Rain is threatening to scupper Australia’s first One Day International against New Zealand, which was set to mark Alyssa Healy’s first game of cricket in a month.
The toss was delayed in Wellington on Thursday, with the conditions so bad that neither team had arrived at the ground as of 8.45am (AEDT) – 15 minutes before the game was originally due to begin.
The three-match series against New Zealand will be Australia’s last chance to sharpen up before the home Ashes that begins in mid-January.
Healy will return from a knee injury that sidelined her from the entire three-match ODI series against India earlier this month but Beth Mooney is expected to continue keeping wicket as the captain continues her recovery.
Australia are a chance to make another change for the series opener after spinner Sophie Molineux suffered a knee injury.
Fellow tweaker Georgia Wareham is the most logical like-for-like replacement option after she was overlooked for the final two games of the India series.
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