Archive for January, 2012
Australia’s best one day side
I can’t stand watching the one-day game. It’s just an absolute bloody bore to me, an absolute bore, always has been. I have never enjoyed playing the one-day game, never enjoyed watching it. It’s too predictable. A Test match, oh, you can watch it unfold.
– Rod Marsh, 1989 – an interview for Extra Cover by Jack Egan
South Australia – part two
Seal Bay - sea lions
Cape Jervis was chilly, about 14 degrees and blowing hard when we checked in. The short, stout woman behind the counter laughed at the weather and said not to worry, the information centre on Kangaroo Island sold jackets. Her eyes, magnified behind glasses, suggested staff at the info centre were used to dealing with idiots.
