There is a Twenty 20 cricket international this Saturday between Australia and Sri Lanka. My youngest sisters husband had a couple of free tickets to this and offered me a seat next to him. I was quite chuffed and am eager to go and have been looking forward to it.
The problem is, his grandmother recently had a heart attack and is quite sick and may have days to live. He has decided to go to Gosford for the weekend to spend time with her He has hept his promise and will give me both tickets, so I need to find a friend willing to go with me.
I offered it to my regular uni crowd but all have prior commitments and can not attend. That is fine and almost exected given the late notice. My Plan B would ordinarily be my cousins but due to family infighting between my parents and uncles, that would not be appropriate at this time. Next down the list is to offer it to a workmate, however, few are interested in cricket.
I am still eager to go but am not keen on going alone. There are only 2 feasible options in my mind - firstly I can offer it to my mum, though she is not familiar with the current crop of players and is a very part time fan. I have taken her to the cricket before in the golden ages of Warney, McGrath, Waugh and Gilchrist and whilst she enjoyed that, I don't think she would appreciate going and is not the most fun person to go to the cricket with.
The last option is to throw it open to one of my school friends. I have not seen any of them in years but one of them happens to be Sri Lankan and at least a couple of them are keen cricket fans so I'm thinking that this is my best option.
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