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Friday, November 28, 2008

KP: England may not return


Kevin Pietersen has warned that England players will not return to India if their safety cannot be guaranteed.

The tourists fly to Bangalore later today to meet up with the Performance Programme squad, who will then join the main squad and return to London while talks continue between the England and Wales Cricket Board and the Board of Control for Cricket in India about the resumption of the tour.

Terror attacks have killed at least 119 people and injured more than 250 - with one of the main targets, the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, used by England as a base at the start of the tour and was due to host them again.

Doubts persist about whether England will return for the Test series, which was due to begin in Ahmedabad on December 11 and finish in Mumbai - although the venue for the final Test will have to be moved after the attacks.

And Pietersen explained today that there is no question of any of the players putting their security on the line.

He explained: "We need to make sure the security's right - but if it's not safe then we won't be coming back."

The captain continued on BBC Radio Five Live: "People are their own people, I'll never force anyone to do anything or tell them to do anything against their will.

"On the field I may ask people to do things in a certain way but people run their own lives.

"We'll have to see how the security is."

Attacks put question over India's cricketing future


New Delhi: Former England captain Michael Vaughan's first reaction on hearing about the terror attacks in Mumbai was to get back home to his kids. The batsman said he had constantly thought about how terrorism was getting close to the game and the attack in Mumbai has just confirmed those thoughts.

"It's getting closer. I remember watching on TV a few weeks ago as the lorry-full of bombs went off at the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, where England were due to stay for the Champions Trophy, and thinking crikey, it's getting close," he wrote in The Telegraph from Bangalore where he was practising with England's high performance squad.

"There seem to be these triggers, or warnings, that it is getting closer to cricket."

Vaughan and the England high performance squad who were due to be in Mumbai this week, but their plan was changed at the last minute. Even now the White Test kits of the England squad, who will fly back home on Friday night, is in one of the rooms at the Taj Mahal hotel.

"All the stuff was deposited there after England's two practice games in Mumbai at the start of this tour. That's how close the danger is," Vaughan said.

"In the morning I woke up to a number of texts from people back home who thought I was in Mumbai, and I wanted to go home and get back to my two kids," he added.

The former skipper said he was happy that the decision to call off the tour was taken out of the hands of the players and made for them.

His thoughts were seconded by Middlesex skipper Shaun Udal, whose team did not fly out of England for the now postponed Champions League Twenty20 after initial reports of the attack in Mumbai.

"The right decision has been made. It had to be postponed given what has happened. The good thing is the decision was taken out of our hands and made for us," Udal wrote in The Telegraph.

"I've never had 24 hours like this in my life. It is awful. The most important thing is the humanitarian side of things, not the cricket. We are obviously disappointed not to be playing in a brilliant tournament but that is secondary at times like this," Udal added.

Vaughan thanks his lucky stars


Michael Vaughan thanked his lucky starts as he revealed that he could have been in one of the hotels targeted in Mumbai.

Vaughan said had it not been for a last minute change, he would have been in one of the two hotels struck by terrorists in Mumbai on wednesday.

"This week I was due to be in Mumbai with the rest of England's high performance squad. It was only at the last minute that our training camp was switched to Bangalore. I don't know why it was switched but we could have been there in one of those hotels when they were attacked," Vaughan told 'The Daily Telegraph'.

Vaughan said he got several messages from friends and family here who thought that he was in Mumbai.

"In the morning I woke up to a number of texts from people back home who thought I was in Mumbai, and I wanted to go home and get back to my two kids," he said.

The former skipper said just watching the images of the terror attack, that left over 100 dead, on television disturbed him immensely.

"All our white Test kit is in one of the rooms at the Taj Mahal where one of the sieges has been going on: all our pads and clothes for the Test series, and our blazers and caps and ties. All the stuff was deposited there after England's two practice games in Mumbai at the start of this tour. That's how close the danger is," he said.

Vaughan said he could feel the tension even in Bangalore where security officials asked him and his teammates not to venture out on foot and avoid going to places frequented by foreigners.

"... The phone rang in (coach) David Parsons room and it was our liaison man Sachin ringing to say "Mumbai has been bombed." We stuck the TV on, and saw the Taj where I've spent so many nights and the Oberoi where I've spent so many evenings," Vaughan recalled. "I didn't think we were under threat in Bangalore, and history to date says cricketers are safe. But our security man said we couldn't go in our England kit to the hotel where we eat 60 yards across the road from the stadium, and we'd have to go in cars, we couldn't walk. We were told we couldn't go to any of the hotels in Bangalore that westerners use," he added.

Meanwhile, skipper of county side Middlesex, which was due to be in Mumbai for the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League, Shaun Udal said the images of attacks gave him goosebumps.

"I watched it on television and I got goose-bumps all down my back because we were 24 hours away from being in that hotel and the fact they were looking for British people makes it more frightening. There would have been 20 of us sat around having dinner in the hotel. It doesn't bear thinking about," he said.

"I've never had 24 hours like this in my life. It is awful. The most important thing is the humanitarian side of things, not the cricket. We are obviously disappointed not to be playing in a brilliant tournament but that is secondary at times like this," he added.

Warne supports CL T20 rescheduling


Shane Warne, who was stranded in Singapore en route to Mumbai, supported the postponement of the CL T20.

Warne, who led Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League, and Darren Berry, director of coaching for the IPL side, was travelling to Mumbai for December's inaugural Champions League Twenty20 when they landed in Singapore to take a connecting flight to India.

However, once they walked into the transit lounge of the airport, both were stunned by what they saw on television and Warne said there was simply no question of going Mumbai.

"It is just not worth the risk. No amout of money is worth the risk with what is going on over there at the moment," he said.

"I'm shocked," Warne told the 'Herald Sun'.

"Chuck (Berry) and I got off the plane and saw the news on TV. It's unbelievable. The place is chaos. We are heading to Mumbai and that's the hotel we are staying at. I don't think we will be going (to India) now.

Both men were supposed to stay at the same Taj Mahal hotel, which was under siege by the terrorists.

In Singapore, Warne refused to board the connecting flight and instead, decided to stay put, waiting to hear from Cricket Australia.

The Champions League Twenty20 Governing Council subsequently postponed the event.

Lalit Modi, tournament chairman said the event would be rearranged for early next year and remain in India.

"The inaugural year will be postponed for a few months but will still be played in India.

"They (the participating teams) were all ready to come today so I don't think they will have a problem coming back."

ICL cancels rest of World Series matches

Ahmedabad: The Indian Cricket League (ICL) on Thursday prematurely called off its World Twenty20 Series due to the latest terror attacks in Mumbai.

The decision to call off the first leg of the second season was taken on Thursday evening at a high-level Executive Board meeting of the breakaway league here.

"We have taken the decision of calling off the rest of the ICL World Series tourament. We believe that it is inappropiate to continue the series under the given circumstances. All players and officials are under approriate security," Executive Board member and tournament director Kiran More informed.

The ICL T20 World Series was at its fag end and was scheduled to conclude on Saturday, with just two league matches, considered as virtual semi-finals, and the final remaining to be contested.

Earlier, the League had already called off Thursday's match between ICL Pakistan and ICL Bangladesh in the wake of dastardly attacks in Mumbai.
It is right Decision or Not ,will this effect BCCI in future??? Tell us your comments ..

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Lahore Badshahs v Pakistan

Memo to Moin Khan, manager of the Lahore Badshahs: "Congratulations. Your team has won the ICL tournament and made us proud. Now your captain has gone one better and challenged the Pakistan national side to a duel." We've just had a few terrific few days: both the Pakistan international team and their alter ego, the Lahore Badshahs, have scored a series of resounding wins. What could be better for the Pakistani game, and for the fans, than watching these two outfits do battle against each other?

Lately it's been so slow around here that you could be excused for forgetting that Pakistan is a full-member ICC nation, which has played over 300 Tests and nearly 700 ODIs, won a World Cup, and added a few names to the pantheon. These days all anyone seems to notice is that Pakistan is an agitated land boiling with a Taliban insurgency, exploding at random, and sitting on the cultural and ideological fault line of conceivably everything.

Pakistan haven't played a Test in nearly a year, and prior to the series in Abu Dhabi hadn't played any ODIs since July. With no sign of wood meeting leather, fans have instead occupied themselves with whatever cricketing scraps they could get their hands on - cricket board politics, firing and hiring the coach, the soap opera of the naughty-boy du jour (Mohammad Asif, Shoaib Akhtar, or Mohammad Yousuf - take your pick).

Then, one recent Abu Dhabi evening, Kamran Akmal hit those two last-over sixes for victory in the first ODI against West Indies. As the balls crashed into the stands behind long-off and point, it felt like the welcome patter of rain after a hard and bitter drought. West Indies had had the upper hand throughout the match until that point. Akmal reversed the momentum with a turnaround so energetic that Pakistan rode to a 3-0 series sweep.

Even the most unforgiving and sceptical followers were awestruck. I heard a female colleague, a trenchant critic who has never offered anything better than grudging praise, admire newcomer Khurram Manzoor as the great answer to Pakistan's incurable opening problem. An octogenarian fan, who has seen it all and loathes hyperbole, opined that Pakistan were turning a historic corner in the evolution of its cricket ethos. A friend who had supposedly given up following cricket altogether sent a text message, all in capital letters, that Sohail Tanvir's wicket-taking in-dipper to Chris Gayle in the second ODI was better than the best of Wasim Akram.

Even if events in Abu Dhabi were not that earth-shattering, you could forgive the fans for feeling that way. After the sadness and disappointments of an extremely lean year, Pakistan came out keenly motivated and driving hard. The on-field body language, the most sensitive gauge to a team's rhythm, was amazing. Batsmen looked opponents in the eye, bowlers snorted and charged, and fielders (most of them, anyway - this is Pakistan we're talking about) flung themselves around. Even Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik, never known to see eye to eye, exhibited a surprising range of male-bonding rituals, including smiling, back-slapping, draping arms over shoulders, and generously patting hips.

The national side was motivated by deprivation and disappointment, the Lahore Badshahs by half a million US dollars, and the loss in the last season's final. It was noticeable that Inzamam-ul-Haq was bending his back in the field with an assiduousness that was perhaps not always seen in his playing days for Pakistan. Whatever works, said the fans, and cheered him and his team on. Lahore didn't receive much coverage in the press, but their games had fans riveted. Some of their players, such as Imran Nazir and Saqlain Mushtaq, are beloved figures. There was also the chance to behold partnerships between Mohammad Yousuf and Inzamamul Haq, an exquisite pleasure we thought we had lost forever.



As Kamran Akmal's hits crashed into the stands behind long-off and point, it felt like the welcome patter of rain after a hard and bitter drought


Lahore have approached ICL with an arrogance that comes from a non-negotiable belief that you can hold your own against any team in the world. Last season's embarrassment, when they lost one of the finals in a bowl-out, only intensified their hunger. After a shaky start they peaked perfectly and entered the semi-finals at No. 2 on the points table. Sandwiched between the first and second ODIs in Abu Dhabi was the first match of ICL's best-of-three final, in which Lahore comfortably chased 170 against Hyderabad.

They were off-colour in the second match, but a stunning boundary catch from Justin Kemp had the unintended consequence of toughening their resolve immeasurably. Dean Jones called it the most awesome catch he had ever seen - check it out, it's not an exaggeration - but it stung the Badshahs, and from merely motivated they became menacingly murderous. The decider, held the same evening as the third Abu Dhabi ODI, featured a 44-ball detonation from Imran Nazir that fetched him 111 out of the winning total of 160.

Ultimately both Lahore and Pakistan were driven by revenge. The Badshahs wanted to scream in the PCB's face that their players, who are banned from playing for Pakistan, were as good as any. Pakistan wanted revenge against the geo-political winds, and the nameless and faceless terrorists that have led to their cricketing desolation.

How far the revenge motive was achieved, only time will tell. While it's been a good few days, prospects for international cricket in Pakistan are still shaky at best. The fans are slowly retreating to once again hiding their faces and licking their wounds.

So well done, Inzamam and Moin. Geo Super- our local sports channel - will televise it, the PCB will organise it (we'll talk to them very, very nicely), Cricinfo will spread the word, and the fans will cheer and chatter for a long time. Lahore Badshahs versus Pakistan could really kick-start the mood.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

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Before you start reading the complete article let me tell you that I am not an expert on this subject still trying to put best of my knowledge about “what you should know before watching cricket match online”.

Lets start the guide:

First thing and most important, you should have a fast speed broadband or cable Internet connection, here I recommend minimum of 512 kpbs speed for this. This is the key to all the online sources you are trying to dig and watching cricket is no exception. I have personally bad experience with slower speeds where online match just stops in between or player started to buffer the feed again and again. Believe me this is so frustrated and killing.

Second thing, you should have all the different kind of online players installed on your PC. The most famous nowadays is sopcast and TVU player. Let me explain you how you can install this player which is absolutely free of cost, what you need is just 15-20 mins of your precious time.

SopCast - SopCast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet. Adopting P2P(Peer-to-Peer) technology, It is very efficient and easy to use. Let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of a powerful server and vast bandwidth. You can build your own TV stations comparable with large commercial sites with minimal resources. Using SopCast, you can serve 10,000 online users with a personal computer and a home broadband connection.

Download and Install sopcast Plugin if you don’t have it already.

Download SopCast.zip from http://download.sopcast.com/download/SopCast.zip. Unpack it with Winzip or Winrar to a directory and run Setup-SopCast-version.exe to setup with default choices. The WebPlayer will be installed automatically also.

TVU Player - TVU networks offers a free global live TV service that you can watch on your Windows PC over a broadband Internet connection. This service is dedicated to bringing you TV that you can't get from cable or satellite, such as news and sports from around the world.

Download the player and install it on your PC and that’s it…

Third and final step, search for the sites or blogs who are providing live feeds of these cricket matches online. There are many paid sites which are providing cricket matches online but you need to pay per match or for whole series, for peoples from India,Pakistan,Bangladesh and Sri Lanka don’t like to watch matches with paid cricket streaming (lol), don’t worry mates, there are a lot of blogs which are providing these cricket match online, you can see few of them which I posted on my blog but not sure if they are currently giving the channel which was there time I posted there.

Here is the list of sites and blogs (both paid and free) where you can watch cricket matches online.

Cricket Matches Online Sites

  1. Action8Cricket
  2. Streaming Sportzz
  3. Cricketbox
  4. Cricketnow
  5. Cricketon
  6. Cricketspot
  7. Desicrickets
  8. Livesportsonline
  9. Livesportzstreaming
  10. Mazatv
  11. Streambox
  12. tvsportstreams
  13. Watchstreamz
  14. Willow
Free cricket matches Links
  1. TVU Link - TVU Link 1
  2. TVU Link - TVU Link 2
  3. SOPcast Link 1
  4. SOPcast Link 2
  5. SOPcast Link 3
  6. SOPcast Link 4
  7. SOPcast Link 5
  8. SOPcast Link 6
  9. SOPcast Link 7
  10. SOPcast Link 8
  11. SOPcast Link 9
  12. MMS Link 1 (Window Media Player/Real Player)
  13. MMS Link 2 (Window Media Player/Real Player)
  14. WMP Link (Window Media Player Only)
  15. TVU LinK
  16. CRICKET.huseb.com

More Free Links for online cricket match

I Hope these links will work for you and you can watch cricket matches online for free or if you have some money to spend you can do that. Please do let me know if any of these links are not working or streaming is slow or stoped or any other errors shown by the links, this will help us to check the problem and let other later watch cricket matches online.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

The grand prize money shot



Never mind the escalating cost of television rights – what is also growing is the prize money for Twenty20 domestic competitions.

The CLT20 offers US$6 million prize money, not too shabby for some players who have never donned an international cap in any format of the game. Let's see how these domestic competitions match up with each other financially and whether domestic cricketers are happy to stay where there are.

CLT20 - The tournament offers teams US$6 million of prize money. The prize money, including US$3 million for the winning team, which will be shared equally between the teams and their players.

Standford Twenty20 - Total prize money US$20 million. The 11 players on the winning team each received US$1 million. The reserve players in the squad shared US$1m. A further US$1m was divided among the management team. The remaining US$7m was split equally between the West Indies Board and the ECB.

Indian Premier League - Rajasthan Royals took home just over US$1 million for winning the inaugural final in Bombay earlier this year.

2008 Twenty20 Cup final in England - Middlesex earned US$12,000 per player for beating Kent at the Rose Bowl.

2008 RBS Twenty20 cup in Pakistan - The competition had 13 teams gunning for a winners' prize money of US$32,500 which eventually went to the Sialkot Stallions.

2008 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash - Victoria Bushrangers snared up US$20,000 between them, while the runner-up received US$10,000.

Needless to say the cricketers will be as curious about how many green tracks are laid to the amount of green they could potentially pocket at the end of the tournaments. Because of the booming cricket economy (amidst the world's economic downturn) sustained by huge viewership and sponsorship deals, Twenty20 domestic cricket is the way to go forward. The cover drive induced by their drive for the prize money, the pull shot becomes the money shot.

So with potential international call ups and big cash cows in tow, we can only expect to see as many runs and wickets as dollar bills flying at the upcoming CLT20. The growth of cricket is centering around an exciting theory, fewer overs sprouts more money.

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Sunday, November 16, 2008

3rd Final ICL2 Hyderabad Heroes vs Lahore Badshahs - Watch Full Video Coverage Online *HQ*





3rd Final ICL2 Hyderabad Heroes vs Lahore Badshahs - Watch Full Video Coverage Online *HQ*







Series ICL 20-20 Indian Championship, 2008/09

Venue Sardar Vallabhai Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad

Date Sunday, November 16, 2008

Toss Hyderabad Heroes elected to bat


Umpires Allan Jones (ENG), Ranmore Martinesz (SL) and David Brendon (ENG)

Referee Ajit Wadekar (IND)



Lahore Badshahs beat Hyderabad Heroes by 8 wickets





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Friday, November 14, 2008

1st Final ICL 2 Lahore Badshahs v Hyderabad Heroes Full Highlights *HQ*


Lahore Badshahs 174 for 6 (Farhat 65) beat Hyderabad Heroes 170 for 5 (Razzaq 69, Maher 45, Naved 3-25) by four wickets



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    Hyderabad Heroes v Royal Bengal Tigers 2nd Semi Final ICL 2008 Full Highlights*HQ*


    Hyderabad Heroes 162 for 7 (Binny 45, Ahmid 2-23) beat Royal Bengal Tigers 161 for 4 (Klusener 78*, Gavaskar 74) by three wickets



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    Wednesday, November 12, 2008

    Monday, November 10, 2008

    A Tribute To Shahid Afridi



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    Lahore Badshahs v Chennai Superstars 1st Semi Final ICL 2008 Full Highlights*HQ*


    Lahore Badshahs 168 for 4 (Inzamam 62, Farhat 45) beat Chennai Superstars 165 for 7 (Sathish 37, Badani 37, Naved 3-30) by six wickets



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    36th Match : ICL Season 2 Chennai Superstars v Lahore Badshahs Full Highlights*HQ*


    Lahore Badshahs 211 for 4 (Farhat 67, Imran Nazir 44, Yousuf 40*) beat Chennai Superstars 198 for 9 (Sathish 76*, Harvey 54, Naved-ul-Hasan 4-26, Shahid Nazir 3-43) by 13 runs

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    33rd Match : ICL Season 2 Dhaka Warriors v Lahore Badshahs Full Highlights*HQ*


    Lahore Badshahs 149 for 5 (Naved 64, Inzamam 27 no, Baisya 2-25) beat Dhaka Warriors 145 for 7 (Nafees 35, Naved 3-18, Saqlain 3-35) by five wickets



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    Lahore storm into the finals with comprehensive 6 wicket victory


    Lahore Badshahs beat Chennai Superstars by 6 wickets

    Inzamam Ul Haq was declared man of the match

    Ahmedabad: The first semifinal ICL 20s Indian Championship featured the clash of the titans, with former champions Chennai Superstars take on last years’ finalist Lahore Badshahs at the Sardar Patel stadium Ahmedabad. In the end it was the Lahore Badshahs who proved their might with a comprehensive 6 wicket victory over the talented Chennai Superstars, to storm into their second straight ICL finals. Inzamam Ul Haq was declared man of the match for his brilliant half century.

    Earlier in the evening Inzamam, won the toss & choose to field first. The Chennai’s formidable opening combination of Vignesh & Harvey was off to a busy start till the quick Sami castled the dangerous Vignesh for 6 in the 3rd over. Harvey was taking over from his brilliant innings of the previous night, playing some breathtaking strokes all across the park. At the end of the5th over Chennai Superstars were placed at 49/1.

    Inzamam brought on his inform bowler Rana Naved in the 6th over who struck immediately with the big wicket of Harvey, out for well made 29 off 21 balls; including 5 hits to the boundary. Arnold took over the batting mantel & in company of Badani put on a 33 run partnership for the third wicket, till the wily Saqlain bamboozled him with his new mystery ball “ The Jalebi”, for the second time in two consecutive days. The half way mark of their innings had the Chennai side placed at 86/3.

    The crucial middle overs had the backbone of the Chennai batting Badani & Sathish battling it out in the middle. Both batsmen were looking in great touch countering the formidable Lahore bowling to take the score to 133/3 at the 15th over mark. Both batsmen brought about the fifty partnership off only 34 balls in the 16th over, till Badani was scalped by Saqlain in the same over for a well made 37 runs.

    A lot depended on the prodigal Sathish who was playing another fighting innings for the second consecutive day; displaying his humongous talent against one of the craftiest bowling machinery of the world. Nazir however had other ideas scalping the talented Chennai lad in the 18th over. Sathish’s cameo was worth 37 runs off only 28 balls, laced with five fours. Chennai finally folded their innings on a healthy 165/7 in their allotted 20 overs. For the Lahore side Naved with 3/30 & Saqlain with 2/26 emerged as the most successful bowlers.

    The Chennai side was looking determined to defend their average total. Jesuraj struck early packing back the dangerous Imran Nazir in the 2nd over to leave the Lahore side at 15/1. Nazir’s wicket however had no effect on the batting approach of the mighty Lahore Badshahs, with Rana Naved & Farhat racing off to 43/1 at the end of 4 overs. Naved got out to a soft dismissal at in the 5th over to leave the Lahore score card reading 47/2.

    Farhat took over the batting mantel racing off to 40 off only 20 balls in only the 7th over of the game. Just when it seemed that Farhat was running away with the match, Sathish struck his second blow of the match with the wicket of Farhat, out for a well made 46 off only 24 balls; including 5 fours and 3 mighty sixes. The 10 over mark had the game fascinatingly poised at the Lahore score of 85/3 needing another 81 runs off 60 balls & their most experienced batsmen Mohammad Yousuf & Inzamam holding fort in the center.

    The great Inzamam was just proving his batting prowess, playing a clinical knock to take the score to 130 /3 putting the Lahore Badshahs in the front at the end of the 15th over in company of Mohammad Yousuf. Inzamam brought his second ICL fifty in the 17th over coming off only 28 balls; laced with 6 fours and 2 sixes. In the end a clinical 87 run partnership for the forth wicket, powered by a 62 run knock from the Lahore skipper Inzamam saw the Lahore Badshahs romp home to a 6 wicket victory in the 19th over.

    Brief Scores: Chennai Superstars165/7 in 20 overs (Sathish 37, Badani 37, Rana Naved 3/30) lost by 6 wickets to Lahore Badshahs 168/4 in 18.5 overs (Inzamam 62, Farhat 46, and Sathish 2/34) Scorecard

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    England are bankrupt in million-dollar failure


    England put in a tepid, technically inept performance and got exactly what they deserved - not a penny

    Kevin Pietersen (left) sits with Stanford Superstars' Daren Powell following England's Stanford Super Series defeat. Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA

    At least England's team unity will have been maintained. The prospect of large sums of money dished out unequally through the squad had threatened to undermine the corporate spirit. Peter Moores, the coach, can have no qualms on that score now: they all arrived with nothing and, after the roasting they received at the Stanford Cricket Ground on Saturday evening, that is precisely what they will have divvied up when they leave here tomorrow for India.

    The England XI got what they deserved. In simple cricket terms they were not even second-rate, offering an insipid, technically inept, strategically bankrupt and mentally flabby performance when the situation demanded excellence. They were outbowled, outbatted and outfielded by an excellent unit who, focusing on a single event, had cast off some mediocre cricket at the start of the week to produce a scintillating all-round team performance. Kevin Pietersen's men appeared novices by comparison. If they had hoped to use this match as a showcase for their credentials to join the Indian Premier League such hopes will have been dashed: Lalit Modi will not be sending out many invitations now.

    There have been indications all week that the England squad might not rise to this occasion. Too many gripes and moans - the sort that emanate from those taking a loftier view of themselves than they can justify - have emerged not to have provided a distraction. The hotel was unsuitable (for what?); Sir Allen Stanford had offended them through a bit of harmless byplay with their partners; the host also came blundering unannounced into their dressing room, a sacrosanct place; the pitch was wrong; the lights too low and glary; the outfield like Pietersen's former haircut rather than his current one. In the end they protested too much, garnering cooperation from Stanford but little sympathy.

    Better that they had concentrated on the job in hand, with more attention to the way they might play the game. As a humbling debriefing exercise, they might view footage of their own batting efforts against superlative bowling perfectly adapted to the conditions, where pace bowlers opted for a very full length or, from a normal length, took the pace from the ball so that timing was difficult. Spin was bowled to a tight line at the right pace. The England XI countered this miserably and were architects of their own downfall as much as victims of the bowling. Whoever encouraged Matt Prior and Pietersen to attempt the kind of play they did - throwing themselves to the off side, trying to play to fine leg and losing their leg stumps - should be ashamed. Twenty20 cricket promotes unorthodoxy and thinking on the hoof, but not at the expense of the basics when it matters most.

    Throughout all this Chris Gayle, the Superstars' captain, maintained total control. He managed his bowling changes with assurance, having no need to call on some of his resources, including himself and the spinner Dave Mohammed, and was able to draw on scintillating, athletic, quicksilver fielding. Perhaps above all was the element of discipline that had been instilled into his team, something which has rarely been a feature of recent West Indies efforts. If that can be maintained, and the elder statesmen in the side can convey to these new stars that an important opportunity is there for them to expand their horizons into other areas of the game, Stanford may just be right in believing that, whatever else his motives, he has helped kick-start a resurgence in the cricketing fortunes of the region.

    England are due back here to renew this contest a year from now and they would do well to consider next time how exactly they will approach it. For a start they should forget any semblance of representing "England". There is no contractual obligation to appear or name themselves as such, and although Stanford would prefer "England" to appear in the team's title, strictly as a hook for his attempts to capture the American television market (Saturday's game was shown live on ESPN2, with a potential reach of 90 million), there is room for some creativity. In so doing, they should embrace the Stanford concept as a one-off exhibition match, which is all it ever pretended to be. If this means allowing cameras into the dressing room and the odd bit of back...#8209;slapping from Stanford, then what of it? In no way did such accommodation impede the progress of his Superstars.

    The England players have been taught a huge lesson in Antigua: that pride comes before a fall. When the tournament was announced in a tacky but memorably high-profile manner at Lord's, the cash seemed to be in the accounts and being spent. Small things such as choice of tense, done unthinkingly perhaps, make the difference to perception. "How will I spend the money?" rather than "How would I?". England got ahead of themselves.

    For those watching in Antigua there was the overwhelming feeling that the right team not only won but won for the right reasons. Graeme Swann will not get his pink Ferrari after all, but he does OK. But for Andre Fletcher, for example, the young wicketkeeper-batsman from Grenada, this result will be genuinely life-changing and for the better. The Superstars worked hard over a long period and they have reaped the reward.

    So too, thanks to England's involvement, will countless schools across the region, who will benefit from the Chance to Shine campaign to reintroduce cricket to the curriculum. This has not just been an exercise in self-aggrandisement, publicity and the pursuit of riches. And, by the way, it made for a marvellous spectacle.

    Saturday, November 1, 2008

    Gayle and Pietersen - friends and foes

    Coolidge, Antigua – 01 November 2008 –

    Chris Gayle and Kevin Pietersen are good friends.

    It's a relationship that started three years ago when they were on the same team for an ICC World XI against Australia in a Super Series Down Under.

    The friendship, however, will be on pause for three hours on Saturday.

    They will be gunning for each other's throat in the Stanford 20/20 for 20.

    Gayle will lead the Stanford Superstars and Pietersen is at the helm of England.

    The teams will battle it out for US$20 million, the richest team prize for a single sporting match

    As rival captains, there will be a customary hand-shake at the toss. That's when the battle lines will be drawn.

    "We talk a lot but hopefully, we're going to kick his ... you know what," Gayle said with a big laugh.

    "We first met at the game in Australia. From there, we've built a relationship. He's a good guy."

    The 28-year-old Pietersen is a world-class batsman who commands tremendous respect from Gayle.

    KP, who took over as England captain in the middle of the summer series against South Africa, boasts an impressive Test batting average of 50.51, an equally outstanding One-Day International average of 47.83 and a fantastic strike-rate of 146.29 in 20/20 cricket.

    In spite of the wonderful records, Gayle has given him a promise for the Stanford 20/20 for 20 match.

    "He's is dangerous player. There are no two ways about it," Gayle said.

    "At the same time, I've told him that I'm going to get him out. He's aware of that."

    Gayle also praised Pietersen's leadership qualities - characteristics the England selectors recognised when they made him the country's captain three months ago.

    "You can see that the guys rally around him as a new captain. He has been fun," Gayle said.

    "He's aware of the situation. He knows his game-plan. He knows his cricket."

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