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Sun, Feb. 26th, 2012 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annarti
So yes, THAT. OH GOD IT WAS AMAZING. I know nobody on my flist will care but it's my sodding journal so there. I'm still grinning. That last over was EPIC. Every dot ball got cheered as though it was a wicket. Even the singles were applauded because it was still restricting them to less than what they needed. And oh god the NOISE. Slow clapping in for every ball from around the entire ground, and before the last ball the cry of "REDBACKS! *clapclapclap* REDBACKS! *clapclapclap*" which put any AFL chants of "ADELAIDE!" to shame. 10,000 people chanting all at once, even the members stand. It was just incredible. Reason I watch sport, ladies and gents.
AND THEN. LAST BALL. Two runs to win, one to tie. NOISE EVERYWHERE. There's no way the players could have heard each other shouting across the ground. I can't imagine the pressure the bowler must've been feeling, but HE DID IT. Restricted them to that one run, and because we'd finished the season at the top of the ladder, that meant we WON THE TOURNAMENT OMFG.
The sheer joy on all their faces. Jumping up and down like maniacs, waving fists and stumps in the air and just basically going "YEAAAHHHH" at the crowd and alskjghask I love my boys.
Michael Klinger, the captain, thanked us all in the presentations at the end, and from the grin and completely unprepared way he was saying it, bloody obvious he meant it. They were just all so happy and ecstatic and eeeeee!
They absolutely revelled in it. They all came around to do a circuit or two of the Oval afterwards, some running around the boundary giving high-fives to the crowd, at least half stopping for autographs and photos and hugs and general words of congratulations. I got a hug from Cameron Borgas, who had been fielding in front of me for the innings. He was fun :D There was one point where he sorta fumbled a boundary save a bit, so it bounced right up over his head and he was scrabbling over the ground to stop it going for four and generally looking very undignified. He laughed at himself when they replayed it on the big screen, though X3 And yaknow, that save ended up saving the game, so WOO!
I got autographs from several of them, hugs from, as I say, Borgas and Crosthwaite, the wicket keeper, and photo with Crosthwaite, too, and they were all just so happy and, dare I say it of grown sportsmen, squee. THEY JUST WERE OKAY.
Just amazing. I love those boys so much. Beware the parochial South Australian X3
Looook how far in I can zoom 8D Callum Furguson, btw, my favourite <3 He was looking good 'til he got out =(
Taswegians, including Ponting in front there. Oh yeah. We totally won against a team fielding Ricky sodding Ponting.
Panorama~ from the Brandman Stand. To the left is the new members stand, which I guess is growing on me but I miss the red corrugated roof. Then the Hill, half of which is going, the old scoreboard, which had BETTER be staying and in use, then the Chappell Stands, also going despite only having been built about ten years ago, the other hill which I don't think has a name but is going, and the edge of the Bradman Stand, also going. The Moreton Bay figs are mostly staying, still chopping out a couple of them tho, and you won't be able to see St Peter's Cathedral from the Oval anymore, either. Basically, none of this will be there in two years' time.
Another panorama~ because I was having fun with the panorama feature. Down in the middle of the Chappell Stands, where I was once the sun went down behind the as yet unnamed members stand in the middle there. Doesn't look like it was 38 degrees does it? WELL IT WAS.
Bowling and fielding! Hard to get good shots because the batsman was always in front of the bowler there, but never mind.
Crosthwaite, the keeper. He was saying how stupidly nervous he was at the death, 'especially after I'd missed that second-last one' XD God they were all so stoked and happy though, and to see so many of them hanging around on the boundary for a good 20 minutes after the game giving photos and autographs and hugs was just... So much state pride you guys, SO MUCH. You'd never see that from the national team.
Fox Sports commentators and, more importantly, former Test cricketers :D Greg Blewett, South Aussie who must surely have been showing his colours, and Allan Border.
Clearly they are on TV at this point. Brendan Julian (mmm), Damien Fleming and Mark Waugh. I don't know why I'm bothering to name them; if you know them you recognise them, if you don't then you don't care and naming them isn't going to help. Eh. I met them all, anyway :D Poor Brendan Julian kept taking his coat off during the ad breaks. I sympathised =( The sun may have well and truly gone down by this point but it was still at least 35 degrees, and the poor blokes are all wearing SUITS. They ditched them as soon as the broadcast finished. 'Cept Allan Border but I'm sure that has something to do with being a Queenslander and therefore impervious to heat.
No sporting event I've ever been to--or, likely, ever will be to--could possibly top that. And I was there when we beat Geelong, and various other amazing cricket and footy wins. Seriously, nothing will top last night. It was epic.
AND THEN. LAST BALL. Two runs to win, one to tie. NOISE EVERYWHERE. There's no way the players could have heard each other shouting across the ground. I can't imagine the pressure the bowler must've been feeling, but HE DID IT. Restricted them to that one run, and because we'd finished the season at the top of the ladder, that meant we WON THE TOURNAMENT OMFG.
The sheer joy on all their faces. Jumping up and down like maniacs, waving fists and stumps in the air and just basically going "YEAAAHHHH" at the crowd and alskjghask I love my boys.
Michael Klinger, the captain, thanked us all in the presentations at the end, and from the grin and completely unprepared way he was saying it, bloody obvious he meant it. They were just all so happy and ecstatic and eeeeee!
They absolutely revelled in it. They all came around to do a circuit or two of the Oval afterwards, some running around the boundary giving high-fives to the crowd, at least half stopping for autographs and photos and hugs and general words of congratulations. I got a hug from Cameron Borgas, who had been fielding in front of me for the innings. He was fun :D There was one point where he sorta fumbled a boundary save a bit, so it bounced right up over his head and he was scrabbling over the ground to stop it going for four and generally looking very undignified. He laughed at himself when they replayed it on the big screen, though X3 And yaknow, that save ended up saving the game, so WOO!
I got autographs from several of them, hugs from, as I say, Borgas and Crosthwaite, the wicket keeper, and photo with Crosthwaite, too, and they were all just so happy and, dare I say it of grown sportsmen, squee. THEY JUST WERE OKAY.
Just amazing. I love those boys so much. Beware the parochial South Australian X3
Looook how far in I can zoom 8D Callum Furguson, btw, my favourite <3 He was looking good 'til he got out =(
Taswegians, including Ponting in front there. Oh yeah. We totally won against a team fielding Ricky sodding Ponting.
Panorama~ from the Brandman Stand. To the left is the new members stand, which I guess is growing on me but I miss the red corrugated roof. Then the Hill, half of which is going, the old scoreboard, which had BETTER be staying and in use, then the Chappell Stands, also going despite only having been built about ten years ago, the other hill which I don't think has a name but is going, and the edge of the Bradman Stand, also going. The Moreton Bay figs are mostly staying, still chopping out a couple of them tho, and you won't be able to see St Peter's Cathedral from the Oval anymore, either. Basically, none of this will be there in two years' time.
Another panorama~ because I was having fun with the panorama feature. Down in the middle of the Chappell Stands, where I was once the sun went down behind the as yet unnamed members stand in the middle there. Doesn't look like it was 38 degrees does it? WELL IT WAS.
Bowling and fielding! Hard to get good shots because the batsman was always in front of the bowler there, but never mind.
Crosthwaite, the keeper. He was saying how stupidly nervous he was at the death, 'especially after I'd missed that second-last one' XD God they were all so stoked and happy though, and to see so many of them hanging around on the boundary for a good 20 minutes after the game giving photos and autographs and hugs was just... So much state pride you guys, SO MUCH. You'd never see that from the national team.
Fox Sports commentators and, more importantly, former Test cricketers :D Greg Blewett, South Aussie who must surely have been showing his colours, and Allan Border.
Clearly they are on TV at this point. Brendan Julian (mmm), Damien Fleming and Mark Waugh. I don't know why I'm bothering to name them; if you know them you recognise them, if you don't then you don't care and naming them isn't going to help. Eh. I met them all, anyway :D Poor Brendan Julian kept taking his coat off during the ad breaks. I sympathised =( The sun may have well and truly gone down by this point but it was still at least 35 degrees, and the poor blokes are all wearing SUITS. They ditched them as soon as the broadcast finished. 'Cept Allan Border but I'm sure that has something to do with being a Queenslander and therefore impervious to heat.
No sporting event I've ever been to--or, likely, ever will be to--could possibly top that. And I was there when we beat Geelong, and various other amazing cricket and footy wins. Seriously, nothing will top last night. It was epic.