Wellington Scoop

• • The roar of the traffic at the Basin

    • 17 Oct 2012
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Imagine you’re at a Test match at the Basin Reserve. Virat Kohli is at the crease. He’s on 99, eyeing up the options for his century: perhaps a push into the covers, perhaps a leg glance. The bowler runs in, thinking he has a chance, thinking that Kohli might be distracted by the impending century. He gathers himself, leaps, delivers. The ball is overpitched outside off stump, perfect for a cover drive. But as Kohli prepares to play it, he is distracted by the roar of a truck as it races along the motorway flyover that arches past the north-eastern boundary of the ground.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 146 months ago
    • Tagged as:
    • basin-reserve-flyover
    • cricket

    Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

Tagging votes

These votes contributed to this item's tagging:

• basinreserve - Hand tagged by tonytw1
• cricket - Hand tagged by tonytw1

• transport - Ancestor of tag basinreserve
• sport - Ancestor of tag cricket
• media - Publisher tag

• Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand - Basin Reserve flyover tag geocode

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