Man, Americans really don’t know a damned thing about cricket, do they? Marcia Hines was in Sydney over the weekend to sing a surprisingly moving rendition of the Star Spangled Banner prior to each of the historic Major League Baseball games between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks at a radically transformed Sydney Cricket Ground. The broadcasts, beamed live around the world on the MLB Network, played off of the novelty of staging a baseball game in a cricket stadium, and featured American commentators feebly trying to explain how cricket works (spoiler alert: they have no idea). So to help them out, they enlisted the help of an Australian cricketing legend and tenured broadcaster. Marcia Hines bumped into this national treasure and snapped a photo with him, uploading it to Twitter.
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia… Marcia Hines instagrams pic of herself with “Tony Greig” at baseball. #MBLinsydney pic.twitter.com/m3RLEahNiw
— Caroline Marcus (@carolinemarcus) March 23, 2014
Marcia Hines excited about meeting Steve Irwin today.
— adam rozenbachs (@arozenbachs) March 23, 2014
Marcia Hines with Bill Hunter pic.twitter.com/eJwgBO9jcK
— Rob Stott (@Rob_Stott) March 23, 2014
Marcia Hines confuses Ian Chappell with Tony Greig, in her defence Bill Lawry has been doing that for years. #Cricket
— Mark Williamson (@M_W_Oh) March 23, 2014
@TheMarciaHines you sung brilliantly. Don’t worry about making an innocent mistake.
— Mark Greig (@mark_greig) March 23, 2014
