Maitlan Brown is determined to make the 2021-22 summer her own as she eyes off the vacant new-ball role in Australia’s XI for their upcoming multi-format series against India.
The Australia squad seemed a distant dream to Brown last November when she slipped while attempting a sweep shot in the WBBL and tore her hamstring tendon from the bone.
It was a nine-month road to recovery after having the tendon surgically reattached, a period that started with Brown hobbling around the WBBL hub on crutches followed by long and lonely hours in the gym in Canberra before the 24-year-old moved to Sydney at the end of the season to join the NSW Breakers.
It was also a devastating blow that came just one month after she enjoyed her first taste of being part of an Australia squad for a limited-overs series against New Zealand in Brisbane, and just as she was producing career-best form with the…
