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Bigger things were hoped for in 1996 however, the 1996 Australia Day game did not occur for various reasons, then the planned tour of Christmas Island in July 1996 had to be canceled because of flight non availability. Nevertheless training continued sporadically and with the odd intra club game at ISCI, often under lights to escape the thirst provoking sun of the Indonesian paddyfield, enthusiasm grew, as did the word that the Bintangs had arrived.
A Rebels Cricket Club versus the Rest game was practice for the second International game of Australian football in Jakarta in November 1996. Now playing in our Essendon-look-alike red and black jumpers and attractive hip-hugging red shorts, the Bintangs certainly looked like a team to drink with.
Singapore came back in November 1996 to taunt Jakarta after their previous big victory, but the Bintangs had been practicing in bars and clubs for this one and put in a very respectable performance to hold the Wombats to 9 8 62 while registering 5 4 34. The game was again played at the Cibubur Cricket Ground on a day subject to the whims of Jakarta's famous Wet Season. However the temporary lake formed at one end of the ground and the discarded building site carpet covering the artificial turf cricket wicket did not stop the ball wobbling towards the makeshift bamboo poles painted white specially for the occasion.
Later in November 1996 several of Her Majesty's Rubber Ducks visited our shores and a Bintangs team was hastily assembled. A little undermanned compared to the selection available from the Rust Buckets, the moving picture shows and pierced body parts threw the Bintangs off their game. After trailing by 13 points at three quarter time, but being assured by Captain Morgan that 'they'll die in the last quarter', we discovered that whilst they had all been on-duty the previous night, mostly on-ship, we had, as usual, been on-the-nest, on-the-piss, on-barstools, on-on, and we eventually lost 10 6 66 to 15 13 103 after a tired display in the final quarter. |
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