Star Australian all-rounder Ellyse Perry, who missed the nail-biting semifinal and final of the recently-concluded ICC T20 World Cup after suffering a hamstring injury, has successfully undergone a surgery, shared coach Matthew Mott. Her T20 World Cup campaign had ended after she tore her hamstring while fielding during their game against New Zealand.

“Ellyse did have surgery on her hamstring, it’s going well. Her first phase of that is pure rest. She’s in Sydney at the moment recuperating and that’s part of her plan. The recovery is looking good, all our medical staff are happy with how the surgery went,” Mott was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au via a teleconference.

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It would take up nearly six months for Ellyse Perry to recover from her surgery and she will miss the upcoming limited-overs tour of South Africa as well. However, as the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled all sports events in the world and there is no news when it will begin, Perry can take some time and be back strongly. However, the head coach Matthew Mott said that the break will help both Perry and pacer Tayla Vlaeminck physically and mentally. Notably, Tayla had got injured before the World Cup starts.

“It will still take quite a bit of time (for her to return to bowling) but the fact that everyone else is resting too probably eases (hers and Perry’s) minds a bit, because they’re not missing out on as much as they would have if we’d been over in South Africa,” Mott had said recently.

Ellyse Perry, however, stayed with her team, watched from the sidelines and cheered her side where her team defeat South Africa in the semi-final and India in the final on March 8 to defend the title. With this, Australia won their record fifth title in the ICC T20 World Cup.