Lanning stepped away following Australia’s Commonwealth Games gold-medal success in Birmingham and it stays unclear when, or if, she’s going to return.
“The club respects her decision and asks that her privacy continue to be respected,” a Stars assertion stated.
Stars will want to discover a new captain for his or her WBBL marketing campaign which begins on October 15 towards Brisbane Heat. Earlier this yr Lanning had handed over the captaincy of Victoria to Sophie Molineux.
With Lanning now dominated out of the WBBL it additionally will increase the prospects of Australia needing a brand new captain for his or her tour of India in mid-December.
When Shelley Nitschke was confirmed as the new everlasting head coach final week she stated that conversations about Lanning’s future had not but taken place.
“When the time is right we’ll have those conversations about whether she is back in December or whenever it might be,” she stated.
“There are a good group of emerging leaders in our team that are going to have opportunities to stick their hands up,” Nitschke stated. “We don’t have a designated leadership group but there are people amongst the team and group that are leaders on and off the field. Some girls lead in their states. They all have different strengths.”
Lanning was named Australian captain when she was 21 and over the previous few years has led the group to unprecedented success with the T20 and ODI World Cup titles, Commonwealth Games gold and a number of Ashes victories. She has additionally maintained her kind as one in every of the main batters in the world, averaging 53.53 in ODIs and 36.48 in T20Is.