Cricket

ok i'm going to bed now but if you don't chase this down DON'T BOTHER COMING HOME GIRLS

;-)

ok i hung on until now...NZ gettin MURKED XD

Y'know, I could have gone out to watch this but I don't think I could stand an entire day in North Sydney surrounded by guffawing Jagger-types.

Get ready for the Indian South African Premier League 2009! Can the Rajasthan East London Royals defend their crown?

Guffawing? I'd be (by a street) one of the more earnest, cricket-oriented and non-patronising spectators! Anyway, well done ladies! Hope you're not forgotten come the year-end gongs! :D

Oh, England is the frontrunner for the IPL? While this would be a hilarious postscript to The Stanford Era, I doubt the counties could ever get their shit together to hold a child's birthday party, let alone hold an IPL season.

55-6. KP's awful form continues, he's become as bad as the rest.

xp! England's wheels falling off again, like some kind of cricketing clown car. Currently 55-6.

KP was whinging about how tough its been for him this tour, not so surprising he's had a shocker.

well that's giving the WI an advantage right away, you dont let the opposition know your weakness! A captain would know that!

but if he needs a rest then rest him. We're gonna need him this summer. So get him 100% for then.

plus mental fatigue? dont go to the IPL then!

68-8, now in danger of coming in beneath all-time lowest score against the Aussies.

I'm not surprised when the teams best player and former captain is moaning about being tired. It's not great for morale and it certainly not him showing leadership qualities for the future.

I don't really understand why he should be tired anyway. Fucked off about the whole captaincy thing, yes; tired, no.

someone will be along with the rose tinted specs soon to defend him. At least Monty is safe this time.

and harmison too

117 all out. 10 wkt win in 20 overs?

awesome stuff

this is a massacre, awesome stuff from Gayle.

now try and hit freddy

"20 overs" = conservative estimate tbh

holy shit

boooh, maybe they'll collapse now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/7969926.stm

West Indies captain Chris Gayle has hit out at England batsman Kevin Pietersen for comments in a newspaper interview about team-mate Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

Pietersen was quoted as saying that Chanderpaul "never fields" after making a big score and "plays for himself".

But Gayle said Pietersen had "no right" to make such a remark.

"I did talk to him and told him 'You don't need to stoop to that level'. He didn't actually apologise and if he could apologise that would be nice."

Chanderpaul, 34, is a veteran of 119 Tests and 244 one-day internationals and has scored more than 16,500 runs for West Indies in all forms of the game.

Pietersen's comments about him appeared in a wide-ranging interview with the Daily Mail newspaper.

But Gayle said: "Whatever issues he had, he should have kept to himself. I've played with Shiv for years and, as a captain, I get tremendous support from him both on and off the field.

"His batting in both forms of the game has been brilliant and to hear these sorts of comments out in public has been very disappointing."

He added: "We're all big men. There's no need to go to that level and try and degrade other players.

"No-one wants to be degraded in this manner. We're all human beings and everybody is playing this sport to enjoy the game but to take it to that level is very disappointing."

In the interview, Pietersen also said he was "at the end of his tether" as a result of his sacking as England captain and the team's lack of success on the current tour to the Caribbean.

His mood will not have been improved by the manner of England's eight-wicket defeat in Barbados on Friday when they were all out for 117 and the home side knocked off the runs in 14 overs - with Gayle making 80 off 43 balls.

Harmison in for Batty. Not a spinners pitch apparently.

:( keep strong, gareth

Pietersen's a dickhead

lol

Hope Gayle gives him a slap next time he meets him

shocking not out decision there from the umpire. gayle was plum

a curious start

lotsa sixes now

will never see england players doing this.

have we forgotten trescothick already

also lol harmison, who knew

gayle out (fuck you umpire)

you need to make your peace with match officials imo

tres is gone. long gone. He's chosen not to be selected. It's about who is on the field now.

WI turned into England for a few overs there. I'm sure normal service will be resumed now Chanderpaul is there.

KP bowling to Chanderpaul , bowls 5 balls then hurts himself and goes off injured.

rain
booker t and the mg's playing over the tannoy and the english fans recognise it and start dancing along to it.
You know what it is, louis?

what hang on are you talking about the TMS theme

Green Onions

not green onions

Supposedly KP asked to fly home for 48 hours between test matches and was refused and he's not happy about it.

and it's causing problems in the dressing room

if kp is so tired, why is he playing the IPL?

awesome catch from flintoff but i still cant tell if he touched the boundary or not. WI crowd not happy but you really cant tell if he did or not. WI 147-6.
Freddy is an honest guy so i think he'd own up if he touched it but he couldve done without knowing. Any of you see it? from 1 angle there looks like a ripple but from other angles there's nothing. So i guess it must be out.