Reporting from the Gabba ... or somewhere nearby
Brydon Coverdale
25-Feb-2013
AFP
An accreditation dispute left News Ltd journalists locked out of the first Test between Australia and Sri Lanka at the Gabba. Peter Lalor from the Australian offered this report from outside the ground.
Chaminda Vaas came in to bowl the first ball of the Test against Sri Lanka in Brisbane today, I think. It gets a bit hard to say what happened as the quick disappeared behind a barbecue cooking sausages just as he was approaching the wicket. Judging by the lack of crowd noise there was neither a boundary or a six from the delivery. Apparently the same thing happened for the next five balls.
Mark Day, who writes on media issues for the same paper, offers his opinion on the dispute
Brydon Coverdale is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets here