Tayla Vlaeminck suffers damage setback in bid to make top-tier return
Tayla Vlaeminck has suffered a setback in her bid to return to worldwide cricket from damage.
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 towards England A on Sunday, the ultimate sport of their tour which ran alongside the early phases of the Women’s Ashes.
She will likely be assessed additional upon returning to Australia in a number of 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 ladies’s sport earlier than struggling a recurrence of a stress fracture within the navicular bone of her proper foot, which saved her out of two T20 World Cups both aspect of the ODI version in 2022. She made the final of her 24 appearances for Australia in the course of the 2012-22 Women’s Ashes.
Some 18 months on, she performed for Australia A in a T20 at Loughborough on June 21, choosing 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 last 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 attempt to stop a recurrence of her foot damage, in addition to working with the Australian Ballet to develop energy within the space. Previously she had endured two knee reconstructions, a dislocated shoulder and a partial anterior cruciate ligament pressure.
Speaking after Vlaeminck’s comeback match in June, Shawn Flegler, Cricket Australia’s Female High Performance and Talent Manager, mentioned that whereas it was tempting to hope she may play an element in both of two upcoming Tests for Australia, in India in direction of the tip of the 12 months and towards South Africa in Perth in February, that was not a precedence.
“We will just focus on white-ball stuff for the time being,” Flegler mentioned. “That’s all I have said to her. Let’s get through that. She has to build confidence again that she can get through two games, and get her through a tour, and keep reassessing as time goes on.”
Australia A swept the three-match 50-over sequence, whereas England A gained the T20s 3-0.