The Sydney Test match was a social highlight, attracting large crowds despite rain and traffic. The match saw a divided response to Virat Kohli, with some booing his every move.
Defying rain and road congestion, the Sydney Test match has earned its place as one of cricket’s social highlights. Big crowds dust off their most unflattering garments for a display of charity in the name of Jane McGrath. They focus on the game between catching up with friends to unpack the politics of family Christmases and break the rule that what happens on New Year’s Eve stays on New Year’s Eve. Going to the cricket is a unique occasion of unforced togetherness.
This time, there was all this and cricket, too! Morning rain and Sydney’s traffic turned out to be empty threats. Australia’s recent run of dominant cricket was uninterrupted by weather or the Indian top order. Not that it was all sponsor’s product and skittles. Sydney came together for the national anthems but duly split apart over Virat Kohli, whose arrival at the crease sent the city on an emotional roller-coaster. Like Kohli’s entire summer, it was short and turbulent. Sections of the crowd booed the Indian champion (formerly mega-, then super-, now merely star) as he walked out. Other sections scowled and booed at the booing. It was no way to treat one of cricket’s greats in probably his last Test match in Australia. “Probably” was “certainly” a few moments later, when Kohli edged his first delivery to slip and Steve Smith somehow got his right hand under the ball for a brilliant catch. Then the video replay was sent to third umpire Joel Wilson, always a twilight zone of uncertainty,. He was booed again and then again a little while later when he was irreversibly out. The booing was still no way to treat him. Or maybe it was a show of respect? In any case, as rich as Croesus and more globally famous than even Nick Kyrgios, Kohli is assumed to have a skin as thick as armour. Australians spent a century playing cricket with a chip on their shoulder against their overlords Englan
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