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Australia v Sri Lanka: first Test, day two – live!

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If you’re wondering, it’s still approximately one millionty degrees everywhere around Australia except Brisbane where it’s 32 and Darwin where it’s 26. Go figure.

Joel Peterson
(@joelbpeterson)

Swan Hill, not the place to be. Today, anyway. A lazy 45.2 degrees. Pitch at the Showgrounds getting a good bake. pic.twitter.com/1FulK0rL4v


January 25, 2019

John Pye
(@byJohnPye)

It’s official. Fairly warm at Melbourne Park. pic.twitter.com/fBbDL3vhQM


January 25, 2019

Jess O’Callaghan
(@jessocallaghan)

The only times I’m nostalgic for working in talkback is on days like this when you get that first call from out near Geelong where some bloke is standing on his verandah and yelling into the phone ‘I CAN FEEL THE COOL CHANGE IT’S STARTED’ and we’d play Little River Band


January 25, 2019





I’m on a boat! I’m on a boat! Everybody look at me cos I’m sailing on a boat.

Probably the best thing about Brisbane is that you can take a boat to work. Not everyone loves everything about this city but the boat thing is a win. You can jump on the river ferry from way upstream or downstream and cruise into the city, with no traffic jams or fumes or sudden braking or near misses, watching the riverbanks go by. One end of the trip especially is on some real Jurassic Park tip, all kinds of cliffs and vines and sources of prehistoric DNA.

Then once you’ve got off the fast ferry at North Quay, you get one of the cute and shabby little City Hoppers for free, with their slatted wooden deckboards and their red paint, and you jump to the far bank to the Maritime Museum stop and then walk up to the Gabba. Breezes and sunshine and water lapping. It’s way better than a tram.





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Preamble

Geoff Lemon

Today is: Australia’s day. Not Australia Day, which a few nongs who are very short of ideas are trying to make a political wedge issue ahead of our election. Australia’s day, to try to make the Test runs that have so far eluded them this summer. They won’t get many better chances. A modest Sri Lankan attack, a pitch that will probably be at its best for batting on days two and three, a pink ball that is no longer new after its exertions last night, and a fairly clear and very bright, warm, sunny Brisbane day. Make hay while the proverbial.

Australia reached stumps at 72 for 2, exactly halfway to Sri Lanka’s paltry first innings of 144. And now comes the chance for the home side’s green middle order to bank some scores and give themselves some confidence and sense of belonging ahead of Australia’s next Test assignment, which just happens to be the Ashes in August.

source: theguardian.com