Meg Lanning: Australia captain ruled out of Women's Ashes

Lanning captained Australia to a Twenty20 World Cup triumph earlier this year

Australia skipper Meg Lanning volition miss this summer's Ashes bid against England for aesculapian reasons, Cricket Australia has announced.

Wicketkeeper-batter Alyssa Healy volition skipper the broadside successful her absence.

"It's an unfortunate setback for Meg," said CA's Head of Performance (Women's Cricket), Shawn Flegler.

"She's evidently disappointed to person been ruled retired of the Ashes," helium added.

"It's a important bid for the squad and she'll beryllium missed, but she understands the request to enactment her wellness first.

"Meg volition stay astatine location wherever she volition proceed to enactment with aesculapian unit with the purpose to instrumentality to playing arsenic soon arsenic possible."

Lanning, who has won 2 Women's Cricket World Cup titles, lone returned to cricket successful January pursuing a six-month intelligence wellness break. She past captained Australia to a 5th Twenty20 World Cup rubric the pursuing month.

All-rounder Tahlia McGrath volition enactment arsenic as vice-captain for the series.

No replacement is being named for Lanning successful the squad due to the fact that players tin beryllium made disposable from the Australia A squad which is touring England astatine the aforesaid time.

The multi-format Ashes bid starts with a Test successful Nottingham connected 22 June and is followed by 3 T20 games and 3 one-day planetary matches.