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SCG: Bizarre view
On to the 5th Test at Sydney with England needing to win to square the series. Australia won the toss and batted on Day One. Sydney was notoriously spin-friendly for years. the Aussies had a spin attack of Shane Warne, Stuart MacGill and Colin Miller; England had Peter Such and Mark Ramprakash!! It was a scorching hot day at the SCG. I had to sit in a concourse to seek shade at one point in the afternoon. The Waugh brothers set about England. Steve scored 96 ... oh did we laugh when he missed his century! Mark scored a magnificent 122. However, from a position of 284-4 Australia lost wickets in the last hour.
I joined the Barmy Army with my mate Phil after tea. We were sat behind this geezer in fancy dress, as you often do at a test. BIG hair makes for a surreal view. This photograph was taken shortly before Darren Gough took a hat-trick to finish off the Australian innings. It was a hat-trick of LBWs, and it was the first hat-trick by an English bowler in an Ashes test since June 1899. Cause for a great deal of Barmy celebration in the bar later on.
SCG: Bizarre view
On to the 5th Test at Sydney with England needing to win to square the series. Australia won the toss and batted on Day One. Sydney was notoriously spin-friendly for years. the Aussies had a spin attack of Shane Warne, Stuart MacGill and Colin Miller; England had Peter Such and Mark Ramprakash!! It was a scorching hot day at the SCG. I had to sit in a concourse to seek shade at one point in the afternoon. The Waugh brothers set about England. Steve scored 96 ... oh did we laugh when he missed his century! Mark scored a magnificent 122. However, from a position of 284-4 Australia lost wickets in the last hour.
I joined the Barmy Army with my mate Phil after tea. We were sat behind this geezer in fancy dress, as you often do at a test. BIG hair makes for a surreal view. This photograph was taken shortly before Darren Gough took a hat-trick to finish off the Australian innings. It was a hat-trick of LBWs, and it was the first hat-trick by an English bowler in an Ashes test since June 1899. Cause for a great deal of Barmy celebration in the bar later on.