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Article: No worries for the Aussies but Scots still have a g'day.(Sport)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 29, 2009
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Byline: by JOHN GREECHAN
NEXT up on Scotland's Got Nae Chance, a baseball game against the USA, an attempt to beat the Canadians at ice hockey -- and a sumo bout between Skinny MacSlim of the Clan McWeedy and Japan's reigning heavyweight yokozuna.
No one ever expected this to develop into a genuine sporting contest. And neither side disappointed. If Australia's one-day team looked in serious danger in spells yesterday, it was only from the threat of hypothermia.
To the visitors from Down Under, Stockbridge in Edinburgh must have seemed like some inclement outpost on the fringes of Scandinavia. It's hard to say if many home fans had their ...