Anything but cricket

While Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc is already packing for his trip back home from Dhaka after his side's exit from the World Twenty20 last night, his partner and women's team wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy is moving back to Dhaka from Sylhet, after ensuring the semifinal berth the previous day.

Alyssa is not as disappointed at not being able to join Starc in Dhaka, as she was watching the men's team exit the tournament.
"Obviously it would have been great had both the teams made it to the semifinals. But that's cricket. Sometimes we are lucky enough to be playing at the same place at the same time, but most times, not," she said.
The bond between the two goes back a long way. It started 15 years ago when they used to play for the same team in Sydney. Starc, like Healy, was a wicketkeeper in those days. The two shared the same position in the team for about five years before parting ways.
"We used to play together since we were nine and interestingly both of us were wicketkeepers, sharing the same position," Alyssa says.
But cricket kept bringing them closer time and again. And after bumping into each other too many times, thanks to cricket and their cricketing families, the two decided to move together about four years ago, making them one of the most talked about sporting couples in Australia.
Even though their cricketing tradition brought them together -- Starc's father being a state coach and Alyssa being the niece of Australian legend Ian Healy -- at home cricket is the last thing they talk about.
"When we are together, we hardly talk cricket. We talk anything but cricket," Alyssa says.