Australian women's cricket captain Alyssa Healy confident of playing in tomorrow's test match against England after injury

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Australia captain Alyssa Healy is confident she will play in tomorrow's test match against England. Healy has been wearing a moon boot for the last few days after missing all three T20 matches. Reporter Alexia Pesce was at training today.

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00:00The captain fronted the media this morning and Alyssa Healy was very confident that she

00:05will play tomorrow.

00:06She has been cleared by the team's medical staff but still she'll need to wait until

00:10the team is announced tomorrow.

00:12It's been surprising to me every single day that I've done some stuff, just how well it's

00:16responded.

00:17I was pushed pretty hard yesterday, I think you all saw me, I was blown a fair bit.

00:21I've never done speed nicking before in my life so it was good fun but obviously we've

00:26done that on purpose to try and see what I can and can't get through and I've pulled

00:29up really well so I'm really positive moving forward.

00:32The captain did train with the team this afternoon, it was only a light session.

00:36Now if she does play she's likely to only bat with Beth Mooney to keep the gloves as

00:40she did in the T20 series.

00:42Ash Gardner has also been cleared to play and told Healy that she is good to go.

00:46England will head into the match hoping to avoid a complete whitewash.

00:49It'll be the first time a team has whitewashed the series since the multi-format series was

00:53introduced back in 2013.

00:56We haven't played our best cricket at all as a side, we haven't shown what we're about

00:59and the next four days is a chance to do that for us to show exactly who we are as cricketers

01:03and who we are as people.

01:04There's a lot of character in that group and we're obviously hurting from quite a tough

01:08tour and disappointed that we haven't put out our best cricket for sure.

01:11It's also the first Test match that has been played here at the MCG in 75 years and a Healy

01:15inclusion would be a massive boost for the Aussies.

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