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Top deck, front row seats, a 180-degree panoramic view of the Sydney Cricket Ground. Is there a better way for one sport obsessive to start 2012? It’s all over now: Ricky Ponting and David Hussey played for their places in the team and Michael Clark thought the best way to win admiration from a demanding Australian public was to score runs. And that he did … many hundreds in fact. The Sydney test match is an occasion not just for wearers of the baggy green. For spectators it represents five consecutive days to sit or stand at the bar, drink bucket loads of beer and cheer on the jolly chaps dressed in white. It means so much to so many: farmers catch-up with mates, fathers bring their sons in the hope of scoring a signature on their bat before the end of play, and members jostle for prime seats in the stands behind the bowlers arm. And that’s where the fun begins. This year the chubby chequer seated to my left would have made a great umpire and a batsman’s best fr...