< 1 minute readTo further clarify our feelings about the Twenty20 Champions League, it’ll be interesting precisely as long as there’s a chance that the budget sides might make a joke out of the rampant capitalism on which the whole thing is built. Basically, if Somerset beat Deccan Chargers, it’ll be pretty funny
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How do you feel about the Twenty20 Champions’ League?
< 1 minute readWhen we were younger and interested in both cricket and football, we thought that cricket could learn from club football. Now, having pretty much completely forsaken football due to it having become an earth-rattling shodfest that’s part soap opera and part corporate dick-swinging contest, we’re a bit worried that cricket
Continue readingGary Kirsten’s vision document for the India team
< 1 minute readThe Hindustan Times say they’ve got hold of a ‘vision document’ produced by Indian coach, Gary Kirsten. It advises the players to try and increase their scoring rates (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) on the grounds that this will help create more testosterone that will in turn help the players be
Continue readingOur World Twenty20 XI
< 1 minute readTell you what’s boring: people picking fantasy teams and then publishing them on their websites. Who cares? The arrogance of these people to think anyone would be remotely interested. Here’s ours. Chris Gayle – plays forward defensives and sixes with the same facial expression Tillekeratne Dilshan – reliable, effective and
Continue readingIPL is a lower standard of cricket
< 1 minute readOver the last year or so, the IPL’s marketing/propaganda has been accepted to such an extent that players and journalists the world over have been lauding it as cricket not just called Twenty20, but from the year 2020 – way ahead of its time. You can’t help but learn in
Continue readingBouncers in Twenty20 cricket
< 1 minute readEngland got their tactics right against India – brilliantly so. Admittedly, they stole these tactics off the West Indies who bounced India to defeat earlier in the week, but to be honest England probably carried out the plan even better. Indian batsmen are used to low, slow pitches and one-day
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< 1 minute readIndia are really bad at Twenty20. Their bowlers lack variety, the batsmen can’t innovate and the domestic structure has too little riding on each game, meaning a side can finish fourth and still win the league. Turns out the IPL isn’t the ultimate Twenty20 school.
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< 1 minute readIt’s probably the World Twenty20 and the Ashes, but we’re getting an insane number of press releases sent to us these days. Today we’re going to tell you about two separate competitions where you can meet a cricketer. This is the first one. It is classy. Sachin Tendulkar is doing
Continue readingKolkata Knight Riders T-shirt
< 1 minute readSee our latest cricket T-shirts here They do one with a picture of the owner, Shah Rukh Khan, on: We’re waiting for Lancashire to start selling Jim Cumbes T-shirts, but he’s retiring soon, so it’ll probably never happen.
Continue readingThe best team in the IPL
< 1 minute readApparently it’s the Deccan Chargers. They won the IPL, therefore they’re the best. The format of the IPL is brilliant. It revolves solely around identifying the best team over a period of time to show which team is best. It’s totally fair and it lets supporters know which team should
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