More Cricket......................

Dear all

Today we were

supposed to spend our last day in Christchurch at the utterly brilliant International Antarctic Centre, but our plans got changed at the last minute by a very excited Dean who had 'discovered'  that the next one day international between New Zealand and Pakistan was to be held at the Ami Stadium! So we whizzed into  the centre of time and had lunch in a very lovely street market which had loads of cute stalls with hand made artisan products. I even had a little spend on a really beautiful felted scarf with matching rose brooch - whoops! We then had time to wander around the really lovely botanic gardens before heading off to the game. The stadium is really  a concrete stadium built for rugby so doesn't have the romance of an old ground such as the Basin in Wellington, but none the less has a very picturesque view over the Tui stand towards the Port hills and Mount Cavendish. 

Now New Zealand for some reason had dropped Vitori & Ryder & a couple of other regulars from the squad so Dean was a little concerned as to how long we would be in the ground. However, we heard that Pakistan were already 2 wickets down after 10 minutes (On time as always!!) so thought it might be game on. But no sooner had we bought our tickets then from no where the wind got stronger and stronger until we were almost blown around the ground &  into our seats. This was OK whilst the sun was shining on us as it was still quite warm, but as it was a day-nighter and as the sun slunk down behind the grandstand it got steadily colder and so did NZ chances of winning the game as they threw away chance after chance! Suffice to say we could see where it was headed so scooted out before we froze to our seats & headed for the warmth of the van.

Thanks for looking

Hugs

Sara