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Topic: All-star cricket clash puts new spin on G'day USA campaign Return to archive
19th January 2008 01:12 PM
moy All-star cricket clash puts new spin on G'day USA campaign
Donna Walker-Mitchell Los Angeles
January 20, 2008

THE cricket will be played on a modest oval in suburban Los Angeles, but the players in this Ashes contest are anything but ordinary.



Picture this: Russell Crowe as wicketkeeper, Mel Gibson in first slip, Steve Waugh directing the action, and Mike Whitney shaking up England openers Mick Jagger and Rod Stewart. To add to the magic, England's boy wizard Daniel "Harry Potter" Radcliffe will be there too.

Next on the English batting order is the great all-rounder Ian Botham, followed by glamour boys Jude Law and Robbie Williams.

In the VIP tent, John Travolta, Kylie Minogue, Harrison Ford and Olivia Newton-John eat meat pies and sip cold Australian beer.

The game, dubbed the G'Day USA Hollywood Ashes Twenty20 match, will take place tomorrow on a community sports field in the Los Angeles San Fernando Valley.

With no grandstands, sight screens or boundary fence, LA's Leo Magnus Cricket Complex, a favourite place for locals to walk their dogs, is definitely not Lord's or the MCG.

"If we've got Braveheart and the Gladiator on our side we'll be sweet," said Waugh, referring to his two Oscar-winning teammates, Gibson and Crowe.

It will be Waugh's first cricket game since retiring in 2004 but he said Crowe has him pumped and ready to shake off the cobwebs.

"We've exchanged messages on the phone and we've talked a little about it and he wants to know if he's first or second change," Waugh said. "I'll let the Gladiator do what he wants."

Organisers of the highly successful Australia Week G'Day USA festival - designed to promote Australia in the US - added the celebrity cricket match to this year's already glamour-filled schedule. The response from celebrities and cricket stars from Australia and England was phenomenal.

Organisers have been reluctant to release an official list of players signed up to play, but if the whispers around the close-knit Australian community in LA are correct, it will be an interesting day's cricket.

Other celebrities expected to pad up for Australia are Shannon Noll, Cameron Daddo and chef Curtis Stone. There is also speculation Shane Warne may play.

Australia may have Waugh as captain and Whitney in the team, but England will probably go into the game as favourites with a few Test players as secret weapons.

Simon Jones, the tall Welsh-born right-arm fast bowler who took 18 wickets in the 2005 Ashes series, will lead the English attack.

If ageing rockers Jagger and Stewart fall quickly, England's batting will be bolstered by dashing right-hander Kevin Pietersen and Twenty20 all-rounder Robert Key.

Waugh thinks Radcliffe, with or without his magic wand, could be the dark horse.

"I know Robbie Williams is a big soccer fan and I'm not sure about Jude Law, but I know Daniel Radcliffe loves his cricket so I'd say he'd be the danger man," Waugh said.

Hangovers could also have an influence on the game. The game takes place 12 hours after the sold-out G'Day USA Ball at Hollywood's Renaissance Hotel, where guests have paid up to $US20,000 ($22,841) for a table and will drink Penfolds wine and feast on a dinner overseen by Neil Perry.

Waugh, however, won't be placing a booze ban on his team. "We might play better with a few on board," he said.

Copyright © 2008. The Sydney Morning Herald.
19th January 2008 01:17 PM
glencar Travolta will be "shagging" Robbie Williams!
20th January 2008 02:15 PM
TampabayStone
quote:
glencar wrote:
Travolta will be "shagging" Robbie Williams!



Funny!
20th January 2008 03:11 PM
mojoman things americans dont get

cricket
soccer
black pudding
queen
tea
jellied eels
20th January 2008 07:27 PM
stonedinaustralia
quote:
mojoman wrote:
things americans dont get

cricket
soccer
black pudding
queen
tea
jellied eels



actually the first international cricket match ever played was between the USA and Canada!
20th January 2008 07:50 PM
TampabayStone
quote:
stonedinaustralia wrote:


actually the first international cricket match ever played was between the USA and Canada!



Wow, we really are the greatest!

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20th January 2008 07:56 PM
mojoman
quote:
stonedinaustralia wrote:


actually the first international cricket match ever played was between the USA and Canada!



other things yanks dont get

rugby
snooker
clotted cream
metric system
20th January 2008 07:59 PM
TampabayStone
quote:
mojoman wrote:


other things yanks dont get

rugby
snooker
clotted cream
metric system



Oasis?
20th January 2008 08:33 PM
mojoman
quote:
TampabayStone wrote:


Oasis?



coldplay?
20th January 2008 08:44 PM
TampabayStone
quote:
mojoman wrote:


coldplay?


Their English?!?
21st January 2008 04:26 AM
corgi37 Things Yanks are not good enough for:

Aussie Rules football
Victoria Bitter beer
People and Picture magazines (Not the lame U.S. People either)
driving on the right side of the road
Jennifer Hawkins

I exclude Vegemite because i consider it a blight on mankind.
21st January 2008 07:59 AM
luxury1 any photos from this event? THey gotta be good........
21st January 2008 12:40 PM
TampabayStone
quote:
corgi37 wrote:
Aussie Rules football




Could you imagine if we focused on Aussie Rules Football?? With our atheletes, we'd rule that too!

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21st January 2008 05:15 PM
robpop
quote:
corgi37 wrote:
Things Yanks are not good enough for:

Aussie Rules football
Victoria Bitter beer
People and Picture magazines (Not the lame U.S. People either)
driving on the right side of the road
Jennifer Hawkins

I exclude Vegemite because i consider it a blight on mankind.




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