Australian women's cricket captain Alyssa Healy is leading her country into a historic series with plenty on her plate.
The 33-year-old — who has tallied 255 caps across all formats since debuting at 19, boasting six centuries across ODI and T20I cricket — will captain the side in all three formats during Australia's tour of India.
Healy has been interim captain over the past 12 months, leading Australia to their first Test match win in eight years during the Women's Ashes in June.
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On Thursday, she'll be hoping that success rate continues in Test cricket when Australia face India on their home soil for the first time since 1984 at the Wankhede Stadium – before turning their attention to the three ODIs and T20Is that follow in the overall multi-format series.
The tour will require a lot of responsibility to lead from the front and get the tactics right across the different formats in subcontinent conditions.
But on top of that, Healy will have even more to think about than most other national captains, as a wicketkeeper and opening batter.
Only one other woman has ever completed all three roles in a Test match,Margaret Jennings.
Jennings played 12 ODIs and eight Tests during her international career, the last of the latter would see her create history – against India – in January 1977 in Perth.
The former captain told ABC Sport there is a lot of responsibility now placed on Healy's shoulders, but she believes she is the right woman for the job.
"They've got more to deal with, with the scrutiny from the media and the games being on television, plus social media where people vent their opinions quite freely, it becomes a difficult scenario," Jennings said.
"In the '70s, there was a World Cup and there was a tour of England, we didn't play T20s and only played a few Test games, it was largely one-day matches, whereas now it's a full-time gig.
"Even so, I think she'll cope because to her credit, Alyssa's style of play doesn't really change much from one format to the other and when your team is made up of other great individuals, as well as the support and coaching staff in place that we didn't have, that definitely helps."
Back in her time as an athlete, Jennings had to take leave without pay from her job as a school teacher in order to represent Australia, but she admits, the modern-day national players are under more pressure than ever before, with such a jam-packed schedule and greater media coverage.
However, opening the batting and wicketkeeping was natural for Jennings, who said it helped when the captaincy was given to her.
"It was a lot of responsibility, but because I kept and opened the batting for Victoria and in club cricket, it felt just like another development really," Jennings told ABC Sport.
"What I loved about it was you were always in the game and in that scenario, you have to rely heavily on the rest of the team and the senior players to help you when it all gets a bit challenging."
Moving Healy down the order has merit, says former Test cricketerKristen Beams
With plenty of responsibility on Healy's plate, and returning to the game after sustaining a finger injury after a freak accident with her dogs, moving down the batting order could be an option for the team.
Former Australian legspinner Kristen Beams told the Beamsy and Britt podcast that a change in role could help lighten Healy's load.
"There might be more conversation now around the role that she plays within the team around keeping and batting at the top and how to manage that," Beams said.
"She's done a few one-off series but now that the captaincy is permanent, it might be more of that discussion to make sure they don't burn her out as a leader as well."
Healy's hit out in Australia's warm-up against a Mumbai XI on Sunday looked positive, as she reached 55 runs batting at number five before she retired.
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This position in the order is similar to this year's Women's Ashes Test, where Healy shifted down to sixth for the first innings and eighth in the second, due to the fact she was playing with two broken fingers.
The left-handed pair ofBeth Mooney and Phoebe Litchfield opened the batting in the tour match against the Mumbai XI, which Beams suspects may continue across the multi-format series.
"It might be dependent on the length of tour and the different formats they'll play, but if you think about a multi-format series and where she is going to bat in the Test team, you know she's going to be keeping for all of that," Beams said.
"So, what then about an ODI series? She will want to bat at the top and will probably say, 'No, I'm going to do it for as long as I can', but I think it will be more of a conversation about whether that's the right way to go now more so than previously, just because it's such a big undertaking.
"Keeping for long periods is a big deal at the best of times and then when you throw leadership and batting into the mix, it is a lot to take on.
"We've heard both Pat Cummins and Meg Lanning talk about all of the additional stuff that comes with captaincy – it's not just stepping out onto the field – there's all the extra work off it, so it will be another permanent layer now for Alyssa work through, but at the end of the day I think it will be her call and she'll probably want to be batting at the top for as long as she can."
Another idea is that instead of batting lower down the order, Healy hands over the gloves.
In the warm-up match against the Mumbai XI on Sunday, Beth Mooney took on the role of wicketkeeper, though she was insistent when speaking with media afterwards that it was just a preventative measure to protect Healy in her gradual return to play.
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For Beams, this prospect is less appealing.
"Like all wicketkeepers, Midge thinks she can bowl, so she used to follow me around and try and bowl to me in the nets to see if she could knock me over," Beams said.
"She bowls little swingers, these little mediums, she'll just trudge in ... There's nothing worse as a tailender than when the part-time bowlers want to bowl to you – that's a no-win situation, so I hated when she had a bowl.
"She is actually pretty decent, so I think I'd prefer her to have the gloves on to stop her wandering around going, 'I could probably roll out a few overs here'."
Quizzed as to whether either of these changes could help Healy better focus on the rigours of captaincy, Jennings argued that her current commitments to the team would feel almost second nature.
"You're so used to taking on those tasks that you don't even think about it, because it's what you've always done, so you just tend to continue on.
"It actually might be harder to change that … You'd have to get your head around it.
"I did wonder if they would give Healy the ODIs and Tests and then appoint Tahlia McGrath as T20I captain to relieve some of the pressure, but I'm sure Healy will do a good job and I wish her well."
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Australian Women's Tour of India:
December 21-24: Test match, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
December 28: First ODI, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
December 30: Second ODI, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
January 2: Third ODI, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
January 5: First T20I, DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai
January 7: Second T20I, DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai
January 9: Third T20I, DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai