I really despair Baggers.

In the local tabloid which is a cricket paper, but now a BBL paper, not Shield cricket and long form cricket paper, the headlines were all about James Faulkner playing a role in Mickey Mouse cricket, helping to win another meaningless game for  the Hobart Hurricanes.

Faulkner, has been an unfulfilled talent in FC and Test cricket, and now only plays the Mickey Mouse forms of cricket. In media  circles he has also adopted an interesting celebrity lifestyle and made some poor choices that doesn't enhance a player to be at his peak.

Meanwhile, Kurtis  Patterson makes two superb hundreds against an international Test attack at Bellerive, and it is  well in from the back pages ! 

This CA 11 v SL is the only International long form of cricket match in our backyard for the season! There were almost no interviews, no press coverage, or human interest stories on the Sri Lankan team. There was only an article on the day the game started, publicising it.



Even 8 years or so ago, an Aussie 11 played India for a tour game and it drew 4 500 punters  per day. It also had a lot more media coverage.

I'm really frustrated with many so called cricket followers, who just won't turn up and watch it live, but will be the first to moan when it stops and we have no more international cricket because punters won't turn up, either.

I've just seen three days of fabulous live cricket at Bellerive with a superb view.