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Home > The Loop > THE LOOP: Mish-mash in March NewsTHE LOOP: Mish-mash in March
20 March 2009Well New Zealand is effectively playing a home series in front of an 'away' crowd - India have taken over the boardroom of world cricket and now they're taking over the cricket stands and embankments over here as well. Not sure about the former being good, but the latter is certainly bearable.
GLOBE: Making ANZAC Movies - Have a gander HERE for Fraser's staggeringly slick 6-minute clip of the 2008 ANZAC mission and check out all the tour options HERE. NZ: Get along to the Basin Test match - especially on Day 2, the Saturday. We will be there with a few lads and a bunch of passion - hopefully there will be loads of these blokes with the same sartorial elegance that was on display in Hamilton. What is it with the unforgettable dress sense? UK: TWENTY20 WORLD CUP - The Oval, Saturday June 13th (NZ v Pakistan AND Aussie v Sth Africa): This is shaping up to be a sensational day's cricket at The Oval, London. In this double-header the hardcase South Africans take on the Dingos and then NZ shapes up against ‘our little Paki friends' (as Harry would say). Our allocation has GLOBE: Clearly we are still blogging our tits off - make sure you check the tongue-in-cheek raving of Beige Brigade HQ here on Stuff's hairy Sideline Slogger & Cricinfo's much more anorak-surrounded Different Strokes scenario. The manic Indian fans'comments are extraordinarily rabid at times. UK: THE GRAND NATIONAL - Saturday April 4th: The UK's biggest race day and a cracker day trip. We depart Saturday morning take in all the action at Aintree then return to London with our wallets bulging and heads slightly fuzzy. This is one you have to tick off the list! And its only £45...the credit crunch day trip! Click HERE to book. (Plus we maybe able to get our hands on some Steinlager PURE for the trip...it's arrived in London go HERE to find out where you can peel a few back.) GLOBE: The BYC podcast has been grinding away like pole dancer Lisa Lewis and after a hiatus here and there is now mowing through toward an inevitable century of episodes - #83 is in the can at the time of writing. New Zealand's third* most poular red-head, Kevin Sinnott, has rejoined the show live in the flesh. [*Note: #2 is Paul Tito, #1 John Gallagher]. We are hoping Cricinfo's lunatic on tour and dibbly-dobbler afficionado, Sid, will be joining us for a yarn in Wellington next month too.
NZ: Photo competition - this is true..."This is it, the moment you have all been waiting for. The Herald on Sunday, in conjunction with the Beige Brigade, have a bumper prize pack to give away to the reader who has taken the best photo while at the cricket this season. The photo need not be game-related but has to be taken from inside a ground. It can involve partial nudity but should avoid dangly bits. The prize pack will include some beige clothing, a stubbie-cooler, a helmet that does not meet safety requirements and a groin protector worn by a senior club cricketer of our choosing. Email entries to BeigeHQ@beigebrigade.co.nz.
UK: The Elstow Ashes: Geoff Couling wrote to us from somewhere by Bedford, and on behalf of the Elstow Cricket Club. Having been shafted for Ashes tickets to the Edgbaston Test by Warwickshire CCC, he and his club have decided to host their own Ashes test over the weekend of the 25th and 26th of July. Get involved by reading more HERE - this great bunch of lads trying to develop their club deserve your best wishes, support, Australian mates and maybe even your medium pace bowling. GLOBE: Follow the Beige Brigade on the nerdiest nerdsville thing ever: Twitter - as well as Facebook. We're not begging you too, do want you want obviously but we are so sporadically unreliable with our newsletters that these techo thingies might be a good way to keep an eye on beige proceedings. NZ: Congratulations to All Black Andy Ellis who had the balls to go on national television not only to talk about gardening, but also risked incurring the wrath of sponsor Adidas by wearing none other than Beige Brigade clobber while he did it. Check out Andy and his mate's magnificent Ellerslie Garden Show GLOBE: Small Horse News: "The next time pony Mayflower goes for a shoe fitting, she may want to think about getting high heels. Four times in the past week, firefighters have been called out by concerned passers-by convinced the little creature is sinking fast in mud. From afar, it looks as if Mayflower is stuck up to her knees - in actual fact she's just got stumpy legs." More than you could ever want HERE. UK: The World-Champion-KIWIS, the ABs and the ALL WHITES: New Zealand's three best-dressed sports teams erupt into the UK later in the year. We will be heading along to everything and anything we can as the KIWIs play France, England and the Dingos in a 4 Nations Rugby League extravaganza...then the ALL WHITES are rumoured to be here for warm-ups ahead of their death or glory World Cup qualifiers ...and finally the ABs return to play Italy, Wales, France and the Barbarians for the Autumn Internationals....buckle up! You take care out there,
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SOLD OUT however you can still get tickets through our filthy little yellow friends at The Fanatics. They have stockpiled a few and if you book through them mention you want to be seated with us and they will sort you out...and you won't have to wear yellow! Check out the details 
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