Bin the cans
Neil Manthorp has another brush with the security guards in Australian grounds and this time it's at the MCG, which is beginning to feel like base-camp
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
Neil Manthorp has another brush with the security guards in Australian grounds and this time it's at the MCG, which is beginning to feel like base-camp. The venue is turning out to be a guzzler's paradise, not for the fans, but for the several trash bins. Read more in his tour diary for Supercricket
Half a dozen kids had arrived at the same time as us and clearly didn't know about the regulation which bans spectators from taking any cans of drink into the ground. They each had a couple of cans of cooldrink in their bags. Security staff removed them, opened them, poured the contents away and disposed of the can. I asked a lady why they did that: "So that nobody else can have them!" she replied, defiantly. Are there no underpriviledged, no needy people, no childrens homes?
On Graeme Smith's heroic effort at the MCG, he relates the famous story of a young Graeme and the family fridge.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo