“When we sat down to pick the team, she no doubt would have been in the 15-player squad, but she wasn’t fit,” Matthew Mott, the Australia Women coach, was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.

“We needed to see her reach her fitness benchmarks and get some form as well because she’s been out of the game a little while.”

The 21-year-old Molineux wasn’t part of the initial squad as she was recuperating from a right shoulder injury sustained at a training session in February during her stint for Victoria in the Women’s National Cricket League. A shoulder reconstruction kept her out thereafter, before she returned to the Australia A squad, as part of the one-day side that beat an England Academy XI 3-0.

While she’s played just three ODIs and 15 T20Is, the least in terms of international experience among the spinners in contention, Molineux adds depth to the line-up with her lower-order capabilities with the bat. 

“She’s got a game that can play one-day, T20 and Test match cricket,” Mott said, “so having her around the squad will only add to our depth in the allrounder class as well.”