And at the end of the fourth over, South Africa are nine for two. Yes folks, Twenty20 cricket explodes onto the Gabba!
To take the words of Bill Woodfull seriously out of context, there were two teams out on the field on Monday night, and only one of them was playing Twenty20 cricket. Australia, having lost their last Twenty20 international by a margin of 100 runs (in England last June), beat South Africa by 95 runs in front of the largest crowd to pack into the Brisbane Cricket Ground in modern times. And here's one big advantage 20-20 has over ODIs - you don't have to hang around for ages waiting for a badly-trailing side batting second to lose the game.
The First Test between Pakistan and India is now hours away and, as usual, the broadcast arrangements within India have only just been finalised this week. And there are winners and losers, as usual.
The Australian Christian Channel is available on every major pay-TV platform in Australia and, in the Sydney metropolitan area, on free-to-air digital, not to mention streamed online. It gives the opportunity to watch at any time of day those American evangelists that usually turn up on the commercial networks in the early morning between the Victoria Principal documentaries and the brekky chat shows.
For the first time in India, and perhaps in the cricketing world, podcasts will be available to cricket aficionados to download and listen to at their convenience.
- Yahoo! India teams up with Gavaskar for podcasting and more, sourced from Indiantelevision.com, 10.1.06
Well no, Sunny won't be featuring in the cricketing world's first podcast, though he may well be the first leading player to appear in one.
I've added a handful of pics from Sunday's Twenty20 game to my flickr site. Possibly more to come but I've chosen a representative sample for now.
I attended my first Twenty20 game yesterday. While I won't be hanging out for the second, there are plenty who will. And that's a good thing.
Plane finds people playing cricket on runway
“I was playing cricket with my friends as usual on the strip. We heard the plane, but didn’t care, as no plane lands here daily. But suddenly I saw a plane rushing towards us and we began running to save our lives,”
Saturday's Indian Express tells the rest of the story.
What were my choices for the Top Ten Cricket News Stories of 2005? Enjoy the superior quality of Ogg Vorbis and download Issue Seven of The Net Sessions, the Ogg Vorbis podcast edition.
