"For me right now, it's captaining this series and captaining this group and for me, I'm a very different leader to Meg, I'm a different personality, and it's about me just putting my spin on that role and making sure that I'm doing the best I possibly can for this group to maintain the success that we've had," Healy added.
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Alyssa Healy is excited to represent and captain Australia in the high-profile T20I series in India, believing she is a different leader than Meg Lanning. In the T20I series against India, Healy will become just the 7th Australian women’s captain, with full-time captain Meg Lanning continuing her extended hiatus from the game. Healy was just named vice-captain of the squad after Rachael Haynes retired, and she will now be promoted to captain in Lanning’s absence. Despite the fact that her leadership approach will differ from Lanning’s, the wicketkeeper-batter is looking forward to the challenge.
“The lines are very blurry, there’s a little bit to it, but it’s an interesting one, I think I’ve been given the freedom to make it mine and make it my role,” Healy said ahead of the first T20I in Mumbai as quoted by ICC. “For me right now, it’s captaining this series and captaining this group and for me, I’m a very different leader to Meg, I’m a different personality, and it’s about me just putting my spin on that role and making sure that I’m doing the best I possibly can for this group to maintain the success that we’ve had,” she further added.
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The five-match T20I series will be essential for both teams as they ramp up their preparations for the T20 World Cup, which will be held in South Africa in early 2023. The matches will take place at the D.Y. Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai and Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai from December 9 to December 20. This will be India’s first home series in 21 months.
Australia squad: Alyssa Healy (c), Tahlia McGrath (vc), Darcie Brown, Nicola Carey, Ashleigh Gardner, Kim Garth, Heather Graham, Grace Harris, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Phoebe Litchfield, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland
India squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Radha Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Renuka Singh Thakur, Meghna Singh, Anjali Sarvani, Devika Vaidya, S Meghana, Richa Ghosh, Harleen Deol.
