If you have been having a bad day and would like to lighten up that bad day, take a look at MacGill’s slightly warped view of how the Ashes went. On SBS.com MacGill states how Johnson did fine in the ashes, Aussie picked the team for the future, and that it was the worst England [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Evening’
MacGill losing his marbles
Posted in MacGill Madness, tagged 2009, Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Flintoff, Andrew Symonds, attendance, australia, Cricket, Cricket contracts, Cricket future, Evening, Exciting, Freddie Flintoff, Freddy Flintoff, Freelance, Freelance Cricketer, future, Interest, Lords, Mcc, Money Cricket, ODI, One Day International, Professional Cricket, sport, T20, Test Cricket, Test retirement, test series, Twenty20, waca, White ball, Worl Cup, World Cup on 22/09/2009 | 1 Comment »
Money over test’s
Posted in Money Matters, tagged 2009, attendance, australia, basin reserve, boxing day test, Cowdrey Lecture, Cricket, Cricket contracts, Cricket future, Evening, Exciting, Freelance, Freelance Cricketer, future, Interest, IPL, IPL contracts, Lords, Mcc, Money Cricket, New Zealand cricket, Night Test, ODI, One Day International, Orange ball, perth, Professional Cricket, retirement, six figures cricket, south africa, sport, T20, Test Cricket, Test retirement, test series, Twenty20, World Cup on 18/09/2009 | 1 Comment »
It would appear that younger cricketer’s idolize the world’s top players, but aim to be more like the mediocre six smashing players gaining 6 figure IPL contracts. According to an article in The Daily Telegraph young Aussie cricketers are now putting an IPL contract above a baggie green in their future wish list. They don’t [...]
Wump wump wump!
Posted in Test Match Future, tagged 2009, attendance, australia, basin reserve, BCCI, Boxing day, boxing day test, Cowdrey Lecture, Cricket, Cricket contracts, Cricket future, Evening, Exciting, future, Interest, Lords, Mcc, Money Cricket, Night Test, ODI, One Day International, Orange ball, pink ball, Professional Cricket, sport, T20, test championship, Test Cricket, Test retirement, test series, Twenty20, White ball, Worl Cup, World Cup on 14/09/2009 | 1 Comment »
The day-night test proposed for next May between England and Bangladesh has been put on hold because researchers are unable to find a suitable ball. According to the article in the Sydney Morning Herald a pink ball was put forward, but due to a touch to much movement and difficulties gripping the rock, it has [...]
Twenty20 test matches?
Posted in New age test, tagged 2009, attendance, australia, basin reserve, boxing day test, Cowdrey Lecture, Cricket, Cricket contracts, Cricket future, Evening, Exciting, Freelance, Freelance Cricketer, future, Interest, Lords, Mcc, Money Cricket, New Zealand cricket, Night Test, ODI, One Day International, Professional Cricket, sport, T20, Test Cricket, Test retirement, test series, Twenty20, White ball, World Cup on 09/09/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yeah you read that right, a Twenty20 test match could be a possibility in the future. An article on rediff.com states that the so called Twenty20 test is being discussed by many in the cricketing world as the future of cricket. The format is very simply two innings per side with a 20 over limit [...]
Howzat?!?
Posted in Test Match Future, tagged 2009, attendance, basin reserve, Boxing day, boxing day test, Cowdrey Lecture, Cricket, Cricket contracts, Cricket future, cricket umpire, Evening, Exciting, Freelance, future, Interest, Lords, Mcc, Money Cricket, new referal system, New Zealand cricket, Night Test, ODI, One Day International, Orange ball, Professional Cricket, south africa, sport, T20, Test Cricket, Test retirement, test series, Twenty20, umpire referal, Umpires, waca, White ball, Worl Cup, World Cup on 08/09/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m back following a very slack period, apologies. The Sunday Times has an article quoting former test umpire Peter Willey with his fears for Umpires future in the game. He has it in his mind that with the new referal system set to be introduced next month, the men in charge may forget how to [...]
Step closer to test championship
Posted in New age test, tagged 2009, attendance, australia, basin reserve, Boxing day, Cowdrey Lecture, Cricket, Cricket contracts, Cricket future, Evening, Exciting, future, Interest, Lords, martin crowe, Mcc, Money Cricket, New Zealand cricket, ODI, One Day International, peladophobia, peladophobic, Professional Cricket, sport, T20, Test Cricket, test match championship, Test retirement, test series on 05/08/2009 | Leave a Comment »
The International Cricket Council has called a meeting with the Marlybone Cricket Club to discuss the MCC’s calls for a World Test Championship. It is the first sure step towards a new way of crowning the best teams in test cricket, and hopefully regaining popularity around the globe. According to an article in The Telegraph [...]
Country or IPL???
Posted in Money Matters, Money or country?, tagged 2009, attendance, australia, basin reserve, boxing day test, Cowdrey Lecture, Cricket, Cricket contracts, Cricket future, Daniel Vettori, Evening, Exciting, Freelance, Freelance Cricketer, future, Interest, Money Cricket, New Zealand cricket, ODI, One Day International, Professional Cricket, south africa, sport, T20, Test Cricket, Test retirement, test series, Twenty20, White ball, Worl Cup, World Cup on 26/07/2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to the New Zealand Herald the six Kiwi’s that have IPL contract’s had many sleepless night’s wondering whether to sign on the dotted line for their country. Daniel Vettori, Ross Taylor, Jesse Ryder, Jacob Oram, Brendan McCullum and Kyle Mills have all signed on to play for New Zealand over the next year, but [...]
Bring on the Twilight test match!
Posted in Test Match Future, tagged 2009, attendance, Cricket, Cricket future, Evening, Exciting, future, Interest, Lords, Mcc, Money Cricket, Night Test, ODI, One Day International, Orange ball, Professional Cricket, sport, T20, Test Cricket, test series, Twenty20, White ball, World Cup on 08/07/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was just having a quick glance at the notes for the first day of the ICC board meeting and it is interesting to see what decisions they have made. They have considered recommendations from the ICC Cricket Committee involving day-night tests, umpire reviews, penaltys for presenting poor pitches, etc etc. The major point I [...]
Evening Tests?
Posted in New age test, tagged attendance, australia, basin reserve, Boxing day, boxing day test, Cricket, Evening, Exciting, Interest, Money Cricket, Night Test, perth, Professional Cricket, south africa, sport, T20, Test Cricket, Twenty20, waca, White ball, Worl Cup, World Cup on 15/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Great crowd in today folk’s, 800 people have watched the days play!” That is a typical first day at a Test Match in New Zealand, people trickling in during the day but not sticking around. With Tests being played on weekdays the fans that bring the money through the gates just cannot make it. By [...]