I'm a cricket convert....sort of

This year it will be 30 years that I've lived in Australia and I've never been to the cricket. In fact the only cricket I've watched is the snippets you catch while channel surfing on the TV. From what I've seen its a boring, long drawn out game with more action coming from the seagulls on the field than the players. So there was shock when I piped in and said I'd like to go along to a twenty 20 game at The G

The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) also known as "The G" was beautifully groomed for the big match and there was a pretty good turn out of 60,000 hard core fans

For those of you not familiar with the game of cricket, the Twenty 20 version of the game has only recently emerged and makes the bold claim that cricket is no longer boring. Its shorter in duration than a standard game, forcing the players to get on with things. Plus the inclusion of 80's music between exciting bits and these thingies that shoot fire into the air after the exciting bits, kept those of us with short attention spans entertained

Real cricket fans

Overall it was a good night out and I'd probably go to a Twenty 20 match again, next year. I think I'm ready to progress from the Mexican Wave to the Beer Snake (google it), though I'd recommend staying away from the hot jam donuts