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.Alyssa Healy's listing of awards is the envy of the cricket world.Two Globe Cup names, six T20 World Cup wins, a Commonwealth Gamings gold award, 2 Ladies's Significant Bash Game titles, two ICC Girls's T20I Cricketer of the Year honours as well as a Belinda Clark Honor-- there isn't a lot left for the wicketkeeper to obtain in the sport.However, having replaced past ally Meg Lanning as nationwide captain in 2015, Healy is about to embark on a brand-new difficulty-- leading her country at an ICC event.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live &amp exclusive on FOX SPORTING ACTIVITIES, accessible on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of cost trial today &gt Australia gained a trifecta of T20 Planet Cup headlines under Lanning's stewardship in 2018, 2020 and also 2023. Next month, the reigning champs will try to win an extraordinary fourth consecutive trophy in the United Arab Emirates.The signboard tournament starts a busy six months for Healy, headlined by a WBBL initiative with the Sydney Sixers, a home Ashes series along with a pink-ball Examination at the MCG, two white-ball excursions of New Zealand and also possibly yet another Female's Premier Organization campaign along with the UP Warriorz.Before heading to Queensland for Australia's three-match T20 collection versus the White Ferns, which receives underway on Thursday evening, Healy spoke to Fox Cricket to examine what could possibly verify a career-defining summer season for the 34-year-old. Alyssa Healy talks with the media. Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for Cricket AustraliaSource: Getty ImagesLet's beginning quickly on The Hundred. Are you happy with that said decision to invest that winter months in the house, and did you have an odds to see much of the tournament?Firstly, yes, I'm eased at the decision to not go and also participate in. I most likely ignored what the final nine months actually removed of me, and also to have a long time to reflect as well as rejuvenate myself was actually actually crucial. I interacted along with everybody over there and also was actually awakening on a daily basis looking at the scores and also watching some highlights, merely to find how everyone was tracking. All the females seemed to possess a definitely happy times, which is what it is actually all about.Heading in to your very first ICC tournament a captain, performs this really feel a bit various? Not having Meg Lanning around and also with on your own in that management position?It performs possess a bit of a various feeling. It is actually daunting to a level also, recognizing that I've reached turn up to all the leader's pressers and also the images. That's me right now. I really did not wish to do any one of that things before, that was actually all Meg's work. That part's somewhat overwhelming. But I presume the cricket edge of it is truly exciting. To have the possibility to head out there certainly and toss the coin in a World Mug is a rather incredible encounter, one that I'm definitely eagerly anticipating. Hopefully the team will enjoy on their own as well as likewise play some excellent, tough cricket.Has captaincy been what you anticipated it to be? Or have there been actually some problems that you weren't equipped for?It's absolutely opened my eyes to some stuff Meg was possibly handling responsible for the scenes, several of the things that likely were actually using her down. I was just actually vice-captain for a couple of months before she tipped off of the activity, so I really did not definitely come to find a lot of behind the scenes, what was actually needing to have to become done. Yet upon being actually propelled in to the job, it is actually been actually mind-blowing. It is actually been actually a problem, however one that I've actually really taken pleasure in. I'm certainly glad that I'm 34 certainly not 24 taking it on. I believe it will possess been actually truly overawing.Meg Lanning of Australia lifts the ICC Female's T20 Globe Mug trophy. Photograph through Mike Hewitt/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesIn the press last week you dismissed inquiries regarding the LA28 Olympics. I was a little shocked by that. Are you certain you are actually certainly not targeting the next Olympics?I have actually been stating due to the fact that I was actually 28 that I am actually mosting likely to retire in 1 year' opportunity. Listed below I am at 34. My mind could alter, however to become totally straightforward along with you, I don't think I'll still be actually running around at that point. Likewise, there belongs of me that believes it's a person else's turn, right? I've possessed this location for fairly a long period of your time as well as created it my own, however I believe it is actually somebody else's turn to enter and thrive responsible for the stubs. I intend there are a few folks placing their palm up. Tahlia Wilson's been actually killing it, Nicole Faltum's been actually around the Australia An edge and also Georgia Redmayne seems to be to regularly remain in the chat as well. It must be interesting observing that deepness of wicketkeeping ability in the country?Even even more generally, it's fantastic to find the intensity in Australian cricket. Traditionally, you consistently consider when there is actually shift, what young players are you carrying through? However the girls's video game is in such a great location now that they don't require to be younger. The Katie Macks of the world racking up runs, or even Georgia Redmayne as you stated, they are actually players that have actually been around the residential scene for an extended period of your time, certain in that they are actually and what they may do, and they are actually prime candidates for playing for Australia continuing, which I believe is a remarkable shift in our sport. The intensity itself in the maintaining division, it's spectacular. I can't wait to view, specifically, the 3 younger keepers go head-to visit the upcoming small amount to fight for that location. However you've received Beth Mooney floating around as well, which is quite helpful responsible for the stubs I 'd say.Obviously the group's going for four T20 Planet Mug labels straight. There was actually an emotion before the final in 2014 in South Africa that neutral fans were assisting the evident longshots, South Africa. Carries out the team experience that incorporated tension, as well as performs it motivate them even more knowing there is actually that added intended of their back?Yeah, our team carry out experience it. We're being pursued thus highly through all the teams that our experts are actually just about playing our ultimate every activity. Staffs are coming so hard at our team since they want to knock us out early. We need to turn on truly swiftly, as well as I believe that has actually assisted our method to T20 cricket, particularly over the last number of Planet Cups. Our company need to activate and obtain relocating and also enter the competition as prompt as our company can, given that our company're being hunted at every option. Gaining a World Mug is actually actually, actually difficult to accomplish, in the T20 format particularly. To become as consistent as what we have been in that style is actually an amazing success. If it's 4 in a row, remarkable, yet otherwise, if our experts provide it a red-hot crack as well as we do not come away along with the trophy, then that's ok. Beth Mooney, Annabel Sutherland, Alyssa Healy, Phoebe Litchfield, Tahlia McGrath and also Ashleigh Gardner posture with their winning T20 World Cup prizes. Photograph by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for Cricket AustraliaSource: Getty ImagesThe competition has been moved to the UAE. Perform you expect it to be really various to Bangladesh? And have you ever before played in the UAE?I've certainly never played global cricket there certainly. I have actually performed a couple of scenic tours as well as participated in strategy games. The site change is what it is. We couldn't handle any of that or even where it was actually mosting likely to be actually kept. It seemed like an unanimous choice to place it in the UAE. Logistically, it seemed to function the best for everybody. We were definitely properly readied as a squad for Bangladesh, and they're a few of the harshest problems that you'll play in, especially in T20 cricket, with just how much turn there resided in that set our experts played against all of them, and also just how reduced and slow down the openings were acquiring. I seem like possessing that chance to prep over there in a number of those severe problems are going to put our company in great place for what our experts might get inside the UAE. Our team are actually mosting likely to have to wait and see what our experts acquire when our team arrive, since I've observed some absolute fixed monitors produced there, and afterwards I have actually viewed some really reduced racking up ILT20 games. The other significant assignment this summer months is actually the Ashes. Eighteen months after among the fantastic Females's Ashes series, is there an emotion that Australia possesses a point to show after England boosted in those white-ball matches?Less of a suggest prove than more a possibility to feature what our experts can possibly do. There's been a ton of discussion because that concerning our atmosphere and this Aussie group. In my mind, it is just one of the absolute most interesting groups in world cricket currently, as well as I merely wish our females to head out there certainly and showcase that. England did that to us in that series beyond. They came out actually, truly hard and wished to put our team on the return foot early, and sometimes possibly our company performed take a small amount of a step back. So it's a possibility for us to claim, 'Absolutely no, you recognize what? This is in fact just how our experts play the game, and this is what our team can possibly do in your home.' As well as much more so than just about anything else, I want the enthusiasts to find out and also belong of it at the same time, due to the fact that we know what took place over in the UK, and our company obtained some violence from the group. So it behaves for the Aussie enthusiasts to come out permit the Poms know that they remain in Australia.A few of your colleagues have commented on the crowds in England. Were you copping some reviews and also the captain during that series?You consistently are. It's always a little fiery, a little spicy. The crowd delved the entire two Ashes collection on at the same time beyond, as well as our experts have actually made a decision to quit that and really split the Ashes, and almost have one Ashes, two seasons. To let the Poms understand two times in the room of year that they reside in Australia and they are actually up for the battle, the fans must be actually frothing.Alyssa Healy of Australia. Photograph through Asanka Ratnayake/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesThat crack, giving the ladies's Ashes it's own breathing time and also not sort of wedging it between the males's Examinations, in theory needs to be actually superb. Is actually that how you observe it as well?It's so interesting. Us as gamers have been definitely eager to possess a schedule that is actually really quick and easy to follow as well as truly regular each year. I understand I am actually mosting likely to the MCG on the 26th of December, right? I know I am actually mosting likely to the Sydney Test early January after New Year's. It is actually very easy to comply with that males's schedule due to the fact that it coincides each year, whereas our own has been a bit different and challenging to observe sometimes. It's great to have your personal very clear air, as well as I make sure that the cricket will match that.Has there been much refer to the Test getting back down to four days? Throughout your career there have been numerous pulls, mainly due to climate, but is actually that a resource of irritation for the side?There was actually definitely a concern elevated by the team when they happened and also presented it to our company. A few of the girls stuck their hand up and said, 'Why?' It's their idea that we should be good enough to get a lead to those 4 times. It's obviously still sufficient overs in the activity to get that result, yet I believe from an advertising, broadcasting and also friendliness point of view, right it in to those 4 days and ending up on a Sunday night would be actually actually great.