Chinelle Henry, an all-rounder from the West Indies, has been named as an injury replacement for Alyssa Healy in the UP Warriorz squad for the Women’s Premier League 2025 on Monday, February 3. The injury to the right stress fracture had not allowed Healy the captain and star Australian keeper-batter, to play in the tournament after the Australian test match against the English side on Saturday, 1 February, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, in the women’s Ashes series.
“UP Warriorz picked Chinelle Henry as a replacement for Alyssa Healy for the upcoming edition of the TATA Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2025. Healy was ruled from the third season of the TATA WPL due to injury. Henry, representing West Indies, has so far played 62 T20Is, with 473 runs and 22 wickets against her name in T20Is. She joins UPW for INR 30 lakh,” said an official WPL release.
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UPW pick Chinelle Henry as injury replacement for Alyssa Healy; RCB pick Heather Graham and Kim Garth in place of Sophie Devine and Kate Cross.
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Healy, regarded as the greatest female cricketer of all time, has played 17 WPL matches for UP Warriorz over the last two seasons, scoring 428 runs, which included three fifties, with a highest score of 96 not out in the tournament.
On the other hand, Royal Challengers Bengaluru secured Heather Graham and Kim Garth as replacements for Sophie Devine and Kate Cross, respectively. Devine and Cross will miss the WPL 2025 due to personal reasons.
Australian all-rounder Graham played 5 T20Is and has 8 wickets to her name. Garth has played 59 T20Is for Australia, besides 56 ODIs and 4 Tests. Garth has scored 764 T20I runs and taken 49 T20I wickets. Garth played for Gujarat Giants in the WPL earlier. Graham and Garth joined RCB for Rs 30 lakh each.
The 2025 edition of the WPL is expected to commence on February 14 with a match between Gujarat Giants and RCB hosted at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara and is due to culminate on March 15 with the final scheduled in Mumbai. In the third season of the women’s cricket tournament, the matches are set to be played at four venues. The two other grounds that will host the tournament apart from Kotambi and Brabourne Stadium in Vadodara and Mumbai, will be M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru and the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.
