Crik: Patience and goodwill aplenty from Melbourne cricket fans

From: AAP Sports News (Australia) | Date: December 26, 1999 | Copyright information

AAP Sports News (Australia)
12-26-1999
Crik: Patience and goodwill aplenty from Melbourne cricket fans

By Paul Gough

MELBOURNE, Dec 26 AAP - Melbourne's fanatical cricket fans again demonstrated the two
characteristics they have always had in abundance - patience and goodwill - as the Boxing
Day cricket Test got underway three hours late here today.

After rain washed out the entire days' play on Melbourne's biggest cricket day of the
year last year, the hardy cricket fans of this sports-mad city had to be applauded for
again turning up in their thousands this year as rain again prevented ...

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