< 1 minute readApparently half of the England team would consider retiring early to play in the IPL. The greedy blighters. How dare they come down on the side of fiscal wealth against such lofty notions as pride, honour and respect. How dare they forfeit the unique opportunity to be slagged off in
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Young India thrash Pakistan
< 1 minute readTwo things struck us about India’s defeat of Pakistan today. Actually, no things struck us. Two things gently bobbed towards us after we’d stared at the scorecard blankly for what seemed like forever. Firstly, India fielded quite a lot of youngsters. Yusuf Pathan’s 25 and most of his team mates
Continue readingRajasthan Royals win IPL off last ball
< 1 minute readIt could have turned out calamitously with a damp squib of a final and the wrong team emerging victorious, but the IPL ended well. Rajasthan rightfully triumphed after dominating the league and they did it off the last ball as well. The Rajasthan Ribonucleotides were fined for not spending enough
Continue readingShaun Marsh in the IPL
< 1 minute readShaun Marsh has hit five fifties and a hundred in the IPL. He’s streets ahead of anyone else. He’s hit the most runs and he’s averaging 74.12. He’s adding to Kings XI Punjab‘s rich history of great batsmen. The best thing about Shaun Marsh is the way he’s scored his
Continue readingIPL semi final: Rajasthan Royals against Delhi Daredevils
< 1 minute readRajasthan Recruitment Consultants have won 11 of their 14 league games. Delhi Database Administrators have won seven of their 14 games. Now they play a semi final. Delhi will probably win. Rumour has it that Rajasthan were spurred into their league-topping run by a huge Shane Warne bollocking after they
Continue readingLatest news from the IPL
< 1 minute readIt’s been a while since anyone was interested, so what the fudge is going on over there? Well, everyone’s played either 11 or 12 matches out of 14. Rajasthan Royals are top for whom Mr Ego, Shane Warne, is both captain AND coach. Two points behind them are Kings XI
Continue readingChennai Super Kings – what is a Super King?
< 1 minute readYes, it’s just what you think. As it says on the Chennai Super Kings website: “[Super] enhances the qualities of the word it is prefixed to. Super Kings then is not just about royalty, but about absolute monarchy.” So there you go. Absolute monarchy. That’s what it’s all about. A
Continue readingRinging endorsement of Ricky Ponting’s form from Australia’s coach
< 1 minute readTim Nielsen had the following to say about Ricky Ponting’s four matches for Kolkata Knight Riders, during which he scored 20, 19 and two golden ducks: “I am sure the opportunities to bat outside against net bowlers over there in India will hold him in good stead.”
Continue readingBrad Hodge utterly miserable about earning an enormous sum of money in the IPL
< 1 minute readChannel M is a local TV channel here in Manchester. Every week they broadcast The Lancashire Cricket Show, which is also available online. In this week’s episode, Brad Hodge is interviewed about how he’s leaving for a few weeks in order to go and earn seven boatloads of cash in
Continue readingWe’re actually glad that Glenn McGrath took some wickets
2 minute readThis is so wrong. How can we be sure we’re really us? Maybe later we can go near some normal people for a minute to check that we still detest all of humanity. It’s Twenty20’s fault. Bowlers get 24 balls to influence a match and for the majority of those
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