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Budge up, here comes another tournamentLine and Length - Times Online - WBLG - Aug 14, 2008 Next time you hear an international cricketer complain about burn-out, laugh in their face. When enough money is at stake, they will happily play some more. This is the only inference you can make from the news today … |
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Spot the cricketLine and Length - Times Online - WBLG - Jul 25, 2008 Roll up, roll up for the big entertainment at the Rose Bowl tomorrow. It is, the ECB promises, an "eleven-hour unique mix of blistering cricket action mixed with music and entertainment" and would you expect anything … |
Line and Length - Times Online - WBLG - Jul 9, 2008
The draw for finals day of the Twenty20 Cup, which will be at the Rose Bowl on July 26, will be made this evening after the match between Warwickshire and Kent (and before we find out how the Yorkshire/Durham mess has …
Line and Length - Times Online - WBLG - Jul 8, 2008
Good evening from the Brit Oval where I am watching the Twenty20 Cup quarter-final between Middlesex and Lancashire. Technically, it is a home match for Middlesex because Lord's is out of action this week for the Test …
Line and Length - Times Online - WBLG - Jun 25, 2008
You may have read about Graham Napier's assault on Sussex's bowlers at Chelmsford last night. The Essex all-rounder made 152 not out off 58 balls, with 16 sixes - a record number for a Twenty20 innings and the second …
Line and Length - Times Online - WBLG - Jun 24, 2008
Now this is strange. A governing body has decided to stage a sporting event to attract as many fans as possible, rather than just to squeeze money out of them. The ECB released details today of the ticketing for the …
Line and Length - Times Online - WBLG - Jun 11, 2008
The Twenty20 Cup gets under way shortly and I'm at Canterbury for Kent v Sussex. I'd forgotten how annoyingly - and unnecessarily - loud Twenty20 is... Having had my ears bashed by songs from Shania Twain and a popular …
Line and Length - Times Online - WBLG - Jun 2, 2008
I was flying back from Lucerne last night, where Great Britain had rather modest return of one gold and three other medals in the second rowing World Cup, so I missed the final match in the IPL but understand it was a …
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From zero to heroLine and Length - Times Online - WBLG - May 29, 2008 It would probably have been a sensible investment to bet on an Australian being top run-scorer in the Indian Premier League, even if some of the bigger names left the tournament halfway through for their tour to the … |
Line and Length - Times Online - WBLG - May 22, 2008
"Why bother writing about the IPL," one correspondent wrote to me recently, "when you are clearly bitter about its success." Well hopefully no one will detect any bitterness or sarcasm in today's post. As another …