There will have been an air of doom and gloom around much of Melbourne today. It is a sports-mad city (with certain honorable exceptions, some of whom read this blog) and there are few things that Melbourne sports fans hate more than being beaten by people from Sydney.
And not just beaten either. The Victoria Bushrangers were thoroughly humiliated. NSW Blues batted first and despite the supposed horrors of the Delhi pitch they raced along at almost 9 an over throughout. David Warner top-scored with 48 off 25 balls, but the whole batting order contributed to their final score of 169.
In contrast the Victorian batting was woeful. Brett Lee took 2-15 and Moises Henriques 3-11 as the Bushrangers were skittled out for just 90. Oh dear.
Personally I blame Justine. I’m sure she managed to find a way to cheat.
Today the Cape Cobras take on Trinidad & Tobago. Hopefully it will be a much better game. Everyone outside South Africa will be hoping for a T&T win because they are such wonderful fin to watch.
doom and bloom
That’s either a clever reference to it being spring there, or an adjacent-key typo. I’m going to assume the former and try to use it myself hereafter.
*headsmack*
Fixed now. Thank you. I’m afraid it is more down to exhaustion than anything else. I will be so glad when World Fantasy is over.