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Thanks Pigeon. Thanks Warney.” Everybody at the Sydney Cricket Ground knows what these words mean. They are a tribute to Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath, the two Australian stars who are retiring from Test cricket after the final Ashes Test. It’s already old territory, and the match has only just started. But there is no way the commercial powers that be will let Australian people forget what this match is supposed to mean to them. Where 'Sydney CBD' or ‘Bondi’ (or wherever you may be) would normally appear on a mobile phone display, the sentiments at the top of this blog are digitally plastered onto peoples' mobiles at the SCG. This is fine if you’re at the ground, but I feel sorry for any tourists in the surrounding areas who, perhaps lost, will think they’ve wandered onto the wrong side of the tracks, which is where a place called ‘Thanks Pigeon’ inevitably would be. It doesn’t stop there, either. The advertising logos at the southern and northern ends of the grounds h...