WPL 2025 - Deepti Sharma named UP Warriorz captain

WPL 2025 – Deepti Sharma named UP Warriorz captain


UP Warriorz have named Deepti sharma as their captain for WPL 2025. The announcement comes after their common captain Alyssa Healy was dominated out of the event as a consequence of a stress damage in her proper foot.

Deepti had a bumper WPL 2024 though Warriorz didn’t make it to the playoffs. She scored 295 runs in eight innings with a strike fee of 136.57 and a median of 98.33. She additionally picked ten wickets at an financial system fee of seven.23.

Deepti has earlier captaincy expertise too, having led Bengal in home cricket, and East Zone within the Senior Ladies’s Inter-Zonal One Day Trophy in 2024. She had additionally led Velocity within the Ladies’s T20 Problem in 2022.

Warriorz will, nevertheless, sorely miss Healy, who’s their highest run-scorer within the WPL, with 428 runs in 17 outings. Healy has had a irritating time with accidents in current occasions. She missed the T20I leg of the Ladies’s Ashes not too long ago, and solely made it to the MCG Check after passing a late health take a look at. Nevertheless, Healy didn’t preserve wicket.

In October 2024, Healy had ruptured her plantar fascia in her foot on the T20 World Cup, which noticed her miss Australia’s ultimate group match and the semi-final towards South Africa. She additionally suffered a knee damage throughout the WBBL 2024-25.

Warriorz have known as up West Indies allrounder Chinnelle Henry as Healy’s substitute for the season.


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