Caribbean Premier League 2013

[StriKe]

Barbados Tridents v Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel Red Steel 52 v Tridents 53/6 (8/20 ov) :cantstop: Player of the match goes to Shakib Al Hasan for his excellent figures of 4-1-6-6 :omg:

[SLICKR392]

6 for 6? :yikes:

[Executioner]

the tourney is better than BPL and SLPL but the timing is horrible for us SC people

[sscomp32]

:hatsoff: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2fonsKr1s]Shakib Al Hasan's amazing bowling in CPL T20 4-1-6-6 !!!![/ame]

[hhunaeh]

Mark Wahlberg buys stake in Caribbean cricket team, claims to be 'a huge fan'

HOLLYWOOD star Mark Wahlberg has made an unexpected business venture, investing in a Caribbean cricket team after falling in love with the sport. According to The Sun, Wahlberg has bought a stake in Limacol Caribbean Premier League's Barbados Tridents team after he was introduced to the game by the club’s chairman, Ajmal Khan. The actor said in a statement to announce his investment: "I'm excited to be a part of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League because I know cricket is huge in the Caribbean and a rich part of the region's heritage. Wahlberg went on: "Thanks to my dear friend Ajmal Khan who introduced me to Barbados and the LCPL, I am a huge cricket fan now."

[Sidhoni]

Why we never see such insane figures in IPL despite all the fixing? :cantstop:

[Executioner]

Wow that guy is a cricket fan

[Executioner]

Shakib confesses after his super performance: "I was having a rough time with the ball. I was average against zimbabwe and also in the last match I was expensive so I took some tips from Jadeja before playing the match"

[Asim]

Guyana Amazon Warriors v St Lucia Zouks http://www.espncricinfo.com/caribbean-premier-league-2013/engine/current/match/635221.html Misbah 49* (33) , 4 Sixes, No Four

[SLICKR392]

:hatsoff:

Quality player this guy.

[kumar713]

6I2fonsKr1s

[carnish]

Cricket fan electrocuted in St Lucia

A former police officer was electrocuted at the Beausejour Cricket Ground (BCC) as cricket fans watched the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (CPL) match between the St Lucia Zouks and the Antigua Hawksbills Tuesday night. Julian Agard, a former member of the St. Lucia youth Council, was pronounced dead at the medical centre, and the St. Lucia News Online website reported that not many people had noticed that he had been electrocuted near one of the stands. Police are investigating the incident. The St. Lucia Zouks, skippered by the West Indies captain, Darren Sammy, lost the match by 33 runs.

http://www.caribbean360.com/index.php/news/st_lucia_news/875230.html#axzz2bMma3v37

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West Indies cricket legend Desmond Haynes has compared T20 star Kieron Pollard with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, saying the former’s captaincy reminds him of India’s World Cup-winning skipper. “I know that it is a big comparison but I know what I am saying. He is a leader on and off the field and is leading by example for his team to follow. His reading of the game and his calmness in tough situations reminds me of Dhoni,†Haynes said

:giggle:

[SLICKR392]

Cricket fan electrocuted in St Lucia

http://www.caribbean360.com/index.php/news/st_lucia_news/875230.html#axzz2bMma3v37

Geez ! RIP

[Executioner]

:giggle:

:floor:

[mastana]

LMAO is anyone other than Pakistanis watching this league? And on top of that their overhyped batsman are part of this league. What were those franchises thinking? Including Pakistani batsman in their teams? Yeh salle apni team ke liye nahi khelte tumhari team ke liye kya khelenge caribbean walon :hehe: Bangladeshi batsman are much better than these Pakistani batsman.

[Tiger-Don]

I feel like Nasir, Mushfiq, Abdur Razzak and Mashrafe mortaza from Bangladesh missed out of being in this tournament.

[sscomp32]

:haha::haha: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBZsbFye6oQ]Ahmed Shehzaad Funny fall[/ame]

[Debutant]

Today morning, while getting ready for my office, I started watching CPL. Bravo brothers were batting. Darren Bravo was playing an amazing innings. The egoistic, poker faced, moron chucker Marlon Samuels came to bowl in the 19th over. The very first ball went for a massive six for 112 mts, which is the biggest in the tournament. The ball was lost. Very next ball, again this pathetic excuse of a bowler, chucked the ball at 120 km/hr and again hit for a six. :yay: Next ball 127 km/hr. It was a great way to start my day :aha: I think, this guy is the biggest chucker ever seen in international cricket after chucker in chief Chukmal(Ajmal)

[carnish]

Non-stop limited overs cricket a concern for West Indies

Given the lucrative contracts open to them, leading West Indians are unavoidably playing too much for their own good and, by obvious extension, the good of the West Indies cricket. Paradoxically, they are also playing too little. For Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard and Sunil Narine, it has been virtually non-stop through the first seven months of 2013. So it would have been for Marlon Samuels, but for a couple of unrelated injuries, but he has returned to mount the merry-go-round again. Pollard, Narine and several other West Indians added the Bangladesh Premier League in January and February to their agenda. Darren Sammy made a big impression in his first IPL season before West Indies commitments called. Their workload is only slightly less demanding than Gayle's. Several others, not quite as highly valued, have also found useful engagements elsewhere. Barring two virtually meaningless home Tests against Zimbabwe in March, it has all been of the short-format game, hardly ideal preparation for the heavy schedule of 26 Tests (along with 32 ODIs and 16 T20 Internationals) listed on the ICC Future Tours programme between December 2013 and December 2015. Gayle's only first-class matches for the year have been the Zimbabwe Tests. At no time has he occupied more than the three hours, five minutes and 145 balls he needed to compile his 15th Test hundred, 101 against Zimbabwe; there simply isn't such scope in innings confined to 50 or 20 overs. Narine's one and only first-class appearance in the 2013 season was for Trinidad & Tobago against Guyana in March when he sent down 17 overs in the first innings and 28.4 in the second for match figures of 10 for 143. Otherwise, his spells have been limited to ten or four. Likewise, Sammy had only one four-day match for the Windwards before he was off to the IPL. Except for the Zimbabwe Tests, all his other cricket in 2013 has been with the white ball over one day. Darren Bravo and Kieran Powell, two in their mid-20s who represent the future of the batting, held no overseas franchise contracts; injuries restricted Bravo to a solitary four-day match for Trinidad & Tobago, Powell to three for the Leewards before the Zimbabwe Tests. And the only first-class cricket between now and a series of three Tests in New Zealand in November and December that either extends or ends the sequence of six Test victories. It makes a strong case for both the younger Bravo and Powell to be chosen in the 'A' team for India, specifically to get back into the groove of cricket without limitations. The other up-and-comers who will eventually fill the gaps might have had valuable international experience with a bolder selection policy; instead, they have been confined to the sub-standard regional competitions and a couple of 'A' team four-day 'Tests' against India 'A' in June 2012 and Sri Lanka 'A' a year later. As the prime example of overwork, Gayle started with eight matches in Australia's Big Bash T20 league, immediately followed by four ODIs on the West Indies tour of Australia in February, 16 in the Indian Premier League, a couple of Tests against Zimbabwe in the Caribbean, three matches in the Champions Trophy in England, four more in the triangular ODI series with India and Sri Lanka, five ODIs and two T20s against Pakistan back home and then straight into the current, initial Limacol Caribbean Premier League. They add up to 42 limited-overs and two Test matches in heaven knows how many different cities in seven countries scattered across the planet. He and the other globetrotters have flown in a host of aircraft, from 747s and Airbuses to LIAT's Avros, spent hours in a variety of airports and slept in beds in five-star hotels and others not so starry. Such a grind takes its toll. As Clive Lloyd observed over lunch in St Lucia last week (and he would know even if Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe and global T20s were not yet involved in his time as West Indies captain), it is not simply the physical pressure; it is perhaps even more mentally draining. The effects are evident in the performances of all but the hardiest. It is the reason why the Indian board has put a virtual ban on its players participating in any tournament outside its own IPL. Those minded to do so are made aware not to expect to be chosen again either for India or the IPL. Those from other countries - Michael Clarke and Stuart Broad most prominent - have chosen to miss out on IPL contracts to prevent the burnout they can see in some others. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has stated that it will not create an IPL window for senior players when England's new three-year contracts come into force in October. Even though the Professional Cricketers' Association there is negotiating those contracts on behalf of the players, the ECB managing director, Hugh Morris, is adamant that it is not budging on the issue. The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) does not have such power. It accepts that it would be unrealistic to expect players to turn down lucrative offers from the IPL, Big Bash and elsewhere; indeed, it allowed Samuels to miss the home Tests against Australia last year to go to the IPL before picking him for the subsequent tour of England. The same was the case with Sunil Narine. It has created an IPL window and has now done the same for the Limacol CPL, making it difficult to see how it can adhere to commitments under the ICC's Future Tours Programme. Perhaps the money on offer from the CPL will be enough to persuade players, for their own good and that of West Indies cricket, to remain at home and participate again in the regional tournaments, so weakened by their absence. But we shouldn't hold our breath. It will be continue to be a matter of making the best of our situation and that's not ideal.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/story/661347.html