Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 3 (ANI): UP Warriorz picked up West Indies all-rounder Chinelle Henry as a substitute for Australia star Alyssa Healy for the upcoming season of Girls’s Premier League (WPL).
Henry has joined the franchise for Rs 30 lakh rather than Healy, who’s going through an harm. Healy had introduced after the ladies’s Ashes one-off Take a look at that she wouldn’t be taking part in the WPL season three. She had missed the T20I portion of the ladies’s Ashes sequence after taking part in ODIs and handed a health Take a look at to characteristic within the one-off Take a look at.
“UP Warriorz (UPW) picked Chinelle Henry as a substitute for Alyssa Healy for the upcoming version of the Girls’s Premier League (WPL) 2025. Healy was dominated out of the third season of the TATA WPL because of an harm. Henry, who represents West Indies, has thus far performed 62 T20Is and has 473 runs and 22 wickets in opposition to her identify in T20Is. She joins UPW for Rs 30 Lakh,” based on WPL web site.
Healy has been going through an injury-interrupted run because the previous 5 months, having ruptured her plantar fascia in her foot in October final yr throughout the ICC T20 World Cup, which noticed her miss the group’s closing league stage sport and semifinal in opposition to South Africa.
In between, she additionally confronted a knee harm throughout the Girls’s Huge Bash League (WBBL) which noticed her miss the rest of the season and ODIs in opposition to India in December. She did play the December ODIs in opposition to New Zealand as a specialist batter earlier than being cleared to play girls’s Ashes ODIs.
Healy is a crucial a part of UP Warriorz’s set-up as captain. She took her aspect to the playoffs within the first season, whereas they completed within the fourth spot over the last season, lacking out on playoffs. In 17 WPL matches, she has made 428 runs at a median of 26.75, with three half-centuries and finest rating of 96.
With 559 runs in 49 ODI matches and 42 innings at a median of 14.33 and three fifties, 32 wickets and 473 runs in 62 T20Is and 53 innings at a median of 14.78 with finest rating of 43 and 22 wickets, tempo bowling all-rounder Henry is a crucial cog of West Indies line-up.
The most recent season of WPL will begin from February 14 onwards. (ANI)
