Went to the SCG at the weekend and saw Australia vs India with my cricket-mad mate Luke. This test got me properly sucked into the cricket, it had the lot: majestic centuries from Tendulkar as he bows out of playing in Australia, Andrew Symonds pulling a Beefy and scoring runs and taking wickets, winning man of the match and copping racist abuse for his trouble, and then Michael Clarke pulling off a pretty unbelievable win with three wickets in five balls to snatch the victory with eight minutes and seven balls left. Thank christ then, that I went on Saturday, the fourth day being easliy the most boring of the whole test. Matthew Hayden got a century by playing some very average cricket, and whilst Harbhajan went potty when he got Ponting out for 1, and Anil Kumble should have had a hat trick, I turned up after the first and was on a piss-and-beer run for the second! Had good seats mind (I took that photo when they were at tea). The Bhaji Army were sitting just below us and to the right, though the majority of their singing was being led by a pissed-up fat white lad with a northern accent who copped plenty of "piss off home pommie" comments. Predictably enough he wasn't really white either, more a deep shade of angry pink. The ticket also gets you in free to see NSW vs Queensland in the Twenty20 tomorrow night at the ANZ Stadium in Homebush (formerly the Telstra Stadium, and the Olympic Stadium before that). Glenn McGrath's playing his last game for the Speedblitz Blues and I've never been to a night game or a Twenty20. Apparently everyone just gets leathered. Brilliant.
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well, I just hoped you behaved yourself and didn't have your head turned by Punter and his disgracful behaviour throughout the "Bollyline" sereis. Dragging the good name of cricket in the mud. Seems uncanny that the only team capable of beating the australain cricket team are the team themselves.
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