"Who?" Namibia and Sri Lanka. "What?" The initial match of the men's T20 World Cup. "At the point when?" Sunday. Where was undeniable to the well disposed, 50-something man in the Elephant and Palace on Geelong's McKillop Road on Friday night. In any case, he was confused by why. He messed up his face at its possibility, pondered the reassuringly full glass of Carlton Draft on the bar before him, and said, "Nah mate. T20? That is not cricket. What's more, also..." He made a development that fell somewhere close to a shrug and a signal, his hands pointing all over the place and no place. We're in ridiculous Geelong, mate. He didn't say that. He didn't need to. Alongside a somewhat filthy, regular, stuffed African lion, four stout prizes glimmer on the mantelpiece behind the bar. They are reproductions of the premierships won by the Geelong Football Club - the Felines to you, me and the well disposed, 50-something man - in 2007, 2009, 2011 and on September 24 this year, when a horde of 100,024 saw them beat the Sydney Swans by 81 in the excellent last at the MCG. Geelong, established in 1859, have guaranteed the title multiple times on the whole. Just Carlton and Essendon, who have been champions multiple times each, have prevailed on a more regular basis. Geelong is a footy town, first, chief, last and consistently. Footy as in Australian Principles, the main sort of football that is important in these parts. In different pieces of Australia, it is in some cases scorned as "crosscountry b-ball". Perhaps it's a Victoria thing. Most of us wouldn't comprehend. "I've observed such a great deal it on television," a South African dealing with the competition in Geelong said, feigning exacerbation. "Might they at any point play some rugby?" Cheerfully, the South African wasn't at the Elephant and Palace when they said this. Generally the kangaroos could never have been secured, sport. In any event, involving the scarf in Geelong tones - naval force blue and white - that sticks around the stuffed lion's neck. At Geelong's home ground, Kardinia Park, where the Namibia-Sri Lanka game will be followed on Sunday by a match between the Netherlands and the Unified Bedouin Emirates, the club's real prizes are shown behind indestructible glass. Among the 16 plaques standing two meters tall in "Legends Square", based on an external concourse, to "give declaration to our most prominent games people" and which were "chose by a free panel from an extensive rundown of candidates", Ian Redpath and Lindsay Hassett are the main cricketers addressed. As a matter of fact, figures from the universe of Aussie rules collect just a single additional plaque than cricket. Be that as it may, those for whom cricket is unshakeable at the focal point of game's universe, and then some, will take a dreary perspective on their game being generalized with the likes of Geelong's best examples of baseball, wrestling, boxing, tennis, and, surprisingly, genuine - or illustrious - tennis. The internal walls of Kardinia Park are fixed with photos of footballers down the ages. Some component men watching out venemously from pictures headed "Geelong Cricket and Football Club", the consequence of a consolidation in 1884 that was scattered during the 1950s. The city's wikipedia page doesn't recognize that deviation. It specifies, in its part on sport in Geelong, Aussie rules, b-ball, netball, football - as in soccer - horse-racing, saddle dashing, greyhound hustling, marathon, engine dashing, cruising, golf, water skiing, paddling, fishing, climbing, games, skating, working out, powerlifting, and cycling. However, there's not a solitary word on cricket, despite the fact that the Australia and Britain under-19 groups played a four-day global in Geelong in January 1990, that Australia's ladies' and men's sides conflicted with New Zealand and Sri Lanka in a T20I doubleheader there in February 2017 - perhaps on the grounds that the Lankans won? - and that the BBL came to town for three matches in January. What does generally that say regarding the choice to begin a worldwide cricket competition where the game is by all accounts an outsider superfluity, complete with drop-in pitches sustained a long way from the Felines' consecrated sandbox? A couple of things: that the ICC are certain enough in the thing they're offering to place it in impossible places; that games highlighting less popular groups playing away from home are all the more handily dispatched to far removed settings; that the coordinators realize the competition will not be treated in a serious way until the subsequent round begins on October 22 - with a match in Sydney among Australia and New Zealand. It doesn't tell us plainly that the Geelong Football Club doesn't control what occurs at their 36,000-seat scene, which is claimed by the Kardinia Park Arena Trust, a legal power laid out in 2016 by a Demonstration of the Victoria state government. The Trust is quick to utilize the office. Subsequently its expanded openness to cricket. Presumably the Trust is motivated by what it sees happening 75 kilometers away in Melbourne. Notwithstanding what the C in MCG rely on, it has never been filled by individuals coming to watch cricket. The greatest group for that is the 93,013 who saw the 2015 men's Reality Cup last among Australia and New Zealand. That is 7,011 less than the quantity of onlookers at the current year's AFL fabulous last. Taking into account the locals don't appear to be excessively intrigued, whether Kardinia Park's ability is arrived at on Sunday will really rely on the number of south Asian guests and ostracizes that come to the setting on Sunday. All things being equal, there are no less than 7,011 motivations behind why large, or even biggish, cricket ought to come to footy towns like Geelong.