Australian cricket had its major awards night this week, the Allan Border Medal.   As with all these awards nights, we get to see our sportsmen all suited up and their wives/girlfriends – hopefully only one and not both per player – all frocked up. The talking point from this year’s awards was Mitchell Johnson’s girlfriend, Jessica Bratich.  She wore a nice yellow, flowing number, designed by Ruth Tarvydas.

Unfortunately for Jessica, it turned out to be a bit of a windy night, as you can see in the picture at left.  But she was sort of prepared    for it.

“It’s a windy night isn’t it? I wasn’t counting on that, but I just love the dress and the way it draped,”

she said.

“I tried to blend it (with the underwear), but I can’t get away with much in this dress.”

She did cop a bit of criticism over her fashion choice though. A Channel 9 commentator slyly commented she “almost had a dress on”, while Melbourne fashion designer Jason Grech said the dress just didn’t cut it for a formal function.

“Very inappropriate for the red carpet, It would have suited someone on holidays at a resort, or something to be worn at a gentleman’s club.”

Not me however, I’m not bagging her out.

As well as being Mitchell Johnson’s girlfriend, she is also renowned for this.

She is a high level karate exponent, including having won a number of Australian championships, and competed successfully internationally.

I’m not going to criticise her choice of dress.  Nor would I be cheating on her if I were Mitchell Johnson.