Healy replaces Lanning as everlasting captain in all three codecs, with Australia set to journey to India for a sole Test match, three ODIs and three T20Is from December 21 to January 9.

Healy led the Australian aspect on an interim foundation for collection in opposition to England, Ireland and the West Indies, and takes the function with Lanning calling time on her worldwide profession final month. McGrath has additionally led the group, twice taking the captaincy within the final 12 months when Healy was unavailable.

With over 250 worldwide appearances to her identify Healy has been a cornerstone of Australia’s success over the past 14 years, taking part in in six trophy-winning T20 World Cup campaigns, the victorious Cricket World Cup 2022 success within the 50-over format, and Australia’s gold-medal profitable Commonwealth Games effort in Birmingham in the identical 12 months.

As captain, Healy needs to hold on from Lanning, although vows to convey a private contact to the function.

“I am honoured to accept the role of captain and am grateful for the opportunity to lead our team,” she mentioned.

“I’ve actually loved the assist of the gamers over the previous few months and their encouragement to proceed to be who I’m and lead the group like I usually would from inside.

“I’m clearly very completely different to Meg, I’m not her, I’m a really completely different type of chief as effectively … Meg is actually good at main from the entrance and actually pulling everybody alongside along with her.

“My approach will remain consistent to what it has been previously, but I’ll make my own mark on the role and be sure that I’m doing the best I possibly can for this group to maintain the success that we’ve had.” 

Australia has been the yardstick of the ladies’s worldwide recreation, even regarded one of many strongest ever groups in any ladies’s sport, although face arguably their largest risk to their No.1 standing within the subsequent 12 months, which incorporates one other T20 World Cup marketing campaign.  

Australia retained the Ashes this 12 months with out Lanning’s management and output with the bat, although it got here largely off the again of victory within the sole Test match within the collection (value 4 factors within the multi-format system), shedding each the T20I and ODI collection 2-1.

As the likes of England and India shut the hole, in addition to South Africa who made their mark in a house T20 World Cup marketing campaign earlier within the 12 months, subsequent 12 months’s event in Bangladesh might be thought of probably the most open ladies’s competitors in latest reminiscence.

McGrath mentioned her appointment as vice-captain was a “privilege”, although understands the significance of her function in a brand new chapter for Australia’s ladies’s cricket.

“Alyssa and I have played together for a long time, we know our respective leadership styles well,” McGrath mentioned.

“I look forward to helping her lead our group as we embark on a busy, but exciting international schedule.”

Australia’s 16-player group journey to Mumbai on Wednesday for the collection, although Healy isn’t any assure of that includes within the highly-anticipated pink ball conflict on the Wankhede Stadium, resulting from a freak hand damage.

The wicket-keeper underwent surgical procedure on her proper index finger after an incident along with her two canine at house in October, however stays assured of taking the sector.

“I assume I’ll be on the market [for the first Test in Mumbai], they’ll should do loads to cease me strolling on the market and catching the primary supply.”

“Everything’s going really, really well.”

Australia’s multi-format tour of India (all matches in Mumbai)

Test match, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, December 21-24

First ODI, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, December 28
Second ODI, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, December 30
Third ODI, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, January 2

First T20I, DY Patil Stadium,  Mumbai, January 5
Second T20I, DY Patil Stadium, Mumbai, January 7
Third T20I, DY Patil Stadium, Mumbai, January 9

Australia squad: Darcie Brown, Lauren Cheatle (Test solely), Heather Graham, Ashleigh Gardner, Kim Garth, Grace Harris (T20s solely), Alyssa Healy, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Phoebe Litchfield, Tahlia McGrath, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Wareham

India Test squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Yastika Bhatia (wk), Richa Ghosh (wk), Sneh Rana, Shubha Satheesh, Harleen Deol, Saika Ishaque, Renuka Singh Thakur, Titas Sadhu, Meghna Singh, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Pooja Vastrakar