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A different debut

AFP, Cardiff
Cardiff made its debut as a Test match ground here Wednesday and, unusually for cricket but not for Wales, the occasion was marked by a burst of song.
Test matches usually get underway with no more ceremony than the two captains tossing up to decide which team bats and which one fields.
But not on Wednesday. A red carpet was rolled out for the players, at a ground boasting several new stands, and a military band, clad in tunics and bearskin helmets despite the hot weather, took the field.
The players, who normally would be going through their pre-match preparations in the privacy of the dressing room, were presented to a party of dignitaries including Rhodri Morgan, the First Minister ofWales.
Then came the anthems of Wales, Australia and Britain with Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins, who often performs before kick-off at the nearby Millennium Stadium when the ground stages a rugby union international, leading the way.
In some ways her presence - she returned for a 'second innings' shortly before the match
started - and indeed the singing of anthems was appropriate.
Tor it was in Cardiff at 1905, at the nearby Arms Park rugby ground, that the Welsh team responded to the 'haka', the Maori pre-match challenge of New Zealand, by singing the Welsh national anthem.
So began the tradition of the national anthem of both teams being sung before kickoff. a practice that became standard in football as well.
Here, after the end of the anthems, a brief burst of fireworks saw a cloud of smoke temporarily obscure the pitch, a sight which may well have given the groundsman a nervy moment.
Although the two countries are united in the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), they are usually rivals on the sports field, especially when it comes to rugby union.
This 'split identity' was reflected in Wednesday's front page headline of the Western Mail. Wales's national daily newspaper.
"As Wales welcomes the Ashes, we say Come On England! (and it's not very often you see that on the front of this paper)."
But the front page story 'How Wales will be robbed of 8.5 billion pounds', an article criticising British Government funding arrangements among the four nations of the United Kingdom, was a reminder of underlying political tensions.