ANALYSIS: Cricket hardly matters on a Melbourne day close enough to perfect
Australia all out for 467In a city that can freeze right up through December, then take a dipsomaniac plunge into a January or February marked by streaks of over 40 degrees, you will find wedged in between a day that leavens these extremes into perfect moderation.The breeze comes coolly from the south but only at a whisper's pace.
But in this protected corner of that land, the day at ground level was gentle, as the birds and trees and summer blossoms did their thing, just as they'll do when we're all gone. Down at the Melbourne Cricket Ground though, humans suddenly reappeared. Nearly 60,000 of them this day, to go with more than 80,000 the day before.
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