Stanford 20/20 Tournament

[Magrat Garlick]

Well the game on now involving the home team Antigua is a sell out. The Stanford Cricket Ground only holds 4000 though but people were turned away.

And Ridley Jacobs took three for eight.

 

[Steulen]

And Ridley Jacobs took three for eight.

What does he bowl? Slow Left Glove?

 

[steds]

LESP, I'd imagine.

 

[Scaly piscine]

I hear Po Tellytubbie was five

What took you so long?

 

[roseboy64]

I'll be doing an update of the matches soon.

 

[chooka_nick]

Regular international cricketers at a time...
Their teams just haven't been in action yet, but they are around.

Thanks for that man, that's bloody awesome.
This Stanford guy seems like a bit of a smart marketer. I've been reading up on him, and I'm glad this event's going well! If it really does capture the hearts of the Carribean, then how can it be a bad thing?

 

[Tomm NCCC]

Well, when nothing else is on tele, this is a fantastic piece of night time viewing. They havent took to it like the english teams, out of the games ive seen, teams have barely reched 120

 

[Scaly piscine]

Sounded like the pitch has a fair bit of uneven bounce which might explain some of the low scoring.

 

[roseboy64]

Well the fact that it's only one pitch being used may have an effect.

 

[roseboy64]

These are the results of the last 4 matches.

7. Barbados 141-6(20 ov)
JAM Haynes 38, MA Nurse 35, DB Skellekie 2-28
beat
Anguilla 103-7(20 ov)
CF Hughes 20, PT Collins 3-13, SJ Benn 1-15
Player of the match PT Collins (Barbados)

8. Antigua 146-9(20 ov)
ACL Richards 36, RD Jacobs 31, GE Mathurin 4-25
beat
St Lucia 98-9(20 ov)
A La Feuille 26, RD Jacobs 3-8, GC Tonge 2-16
Player of the match DT Edwards (Antigua)

9.Montserrat 115-8 (20 ov)
M Meade 21, MA Stephnie 21*, MV Nagamootoo 2-13
lost to
Guyana 116-2 (16.3 ov)
TM Dowlin 54*, N Deonarine 31, TJ Semper 1-22
Player of the match TM Dowlin (Guyana)

10.Bermuda 74 ao (19.4 ov)
OL Pitcher 19, JE Taylor 5-10, OV Brown 2-16
lost to
Jamaica 75-1 (5.5 ov)
CH Gayle 40*, MN Samuels 25, M Matthew 1-13
Player of the match JE Taylor (Jamaica)

 

[Scaly piscine]

Seems like the Cayman Islands are on course to get spanked tonight as well, Greenidge is not pleased by the batting:

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/other/content/story/253995.html

 

[Scaly piscine]

Heh, 4 run outs and counting.

 

[simmy]

This is such a great but equally bad competition at the same time.

Very entertaining nonetheless!

 

[Scaly piscine]

Well finally a high scoring game last night.

 

[roseboy64]

Yep. Nevis totally outclassed the home team.

 

[GotSpin]

Well, when nothing else is on tele, this is a fantastic piece of night time viewing. They havent took to it like the english teams, out of the games ive seen, teams have barely reched 120

So how is interest now?

Tv ratings, crowds, media coverage ect...

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Trinidad/Tobago v Barbados on right now - Barbados fielding what could have been an ODI attack for West Indies (Collins, Edwards, Collymore, Bradshaw, Sulieman Benn...ok, I'll hand you the 5th one, but he's not done that much worse than Dave Mohammed), and as a consequence, T&T are 85/5 in the 13th over. Daren Ganga made a 1 which I'm told was quite exquisite

To boot, their relatively unfancied opening partnership of William Perkins and Mario Belcon made 69 together before Bradshaw entered.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

William Perkins is a tremendous talent...

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

So how is interest now?

Tv ratings, crowds, media coverage ect...

At the start of the tournament there seemed to be a lot of excitement and good crowds. The media presentation is exquisite. It's better than most proper international matches that I've seen. Very attractive.

Worth noting that I haven't bothered to watch since the first couple of games. I'm glad that the format is bringing money into the WI game, but I find it terribly uninteresting.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

William Perkins is a tremendous talent...

I'm sure he is, but it's hard to spot when he hadn't even played first class cricket before this tournament! (though, as he was one of five batsmen to score tons at the recent U-19 World Cup, should have given him a bit more credit. Eoin Morgan was one of the other, after all.)