The $20m man upsets England players with flirting

Sir Allen Stanford has apologised for larking about with England’s WAGs during their Super Series win against Middlesex on Sunday.
Stanford was shown on the big screen with Matt Prior’s pregnant wife Emily on his lap.
“He understood that the players were not particularly pleased with the incident,” said a [...]

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England’s opponents scrape win in tournament opener

Stanford Superstars warmed up for their $20m game against England by beating Trinidad & Tobago in Antigua.
They won by 22 runs but captain Chris Gayle and star batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul missing the match - Gayle stayed at home due to personal problems, while Chanderpaul nursed a stiff neck.
The Superstars, [...]

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Indian genius finally surpasses West Indian genius

Sachin Tendulkar has set a new record for the most runs scored in Test cricket, overtaking the mark set by West Indies’ Brian Lara.
Tendulkar scored the 15 extra runs he needed to overtake Lara’s mark of 11,953 on day one of the second Test against Australia in Mohali.
He then [...]

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Too much of a good thing etc…

Already, we’ve had to endure Alistair Cook gassing about how he couldn’t give two hoots about the Stanford Super Series, he just wants to get paid. And now our buddies over in Sri Lanka have canceled their two test tour of England next year so that they can play [...]

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England nemesis “fitter than ever”. Gulp…

Be afraid, KP: your mate Warney has announced that he’s ready to come out of international retirement, possibly with the long-term aim of helping Australia retain the Ashes on English soil in 2009 - and you thought you’d seen the back of him.
Warne claims he’s fitter than ever, and although [...]

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The trick, Alistair, is to lie

Actors, believe it or not, are far from stupid. While Al Pacino and Robert De Niro sauntered around cooing about what a fantastic movie Righteous Kill is, they knew it was rubbish - they’d seen it. But, they know that honesty doesn’t attract audiences. A trick Alistair Cook could do [...]

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And here he is scoring his first ever century…

The above clip is from 1990, when Tendulkar was about nine, and he took our boys apart at Old Trafford. If everything goes according to plan, he should surpass Lara’s whopping total of 11,953 Test runs, when he strides out against the Aussies in Bangalore in the [...]

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England captain agrees to make fool of himself

England cricket skipper Kevin Pietersen has been persuaded by his pop star-wife, Jessica Taylor, to appear in the video for her new group’s debut single. For better or worse, Kev.
“Jessica has been trying to get him in it for ages and now he’s said yes… She reckons it’ll [...]

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Meet the ICL Zeebras

As mentioned before, cricket is becoming seriously sexy, to the point where the next season of the Indian Cricket League will feature a squad of professional cheerleaders at every single game. Lead by Bollywood sex kitten, Rakhi Sawant, the ICL Zeebras look like a steamy young outfit, and no mistake.
“This will be [...]

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Can Kev do it without Mikey?

Much is going to be garnered from the 2008/2009 India trip. Can Harmy leave the house without becoming tearful and frightened? Is Pietersen really all that? And will anyone have the kind of nerveless mind to cope with balls turning at acute baffling angles? That man might well have been [...]

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