I got the Cricket Bug when I visited Australia and New Zealand, I’m kicking myself now because I was in Sydney when The Ashes was going on, I would have loved to have watched that.
I was born in Sydney but grew up here. I got to do that or it was called the Bicentennial series in 1988 (maybe not the Ashes not sure) so it was a tour throughout Australia. The SCG is considered hallowed ground. My mother told me stories of her going with her father there way back. I consider it part of my heritage. That said she became a baseball fan with me til the day she died.