Sydney, May 15 -- Annabel Sutherland says carefully managing player workloads will become increasingly important as the women's schedule becomes busier, following her return to Australia's T20I squad.
Sutherland sat out Australia's white-ball tour of the West Indies in March in order to fully recharge ahead of next month's T20 World Cup in England and Wales.
While it is commonplace in the men's game for top players to miss the occasional tour, it is very rare for the Australian women to opt out of a series.
But the two-time reigning Belinda Clark Award-winner said it had been necessary following a packed six-month period that started with the ODI World Cup in India and ended with the multi-format series against Harmanpreet Kaur's team.
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