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October 16, 2009
Kieron Pollard abuses NSW
When England first came across Kieron Pollard last winter, he seemed an ok sort of cricketer of the bits and pieces variety. Today he played an innings for Trinidad & Tobago that can only be described as abuse. The kind of innings that will make an Australian sports psychologist somewhere an awful lot of money.
Somerset almost done
There was nothing very remarkable about Somerset’s loss to Diamond Eagles today, except perhaps the bowling of CJ de Villiers again. Trescothick had returned home, but his replacement Wes Durston top scored with 57 from 32 balls, the highest innings by an Englishman in the tournament so far.
October 15, 2009
Trescothick forced home from Champions League
Poor Tres. He had been much praised for his efforts in even reaching India to take part in the Champions League Twenty20 for Somerset. Now he has been forced to return home after a recurrence of his stress related illness.
October 14, 2009
T&T beat Deccan, Somerset squeak through
Deccan Chargers were the champions of the 2nd IPL season. But they have never won a game at their home stadium. Now they have been defeated by the West Indian T20 champions, Trinidad & Tobago as well as the English runners up Somerset.
October 13, 2009
Sussex get Eliminated
Diamond Eagles made hard work of it, but Cornelius de Villiers did for Sussex in the Super Over, taking both Sussex wickets in the first two balls of their over.
Greedy batsmen
Unless you’re Ross Taylor, attempting to hit every ball to the boundary is guaranteed to end in tears. In T20, you still have to build an innings, you just have to do it more quickly, and in the last few overs you start to think about clearing the ropes every ball.
October 12, 2009
Somerset’s perfectly paced innings
They lost their tenth wicket off the final ball. It takes a lot of hard work and planning to achieve such perfection in an innings. Somerset were hoping to qualify for the Super 8 by beating Trinidad & Tobago. Instead their net run rate took an antelope-in-the-lion-enclosure type mauling, and they’ll need a favour to get through.
October 11, 2009
Sussex don’t play IPL team, lose
New South Wales Blues have the luxury of calling on a full Australian international bowling attack in the CLT20. It might win them the tournament. Sussex don’t. In order to win, therefore, Sussex needed their two Asian stars, Yasir Arafat and Piyush Chawla, to perform. They didn’t.
October 10, 2009
Somerset refuse to play nicely
Lalit Modi had probably never heard of Alfonso Thomas before tonight. Now that the IPL teams are 0-3 in the Champions League he certainly has.
Umpire/Pundit
If you were watching Cape Cobras play Otago Volts this afternoon in the Champions League T20, you would have seen something outstanding. Early in the Volts innings, the commentary team were suddenly interviewing a miked-up umpire Daryl Harper between deliveries.
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