702, Wednesday night

In the world in cricket, taking each other on, you want a crowd. But of course, it started on a Tuesday, and amazingly, I came across so many teachers who decided to take the day off yesterday because they had to go and watch the cricket. In fact, the one teacher is a grade two teacher, and she said, Well, I mean, they're grade twos, so you can sort of stagger their assessment over two weeks. And I gave them a day off, for lack of a better word, yesterday.

Because being there for the first day of the Test Cricket was important for them. I saw a few colleagues, not working for Promedia, but for other media houses, who were also there, supposedly working and working remotely. I have a dear friend who works for a financial services establishment that is in the news actually at the moment. And he had an out of office, apparently, and told his

Bosses, I'm going to the cricket and didn't wait for his leave to be approved. And yesterday, when I left him, he still didn't know whether his leave had been approved or not. But cricket is important, cricket is important. And then the best line, the best line I heard from one of these people was: T20 is like being on an acid trip, while Test cricket is like enjoying a joint. Which, for a person who's never

Consumed any substance made absolute sense. Absolute sense in every way possible. Test cricket is still the ultimate form of cricket, and it's quite frankly the only one that matters. The ODIs are entertaining, the T20 are entertaining, but cricket is about the five-day test, is my opinion. If you were at Newlands yesterday and you'd like to give some insight as to what happened after the middle of the second session that resulted in stumps being seeing some