*Official* Champions League Twenty20 2011

[mono]

5 sixes in a 21 ball 45 against a decent bowling attack is not a bad effort. Pollard finally scoring runs as well. Pretty sure MI will find a way to lose this game though, can foresee someone like Gibbs, Shah or Duminy scoring heavily.

warriors chased 173 on this track against rajastan. But mumbai have malinga.

 

[Howe_zat]

Rain. Will be hilariously easy for the Cape if they get a five-over game or something in.

 

[Daemon]

Rain. Will be hilariously easy for the Cape if they get a five-over game or something in.

Maybe not with no set batsmen and Malinga. 50 from 5 sounds easy in theory but I doubt it will be that straightforward.

 

[Scaly piscine]

India news: 'Injured' Suryakumar Yadav scores unbeaten 182 | India Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo

stunning

Will be nothing short of a disgrace if Mumbai cheating ****s win it. Should be thrown out, we know they won't be obviously. They've gone way beyond the line between comedy evil (other IPL teams) and outright ****ishness.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Also how long are Mumbai Cheating ****s going to be allowed an extra even more foreign foreign player? Is their legitimised cheating going to be allowed for the entire tournament or just the group stage?

 

[Scaly piscine]

Game rained off. Guess that means Mumbai Cheating ****s get 2 points because the BCCI thinks they'd have won anyway. Other than that it may be a good result for them because their NRR is complete turd, so they'd lose out on tiebreakers unless the BCCI specifically changed the rules for those as well. Teams will now need 3 wins (or 4 if Mumbai CC win their other match) to go ahead of them, except for Cape Cobras, unless other games are rained off.

 

[Howe_zat]

So there's a good chance of Chennai going out now. They'd need to win both their last 2 matches to get through.

Mumbai can still go out, but we'd need Cobras to beat T&T and NSW to win both their remaining games.

*I could be wrong about any and/or all of this.

 

[Howe_zat]

India news: 'Injured' Suryakumar Yadav scores unbeaten 182 | India Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo

stunning

Sounds like they could have used having this bloke in the team while Symonds is occupying space. Bit of an air of Dick Dastardly stopping his car to cheat.

 

[Daemon]

Yeah funny thing is MI would probably be better just playing three internationals: Franklin, Pollard and Malinga.

 

[Scaly piscine]

So there's a good chance of Chennai going out now. They'd need to win both their last 2 matches to get through.

Mumbai can still go out, but we'd need Cobras to beat T&T and NSW to win both their remaining games.

*I could be wrong about any and/or all of this.

Yea it still wouldn't take much for Mumbai to go out. NSW would have to beat Mumbai, that's the key result. Then there's quite a few permutations that would knock Mumbai out, all relying on T&T losing one or both of their remaining games.

 

[Furball]

Game rained off. Guess that means Mumbai Cheating ****s get 2 points because the BCCI thinks they'd have won anyway. Other than that it may be a good result for them because their NRR is complete turd, so they'd lose out on tiebreakers unless the BCCI specifically changed the rules for those as well. Teams will now need 3 wins (or 4 if Mumbai CC win their other match) to go ahead of them, except for Cape Cobras, unless other games are rained off.

See I think you're joking, but I can't be 100% certain...

 

[Flem274*]

Cheats + James Franklin = Root of all evil.

 

[Flem274*]

This "are they English, or are they not?" argument is starting to get my goat. If they were ordinary old Joe Immigrant wanting to live and work in England for a number of years, eventually picking up citizenship, and if they decided they were going to identify as English, then John Smith down at the pub questioning their nationality is rightly recognized as being a douche.

KP is an Englishman who used to be South African. If someone identifies themselves as a certain nationality when they live in that country, no one can take it away from them.

 

[Arjun]

Doesn't India have a proper domestic T20 tournament? Pretty sure I've seen scorecards.

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. It's zonal thoush, not state/region based.

SMAT is a state-based event.

It's a dumb joke, scheduled in the peak of the Indians' international activity, leaving little or no scope for quality cricketers to make the event. Not surprisingly, many of their top players don't even make the IPL teams on the field.

 

[Athlai]

SMAT is a state-based event.

It's a dumb joke, scheduled in the peak of the Indians' international activity, leaving little or no scope for quality cricketers to make the event. Not surprisingly, many of their top players don't even make the IPL teams on the field.

So it's like every domestic tournament in the world then?

 

[Spikey]

If Dan Smith bats at three tonight imma kill benchmark00

 

[benchmark00]

Can see NSW going down harder than a $2 hooker tonight.

 

[G.I.Joe]

So it's like every domestic tournament in the world then?

I think it's seen as a joke tournament because no one took the T20 format seriously here before we won the World T20. Of course, once we won that, we magically had a new understanding and interest in the format, the IPL cropped up, and so the neglected Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy still remains a joke tournament no one here cares about, and everyone skips.

 

[Spikey]

"Katich says he would have liked to bat first as well, NSW are also unchanged. "

it ain't looking good for our pal benchmark00

 

[benchmark00]

I am invincible!!!!!!!!!!!!