Australian cricketer Alyssa Healy with her husband, Australia’s Mitchell Starc. (PHOTO: Screengrab via Cricket.com.au YouTube)
Fresh (though sore to the bones) from regaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy where he delivered his career-best performance during the day-night Test at Adelaide Oval, Mitchell Starc is looking forward to some downtime, and a yakkity-yak in the commentators box: calling the Women’s Ashes where champion cricketer and his wife Alyssa Healy will take on the English women.
He’s relishing the chance to get back, through the comms, after Healy had ribbed him on air for assorted non-cricket stuff, like the state of his golfing game. “I’m actually working the one-dayers. So I’ll be calling the Ashes. Yeah, reversing the roles. I get my right of reply now,” he joked, soon after Australia wrapped up a 3-1 win.
Both are multiple championship winning athletes, in the National cricket teams.
Asked on the post-match ABC Grand Stand interviews, about Alyssa being “fraction-critical, not so much of cricket, but just general outside of cricket life”, Starc said he was looking to get even, “From all reports, (she) has been pretty critical of my golf game. So I think I’ll sneak around with the lads while she’s playing the Governor General’s game. And then get on the comms, get my right of reply. ”
‘Who holds the Starc-Healy Trophy?’ he was asked by ABC about the domestic bilateral. “No, I don’t actually know,” he replied, adding he would take six days off bowling before resuming training for Sri Lanka.
When lauded for his optimism that he thinks he could get even, with his wife (“any husband against wife”), Starc retorted, “Maybe not even, but I mean, you get a shot at it.” This would be in the next week of a complete down time, given how knackered the Aussie fast bowling unit was.
After the Pink Ball Test, Starc’s bowling had dwindled a tad, though his contributions were steady. “We’ll have time to reflect in the next 6 days. But I’m pretty pleased to contribute because I thought I’m …blowing smoke in my pocket a bit. I think I’ve bowled lot worse and taken lot more wickets. So…just happy to contribute. Entire squad with bat and ball in the field, support staff has been awesome to get us all on the park. I don’t think the script could’ve asked for more, apart from rectifying that Perth loss,” he told ABC.
He further told ABC he was pretty sore but not exactly broken down, despite struggling with a back injury, though he finished with18 wickets at 28.66. “It’s taken a little bit of a toll. It’s why we play Test cricket, push the needle as far as it’ll go. I tried to take the handbrake off the other day and might have pushed it a little too far.”
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