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Eng 68-3 after 18. Pak have bowled really well on a decent batting surface.

Strange goings on with the Eng team, Colly's retired hurt and now Bell's called for a runner...
 
BTV_is_neutral said:
I did...
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Ah you mean their opening statement is always that, right?

Just could never stand Afridi. He thinks he's amazing, but for me will never be a top player. Was rubbish throughout most of his career, swinging at everything, has become decent in the last few years but clearly not as good as he is in his own head.
 
Eng make 256-6 from their 50. Good total and a good recovery led by a brilliant century from Morgan. The guy is such a class player, I wonder if he's forced himself into the Ashes squad with this score, but I'm sure he would have been selected anyway.

Pak will need a good start and hopefully it's a good chase. Unfortunately, Utd takes priority so I won't be watching much of Pak's innings, but I hope they do well and make it a close game, would be nice if the series marred by controversy can give the fans something to remember (for the right reasons)...
 
Eng thump Pak by 121 runs. Controversial series finally brought to a close with a great performance by Morgan.

Next up for England - Australia in the Ashes...
 
ha_rooney said:
Eng make 256-6 from their 50. Good total and a good recovery led by a brilliant century from Morgan. The guy is such a class player, I wonder if he's forced himself into the Ashes squad with this score, but I'm sure he would have been selected anyway.
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He'll be in the squad, no doubt about that
 
ha_rooney said:
No suprise. Butt should be sacked, fecking embarassment.
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Most suspicious is that he talks of "bookies circles". How is it that is is hearing anything at all from "bookies circles"?
 
Panesar and Tremlett named in the Ashes squad. Suprised Tremlett was named, but his size and bowling style will suite him in Australia. I personally would not have named Bresnan as a back-up seamer, I'd have gone for Shahzad as I think he's far more likely to take a wicket than Bresnan, but good squad overall.
 
Can't believe Bresnan regularly gets into a test squad.
 
Bucknor gives LBW decision a YEAR after match ends

West Indian umpire Steve Bucknor, known to take his time over decisions, really went overboard last week when he turned up at Mitchell Johnson's residence and shocked the Aussie bowler by granting an lbw appeal he had made against Ashwell Prince - in the Test match played between Australia and South Africa in Cape Town in March 2009, which was, incidentally, Bucknor's final game.

"It was the strangest thing," said a visibly shaken Johnson. "I heard this knock on the door, and when I opened it, it was Steve Bucknor. He proceeded to slowly raise his finger, nod and murmur 'out' in his unmistakable baritone. I had absolutely no clue what was going on - until he explained the situation."

It turns out that, after more than a year of careful consideration, Bucknor had finally decided that Johnson's appeal indeed had merit, and that Prince was plumb in front. So the umpire decided to do the right thing and, even though it was a bit late in the day, give the batsman out.

"I know he takes his time but this is beyond ridiculous!" thundered the furious Australia skipper, Ricky Ponting. "The decision could have changed the match. Prince went on to score 150, putting the game out of our reach. A few seconds is all right, but 18 months to give an lbw decision is a bit much, even for Bucknor," he added in frustration.

Bucknor, however, insisted that he had done no wrong, saying, "Everyone knows that the most important thing is to get the decision right. That's why I spent the last year or so carefully studying video replays, photo analyses and reliving the moment in my mind, until I was sure that Prince was most definitely out and had to go."

He also admitted that since that particular match was shown only a couple of times in the intervening period, he often had to resort to carefully studying replays of other, completely irrelevant lbws from unrelated games that he didn't even officiate in. When a reporter had the temerity to suggest that this was a tad nonsensical, Bucknor retaliated angrily, saying, "You media people are never happy. You've always said that umpires should use the TV replays whenever possible - which is exactly what I have done. So what's the problem?"

Bucknor's press conference was cut short as he had to leave for South America urgently, to blow the whistle for an off-side decision against El Salvador in their football World Cup qualifier against the Netherlands Antilles in 1988.
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:lol: Better late than never...
 
Spoony Youngblood said:
But how do people feel about the possibility of games being fixed? It should turn off any sane person. Really though, it's a huge mess. It really is. The news of match fixing is saddening.
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Obviously the Woolmer and Cronje scandals run deeper and have been covered up. Which is precisely why I feel the buck doesn't stop with the players but goes deeper with the management as well.

The cricket board in India is extremely corrupt and for obvious reasons is a cash cow. I'm sure they were and are involved but too are powerful to dispel blame.
 
So now Butt has withdrawn his statement and apologised for making it and claims to have been misunderstood!

What a muppet. If he remains at the head of Pakistani cricket then there's not really much hope is there?
 
Doesn't matter if Butt stays or not. Pakistan cricket will not change regardless of his position. We're corrupt to the end of our knobs.
 
I think Butt is out in a month or so, and that's why the wider cricket community haven't made as big a deal out of this as they could have.
 
Not on TV here.. checking the score online every now and then. Bangladesh are gonna win this..
 
150/6

I think NZ will get across the line, Bangladesh really are rubbish. Need a 5 year hiatus from top tier cricket, and a complete revamp.

Australian Cricket Board tried to help out a couple of years ago, but certain tossers wanted 'baksheesh'. :lol: :lol:

Can you imagine, free advice, and the idiots had the gall to demand Baksheesh...so they, the board that is, got told to piss off.
 
Not watching this match, but in general Bangladesh seem to have come on a fair bit. Admittedly, it's taken them a long time, but they have some good players like Tamim Iqbal, Shakib, Mortaza and some decent players like Siddique, Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur. The other seamers whose names I don't really know seemed decent. Players like Shafiul(not sure if I got the name right), Shahadat work up some decent pace..

Jamie Siddons seems to be a top coach.
 
zing said:
Not watching this match, but in general Bangladesh seem to have come on a fair bit. Admittedly, it's taken them a long time, but they have some good players like Tamim Iqbal, Shakib, Mortaza and some decent players like Siddique, Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur. The other seamers whose names I don't really know seemed decent. Players like Shafiul(not sure if I got the name right), Shahadat work up some decent pace..

Jamie Siddons seems to be a top coach.
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There has been a fair bit of improvement, but that was to be expected, when you start at rock bottom, anything is an improvement.

There are a few players, and someone like Tamim, who doesn't look out of place at all in international cricket. But it's a boring mantra that's been spat out for a decade now, 'still learning', 'young team', 'need more consistency'

Siddons has done really well behind the scenes, but he has made some tactical mistakes in a few of the matches. With Bangladesh being so rubbish, the last thing needed is mistakes by the man in charge. But overall, he has definitely moved things forward, and been a great asset to have.
 
Bangladesh win, by 9 runs.

Out of the 18 times the teams have played each other, this is only the 2nd time Bangladesh have won.
 
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Get the feck in there!

We had some help from the Duckworth Lewis equation, but whatever advantage we had was more than redressed by the absence of Tamim and Mortaza. No team can afford to lose two of their best three players, least of all Bangladesh. Really proud of that effort.

Also nice to see Shakib pull his finger out. He's had a pretty forgettable year but it appears that someone's reminded him that he's a world class all-rounder. I think the fact that injuries have made him the point again may have brought out the best in him.
 
Melbourne Red said:
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Get the feck in there!

We had some help from the Duckworth Lewis equation, but whatever advantage we had was more than redressed by the absence of Tamim and Mortaza. No team can afford to lose two of their best three players, least of all Bangladesh. Really proud of that effort.

Also nice to see Shakib pull his finger out. He's had a pretty forgettable year but it appears that someone's reminded him that he's a world class all-rounder. I think the fact that injuries have made him the point again may have brought out the best in him.
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DL wasn't too bad for the Kiwis...never above 6, and they lost those cricual wickets to Shakib before the rain.
 
I think they might have hauled it in if Taylor, Vettori and McCullum had had time to get their eyes in.

On another note, I fecking hate it when we win on days when there's no decent stream available. Did Siddons say anything of note after the game?
 
Nope just jumped up and down with joy...was over the moon. Just said, can't be satisfied with 1 win, need to push on for the rest of the series.
 
If Mortaza's done something serious to his ankle we can just about write off the rest of this series I reckon. The Kiwis will be determined to sweep the next four matches, and while Mortaza's bowling is very much overrated, on his good days he's a good stump-to-stump good length bowler who saves 20 runs with his accuracy - something we're not likely to see from Shafiul if he comes in IMO.
 
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If Mortaza's done something serious to his ankle we can just about write off the rest of this series I reckon. The Kiwis will be determined to sweep the next four matches, and while Mortaza's bowling is very much overrated, on his good days he's a good stump-to-stump good length bowler who saves 20 runs with his accuracy - something we're not likely to see from Shafiul if he comes in IMO.
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Mash is out for the next match for sure, and Nazmul might be too, last ball of the match, he had a caught and bowled opportunity, but the ball was absolutely pasted at him.

He unfortunately got fingertips to it, so if he's broken or split a finger on his bowling hand, he will be out too.

:(
 
Has the Mortaza thing been confirmed?

Mahbubul Alam should be brought in for Nazmul. Rubel will go for 9 runs an over, and if Rasel doesn't find any swing then the big hitters in the NZ line up will have a field day with him.
 
Mash out for two weeks apparently. Oh well, may as well enjoy the win.
 
England's head batting coach will switch to the Aussies in the middle of the Ashes series. He will leave his post with the England team after the 2nd test and join the Aussies as their "assistant coach and team analyst for Cricket Australia".

CHARLES SALE: EXCLUSIVE - England coach Dene Hills will defect to the Aussies DURING Ashes | Mail Online

Really bad move by the ECB, if they knew he was going to leave they should have put him on gardening leave before the Pak series. Keeping him on for 2 Ashes test matches, and then knowing he'll 'defect' to the other team in the middle of it is a cock up.
 
Never a fan of the IPL...the farce continues

IPL terminates Punjab, Rajasthan franchises

ESPNcricinfo staff

October 10, 2010
The IPL governing council has ejected the Rajasthan Royals and the Kings XI Punjab from the league on charges of transgression of shareholding and ownership norms that threatened to "shake the very foundation of the tender process", while granting a temporary breather to the Kochi franchise to put its house on order.

The decision was taken at the emergency meeting of the governing council in Mumbai on Sunday, a full five days before the deadline given to the three franchises to reply to notices issued by the IPL lapsed. While a co-owner of the Rajasthan Royals, Raj Kundra, said that they would challenge the matter in the court, a Punjab official said that they would try to resolve the issue through negotiations.

The announcement to terminate agreements with the two franchises came after days of hectic speculations and raised further speculations about its implications. Shashank Manohar, the BCCI president said that the board was yet to consider the possibilities, which now include keeping the IPL down to eight teams, its original size, or a fresh tender process to induct two new teams.

"With regards to Rajasthan, the bid was given by a different bidder and the agreement was entered into with a different company," Manohar said. "The shareholding pattern was different. The shares were transferred into with different people without the permission of the governing council."

When asked about Kochi, Manohar said the franchise hadn't been scrapped because it hadn't violated the agreement yet, but was only suffering from internal disputes. He said Kochi had ten days to resolve all problems and form a joint venture company to hold the franchise rights otherwise it also ran the risk of being ejected from the league.

Kundra said he was shocked by the developments. "I don't know how IPL 4 will be held if the BCCI starts treating teams in this manner," he said. "I am not in a position to make any further comments until I receive a formal copy of the termination agreement. Obviously, I will be seeking legal opinion in this matter."

Vijay Mallya, the owner of Royal Challengers Bangalore, reacted strongly in a message to Shilpa Shetty, another co-owner of Rajasthan, on his Twitter page. "This is down right ridiculous and raises serious questions on the attitude of the BCCI towards IPL franchisees," Mallya said.

An official with the Punjab franchise, however, said that they were not considering legal options at the moment and expressed hope of resolving the situation with the BCCI. "We are in shock," he told ESPNcricinfo. "It came out of the blue, it was absolutely unexpected."

Sunday's meeting was the first for the reconstituted governing council, which had its membership reduced from 14 to eight, and its tenure and powers cut. Chirayu Amin was appointed the chairman of body, replacing ousted chairman Lalit Modi, and the rest of the council comprises five other members - Arun Jaitley, Ranjib Biswal, Anurag Thakur, Ajay Shirke and Rajiv Shukla - and two former cricketers, Ravi Shastri and Mohinder Amarnath, as honorary members.
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Poor Shilpa Shetty and Priety Zinta...hehe.

Obviously the players and fans too....they will appeal so let's see where this end up.
 
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Two in a row!

May as well save everyone a lot of bother and just hand us the World Cup now tbh
 
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