Australia captain Alyssa Healy has introduced she’s going to retire from all types of cricket after a multi-format collection towards India in February and March. 

The wicketkeeper began taking part in for Australia in 2010 as a 19-year-old and has had a lock on the gloves for Australia for a lot of the previous decade-and-a-half, taking on the captaincy throughout all codecs after Meg Lanning’s retirement in 2023.

“I’m nonetheless enthusiastic about taking part in for Australia, however I’ve considerably misplaced that aggressive edge that’s saved me pushed because the begin, so the time feels proper to name it a day,” the 35-year-old stated.

If Healy performs each recreation of the collection towards India, beginning on February 15, she can have performed greater than 300 worldwide matches.

The collection options three Twenty20s in Sydney (Feb 15), Canberra (Feb 19) and Adelaide (Feb 21); adopted by ODIs in Brisbane (Feb 24) and Hobart (Feb 27 and Mar 1); and a Check on the WACA in Perth from March 6 to 9.

Healy is about to overlook the primary three video games, which means she’s going to doubtless end with a complete of 299 worldwide matches performed, together with 11 Assessments, 126 ODIs and 162 T20s.

She’s going to end her profession because the second-most-capped Australian lady in T20s — behind long-time teammate Ellyse Perry — and behind solely Perry, Alex Blackwell and Karen Rolton by way of 50-over video games for Australia.

Healy additionally holds the file for dismissals in girls’s T20s and is fourth on the record for ODIs with 119, comfortably the very best mark by an Australian.

“Alyssa is without doubt one of the all-time greats of the sport and has made an immeasurable contribution each on and off the sphere over her 15-year profession,” Cricket Australia chief govt Todd Greenberg stated.

“On behalf of Australian cricket, I would prefer to thank Alyssa and congratulate her on an unbelievable profession that has impressed so many and altered the sport for the higher.

“We sit up for celebrating her achievements all through the collection towards India.”

In a profession filled with accolades, maybe her crowning achievement on the sphere was a stunning 170 in the World Cup final against England in 2022, the very best mark by a person or lady in a 50-over decider.

That marked one in every of eight World Cups she received with Australia (two ODIs and 6 T20s), and alongside the best way she picked up the Belinda Clark Award in 2019 as Australia’s finest girls’s participant, and received back-to-back ICC Ladies’s T20 Cricketer of the 12 months nods in 2018 and ’19.

She and the workforce additionally received gold on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham and have scored greater than 3,000 runs throughout 11 seasons with the Sydney Sixers within the WBBL.

She additionally received 11 Ladies’s Nationwide Cricket League titles with New South Wales.

‘An unbelievable honour’

The retirement announcement got here with “blended feelings” because it means she’s going to miss the T20 World Cup in June and July.

“Realizing I will not be going to the T20 World Cup this 12 months and the restricted preparation time the workforce has, I will not be a part of the T20s towards India, however I am excited to have the chance to complete my profession and captain the ODI and Check facet at house towards India — one of many largest collection on the calendar for us,” she stated.

“I will genuinely miss my teammates, singing the workforce music and strolling out to open the batting for Australia. Representing my nation has been an unbelievable honour, and I am grateful for one final collection within the inexperienced and gold.”

The toll of so a few years of worldwide cricket has began to meet up with Healy lately, with accidents hampering her in huge collection towards India, England and even the 2024 T20 World Cup.

That has, nevertheless, given presumptive successor Tahlia McGrath precious expertise main the facet on the largest stage.

Healy, in the meantime, is predicted to step into broadcasting after a number of star activates tv commentary previously few years, together with through the latest males’s Ashes collection over the summer season.

She can also be one third of the favored Willow Speak podcast with former Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin and Adam Peacock.