Australia Cricketer Recalls 'Terrifying' Experience During IND-PAK Conflict

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Last Updated:May 14, 2025, 10:26 IST

An IPL league lucifer betwixt Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals was stopped midway arsenic precautionary measurement during the India-Pakistan conflict.

The play was stopped, and everybody was asked to permission the venue. (BCCI Photo)

Australia women cricket squad skipper Alyssa Healy has recalled however players, their families, subordinate of enactment unit and others endured a ‘terrifying’ acquisition portion being evacuated to a harmless determination from Dharamsala wherever an IPL 2025 lucifer was abandoned owed to the escalating tensions astatine the India-Pakistan borderline past week.

A league lucifer betwixt Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals was held astatine the HPCA Stadium successful Dharamsala past Thursday and 10.1 overs into the fixture, the floodlights astatine the venue were switched disconnected with the officials requesting the assemblage to commencement leaving the venue arsenic precautionary measure. The contention was abandoned.

With the nearest airdrome successful Dharamsala shut, the players and their families were taken via autobus and past bid to New Delhi from wherever Healy, woman of Delhi Capitals accelerated bowler Mitchell Starc, took a formation home.

“It was a surreal experience," Healy told Willow Talk Cricket Podcast. “All of a abrupt a mates of the airy towers went retired and we were conscionable sitting determination up the apical (of the stadium) 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,’" she added.

Healy said she they were kept wrong a country for a portion earlier leaving the venue.

“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 didn’t adjacent person shoes on. We were each conscionable waiting determination looking stressed," Healy said.

“We ended up going south-west towards the borderline which was a small spot terrifying," Healy told Willow Talk. “Mitch and I person played excessively overmuch Call of Duty and we’re noticing each the SAM (surface to aerial missile) 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," she added.

With the 2 countries announcing ceasefire, the IPL volition present resume aboriginal this week.

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