When Alyssa Healy did 'dumb crap' and cut her head open

Alyssa Healy is a seven-time world champion, but that doesn't mean sometimes she isn't a bit foolish like us mere mortals. On a podcast, Healy recalls the "worst blow-up" she's ever had, narrating an incident from the 2016 T20 World Cup in India. "I was having a bad run of form. Got out, again [for 5], against South Africa. I think we were chasing, like not many."

South Africa had made 102 and Australia were 8 for 1 in the second over at the time of Healy's dismissal.

"Meg Lanning [Australia's captain at the World Cup] dying on the physio table. She was seriously ill [with] food poisoning. [I] got out, walked in [to the dressing room]. Couldn't blow up in the change room cos Meg's in there. Got to be a bit quiet. She's very ill.

"I took my helmet off. Walked in to the bathrooms. As you do, whacked my bat against the toilet door. It came back and hit me in the head. It split my head open.

"It was two days before my birthday. So the next game, there's a photo of me with stitches in my head.

"I walk out [back into the dressing room] and I've got a towel, p**sing blood out of my head. Meg's still on the physio table. She's like, 'You all right?' and I'm like, 'No.'

"And then I walked out to the doctor and said, 'I'm just going to need the doctor, please.'

"They then had to move Meg off the physio table for me to lie down, so they can stitch my head back together. Anyway, we were three for s**t and Meg had to go out and win the game for us."

Lanning scored an unbeaten 30 off 19 balls from No. 6 to take Australia to a four-wicket win.

"I learned my lesson then and there that: stop doing dumb crap like that and grow up," Healy said.

Healy may remember doing stupid things, but her team-mates see her as reliable, as a role model, someone you can share a beer with.