Ladies’s Premier League (WPL): Beth Mooney returned to coaching for Gujarat Giants after struggling a leg harm towards Mumbai Indians within the curtain-raiser.
Delhi,UPDATED: Mar 7, 2023 07:45 IST
Beth Mooney suffered an harm within the WPL opener. (Picture: PTI)
By way of India These days Sports activities Table: Gujarat Giants captain Beth Mooney returned to coaching after struggling an harm within the Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) curtain raiser.
Mooney, who was once contemporary from Australia’s T20 International Cup victory, hobbled off the bottom because of what seemed to be a leg injuy after going through simply 4 balls in Gujarat Giants’ embarrassing 143-run defeat to Mumbai Indians on the D.Y. Patil Stadium in Mumbai on March 4.
The 29-year-old Mooney were taking a look to problem herself, taking on the position of captaincy in a doubtlessly game-changing girls’s cricket league. Alternatively, it went all unsuitable for the International Cup champion as she was once pressured to pass over Gujarat Giants’ next event towards UP Warriorz.
Within the absence of Mooney, India all-rounder Sneh Rana led the facet. Gujarat Giants suffered a 2d consecutive defeat as they went down towards UP Warriorz by means of 3 wickets in an exciting final-over contest.
All the way through the mid-match interview, Gujarat Giants head trainer and Mooney’s former Australia teammate Rachael Haynes advised the commentators that the facet may have to interchange their captain.
“I think we could have to interchange (Beth) Mooney. The scans that got here out these days, didn’t glance that fab,” Haynes mentioned. “The clinical crew will check out the scans and they are going to take the remaining name.”
Mooney, who was once snapped by means of Gujarat Giants for INR 2 crore, previous admitted that she by no means thought of captaining the facet and published that it was once India batting legend Mithali Raj, Giants’ mentor, who requested her to guide the facet within the WPL.
“Once I were given bid on within the public sale, I used to be simply glad to be part of it and captaincy wasn’t one thing that was once on my radar,” Mooney mentioned at the eve of the WPL opener. “Mithali gave me a telephone name and mentioned ‘we might such as you to do it [captaincy] and we are glad if you wish to. So simply tell us’.
“After a few conversations with Rachael [Haynes, head coach] after that, we each concept that the time was once proper for me to problem myself inside of cricket.”
Gujarat Giants will subsequent tackle Royal Challengers Bangalore on March 8.
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Mar 7, 2023