Tayla Vlaeminck has suffered a setback in her bid to return to worldwide cricket from harm.
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 levels of the Ladies’s Ashes.
She shall 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 harm.
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 Ladies’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 carefully with Cricket Australia and Cricket Victoria, remodelling her motion to attempt to forestall a recurrence of her foot harm, in addition to working with the Australian Ballet to develop power 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, mentioned that whereas it was tempting to hope she may play a component in both of two upcoming Assessments 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’ll simply deal with white-ball stuff in the meanwhile,” Flegler mentioned. “That is all I’ve mentioned to her. Let’s get by way of that. She has to construct confidence once more that she will get by way of two video games, and get her by way of a tour, and hold…
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