Mumbai Indians Lost Will Chennai Super Kings Follow ?

Like many a pundits have predicated lions to be the underdog's in the season opener of champions league 2010.We can all understand why everyone thought so,on paper Mumbai Indians had the better squad.But the important thing that help the lions on that day was on paper they had team.

They showed why you are better as a team than a group of brilliant players, Mumbai Indians have a great squad but they were not playing together as team for nearly three months.Dropped catches on the outfield, missed runout chances and poor running between the wickets in yesterday's match were all a result of this very reason.The big question for a Mumbai Indian fan would be how fast can they gel together and play as the team.

Lions on the other hand showed what discipline and teamwork can do, it doesn't always take superstar performances to win a t20 game, just a cohesive bunch of players doing the basics right and avoiding the mist
akes.

So Mumbai Indians found it hard so will Chennai Super Kings be the next big IPL team to be facing defeat today ?.Chennai Super Kings are the current IPL 3 champions and a much better well balanced consistent side than Mumbai Indians.Over the last years they are the only IPL team to have played in 2 finals and 1 semifinal.

They are set to play against the Stags from New Zealand which makes the conditions neutral as they have no home advantage, all things said CSk will be rusty and they haven't played together since IPL3. So it would be a hard to win, but I think CSK are good enough team lead by the best captain in CLT2O to win this match.

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Champions New South Wales - The Speed Blitz Blues

The New South Wales Blues are an Australian first class cricket team based in Sydney, New South Wales. The team qualified for in the Australian first class cricket competition known as the the Twenty20 competition known as the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash.


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New South Wales is a very formidable team with almost 8 players having Australian central contracts.Its packed with Twenty20 specialists Captained by Simon Katich. Katich who plays for Kings XI punjab in the IPL,He is quite a T20 pro in the Australian domestic league where he averages around 40 with the strike rate of 126.

Philip Hughes opening the innings with David Warner would be a treat for the neutrals.Philip Hughes is working hard on his batting,taking tips from the master blaster Sachin Tendulkar himself, and sure looks ready.David Warner has decided to play for his domestic club over Delhi Daredevils in CLT20. Simon Katich (Kings XI) ,Thornely (Mumbai Indians),Ben Rohrer,Moises Henriques bolster the middle order.Ben Rohrer can play the match winning innings in the middle order which provides the fire power in the final 5 overs.

NSW's Bowling may be the best bowling attack in the torunament with Nathan Bracken(Bangalore), Brett Lee ( Kings XI ), Stuart Clark, and Nathan Hauritz.Opposition teams are sure going to struggle facing the toe crushers from Lee and the Slow Cutters from Bracken.Good Bowling sides usually win big tournaments and this is a bowling heavy team which can bat equally well.


Aaron Bird,
David Warner,
Dominic Thornely,
Steven Smith,
Daniel Smith,
Ben Rohrer,
Steve O'Keefe,
Brett Lee,
Simon Katich (C),
Doug Bollinger,
Nathan Bracken,
Stuart Clark,
Nathan Hauritz,
Moises Henriques,
Phillip Hughes


Simon Katich In Men Of Cricket Calendar Photo Shoot.Helping to raise funds for Glenn Mcgrath Foundation For Breast Cancer Awareness

The Champions League T20 Cricket Schedule For 2009 Season

The Champions League T20 Cricket Schedule For 2009/2010 Season

Preliminary round:

(The two teams from England will be named after the domestic Twenty20 Cup ends in mid-August)

Group A: Deccan Chargers (IND), England 2, Trinidad (WIS)

Group B: New South Wales (AUS), Diamond Eagles (RSA), England 1.

Group C: Royal Challengers (IND), Cape Cobras (RSA), Otago (NZL)

Group D: Delhi Daredevils (IND), Victoria (AUS), Wayamba (SRI)

(Two teams from each group advance to the second round)

Schedule:

Oct 8: Royal Challengers v Cape Cobras, Bangalore

Oct 9: New South Wales v Diamond Eagles, Delhi

Delhi Daredevils v Victoria, Delhi

Oct 10: Cape Cobras v Otago, Hyderabad

Deccan Chargers v England 2, Hyderabad

Oct 11: New South Wales v England 1, Delhi

Delhi Daredevils v Wayamba, Delhi

Oct 12: England 2 v Trinidad, Bangalore

Royal Challengers v Otago, Bangalore

Oct 13: Victoria v Wayamba, Delhi

Diamond Eagles v England 1, Delhi

Oct 14: Deccan Chargers v Trinidad, Hyderabad

Second round:

League A: A1, A2, B1, B2

League B: C1, C2, D1, D2

(Teams from the same preliminary group do not play each other again. Two teams from each League advance to the semi-finals.)

Schedule:

Oct 15: C1 v D2, Bangalore

Oct 16: A2 v B2, Hyderabad

A1 v B1, Hyderabad

Oct 17: C2 v D2, Bangalore

C1 v D1, Bangalore

Oct 18: A2 v B1, Hyderabad

A1 v B2, Hyderabad

Oct 19: C2 v D1, Delhi

Semi-finals:

Oct 21: Winner League B v Runners-up League A, Delhi

Oct 22: Winner League A v Runners-up League B, Hyderabad

Final:

Oct 23: Final, Hyderabad

Champions League Twenty20 Anthem

Espn starsports has roped in A.R.Rahman to compose the anthem for champions league cricket. Indian Premier league chairman lalit modi said "What Twenty20 is to cricket, Rahman is to music” in his statement.

A.R.Rahman the music maestro is at it again doing what he knows best, composing a theme song for champions league twenty20. The theme songs doesn't have any lyrics understandable as it is an international event, but Rahman's music is more powerful than any words that can transcend cultures and languages.The official anthem will reverberate not just in India but will transcend all language barriers across the global cricket fraternity.

The Music composition includes a title track, a music video and other short compositions that will be telecasted during the T20 matches and the tournament’s promotion.

So now you guys have one more reason to watch champions league.

Video and anthem has been released!!

England Lose $20 million dollars as Stanford Super stars wins

Superstars Won the $20 million dollar Stanford super series match against England by 10 wickets with seven overs to spare. England was beaten all ends up, its is a comprehensive win in any format alone Twenty20.






From the start, Bowlers of super stars were breathing fire Jerome Taylor in particular was fired up.Cheered on by a packed home crowd he bowled with pace and picked up two wickets in one over.Ian bell's Off stumps was pecked back.





Taylor's performance was supported by another wonderful performance by the tall left arm spinner sulemann benn.He picked up the three wickets and darren sammy picked up the important wicket of KP.England score just seven boundaries in their entire innings that just sums up their performance on the day. .It was the usual English performance like in the recent past, they just never turn up in the big clashes.

After the superb effort with the ball, Superstars were in a hurry to get the $20 million dollars. Their openers Andre Fletcher and Chris Gayle humbled the English Bowlers with some sizzling WestIndian strokePlay.After a quite first over from Steve Harmison, the openers got stuck into the English Bowling line up, Chris Gayle in particular samshing 5 Fours and 5 Sixes. And he did finish the game with a six.

Every Member of the Superstars team is overwhelmed by emotions, Andre flectcher Sinking to his knees after the ball sailing over mid wicket ensure the million dollars. Seeing the packed house, West indian performance and the support for the game in carribean is heart warming. It may be the right way to improve West Indian cricket.

Bring Young West Indian men back to criket from NBA. This touranament has the potential to do so. If that happens we can once again enjo y the flair and flamboyance of seeing a west indian play.

All the best to stanford Super stars

$20 million dollar twenty20 match- Stanford Super Series

Sir Allen Stanford's $20m Twenty 20 showdown between England and Stanford all star team(west indies in a different name).

It is hard to believe but yes its cricket. Cricketers have never had it so good. All they got to do is play a match for 3 hours to secure their finances for the rest of their life's.

But this is not an one off tournament.Over the next five years Sir Alan Stanford will put his own $100m (£50m) for annual one-off winner-takes-all Twenty20 matches in the Caribbean between an England XI and the Stanford All Stars, a team that will be drawn from leading West Indian players.

With so much money at stack the players involved will try their level best to get into the team for the $20 million dollar twenty20 match. The England players have shown their intention. Mr. Alastair Cook England's opening batsmen saying that his sole visit to the Caribbean is to gain the million dollars. Then Capitan KP stepped in by warning England players not to act like "clowns" should they win.

So a more sensible Cook could use his £550,000 to buy 5,188 cricket bats for an orphanage, build a stadium,roll-out artificial pitches or antique sets of stumps and bails.Come on what was KP thinking,this is 1 million dollars they will act like crazy if they ever win, I mean who wouldn't??

Apart from the money there will be some cricket played too, and yesterdays warm-up match was a thrilling match.With the super stars beating the Egland tema by 1 run. Today the Super stars beat Middlesex Crusaders county comprehensively by 58 runs in the 5th match of the standford series.So who are the lucky few who have the chance to make a million bucks.

England 1 Ian Bell, 2 Matt Prior, 3 Kevin Pietersen (capt), 4 Owais Shah, 5 Andrew Flintoff, 6 Paul Collingwood, 7 Samit Patel, 8 Luke Wright, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 Graeme Swann, 11 Steve Harmison.

So which means Cook has to dream some other day and poor James Anderson misses the cut too. I thought James Anderson will be in the final eleven as he is an regular in England's ODI squad but England are going with two spinners. Understandable as the pitches are generaly slow in the West Indies and the slower you bowl the harder it is to hit it.I don't know about the Stanford all star teams line up But my guesses are these players might be in the eleven as they performed well in the warm up games

*Daren Ganga (T&T), Shivnarine chanderpaul (T&T), Denesh Ramdin (T&T) , Dwayne Bravo (T&T),Slyvester Joseph (Antigua & Barbuda), Patrick Browne (Barbados), John Eugene (St. Maarten), Swenarine Chattergoon (Guyana), Andre Fletcher (Grenada), Dave Mohammed (T&T), Jerome Taylor (Jamaica), Daren Powell (Jamaica), Liam Sebastien (Dominica), Sulieman Benn (Barbados),Marlon Samuels (Jamaica) (for bowling, not batting),Xavier Marshall (Jamaica) and ofcourse Chris Gayle.

Some facts about the man who lured the English with Cash

Allen Stanford fact file

Born: March 24, 1950, Mexia, Texas
Role: Chairman of Stanford Financial Group
Net worth: $2bn
Ranked: 239th richest American
Knighted: November 2006, by the Antigua government. Also backs Stanford US Open Polo Championship, the Stanford Antigua Sailing Week and the PGA Tour Stanford St Jude Championship. He also sponsors tennis’ Masters Series.
Cricket: Stanford fell in love with it after living in the Caribbean for 20 years. Founded the Stanford 2020 in 2006 which he bankrolled to the tune of $28 million How to join cricket's new rich list Land ECB central contract and win bonuses - £500,000
Sign Indian Premier League contract - £1m
Win all five Stanford Twenty20 challenges - £2.5m

Lets hope we will get a match worth $20 million dollars