Aussie Cricket Star opens about ‘frightening’ 11-hour evacuation from India while rockets rained during conflict with Pakistan

Alyssa Healy is open from her heartbreaking evacuation of India To escape from the current conflict that the international cricket landscape has changed dramatically.

The captain of the Australian women saw her husband Mitchell Starc playing in Dharamsala, in the distant north of India, then the Indian Premier League Match was abandoned dramatically due to rocket attacks just 60 km away.

“It was a surreal experience,” she said the Willow Talk Podcast.

‘Suddenly a few of the light towers went outside and we were just waiting for the top … We are a large group of family and extra support staff and the next minute the man who argues the group of ours and brought us on the bus and his face was white.

“He said,” We have to go now. “Then (another) man came out and his face was white and he grabbed one of the children and said,” We have to leave now. “

“We had something like that:” What’s going on? “Nothing has been told us. We had no idea.

Alyssa Healy is open about her dramatic evacuation from India with husband Mitchell Starc (photo)

The sports couple is now back in Australia after a tiring escape from the distant north of India

‘The next minute we are shaken in this room, which looked like a pen. All guys were there.

‘FAF (South African cricket player Faf du Plessis) did not even wear shoes. We were all just waiting there to be stressed.

“I told Mitch:” What’s going on? ” He said that the city had just been struck 60 km by a few rockets, so there was a complete Blackout in the area.

“That’s why the lights were off because the Dharamsala Stadium was like a beacon at that time.

‘Suddenly we are crammed in vans and we go back to the hotel. There was madness. ‘

It was decided that the best step was to evacuate the teams the next day, but Healy said that the journey of eleven and half an hour back to Dehli was also disturbing.

“We finally went to the southwest to the border, which was a bit frightening,” said Healy.

‘Mitch and I played too much duty and we notice all the Sam sites that were just ready to go there. They are Radar -Onderkuurt systems that shoot rockets in aircraft.

Healy looked at her husband’s game when the airsirenes flagged in the stadium

All Australian players have now returned to Australia, although some coaches remain

“(We saw) a few of them on their way in some small cities.”

All Australian players have now returned under, although some coaches who are Ricky Ponting and Brad Haddin – remain in India.

Question marks are aimed at whether the IPL, which resumes the weekend, will be played in India or will be played in the United Arab Emirates. In the meantime, the PSL has been postponed indefinitely, whereby officials have also looked at finishing competitions in the VAE.

However, it is unclear how many Australians want to return to play

“There was a lot of fear around the Australian group because we had no whole lot of information about what was going on,” said Healy.

‘That is probably the really interesting and probably the scariest part of this whole situation is the wrong information.

‘Quite close to what is being fought, but we were sure that everything was fine:’ Everything is OK. It is miles away, the game will continue and everything will be fine. ‘

“At the end of the day they evacuated the stadium as a precaution, which was fine, but it was probably a bit too close for comfort.”