Australian Domination

[kevin_standlee]

I've just watched Australia put the finishing touches on destroying England 5-0 to sweep the Ashes Series international cricket match. This is only the second time in the long history of this England-Australia rivalry that a team has swept the series 5-0. And Australia didn't just win, they dominated England.

While Cheryl supports England [because it's actually England & Wales], she bowed to the inevitable and gave her stuffed kangaroo a brush ("Sweep!") to hold while we watched this fifth test.

Cheryl and I split the cost of the DirectTV coverage and I got to see about half of the games, and I'm glad we did. I got to see some historic moments in cricket, and I think I now understand the attraction of the game. Oh, great, yet another sport to distract me.

Comments

[wild-patience.livejournal.com]

That's a very scary icon.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

And not just any sport, but a sport where a single test match lasts FIVE DAYS and they stop for tea ... in other words, a civilised sport :-)

Unlike, say, American Football, which is a 60 minute game that takes four hours because they stop for advertisements! (or so it seems), and for cheerleaders (which I heartily approve of!) and to move the cameras down markers, and for nachos and hot dogs and beer ... (while a lot of beer is consumed during a cricket match, I'm guessing there's more wine consumed during an hour of cricket than an hour of American Football!)

:-)

Cricket is a game where you'll never see a seventh inning stretch (hey, Australia barely had time to start a second inning before the game was over!)

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of the American Express commercial (don't know if it aired in the UK) where comedian Jerry Seinfeld is performing in the UK and tells a joke whose punch line is "What is this, the seventh-inning stretch?" and it falls flat because nobody gets the reference. He then goes out and tours the town (spending with his Amex) to pick up the local lingo, and we close with him giving the same joke, except the punch line is, "What is this, the tea interval?" The audience roars with laughter, and Seinfeld, in an aside to the camera, says, "I have no idea what I just said."