Monday 20 April 2009
Jaco Viljoen is the manager of a Morkels shop. He and I decided to go to the Indian Premier league cricket match in Port Elizabeth. Charles and Ingrid, Barbara & Ally were also due to come along but the weather did not look that good and there was a lot of colds and flu around so they stayed at home. We had no idea who would be playing or what we were in for. It is one of the 20/20 matches. The IPL is a mixture of current Indian Cricket teams and players together with a number of international players who are paid huge sums of money to play in this league. For example we hear that Kevin Peterson who is now based in the UK has a contract to play for the Bangalore team for the next three years @r15 Million per annum. Jacques Kallis is reputed to be contract @ R7.5 mil per annum.
The cost of a ticket was R25pp for open stands. As we entered the stadium we met up with my cousin Wayne Giddy. He showed us where he was sitting and we found Sonja and Boston there. They were on the grassed area in front of Castle Corner. I went off to buy hamburgers and Jaco headed for the bar for some draft beer. When we returned to the place where we had left our stuff we found Wayne had scrounged up some chairs for us. So we all were quite comfortable and waited for the match to start at 16.30. It was a great festive evening and the cloudy sky did not dampen the atmosphere at all. We were in front of a speaker and so every time an announcement was made or music played, we felt the full force of the sound system.
With Wayne, Sonja and the cricket we had an excellent evening and after the festivities we took a slow easy walk home.
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