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July 28, 2009

Will the IPL lead to a new Kolpak?

Andrew Strauss and Andy Flower will be pushing for a say in decisions about England’s contracted players appearing in the IPL. Much fuss is still being made over the injuries to KP and Flintoff in relation to their involvement in South Africa earlier this year.

July 16, 2009

Dump the P20 please, ECB

What benefit is the P20 supposed to bring to English cricket? The ECB initially unveiled it as their answer to the IPL, but it has been watered down and fudged so much that the original question has long been forgotten.

June 25, 2009

Crunch time for the future of cricket

The success of the recent World Twenty20 has intensified the debate surrounding the future of test cricket and what needs to be done to maintain it’s position as the pinnacle of cricket. There is little argument amongst players (Chris Gayle excepted) and officials that there is where it should remain. But how to achieve this?

May 28, 2009

No Twenty20 vision at the ECB

Attendances for the T20 Cup so far this season has been poor, and now we will be lumbered with another overblown exercise in nothingness to go along with it. The fact that the bigwigs are insistent on two T20 tournaments shows the muddled thinking. Essentially, they are championing change without actually having to change anything.

May 14, 2009

Gayle blown away by Strauss mind games

Strauss can pat himself on the back, knowing that the West Indies players are now distracted, wondering who their next captain will be, whether they will be the next captain, whether they agree or disagree with their captain and so on and so on.

May 8, 2009

Cricket Australia shows ECB the way to go

Cricket Australia has done something revolutionary. It has stood up to player power. I know, I know, we can all hear the sound of hands being clapped to mouths throughout the ECB offices and the savage intake of collective breaths.

April 29, 2009

BCCI offers olive branch to ICL players

The BCCI has announced that players who are willing to cut their ties with the unofficial Indian Cricket League will be welcomed back to domestic, and later international, cricket.

April 24, 2009

Flintoff injured in IPL

It had to happen. Just one day after we questioned the value of Flintoff’s IPL performances so far as preparation for the summer internationals, it is announced that Freddie is injured, needs an operation and will miss the West Indies series.

April 23, 2009

Broad and Hughes benefit from County game

Stuart Broad’s decision to stay in England in order to prepare for the International summer seems ever more vindicated. Meanwhile, a century on his Middlesex debut for Philip Hughes suggests that all the fuss made about his Ashes warm-up may be irrelevant after all.

April 21, 2009

Collingwood loves IPL

Paul Collingwood loves the IPL ‘vibe’. What does that say about England?

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