Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 3 (ANI): UP Warriorz picked up West Indies all-rounder Chinelle Henry as a alternative 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 dealing with an damage. Healy had introduced after the ladies’s Ashes one-off Check that she wouldn’t be enjoying the WPL season three. She had missed the T20I portion of the ladies’s Ashes sequence after enjoying ODIs and handed a health Check to function within the one-off Check.
“UP Warriorz (UPW) picked Chinelle Henry as a alternative 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 as a result of an damage. Henry, who represents West Indies, has to date performed 62 T20Is and has 473 runs and 22 wickets towards her title in T20Is. She joins UPW for Rs 30 Lakh,” in response to WPL web site.
Healy has been dealing with an injury-interrupted run because the previous 5 months, having ruptured her plantar fascia in her foot in October final 12 months through the ICC T20 World Cup, which noticed her miss the crew’s remaining league stage sport and semifinal towards South Africa.
In between, she additionally confronted a knee damage through the Girls’s Massive Bash League (WBBL) which noticed her miss the rest of the season and ODIs towards India in December. She did play the December ODIs towards New Zealand as a specialist batter earlier than being cleared to play ladies’s Ashes ODIs.
Healy is a crucial a part of UP Warriorz’s set-up as captain. She took her facet 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 greatest 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 greatest rating of 43 and 22 wickets, tempo bowling all-rounder Henry is a crucial cog of West Indies line-up.
The latest season of WPL will begin from February 14 onwards. (ANI)
