< 1 minute read It’s nice to see bowlers being decisive in a Twenty20 match. Far too often they might as well just glue different mugshots onto a bowling machine and use that instead. In the Champions League final, Mumbai successfully defended 139. For a large proportion of the match, the commentators were talking
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Royal Challengers Bangalore hit a six off the final ball to win
< 1 minute read We’ve seen a handful of games where one team needs a six off the final ball to win – it’s hard to beat. We’ll talk you through the climax of Bangalore’s win over South Australia in the Twenty20 Champions League: Some Aussie guy ran in and bowled and Bangalore’s wicketkeeper
Continue readingDwayne Bravo makes amends and ushers Trinidad and Tobago into the Champions League Twenty20 final
< 1 minute read In the second Champions League Twenty20 semi final, Trinidad and Tobago’s Dwayne Bravo took 0-46 off three well-spanked overs against Cape Cobras. No matter. He promptly hit 58 off 34 balls to help T&T waltz home. The Dwayne Bravo off-side thock made a couple of appearances. In many ways this
Continue readingThe DLF minimum number of IPL teams make it into the Champions League semi-finals
< 1 minute read Not one IPL team has made it to the semi-finals of the Champions League Twenty20. Somewhere a marketing twat mournfully draws a descending line on a profit forecast. Clearly having only three out of the eight IPL teams qualify for the Champions League leaves the cricketainment outfits woefully underrepresented. Next
Continue readingWhat are Royal Challengers Bangalore all about?
< 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
Continue readingChampions 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
Continue readingHow do you feel about the Twenty20 Champions’ League?
< 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
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