# First Cricket Test RSA versus Australia **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 10, 2011, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cricket-test-rsa-versus-australia/602498 "2011-11-10T11:46:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Cumbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Cumbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumbrian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cricket-test-rsa-versus-australia/602498/101 "2011-11-21T14:38:35Z")
i wish I were at home instead of looking at the scoreboard tick over in the corner of my screen. Looks like this is going to be a good finish. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cricket-test-rsa-versus-australia/602498/102 "2011-11-21T14:46:21Z")
Haddin just gone, 23 runs needed with 3 wickets left. Couldn’t be any more finely balanced. Siddle can bat, but they are facing a new ball. ---
**Author:** ![Cumbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Cumbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumbrian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cricket-test-rsa-versus-australia/602498/103 "2011-11-21T14:51:15Z")
Siddle has gone - 292/8 ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cricket-test-rsa-versus-australia/602498/104 "2011-11-21T15:10:34Z")
The TV keeps showing Lyons glancing heavenward… And his prayers are answered as it is Cummins who (appropriately) hits the winning runs. Well done Aus - a gritty victory!! ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cricket-test-rsa-versus-australia/602498/105 "2011-11-21T15:17:07Z")
A top finish. I drank about 700 beers too many in the last half hour. A classic finish to a great match and it seemed good natured after the finish. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cricket-test-rsa-versus-australia/602498/106 "2011-11-21T15:39:28Z")
I guess a one all series was pretty correct. What did surprise me was the lack of people at the game today. ---
**Author:** ![Cumbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Cumbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumbrian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cricket-test-rsa-versus-australia/602498/107 "2011-11-21T15:55:12Z")
Well done to Aus. Good match in the end. I thought attendance looked pretty low all through the game to be honest - and most people seemed to be on the grass banks rather than in the stands. How much were tickets? When I went out to SA for the British Lions tour in 2009, we discovered that tickets to the Test matches were c. 2 or 3 times more expensive than for an ordinary Tri-Nations test (and consequently, there were empty patches at the first and third test - with the second at Loftus Versfeld being the only one that sold out). If too expensive, they might well have priced out some of the home fans. ---
**Author:** ![Jay\_Tea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/90db22/32.png) [@Jay\_Tea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jay_Tea)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cricket-test-rsa-versus-australia/602498/108 "2011-11-21T16:01:00Z")
It was a cracking test match all told, marred only by the weather curtailing the individual days of play and the fact that it seems nobody in SA was interested in turning up - worrying signs for the 5-day game. I suppose the other downer was the fact that these two teams only warranted a two-test series, which is all but pointless on the surface but not if the SA board realised ticket sales would be so uniformly awful. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cricket-test-rsa-versus-australia/602498/109 "2011-11-22T00:49:23Z")
And I blame you guys today- you should have reminded me I am far too old to be sitting up until heaven knows when drinking beer and watching cricket. Jay tea, I also wonder about the point of having a two match series. There would now be enormous interest if there were a few more tests. However, why don’t people attend? It seems only in Australia and England are attendances consistently high (depending of course on who is playing). I suppose if television rights covers the bills it is no big deal. I can also understand why people don’t attend- the last game I went to was Australia versus India in perth about three years ago. It was a game Australia lost, but the crowd was very good and the catering was shocking. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cricket-test-rsa-versus-australia/602498.md?page=5)