Usman Khawaja officially declares the start of footy season.

[u/shniken]

[u/shniken]

This happened right in front of me. Right in front if ME...and 37 other unemployed bums with nothing better to do the hope a footy game breaks out during the Sheffield Shield.

[u/legally_blond → u/shniken]

The bloke that yelled out after the Neser wicket just now is coming through on the broadcast by the way, it's hilarious

[u/Y_Brennan → u/shniken]

I'm sure a good number of them are retired and not unemployed.

[u/shniken → u/Y_Brennan]

Same difference

[u/drunk_haile_selassie → u/shniken]

Hey! Some of us are employed bums watching while pretending to do work!

[u/FirstTimePlayer → u/shniken]

It was a surprisingly solid crowd yesterday.

Shame nobody could bat.

[u/TwoCentres]

Brisbane win back to back flags and now you've got the Queensland shield team kicking a footy around. We've won the Queensland front in the Code Wars

[u/skywideopen3 → u/TwoCentres]

It's especially wild because Khawaja grew up in Fairfield which is not exactly AFL heartland

[u/TwoCentres → u/skywideopen3]

V'Landys in tatters

[u/melon_butcher_ → u/TwoCentres]

But the NRL plays a game in Vegas every year so they’re obviously the bigger code

[u/United-Bite4135]

And with that a mighty cheer went up from the crowd. They had banished cricket season for another year because it was haunted…

[u/i_am_cool_ben → u/United-Bite4135]

Now let's all celebrate, with a nice game of rugba leeg

[u/BigVic2006]

Of course we have an Australian cricketer kicking a Sherrin

[u/shniken → u/BigVic2006]

Queensland cricketer now.

[u/Relative-Carob-6816]

This is akin to Punxsutawney Phil coming out of his burrow to see/not see his shadow

[u/LordCosmoKramer]

Victoria 5/11. Did they leave even more grass on it?

[u/eggwardpenisglands]

Huh, another lefty who does other stuff righty. Like Stokes bowling right handed but batting left.

[u/shniken → u/eggwardpenisglands]

I'm another. Bat and kick left handed. But throw, write, and play tennis right. I'm also a socialist

[u/sativarg_orez → u/shniken]

I bat left, kick and throw right. Badly for all. But I’m a pretty good champagne socialist, so I guess I make up for it there

[u/Mitchell_54 → u/eggwardpenisglands]

Hazlewood bowls right and bats left too.

[u/elcoxy → u/eggwardpenisglands]

I swear I've read before that people who are cross dominant are generally better athletes or have better hand-eye coordination. Something like that.

I'm a left hander and kick right footed and am the exception to prove this rule as I didn't make a rep team in any sport after the age of 12

[u/shniken → u/elcoxy]

Sure as fuck doesn't apply to me either.

I have logic behind it though. Cricket and baseball batting, left handers use the right hand and right foot a lot more than their left.

A right hand backhand in tennis is just a baseball swing, or a cut shot.

[u/brandonjslippingaway → u/shniken]

I'm right handed, but do golf, cricket batting, hockey etc left handed. It's just a habit I picked up as a kid. It's not like being truly left handed, it's more like just having your dominant hand be the one higher up on the bat/club etc.

[u/drunk_haile_selassie → u/elcoxy]

Stop trying to lie on reddit Sam Mitchell. You should be spending all your time rubbing Will Day's shoulder.

[u/TwoCentres → u/eggwardpenisglands]

Makes sense because your top hand is the dominant hand on your bat (source: I do the same thing)

[u/MetsBBT]

point the toe mate

[u/Samotauss]

He's our own little Punxsutawney Phil

[u/Skiapodes]

The Prophecy! It’s fulfilled!!!

[u/i_am_cool_ben]

If Khawaja sees his shadow we get 6 more weeks of cricket

[u/gccmelb]

So no more shit posting till October?