Women’s World Cup Drama: Australia Star Injured, Cries in Pain on Boundary Line

Women’s World Cup Drama: Australia copped a double blow in their T20 World Cup 2024 Group A match against Pakistan on Friday. The defending champions made light work of their third win in a row, beating Pakistan by 9 wickets, but two of their big guns, including captain Alyssa Healy, were injured in the process.

First Tayla Vlaeminck dislocated her shoulder bowling just 4 balls into the game and then Alyssa Healy appeared to pull up her hamstring coming back for a second run towards the end of the game. She couldn’t continue to bat and had to retire hurt.

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Playing her first World Cup game in 6 years, Vlaeminck was brought in to add more pace to the Australian bowling attack and suffered the nasty injury just 4 balls into the game while trying to stop a boundary off Muniba Ali’s bat. Vlaeminck was at short third, she chased the ball all the way and then put a slide to stop it from going to the ropes but her knee dug into the ground and she went flying in the air and landed awkwardly on her shoulders.

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She grabbed her shoulder and lay on the boundary line with a pained look on her face. Her Australian teammates were worried. The physios rushed to her. Her shoulder was relocated but the extent of the damage is unknown.

This is Vlaeminck’s third shoulder dislocation. She dislocated her left shoulder playing for Victoria in the 2017-18 season. Then during the Australia A tour of England last year (which was during the Women’s Ashes) she dislocated the same shoulder while bowling and had to have surgery.

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"It's obviously horrible seeing one of your mates go down and knowing Tay's road to get back to here," said Australia all-rounder Ash Gardner said. "She's someone that probably works harder than anyone else I know so to see someone like that go down with another injury, we all really felt for her."

"There were people that were obviously emotional and things like that and I think that just shows the care that we have for our team-mates and especially Tay. She's worked so hard to get back here and she's earned it, so to see her go down like that, we had to regroup really quickly."

Just as the Australian players were getting over that, captain Healy hobbled off the field with a grimace on her face a couple of hours later.

Healy was seen limping up the stairs to the change room and Cricket Australia later announced she had a severe injury to her right foot. She will have scans on Saturday and then we will know the extent of her involvement in the tournament.

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