CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
RELATIVE to its older Test match and one-day-international forebears, 20-over cricket is still an occult art in progress, with new and improved ways of winning these so-called slog-fests being discovered all the time. One player, though, who has well and truly mastered the newest format of the sport, displaying the full array of her talents whenever she takes to the crease or the stumps, has been Australian superstar Alyssa Healy.
The 29-year-old wicketkeeper and right-hand bat capped off an amazing 2018-19 summer when she was crowned the latest Belinda Clarke Award-winner at the Australian Cricket Awards. Healy had already taken out the ODI Player of the Year and T20I Player of the Year gongs earlier in the evening.
Healy made her international cricket debut back in February 2010 and has since gone on to not only become a mainstay of the Australian women’s cricket team, but a cornerstone of her NSW state side, as well as for the Sydney Sixers in the WBBL. It’s in the latter realm that we were lucky enough to catch up with Healy for this magazine. Straight off the back of re-capturing the Women’s Ashes in England for Australia with her team-mates, Healy and the Southern Stars hot-footed it across to the Caribbean, where they took on the Windies gals in three T20s and three ODIs.
Ever the professional and ever
