{"id":152672,"date":"2026-04-08T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=152672"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:29:00","slug":"injury-concerns-may-prompt-molineux-captaincy-review-ahead-of-world-cup-australia-selector-flegler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=152672","title":{"rendered":"Injury concerns may prompt Molineux captaincy review ahead of World Cup: Australia selector Flegler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70838293\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">The decision to appoint Sophie Molineux as Australia \u200bwomen\u2019s captain may require reassessment if \u200cshe continues to be affected \u200bby injuries, selector Shawn \u2060Flegler said on Wednesday. The bowling all-rounder was named the team\u2019s all-format \u200ccaptain in January, succeeding Alyssa Healy.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 28-year-old has \u200cstruggled with a back \u200cinjury \u2060and was ruled out \u2060of the remainder of Australia\u2019s multi-format series against India during February and March.<\/p>\n<p>Molineux \u200bcaptained Australia in \u200cthe T20 leg of its West Indies tour in March-April, but neither batted nor bowled \u200cin the first two matches \u200band missed the other games.<\/p>\n<p><b>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/womens-cricket\/sri-lanka-women-head-coach-jamie-siddons-looks-to-set-style-of-play-in-bangladesh-tour\/article70835385.ece\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Sri Lanka head coach Siddons looks to set style of play in Bangladesh tour<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s T20 World Cup \u2060begins on June 12 in England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were clear from \u200cthe start that the T20 World Cup was the priority series and we were going to make decisions around that,\u201d Flegler told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stress reaction \u200cin the back during the Indian \u200bseries, not ideal, but things do happen. She\u2019s on \u2060track for the T20 World Cup \u2060and that\u2019s what the goal was at the start. \u200cIt\u2019s probably a fair point to say it\u2019s unprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Apr 08, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/womens-cricket\/australian-cricket-team-captaincy-review-sophie-molineux-injury-news-world-cup\/article70838293.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision to appoint Sophie Molineux as Australia \u200bwomen\u2019s captain may require reassessment if \u200cshe continues to be affected \u200bby injuries, selector Shawn \u2060Flegler said on Wednesday. The bowling all-rounder was named the team\u2019s all-format \u200ccaptain in January, succeeding Alyssa Healy. However, the 28-year-old has \u200cstruggled with a back \u200cinjury \u2060and was ruled out \u2060of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262762455.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-DIs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}