Cricket: There's been no timeline set on star Meg Lanning's return to the Australian national cricket team after a long stint on the sidelines.
Jess Jonassen has been an automatic selection in Australia’s starting XI for nearly a decade, but the Queenslander is under mounting pressure from fellow spinners to keep her spot.
It comes after West Indies captain Hayley Matthews feasted on the 30-year-old’s bowling during two T20 matches at North Sydney Oval, including a quarter of boundaries in the penultimate over of a record-breaking run chase.Join Kayo now and start streaming instantly > “With Kim coming in and performing the way that she did as well, it made it quite difficult to be able to break back in, particularly with such a short tour.”Jonassen finds herself in the rare position of fighting to keep her spot in the national team, but it isn’t unfamiliar territory for her. After sustaining a leg injury in 2018, she was replaced by Victorian spinner Sophie Molineux, who helped Australia win that year’s T20 World Cup in the West Indies.
“It’s one of the reasons why the Aussie team is so good. They’re constantly getting challenged. “And so it’s now a challenge for JJ.”Jonassen has served as Australia’s white-ball death bowler for several years, tasked with closing out the innings with accurate and deceptive spells. It’s why her lack of execution against the West Indies came as such a surprise.“I’m working really hard at fine-tuning a few things in my game, getting some good shape back on the ball again.
Jonassen, who represented the Delhi Capitals during this year’s inaugural Women’s Premier League in India, confessed she and her teammates experienced mental fatigue after the recent Ashes campaign in England, which ended as an 8-8 draw.“Talking to a few of the girls, we didn’t really know the impact or the toll that it took on us until we actually stopped and got home.
Jonassen intends to gradually increase her bowling workloads throughout the T20 tournament, taking advantage of the hybrid wicket at Brisbane’s National Cricket Campus.
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