Australia suffered a loss in a nail-biting game against India. While not many had expected the hosts to give the world number one Test side a run for their money in absence of David Warner and Steve Smith, Tim Paine & his men nearly pulled off a coup. Despite being on the back-foot for the most part of the game, the hosts gave India a mighty scare before eventually losing the game by 31 runs.
Chasing an improbable 323, Australia looked all but out of the game when they lost Paine and found themselves 7 down for 187. However, the lower-order batsmen batted out of their skin to revive Australia’s slim hopes. But their heroic effort went in vain as Australia were all out for 291.
However, one can always argue that the result could have been different had their pace spearhead Mitchell Starc is not looked off-color. Starc rarely looked at his best. In the first innings, he conceded over 3 runs per over while picking up 2 wickets. In the second, he picked up three but two of them was those of Ravichandran Ashwin. With Starc not doing well, India’s top-order made sure to pile up the runs which eventually made the difference.
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Not surprisingly, Starc attracted a lot of criticism by a host of former players. One of them was Mitchell Johnson. The former Australia speedster slammed his ex-teammate for his body language. Talking to ABC radio, Johnson said, “I just don’t like his body language. He hasn’t given a bit of a glare or puffed his chest out with a good follow through, let the batsman know he’s in the contest, that he’s going to rip the pegs out.”
However, the criticism has not gone down well with Starc’s wife and Australia women team’s star Alyssa Healy. And she did not refrain herself from making her point clear to Johnson on the micro-blogging site Twitter. It all began when Johnson tweeted after the game, writing, “Congratulations to India. Loved Australia’s fight to the end, need to move on quickly from this loss & prepare for Perth which is a quick turn around.”
Healy was quick to take a dig at Johnson as she tagged Starc while writing, “Will your preparation be getting grumpy?” Johnson, however, made sure that things do not go out of hand, writing, “Love you guys.”
https://twitter.com/MitchJohnson398/status/1072007000794443776
@mstarc56 will your preparation be getting grumpy?
— Alyssa Healy (@ahealy77) December 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/MitchJohnson398/status/1072125285565415424
😂😊
— Alyssa Healy (@ahealy77) December 10, 2018
