Tell us about your first time.

[Gough]

No. The game was a draw and people we're bagging out Punter/Hodge for batting too long

Jason Krejza's last Test wasn't it?

 

[roscreasl98]

No. The game was a draw and people we're bagging out Punter/Hodge for batting too long

I happened to be in Perth, at the WACA when Lillee and Miandad clashed.
Also remember my dad saying, "We have to go the MCG to watch this Ken Eastwood bat". Think he made a pair, and faced 3 balls.

 

[Ronnie Baby]

Steve Waugh's last test at the Gabba 2003

You know the one, he came out to a roaring ovation only to stand on his own wicket for 0

Good times

 

[SterlingArcher]

Jason Krejza's last Test wasn't it?

Nope that was 2008, memorable for South Africa chasing a record 413 in the 4th innings to win. Smith and ABdV tonned up, Amla, Kallis and Duminy all got 50 odd. Krejza got 1/204 for the match.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

I happened to be in Perth, at the WACA when Lillee and Miandad clashed.
Also remember my dad saying, "We have to go the MCG to watch this Ken Eastwood bat". Think he made a pair, and faced 3 balls.

Close, he got 5 & 0, but the Test was in Sydney. He replaced sacked captain Bill Lawry after a very successful shield season but at 35 he really needed to succeed to keep his spot.

 

[roscreasl98]

Close, he got 5 & 0, but the Test was in Sydney. He replaced sacked captain Bill Lawry after a very successful shield season but at 35 he really needed to succeed to keep his spot.

No. It was MCG.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

No. It was MCG.

Are you talking about a Test or a Shield match?

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Didn't get to the cricket much growing up in the country, but will never forget my first Test experience. Shane Warne out for 99, Dad went a bit nuts and started kicking the daylights out of the seat in front of him!

 

[big_e]

I happened to be in Perth, at the WACA when Lillee and Miandad clashed.
Also remember my dad saying, "We have to go the MCG to watch this Ken Eastwood bat". Think he made a pair, and faced 3 balls.

Really nice article on cricinfo last year about Ken Eastwood. Got a late call-up to be 12th man for Victoria one afternoon because he was dismissed early in a club match. Stayed 12th man for a couple of matches then one of the incumbent openers gets hurt so he plays, scores 200. Gets another couple of big ones then when Bill Lawry misses a test, he's the man in form and gets a baggy green.

 

[Hellgood]

No. The game was a draw and people we're bagging out Punter/Hodge for batting too long

Pretty harsh if they were. South Africa were virtually dead and buried being a couple down at stumps on day four, Jacques Rudolph then played one of the great rearguards and saved their bacon with a century. The pitch was flat, but he just had the perfect disciplined gameplan to counter the champions Warne and McGrath with a more than handy supporting cast in Lee, Bracken and Symonds and did not give a chance all day.

 

[Smoooothy]

1991. Adelaide Oval. Australia vs India. I remember it being a pretty ordinary game to watch, we won pretty easily.

Did get to see a very young Tendulkar though, which means more to me now than it did at the time

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/65484.html

 

[Gough]

1991. Adelaide Oval. Australia vs India. I remember it being a pretty ordinary game to watch, we won pretty easily.

Did get to see a very young Tendulkar though, which means more to me now than it did at the time

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/65484.html

Azhar made a lovely hundred in that match.

 

[Smoooothy]

Azhar made a lovely hundred in that match.

ODI, not test

I watched that on TV though. he played beautifully

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63566.html

have a look at that aussie innings though - boonie 135 from 352 balls

 

[Demosthenes]

First real match was an invitational side vs England at Bowral during their tour in (I think) 1994. Border captained the side and I remember being devastated that he didn't bat.

Was a lovely afternoon, Bradman Oval remains one of my favourite places to watch cricket.

 

[Hellgood]

I think as a baby had been dragged along by the old man to a match or two, but first conscious memory was running around the WACA for a Mercantile Mutual Cup game between WA and NSW (1999/2000). I remember sitting in the members in front of the players dressing room and seeing how thrilled the Blues were to see Brad Haddin hit the sign, then WA cruised to victory with the champion Michael Hussey scoring 81 off 62 balls which in hindsight seems surprising given his reputation as a nudger back then. By that stage I think I was throwing a tennis ball with my mate at the turning advertising thing next to the scoreboard trying to get the ball stuck in the slats as they rotated. Remember it being a pretty good crowd.

* No wonder they were pretty pleased with him, it was $150k!

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/88175.html
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/88174.html

Some great nostalgic names from my youth playing cricket in the backyard there... Matthew Phelps, Graeme Rummans, Darren Wates, Mark Atkinson, Don Nash, Steve Nikataras!

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Really nice article on cricinfo last year about Ken Eastwood. Got a late call-up to be 12th man for Victoria one afternoon because he was dismissed early in a club match. Stayed 12th man for a couple of matches then one of the incumbent openers gets hurt so he plays, scores 200. Gets another couple of big ones then when Bill Lawry misses a test, he's the man in form and gets a baggy green.

Eastwood played his first shield match in 1959-60, 11 years before his Test debut. Has spasmodic appearances in the early 60s and went missing for 3-4 years. Found his way back into the team in the mid 60s, played a number of marches, and scored a number of 100s before his Test making season in 1970-71.

 

[nobbyiscool]

My first was Australia vs New Zealand at Bellerive Oval in 1990, when I was 7 years old and already a mad cricket fan. I'm pretty sure it was the first time that Australia played a full international (Test or ODI) in Tassie, cos that was back in the day when the "Australian XI" games against the touring side in Hobart still meant something.

Being so young, it was one of those things where it's kind of funny what you remember... We were in the old Northern Stand (no longer there), and quite low down. So when the bowler was running in from the northern end you couldn't see him til he was in delivery stride.

- Bruce Reid bowled like a demon.
- Simon O'Donnell bowled like shit, and there were a couple of old women behind me complaining about it the whole time.
- Boonie made bugger all and deflated the whole crowd.
- Simon O'Donnell made nothing, and the 2 old women behind me complained about only coming to see O'Donnell to see him bowl like shit and make a duck.
- The Australian innings (we batted 2nd) was littered with run outs towards the end of it... and I'll never forget the heartbreak of my first ever cricket game being a 1 run loss to Australia.

(I actually have a much more interesting story about watching Tasmania vs Pakistan at the NTCA ground a few years later. After hanging around after the game to try and collect autographs, it was a good hour+ after the game that I was leaving. Ricky Ponting, resplendent with L plates on the car he was driving, damn near ran some kid over, and only missed me and my friend by a metre or 2 as well. I heard years later that he didn't get his license til he was in his 20s. I think I might have an idea why...)

 

[PhatBoy]

My first was Australia vs New Zealand at Bellerive Oval in 1990, when I was 7 years old and already a mad cricket fan. I'm pretty sure it was the first time that Australia played a full international (Test or ODI) in Tassie, cos that was back in the day when the "Australian XI" games against the touring side in Hobart still meant something.

Being so young, it was one of those things where it's kind of funny what you remember... We were in the old Northern Stand (no longer there), and quite low down. So when the bowler was running in from the northern end you couldn't see him til he was in delivery stride.

- Bruce Reid bowled like a demon.
- Simon O'Donnell bowled like shit, and there were a couple of old women behind me complaining about it the whole time.
- Boonie made bugger all and deflated the whole crowd.
- Simon O'Donnell made nothing, and the 2 old women behind me complained about only coming to see O'Donnell to see him bowl like shit and make a duck.
- The Australian innings (we batted 2nd) was littered with run outs towards the end of it... and I'll never forget the heartbreak of my first ever cricket game being a 1 run loss to Australia.

(I actually have a much more interesting story about watching Tasmania vs Pakistan at the NTCA ground a few years later. After hanging around after the game to try and collect autographs, it was a good hour+ after the game that I was leaving. Ricky Ponting, resplendent with L plates on the car he was driving, damn near ran some kid over, and only missed me and my friend by a metre or 2 as well. I heard years later that he didn't get his license til he was in his 20s. I think I might have an idea why...)

I think that was probably the second test there - I've got a feeling average Sri Lankan quick Ravi Ratnayake took a bag of wickets in the first Hobart test.

 

[PhatBoy]

Re. Above ^^^^

Ratnayake did nothing in said test.

It was his namesake Rumesh who bagged 6 in the first innings.

 

[nobbyiscool]

I think that was probably the second test there - I've got a feeling average Sri Lankan quick Ravi Ratnayake took a bag of wickets in the first Hobart test.

It was an ODI

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

My first was Australia vs New Zealand at Bellerive Oval in 1990, when I was 7 years old and already a mad cricket fan. I'm pretty sure it was the first time that Australia played a full international (Test or ODI) in Tassie, cos that was back in the day when the "Australian XI" games against the touring side in Hobart still meant something.

Second. 1st ODI. The first was 1989/90 Test v Sri Lanka.
I was on the hill for the game you were at. We got the slightly satirical (hipsters didn't exist then, so it wasn't irony) Terry chant going when Alderman was batting and non-stop BRUCE for the final over. Before nearly collapsing in laughter at that final ball.
The Australia XI games were played in Hobart when there was no Test. Hobart got either an Australia ODI, or a Test and a neutral game in the tri-series, in those days. Getting Australia in two formats is probably only 10-15 years old.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Re. Above ^^^^

Ratnayake did nothing in said test.

It was his namesake Rumesh who bagged 6 in the first innings.

Rumesh Ratnayake, as opposed Ravi Ratnayeke.

 

[big_e]

Rumesh Ratnayake, as opposed Ravi Ratnayeke.

Gotta be careful with the slight variations in spelling with those Sri Lankan names. A friend's dad once sent a lengthy email to ABC Grandstand after the commentators wondered aloud about there being a Jayawardene and Jayawardena on the same team.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

1984/85 test match Australia vs West Indies at Adelaide Oval. Windies were batting. I didn't make it until lunch. Nothing happening and was bored. Begged dad to leave so we could play cricket in the gardens outside the oval. While we were playing there were a couple of huge roars as wickets fell inside the ground.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

1984/85 test match Australia vs West Indies at Adelaide Oval. Windies were batting. I didn't make it until lunch. Nothing happening and was bored. Begged dad to leave so we could play cricket in the gardens outside the oval. While we were playing there were a couple of huge roars as wickets fell inside the ground.

Gee your dad was generous, mine would have made me sit in the car and wait for him!