.Alyssa Healy's checklist of awards is the envy of the cricket world.Two Planet Cup names, six T20 Planet Cup gains, a Commonwealth Games gold medal, pair of Females's Huge Bash League titles, two ICC Girls's T20I Cricketer of the Year honours and also a Belinda Clark Award-- there isn't much left for the wicketkeeper to achieve in the sport.However, having actually replaced previous teammate Meg Lanning as national leader in 2014, Healy is about to start a new challenge-- leading her nation at an ICC event.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & special on FOX SPORTING ACTIVITIES, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free test today > Australia gained a trifecta of T20 Planet Mug headlines under Lanning's stewardship in 2018, 2020 and 2023. Upcoming month, the reigning champions will attempt to gain an unmatched fourth successive prize in the United Arab Emirates.The signboard competition begins a hectic 6 months for Healy, headlined through a WBBL project along with the Sydney Sixers, a home Ashes collection along with a pink-ball Test at the MCG, two white-ball excursions of New Zealand and also potentially yet another Female's Premier Game project with the UP Warriorz.Before heading to Queensland for Australia's three-match T20 set versus the White Ferns, which gets underway on Thursday evening, Healy talked with Fox Cricket to preview what might show a career-defining summer season for the 34-year-old. Alyssa Healy speaks with the media. Photograph through Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for Cricket AustraliaSource: Getty ImagesLet's begin quickly on The Hundred. Are you pleased with that choice to invest that wintertime in the home, as well as performed you have an opportunity to enjoy much of the tournament?Firstly, yes, I'm happy at the decision to certainly not go and also play. I most likely underestimated what the last nine months really applied for of me, and also to have some time to show as well as freshen myself was definitely vital. I talked along with every person over there and was actually waking up every day looking at the scores as well as viewing some highlights, just to find exactly how every person was actually tracking. All the women seemed to have a definitely great time, which is what it is actually all about.Heading in to your very first ICC tournament a captain, does this feel a bit various? Not having Meg Lanning around and with yourself because leadership position?It carries out have a little of a different sense. It is actually daunting to a level also, understanding that I've got to show up to all the leader's pressers and the photographes. That's me today. I failed to would like to carry out any one of that stuff in the past, that was all Meg's task. That component's somewhat complicated. Yet I assume the cricket edge of it is actually exciting. To possess the possibility to go out certainly there and also throw the coin in a Planet Mug is a rather outstanding encounter, one that I am actually definitely looking forward to. Hopefully the group will enjoy themselves as well as likewise play some good, tough cricket.Has captaincy been what you anticipated it to be? Or have certainly there been actually some obstacles that you weren't ready for?It's undoubtedly opened my eyes to some things Meg was probably coping with responsible for the performances, some of the important things that potentially were wearing her down. I was merely really vice-captain for a couple of months prior to she stepped far from the video game, so I didn't really get to find a lot of responsible for the scenes, what was actually needing to have to be carried out. However upon being actually propelled right into the task, it's been actually eye-opening. It is actually been a problem, yet one that I've in fact really taken pleasure in. I'm most definitely grateful that I am actually 34 not 24 taking it on. I presume it will possess been actually overawing.Meg Lanning of Australia lifts the ICC Female's T20 World Cup trophy. Photograph by Mike Hewitt/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesIn journalism recently you brushed aside questions concerning the LA28 Olympics. I was a little bit startled through that. Are you certain you're not targeting the upcoming Olympics?I have actually been actually mentioning since I was 28 that I'm visiting resign in twelve month' opportunity. Right here I go to 34. My thoughts might transform, but to be entirely sincere along with you, I do not presume I'll still be actually running around then. Also, there's a part of me that assumes it is actually someone else's turn, right? I have actually possessed this area for pretty an extended period of your time and created it my very own, however I think it is actually a person else's count on pitch in and grow responsible for the stumps. I suppose there are a handful of people placing their palm up. Tahlia Wilson's been actually eliminating it, Nicole Faltum's been actually around the Australia An edge and also Georgia Redmayne seems to be to consistently be in the conversation too. It needs to be impressive observing that deepness of wicketkeeping ability in the country?Even a lot more generally, it's stimulating to view the intensity in Australian cricket. Customarily, you constantly deal with when there is shift, what young players are you taking via? But the women's activity remains in such an excellent spot at the moment that they don't need to be youthful. The Katie Macks of the globe racking up operates, or even Georgia Redmayne as you discussed, they're players that have been around the residential arena for a long period of time, positive in that they are as well as what they can do, and they're prime prospects for betting Australia moving on, which I think is actually an outstanding change in our sporting activity. The deepness on its own in the keeping division, it's remarkable. I can't hang around to view, especially, the 3 much younger caretakers go head-to visit the next small amount to overcome for that location. But you have actually received Beth Mooney floating all around as well, which is actually rather convenient behind the stumps I 'd say.Obviously the staff's choosing four T20 Globe Cup labels in a row. There was actually an emotion before the ultimate in 2013 in South Africa that neutral supporters were supporting the apparent underdogs, South Africa. Performs the group think that incorporated stress, and performs it encourage all of them a lot more recognizing there is actually that extra aim at of their back?Yeah, our team do experience it. We are actually being tracked so heavily by all the crews that our company're virtually playing our ultimate every video game. Teams are actually coming so hard at our company given that they wish to knock our company out early. We need to turn on really promptly, and I presume that has aided our approach to T20 cricket, particularly over the final number of World Cups. Our company need to switch on and also acquire relocating as well as enter the competition as rapid as we can, because our company're being actually hunted at every chance. Gaining a World Cup is actually truly, really tough to do, in the T20 format specifically. To be as constant as what our team have remained in that layout is an amazing success. If it's 4 in a row, amazing, yet if not, if our experts offer it a red-hot split as well as our company do not happen away with the prize, then that is actually alright. Beth Mooney, Annabel Sutherland, Alyssa Healy, Phoebe Litchfield, Tahlia McGrath and Ashleigh Gardner position along with their winning T20 Globe Cup trophies. Photograph through Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for Cricket AustraliaSource: Getty ImagesThe competition has actually been relocated to the UAE. Do you assume it to be quite different to Bangladesh? And also possess you ever before played in the UAE?I've never ever participated in global cricket there. I've carried out a couple of scenic tours as well as participated in technique games. The site work schedule is what it is actually. Our company could not handle some of that or even where it was mosting likely to be actually held. It seemed like a consentaneous choice to place it in the UAE. Logistically, it seemed to work the very best for everyone. We were actually actually effectively prepared as a team for Bangladesh, and also they're some of the toughest problems that you'll play in, especially in T20 cricket, along with just how much turn there resided in that series our team bet them, and also exactly how reduced and also decrease the wickets were receiving. I seem like possessing that chance to prep over there in some of those harsh ailments are going to place our team in good stead wherefore our experts may enter the UAE. Our company are actually going to have to hang around and see what we obtain when our experts get there, given that I've found some downright flat paths made there, and afterwards I've seen some really reduced racking up ILT20 games. The various other huge job this summer is actually the Cinders. Eighteen months after some of the great Ladies's Ashes set, exists an emotion that Australia has a suggest verify after England improved in those white-ball matches?Less of a lead to prove than even more a chance to feature what our team may do. There is actually been a ton of discussion since that concerning our feeling and this Aussie team. In my mind, it is just one of the best stimulating crews in planet cricket currently, and I only wish our girls to go out there and feature that. England performed that to our company in that series beyond. They showed up definitely, truly hard and wanted to put us on the return foot early, and sometimes maybe our team performed take a small amount of a go back. So it is actually a possibility for our company to state, 'No, you understand what? This is in fact just how we play the game, and also this is what our company can do at home.' As well as much more so than just about anything else, I yearn for the fans to find out and belong of it also, because we know what occurred over in the UK, and we acquired some violence from the crowd. So it behaves for the Aussie enthusiasts to come out let the Poms know that they remain in Australia.A few of your colleagues have actually talked about the interrupt England. Were you copping some opinions as well as the leader during that series?You regularly are. It's consistently a little bit fiery, a little spicy. The group delved the entire two Ashes set on all at once beyond, and our experts've made a decision to go away from that and actually divided the Embers, and also just about have one Ashes, two seasons. To let the Poms recognize two times in the room of 12 months that they reside in Australia and they are actually up for the match, the enthusiasts ought to be actually frothing.Alyssa Healy of Australia. Image through Asanka Ratnayake/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesThat split, giving the females's Ashes it's own breathing room and not type of wedging it between the males's Tests, theoretically must be excellent. Is that exactly how you find it as well?It's therefore interesting. Us as gamers have actually been actually keen to have a routine that's truly easy to comply with and truly constant yearly. I understand I am actually visiting the MCG on the 26th of December, right? I recognize I am actually going to the Sydney Test early January after New Year's. It is actually very easy to follow that men's schedule due to the fact that it's the same annually, whereas our own has been a little different as well as difficult to comply with at times. It is actually amazing to have your personal very clear sky, and also I ensure that the cricket will match that.Has certainly there been actually a lot speak about the Exam getting back down to 4 days? Throughout your job there have actually been lots of pulls, usually as a result of weather condition, yet is actually that a resource of irritation for the side?There was actually certainly a question raised by the group when they came and also presented it to us. A few of the females thrust their hand up and claimed, 'Why?' It's their belief that our company must be good enough to receive a lead to those 4 days. It's clearly still enough overs in the video game to acquire that result, yet I think from an advertising and marketing, broadcasting and hospitality point of view, fitting it right into those four times and also ending up on a Sunday night will be really great.