Match report
Oh the irony...
The first day it rained properly in the Waikato all summer was the day of the cricket. If you ever need a drought breaker, arrange an international cricket match.
It was raining in the morning, but we, ever optimistic, drove 50km to Hamilton anyway. Well Mum drove. If I had tried to it would have taken about 5 hours because I drive slower than some people walk. We did various things in town (mostly involving food) before the sun miraculously came out an hour before play was due to start.
I met my friend and we found a great spot to sit on the embankment. We watched the players warm up and discussed important matters such as what we had for breakfast and which players were the most piratey.
Play began on time and England got off to a speedy start. There was one fantastic over, a six and two wickets - including THAT CATCH. I actually saw it as it happened, which is unusual because mostly they only take wickets when I am looking for food or have my head turned to talk to someone. It was incredible. Brendon McCullum take a bow. Airbourne, full stretch to his right. He probably had half a second. Wow.
After that it was fairly non-eventful from a NZ point of view. The english got some runs. We weren't paying that much attention, as we were having an in depth discussion about Brendon's tattoos and the fact that wicketkeepers look like frogs.
After 15 overs there was a rain delay. Everyone put up their umbrellas. Sadly, we had no umbrella as we were told in the carpark that they were stopping people taking umbrellas in. We stayed about 20 minutes in the rain, then 45 minutes in the car waiting for it to stop. It didn't. We went home.
At home there was beautiful sunshine. I turned on the TV. The players were just walking on to Seddon Park under beautiful clear skies that stayed for the rest of the night. I then watched us win by ten wickets in a fantastic display of hitting by Jesse Ryder and Brendon McCullum and listened to the commentators talk about how lucky all these people were that they stayed through the rain.
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