Key Highlights
- It generates a buzz and an enthusiasm akin to a home side contesting the final of a global tournament; the energy is constant and infectious, the air crackling with electricity and bonhomie, all with no little help from Bacchus.
- It’s a stop on the cricket calendar eagerly awaited for reasons beyond cricket, though the sport is invariably the driving force.
- And yet, here we are, on the scheduled day three of five, engaged in post mortems and critiques, wondering how such a fiercely anticipated showpiece devolved into a damp squib.
- Upwards of 90,000 people crammed the marquee stadium, affectionately called the ‘G’, on each of the two days that witnessed play.
- The action was frenetic, furious, maybe even fascinating.
