http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/bart-denaro/ Bart Denaro is a Sydney musician. He was seduced by the prospect of rock stardom as a child in the nineties, toiled hard on his instrument through the early-naughties, then in 2010 was surprised to find a chimp and an abandoned squeeze box where the music industry used to be. In the face of this disappointing discovery, he is now trying to diversify his income streams and finally use that comms degree he’s been defending to his scoffing uncle all these years. He has written about music for street press and online publications in the past but gave up when he offended his some of his friends. Now, offending friends is no longer a concern of his. en Copyright 2013 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Hallelujah-for-Test-cricket-my-one-true-religion/ As a lapsed Catholic from an Italian family, I had a lot of surplus devotion that I needed to funnel into some other ancient institution. Test Cricket was that institution. Test Cricket is my religion. Ironically, it was my super-devout Nonna (Grandma) who got me into Test cricket. She speaks in broken English but can still argue a convincing case for only taking one spinner to the SCG. I remember Sundays sitting in her lounge room as a kid, watching the Test with the morning mass still ringing in my ears. It’s no surprise that I’ve conflated the two. For a kid, hearing Richie Benaud say “Seam bolt upright” is just as confusing as a priest saying something like “And lo, he did beget a son”. But as long as you speak with authority, you’ve got a shot at indoctrinating a kid. And if anything was going to challenge the authority of the pulpit, it was the TV. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Bart Denaro) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Hallelujah-for-Test-cricket-my-one-true-religion/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Hallelujah-for-Test-cricket-my-one-true-religion/#item9944 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:45:46 +0000 Bart Denaro | Author bios | The Punch