Tuesday, 14 December 2010

Adelaide....... it begins

Its been a while since we have posted. I always knew it would be hard in Oz with all the Cricket etc, but never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would be writing this with a win under our belt! We arrived in Adelaide with the idea that if we could get a draw here we would game on for the rest fo the series, but from the start everything went our way. The day before the start we went down to watch the teams netting and managed to run into Punter who was none too pleased, but was kind enough to stop for a photo. It later transpired that he had just found out that Mitchell Johnson had been dropped and was pretty angry about it. We of course were very pleased to hear it! The England team looked so focussed, not something we were used to seeing and the talk around those BA there was perhaps there was some room to hope!




Day 1 arrived and we arrived to a full house an hour before the start. We found a few spare seats in front of the hill right on the bowlers arm, which is where we based ourselves for the next few five days. Day one saw another first day collapse with the Aussies 3-2 by the second over and all out for 245 by afetr tea. England came in and closed the day 1-0. For the next two days we dominated the play with Cook putting on another 148 caught off Harris, before getting out and Pieterson coming back on form just in time to score at tremendous 227 (caught Katich off Doherty), just 1 run higher than his previous highest score.
This photo shows him when he got his 200 coming straight towards the Barmy Army and raising his bat directly to us which was lovely. We finally declared on day 4 at 620-5, another staggering innings. The weather was not playing ball with storms constantly passing over and some rain falling. Once Australia were back in it the storm clouds really started to roll in and the Aussie media really thought the weather would give them the draw they really wanted to salvage, but the clouds stayed away long enough on day 5 to take the last 6 wickets and we had done it! The final day had pretty much been an English affair with the Aussies not bothering to attend.


The Cathedral pub which had been our lunch time haunt for most of the week cranked up the music and the party began two hours later the heavens opened and the rain that the Aussies has so desperately wanted had finally come far too late............ the party carried on down the centre of Adelaide all the way to PJ O'Briens where you could hear the singing on the Balcony all the way down the main street.  I think the locals will remeber us for a while.......................                               Off to Perth we will go ......
Hugs
Sara xx

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