Alyssa Healy can’t “imagine” playing the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in politically volatile Bangladesh. The Australia captain believes hosting the global spectacle “might be the wrong thing to do” in the country given the way people are “dying” and hopes the International Cricket Council (ICC) makes the right decision.
“I find it very hard to think that you’re going to have a cricket tournament there at this time and that’s taking resources away from a country that’s going through a very difficult time,” Healy told reporters on Monday. “They need everyone they can get to help the people who are dying.”
“I would find it difficult to imagine playing there at the moment. As a human being, I feel it might be the wrong thing to do. But I will let the ICC sort it out,” he added.
The six-time champions will announce their squad for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup next Monday (August 26) and the Australia captain is extremely confident they will be able to adapt well as a group regardless of where the tournament ends up being hosted.
“I think we’re very well balanced in terms of the players we can choose, wherever the World Cup is, I think we’re going to have the right team to deal with it,” Healy said. “Obviously we’re lucky to have come to Bangladesh and to have tested those conditions. But wherever they put us, we’ll be ready to adapt.”
It is noteworthy that Australia has been the most successful team in the history of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.
After missing out on the final place in the inaugural edition of the tournament in 2009 following a defeat at the hands of Ashes rivals and eventual champions England, Australia came back strongly and won the next three editions in the Caribbean (2010), Sri Lanka (2012) and Bangladesh (2014).
They failed to secure a fourth consecutive win after losing to West Indies in the showpiece clash of the 2016 edition. However, 2016 was a rarity as they rallied and claimed another hat-trick of World Cup victories in 2018, 2019 and 2022.
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