*Official* Champions League Twenty20 2011

[Athlai]

Auckland bowled alright, but some dire batting too. Bates was pretty gun, he did bowl a genuine four ball in that last over though with that rank full toss. Even CD would have put it away.

 

[MW1304]

Such bizarre sound effects and music, all disjointed and none of it really goes with what's happening. Add that to the commentary and I'll have to mute.

Shakib gone! G'wan Kiwis.

It'll be interesting to see what they use for the English teams. Probably Darius Danesh or something.

 

[Howe_zat]

Nice start. Eurosport still reporting on football when the wicket fell, now they've cut that short, but only to get a quick advert in. So useless.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Dan Norcross (chap behind Test Match Sofa) was paid to write a blog column on the Ashes for Yahoo! India. He told me that one every post he put up there, without exception, a dozen Indian fans felt the need to tell him that "no-one cares about the Ashes".

There's a general distaste for the notion of the Ashes being the premier contest in cricket on the mere basis of it being the oldest regularly contested bilateral series. There's a hint of a closed shop smugness to making a case for the Ashes along those lines, not unlike the American World Series, or the annoyance felt by some fans at the CLT20 claiming itself to be the world cup of domestic teams. If the article sought to talk up the Ashes along those lines, or made oblique references to it, that'd probably explain the comments. I don't think people have a problem with the actual series' themselves, which since 2005 have been very enjoyable for the neutral spectator to watch.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Because of the dumb qualification system a big win alone has a good chance of putting Auckland through to the competition proper.

 

[Howe_zat]

There's a general distaste for the notion of the Ashes being the premier contest in cricket on the mere basis of it being the oldest regularly contested bilateral series. There's a hint of a closed shop smugness to making a case for the Ashes along those lines, not unlike the American World Series, or the annoyance felt by some fans at the CLT20 claiming itself to be the world cup of domestic teams. If the article sought to talk up the Ashes along those lines, or made oblique references to it, that'd probably explain the comments. I don't think people have a problem with the actual series' themselves, which since 2005 have been very enjoyable for the neutral spectator to watch.

I see what you did there.

But I'm sure Dan wasn't trying to give that impression, just giving a naturally enthusiastic account of the series. Why would he try and make out the Ashes were superior while writing for an Indian website?

 

[Howe_zat]

Anyhoo, this is a tonking now. Some sweet shots from Vincent.

 

[G.I.Joe]

I see what you did there.

But I'm sure Dan wasn't trying to give that impression, just giving a naturally enthusiastic account of the series. Why would he try and make out the Ashes were superior while writing for an Indian website?

Sorry, couldn't resist I don't know man. I haven't read the blog. Maybe they were just ***** with a chip on their shoulders. We've got a sixth of humanity here. Stands to reason that every sixth idiot on the internets is Indian too, and they'd naturally all gravitate toward the cricket sites in large swarms

 

[Daemon]

Sorry, couldn't resist I don't know man. I haven't read the blog. Maybe they were just ***** with a chip on their shoulders. We've got a sixth of humanity here. Stands to reason that every sixth idiot on the internets is Indian too, and they'd naturally all gravitate toward the cricket sites in large swarms

Haha, nicely put.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Come Kiwis do something constructive in your entire sporting existence ffs. Don't botch this.

 

[MW1304]

Shot Andre. These two could finish this in a couple of balls tbh.

 

[Scaly piscine]

FFS

Chasing 122 and against the worst death bowlers on the planet. ****ing useless.

 

[Daemon]

Epic choke.

 

[SeamUp]

TALK ABOUT GROUP OF DEATH

Group A

Chennai Super Kings
Mumbai Indians
New South Wales Blues
Cape Cobras
Pool B Winner or Q2

 

[centurymaker]

OMFG.

auckland fail

 

[SteveNZ]

No surprise, the tired old 'choke' analysis.

 

[Zinzan]

lol @ the choking of NZ teams in this tournaments history. Didn't CD also have 2-3 incredibly close loses last year?

 

[SteveNZ]

lol @ the choking of NZ teams in this tournaments history. Didn't CD also have 2-3 incredibly close loses last year?

'Lol' at teams losing by close margins, therefore must be chokes.

 

[Flem274*]

NZ team in actually competing when their players haven't been robbed by stupid tacky franchises shocker.

Would love nothing more than to get these IPL teams somewhere like South Africa without their overseas players. Would be beautiful.

 

[Jono]

Why the **** is Jayasuriya still playing?

FFS you're an MP now, go represent your constituents.