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The reason Shoaib Ahktar is going to miss the World Twenty20 Cup

Genital Warts.
Is this the point where Mark Nicholas says “Oh Boy. Who writes his scripts?”.

Australian squad for the t20 thingy

Shane Watson and Brett Lee have been picked for the twenty20 thingy for Australia. Neither of them has bowled a ball in their comebacks. Which sounds riskier than it is, Watson might have got picked as a batsman anyway.
He once got picked as an orange cutter when squad positions were tight, they always fit him.
Lee’s [...]

30 of the best, mostly

Australia has released their top 30 players for the world T20 (you can’t call it a 2020 world cup, it is, but don’t you dare call it that).
They will only pick 15 for the actual event, but the 30 says something about their mindset, they are anti Dirk Nannes.
I am at a loss to work [...]

Cricket, Stanford-style, going to hell in a handbasket

Forgive (again) the dewy-eyed sentimentalism, but the cast-iron proof that all is not well with cricket comes tomorrow when England plays the ”Stanford Superstars” in a winner-takes-all Twenty20 match in Antigua worth $1m to each player on the winning side.
The match, sanctioned by the England and Wales Cricket Board, is backed by the Texas billionaire, Sir Allen Stanford. You might [...]