Tayla Vlaeminck suffers injury setback in bid to make top-tier return

Vlaeminck, the 24-year-old right-arm fast from Australia, suffered instability in her left shoulder whereas bowling for Australia A in a 50-over match in opposition to England A on Sunday, the ultimate recreation of their tour which ran alongside the early phases of the Girls’s Ashes.

She will probably be assessed additional upon returning to Australia in just a few weeks’ time and it’s hoped the issue is only a minor blip on what has in any other case been an encouraging return to motion after a prolonged battle with a foot damage.

Vlaeminck was one of many quickest bowlers within the girls’s recreation earlier than struggling a recurrence of a stress fracture within the navicular bone of her proper foot, which stored her out of two T20 World Cups both facet of the ODI version in 2022. She made the final of her 24 appearances for Australia through the 2012-22 Girls’s Ashes.

Some 18 months on, she performed for Australia A in a T20 at Loughborough on June 21, selecting up a wicket. She claimed three extra wickets, one in every of her subsequent three video games for Australia A – a T20 adopted by two 50-over fixtures – however was injured over the past of these at Guildford, the place she bowled simply 2.4 overs for figures of 1 for 23.

Vlaeminck has labored intently with Cricket Australia and Cricket Victoria, remodelling her motion to try to stop a recurrence of her foot damage, in addition to working with the Australian Ballet to develop energy within the space. Beforehand she had endured two knee reconstructions, a dislocated shoulder and a partial anterior cruciate ligament pressure.

Talking after Vlaeminck’s comeback match in June, Shawn Flegler, Cricket Australia’s Feminine Excessive Efficiency and Expertise Supervisor, stated that whereas it was tempting to hope she might play an element in both of two upcoming Checks for Australia, in India in direction of the tip of the yr and in opposition to South Africa in Perth in February, that was not a precedence.

“We are going to simply deal with white-ball stuff in the meanwhile,” Flegler stated. “That is all I’ve stated to her. Let’s get by means of that. She has to construct confidence once more that she will get by means of two video games, and get her by means of a tour, and maintain reassessing as time goes on.”

Australia A swept the three-match 50-over collection, whereas England A gained the T20s 3-0.