Australian women’s cricket team captain Alyssa Healy has made an appeal to Indian fans ahead of the 2025 ODI World Cup. She encouraged them to attend matches wearing Chennai Super Kings jerseys featuring MS Dhoni‘s name.Healy suggested that since both Australian and CSK jerseys share the same yellow colour, it would create a nice atmosphere in the stadiums. The tournament schedule reveals that Australia’s group stage matches will not be played in Chennai. The team will play three matches in Indore, two in Vizag, and two in Colombo, Sri Lanka. However, MS Dhoni’s popularity extends beyond Chennai, with fans across India supporting CSK in various cities during IPL matches.“I’d really like to encourage the Indian fans to show up in their Chennai MS Dhoni shirts because they’re yellow,” Healy said at the captain’s day press meet. “That would be great. Yeah, so show up in that, have some yellow in the crowd, that would be nice.”Australia enter the tournament as favourites, having won seven World Cup titles and possessing one of the strongest squads globally, even for Indian conditions.“I don’t think it gets any easier,” Australian pacer Mitchell Starc’s wife added. “I feel like you have labelled us favourites, so thanks for that. But I don’t necessarily think that’s the case. I think India in their home conditions are going to be really, really tough to beat, along with a couple of captains sitting alongside. So it doesn’t get any easier. I think this ODI World Cup is going to be one of the strongest ones that I have been a part of.”Healy emphasised that her team remains focused and determined to perform well in the tournament. “I don’t think it’s quite in the Australian culture to get too complacent about things at any point in time. People tend to write more about us when we lose than when we actually win, so it’s quite a nice thing to experience. I feel like I’m part of a really special group at the moment that wants to be better every single day. That mindset is already in place, it just allows them to go out there and enjoy their cricket on the field. That’s basically as simple as it gets. We go out there, we compete as hard as we possibly can and hopefully the results go our way,” she said.
