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Kyle Coetzer’s catch
By Will last year, mid-June, No Comments; be the first!
I’ve finally found the video of Kyle Coetzer’s astonishing leap at long-on in Scotland’s match against South Africa. All the Associates did themselves no harm in this tournament, and this is comfortably the competition’s best catch. Absolutely brilliant. Just look at it!
Click here if you can’t see the video above.
No Comments »England beat India. World turns upside down
By Will last year, mid-June, 10 Comments »
What’s happening? That isn’t rhetoric. Please: what’s going on?
England lose to the Dutch, thrash Netherlands, are put back in their box by South Africa and now throw everything at India, spanking them convincingly. These are not the results anybody expected; that India, the champions, are going home is difficult enough to comprehend. That it was England who did it, a team so laughably inconsistent, who play one-day cricket as though so little depends on it, is perplexing in the extreme. It’s wonderful, too, and not because I happen to be English; wonderful that this stupid format produces such ridiculousness. It encourages outlandish behaviour and cricket but the crucial essences of the sport still apply. A year ago, I don’t think you’d have accepted a captain suggesting to your team “let’s bounce them out”, even if that team is particularly inept at playing short-pitch bowling. If anything, Twenty20 encourages orthodoxy as much as unorthodoxy.
It’s all gone brilliantly bonkers. This time tomorrow, England might be in the semi-finals. Stop laughing at the back.
10 Comments »Tickets for 2009 World Twenty20 on sale
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of June, 2 Comments »
Tickets for next’s year World Twenty20, to be held in England, have now gone on sale. Go get ‘em. From ECB’s press release:
2 Comments »General public tickets can be accessed in two ways:
- Through the tournament’s official website, accessed via the ICC website here: www.icc-cricket.com
- In the UK only by telephone by calling 0844 847 2020
If you are a Ticket or Premium member of TwelfthMan, you will have access to an exclusive allocation of tickets reserved purely for members.
This allocation will be accessed via a ballot due to the expected high demand of these tickets. More information on the ballot will be sent in due course, however we do not expect the ballot itself to take place until September 2008 at the earliest.
If you are not a Ticket or Premium member, you have until August 4th 2008 to join in time for access to TwelfthMan’s ICC World Twenty20 Allocation.
All change?
By Emma 3 years ago, mid-July, 1 Comment »
Earlier today, England named their 30-man provisional squad for the ICC World Twenty20. For once, it seems, the selectors have paid some attention to the nature of the format.
There are several interesting inclusions. The sight of Trescothick’s name, for one, will bring some relief to many, although there must be huge doubts over his progression to the final 15. Similarly, there are finally places for those players who have played the most Twenty20 domestically, and have proven themselves capable. After the series of washouts this year, it would have been hard to pick those necessarily most in form, but David Graveney et al seem to have elected for those players that have deployed themselves well over the past couple of seasons. Sir Viv Richard’s call for Darren Maddy, now captain of Warwickshire, has been answered, although there is no place for Nayan Doshi or Samit Patel. Among other ’specialists’ included are new Essex captain, Mark Pettini, Surrey’s one-year contracted Chris Schofield and the man of the moon ball, Jeremy Snape.
Is it all for show? There are significant figures gone from the World Cup squad: Strauss, Vaughan, Joyce, Mahmood and Dalrymple all miss out. However, there is no real sign that England intend to keep these welcome additions in their final 15. The entire one-day squad that faced the West Indies have been included, although it must be admitted that one incumbant, Stuart Broad, was the most economical seamer in last year’s domestic competition. It can only be hoped that in slimming down the squad in August, the selectors do not show this initial attempt to be a pointless exercise in media quelling.
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