The New Year Test Match

One of the great traditions of Australian cricket is the New Year Test at Sydney, starting on January 2nd. The great rivals are, of course, England and when there was a 5 - 0 clean sweep possible AND three legends of the game retiring, you will appreciate the occasion. We had tickets for this day and day 4. Well, we all know what happened and we only saw a couple of hours play on day 4 as England capitulated without much of a fight. Despite failure on the pitch I would say the Barmy Army won the supporters battle 5 - 0. Fitting that just before Haydn hit 6 towards us, the last post sounded from the Barmy Army trumpeter.
46,000 people present and simply a marvellous day as the Australian players and fans rejoiced in the way we were humbled.