equatorI know I have mocked this champion’s trophy, and for that I do apologise.
Clearly the best two teams in ODI world cricket have made it through this tough audition process to fight for the white jackets.
Even if they are missing one or two players each. Jesse, Bracken, Haddin, Oram, and Clarke.
They still won the games that mattered and made the final.
Very exciting.
I obviously don’t like this tournament much, but do the ICC?
If they really believed in the tournament wouldn’t they have scheduled the final on the weekend?
Come on.
What a stupid fucking day to have a final.
In most cultures Monday is a workday, and being that the average person will not take a day off for a tournament that no one cares about.
So how many people will be watching when the game starts.
It will be the middle of the night in the two countries that are playing the match.
England will be at work, and wont care.
Indian cricket fans will look for the result, but none of them are going to care too much, even if Australia lose.
The rest of the cricket community won’t care either.
So who will be watching, a bunch of die hards from either country, some people will spare time on their hands, and people channel surfing between ads of two and a half men repeats.
Oh what a final it shall be.
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oh ya 2 1/2 men i knew ther was sumthin to watch tonyt ! thank u
ICC needed to hire Lalit Modi as a consultant for this tournament. Certainly he would have trumpeted the fact that a Monday final was something he was meaning to do for the IPL, because a Monday final will revolutionize cricket. No one’s ever thought of it before! Monday final! Yes! He would be a pioneer, a visionary once more.
http://blogs.cricinfo.com/thelonghandle/2009/10/i_dont_like_mondays.php
Looks like someone from cricinfo copied you. Only recently achettup had a similar allegation against Bosey. I was inclined to give Bosye the benefit of doubt then.
Do you feel aggrieved?
To clarify things, I still give Bosey the benefit of doubt.
Thats quite incredible raj, because by sheer coincidence I’ve given him the benefit of doubt to Bosey as well, something you must have noticed after your last three visits (once each day!) to my blog, and to re-read that article in particular. But since you insist on flogging a dead horse, maybe you noticed that this is a common enough theme for several different authors to have commented on it, and yet each of their articles seem to be completely different in style and along with specific examples they’ve given.
When Bosey himself said the similarity between the two articles was good enough to make someone feel aggrieved, when there were absolutely NO other articles published around then to have all those similarities, I think most people could quite easily understand why it annoyed me. Strange though that you choose to keep bringing it up. Maybe you like the fact that I actually thanked you for bringing Bosey to explain his side of the matter and want more people to know that?
I find it funny though, you stayed away from my blog for a long time after the last time I mentioned you in a post, when you made that absurd claim that the real chuckers in cricket history were Lillee and McGrath and I proved how incredibly daft your argument was and that you actually had no clue what you were talking about when you spoke about the “naked eye” and science. Would have loved to see a comment on that post too
Gentlemen, gentlemen, can we please leave the personal bickering to private correspondences, and use this blog only for genuine insults to cricketers, their countries, and the cricket establishment please.
I mean, are you seriously suggesting that no one else thought of the inanity of a Monday final. No one would care to write about something so trivial, unless they are paid to create copy, thats all.
BTW, real cricket-loving nations like India and Pakistan never let work come in the way of cricket. But then, we have real freedom, unlike you pretend wage-slave nations.
Raj, the time stamp on that post is before mine went up, so unless he came into my head and stole it, a possibility, i’d say he should be the aggrieved one. I just broke a story that every other newspaper in the UK went with, and got no credit, if the odd blogger steals my ideas, good luck to them.
Shame they couldn’t have played a day match at least, I’d have stayed up for that.. as it is the toss is at 11pm (midnight in New Zealand).
Vettori’s out, hammy torn
I didnt mean any offence achettup. Cool down. I guess time has to heal your wounds. It will.
No more on this subject as requested by other commenters.
I see… so what exactly was the purpose of this totally unrelated off-topic, misinformed and poorly researched comment of yours? I’m not sure what “wounds” you’re talking about, if its this constant antagonism that you seem to enjoy, that has gotten you into heated exchanges in the past with almost everyone from Amy, Jrod, Homer and Nesta (who eventually banned you from commenting on his site which is quite something when you consider he is one of the nicest and most tolerant cricket bloggers around) from my quick 5 second recollection, then you needn’t worry, nobody’s been injured and to be quite honest nobody’s too bothered once the next post goes up.
Seems like lots of things happened while I was engrossed in quarter end related work.
I can confirm that, although I do have a lot of time on my hands, I have not yet mastered the sneaky art of psychic burglary. I wish I had such an ability, because Jrod’s version was much snappier than mine. It isn’t that I’m paid by the word, it’s just that I don’t know when to shut up.
Great blog, by the way – Cricinfo needs more CWB
Andrew, It is a shame, if you could do it I would like to steal Shahid Afridi’s secrets. Cheers, but I think one a week of CWB is enough for cricinfo.
Doesn’t Monday Night Football (the American version) rank as one of the most succesful sporting events of all time? But what would a bunch of seppos know about selling sport?
Andrew, cricinfo is for fags – its run by brits. Jrod, please dont be lured away by their lucre. If i could find another commentay site, I would never even go there, except maybe for Andy.
Monday night, everyone is home monday night, and it works. Cricket is played over huge timezones, there is no monday night in a global cricket tournament.