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May 7, 2009

ECB get another chance to ruin English cricket

News that the television rights are up for sale for the new P20 that begins next year. Nothing worrying about that, I hear you say. Until you find out that the bid of ESPNStar is conditional on each team including at least one Indian player.

April 16, 2009

IPL innovation adds to the tedium

The latest IPL innovation, announced today, is to have a break of 7 ½ minutes after ten overs of every innings. Apparantly this is a “tactical time out”, or as we laymen would refer to it “blatant TV money time out”.

March 6, 2009

Umpires get Hot Spot for referrals

3rd Umpires are to use the Hot Spot infra-red system in the final two tests between South Africa & Australia, but is it too little, too late for the ICC?

March 1, 2009

Umpires let down by the review system

Cricket continues to inflict controversy upon itself with the umpire review system currently being trialled being shown to be thoroughly inadequate

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