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Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Monday, December 04, 2006

I forgot to finish yesterday's post

about the cricket. It is good to see that some serious comment about how good it is to see competition in the cricket, distinct from the hyperbole and jinjoistic nonsense, is catching up with my perspective of the game. This competitivism is good for the game but if it turns out to be a one night wonder then there is no point. Cricket is more than something akin to pulling the wings off flies or pinning butterflies down. Sure that might satisfy the jingoists and the other yobbos but for those of us who think about the game rather than redeeming our inferiority complex, then cricket lovers and sport lovers in general have to think about strengthening the weaker international teams. That business of setting England 600 runs last week was farcical. No way was it a competitive total. It went right over the top and could have killed the game - not just this series but for all time. And then we would have been happy would we? We showed 'em not to mess with us aussies. Us big heroes us.
Anyway, I was wrong. England has responded. I hope the response was for positive improvement in batting reasons and not for the negative reason that McGrath and Warne had a couple of bad days.

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