Random Cricket Thread (International Cricket)

[Arthur Crabtree]

Headingley?

[Aidan11]

Headingley?

[Arthur Crabtree]

Too hot to play in the middle east in our summer. Maybe someone should tell FIFA.

[Peter Lanky]

Australia play an ODI series against Pakistan in late August. Nobody knows where it will be held. They can't play in Pakistan for security reasons, they can't play in the Gulf as it is too hot. Sri Lanka and Malaysia are the possible places to play according to an Australian newspaper.

Assuming anything played in Malaysia would likely be close to KL. it rains buckets every day around 5pm, as the dumb idiots who schedule F1 races at 4pm keep finding out.....and not learning.

[dan08]

Australia play an ODI series against Pakistan in late August. Nobody knows where it will be held. They can't play in Pakistan for security reasons, they can't play in the Gulf as it is too hot. Sri Lanka and Malaysia are the possible places to play according to an Australian newspaper.

Assuming anything played in Malaysia would likely be close to KL. it rains buckets every day around 5pm, as the dumb idiots who schedule F1 races at 4pm keep finding out.....and not learning.

There was an ODI tri-series in KL (played at the Kinrara Oval) in 2006. 2 of the 7 matches were rain affected as they were Day/Night. You either have to hope it doesn't rain (which is rare) or start the matches early in the morning (which is happening in the current World Cricket League matches there where matches start at 9:30).

[Peter Lanky]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/17133632

What's all this about? It seems rather draconian to me to force some sort of brainwashing on the 99% of cricketers who will never consider doing something corrupt.

[Alviro Patterson]

Headingley?

Funnily enough Headingley is available during late August

[Aidan11]

Headingley?

Funnily enough Headingley is available during late August

If they host another test like that it will be available all through the next domestic season.

[Alviro Patterson]

Headingley?

Funnily enough Headingley is available during late August

If they host another test like that it will be available all through the next domestic season.

Was not impressed when Stewart Regan swapped the England-Bangladesh test for that, relying on the ethnics to turn up and pay inflated ticket prices is suicide.

With Headingley guaranteed a test match and ODI until 2019, Yorkshire plan to be debt free by then.

[dan08]

"Mark Ramprakash, Surrey's former England batsman, will captain MCC against the champion county, Lancashire, in the traditional precursor to the English domestic season - a four-day match that will again be at the forefront of MCC's campaign for a trial of floodlit Test cricket. The March 27-30 match, once fought out in bitterly cold conditions in England in early April, will again involve pink balls under the floodlights at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi."

MCC squad: Mark Ramprakash (Surrey), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Gareth Batty (Surrey), Ian Blackwell (Durham), Lewis Gregory (Somerset), Hamish Marshall (New Zealand and Gloucestershire), Rana Naved-ul-Hasan (Pakistan and Derbyshire), Niall O'Brien (Ireland and Northamptonshire), Stephen Peters (Northamptonshire), Gareth Rees (Glamorgan), Alan Richardson (Worcestershire).
Note: Marshall and Naved will be replaced by Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly for the T20 tournament.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cric ... 55098.html

[Peter Lanky]

"Mark Ramprakash, Surrey's former England batsman, will captain MCC against the champion county, Lancashire, in the traditional precursor to the English domestic season .........

Good forward thinking again.

[dan08]

"Keith Wyness, the former chief executive of both Aberdeen and Everton FC, has taken on the challenge of selling Twenty20 cricket to the United States."

http://www.espncricinfo.com/usa/content ... 55128.html

[Alviro Patterson]

Surely with a MCC T20 tournament you'd have the T20 champions playing (Leicestershire), would be nice to see Paul Nixon play one more time.

[meninblue]

Drunk spectator at nets provoking Rohit who starts giving it back to the spectator with bad words. Praveen joins and gives it back very badly to the spectator.
Couldn't stop laughing. Even Virat looks to be a saint given his encounters with spectators if compared with Praveen.

Hopefully the fans will learn to respect cricketers.

[dan08]

What ever happened to Atul Sharma?

The Indian bowler who could apparently bowl at 100mph and was signed by Rajasthan Royals a few years ago but has never actually played a game in his whole career...