Australia v India LIVE updates day two: Sam Konstas fronts up after fiery opening day
Snug, Tasmania. Population 1440, according to the 2021 census, with an IGA, butcher’s, post office and, as of Friday, a Test cricketer.
That last feature, in the form of two-metre tall, blinged-up allrounder Beau Webster, is good for business at the Snug Tavern.
Beau Webster takes a ripping catch to dismiss Virat Kohli.Credit: Fox Cricket
The tiny town’s local watering hole, ringed by a carpark and still hunting a kitchen hand for the summer, played host to a small but committed crew of 50 friends and ex-teammates of Australia’s newest Test debutant on Friday.
Roughly three per cent of Snug’s population was sat in the same pub Webster drank his first beer some time ago.
“He’s put Snug on the map,” Webster’s father Rod beamed from up on high in the SCG’s Sir Donald Bradman stand. It was later pointed out that Snug’s alumni also include Nobel Prize-winning scientist Elizabeth Blackburn.
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“Plenty of people wouldn’t have ever heard of it. It’s only a little town 20 kilometres out of Hobart, but it’s a great little town.”
As his son rolled through multiple tidy spells that kept India’s batting order honest, the Snug Tavern crowd kept a close watch.
While the people of Snug keep the home fires burning, Rod and Tina Webster take a breath after a mad 24-hour scramble to take in their youngest’s Test debut. Not for nothing, it was Mitch Marsh who told Webster he would be replacing the Western Australian, delivering the news of his own downfall with “a big nod, big grin and ‘you’re in’.”
After a Facebook call-out for a dog sitter went viral, hounds Eddie and Frank were left in the care of relatives. Flights from Hobart to Sydney were found; accommodation too.
Older brother Jordan, currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, tried to make his own haphazard dash across the Pacific once news of his sibling’s debut arrived at 10am AEDT on Thursday.
But at last check, Jordan was settling for a dodgy online stream in the cosmopolitan South American centre. In one ear, surely, was one half of Australian cricket’s new favourite set of earrings.
Read the full report from the Snug Tavern, via the SCG, here.
