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Healy's brutal sledge as West Indies target Konstas
SEN • June 24th, 2025 8:50 am
Shamaar Joseph’s attempt to start mind games with Australian teen Sam Konstas has drawn a brutal sledge from Ian Healy.
The paceman, who helped the West Indies to a surprise win at the Gabba at the start of 2024, sent a message to Konstas, telling him: “just look out, that’s all.”
Konstas earned a recall to the starting XI after being forced to sit out the World Test Championship Final in favour of Marnus Labuschagne.
In the Caribbean he will get the chances to prove his worth ahead of the Ashes.
“He’s (Joseph) picked on the 19 year-old again,” Healy told SENQ Breakfast co-host Corey Parker.
“He’s had a terrible year since he went through us at the Gabba.
“He had this toe that had blown up and didn’t think he could play, he got out of his injury bed after someone said just come down and try it, and then he realised ‘oh you can play with pain.
“Shamaar has come out today and said (to Konstas)’ just look out and watch what is coming’.
“OK Shamaar well you’ve delivered crap all year.
“So he better improve, that’s what I’m saying in the dressing room. He’s got real trouble.
"You’re not Curtley Ambrose champ.”
Asked by Parker why the more senior players on the Australia team are yet to come out in defence of Konstas, Healy added: “They probably didn’t know Shamaar had said anything.
“It’ll be in the press before the Aussies hear it. He’s said it to media not even to Sam.
It’s not the first time Konstas has been targeted.
It’s not the first time Konstas has been targeted.
He was caught up in something of a stoush at last year’s Boxing Day Test when India captain Virat Kohli delivered full front contact and a shoulder bump as the pair moved across the pitch between overs.
“Usman got in there when Kohli shoulder charged him last summer,” Healy added.
Josh Inglis joins Konstas in Australia’s starting line up for the opening Test after Steve Smith was ruled out due to a compound dislocation in his right pinkie finger.
Healy noted that despite the dropping, Labuschagne still has time on his side to once again break into the test squad.
“They're still, you know, recognizing his value, and they (the selectors) expect him to work his way through it,” Healy said on SENQ’s Breakfast.
“He's only 30/31. He's got time.”
When asked by co-host Corey Parker about how Labuschagne should go about getting reselected, Healy feels he should return to his county side of Glamorgan and really focus on improving his technique.
“I would certainly put it up as a suggestion, Marnus to Glamorgan and give him a lot of breathing space and time to really,” Healy explained.
“Now that it's done, you know, the uncertainty whether I'm gonna get dropped or whether I'm playing.
“That's been probably the last 6 months for him. Now he can breathe.
“Now get your technique right and get playing.”
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