Past Greats
Category: Home Page,IPL - Twenty20,Shane Warne, Posted on May 5th, 2008 by admin | No CommentsI wonder what past greats such as Dennis Lillie, Merv Hughes and Jeff Thomson would think about IPL Twenty20 cricket. Imagine what they would think about the huge payments the likes of Shane Warne and Andrew Symonds are receiving for 16 weeks !! If they were still playing now they would only be just catching [...]
Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Kings XI Punjab
Category: Home Page,IPL - Twenty20,Kings XI Punjab,Kolkata Knight Riders, Posted on May 4th, 2008 by admin | No CommentsThe 22nd. Match of the IPL cricket tournament was a one sided event as Punjab went on to win their forth consecutive win of the series. At the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, kolkata were left with a chase of 179runs and after falling to 50 – 5 in the 10th over it was always going [...]
IPL TV Coverage in Australia.
Category: Australia,Home Page,IPL - Twenty20, Posted on May 4th, 2008 by admin | No CommentsThere has been a lot of discussion in Australia about the TV coverage of IPL cricket, the time of the coverage, the commentators and no real description of the rules. Why not get channel 10 to put on highlights of the previous nights cricket on at say 6pm. I think that the cricket is very [...]
Stanford Twenty 20
Category: England,Home Page,IPL - Twenty20,West Indies, Posted on May 4th, 2008 by admin | No CommentsA new twenty20 competition worldwide proposed by Texan philanthropist. Allen Stanford a sponsor of professional sports is pushing ahead with the idea of making the Twenty20 competition the most popular sport in the world. With the concept of a 20-20-20 winner take all version of the game the first step in that direction. This is [...]
New blood
Category: Home Page,IPL - Twenty20,Rajasthan Royals,Shane Warne, Posted on May 4th, 2008 by admin | No CommentsSwapnil Asnodkar, Yusuf Pathan and Ravindra Jadeja are the players of the future. These young Rajasthan Royals players have been given a great chance by Shane Warne, captain coach of the team, to compete against the best, including Sourav Ganguly in the IPL competition. He was very happy with the enthusiasm and willingness to learn [...]
Who’s umpiring ??
Category: Home Page,IPL - Twenty20,Shane Warne, Posted on May 4th, 2008 by admin | No CommentsThe suspension of match referee Pratap Kumar for one match and Shane Warne and Sourav Ganguly each being fined 10 per cent of their match fees for undisciplined conduct on the field makes you wonder how far this type of big stick attitude will go. Does this mean that you cannot question decisions ? I [...]
IPL Offers International Opportunity
Category: Home Page,IPL - Twenty20,Shane Warne, Posted on May 4th, 2008 by admin | No CommentsWith the Australian Cricket Team preparing for the up coming tour of the West Indies the IPL will be without some of their top players returning home to Australia, this will mean many of their positions are being filled by up and coming young Indian players who are not very well known or unknown on [...]
Shane loses his cool
Category: Home Page,IPL - Twenty20,Kolkata Knight Riders,Rajasthan Royals,Shane Warne, Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by admin | No CommentsA questionable decision in the IPL match between Kolkata Knight Riders and the Rajasthan Royals had the Royals captain, Shane Warne, showing his disapproval of the decision to give “not out” to a catch. The video replay certainly looked as if it was a fair catch. Knight Riders captain Sourav Ganguly was the batsman let [...]
Shane – No Shame Now
Category: Home Page,Rajasthan Royals,Shane Warne, Posted on April 26th, 2008 by admin | No Commentstest It would seem that the bad boy of cricket, Shane Warne, has at last settled down. Everyone remembers his infamous exploits of a few years back when he was either sending lewd text messages, having sex on the bonnet of a car or helping out bookmakers , not to mention his mum’s tablets. These [...]
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test Are these the words Shane Warne was saying this morning after the surprise announcement of Stuart MacGill’s retirement from Test cricket. After arriving back in Melbourne today, he said he was very happy in retirement and had no intention of returning to Test cricket, but did add ” unless it was special circumstances ” [...]
Rajasthan Royals – WINNERS
Category: Home Page,IPL - Twenty20,Rajasthan Royals,Shane Warne, Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by admin | No Commentstest A cricket final that had everything. The very last ball required to decide the winner, a crowd on the edge of their seats and two teams determined to win. This form of cricket is exciting and very popular and has everything for the sports fans. Big sixes, run outs, great bowling and great fielding. [...]