Thunder star out of WBBL

AUSTRALIAN T20 vice-captain and Sydney Thunder skipper Rachael Haynes says factors outside her control have forced her to make herself unavailable for the entire WBBL campaign.

Haynes and her partner, former Australian cricketer Leah Poulton, welcomed their first child on October 2 just after she left the Australian team bubble with a serious hamstring injury.

The Thunder skipper had told club management she would be taking parental leave in the opening rounds of the new season.

But Covid-19 forced Cricket Australia to make several fixture changes, including opening the WBBL in Hobart then moving it around the country.

Haynes would have spent two weeks in hotel quarantine as part of her parental leave and her recent hamstring injury and the 34-year-old said it would have been too hard to meet up with her team.