Australian women's cricket captain Alyssa Healy has announced her retirement from the game.
Healy will call it quits following a multi-format series against India, which concludes with a Test match in Perth in early March.
The 35-year-old broke the news on the Willow Talk podcast.
"I've got news," she said.
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"Officially, I'm actually retiring from cricket at the end of the India series.
"Please don't make me cry," she said to fellow former player Brad Haddin and podcast host Adam Peacock.
"It had to happen eventually."
Healy, from Sydney, made her debut for Australia in 2010 and has amassed 295 matches for her country across three formats.
She will skip the three Twenty20 matches against India, meaning she won't have the chance to play in Sydney one final time.
Healy became captain of the team in 2023 and plans to retain that responsibility for the three ODIs and one Test match against India, before passing the title to a teammate.
She joked her retirement was decided when her husband, Mitchell Starc, hit a hole in one at their local golf course over the weekend.
"Mitch got a hole in one the other day and I realised my golf is actually shit, and I need to improve that," she laughed.
"Cricket needs to take a bit of a back seat and I need to go work on my golf.
"No, it's been a long time coming. The last few years has probably been more mentally draining than anything else.
"A few injuries. I had to dive into the well a few times, and that well is getting less and less full with water, so (it's) harder to dive back in there.
"Having the opportunity to finish at home against India, which is one of the biggest series for us, I thought was a really cool way to finish.
"Obviously that means I won't be going to the (2027) T20 World Cup, so there might be a little bit of change you might see during that (India) series and some leadership stuff leading into the World Cup."
Healy will retire as the most prolific wicketkeeper in the history of the women's game, already boasting 296 dismissals behind the stumps at international level.
She won Australia's Belinda Clark Medal in 2019 and was twice named the world's best T20I women's player.
"Alyssa is one of the all-time greats of the game and has made an immeasurable contribution both on and off the field over her 15-year career," Cricket Australia boss Todd Greenberg said in a statement on Tuesday morning.
"On behalf of Australian cricket, I'd like to thank Alyssa and congratulate her on an incredible career that has inspired so many and changed the game for the better.
"We look forward to celebrating her achievements throughout the series against India."
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