Re: The IPL thread

by Josh Carney Thu 28 Feb 2008, 03:14

Plus it is possible that some of these highly paid overseas are not fully accepted by the local crowds given what goes on at the national level.

by embee Thu 28 Feb 2008, 03:18

Josh Carney wrote:Plus it is possible that some of these highly paid overseas are not fully accepted by the local crowds given what goes on at the national level.

When MtFTB starts monstering opposition bowlers the locals will quickly forget how big a ****** he is ...

by Josh Carney Thu 28 Feb 2008, 03:22

Will be interesting to see how all this plays out since it is virtually a first in Cricket with a lot of money at stake even though overseas players have been part of County and occasionally Australian state cricket teams.

by furriner Thu 28 Feb 2008, 04:04

embee wrote:
Josh Carney wrote:Plus it is possible that some of these highly paid overseas are not fully accepted by the local crowds given what goes on at the national level.

When MtFTB starts monstering opposition bowlers the locals will quickly forget how big a ****** he is ...

That much is most likely true.

Still, pity I couldn't be there to show 'our Mathew' some love.

by SG Thu 28 Feb 2008, 04:07

doremi,

How do you post images on the forum?

by furriner Thu 28 Feb 2008, 04:39

SG,
1. Get the web address of the picture. You can get it by right clicking on a picture. Thus

http://www.damnimcute.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/mendes.jpg

2. To the left of the 'link' icon on your Reply mode is the 'image' icon. Click on the 'image' icon and paste the web address into the box that open up. And there you have it:

The IPL thread - Page 2 Mendes

3. Remember to have a box of tissues by your side.

by doremi Thu 28 Feb 2008, 05:31

Not quite correct.

Get the web url, open an account in a picture sharing site, like photobucket.com, etc. Move the photo to your account on the picture sharing site. They'll give you the url you can paste here. Then follow step 2 above.

by furriner Thu 28 Feb 2008, 05:42

You don't need to open an account doremi. I didn't.

Instead of clicking the 'host an Image' icon, click on the one to its right.

by doremi Thu 28 Feb 2008, 05:44

You don't need to, yes, but I think linking it directly from the source is frowned upon by forumotion.

by doremi Thu 28 Feb 2008, 06:11

And Misbah has signed up for Kol.

by doremi Fri 29 Feb 2008, 08:09

For Basil

by doremi Tue 11 Mar 2008, 09:26

Shahrukh unveiled his team today. Kolkata Knight Riders.

by Merlin Tue 11 Mar 2008, 09:43

Presume Hasselhoff is his mascot?

by The One Tue 11 Mar 2008, 10:24

"South African batsman Ashwell Prince was bought by the Mumbai Indians for $175,000, in addition to U-19 players in Saurabh Tiwary and Manish Pandey."

is ambani on drugs?!? $175000 when the others were Misbah-ul-Haq ($125,000), Dimitri Mascarenhas ($100000), Morne Morkel ($60000), Shane Watson ($125000), Sohail Tanvir ($100000), etc

we are f*cked!!

by Chandan Tue 11 Mar 2008, 10:54

I'm not at all happy with Mumbai team. They also let Rohit Sharma slip from their hands and bought Uthappa for a much higher price.

What happened to the concept of players from the catchment area? Looks like Mumbai U-19 players slipped from Mumbai's hand, Delhi's U-19 players slipped from Delhi's hand and so on!

by doremi Tue 11 Mar 2008, 12:24

Jaipur finally makes a few choices that make sense

Morkel at $60,000 could be the best buy by any team yet. I'm surprised Prince wasn't picked up by Bangalore, would fit in nicely with their other batsmen.

by Brass Monkey Tue 11 Mar 2008, 12:27

What's the money mean anyway? It's not as if they haven't all gotten their quota of foreigners anyway. Still, what do I know. It's not as if I've even been following how it all occurs... just that my team is the daddy.

by doremi Tue 11 Mar 2008, 12:29

BTW Mascarenhas joins Jaipur with Hampshire's 'blessings'. First English (probably only) to join the comp.

by JKLever Tue 11 Mar 2008, 12:37

What were the crowds like for ICL doremi?

by JGK Tue 11 Mar 2008, 12:54

Not sure what the crowds are like but there are certainly some classic names playing at the moment.

by taipan Tue 11 Mar 2008, 12:56

JGK wrote:Not sure what the crowds are like but there are certainly some classic names playing at the moment.

It's being played at the moment?

by JGK Tue 11 Mar 2008, 13:01

MAtch starting in half an hour:

Chennai Superstars squad
SG Law, MG Bevan, RP Arnold, HK Badani, V Devendran, J Hariesh, IJ Harvey, R Jesuraj, DT Kumaran, T Kumaran, AC Parore, SV Saravanan, R Sathish, Shabbir Ahmed, J Syed Mohammed, G Vignesh

Lahore Badshahs squad
Inzamam-ul-Haq, Arshad Khan, Azhar Mahmood, Hasan Raza, Humayun Farhat, Imran Farhat, Imran Nazir, Mohammad Sami, Mushtaq Ahmed, Naved-ul-Hasan, Naved Latif, Riaz Afridi, Saqlain Mushtaq, Shahid Nazir, Taufeeq Umar

by taipan Tue 11 Mar 2008, 13:05

Well publicised then. I honestly thought it had come and gone.

Some of those players are older than me FFS.

by doremi Tue 11 Mar 2008, 13:06

"John's last visit to Kolkata was not very memorable. But we assure you this time you'll leave with happy memories."
Sourav Ganguly, the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders, tries to exorcise any demons John Buchanan, the coach, might be carrying from the Test in 2000-01, which Australia famously lost to Ganguly's Indians. Buchanan was Australia's coach then

by Basil Tue 11 Mar 2008, 17:55

doremi wrote:For Basil

Thanks for that: the sad thing is that counties will fill the vacuum left by decent overseas players with has-been or never-was Kolpaks, when they should be looking to bringing on their own young talent.

There was an interesting suggestion in one of our papers recently, which suggested that in future, counties might be allowed to recruit four overseas players for our 20/20 competition.

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