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ECB to PCB:
by Kartik Chintamani
As Sunny once said... I was the king of park cricket... But that bloody Lalit Berry always got me with his beamers.
Now ECB blames BCCI over twittergate
It boils down to BCCI conspiring to make KP available for the Champions League (CLT20). And the only way KP could've been available for the League was if he was free of international commitments.
A seething ECB after the exposé have not only blasted the BCCI, but have also lodged a formal complaint with the ICC for the suspension of the CLT20.
According to our sources, the ICC will seriously consider making an example out of this incident.
An internal inquiry into the matter suggests that there has been an upsurge in such 'accidental' f*ck tweets, in the hope the cricket boards drop the players from the national squads paving the way for more lucrative leagues like the CLT20 and IPL where they can earn more for far lesser efforts.
Thank You, Lalit! Says Who? ECB, that's who!
Well, why would we thank Lalit when there is Sachin and Captain Cool to thank?There's a reason, you see.England have won the world cup. That's right. You aren't dreaming and I haven't gone insane.How did they do it?This is where you get the inside scoop from Bored - sources close to England management sang to the Bored representative.They won because they followed the IPL model.Yes, thanks Lalit. How? Why, by picking 4 foreign players in the 11, ofcourse. Which was the last team in Cricket that won with 4 foreign players? CSK, ofcourse. Which tournament? Exactly! And who dreamed up the 4 foreign player rule? So you can take Cricket out of Lalit's hands but you can never take Lalit out of Cricket!
Freddie the Freelancer
Everyone is talking about whether Freddie has opened Pandora's box, by refusing the ECB contract.
Whether others will follow suit and how cricketing apocalypse is around the corner.
But, one thing I wanna know is, who in the right frame of mind, would pay for a big bag of loose nuts, bolts and broken bones? The cost of these loose nuts could be 1.5 million or more,in dollars not rupees.
Worth a gamble?
I wouldn't want him, for sure. Even for free.
Did you know even before Mark Ramprakash reappeared on the ECB radar, he was on BCCI's?
You did or you didn't?
You know who Mark Ramprakash is, right?
Ok, you are worthy, go on, read about The Mark of a Man.
Anyway, that's how the ECB sniffed him out again.
Kevin Pietersen: English Jatman?
Jatman
Breaking it's silence over the controversy surrounding Virender Sehwag's injury, the BCCI came out in defence of the dashing opener by saying that it was aware of his shoulder injury before the Twenty20 World Cup squad was picked.
English Jatman:
The ECB has not yet revealed the cause of Pietersen's Achilles problem, but it was aware the injury had been troubling him during the West Indies tour. Which begs the question why Hugh Morris, the director of the England cricket and someone present throughout that trip, allowed him to take part in the Indian Premier League.
Jatman has many avatars.
Is he one of them?
Morris also allowed Flintoff to take part in April's IPL, which is where the all-rounder first damaged his right knee, the cause of his impending retirement from Test cricket.
Compared to these men, isn't Sachin one clever guy - he just retires hurt when injured.
And, he's back again...
Mark Ravin Ramprakash, the man refuses to score anything less than three figures these days.
See what he has done now...
At 39 and 256 days, he has scored a 94 ball 102 in the Friends Provident Trophy. With 50 of those runs split 50:50 between those balls sent over and across the rope.
I am sure Ramps would be a "discussion point" when the selectors sit for the next England ODI or T20 team.
He would be one player whose "name" frequented the selection meetings more than coffee's and donuts / biscuts
PS: We at BCC! have neither coffee or donuts while we discuss cricket, see how many times his "name" has cropped up in our discussions
Mark of a man - Some more stats
As NC rightly pointed out in one of his comments, Ramps is getting very good coverage for himself at 40. Thanks to BCC!.
Well now, we have 3 issues to address
1) Can or Can’t England produce a guy who would average mid to high 40s?
It is a million dollar question, I am not sure if I would want to take-up the challenge of answering the question. I would recommend we keep this as a separate discussion. With the thumping win over West Indies (another wooden spoon team) in the first test, I am not sure if this is the right time to start that discussion. For, this positive (one test) might pull some wool over our discerning eyes. So let’s wait for the series to get midway at least.
2) How can they continue to play a batsman who averages 27 for over 50 tests?
The batsman in question is Ramps. Let’s look at some numbers again. A couple of mosaics, easy to read.
Some takeouts
a) Ramps got to play for England in 9 installments. 4 poor, sub 20 outings, 3 in 20s and 2 hovering 40s outings.
b) The longest run was 15 matches at 26 which included a decent Ashes campaign in Australia at 32.
c) Both instances when he averaged 40, he got dropped immediately. While this would make one think that the others might have fared better than this 40, it is not the case.
So how do we explain the selectors dropping a player who averaged 40?
3) Talent pool: I would differ slightly, with the view most of us have. In thinking England has a small talent pool. Let us do one small exercise, take the current T20 team of India and England. Tell me how many players from U-19 levels have gotten in to the teams?
The answer is...
The probability of finding a U-19 player is more in the case of the sub-continental teams & New Zealand, than in Australia, England & West Indies (WI's case is completely different, let's leave them alone for the moment). The reason is simple these countries have a larger talent base to select their players from because their domestic leagues are far more organized than what we have.
I would say Tesco is definitely a thing of the past as far as the current England set-up is concerned.
Why?
There is no Duncan Fletcher.
He won Ashes alright, but he was the Buchanan of England for a great part of his coaching career.
I would say Tesco is definitely a thing of the past as far as the current England set-up is concerned.
Why?
There is no Duncan Fletcher.
He won Ashes alright, but he was the Buchanan of England for a great part of his coaching career.
May be you missed the Mark(s)
Do read all and score full Mark(s)...
* There is a minor glitch in cricinfo, while their cumulative for Ramps shows 2350 runs at 27.32, when you go matchwise it throws what I have shown here. But that variance is only minor and it would go in Ramp’s favour.
KP’s swan cum eagle song
You play well against yourself
You play well against your Pa
You play well against South Africa
You play well against Britannia
You play well against Mama Mia!
You’re from Africa
But they don’t want you
Who the hell are you?
An Englishman or a Jew?
Get out, or we’ll sue! Sue, sue, sue
You get out, out, out!
You get a break
For heaven’s sake
You become big, you rake
You become captain
You become a pain
You gain, you feign
You lose your mind, become insane
Want more, you want more
Want Moores out, want Moores out
You have your way, have your shout
Get ready for one last rout
Drink your ale, drink your stout
Must’ve been drunk
You’ll soon be shrunk
From Big Pom Pietersen
To li’l kid Kevin
Nearly dead, closer to heaven
That’s what they’re saying
That’s what they’re praying
To hell with them
To hell with them
There ain’t no rhyme
There ain’t no reason
You’re a lad
For every commercial season.
why KP & Moores quit...
kp: yaar england main mere siva 'coach' achcha nahi hai...so i quit...
moores: jo aadmi hamesha 'PK' ulta rehta hai...vo captaani kya karega...isska 'coach' nahi ho sakta...so i quit...
before that...ecb in their last-ditch effort to save embarrassment...made KP drink gallons of pepsi...but still failed to make him say 'yeh dil maange moores'...
according to BCC! sources...that's when the fate of the duo was sealed...
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