India Tennis star Sania Mirza has opened up on the trouble women's face in the sub-continent because they are considered as a distraction for their husband. She believes the people still don't see them as the strength of their husbands.

Sania had praised Australia pacer Mitchell Starc for missing out on an ODI match to watch women's T20 World Cup final between India and Australia.

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Starc's wife Alyssa Healy was playing the final. She pointed out how the people would have reacted had the same happened in the sub-continent.

"Sure thing !! God forbid it would be a guy from the subcontinent, the guy would be called a 'joru ka ghulaam' in one second. good on you Mitchell. couple goals for sure!! (sic)," read her tweet after Starc's decision. 

She appeared in a talk show 'Double Trouble' with India women's cricketers Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues on YouTube.

"It (Tweet on Starc) was funny because me and Anushka probably relate to this the most. I think whenever our husbands perform, it's because of them, whenever they don't perform it's because of us. I don't know how that works.

"We are saying it as a joke but I think there is a much deeper issue. The deeper issue is that a woman can always be a distraction and not a strength. Oh 'if you're girlfriend is there or your wife is there, he must be distracted because he is going out for dinner'. That doesn't even make any sense."

Sania was imagining his husband, Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik doing the same as Starc and then people's reaction on it. She also added that Anushka Sharma, Bollywood actress and Virat Kohli's wife can relate.

"When he (Starc) went back to his wife to watch the World Cup final and everybody was hailing him.

"I truly felt... I was trying to just picture Shoaib doing that for me... hell would have broken loose if that would have happened. They would have said... he is such a joru ka ghulam... he is going and watching a women's cricket match. I just felt it. I feel humour sometimes brings the truth out.

"Anushka and I had a long conversation about it. We both were like, this is so true."