Women's Ashes: Mitchell Starc shares an adorable moment with Alyssa Healy in dressing room

The England women’s team showed great determination in their second innings of the Women’s Ashes game to ensure that the one-off Test match ended in a stalemate at Canberra on Sunday. The visitors’ top and middle-order fought hard on the final day of the contest before their tail-enders ensured that the Aussies were not walking away with the game.

While the Test match might have ended in a thrilling draw, the cricket enthusiasts got a chance to watch an adorable moment on social media not on the field but in the dressing room as a cricketing couple, Mitchell Starc and Alyssa Healy hogged the limelight on the final day of the game.

Mitchell Star and Alyssa Healy bond over a donut in the dressing room

The rain had interrupted Day 3’s play on Saturday as the players of both teams had to be inside their respective dressing rooms. Meanwhile, wicketkeeper batter Alyssa Healy was clicked having a chat with her hubby and the Australian men’s cricket team’s frontline pacer Mitchell Starc in the dressing room during the rain break. As the duo joked and shared laughter, Healy gave Starc a donut but, the fast bowler shared it with his better half.  The video has been posted by 7 Cricket on their official Twitter handle.

Watch the video here:

Cute 🥰#Ashes pic.twitter.com/WlAMXUXzoy

— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) January 30, 2022

Coming back to the contest, England skipper Heather Knight’s fighting knock of an unbeaten 168 powered them to 297 in reply to Australia’s first innings total of 337/9. With a first-innings lead of 40, the hosts declared their second innings at 216/7 riding on a vital 63 from Beth Mooney who had played with a broken jaw as the Aussies set England a target of 257 runs.

In reply, openers Tammy Beaumont and Lauren Winfield-Hill added 52 runs for the opening stand before captain Knight chipped in with a vital 48. The middle-order including the likes of Nat Sciver (58) and Sophia Dunkley (45) contributed immensely but, when they were dismissed, it seemed that it would open up the floodgates for the Australian bowlers to run through the tail and they nearly got the job done.

However, tail-ender Kate Cross, who was surrounded by all the fielders in the last over of the game successfully defended a high full toss from Alana King and earned a hard-fought draw for England.