Jan

27

Adelaide crowd in ’sullen silence’

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It’s pretty impossible for South African supporters to realise how low Australian morale has sunk after the latest thrashing/trouncing/mauling of Punter Ponting’s rabble by the Proteas.

On Friday night, The Aussies succumbed to the Proteas on the most doctored pitch in the cricketing world - Sydney Cricket Ground. The Aussie media wrote about 9,000 centimetres on David Warner’s ‘amazing, incredible, Bradman-like, Gilchrist-reminding’ knock of 69 in 60 balls. The remaining 5 centimetres was devoted to Botha’s captaincy and the fact that the Proteas had made the highest run chase in the history of the SCG - oh and they won the game.

And then we went to Adelaide - on Australia Day no less. While the Prime Minister and the Australian of the Year (an Aboriginal academic) were sparring that January 26th should maybe be called ‘invasion day’ (Aboriginal view) not Australia’s national day (the PM), SkyNews reported in their evening bulletin that in the Protea innings, “A crowd of 25,419 were left mainly in sullen silence as the South Africans went professionally about their task, much as they had done in the field.”

From the commentary box, Ian Healy and Ian Chappell went even further to spruik new programmes for Channel 9, Tony Grieg tried to sell more memorabilia and it was left to Bill Lawry to say: ‘we’re being thrashed. Won’t the Wanderers crowd be baying for blood. We need all the luck we can’.

Well done, Proteas - now finish them off in Perth!

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