Standard Bank Pro20 : The Titans win it
The South African T20 league, I mean the P20 league has been quite a success at home, but has failed to generate any interest elsewhere, but the same can be said to a great extent about the Aussie, the English and the New Zealand T20 leagues. Poor (read Rich) Old Allen Stanford’s T20 league is followed by more people. Even the IPL would have been as dull had some interesting things and some great cricket hadn’t happened.
I had been bickering for quite some time that I am going to write about it, as it should be written about of course. So, here it is. As the tournament is over, this would obviously act as a review post.
The teams:
The prize:
R500 000-00 (about $65,446.37 right now)
The Winner:
The Nashua Titans
I just saw the Final as the other matches were not telecast in India (see, I told ya so)…. From what I saw, a lot could not be said about the popularity (though the web site claims that it was their most successful league ever. Dale Steyn shone in the final, making sure that his team won. My sincere apologies for not following this league closely, but after joining sixandout, the IPL hit me….or I hit it…whatever… I would make up for it by following it the next season for sure and yeah, proclaim on live web 2.0 that “Polly was the King”.
Till then, let’s focus on the IPL. Just to let everyone know: Gilly has just scored a 43 ball 100….
Later
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See..i agree wat bhajji did was totally wrong but then sreesanth is no saint either. The fact that IPL suspended the umpire who spoke about Sreesanth’s provocative attempts during the match is proof enough that Sreesanth is not innocent at all. I think that was a cover up operation.
Being team mates for a fair amount of time now..sree must be knowing that Bhajji is an imensely passionate (read aggressive) cricketer n wasnt exactly in the best of mood after losing the third consecutive match. Passing a taunting comment at that stage n that too forgetting all respect for a senior player might have hurt Bhajji.
And being quite an aggressive player myself (if someday ankit decides to write about my several onfield spats u ‘ll know) i can say that every player doesnt react to igonomy in the same way…some like Bhajji ( with whom i totally identify) get impulsive . I m sure Bhajji would have returned a smiling gesture to any other player in the same situation but when ur own teammate ( the INDIAN team ) fails to respect you ….anger is bound to take the frontseat…
Hey Jatin,
well said, albeit on the wrong post. But never mind.
For anyone who doesnt know, Jatin Nagpal plays cricket with me in my univ..
nice guy, bowls really well, gets aggressive on the field too. Thinks he bats better than me! *smirk*