Alyssa Healy fears she could have taken the “flawed danger” to not play in Australia’s T20 World Cup semifinal, with the injured skipper wanting on powerless whereas her prices acquired hammered in an era-ending defeat to South Africa.
The 34-year-old captain revealed after Thursday’s crushing eight-wicket loss in Dubai that she felt she had “one sport in me” regardless of nursing a ruptured plantar fascia in her proper foot.
However she took the gamble of sitting out the match within the hope she might nonetheless be match ought to the group advance, as anticipated, to Sunday’s last.
“It was a very laborious resolution to make final night time as as to if or not we’ll give it a punt or not,” Healy instructed reporters after their sudden dethronement.
“I attempted to make the ‘group resolution’ and sat myself down, as an alternative of taking the danger [of playing against South Africa].”
Requested how shut she had been to taking part in, she added: “I am undecided. I do not actually know. It is a laborious one to reply.
“I imply, I ruptured my plantar fascia — utterly ruptured one and partially ruptured the opposite.
“So it was only a matter of perform and ache and what I might deal with, and, finally, I most likely solely had one sport in me, and doubtless took the flawed danger.”
From the sidelines, Healy admitted: “It was laborious to observe, figuring out that you would be able to’t actually go on the market.”
However she was adamant that there was lots to cheer regardless of Australia shedding its first World Cup in both the 20-over or 50-over format since 2017.
“One dangerous night time does not essentially outline us as a group,” she insisted.
“Sure, we would have liked to win the trophy, however that is not the case. However I believe there’s been so many positives all through this match in the way in which the women are rising, studying and persevering with to wish to get higher.
“It has been superior, the surroundings we have managed to create, and the idea that we’ve inside our aspect that anyone can go on the market and win the sport. It was good to see so many positives all through the match.
“We performed some superb cricket … I believe it exhibits the maturity of the aspect at such a younger age. So it is cool to see.”
Requested how lengthy she anticipated to be out, Healy shrugged: “Do not know but. We’ll assess that after we get again. Clearly, WBBL begins subsequent Sunday, so we’ll reassess that as we go.”
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