Re: The day the little champ went past 10,000

by HH_pink on Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:11 pm

tac wrote:The only batsmen who really earned his 10,000 runs, nothing flat-track bullyish about AB, unlike Tendy, SRW and BCL . . .

Miserable little red-inking sook was AB.

by tac on Sat Sep 08, 2007 5:16 pm

HH_pink wrote:
tac wrote:The only batsmen who really earned his 10,000 runs, nothing flat-track bullyish about AB, unlike Tendy, SRW and BCL . . .

Miserable little red-inking sook was AB.

A fine display of cricketing knowledge worthy of filosofee . . .

by Hass on Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:37 am

skully wrote:
JGK wrote:BTW - I was there the day SRW went past 10000.

What.a.day. Gyngell held back the Nein evening News for 40 minutes to wait for that fabulous last ball. Must've been THE MOST ELECTRIC atmosphere ever at the SCG.

THE MOST ELECTRIC doesn't do it justice.

In fact, it should have its own thread it was that incredible.

This one's for AB.

Cheers.

by taipan on Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:19 am

skully wrote:I've been to many days of cricket at the SCG over the years and there are many stand outs. But I think the biggest and longest ovations I have ever been involved in was the day AB made his 10,000th run in Tests. It was Day 2 of the 3rd Test at the SCG in the 92/93 series Aus v WI.

What a farkin champ.

And you mentioned it only last week