World Cricket II

[wizzy]

whats with 'Telegraph' drumming support for IPL..any ull-kuthu with BSkyB..'CricketAnalyst' has even come up with prospective county franchises..nallathu nadantha seri

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cri...ise-model.html

This takes the cake

The ECB are planning to have comedians preforming at domestic T20 matches this summer. It seems a strange decision.

We should be getting serious about the format, not cheapening it, as it represents a vital potential lifeline for the survival of the professional game. The quicker everyone realises that the better.

[Plum]

yOv Feeyaar, thirumba thirumba puriyAdha MAdhiriyE...

reNdiayum sEthhu padiyyA. I am saying "X is antural Y is unnatural" when X~=Y is a DING-ian philosophy claiming the authority to define "natural" and "unnatural". thirumba thirumba you keep justifying "X is natural". nAn sonnadhu enna? nInga rebut paNdradhu enna?

[Plum]

Let's wish ECB some initial success in this so that they go with the arasan T20 abandoning their purushan Test Cricket. appO indha feeyar, English test cricket loverslAm epdi behave paNdrAngannu pAkkalAm. oNNu nadakkAdhunnu(England will give preference to T20)-nu nenaichu neRaiya extreme position eduthuttAnga - let's see epdi thirudanukku thEL kottinA mAdhiri nadandhukkaRAnga when the chicken come home to roost


If you see Guardian comments, perumbAlum it is the 30+ Englishman who takes this "IPL is evil. It should be killed. Englishmen alone have respect for Test Cricket. nAnga AdaRadhu dhAn Cricket. nAnga solRadhu dhAn sattam". Younger ones have a more flexible attitude.= - what they want is an English IPL. Basically, they want Imperial Cricket Conference by regaining financial domination, which is not surprising. Englisman genesla idhellAm irukkum.

So, I am hoping that Test Cricket will die in England soon in popularity and the proverbial old man and his dog are all left to support test cricket. As I keep saying, after Sachin, test cricket vayasukku vandhA enna? varAttA enna? I will welcome this development with hearty appreciation. Englismen and quasi-Englishman should manam puzhungi puzhungi vEdhanai padaNum.

appayum "valikkavE illai"-nu maindain paNNuvAnga forumsla but internalA puzhunguvAnga - adhui dhAn enakku vENum

[Plum]

And regarding Chris Gayles "I will not be unhappy about Test Cricket dying", it was a childish response to Strauss's needling about Gayle coming just 2 days before the test series from IPL. What Gayle said was "I will not be unhappy if Test Cricket dies. I can play any format. But some like Strauss might be - he cannot adapt to T20". Which is as succinct and brutally true as it can be - Strauss saying "T20 is evil, Test dhAn great" is like Pandaribai saying "nAn glamour/exposelAm paNNA mAttEn". idhayE Rahul Dravid), Ricky PontinO sonnA adhu vERA vishayam - avangaLukku T20yum varum. They can make a living if Test cricket had died in 2000, they'd still have amde a lot of money from T20 . Strauss and the English cryiong for test cricket is becuase they cant make money out of T20 as it stands now. I guess the future generation of English cricket thinks differently and wille ventually emerge as T2o-compliant. (ofcourse, T20 will become the greatest format at that point in English media). But the current generation batting for Test cricket is all self-convenince thats all.

[wizzy]

Strauss saying "T20 is evil, Test dhAn great" is like Pandaribai saying "nAn glamour/exposelAm paNNA mAttEn".

looking around you can add the entire prodigal sons of English cricket in Cook/Bell/Prior to this analogy..BCCI should have made sure Sky got the terrestrial rights for IPL..Botham/Nass/Holding/Athers devising team strategies for IPL teams would have been a sight to behold icing would be if ECB seeks Modi's expertise for turning counties to franchises...I can see Modi salivating at the prospect

[Plum]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/page2/co...ry/563739.html

Kolpak Odd rule that broadly means that anyone can play for anyone as long as they have a British passport/British wife/once received mail with an English postmark

Twenty20 Life force of English cricket, it actually accounted for 97.6% of Essex's total revenue in the 2011 season. Despite this, English fans look down their noses at the IPL as it has "too much money" and "is not proper cricket". Tell that to the beered-up workers who stroll down after work, throwing notes at overpriced Cornish pasties and watered-down lager while bellowing casual abuse at the poor sap who has to field at fine leg. The "real" county fan sits in the corner, moaning that his ale cost more than £1.20, while methodically and deliberately marking each and every dot on his scorecard.

[ajithfederer]

Oh yeah the famous pimping of English WAG to Stanford right?. hahaha.

looking around you can add the entire prodigal sons of English cricket in Cook/Bell/Prior to this analogy..BCCI should have made sure Sky got the terrestrial rights for IPL..Botham/Nass/Holding/Athers devising team strategies for IPL teams would have been a sight to behold icing would be if ECB seeks Modi's expertise for turning counties to franchises...I can see Modi salivating at the prospect

[ajithfederer]

Have the English ever allowed Non-White players to represent them from SA?. Discount the Indian immigrants(Monty, patel etc etc) in this scenario and think Africans.

[sathya_1979]

gladstone small, chris lewis

[ajithfederer]

Even devon malcolm but they were all English I guess. Borrowed talents from SA.