Re: 3rd of January 2003, SCG, Fifth Test, Day 2

[Invader Zim]

Bob in fine form.

[Fred Nerk]

Bob being Bob.....Hope? Hawke? Menzies? Simpson? Downe?

[footwork]

I'm only a year late to this thread...

I was there too, when Waugh hit that ton.

The reception he received from the crowd when he walked out to the middle, I'll never forget. It was just this massive, deafening wall of sound.
I don't believe in destiny, but if there were such a thing, it was working that day. There was such a sense of something extraordinary about to happen.

This massive Sydney crowd wanting him to shove it up the selector's indiscretions and hoping for a miraculous ton - I don't know how he managed that pressure, to play the innings he did. What a legend.

And when he hit that four, the place went ballistic.
It was without a doubt the most amazing day's play I've ever seen - maybe not the best, but definitely the most inspired.

Afterwards, I reckon half of Australia claimed to have been there to see it, hehe.

[Clutch]

I went the next day and saw Waugh get out in the first over of the morning. He got a standing ovation on the way out, nicked one to slips, and then got another standing ovation as he walked straight back off again. Oh well.

[Fly Pig Boy Fly]

Me and me two brothers were there for most of the match, day 3 was a sick day though

[horace]

If I recall, Australia lost that test due to Waugh's decision to bowl his bowlers into the ground in the previous test in Melbourne, no?

True. It didn't help that MacGill bowled the most constant stream of poo since the cause of cholera was discovered, nor that he dropped one of the easiest caught and bowled chances of all time.

or that Koala snr forgot to go for the redinkus maximus when it counted

[horace]

that was also the summer when just about every forummer bar Fred N came to the conclusion Ksnr had stayed too long...remember when he started to give himself some overs

[cyderspace]

IN, IN, IN, Yep, Me Too. I was there.
Some bits late in the day a bit hazy though,

Didn't they drive the other Waugh around the stadium in a convertable one lunchtime?
What were they hoping for, a JFK moment?

[horace]

clearly I was not there

[cyderspace]

Some people missed most of the last morning of that test because the stupid ticket office arrangement generated huge queues. We just went straight to a tout and got in for the same price. They do have their uses.

[cyderspace]

Opps

[Fly Pig Boy Fly]

I recall the TAB paying 9 dollars England win before the start on day one,easy money.