I can't watch this morning...so disappoint. Where do we get a fix once the IPL is over? Now that I'm interested don't tell me I have to wait until next May!
I can't watch this morning...so disappoint. Where do we get a fix once the IPL is over? Now that I'm interested don't tell me I have to wait until next May!
Yup Next May.
I have heard rumours that are considering eventually having 2 IPL seasons per year in the future with a September/October season held in North America! They know that they could make a boatload of money here. Don't know if that'll ever fly but they want games in Toronto, New York, Boston etc...
Other than that there's not much else. There's a T20 World Cup every two years (even numbered years). Or else we'll have to teach you the longer forms of cricket like 50 over matches or test matches
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This was a very good tournament, there needs to be a bit more parity in the regular season but otherwise was a great follow up to the World Cup. Well for an Indian at least!
I can't watch this morning...so disappoint. Where do we get a fix once the IPL is over? Now that I'm interested don't tell me I have to wait until next May!
Sri Lanka is starting a similar league, around August.
Champions league will also take some sometime soon, where the finalists of these 4,5 leagues faceoff against each other, Memorial cup style.
Besides that watch what is happening in England right now, test series between English and Sri Lankans. On a pitch where the the first inning from the 2 sides produced 896 runs with only 15 wickets, the English is destroying the Lankan. 8 wickets down and they trail by 23 runs. This should've been a draw, but now English have 27 overs to get these last 2 wickets and grab this stunning win.
They're standing in catching position. Any movement from the ball can potentially cause an edge (ball nicking the bat) and if you have lotsa movement or you want an aggressive field you do that. An edge can carry to any one of the fielders in the slip and catch out can be had.
I don't reme,ber but I wouldn't be surprised be they had a silly point and short leg (guys in front of the batter, really close to him). Thats intense.
If you watch the old dominating West Indies, they would set fields like that on regular basis.
This is what can happen when you fierce bowling and in close fielders.
Two Americans get a DVD of the India-Pakistan semifinal played two months ago and give hilarious commentary of what they're seeing at they learn the game
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We are told that in ODI (One-Day International) tournaments, the team that bats first wins 72 percent of the time. This whole thing is basically NFL overtime. So when India wins the toss and elects to hit first, it strikes us as odd that the announcers would bother to discuss whether that decision is wise, but they do. They then do an interview with the Pakistani captain who does an admirable job of pretending that if he'd won the toss he would probably have just chosen to bat second anyway, but you can clearly tell he just died a little inside. Then they head over to the Indian captain who is handsome and oozes team leader. He is Steve Garvey-esque, and his interview is straight from the Nuke Laloosh school of sports clichés. Nate finds this vaguely disappointing, as he always wants foreign things to be more foreign than they usually are.
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Each side gets two video reviews, and the Indians decide to use one — again, Sehwag is one of their best guys, so it's worth it to try to prove the ump wrong. Instantly, an incredibly authoritative-looking computer animation from a machine called Hawk-Eye (the same Hawk-Eye used in major tennis tournaments, interestingly) — shows definitively that (a) Gul did not foot fault, and (b) the ball's trajectory would definitely have struck the wicket had Sehwag's padded shin not gotten in the way. The computer replay animation looks fantastic. The whole thing takes 20 seconds, and leaves no room for doubt. The crowd watches it on a diamond vision screen and for 40 seconds, the whole contest is turned into a video game, yet it is surprisingly awesome. The fact that baseball has not embraced replay for all matters concerning the game now seems like the craziest aspect of any sport in the universe.
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If anyone wants more T20 cricket. The Champions League has started (basically top T20 teams of different nations playing off against each other). It is available on Shaw, Bell etc but you have to pay.
I'm giving this thread a big fat bump because the 2012 IPL season is upon us.
Last year I was drawn in and really enjoyed watching the IPL. I also picked up a cricket game for the PS3 while in England last year, which has helped me understand and appreciate the game. To say that I am excited for the new IPL season is an understatement.
A quick scan of the TV listings shows Sportsnet One (and your PVR) will be your friend for watching the matches, with coverage starting on April 4th at 8:30 am. So far, nothing comes up on Sportsnet World for IPL cricket, which hopefully suggests that Sportsnet will be making good use of the "main" networks instead of the subscription-based Sportsnet World. This is pure speculation on my part, so please share any broadcast info that you might have.
There is also a YouTube channel for the IPL broadcasts, with at least the first match queued up to show live (and a bunch of highlights from last season, etc.). This might come in handy for watching the odd match from... I don't know... work or something.
I got "International Cricket 2010" simply because it was the only one I could find, and it was on sale at ASDA for £20 or something like that. The game got slammed a bit by reviewers, unfortunately, but most of the criticisms were lost on me because I simply don't have enough knowledge of the sport to know any better. My objective was to learn the rules and a little bit of the strategy, and it succeeded at providing me that. My baby boy arrived late this past summer, so my video gaming has gone way down as of late, including NHL and FIFA.
I was actually over in the UK again a few weeks ago and had a look for any new cricket games, and didn't even find any old ones either. The nice thing is that the PS3 isn't region-locked for games, so you could theoretically order a game online and it would work just fine here. Whether the shipping would make it worthwhile is another question.
