- Martin Gough
- 28 Mar 07, 09:55 PM
If a new cricket ground has ever had a baptism better than Guyana’s National Stadium did on Wednesday, I don’t think my nerves could take it.
Lasith Malinga, the 23-year-old poster boy of the Sri Lanka team, became the first bowler ever to take four wickets with successive balls in international cricket and it was just a shame he couldn’t celebrate a victory as well after that display.
What had seemed like a stroll in the park for South Africa turned into a nail-biter of a finish, with one run scored from 11 balls before Robin Petersen’s edged four off Malinga sealed it.
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- Martin Gough
- 28 Mar 07, 01:50 AM
Guyana – One way or the other, all of the advice in the last couple of days has been that I should leave Georgetown, so I did just that on Tuesday, taking the 130-mile flight south to the Kaieteur Falls.
To say they are five times as big as those at Niagara, to recount that the depth of the single drop is 741 feet – one of the largest in the world – and even to highlight that about 23,400 cubic feet of water per second comes crashing over is to do them an injustice.
The best thing about Kaieteur is that the area is almost completely unspoilt, visited by around 4,000 people a year, who either fly in the sort of 15-seater aircraft we used to land at a tiny airstrip, or climb from the valley of the Potaro River.
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