Australia Women have suffered a big setback as Georgia Wareham has been ruled out of big events such as the World Cup, Ashes series and Commonwealth Games more than a week after injuring her left knee.
The leg spinner had picked up the injury in the ongoing Women’s Big Bash League game against Adelaide Strikers on October 20 and has undergone surgery. However, she won’t be able to recover before next year as the injury occurred in the same knee she had gone through ligament reconstruction in her teen.
"Due to her previous history, Georgia requires a two-stage process to reconstruct her left ACL. She had a knee arthroscopy in Adelaide last week to remove the previous graft and will now commence rehab in Melbourne while she awaits for the knee to be ready for the ACL reconstruction in early 2022," Pip Inge, the Australian team doctor said.
"Due to the recovery time, Georgia will be unavailable for the Ashes, World Cup and Commonwealth Games with her return to play time-frame expected to become clearer after the reconstruction."
Wareham is rated very highly among young Australian women cricketers and she will be certainly missed in the big-ticketing events where her leg-spin bowling could well have been a force multiplier for an already strong bowling attack.