The injury to Healy meant that Australia pushed back announcing their squad for the day-night Test at the MCG which had been due to be named during the T20I on Monday. "Alyssa has

Australian cricket team's captain Alyssa Healy has been ruled out of the first T20I at the SCG. She suffered a foot injury on the same side as her previous plantar fascia injury during last year's ICC Women's T20 World Cup. The nature of her condition has raised doubts over her participation in the remaining matches of the Ashes series.

Australia have been dealt a huge blow in the ongoing Women's Ashes with their skipper Alyssa Healy ruled out of the first T20I. Moreover, her participation in the remainder of the Ashes is also in doubt due to a foot injury.

Australian captain Alyssa Healy is “flat”, with her Ashes campaign in doubt, but Ash Gardner could return for the next T20 against England, with the “well-oiled machine” determined to seize every remaining point on offer having retained the trophy in just eight days.

Alyssa Healy has a recurrence of the foot injury she picked up in the T20 World Cup and misses the opening T20 game with England.

Australia's Beth Mooney hopes Ash Gardner will play in the second Ashes Twenty20-International but Alyssa Healy's return date from her own injury is less clear

Australia captain Alyssa Healy's availability in the rest of the Women's Ashes 2025 is in doubt after the 34-year-old developed "mid-foot soreness", as reported by ESPNcricinfo.Healy had to miss the first T20I match of the series against England at the Sydney Cricket Ground after growing a foot soreness.

Australia Women and England Women shifted their focus to the T20I leg of the ongoing Women's Ashes 2025, as the first match of the series got underway on Monday, January 20 at the iconic Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) in Sydney.

Australia have retained the women's Ashes with a 57-run defeat of England in the multi-format series' first Twenty20 International at the SCG.