'I’ve made the decision to take a step back' - Meg Lanning takes indefinite leave from cricket

Lanning recently led Australia to CWG 2022 Gold medal.

View : 522

2 Min Read

Meg Lanning
info
Meg Lanning. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

Meg Lanning, the captain of the Australia Women and Melbourne Stars WBBL, made a decision to take a leave from cricket for an indefinite period for personal reasons, effective immediately. And she has not set a timeline for her return yet. Melbourne Stars stated that they fully support Lanning’s decision to take a break.

Lanning said that she made the decision to take a step back to spend time focusing on herself. She also expressed her gratitude to Cricket Australia (CA) and her teammates for supporting her decision, as she also asked for her privacy to be respected in the meantime.

“After a busy couple of years, I’ve made the decision to take a step back to enable me to spend time focusing on myself,” Meg Lanning was quoted as saying by the official website of Melbourne Stars. “I’m grateful for the support of CA and my teammates and ask that my privacy is respected during this time.”

We’re fully supportive of Meg’s desire to have a break from cricket: Blair Crouch

Blair Crouch, the General Manager of Melbourne Stars, said, “We’re fully supportive of Meg’s desire to have a break from cricket and we will give her all the time, support and space she needs.” Lanning is regarded as one of the best batters and captains of this era.

It is under Lanning’s captaincy that Australia won the previous edition of the T20 World Cup in 2020 and the ODI World Cup in 2022. She also recently guided the “Southern Stars” to a historic Gold medal in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on August 7.

Lanning made her Australia debut in December 2010 in a T20I game against New Zealand in Nelson. In 2011, in what was her second ODI, she scored an unbeaten 103 against England and became the youngest Australian to score a century in international cricket. She also became the third-youngest captain in Women’s Tests in 2015 at the age of 23. She has appeared in six Test matches, 100 ODIs and 124 T20Is, scoring 8,019 runs at an average of 43.81 with 17 hundreds and 34 fifties. 

Get every cricket updates! Follow Us:

googletelegraminstagramwhatsappyoutubethreadstwitter

Download Our App

For a better experience: Download the CricTracker app from the IOS and Google Play Store