A COLOURFUL DAY AT THE CRICKET

Firstly, I have to tell you I'm not a cricket fan.

To me it's like watching paint dry.

For years as a devoted parent I'd go along to watch Brett play.

Sit there for HOURS trying to shelter from the baking hot sun under a tree

and the moment I looked away he would hit one to the boundary,

bowl someone out,

or be out himself !!!

However if you live in Oz you can't ecsape cricket completely no matter how hard you try to ignore it.

Today is a very colourful day at the usually boring white Cricket.

It's Jane McGrath Day - a day set aside to raising awareness ( and money ) in memory of Jane McGrath,
first wife of our beloved Glenn McGrath

 

Jane herself was loved by all for her sunny nature and died after a brave battle with breast cancer.

 

It's fantastic the way everyone has embraced the wearing of pink on these days and so the Cricket Ground is a sea of pink.




But although pink is everywhere there is another colour making its sombre appearance here and there.



Black - black armbands worn in memory of Tony Greig who died recently from a heart attack.
Not an Aussie by birth but certainly a popular adopted son who presence will be sadly missed in Cricket circles.

Cheers.

PS. I heard an interesting statistic today: -

" More people die from lung cancer than from breast cancer and prostate cancer combined."