-year-old ruptured her plantar fascia and was ruled out during the group stage. Healy then also missed the home series against India but played as a pure batter in the ODIs against New Zealand in December.

Talking about her future post the ODI World Cup later this year, Healy said: "I've got some thoughts in the back of my mind about what it looks like for me moving forward. But I think most importantly for me, when I took on this role I wanted to get us to that ODI World Cup, and get us into a place where we wanted to be in a really great place as a group, playing some really good cricket, and obviously to hold that trophy at the end of it.

"That was what I said in my four-point PowerPoint plan to present my case as to why I could be captain. But I think for me, what I've kind of really enjoyed over the last sort of 18 months, two years of doing the job, is what we've been able to achieve and probably how the group has come along such a long way. I think for me personally to have played a little bit of a role in that, in helping drive that has been really cool. So we'll wait and see what the future looks like."