A pitch that paints a thousand words
From the unruly Hill stand to Warne's first spell, the SCG, which hosts it's 100th Test today, stirs a legion of memories says Malcolm Knox, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald .
Nikita Bastian
25-Feb-2013
From the unruly Hill stand to Warne's first spell, the SCG, which hosts it's 100th Test today, stirs a legion of memories says Malcolm Knox, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald.
When I was eight, my grandfather took us to watch the English from the Bob Stand. I remember the SCG smell - a cocktail of tomato sauce, hot chips, beer, cigarettes, turf, soot, old concrete and metal. Even though they've replaced all but the Members and Ladies stands, the SCG smell lives on. There was a man that day whose beer gut enlarged the strained lettering on his shirt: ''POMMIE B*******''. We giggled at how rude it was to have the B-word on a T-shirt. The Bob Stand was replaced by the Pat Hills Stand, named after the SCG trustee and Labor MP. My grandfather thought this a scandal: ''How many wickets did Pat Hills take?''
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo