She's an avid sports watcher and clearly has her favorites, she's also used to watching it alone and sometimes forgets there's others in the room (like me) while she does her Bill lawry with tourettes impersonation, vocalising whatever's going through her mind.
First game of the bash is Qld Heat v Sydney something. She likes Qld and hates Sydney in every way, despite (or because of ?) being born and raised NSW.
Usman Kawaja opens the batting for Sydney and gets multiple 4's of not many balls in the first few overs. Commentary included,
How did he hit that for 4?
Why couldn't the useless prick do that in the test side?
Dont let him back in the test team FFS
Brief interlude while I remind her that 20-20 and tests are quite different
Then he gets caught on the boundary with a perfect lawry 'Yes, Got him" with a thump on the arm of the chair.
On top of that, she's not a fan of Melbourne's weather, describing it as "like that Dan Andrews" which I'm not sure what she meant but didn't probe. She likes the heat and her only complaint with getting 5+ consecutive days over 44 up in Toc was the time spent watering the garden.
Then Tahir Khan comes on to bowl.
Mum .He's short for a Khan
Me. It';s a common last name, they come in different sizes
Mum. Yes but the others were all tall (meaning Imran)
Me. Maybe the short ones weren't any good at cricket before now
Mum, they're all slim too.
Me. Maybe the fat ones couldn't play international cricket either?
