Field Theory: I don't like cricket (tune change)
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But that's the problem, by the time a person or group of people have reached the point where they think killing other people is a reasonable way of achieving their goals, it's no longer possible to sensibly hypothesise their motives. They are by definition so far outside normal that you can't realistically imagine why.
See, I don't think that's true, exactly; fanaticism of any striupe generally follows pretty logical ly *if you accept their premises*. The problem is the premises are usually batshit crazy. I can imagine all sorts of ways someone might come to the conclusion that killing the visiting cricket team is a good idea, *if* you're coming from certain starting points. It's just, well, batshit crazy. And immoral, and inhumane, and all those things. But not, sadly, unimaginable.
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If I were to organise some kind of get-together* for the PAS readers in Wellington on the Saturday of the India/NZ test match, how many people would want to show up?
I'd be keen.
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If I were to organise some kind of get-together* for the PAS readers in Wellington on the Saturday of the India/NZ test match, how many people would want to show up?
I too would be keen, however I have a pregnant partner so my weekends mostly belong to her these days.
So, to put this in another way: If I can get leave I would be keen.
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As usual I was at the cake tin and sitting just a little bit around and a little bit lower than the photo of the Indian fan ( we were between the run out cameras), its the usual section where I like to sit and the patrons seem a little more 'colorful' in this part of the stand.
The 20/20 was good but I prefer the ODI's and they are best from a crowd and spectator's perspective when NZ bats second, that way the home crowd get to cheer every good shot and the atmosphere really builds.
Some ODI's fail to fire and last season's game against england was a bit ho hum with the english totally failing to fire.
The Aussies did the same thing when they came out with a weakened team but we managed to down trou them in that game ( we reached their target without losing a wicket ) and when it became apparent we might the tension built as to whether we could knock of their target without even losing our openers. That was a first for them ( the aussies) and I told my son and his cricket team mates who were there with us that they had seen history that night ......
The tests at the basin are great and the bank is just so much more comfortable than the stadium chairs. Its a different game and a different pace but it defiantly has its pleasure's and if Sneddon as Ceo of NZ cricket had not pulled the plug on the Christmas test at the basin a well attended version of that game would have been a successful permanent fixture on the cricketing calendar.
When the english played there the amount of supporters , signs and banners they had made the basin look like foreign territory. I took my boy and a few of his teammates along on the friday afternoon and we made a banner which read " Give Sidebottem a Crack " which could have been interpreted positively by both team's.
If there is a game of international cricket at the cake tin or the basin and I'm in town I always go along. I'm usually there with 'sid' and I enjoy being part of the Wellington crowd who I rate as amongst the best crowd's in the world to watch sport.
There's a friendly party vibe that wellington folk bring to the game .....
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Can I just say that our best player at the moment is E. Watkin? And our best chance of saving the game: T. Rain.
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We're getting spanked even in the replayed game they're showing during the rain break. Just sayin'.
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