Posts tagged with ‘Champions League’

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May 26, 2010

The importance of the Champions League

The ICC recently rejected calls for an international window for the Indian Premier League. But with news that no counties will take part in the 2010 Champions League we ask, is this competition more deserving of space in the international calendar?

April 26, 2010

Re-inventing the wheel

Last year the ECB decided that the Pro40 had to go, yet this year Sussex are defending their title even though the competition no longer exists. Only at the ECB.

April 19, 2010

A website re-imagined

Like a half-finished Brian Wilson recording, the previous design incarnation of this site failed to live up to my notoriously fussy standards. So now a new design sweeps in like the proverbial new broom ahead of some exciting goings-on this summer.

October 23, 2009

Evil Brett Lee

Here is a list of things that Brett Lee likes to do in his spare time, in no particular order

October 22, 2009

A message to the Champions League mockers

There is a certain class of English cricket enthusiast who will have barely registered that the Champions League was even taking place this past two weeks. If you are a member of this class, you would probably snort in derision at the idea that it is set to become one of the most important competitions in cricket.

October 21, 2009

NSW thrash Vics, Hughes technique inspiration

Some might say that a cricket contest took place today. Others, including all of New South Wales, would disagree with a certain amount of muscular vitality. But far more importantly, we can reveal for the first time a hidden secret about the much scrutinised technique of Philip Hughes.

October 19, 2009

Somerset get the benefit of Champions League

Do me a favour, and take a look out of the nearest window. There may well be a winged hog somewhere in the vicinity. Meanwhile, in the cricket world, a county chairman has been heard saying the things that Giles Clarke gets paid to sweep under the carpet: English cricket is as anachronistic as the crew of USS Enterprise strolling around the Wild West.

Resistance is futile

Craig Kieswetter has been touted as not only England’s next wicketkeeper-batsman, but also as the new Kevin Pietersen. He qualifies for England in February and is eager to earn the abuse of South Africans everywhere.

October 18, 2009

Somerset bow out

Somerset hoped to take advantage of Kieron Pollard-inflicted shell-shock when they played NSW Blues. They didn’t want a backlash, and in the end got neither. Instead they gave it away with careless batting early on, and got creamed as a result.

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.

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