Beth Mooney, fresh from her World Cup-winning heroics, has been brought rudely down to earth, suffering injury during a calamitous 143-run defeat for her Gujarat Giants side in the opening match of India's new Women's Premier League.
The Australian opener, in her first major captaincy role, reckoned she had been looking forward to the challenge of launching the lucrative new, potentially game-changing league in Mumbai's DY Patil Stadium on Saturday.
