What got Alyssa Healy the biggest standing ovation of her career? A huge hundred? A fantastic catch or clever stumping? Winning yet another trophy for Australia? Nope. It was for her ability to balance beers!
Healy, the wife of Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc, was attending the men's Ashes Test in Brisbane and walked through the stands with a few cold ones, much to the delight of the other spectators.
"I got one of my biggest standing ovations at the Gabba," she told Adam Peacock on the Willow Talk podcast. "Because you're a Queenslander," Peacock asked.
"No, I was up there watching Mitch and I carried, I think maybe five or six beers back to my seat. I had two in my mouth because I was trying to find my ticket. The security guard was like, 'Do you need a hand?' and I was like, 'No, I got this' and I walked back in.
"It was around where the Star Wars [costumed] people were - that's where we were sitting. The [crowd] stood up and applauded me as I sat back down."
Starc has taken 18 wickets in the first two Ashes Tests so far, eight of those at the Gabba, where he was also Australia's top scorer in their first innings with 77 in a total of 511.
Starc, too, had a funny story to tell, although it was mostly shared by his team-mate Nathan Lyon, who recalled a holiday to Josh Hazlewood's family home in Bendemeer, New South Wales. The two bowlers, Starc and Lyon, were sharing a room.
"I was fast asleep and next minute I felt his hand on my back," Lyon says before Starc clarifies the story.
"I believe it was six in the morning and Hoff's [Hazlewood] mates had smacked on the window and I've given it the old rollover thinking… that's not Alyssa!"