1. Alyssa Healy plays for New South Wales in domestic cricket, as well as the Sydney Sixers in the WBBL and captains the UP Warriorz in Women's Premier League in India.
68 Facts About Alyssa Healy
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Alyssa Healy first came to prominence in late 2006 when she became the first girl to play among boys in the private schools' competition in New South Wales.
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Alyssa Healy played in the first five One Day Internationals and five Twenty20 Internationals, but was dropped for the last three ODIs during the New Zealand leg of the series.
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Alyssa Healy played in every match of the 2010 World Twenty20 as Australia won the tournament after an unbeaten campaign.
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Alyssa Healy was part of Australia's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies, and finished as the tournament's leading runs scorer with 225 runs and won player of the tournament.
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In September 2019, during Australia's series against Sri Lanka, Alyssa Healy played in her 100th WT20I match.
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Alyssa Healy finished second highest runs scorer in the tournament with 236 runs.
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In September 2020, in the second WT20I match against New Zealand, Alyssa Healy took her 92nd dismissal as a wicket-keeper.
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Alyssa Healy attended high school at MLC School and later Barker College.
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The sportsmaster of Barker College condemned the anonymous writer as "gutless" and maintained that Alyssa Healy's selection was based on merit.
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The emailer was criticised, and Alyssa Healy commended, by social commentators in newspapers.
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In January 2007, Alyssa Healy was selected in the New South Wales team to play in the Under-19 interstate competition.
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Alyssa Healy went on to end with 345 runs at a batting average of 57.50, topping the run-scorers list and was named the best under-17 player at the tournament.
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Alyssa Healy scored 10 not out, 41 and 63 in three matches, and made one stumping.
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Alyssa Healy played as a wicket-keeper batting in the middle-order in the first match, and opened in the last two matches, playing purely as a batter.
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Alyssa Healy was used as a specialist batter in the top-order, as Leonie Coleman, a wicket-keeper in the Australian squad, played for New South Wales.
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Alyssa Healy made her debut against South Australia and was unsuccessful to begin with, scoring only 24 runs in her first five innings.
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Alyssa Healy raised the run rate, scoring 41 not out from 50 balls, with eight fours, shepherding the tail-enders and guiding her state to a two-wicket win with 17 balls to spare.
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Alyssa Healy scored two and made a stumping in the first match, and neither batted nor kept wicket in the latter.
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Alyssa Healy scored 45,1 and 41 not out in three matches.
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The first match, against India, was washed out and Alyssa Healy made a duck [zero] and 9 in the other matches.
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Alyssa Healy again played as a batter, with Coleman ensconced behind the stumps.
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Alyssa Healy then played six matches for the Second XI in the space of a week, mostly as a top-order batter, sometimes opening and as a wicket-keeper.
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Alyssa Healy scored 120 runs at 40.00, took six catches and made three stumpings, and was recalled to the senior team after one week in the second-string outfit.
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Alyssa Healy ended the one-day competition with 79 runs at 26.33.
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Alyssa Healy was named Australia's 30-strong shortlist for the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup, but was not a part of the final squad of 15.
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Alyssa Healy played in two Twenty20 matches for her state during the season, scoring 35 from 27 balls against South Australia and 16 from 21 balls against Victoria.
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Alyssa Healy was New South Wales' second top-scorer in both matches; the first was won but the second lost.
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New South Wales reached their target of 187 with more than 13 overs to spare and Alyssa Healy was named the Player of the Match, having earlier taken a catch and made a stumping.
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Alyssa Healy's season was interrupted by her selection in the Australian Under-21 team to play against the New Zealand Emerging Players.
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Alyssa Healy ended her first full season as a wicket-keeper with 208 runs at 29.71, the second-highest average in her team behind Blackwell.
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Alyssa Healy made 52 runs at 13.00 in seven T20 matches.
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Alyssa Healy's best score was an unbeaten 20 from 13 balls in an eight-wicket win over Tasmania.
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In reply, Alyssa Healy made a duck as New South Wales lost four wickets in the first 13 balls and were all out for 75 to lose by 22 runs.
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Alyssa Healy holds the record for conceding the most number of byes as wicketkeeper in an innings of a WT20I, the joint most by any female wicketkeeper along with Tammy Beaumont.
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Alyssa Healy was selected in the Australian squad for the Rose Bowl series against New Zealand in February 2010 due to an injury to the incumbent wicketkeeper and captain Jodie Fields.
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The selection committee released a statement saying "Alyssa Healy has been identified for higher honours for a number of years and now gets the chance to display her wicket-keeping skills and attacking batting on the international stage".
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Alyssa Healy made her ODI debut at the Adelaide Oval and played in all five ODIs in the Australian leg of the series.
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Alyssa Healy took one catch, removing Amy Satterthwaite from the bowling of Rene Farrell.
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Alyssa Healy made consecutive ducks in the next two matches, and made four in the final match at Junction Oval.
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Alyssa Healy had only brief opportunities with the bat in the closing stages of the innings.
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Alyssa Healy ended the series with 25 runs at 6.25 and a strike rate of 100.00, five catches and a stumping.
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Alyssa Healy then played in the three T20s held at Bellerive Oval in Hobart.
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The delivery was wide outside off and Alyssa Healy's expansive shot took the outside edge of the bat and flew towards the vacant first slip area.
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Alyssa Healy had little impact with the bat in the three T20s in Australia and two more at the start of the New Zealand leg of the series, scoring 17 runs at 5.66 and a strike rate of 77.27.
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Alyssa Healy was then omitted for the three ODIs in New Zealand as batter Jess Cameron stood in as a makeshift wicket-keeper.
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Alyssa Healy was selected for the 2010 World Twenty20 in the West Indies and played in every match after Fields was again forced out by injury.
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Alyssa Healy then struck three fours, making 15 from 9 balls before being dismissed by Nicki Shaw, ending a stand of 23 from 13 balls with Sthalekar.
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Alyssa Healy did not make a dismissal as Australia completed a 22-run win.
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Alyssa Healy had put on 22 runs in 16 balls with Sthalekar.
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Alyssa Healy caught Deandra Dottin from the bowling of Perry for a golden duck as Australia won by nine runs to finish the group stage unbeaten at the top of their quartet.
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Alyssa Healy stumped leading Indian batter Mithali Raj from the bowling of Sthalekar and was not required to bat as Australia reached their target of 120 with seven wickets and seven balls to spare.
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Alyssa Healy scored 10 from as many balls, but was then run out attempting a second run after being dropped by Sara McGlashan in the outfield.
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Alyssa Healy was named as the wicketkeeper across all forms of the 2017 Women's Ashes series in Australia.
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Alyssa Healy was the leading run-scorer in the ODI leg of the series.
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Alyssa Healy was named ahead of Australian Women's Vice-Captain Rachael Haynes and Sydney Sixers Captain Ellyse Perry.
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Alyssa Healy was the leading run-scorer in the competition, with 225 runs, and was named the player of the tournament.
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Alyssa Healy was awarded the Belinda Clarke Medal at the Allan Border Medal ceremony by the CA in 2019.
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In November 2020, Alyssa Healy was nominated for the ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Decade award.
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On 7 April 2021, in the second WODI against New Zealand, Alyssa Healy played in her 200th international match.
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In January 2022, Alyssa Healy was named in Australia's squad for their series against England to contest the Women's Ashes.
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In December 2023, after the retirement of Meg Lanning from international cricket, Alyssa Healy was appointed as captain of the Australia women's national cricket team in test, one day international and Twenty20 International cricket.
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Alyssa Healy was named captain of the Australia squad for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup and the 2025 Women's Ashes series.
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Between 21 February and 2 August 2019, Alyssa Healy held the Guinness World Record for the highest catch of a cricket ball at 82.5m.
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Alyssa Healy holds the world record for the most runs in a Women's T20 International with 148* at North Sydney Oval on 2 October 2019 against Sri Lanka.
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On 8 March 2020, Alyssa Healy recorded the fastest 50 in the history of ICC event finals across formats before it was broken by Heinrich Klaasen in 2024.
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In 2015, Alyssa Healy became engaged to fast bowler Mitchell Starc.
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Alyssa Healy has a golf handicap of seven and competes against Starc for the annual Stealy Cup.