Australia Back Sophie Molineux To Make Return From Injury At 2025 Icc Women's World Cup

Injury-hit Sophie Molineux has been named successful Australia’s ODI World Cup squad, and will beryllium fixed each chance to play her first lucifer successful 9 months.

Sophie Molineux will beryllium fixed each chance to characteristic successful Australia’s ODI World Cup defence, aft being named to make her comeback from wounded astatine nan tournament.

Molineux was connected Friday nan big-name inclusion successful Australia’s 15-women squad for adjacent month’s tourney successful India and Sri Lanka, pinch nan group different mostly settled.

The finger-spinning allrounder has not played since past December, aft being managed done nan WBBL and requiring knee room successful mid-January.

Molineux had identified nan World Cup arsenic a targeted return, having missed Australia’s past triumph successful 2022 successful New Zealand.

The Victorian is expected to travel consecutive successful for nan tournament, fixed she is considered improbable to play immoderate of nan 3 lead-in ODIs against India successful Mumbai later this month.

Molineux’s inclusion comes pinch Australia besides hopeful skipper Alyssa Healy has flooded nan ft issues that sidelined her for ample parts of past summer.

There was different scare past period for Australia erstwhile spinner Georgia Wareham near nan Hundred successful England pinch an adductor strain, but she excessively has been named.

“Sophie Molineux is progressing good successful her return from a knee injury, and we expect she’ll beryllium disposable for nan World Cup,” physio Kate Beerworth said.

“Alyssa Healy made a beardown return successful nan caller ‘A’ series, and we’re pleased pinch wherever she’s at.

“Georgia Wareham’s besides backmost to afloat training pursuing her adductor wounded during nan Hundred.”

Molineux’s fittingness is cardinal for Australia, fixed she has taken 11 wickets astatine an mean of 6.54 successful Asia.

While that is from a constricted return of 5 ODIs connected nan continent, her T20 grounds location of 20 wickets astatine 12.65 speaks to her accomplishment connected nan slower pitches.

Uncapped spinner Charli Knott looms arsenic nan astir apt replacement for Molineux if nan Victorian does not retrieve successful time, arsenic she’s successful nan squad for 3 lead-in ODIs against India.

The 22-year-old Georgia Voll is nan main caller look successful Australia’s squad, having ne'er featured successful immoderate shape of World Cup earlier and having struggled successful nan caller version of nan Hundred.

Voll burst onto nan segment past summertime pinch a period successful her 2nd ODI against India, placing unit connected Australia’s established apical order.

Fellow batter Phoebe Litchfield, who was nan Hundred’s subordinate of nan tournament, seamer Kim Garth and legspinner Wareham are besides group for their first 50-over World Cups, aft antecedently playing successful T20 ones.

Australia look New Zealand successful their tourney opener connected October 1, pinch each 8 teams to play each different erstwhile earlier semi-finals and a last connected November 2.

Healy’s broadside are attempting to beryllium nan first squad to triumph back-to-back ODI World Cups since Australia claimed 3 consecutive successful 1978, 1982 and 1988.

Australia did triumph nan past World Cup successful India successful 2013, and swept their past bilateral bid successful nan state 3-0 successful precocious 2023.

Australia squad: Alyssa Healy (captain), Darcie Brown, Ashleigh Gardner, Kim Garth, Grace Harris, Alana King, Phoebe Litchfield, Tahlia McGrath, Sophie Molineux, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Voll, Georgia Wareham.