Alyssa Jean Healy (born 24 March 1990) is an Australian cricketer who is a member of the Australian women’s national women’s team and New South Wales in domestic cricket, and in the Sydney Sixers in the WBBL. Her international debut came in February of this year.
A right-handed wicket-keeper and batter She has the father of Greg Healy, who was part of the Queensland squad. Her Uncle Ian Healy was Australia’s Test wicket-keeper. He also held the record in the world for the most dismissals in a Test. Healy first became famous in late 2006, when she was one of the very first girls to play alongside boys in the private school tournament in New South Wales. She was promoted to the state’s age groups before making her first appearance with the top New South Wales team in the 2007-08 season. She was a part of the initial two years as specialist batsman due being a part of Leonie Coleman–who is also a wicketkeeper for Australia in the state side. Coleman was released from New South Wales at the beginning of the 2009-10 cricket season and Healy began to play the game in full-time capacity in her home state. In the year, the same time frame she scored her highest score, 90 not out in less than a single run and also recorded the highest number of dismissed of any wicket-keeper in the women’s National Cricket League.
After the injury suffered by Australian Captain and wicket-keeper Jodie Fields Healy received her debut international appearance in the 2010 Rose Bowl series against New Zealand. She took part in the initial five One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and five Twenty20 (T20) internationals However, she was omitted in the final three ODIs of the New Zealand leg of the series. Healy participated in every game during the tournament of 10th World Twenty20 as Australia won the tournament with a flawless season. In October of 2018, Healy was named in Australia’s team to play in the 2018 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies, she finished as the tournament’s top runs scorer , scoring 225 runs. She also was named the tournament’s player of the year.
In December of 2018 In December 2018, in December 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) awarded Her as the T20I Cricketer of the Year. In September of 2019, as part of Australia’s series with Sri Lanka, Healy played in her 100th match of WT20I. 4. Also in the series Healy broke the record of having the most high individual score in a women’s T20I match, scoring 148 points not being lost. 5 In January of 2020 she got included to the Australian squad of the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia. Healy was the second highest run scoring player in the tournament, with 236 runs. In the final match, she scored a lightning-fast 75 off just 39 wickets against India to aid in helping Australia achieve their fifth win and was named the player award of the tournament. In September 2020, during an additional WT20I game in the second WT20I match against New Zealand, Healy took her 92nd wicket as the wicket-keeper. The result was that She surpassed M. D. Dhoni’s mark of 91 dismissals setting an all-time record for the the most dismissals for an wicket-keeper regardless of gender, for Twenty20 International cricket. [7]
The beginning of the year
Born in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Healy is the daughter of Greg who was part of the Queensland team, and Greg’s older sister Ian was Australia’s wicket-keeper in the Test from the mid 1980s until 1999, and was an international record-holder of the most Test wickets lost. A different uncle Ken was a player for Queensland. 2. Despite family history and watching her uncle’s team represent Australia she stated that she was not keen on cricket until after she moved away from Queensland to Sydney when she was a young girl and was enticed to take on the game by a fellow player. [8] She went to her high school in MLC School and later Barker College.
Her choice at 16 in the late months of 2006 as wicket-keeper in the Barker College First XI, the first time that a girl was chosen to be part of a team with boys playing in the elite private school cricket tournament located in New South Wales, drew reports from multiple sources. The incident occurred when an anonymous person thought to be an ex-male student, published an email with the title “Save Barker Cricket Now” within the school community, slamming the selection as an “disgrace” and urging gender-based segregation of the team. The sportsmaster of Barker College condemned the anonymous author as “gutless” and said Healy’s decision was made based on merit. 9. Ian Healy and Alex Blackwell an Australian cricketer who plays for the Australian women’s team , and a an ex- Barker student have also defended the choice and condemned the email’s creator. The emailer was also criticized as well as Alyssa Healy was praised, by journalists who comment on social issues.[9] She was interviewed in 2010 and said “I’d like to try it again…I thoroughly enjoyed playing in the school cricket team with my fellow boys, and it certainly helped me improve my game and improve my technique. “[13She and her Australian teammates Ellyse Perry and her have formally endorsed girls playing against males.
In January 2007 Healy was chosen for the New South Wales team to participate in the interstate Under-19 competition. She was the first to bat in all three games and remaining only the third of them she scored 47 three times, including 73 and 41, in the first three games, and also took one catch. 14] She went on to score 345 runs and an batting average of 57.50 and was the top run-scorer on the list. She was also named the best player under 17 in the competition. In the following month she was picked in the Australia Youth team, made up of players under 23 years old who were playing New Zealand A, the only player chosen prior to making their debut as a senior player in the country. In her 15th year, she had scored not-outs of 10, 41, and 63 in three matches 43 and 63 in three games and even she was also responsible for one stump. She was the highest scorer among those Australians during the last game with 63 runs from only 84 deliveries, that wasn’t enough to avoid the loss of 22 runs. 16 She was a wicket-keeper , batting in the middle order during the first game, and was the opening player in the final two games, primarily as batter. The series ended with a draw after the second game was tied.
Senior domestic debut
The beginning of the 2007-08 season she made her debut as a senior player with the New South Wales Breakers in the Australian domestic one-day league. She was a specialist batsman within the top order. Leonie Coleman, a wicketkeeper in the Australian team was also playing in the team of New South Wales. Her debut came in the match against South Australia and was unsuccessful in the beginning she scored just twenty-four runs over her initial five innings. After a month at the senior stage, she made her mark with a match-winning performance her sixth game of senior. After Queensland had reached 170 runs, Healy was in the stands with 5/99, after 32 overs, and only 18 overs left. She increased the rate of run and scored 41 not out of 50 balls, and eight fours, leading the tail-ends of the field and guiding her team to a 2-wicket victory with 17 balls spare.
New South Wales reached the final and received the trophy because they were placed top in qualifying games after rain washed away the decisive game.Healy completed this season by scoring 78 run as of 11.14. Also, she played at two Twenty20 interstate games. She scored two wickets and also made one stumping in the initial match, and she didn’t bat or kept wicket in the second. New South Wales prevailed in both.
In the final stages in the year, she got chosen as a member of the U23 Australian team to participate in an exhibition match against the older England as well as Australian teams. She scored 45, 1, and 41 without a loss in three games. In the third she formed an unbeaten second wicket with Elyse Villani, who hit 6 boundaries over 62 deliveries, and helping her team win an eight-wicket victory over an Australian team. In her role as an expert batsman, she also made three catch. 14] The season 2008-09 began exactly the same way, starting with the U23 national team taking on Australia as well as India. The first game, which was against India was washed away and Healy was able to score a duck [zeroand nine in other games. Batsman in the game She didn’t get the catch. [14]
Healy was once more batswoman, with Coleman sitting behind the stumps. In the opening four games of the domestic season she played only onceand scored nine. In these matches, she was put in the lower order and didn’t bowl. She was then dropped after four games. [14]
Then she played six matches in The Second XI in the space of a week. Most of them were as a top-order batsman. She also played occasionally opening, and also as the wicket-keeper. New South Wales won all matches, with the exception of one game that was cancelled due to the inclement weather. 14] The batswoman scored 120 at 40.00 she took six catches and recorded three stumpings. She was sent back to the senior squad after one week with the second-string team. 14) In her first three games back, Healy was placed in the middle-order , and was did not have to bat or to keep wickets. In the most recent match in the league She scored 59 off 55 ball in an 89-run partnership more than a run per ball Lisa Sthalekar against Victoria. New South Wales won by three wickets, despite losing Healy as well as three other batsmen in the final phase in the run chase. In the final, which was played against the same team in the following month, Healy made 11 from 22 balls before getting run out However, New South Wales nevertheless won by six wickets, with more than 15 runs to extra to claim the trophy. 21. Healy completed the one-day event with 79 runs and 26.33. 14) She was selected for the shortlist of Australia’s 30 players of the 2010 Women’s World Cricket Cup but she wasn’t part of the team of 15. [22]
Healy was also a part of two Twenty20 matches for the state throughout the season She scored 35 out of 27 balls in the match against South Australia and 16 from 21 balls against Victoria. The Australian also was New South Wales’ second top scorer in both matches The first one was won, while the second one was lost. [14]
Full-time wicket-keeper
Following that women’s World Cup held in early 2009, Coleman transferred to play for the Australian Capital Territory, so Healy was made New South Wales’ wicket-keeper in full-time capacity for the beginning in 2009/10. After scoring 11 29, 12, and 11 during her first three innings of the one-day series,[14she scored an unbeaten score of 89 in the match against Victoria. In the midst of the fall of Leah Poulton with the score at 1/9 following three overs, she scored 13 fours off 82 ball, and put on partnership which included 72 for Blackwell along with 82 Sthalekar. New South Wales reached their goal of 187, in just 13 overs left. Healy was named Player of the Match. She had earlier caught a ball and then made an unsuccessful stumping. Her campaign was cut short by her selection for her selection in the Australian U-21 side to take on those from the New Zealand Emerging Players. In five games she took 50 wickets at 10.00 and took five catches , and even made one stumping. Australia took the series 4-1. [14]
In the final game of the one-day contest she scored 23 runs from 37 balls when she batted at the number. 3. She also made two catch in the process as New South Wales defeated Victoria by 59 runs. 26 Healy completed her first full season as a wicketkeeper with the score of 208 runs, which was 29.71 which was the second highest average for her team, behind only Blackwell. In 11 games she also took 11 wickets and took 9 stumpings, causing more the number of dismissals as any player. [27]
She scored 52 runs, averaging 13.00 during seven T20 matches. Her highest scoring was an undefeated 20 off 13 deliveries in an 8-wicket victory against Tasmania. In the final match, Victoria batted first and was able to make 5/127with Healy completed a catch as well as stumping. In the second innings, Healy made a duck in the process. New South Wales lost four wickets in the first 13 balls. They were completely out for 75 to be beaten the match by 22 run. [28]
Her record is giving the most byes to wicketkeepers during an innings of WT20I (9) The second highest number of byes for any female wicketkeeper alongside Tammy Beaumont. [29]
International debut
Healy was picked in the Australian team to play in the Rose Bowl series against New Zealand in February 2010 , due to an injury to captain and wicketkeeper Jodie Fields. The selection committee issued the following statement “Alyssa has been selected as a higher honoree for many years, and is now getting the chance to show off her ability to keep wickets and play attacking playing on the international stage”. 30. Healy was the first ODI player to make her debut in the Adelaide Oval and played in all five ODIs during the Australian part of the tour. In her debut match she scored 21 off eleven balls during the final overs. She hit four fours. Australia produced 241 before taking out the opposition for 126 for victory by 115 runs. She made one catch by removing Amy Satterthwaite from the bowling of Rene Farrell. [3131 Healy was able to make consecutive ducks during the following two games, and then scored four in the final game in the final match at Junction Oval. There were only a couple of chances to bat during the final moments during the match. She concluded the match by scoring 25 at 6.25 and the strike rate was 100.00 Five catches and an unsuccessful stumping.
She was then a part of the three T20s played on Bellerive Oval in Hobart. The first match was a curtain raiser to the game between Australia as well as the West Indies men teams, and was the first game that was broadcast live on free-to-air TV in Australia. New Zealand batted first and Australian fast bowler Ellyse Perry gathered an outside edge off captain Aimee Watkins’s first ball of the game. This ball flew right towards Healy’s midriff before she dropped the ball. Watkins was able to score 44 off 36 balls , as New Zealand made 7/117 and Healy’s sole dismissal was to take Nicola Browne from Sthalekar’s off spin. Healy was at the crease with 6/107 at the end of 19th over. She three runs in the same number of balls. She ended up in the middle of the last ball of the game, bowled by Browne in the final over, and Australia having to score three runs to secure victory. The delivery was wide to the outside off, and the ball’s sweeping shot was able to take the outside edges of the ball, and was able to fly towards the vacant space in the first slip. It could have resulted in an unbeatable four runs, without New Zealand wicket-keeper Rachel Priest taking a leap across the field to catch the ball single-handed with her right hand and handing the visitors the victory by two runs. [14][33][34]
Healy did not make a huge impact using the bat during the three T20s played in Australia as well as two additional in the first game of the New Zealand leg of the series she scored 17 runs at 5.66 and an average score of 77.27. Except for one catch in her first appearance in the series, she didn’t take any further disqualifications. Australia lost five of the matches. Then, she was removed from the three ODIs played in New Zealand as batsman Jess Cameron took over as a substitute wicket-keeper. [14]
2010 World Twenty20
Healy was picked as a player for 2010’s World Twenty20 in the West Indies and was a part of every match following the time Fields was forced to withdraw due to injuries. [36][37][38][39][40][41][42] In the first warm-up match, she took two catches and did not bat as Australia lost to New Zealand by 18 runs. In the previous warm-up game, she was again not batted and she did not even take a wicket as the Australians beat Pakistan by an 82-run margin. [42]
Australia were included with England, South Africa and the West Indies. In the opening game with England, Healy took one catch to remove Danielle Hazell from the bowling of Sthalekar. With a goal of 105 to winning, Australia were struggling when Healy was brought to the crease, scoring 7/63, after 14.2 overs. Three wickets fell within the span of just 16 balls, and only three runs were added. [38] And England had momentum and needed 42 runs from 34 balls to win. Healy hit three fours and made 15 of 9 balls prior to being removed by Nicki Shaw to end a match of 23 balls. Sthalekar. But, Rene Farrell was run out, attempting to score the winning run with the third ball available which left the score in a tie. [38]
An Super Over eventuated, and Laura Marsh bowled for England. Healy was a 1/3, after Leah Poulton fell on the fourth ball. She struck a two off the fifth ball and was then flung out in the hands of Jenny Gunn while attempting to finish a second run at the end of the 6th and last ball in australia’s Super Over, leaving them at 2/6. England finished with 2/6 following the run-out in a bid to get victory on the ball that was the final one. Australia won the game because they scored more sixes during the game. Jess Cameron hit the only six. [38]
In the following encounter in the next match against South Africa, Healy was elevated two positions to No. 7. After the death of Cameron Her partner Sarah Elliott was then run out with no further addition on the scores. Healy struck one boundary and was then dismissed for eight from six balls, averaging 7/151. Her demise was part of an abrupt collapse in which Australia lost 6/16 of their fourth wicket for four runs, and was completely out for 155 after three balls left unplayed. Healy was not able to make the decision to dismiss in the end as Australia won by 22 runs. 39) In the last group game with the West Indies, Healy came into the game at 6/111, and struck 12 off 8 balls after which she was caught by the last ball of the game in the end. Australia was able to finish on 7/133. She had scored 22 runs in just 16 balls, aided by Sthalekar. She snared Deandra Dottin in Perry’s bowling Perry for the golden duck. Australia beat India by nine runs to complete the group stage without losing on top of the group. [40]
Australia faced India for the semi-final. Healy stopped leading Indian player Mithali Raj off the bowling of Sthalekar and was not forced to bat when Australia hit their target of 120, with seven wickets with seven balls remaining. 41 Australia decided to start the game first game against New Zealand, but the top order struggled, and Healy was brought to the crease with Elliott as 5/51 at the end of the 13th ball following the loss of two wickets rapid sequence. They boosted the pace by adding 21 runs over 18 balls. Healy got 10 runs out of the same number of balls, but was then unable to complete an additional run following dropping on the field by Sara McGlashan in the outfield. The score was 6/72 during the 16th Over the game, and Australia ultimately ended the match at 8/106. [43]
In the mid-point of the run-chase Priest was mistakenly stumped by Healy when the TV umpire Asad Rauf had hit the wrong button and he had to reverse his decision. After that, New Zealand were at 5/36 after 11 overs, which left the team with 71 runs to score after 54 balls and Australia were on top. But the chances of New Zealand were rekindled thanks to Nicola Browne and Sophie Devine who added 41 off as many balls. The 18th time Healy was able to catch Browne off Perry’s bowling and Australia won by three runs, after New Zealand ended on 6/103. [44]
2015-present
In June of 2015 she was selected as one of the Australian players to tour celebrations for the Women’s Ashes in England. [45]
Healy was named the wicketkeeper for all formats in the 2017 Women’s Ashes series in Australia. She was the top run-scorer during the ODI portion of this series. The entire series was 8-8 in terms of points in addition to being the reigning champions, Australia kept the Ashes.
In April of 2018 she was among fourteen players given a national contract during this season. Cricket Australia. [48]
In June of 2018, Healy was named as Captain of the New South Wales Breakers for the 2018-19 season following the resignation of the captain before her, Alex Blackwell. She was chosen over Australian women’s vice-captain Rachael Haynes as well as Sydney Sixers Captain Ellyse Perry. [49]
In October of 2018 she was included in the Australian squad for this year’s ICC Women’s World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. In advance of the event, she was selected among the athletes to keep an eye on. She was also the top run-scorer of the tournament, scoring the score of 225 runs. She was also named the winner of the competition. [53]
In November of 2018 she was selected to the Sydney Sixers’ squad for the 2018-19 Women’s Big Bash League season. In April of 2019, Cricket Australia awarded her with a contract prior to next season. In June of 2019, Cricket Australia named her in the Australian team for their tour to England for the Women’s Ashes.
She was presented with the Belinda Clarke Medal at the Allan Border Medal ceremony by the CA in the year 2019. In January of 2020 she was included in the Australian squad to play in the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia. In the game played by Australia with Bangladesh, Healy and Beth Mooney formed an opening-day partnership that was 151, the highest score for Australia Women in any match during the course of a WT20I match. [62] In the last, Healy blasted 75 off 39 balls, an all-round performance that was a player of the game which resulted in Australia take home their fifth title. [63]
In November of 2020, Healy was nominated for the ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade award. On April 7, 2021, during the 2nd WODI with New Zealand, Healy played in her 200th international game. [66]
In January 2022 Healy was included as a player for Australia’s series against England in the women’s ashes. In the following year, Healy was selected as a player for Australia’s team in women’s cricket’s World Cup 2022 which will be held in New Zealand. [68]
Records
Between February 21 and August 2019 Healy had between 21 February and 2 August 2019, Healy held the Guinness World Record for the most impressive the ball that a player can catch, at 82.5m.This was part of a campaign designed to celebrate one year before the the 2021 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. The record was later surpassed by Kristan Baumgartner who has 114m. 70 Alyssa Shealy is the record in the world for the highest number of runs in the women’s T20 International with 148* (61) at the North Sydney Oval on 2 October 2019 , against Sri Lanka.] On March 8, 2020 Alyssa was the fastest at 50 (off 30 ball) ever recorded in ICC tournament finals in all all formats.The record was set on the 8th of March, 2020.
