The Cricket

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Well , we braved one whole day at the MCG watching the England cricket team do the charitable thing and let the Aussies head for an Ashes whitewash.

In fact England were so bad the only good thing about the day was watching the crowd, in particular the barmy army, not ones to be silenced by the fact that they have travelled half way around the world to watch a dismal cricket match.

It took us most of the day to score about 80 runs then I went to buy beer and a cuppa and when I got back half the England team were out ( I had to que for 25 minutes).

Never mind, it was still a good day out, the MCG is a really smart ground with a good atmosphere. Although I expected more cheer form the aussies who have, lets be fair, completely whooped us this time around.

In other news Melbourne is a great city with a much more laid back feel to Sydney and our hostel is top notch, much better than the last. But, we shall post more info on Melbourne and the new year celebrations in a few days.

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Photos

The MCG
The Melbourne Cricket Ground with the game underway

Warne
Shane Warne bowls to Freddy

The crowd go wild
Less than happy England fans!!

Comments

[stu]

john looking sad
when claire's not in view you look glum!

[paul]

tickets
Which lucky people got your spare pair of tickets? i guess in a way im kind of glad we didnt organise our trip to coicide with the ashes, the only problem is we will be there with a 5-0 victory fresh in their thick heads!!

[Harriet]

To John and Claire
I love you from Harriet

[John and Claire]

tickets
We didn't manage to shift the tickets really. The MCG didn't sell out and lots didn't turn up so there were loads of spare seats and touts were selling at half price anyway. We gave them away as we left the MCG in discust about an hour before close, a couple had tickets for the fourth day and the match was about to end so we took pity!!