< 1 minute read If you want to get to know one of the IPL teams better, there’s only one thing to do: you watch the video of their theme tune. Royal Challengers Bangalore have a good one. Rahul Dravid looks moody for about 0.1 of a second somewhere in the middle and Kevin
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Champions League Twenty20 format
< 1 minute read In the name of having at least half a clue what’s going on, we thought we’d investigate the format of the Champions League Twenty20. They’re currently playing the group stages. There are three teams in each group. They all play each other and then the top two go through to
Continue readingSomerset v Deccan Chargers stands for a lot when it comes to the Twenty20 Champions League
< 1 minute read To further clarify our feelings about the Twenty20 Champions League, it’ll be interesting precisely as long as there’s a chance that the budget sides might make a joke out of the rampant capitalism on which the whole thing is built. Basically, if Somerset beat Deccan Chargers, it’ll be pretty funny
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< 1 minute read When we were younger and interested in both cricket and football, we thought that cricket could learn from club football. Now, having pretty much completely forsaken football due to it having become an earth-rattling shodfest that’s part soap opera and part corporate dick-swinging contest, we’re a bit worried that cricket
Continue readingGary Kirsten’s vision document for the India team
< 1 minute read The Hindustan Times say they’ve got hold of a ‘vision document’ produced by Indian coach, Gary Kirsten. It advises the players to try and increase their scoring rates (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) on the grounds that this will help create more testosterone that will in turn help the players be
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< 1 minute read Tell you what’s boring: people picking fantasy teams and then publishing them on their websites. Who cares? The arrogance of these people to think anyone would be remotely interested. Here’s ours. Chris Gayle – plays forward defensives and sixes with the same facial expression Tillekeratne Dilshan – reliable, effective and
Continue readingIPL is a lower standard of cricket
< 1 minute read Over the last year or so, the IPL’s marketing/propaganda has been accepted to such an extent that players and journalists the world over have been lauding it as cricket not just called Twenty20, but from the year 2020 – way ahead of its time. You can’t help but learn in
Continue readingBouncers in Twenty20 cricket
< 1 minute read England got their tactics right against India – brilliantly so. Admittedly, they stole these tactics off the West Indies who bounced India to defeat earlier in the week, but to be honest England probably carried out the plan even better. Indian batsmen are used to low, slow pitches and one-day
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< 1 minute read India are really bad at Twenty20. Their bowlers lack variety, the batsmen can’t innovate and the domestic structure has too little riding on each game, meaning a side can finish fourth and still win the league. Turns out the IPL isn’t the ultimate Twenty20 school.
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< 1 minute read It’s probably the World Twenty20 and the Ashes, but we’re getting an insane number of press releases sent to us these days. Today we’re going to tell you about two separate competitions where you can meet a cricketer. This is the first one. It is classy. Sachin Tendulkar is doing
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