“I am delighted to be given the opportunity to lead the Adani Gujarat Giants in the historic Women’s Premier League’s inaugural edition in 2023,” Mooney stated in a press release. “The squad is keen to get the ball rolling soon and put out an entertaining and effective brand of cricket in the debut season of the WPL. It will be fantastic to have the likes of Sneh as my deputy and Mithali Raj, Rachael Haynes and Nooshin Al Khadeer as pivotal parts of the team.”
Mooney was half of Australia’s T20 World Cup profitable groups in 2018 and 2020 – she was the Player of the Tournament three years in the past – earlier than additionally lifting the trophy in 2023, other than profitable the ODI World Cup in 2022 and the gold medal on the Commonwealth Games final 12 months. She has additionally received the Women’s Big Bash League thrice and is the one Australia batter with two T20I a whole bunch.
This will probably be Mooney’s first full-time expertise at main a facet in an abroad T20 league. In the ladies’s Hundred final 12 months, she was the very best run-scorer for London Spirit. She has solely led in just a few video games on the Women’s Big Bash League, having performed for Brisbane Heat, which has been largely led by Kirby Short and Perth Scorchers led by Sophie Devine.
Meanwhile, Rana had made a comeback to the Indian facet in 2021 and performed the semi-remaining of the T20 World Cup this 12 months, the place India narrowly misplaced to Australia. She represented Velocity within the Women’s T20 Challenge, and has performed 25 T20Is, 22 ODIs and a Test for India.
Giants had chosen Mooney for INR 2 crore (USD 244,000 approx) and Rana for INR 75 lakh (USD 91,000 approx). Giants will kickoff the WPL towards Mumbai Indians on Saturday on the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai.