I only slept three hours thanks to a long – and profitable – night sports betting and watching the soccer, but now the time has come to wake up, freshen up and get ready to head to the second day of the Boxing Day Test!

With a carload full of mates from the cricket club, we made our way up the highway before parking the car at Crown and catching a tram to the MCG.

Finding an empty row three from the fence at cover / mid-wicket, we lathered on the sunscreen as the sun began to beat down while we slumped back into our chairs for the preparation for an exciting day of cricket.

However . . . we would be disappointed.

Six wickets fell and 258 runs were scored with the only real highlight of the day being a streaker that virtually made it across the whole MCG before a security guard tripped him up just fifteen metres shy of potential freedom.

And to make things worse . . . I barely got a tan!

Boxing Day Test