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November 12th 2009 @ 1:58am
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Beefy takes the long handle to Twenty20
Former England captain and charismatic allrounder Sir Ian Botham has taken an axe to Twenty20 cricket, saying administrative exploitation of the format is killing the game.
The scheduling of another World Twenty20 tournament in 2010, so close on the heels of the 2009 event in England, has caused much criticism of the schedule, and Botham made [...]
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davido said | November 13th 2009 @ 6:44pm | Report comment
Wise words indeed.
Freud of Football said | November 13th 2009 @ 6:55pm | Report comment
Well; looks like we have a foursome here, Brett McKay, Vinay Verma, FoF and Beefy Botham all want T20’s scrapped at international level, but is that enough to convince the administrators…
Mr cheese said | November 14th 2009 @ 11:49am | Report comment
I am the fifth man, Freud.
It is never going to happen, however. How could it ? Over here this year, the grounds were pretty much full for the World 20 20. How can you ban a competition when the grounds are full ??
County grounds over here are pretty much empty. They don’t know what full capacity means. So the 20 20 internationals come along and they jump up in the air.
You can’t stop International 20 20 now.