26th March
The day before the Australia match…
Tomorrow is the day the team has been preparing for, for nearly 18 months. Whilst only a proportion of the team will shoot or coach in the match, all 21 of us that flew out to South Africa has a role to play.
Unusually in South Africa, the range was open on a Sunday as an official Australia Match practice day. We did our usual morning prep Clear skies greeted us, which of course led to one team member asking “do you think it’s going to be sunny today?” Laughter ensued.
Said team member got the last laugh as clouds swept in on the back of a brisk wind, and soon we were reaching for our soft shell jackets (phenomenal bit of team stash there!) as the sun disappeared. The wind conditions were quite different to those we had experienced previously, but by the time we had finished at 600M, we had a much better feel for the wind conditions.
The team retired back to the hotel for a well deserved afternoon off. Tom Rylands, our top notch armourer, kindly arranged each shooter’s ammo for the match and at 5pm the captain delivered his evening speech to help us mentally prepare us for the task ahead.
We are ready.
Tomorrow’s Australia Match can be followed live here:
Australia Match live scores – 27th Mar 2017
And we will post updates on social media throughout the day!
Bring on tomorrow…
#AustraliaMatch2017
