Wake me when it's over...

Is it just me or is everyone an absolutely shocking hypocrite?

I love Australian heritage. I’m passionate about preserving it.

I have had terrible thoughts over the years about basketball overtaking cricket as our national sport.

I love the politics of cricket, I love stories of Don Bradman and Keith Miller…

I love watching who is selected, I’ve enjoyed Ricky Pontings captaincy and loved watching him mature and become a fine leader in front of the Australia public.

I’ve cheered and been sad for local boy Ashley Noffke as he made his way into the Australian team and then was dogged by injury.

I think the Boxing Day test is a fantastic Australian tradition and I love the story of the Ashes too, it's got romance, rivalry and Australian triumph..what's not to love?

There is only one problem with cricket for me. I just can’t stand the game. Truely cannot stand it.

I don’t mind the last ten overs of a really exciting one day match and I probably wouldn’t mind a Twenty20 match…if I got free tickets.

But a test? Not in a million years, it’s like watching grass grow!

I wouldn’t even let my son play cricket. My sister asked me years ago if Gabe was going to play cricket in the summer. Mechanically I said, "yeah, I guess so" Immediately she shot back "Four hours on a Saturday you know!" And that was it. No cricket for Gabe.

I drive past cricket grounds on a hot Saturdays and look at those poor babies in silly mid off, waiting patiently for their turn at the bat or ball and think, their poor poor mothers.

So if you're off to the cricket, or even if you're just catching it on tv, enjoy it without me.