Currently I am in some sort of a cricket haze.
I’ve been trapped in that cricket time zone that only a sick fucker would wilfully expose themselves too.
A cricket twilight zone where everything is happening around me and I’m trying to watch it all.
If you are reading this, I assume that at least once in your life you have done the same. The two test matches showing on the same day but in two different time zones has killed many a fan.
For me, it started for the shield final. After spending one whole night looking for an illegal feed of the game I ended up just following the ball by ball on cricinfo till late into the night, and swapping that with my iphone and cricket Australia’s site from there on in.
This all became worth it when VICTORIA TOOK A SHEFFIELD SHIELD TROPHY SIZE DUMP on Queensland to win back to fucken back shield victories. Although on the first night when they were 6/75 I did want to murder them.
Then the Australia Vs New Zealand test started, and being that Sky had spent all their budget on Zimbabwe West Indies, I had to watch it on illegal feeds instead.
Between these two series I was kept up to 2 or 3 am for a day or so, until I started my shifts on test match sofa.
Those tests started at 3am my time.
So my body went from going to bead at 3am, to being fully awake at 3am.
The first night of my commentary I was completely pissed after co-inventing a drinking game around moustaches in the show the First 48.
So drunk, watching one test on TV, watching another on the computer and following the match that meant the most to me via text commentary.
For the small time I am awake in the afternoon I usually watch about 30 minutes of comatose IPL action as well, generally I go back to sleep before I even work out who is playing.
It has been a big couple of days; I know I enjoyed most of it, although I feel like I have been flying around the world as cricket was shown to me on one of those shitty little screens.
I was so tired at one stage I’ll swear I saw an Australian player kiss his sponsor’s badge.
Funny what your mind does to you with no sleep, some alcoholic intervention and not enough sleep.
