It's Beginning To Dawn On America, Too

Cricket Appreciation Knows No Boundaries

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON

The light on a hot, dry, cloudless Melbourne morning is peerless - as you can see in this photograph. I was standing at Princes Bridge before the sun came up this morning. Australia were still playing Scotland in the World Cup in the West Indies, and I wanted to photograph something symbolic. What better than the silhouette of the MCG, the spiritual home of Australian cricket, against a brilliant dawn and a single wheeling gull. And for my American readers (yes, you too, Bart!) let me tell you that even you have a special connection to this stunning stadium. In World War II, it was home to US troops - and there is a special brass commemorative plaque deep in the stadium that reminds us of America's unusual connection to one of the greatest cricket stadiums in the world.