Hayley Matthews of the West Indies poses for portraits throughout a media alternative forward of the One-Day Worldwide sequence between Australia and West Indies, at Allan Border Area on Oct. 07, 2023 in Brisbane, Australia.
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West Indies ladies’s captain Hayley Matthews was disenchanted that she was not capable of take part and exhibit her abilities within the ongoing Ladies’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) as a result of an harm she sustained in England within the Ladies’s Hundred.
In an interview on the WCPL broadcast lately, Matthews defined her harm. “Sadly, I’ve torn the shoulder socket,” she stated. “I’m going to have surgical procedure subsequent week and get that each one mounted and repaired. In all probability not what I needed, however I simply had a little bit of a fall over in England.”
Matthews restoration will see her sidelined for a major interval.
“They gave me about 9 to 12 weeks or so, which might put me to about December,” Matthews stated. “So, some good time, I assume, to get the physique proper for the top of the yr and get again prepared for a very massive 2026.”
Regardless of the frustration, Matthews displayed a remarkably optimistic perspective.
“That is my first, I assume, main harm since my profession began about 10 or 11 years in the past. So, I’m fairly grateful for that. I do know that could be a fairly lucky place to be in.”
“I’ve been going for a really very long time and enjoying loads of high-level worldwide and franchise cricket, so the physique most likely does want a little bit of a relaxation. And I assume it’s good that it’s come about in a time the place we don’t have an excessive amount of on on the finish of the yr as properly.”
The Barbados Royals will certainly miss Matthews, as her performances have been instrumental within the Royals’ back-to-back title-winning campaigns in 2023 and 2024.
She at present tops the match charts as each the main run-scorer, with 424 runs, and the main wicket-taker, with 23 scalps at a cost-effective 5.79 runs per over.
Matthews earned Participant of the Match within the 2023 closing, smashing 82 from 59 balls and taking two wickets in opposition to the Guyana Amazon Warriors. It was adopted by being named Participant of the Collection for the complete 2024 season.
