Stanford Twenty 20 for 20

randomer

What a shocker! Middlesex lot the game back six wickets with four balls to spare.

Ed joyce was out second ball for 1, while Eoin Morgan made a composed 30. Both Ed and Eoin dropped a catch each; Eds catch was a dolly and Eoin knocked his over the boundary for six.

I feel gutted for the guys. Even after their poor batting performance I thought they had enough to win, especially when they got a couple of early wickets.

Todays game was for approximately $400,000, a huge amount of money for a professional cricketer. I think it is going to have a very big impact mentally on the players who made mistaktes.

The match on Saturday is for $20 million, a staggering amount of money (even if they were premiership footballers). There are going to be key moments in the game where players make result changing mistakes. I really think that Saturdays game is going to end someones career. It could be like losing a $20million lottery ticket that you and your friends have. Then imagine a TV audience of World Cup Final proportions watching you do that!

Seriously, I expect some players from the losing team on Saturday to never play cricket again!

Rjd2

Last nights game was a disgrace, both sides were ****e and nwither deserved to win. I did enjoy laughing at Middlesex and Carter and Eoin Morgan for different reasons.:D The sonner the IPL returns and this sub standard ****e ends the better.

randomer

Rjd2 wrote: »

Last nights game was a disgrace, both sides were ****e and nwither deserved to win. I did enjoy laughing at Middlesex and Carter and Eoin Morgan for different reasons.:D The sonner the IPL returns and this sub standard ****e ends the better.

I think thats a bit harsh. There were three factors which caused the standard to be poor. 1) the pictch, 2) the lights, and 3) the pressure of playinf for that amount of money.

bigtimecharlie

Superstars win the Stanford 20 101 for 0 after England all out for 99.

RuggieBear

jesus. that's a bit of a battering

bigtimecharlie

England scrambled singles while the Superstars hit boundaries and 6's for fun.

TrueDub

The Superstars were by far the better team on the night, and full value for their victory.

randomer

I was really disappointed with the game. I was hoping for a contest. England just bottled it.

The one positive that I can see from the game was that no single individual can be held responsible for the result in a negative way. Nobody on the england team performed.

The Superstars were really up for the game.

I sort of agreed with Pietersons comments about some of the superstars "needing" it more than the english players (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/7704717.stm). $1 million is a lot of money for anyone, but it will have a much bigger impact for some of the younger players on the superstars players than it will would have had for any of the english players. Still I don't know if he should have made that comment. Chris Gayle didn't seem too pleased about the comment.

simonrooneyzaga

Why not? Its reality - Paul Collingwood earns up to £465,000 a year not including his various endorsments and sponsorship deals. Andre Fletcher is 20 and earning a pittance from cricket at the moment. That money will set him up for the rest of his life and will offset the shameless amounts of money the West Indies cricket board pay their players in comparrison to the bigger nations.

I too was disappointed by the game, but England were just completely outshone in every department. There can be no blaming the pitch or the floodlights last night - Superstars hit the ball all around the park and took all but one catch.

I think this England side are going to evolve into the top 50 over team in the world over the next year. However, there is little room in the game of 2020 for the likes of Ian Bell. If they are serious about winning the money then they will have to select a specialist 2020 side.

Marshy

simonrooneyzaga wrote: »

Why not? Its reality - Paul Collingwood earns up to £465,000 a year not including his various endorsments and sponsorship deals. Andre Fletcher is 20 and earning a pittance from cricket at the moment. That money will set him up for the rest of his life and will offset the shameless amounts of money the West Indies cricket board pay their players in comparrison to the bigger nations.

I too was disappointed by the game, but England were just completely outshone in every department. There can be no blaming the pitch or the floodlights last night - Superstars hit the ball all around the park and took all but one catch.

I think this England side are going to evolve into the top 50 over team in the world over the next year. However, there is little room in the game of 2020 for the likes of Ian Bell. If they are serious about winning the money then they will have to select a specialist 2020 side.

Yeah I'd agree with most of that. It was an absolute thrashing last night, not what anyone predicted.

Ultimately, the contest should provide a stepping stone for the WI players. No one has doubted their potential before, its always just a question of application with them. I hope they'll carry on from this match, which they took very seriously (probably because of the money a stake), and take it into the international arena where they've under-achieved. With financial backing now, there's no reason why they shouldn't be a very competitive side.

On the other hand, the week turned out to be fairly disastrous, all things considered, from an England perspective. Most of the team gave off the impression of just not wanting to be there, which doesn't generally lend itself to success.

DBraithwaite

Who on the Stanford Superstars receives the £20 million

randomer

DBraithwaite wrote: »

Who on the Stanford Superstars receives the £20 million

Its dollars rather than pounds. Each of the 11 players get $1million. The six squad members from the Standford Superstars share $1 million. $1 to the winning management team. The rest goes to the ECB and the WICB.

callaway92

Delighted Pieterson didnt win this..I hate him with a passion

Gyalist

simonrooneyzaga wrote: »

Why not? Its reality - Paul Collingwood earns up to £465,000 a year not including his various endorsments and sponsorship deals. Andre Fletcher is 20 and earning a pittance from cricket at the moment. That money will set him up for the rest of his life and will offset the shameless amounts of money the West Indies cricket board pay their players in comparison to the bigger nations.

Established WI players are very well paid. Don't know where you got the impression that they aren't. Pietersen's remarks were thoughtless and based on ignorance. Also remember the total population of all the WI countries is less than 5 million.

The problem with WI cricket is the WICB's gross incompetence and the lack of a decent domestic first class structure. Up to under-19 level WI have an outstanding record.

TrueDub

It was a dumb thing for Pietersen to say - he should simply have said "They were the better team on the night & deserve their victory". Whether it has a greater impact on the the WI players is irrelevant for him.

randomer

callaway92 wrote: »

Delighted Pieterson didnt win this..I hate him with a passion

I heard him on TV today and he expressed the same sentiment towards you!

kyp_durron

TrueDub wrote: »

It was a dumb thing for Pietersen to say - he should simply have said "They were the better team on the night & deserve their victory". Whether it has a greater impact on the the WI players is irrelevant for him.

I can't stand the post match interviews full of clichés like 'we hit the right areas' and the like. He just said what he thought. I'm not saying I agree with his comments, just that he should be able to give an honest answer instead of a meaningless and empty cliché.

TrueDub

kyp_durron wrote: »

I can't stand the post match interviews full of clichés like 'we hit the right areas' and the like. He just said what he thought. I'm not saying I agree with his comments, just that he should be able to give an honest answer instead of a meaningless and empty cliché.

What's dishonest about "we were beaten by a better team"?

kyp_durron

TrueDub wrote: »

What's dishonest about "we were beaten by a better team"?

He should be allowed to give his subjective opinion. Maybe didn't think they were the better team.

TrueDub

kyp_durron wrote: »

He should be allowed to give his subjective opinion. Maybe didn't think they were the better team.

Pietersen's a lot of things, but he's not stupid, so he must have realised that they were the better team on the day.

As regards giving his opinion, he's perfectly entitled to say whatever he wants. That doesn't mean we're not entitled to comment unfavourably on his opinions.

kyp_durron

TrueDub wrote: »

Pietersen's a lot of things, but he's not stupid, so he must have realised that they were the better team on the day.

As regards giving his opinion, he's perfectly entitled to say whatever he wants. That doesn't mean we're not entitled to comment unfavourably on his opinions.

I guess thats what I was getting at. I never said his comments were right. I just hate bland interviews and like a bit of controversy. Arsène Wenger is a great example of this in his post match interviews and opinionated outbursts. It's good entertainment and god knows the England/Superstars match provided very little of that from where I was watching.