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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If he’s Freddie, is she Wilma?
As already mentioned, cricket is a big sexy glamourous business, and they don’t come much bigger and sexier than Andrew Flintoff and his wife, Rachael.
The queen of the leathery willow circuit, she is a splendid looking woman, with legs so long that they push her body all the way up [...]
Suddenly, these people are pin ups… with money
These have been worrying times for cricket, what with the Twenty20 oiks piling into grounds to drink their lagers, and punch a friend of Polite Applause in the back of the head (long story). But, on the plus side, with all the IPL and Twenty20 money flurrying into [...]
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He was cricket’s Billy Elliot…
Yesterday we made a massive song and dance about Graeme Hick hanging up his cricket knickers, so it would be very wrong to let Darren Gough’s retirement pass without a fitting tribute. Above is the highlight of his fantastic career. And after the break, you can enjoy his Ashes hat-trick against [...]