Australian cricket star Ellyse Perry hopes to search out out within the subsequent fortnight whether or not she will bowl on the Commonwealth Video games. The all-rounder is within the Australian workforce as a batter solely at this stage, after the decrease again damage that restricted her earlier this yr on the World Cup was identified as a stress fracture.
After lacking the event semi-final, Perry performed within the ultimate early final month as a batter solely as Australia beat England to win the 50-over crown. Whereas Perry mentioned her again is healthier, it stays unclear when she is going to bowl once more.
“It’s monitoring very well, which is good. It’s actually dependent, I believe, on the subsequent couple of weeks,” she mentioned. “I’m having some progressing scans ... and every time, they may give a clearer indication of the way it’s therapeutic and the place I’m at by way of bowling once more. I've to attend till it’s utterly healed earlier than I can begin bowling. It might be quickly, nevertheless it is perhaps delayed – simply relying on the progress.”
Teammate Ashleigh Gardner mentioned she had no thought Perry was nursing such a severe damage by way of the World Cup.
“It’s a credit score to her to have the ability to bat as effectively clearly, I didn’t know, I simply learn earlier than that she truly did have decrease again stress fractures,” Gardner mentioned. “It simply reveals most likely even in that World Cup ultimate she was most likely holding that damage, however you simply have to observe her within the area and he or she was nonetheless throwing herself round. She at all times offers 100% to the workforce whether or not she is bowling or not.”
Australia have named the identical highly effective 15-player squad that received the World Cup for the Commonwealth Video games, the place girls’s T20 will make its Video games debut. Australia will play a T20 sequence in opposition to Eire and Pakistan in Derry between 16 and 23 July earlier than the Commonwealth Video games. Their first Video games match will likely be in opposition to India on 29 July.
By competing at a Commonwealth Video games, Perry will add to her distinctive sporting resume. The 31-year-old is the one Australian to have performed in a cricket and a soccer World Cup, the latter in 2011 in Germany.
The one change to the Australian workforce would be the coach – Matthew Mott has left for the pinnacle function with the England males’s one-day workforce. Assistant Shelley Nitschke would be the interim girls’s head coach on the Video games.
Australia additionally maintain the Ashes and are the reigning T20 world champions. They'll begin the Video games because the overwhelming gold medal favourites and can face Barbados, India and Pakistan in Group A pool matches. Group B options England, New Zealand, India and Sri Lanka, with the highest two groups from the swimming pools progressing to the semi-finals.
Will probably be the second time that cricket has been performed on the Video games – Steve Waugh’s 50-over workforce received the silver medal at Kuala Lumpur in 1998. Whereas Australia would be the workforce to beat, they're but to win at Edgbaston. The ladies have misplaced their two Exams and solely one-day worldwide on the floor.
Squad: Meg Lanning (captain), Rachael Haynes (vice captain), Darcie Brown, Nicola Carey, Ashleigh Gardner, Grace Harris, Alyssa Healy, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Tahlia McGrath, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Amanda-Jade Wellington.
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