My First Cricket Match

In a warm up for the Ashes match I have tickets to in November I attended my first cricket match with a couple blokes from work tonight. It was an non-epic battle between the 1st place Queensland Bulls and the 4th place Tasmanian Tigers. The Tigers batted first and managed to score a pitiful 172 runs in 49.2 overs, after which the Bulls blazed to glory in only 38.5 overs with Matthew Hayden leading the way 91 runs for a final of 173 to 172. The crowd was relatively sedate save for a few pockets of college kids who had hit the turps all day, but they only added to the atmosphere of The Gabba this night.
Here's what most cricket players are doing in the field most of the time, this bloke was from Tasmania and was taking a heck of a ribbing from one of the aforementioned college crowds. Good on the clam though for taking it and giving it back in good spirits.


The Gabba is the stadium/cricket-field where the game was played (AFL Aussie rules football is also played here in Brisbane). Here is a picture of it from my apartment taken tonight:

All in all another "fine" night Brisbane...