Stone Ranger: Cricket

Living in the Northern Territory, especially remote, you do not get much of a chance to see international sporting fixtures, therefore I told myself that I would try to get along to the cricket while I was in South Africa. Anyway it turns out that Anna absolutely loves cricket, so we brought tickets for the second test between South Africa and Australia recently held here at Wanderer’s Stadium in Jo’burg. Below are some of the photos from the Pink Day for the Jane McGrath foundation.

Sorry I have been a bit slack on the posts lately, but it is simply because we are having too much fun socialising. Given the time of the year, it seems to be an endless succession of parties, lunches, dinners and coffees for the ‘festive season’. Additionally, many of Anna’s friends want to meet me, so we have had these meetings in our social calendar! We have a few trips coming up over the next few weeks until Christmas so I will try and take some more photos and keep everyone informed on what I am up to. To that end we are off to Polokwane for the weekend to spend some time with Anna’s family, and visit their farm. A bit daunting for me really, as she seems to be related to about half of Polokwane!

Wanderer's Stadium at Jo'burg decked out in pink. South Africa are batting.

Anna and I supporting our respective teams. We also had our national flags.

The 'pink' scoreboard.

At least i wasn't the only Australian supporter in the crowd, but we were definately in the minority.

A couple of the South African supporters trying to get a mexican wave happening.

'Standard dress' for a keen South African supporter?

The same South African supporter getting an autograph from the South African 12th man. He spent the rest of the day showing his 'autograph' to people in the crowd. I don't know whether he washed it off that night?