By Casey O'Connor
A week in sport as in life can be a very long time – just ask the English cricketers and their fans or perhaps the Joker (Djokovic) may have an opinion.
It’s been quite some week. Unprecedented scenes in Hobart as the Ashes series wrapped up and the Tennis – well that was simply a fiasco from start to final point before a set was played on Rod Laver Arena.
The performance of the Australian cricketers on and off the field throughout the series was fantastic. The Poms performance earning of the wrath and disappointment of their fans and some of their greats. Lord ‘Beefy’ Botham less than impressed and not backward in giving his views on that farcical final session of play in Hobart. Judging by the performance of some of the Poms batting down the order you could be forgiven for thinking they may have been in a hurry to join the Joker on that outbound flight to Dubai.
The Scott Boland fairytale continued and Pat Cummins stature in the game as a bowler and now captain continues to grow. In what must have been a difficult decision Travis Head got the nod as the Player of the Series; an award that could have been tossed to a number of Aussies and not raised an eyebrow.
While this was happening the Novak, Novax circus played out. With game set and match called on Sunday, Novak is now home in the hands of his family after his harrowing experience which included a red eye flight to Dubai with his entourage at the pointy end of the Emirates plane. Not sure the English cricketers will enjoy the same experience on their flight home after what has been a truly harrowing experience at the hands of the Australians. Some may never recover.
With all that behind us, there little to do now other than sit back and enjoy some sport. The Women’s Ashes series begins today. The Aussies have not played a lot of cricket recently, but this is sure to be a great series. The English team have a bit to prove to their male counterparts and the Aussie girls a lot to live up to.
We can also sit back and listen to the thwack, thwack (not of egg landing on the faces of the Tennis Australia officials) of Ash Barty and some in-form and yet to be recognised Aussie’s serving it up on court. The tennis court that is.
Bring on another Barty Party.
Casey
