Aussie cricket star opens up about 'terrifying' 11-hour evacuation from India as missiles rained down during conflict with Pakistan

Alyssa Healy has opened up connected her heart-stopping evacuation from India to flight the ongoing struggle that has dramatically changed the planetary cricket landscape.

The Australian women's skipper was watching her hubby Mitchell Starc play successful Dharamsala, in India’s acold north, erstwhile the Indian Premier League lucifer was dramatically abandoned owed to rocket strikes conscionable 60km away.

'It was a surreal experience,' she told the Willow Talk podcast.

'All of a abrupt a mates of the airy towers went retired and we were conscionable sitting determination up the apical waiting … we're a ample radical of household and other enactment unit and the adjacent infinitesimal the feline who wrangles the radical of america and gets america connected the autobus came up and his look was white. 

'He was like, "We request to spell close now." Then (another) feline came retired and his look was achromatic and helium grabbed 1 of the children and said, "We request to permission close now."

'We were like, "what's going on?" We weren't told anything. We had nary idea.

'Next infinitesimal we are down being shuffled into this country which was similar a holding pen. All the boys were successful there.

'Faf (South African cricketer Faf du Plessis) didn't adjacent person shoes on. We were each conscionable waiting determination looking stressed.

'I said to Mitch, "what's going on?" He said the municipality 60km distant had conscionable been smacked by immoderate of the missiles truthful determination was a implicit blackout successful the area. 

'That's wherefore the lights were disconnected due to the fact that the Dharamsala stadium was similar a beacon astatine that constituent successful time.

'All of a abrupt we're crammed into vans and disconnected we spell backmost to the hotel. There was madness.'

It was decided that the champion determination was to evacuate the teams the pursuing day, but Healy said that the eleven and a fractional hr travel backmost to Dehli was besides disturbing. 

'We ended up going southbound westbound towards the borderline which was a small spot terrifying,' Healy said.

'Mitch and I person played excessively overmuch Call of Duty and we’re noticing each the SAM sites that were conscionable sitting determination acceptable to go. They’re radar operated systems that sprout missiles astatine aircraft.

'(We saw) a fewer of them connected the mode done successful immoderate tiny towns.'

All Australian players person present returned backmost Down Under, though immoderate coaches -including Ricky Ponting and Brad Haddin - stay successful India.

Question marks person revolved implicit whether the IPL, which volition resume weekend, volition proceed to beryllium played successful India oregon could beryllium played successful the United Arab Emirates. The PSL has, meanwhile, been postponed indefinitely, with officials besides having looked astatine finishing matches successful the UAE. 

It is unclear, though, however galore Australians volition beryllium keen to instrumentality to play

'There was a batch of anxiousness astir the Australian radical due to the fact that we didn’t person a full heap of accusation arsenic to what was going on,' Healy said.

'That’s astir apt been the truly absorbing and astir apt the scariest portion of this full concern is the misinformation. 

'Quite adjacent to what’s being fought over, but we were assured everything was fine, "everything is OK. It’s miles away, the crippled volition spell up and everything volition beryllium fine."

'At the extremity of the time they evacuated the stadium arsenic a precaution, which was fine, but it was astir apt a small spot excessively adjacent for comfort.'