OH MY ME!
Sometimes you have to wait until Boxing Day for a special type of gift. There's still a chance I'm actually dreaming! Bowled out for 98 in front of 520,000 spectators at the MCG and normal service has been resumed. Only 14 blokes and a couple of Sheila's remained to see England over take the Aussie total at a canter and establish a 59 run lead without losing a wicket. Either that, or it's an Aussie tradition to dress as an empty seat in the afternoon session of the Boxing Day Test.
I will now personally be writing to Kofi Annan and Ban Ki Moon at the United Nations to have Perth struck off as a venue for International Test Match Cricket. You simply can't have a pitch that makes the world best lose so emphatically to a team of village cricket standard seamers like what happened last week. Everyone involved with cricket in Western Australia should be thoroughly embarrassed. It's just not bloody acceptable and I'd rather play in the mud at Hobart
Ricky Ponting's average for the series slipped to 15.5 after another fine innings of 10 for the once great Australian batsman and Michael Hussey wasn't able to perform his regular rescue mission as he was one of six catches for Matthew Prior, this time off the bowling off Jimmy Anderson. If you are one of the few people who read my last blog (you can't just read it when we're winning folks) you will have noted my prediction that Anderson would shine in Melbourne. With figures of 4-44 he didn't disappoint.
Back with more soon. Now go and make up with the family members you drunkenly insulted over dinner yesterday...
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