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[elwood blues]

The final of the Stanford Super Series is on tomorrow night with the winning team picking up $1million a man.
Puts a bit of pressure on when a dropped catch could cost your team mates that amount of money.
England v The Stanford Superstars 9.30pm tomorrow.

 

[dotty]

The final of the Stanford Super Series is on tomorrow night with the winning team picking up $1million a man.
Puts a bit of pressure on when a dropped catch could cost your team mates that amount of money.
England v The Stanford Superstars 9.30pm tomorrow.

ive seen england suffer some embarassing defeats over the years and this would be right up there.

chris gayle - what a player.

 

[elwood blues]

ive seen england suffer some embarassing defeats over the years and this would be right up there.

chris gayle - what a player.

they were truly awful alright.
In better news Ireland won the Intercontinental Cup for the third successive year by beating Namibia.
Niall O Brien scored 119 no.

 

[dotty]

they were truly awful alright.
In better news Ireland won the Intercontinental Cup for the third successive year by beating Namibia.
Niall O Brien scored 119 no.

yeah,spent the last half hour or so trying to source some higlights,out of luck so far.

watched a preview programme a few weeks ago in the run up to the stanford series where the likes of nasser hussain,michael atherton,jeremy snape and an aussie,whose name escapes me at the moment - sat around and discussed englands potential lineup - the end result being that the selectors faced a difficult decision,general consensus england were spoilt for choice - and they also questioned the oppositions quality.

 

[elwood blues]

England off to a flyer in Pietersens first game as captain.
Record one day score against them by India of 387/5
England 229 in reply

 

[delzer]

yeah saw that. was a fast pitch too. england were terrible looked light years behind india

 

[dotty]

some knock from yuvraj,maybe his absence from the team over the past few months has given him the kick up the ass he needed - certainly being dropped has had the right effect on sehwag.

england were poor again,some soft dismissals.

 

[elwood blues]

India 2-0 up in the series now

Another century for Yuvrag and as a bonus he took 4 wickets for 28.

 

[dotty]

India 2-0 up in the series now

Another century for Yuvrag and as a bonus he took 4 wickets for 28.

yep watched it,on his day he is top quality,theres a spot for him in the test side if he can keep this form up,same to can be said of rohit sharma,the future of indian cricket especially at ODI level is very promising.

another question - would you replace shane watson for the returning andrew symonds?

 

[ANVIL]

Congratulations to Eoin Morgan on getting his call-up to the England Test squad for the forthcoming two-match series against Bangladesh.

This is a young man who is going places and ultimately, in a rather perverse way, this will be good for Irish cricket.