Next door to our apartment block lies " Barlow Park". It seems to be a government/council sports facility.ie rugby/cricket etc etc.
Every night ( and day ) this week the floodlights have been cranked up and some form of competitive sports have been staged; all at youth level.
If the noise generated by spectators is anything to go by there must be on average roughly 2000 people turning up for the likes of schools cricket on a friday afternoon and local rugby league on a friday night.
Scarily, the ground could probably seat 12-15,000 sports mad aussie parents.
Now, this is a seriously professional set up for a game of cricket amongst 16 year olds. Each new batsman gracing the field is announced, to raptourous applause, courtesy of a microphone / pa system. There's an electronic scoreboard and everything!
It is obviously the intention that aussie youngsters get accustomed to the atmosphere of the
big sporting occasion from an early age.
Could this be part of the formula which explains Aussie sporting success over the years?
( At the time of posting, after a promising start, England had just been bowled out for 332 early on the second day )
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