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Paul Holden in his blog Sideline Slogger talks about the banner competition in Sri Lanka, explaining the variously good, bad, ugly and downright odd.

Each cricketing nation displays idiosyncratic conventions in terms of its crowd banners: the Poms focus on Union Jacks with obscure hamlets and football clubs emblazoned across them, the Australians are massive on the spray paint vs sheet combination, and in India there is artistic flair for the vivid marker on to A3 paper approach.