Published: Nov 12, 2018, 09:16 PM (IST)
Edited: Nov 12, 2018, 09:16 PM (IST)
The South Africa women’s cricket team suffered a huge blow when the experienced wicketkeeper-batswoman Trisha Chetty was ruled out of the ongoing ICC Women’s World T20 due the reoccurrence of a back injury, a Cricket South Africa press release said on Monday.
Chetty, who has scored 1081 runs in 68 T20Is, has been replaced by Faye Tunnicliffe. The Event Technical Committee of the Women’s World T20, consisting of Mel Jones, Jennifer Nero, Roland Holder, Geoff Allardice, Chris Tetley and Ebony Rainford-Brent approved the replacement.
“It has been very frustrating for us as a team. You have to feel for a player like Trisha Chetty who has worked extremely hard and recovered well to get here. It’s really unfortunate, it’s something that’s reoccurred and we couldn’t control. We wish her a speedy recovery. After speaking to her after we got all of the medical reports you could tell it was very frustrating and disappointing for her as well,” head coach Hilton Moreeng said.
“Faye Tunnicliffe, who is coming in to replace Trish, is one of the promising young wicket-keepers that we have in the country. She is also familiar with the conditions, she was with us on the last tour [against West Indies].
“We just need to make sure that we as a squad continue to focus on moving forward and work hard because we have our opening game tomorrow which is going to be crucial. We know that we are in a tough group and we’re ready for that. At the end of the day we can only control what we can, we just need to stay focused.”
South Africa face Sri Lanka in their opening Group A game at St Lucia on Monday.
