The intangibly lazy, hazy mental space of the New Year’s Test takes on an eerie air as thick smoke is set to envelop the
Sydney Cricket Ground
The Trans-Tasman Trophy moves to Sydney this week. The
Australian side will take on a sickly
New Zealand side, search for their sixth straight Test victory against them, and do so under sick skies.
It will be eerie. The New Year’s Test traditionally occupies that intangibly lazy, hazy mental space between the year end and the year anew. Everyone’s away and everything slows as images of a dazzling harbour and skyline provide the broadcast backdrop to some Australian feat or other as a happy, usually-dead-rubber Test gently brings the Test summer to a close.