Test Cricket

On the 5^th of Jan the guys spent the day at the Sydney Cricket Grounds to watch an epic day three of a cricket match between Australia and South Africa. Test cricket is a five day event marathon and on the third day we got to see wickets 4 through 10 of South Africa's first innings plus a couple overs of Australia batting. Highlights of the actual cricket were few and far between as Test Cricket is a pretty slow game with a lot of strategy and not too much excitement. The biggest moment of the day was probably when Australia was fielding a grounder and threw out South Africa as they tried to stretch a single into a double. It was an amazing throw as the fielder turn and threw and nailed the stumps without really looking at where he was throwing. It was pretty amazing. But outside of the actual game there were lots of fun things going on. We talked to a number of other people in the stands and got a lot of insight into the game that we wouldn't have picked up on otherwise. There was an awesome kid Angus

who we really enjoyed hanging out with. He knew everything about cricket and the teams. Taylor volunteered to finish his beer if Angus could name every Aussie on the field. Taylor was impressed but not too pleased when Angus rattled off all 11.

He was a great kid. Also during the lunch break (its awesome that a sport has a break in the middle of the day for lunch) a bunch of little pee wee little league cricketeer teams came out and played a ton of different little games.

Definitely more entertaining than the actual game there were balls flying everywhere and no one knew what was going on. We picked up on the name of a few kids playing near where we were sitting by listening to their parents in the stands cheering. One kid named Scottie we especially enjoyed rooting for. He had no idea how we knew who he was or why we were going crazy every time he did anything. So it was a great day of sun and sports and beer with the guys.

After a long day in the scorching heat we decided to stop by Redleaf Pool on the way home.

Then it was time to rest up for our trip to Melbourne! But Jesse or I will cover that in another post.