Athlai
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Makes no sense really, you'd think there would be more Indians living in NZ than South Africans. So it couldn't be just a target audience thing.
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Or Sky TV operates in South Africa and not in India? I'm not sure though.
Athlai
Not Terrible
May be it, but sky doesn't operate in Australia does it? Foxtel? A lot of dire sports are shown on sky, much rather cricket to be on than channels seemingly devoted to golf replays. I enjoy my golf but come on. Does more than once channel need to have golf on it?
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Agree with you about seeing more cricket, but it just doesn't appeal to a lot of people in New Zealand, mind you I'm not sure golf does either. Pretty sure it has something to do with Sky.
Athlai
Not Terrible
No one in my family besides my older brother really likes cricket but he's a rugby player. An odd little country is NZ. Really hope T20 could spark more interest in the sport, cos nothing else bloody has (besides maybe the CH)
Turbinator
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Time to rock Ponting and his men all the way back to Australia 
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!Well if you can't beat us now you would have to be concerned...Time to rock Ponting and his men all the way back to Australia
SJS
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Of course I took it differently.
I donrt want to get into explaing to this fellow about the dictionary meaning and the definition of junior. In cricketing parlance junior player is pretty clear to every one.
The captain and vice captain can be and often are considered seniors due to rank. Then there are seniors who have been team members for long periods hence Laxman, Dravid, Sachin, Kumble etc are senior members of the Indian team.
The Sharmas, Uthappas etc are juniors.
I dont think (and its okay to disagree with me on this) that juniors should be going about giving the kind of statements that Uthappa did. A captain normally, a vice captain sometimes and a senior sometimes do give their views as they do carry some weight/authority due tho their seniority/position they can speak on behalf of the team.
As I said, someone can disagree with this and say that Uthappa can call Ponting a monkey for all he cares (exaggeration to make a point). I may disagree with that but its personal opinion hosoever much I may feel it flies in the face of accepted norms.
But for someone to insist that I said/meant something that I did not and keep at it is absolutely ridiculous. My trying to make light of it was meant to just point out his error in a light manner so taht we could move on but this guy is incorrigible.
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SJS
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And how do you know for sure that I meant that ??Eh?, there was no venom or sarcasm in my tone whatsoever, I was pointing out to SJS that by calling a player "junior" he meant the age of the player, that is all.
And why should you insist, when I was making it clear (with light hearted sarcasm) that I wasn't. That no I meant what you said and not what I was saying later. When someone says this is what they meant, the well mannered thing to do is to accept that at face value. But no you know exactly what I meant originally.
My dear thats as close you can get to calling me a liar as as not to make a difference from actually calling me one..
I do not lie and I do not appreciate being called a liar, howsoever indirectly.
Goodbye.
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SJS
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Gilchrist has won the toss and Australia are going to bat
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India: SR Tendulkar, SC Ganguly, G Gambhir, R Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni, IK Pathan, RR Powar, RP Singh, Z Khan, S Sreesanth
Australia: AC Gilchrist, ML Hayden, BJ Hodge, A Symonds, MJ Clarke BJ Haddin, JR Hopes, GB Hogg, SR Clark, B Lee, MG Johnson
Australia will need 20 overs out of Clarke, Symonds, Hodge and Hopes. Should be an acheivable task, as Hopes will likely bowl 10 unless he's getting hammered. Nice to see Irfan Pathan making a return, really adds some more balance to the Indian side, let's hope he continues where he left off during the World Twenty20.
Australia: AC Gilchrist, ML Hayden, BJ Hodge, A Symonds, MJ Clarke BJ Haddin, JR Hopes, GB Hogg, SR Clark, B Lee, MG Johnson
Australia will need 20 overs out of Clarke, Symonds, Hodge and Hopes. Should be an acheivable task, as Hopes will likely bowl 10 unless he's getting hammered. Nice to see Irfan Pathan making a return, really adds some more balance to the Indian side, let's hope he continues where he left off during the World Twenty20.
andyc
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With Lee, Clark, Hogg and Johnson in, they'll only need 10 overs out of Hopes, Symonds and Clarke (would be surprised if Hodge got a bowl). The team has plenty of bowling IMO.
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Indeed. cricinfo missed out Stuart Clark during their preview, so I didn't realise he was playing. Looks a good bowling attack then, be interesting to see if Clark stops being dire.