Alyssa Healy has a recurrence of the foot injury she picked up in the T20 World Cup and misses the opening T20 game with England.

Australia captain Alyssa Healy has been ruled out of the first T20I at the SCG and is in doubt for the remainder of the Ashes series after developing foot soreness on the same side as the injury she sustained at last year's T20 World Cup It will mean that Australia will likely be led by Tahlia McGrath as they aim to go 8-0 up and retain the Ashes in Sydney while the top-order vacancy could be filled by either Grace Harris or the uncapped Georgia Voll.

Alyssa Healy complained of pain in the same foot where she had ruptured her plantar fascia during the T20 World Cup in October of last year

Alyssa Healy has suffered a foot injury and will miss the first Ashes Twenty20 International at the SCG, where Australia lost the toss and will bat first.