{"id":16873,"date":"2021-01-02T07:40:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T08:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=16873"},"modified":"2021-01-02T08:56:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T08:56:34","slug":"the-most-australian-thing-youll-see-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=16873","title":{"rendered":"The most Australian thing you'll see today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watching the cricket is thirsty work and a BBL fan wasn't about to let a little thing like the match ball in his beer cup deter him from his duties in Hobart tonight.<\/p>\n

First, the play by play.<\/p>\n

Hurricanes import Dawid Malan hoicked a delivery from Stars seamer Lance Morris high over the leg-side boundary, where a fan dropped the initial catch.<\/p>\n

Luckily, the thirsty supporter's plastic cup did the trick instead, with the white ball nestling safely in the vessel.<\/p>\n

In an 'only in Australia' moment, the punter then ignored Stars fielder Sam Rainbird's attempts to retrieve the ball, and waved him off.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1345269642919632897?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n

The man then drained his beer and hammed it up for the adoring crowd before eventually returning the ball.<\/p>\n

"He's got it in the beer cup!" Brendon Julian cried on Fox Sports.<\/p>\n

"What about COVID?!<\/p>\n

"Cheers mate!<\/p>\n

"And I'm not getting my fingers on it but I'm going to drink the beer before I give it back.<\/p>\n

"Let me have a drink first buddy.<\/p>\n

\"Ankle<\/p>\n

"Good work there, very good."<\/p>\n

The umpires changed the soggy ball, but commentator Mark Waugh made a good point re COVID.<\/p>\n

"You can't play with it so you might as well have kept it," Waugh said.<\/p>\n

"Alcohol, you probably don't need the disinfectant because it landed in alcohol.<\/p>\n

"Cleaned it."<\/p>\n

Malan, the world's No 1 ranked T20 batsman, made 75 in Hobart's 5-164.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBL\/status\/1345269292946784262?s=20<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportsbetcomau\/status\/1345269173560115201?s=20<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportsbetcomau\/status\/1345269173560115201?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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