.Alyssa Healy's list of honors is actually the envy of the cricket world.Two Planet Cup titles, 6 T20 World Cup gains, a Commonwealth Video games gold award, pair of Females's Big Bash Organization titles, pair of ICC Ladies's T20I Cricketer of the Year honours and a Belinda Clark Honor-- there isn't a lot left for the wicketkeeper to achieve in the sport.However, having replaced past colleague Meg Lanning as national captain in 2015, Healy will start a brand new challenge-- leading her nation at an ICC event.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & special on FOX SPORTING ACTIVITIES, offered on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your cost-free trial today > Australia succeeded a trifecta of T20 Globe Mug labels under Lanning's conservation in 2018, 2020 as well as 2023. Next month, the reigning champions will make an effort to gain an unparalleled 4th successive trophy in the United Arab Emirates.The signboard competition starts a busy 6 months for Healy, headlined through a WBBL project along with the Sydney Sixers, a home Ashes series along with a pink-ball Test at the MCG, pair of white-ball excursions of New Zealand as well as likely yet another Women's Premier Organization project along with the UP Warriorz.Before heading to Queensland for Australia's three-match T20 series against the White Ferns, which receives underway on Thursday evening, Healy talked with Fox Cricket to examine what could confirm a career-defining summer season for the 34-year-old. Alyssa Healy contacts the media. Photo through Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for Cricket AustraliaSource: Getty ImagesLet's beginning quickly on The Hundred. Are you delighted with that decision to devote that winter months in the home, and also did you have a chance to check out much of the tournament?Firstly, yes, I am actually relieved at the choice to certainly not go as well as play. I perhaps underestimated what the last 9 months definitely obtained of me, and to possess some time to show as well as freshen on my own was actually actually important. I interacted with every person over there as well as was awakening on a daily basis considering ball games as well as watching some highlights, only to see just how everyone was tracking. All the gals seemed to be to possess a truly great time, which is what it's all about.Heading into your very first ICC event a leader, does this feel a bit various? Not possessing Meg Lanning around and also along with yourself during that management position?It carries out possess a bit of a various sense. It's daunting to a magnitude as well, recognizing that I've got to turn up to all the leader's pressers as well as the images. That's me today. I failed to want to perform some of that stuff previously, that was all Meg's job. That component's quite overwhelming. But I think the cricket side of it is actually actually exciting. To have the possibility to go out certainly there and toss the piece in a Planet Cup is actually a quite amazing take in, one that I'm actually looking forward to. With any luck the group will appreciate themselves as well as likewise play some good, tough cricket.Has captaincy been what you anticipated it to be? Or have there certainly been some difficulties that you weren't prepared for?It's absolutely opened my eyes to some stuff Meg was most likely dealing with behind the performances, a few of things that likely were actually wearing her down. I was actually simply really vice-captain for a number of months just before she stepped out of the video game, so I really did not truly reach see way too much responsible for the scenes, what was actually requiring to be done. But upon being actually driven in to the job, it is actually been eye-opening. It is actually been actually a difficulty, however one that I've actually truly delighted in. I'm definitely delighted that I'm 34 not 24 taking it on. I believe it would certainly possess been actually really overawing.Meg Lanning of Australia raises the ICC Women's T20 World Mug trophy. Picture through Mike Hewitt/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesIn the press last week you brushed aside questions concerning the LA28 Olympics. I was a little bit startled by that. Are you certain you are actually not targeting the upcoming Olympics?I've been actually claiming due to the fact that I was 28 that I am actually heading to retire in 1 year' opportunity. Right here I am at 34. My thoughts can modify, however to become completely honest with you, I don't believe I'll still be actually rollicking then. Also, there belongs of me that believes it's a person else's turn, right? I've had this location for very an extended period of time as well as made it my personal, but I think it's a person else's look to enter and also develop behind the stubs. I mean there are a few people placing their hand up. Tahlia Wilson's been actually killing it, Nicole Faltum's been around the Australia An edge as well as Georgia Redmayne appears to constantly remain in the talk at the same time. It needs to be actually thrilling seeing that deepness of wicketkeeping ability in the country?Even a lot more broadly, it is actually impressive to observe the depth in Australian cricket. Commonly, you always deal with when there is transition, what young players are you carrying through? But the girls's game is in such a wonderful spot right now that they do not require to be youthful. The Katie Macks of the globe racking up operates, or even Georgia Redmayne as you stated, they're players that have been around the residential scene for a substantial period of time, positive in that they are actually as well as what they can do, as well as they're prime candidates for playing for Australia moving on, which I believe is actually an incredible work schedule in our sport. The intensity itself in the always keeping department, it is actually spectacular. I can't stand by to check out, especially, the 3 much younger caretakers go head-to head over the upcoming small amount to eliminate for that place. Yet you have actually acquired Beth Mooney drifting around too, which is actually pretty handy behind the stubs I 'd say.Obviously the crew's opting for four T20 Planet Cup headlines straight. There was actually an emotion ahead of the final in 2014 in South Africa that neutral supporters were assisting the obvious underdogs, South Africa. Performs the team feel that included tension, and performs it motivate all of them extra knowing there is that additional target of their back?Yeah, our company carry out experience it. Our company're being pursued thus heavily by all the groups that our experts're practically playing our ultimate every activity. Staffs are coming thus hard at our team considering that they wish to knock our company out early. Our experts have to turn on really swiftly, and I assume that has actually aided our strategy to T20 cricket, specifically over the final couple of World Cups. Our company need to switch on and also receive relocating and also get involved in the tournament as fast as our company can, given that our team are actually being actually pursued at every option. Winning a Planet Mug is actually, definitely tough to do, in the T20 style particularly. To become as constant as what we have actually remained in that format is actually an amazing achievement. If it is actually 4 in a row, amazing, yet or even, if our company give it a red-hot gap as well as our experts do not come away along with the prize, at that point that is actually okay. Beth Mooney, Annabel Sutherland, Alyssa Healy, Phoebe Litchfield, Tahlia McGrath and also Ashleigh Gardner posture with their gaining T20 World Cup trophies. Photograph by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for Cricket AustraliaSource: Getty ImagesThe competitors has actually been transferred to the UAE. Do you expect it to be extremely various to Bangladesh? And also have you ever before played in the UAE?I've certainly never participated in worldwide cricket certainly there. I have actually done a couple of tours and also participated in technique activities. The site shift is what it is actually. Our team couldn't handle any one of that or even where it was visiting be actually kept. It appeared like a consensual decision to place it in the UAE. Logistically, it seemed to function the most ideal for everyone. We were definitely well prepped as a squad for Bangladesh, and they are actually a few of the toughest ailments that you'll play in, especially in T20 cricket, with just how much turn there was in that set we bet all of them, and also exactly how reduced and also decrease the gates were actually acquiring. I seem like possessing that chance to prep over there in some of those extreme disorders will certainly place our company in good standing for what our team may get in the UAE. We are actually visiting have to stand by as well as see what we obtain when our experts arrive, because I have actually found some downright flat monitors generated over there, and after that I have actually found some truly low scoring ILT20 video games. The other significant job this summer months is actually the Ashes. Eighteen months after some of the terrific Ladies's Ashes set, exists a sensation that Australia possesses a lead to show after England stepped up in those white-ball matches?Less of a lead to prove than additional an opportunity to display what our team may do. There's been actually a bunch of discussion because that about our atmosphere and this Aussie team. In my mind, it is just one of the best exciting crews in world cricket currently, and I just want our women to head out certainly there and also feature that. England did that to our company in that set over there. They came out really, really challenging as well as wanted to place us on the back feet early, and also at times perhaps our team carried out take a bit of a recoil. So it's an option for our team to state, 'No, you understand what? This is in fact just how we conform, and also this is what our experts can do in your home.' And also even more therefore than everything else, I yearn for the supporters to follow out and belong of it as well, because we understand what happened over in the UK, and our experts acquired some violence from the crowd. So it's nice for the Aussie supporters to follow out permit the Poms understand that they reside in Australia.A few of your teammates have actually discussed the crowds in England. Were you copping some reviews and also the captain in the course of that series?You regularly are actually. It is actually consistently a little intense, a bit spicy. The group delved the entire two Ashes set on at the same time over there, as well as our company've chosen to go away from that and really divided the Cinders, as well as almost possess one Ashes, 2 periods. To permit the Poms understand two times in the room of year that they're in Australia and also they're up for the battle, the enthusiasts need to be frothing.Alyssa Healy of Australia. Image by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesThat crack, offering the females's Ashes it's own breathing time and certainly not sort of wedging it in between the guys's Tests, theoretically should be actually fantastic. Is that exactly how you see it as well?It's therefore stimulating. United States as players have actually been actually keen to possess a schedule that's definitely simple to follow and also actually regular yearly. I understand I'm mosting likely to the MCG on the 26th of December, right? I recognize I'm visiting the Sydney Examination early January after New Year's. It's easy to follow that guys's schedule because it's the same every year, whereas ours has actually been actually a little various as well as tough to comply with at times. It's cool to have your very own crystal clear sky, as well as I make sure that the cricket will match that.Has there certainly been actually much talk about the Test returning down to 4 days? Throughout your profession there have actually been numerous attracts, usually due to weather condition, yet is that a source of irritation for the side?There was actually definitely a concern increased due to the team when they happened and also offered it to us. A few of the women thrust their palm up and pointed out, 'Why?' It's their idea that our experts ought to suffice to get a lead to those four times. It's definitely still adequate overs in the video game to get that outcome, yet I assume coming from a marketing, transmitting and also hospitality perspective, suitable it into those 4 days and also finishing on a Sunday night would certainly be truly excellent.