Alyssa Healy Takes Hilarious Dig At Men's Cricket For Playing In Crowdless Stadium
Updated - 13 Mar 2020, 03:13 PM
Alyssa Healy, who played the role of a sheet anchor, in the women’s T20 World Cup final against India took a hilarious dig at men’s cricket after the first One-Day International (ODI) between Australia and England on Friday was played in a crowdless stadium due to coronavirus scare.
The step taken to play the ODI series between Australia and New Zealand behind closed doors is taken as a precautionary step to withstand the novel coronavirus.
A week of feeling what’s it like in men’s shoes: Alyssa Healy
It was a contradictory and rare show as Australia and New Zealand are playing in front of empty stadium while more the women’s T20 World Cup was witnessed by 86,714 spectators at a packed house at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
After a Australia journalist took to Twitter to write, “In hindsight, the fact they got 86,714 to the G on Sunday night was miraculous timing. One week later and it would have been 0”.
Healy instantly responded to the tweet by saying, “It’s been a week of us feeling what it’s like in the men’s shoes and them in ours!! Haha”.
It’s been a week of us feeling what it’s like in the men’s shoes and them in ours!! Haha.
— Alyssa Healy (@ahealy77) March 13, 2020
Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 Broke All Audience Records
The Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 set new TV and digital records and becoming the most watched women’s cricket event ever, according to a release by International Cricket Council (ICC).
In a significant rise, the ICC T20 World Cup saw 1600% increase in viewing minutes in Australia with a 213% increase in India. It also saw over 700 million video views across ICC’s digital and social platforms to date.
“Across ICC’s digital and social platforms, fans have engaged in greater numbers than ever before with an unprecedented 701 million video views to date. This is a record for ICC women’s events with the previous best coming in 2017 for the Women’s Cricket World Cup, which netted a total of 100 million views from the whole event. Meanwhile, the official tournament social channels have attracted 34 million engagements and over 2 billion impressions with fans,” ICC said in a statement.
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