Begining of the end of Game of Cricket

Hardly, 4 T20 hundreads since its beginning and the fire works and surpirses just keep on coming, I thing this was a stroke of genius and the players have really made it all it can be.

G'day again h4

Pity about the aussies leaving.
We in Oz are starting to get the day games at a reasonable hour.

Tonight I'll be watching the game about 2100 instead of recording them.

Any opinions on the Harbajahn bully?

Bit anoyying really, I thought he was innocent in OZ, but this is just ridiculous and he should not have done it, although he may thin twice now that that ban has hurt him bad.

I honestly thought that in Australia he was not totally to blame and brought a lot of fun to the series after all cricketers are grown men.

The monkey thing ressurected allegedly by him about Roy was OTT if correct and we will never know the intent of Harby ie was he responding to taunts?

His treatment of Sreethanth who is only a youth was unforgiveable.

agreed about Sree, could be a great fast bowler for indais future if he could just be consistent.

As an Aussie I am of mongrel extraction in probable order Scots Irish Scandinavian and reluctantly English

Thus not a purebred like yourself but it helps the dna inheritance insofar as one has no inherent racial/religious bias genetically.

I read a lot on the various IPL sites and feel heartened by the fairness of the various commentaries by the Indian contributors.

ie Aussies and other countries get praised and Indians get knocked and vice versa etc.

The IPL has united the cricketing countries so far.

Do you see my point?

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Australia in India ATM is no longer the bad guy.

One topic of discussion was a comparison of Hayden and Gambhir as openers in the 20/20 game.

I am watching Gambhir v Chennai as I speak.

Much as I admire Matty as a fellow Queenslander this guy is good.

Sehwag tonight with homeground advantage and first use of the wicket lost to a vastly inferior team.
Sehwag and Ganguly have been described in the Indian media as overconfident fools.

Tonight Sehwwag brought himself on as a bowler and conceded enough runs to lose the match.

He then at the death outbowled McGrath prematurely for minimal runs and bowled Malik instead for the last over.

Two newly arrived batsmen were at the crease with 15 runs and hit 6 and a 4 off Maliks first two balls and went on to win the match.

Congratulations Dhoni on winning by default.

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Originally posted by Aussie John:
One topic of discussion was a comparison of Hayden and Gambhir as openers in the 20/20 game.

I am watching Gambhir v Chennai as I speak.

Much as I admire Matty as a fellow Queenslander this guy is good.

I am loving seeing Gambhirs big scores, he is most definately the future of indias opening pair and as for comparisons to hayden, this early in his career, he is showing a very good fight and would not be surprised if he matched some of haydens feats, he doesnt appear the bully but it looks like he can be one.

Value for money and an insight into t20 cricket.

Will it take over from the one dayers?
After all from Soccer through to Rugby you name the sport. They are all 2/3 hors in length.

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IPL sparks Indian betting frenzy
By Bruce Loudon in New Delhi
May 13, 2008 A STAGGERING $5.6 billion is likely to be wagered on the Indian Premier League competition, it was estimated, as a new survey showed that an astonishing 131 million Indians have been watching matches on television.

These latest statistics - published in one newspaper under the headline "IPL showers moolah" - came as detailed new performance tables disclosed that just past the halfway stage of the 44-day, 59-match series Australians Shane Watson and Shaun Marsh are firmly at the top of intricate assessments of which foreign players are providing the best value for money.

Watson heads the so-called MVP index, a collation of batting, bowling and fielding points. On 418 points, the Queensland all-rounder contracted to Shane Warne's Rajasthan Royals is way ahead of all the 128 other foreigners playing in the tournament - with Ricky Ponting, comparatively, listed in 110th spot with just 15 points.

A second so-called PV index lists the foreign players in terms of "value for money" and what each run costs on the basis of what they are being paid. On this index, Shaun Marsh, playing for a relatively paltry fee of $32,000, is at the head of the list, on $86 per run, with Watson, playing for a fee of $133,000, on $159 per run.

On this table, the disappointing performance by Ponting, playing for the Kolkata Knight Riders for a fee of $426,000, is listed as costing $7949 per run, though the cellar dweller on the index is South African Herschelle Gibbs, whose fee of $613,000 means that each run he has made for the poorly performing Hyderabad Deccan Chargers has cost $17,692.

Publications of the two performance indexes underlines, yet again, the importance of the financial aspects of the billion-dollar competition, with the leading business newspaper The Economic Times reporting estimates that $5.6 billion will be wagered in mostly illegal betting on the competition by the time it winds up on June 1.

The estimate, which is impossible to confirm, but in line with other assessments as well as being in keeping with precedents from other, similar competitions such as last year's World Cup, comes from the burgeoning "satta bazaar", the illegal gambling centres that flourish and prosper on every street corner in every city across India and which is, according to the newspaper, transfixed by the IPL.

According to its front-page report, frenzied betting is focused on every aspect of the competition, and "bookmakers are an excited lot as the money is really big this time - with bets being laid out for the best batsmen, best team and even the best southpaw. The bookmakers are looking at this as a mega event."

The bazaar reportedly places Bollywood actor Prety Zinta's Kings XI Punjab at the shortest odds of 100-125 rupees, followed by the Chennai Super Kings at Rs100-132 and Shane Warne's Rajasthan Royals on Rs100-135. But a leading bookie is quoted by The Economic Times as saying: "The most interesting thing about this tournament is that the odds are changing very fast. If, yesterday, Chennai was the favourite team, today you will find a new team emerging at that position."

The huge ground and television audiences the matches are getting is undoubtedly contributing to this, with a survey by MindShare Insights published showing that an estimated 131 million Indians have been watching the competition at some stage - a number regarded as astonishing by analysts, given the low rate of television ownership across much of the country.



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I hope Sehwag manages his bowlers much better tonight (10) minutes away)

I have invested heaps on Delhi to get square.

H4 will know this one was Calcutta an English corruption of Kolkata?

I do know, and from the looks of that much, it looks like sehwag did manage his bowlers much better, its just that Ganguly did a better job with his.