Published - 18 Mar 2018, 06:29 PM | Updated - 22 Aug 2024, 11:53 PM
Alyssa Healy. Credit: Twitter.
Star Aussie pacer Mitchell Starc lauded his wife Alyssa Healy on her maiden hundred against India at Vadodara. Meanwhile, Australia demolished India as they beat them 3-0 in the ODI face off.
Australia continued their dominance as they posted 332 on the board banking on Healy’s 133. The swashbuckling opener took 115 balls to notch her hundred including 17 boundaries and two sixes. The middle-order also provided excellent support as Indian bowlers failed to contain the run flow.
In reply, the women in blues got off to a flier with Smriti Mandhana (52) and Jemimah Rodrigues (42) adding 100 for the first wicket. However, since then, they failed to build a long partnership as they lost wickets regularly.
Ashleigh Gardner was the pick of the bowlers returning with three wickets in her eight overs. Megan Schutt and Ellyse Perry provided good support with two wickets each.
Starc lauds her wife’s effort:
Starc praised her wife, Healy’s match-defining hundred. Meanwhile, it is also the first hundred by an Australian wicket-keeper batswomen. Healy dominated the Indian bowlers scoring at a rate of 115.65.
The 27-year-old Starc took to social media to applaud Healy’s efforts. He remarked the records broken by the Australian women’s team adding that he is a proud husband.
“How bloody good!!! in the green and gold @ahealy77 you little legend! #proudhubby,” Starc tweeted.
Meanwhile, Starc and Healy tied the knot on April 15, 2016. The Australian cricket’s power couple, met when they were nine-year-olds, during a match in which they were playing against each other in the Northern District Junior Cricket Association, according to Cricket Australia. The two later shared wicketkeeping duties in a U-11 team which was coached by Starc’s father, Paul Starc.
