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WPL 2023: Gujarat Giants’ skipper Beth Mooney to miss rest of Women’s Premier League due to injury

Australia opener Beth Mooney will miss the remainder of the Women’s Premier League due to a calf injury that will require up to six weeks to heal, Cricket Australia said on Thursday. Mooney, the captain of the Gujarat Giants, suffered the injury in the opening match of the Twenty20 tournament in India last weekend as she retired hurt. The 29-year-old missed the next two matches and will now travel home for rehabilitation, with South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt replacing her in the Gujarat squad. Wolvaardt, who was in Pakistan to take part in the Women’s League exhibition matches, has been released by her team Super Women. “I was really looking forward to the maiden WPL season … but unfortunately injuries are part and parcel of the sport and I am gutted to be missing the remainder of the se...