Redbacks still not paid for 2010 Champions League

[Rik E Boy]

again some valid points, but why do you care so much about all that, as long as test cricket remains don't worry yourself! what ever happens will happen, cricket will always be there, look at the history in the game !
and the fact is the kids are going to grow up with 20/20 and it will go strength to strength IMO.
go the backs stady night, should be a good game with great atmosphere.

Avagoodone.

regards,

REB

[valleys07]

but why do you care so much about all that, as long as test cricket remains don't worry yourself! what ever happens will happen, cricket will always be there, look at the history in the game

But thats exactly REB's point flyer, test cricket will always be there.....but CA's priotrities are about money in their pockets rather than embarking on a plan to see australia return to the number 1 ranking in test cricket. For REB, and myself included, it should be the other way around.

[Bum Crack]

but why do you care so much about all that, as long as test cricket remains don't worry yourself! what ever happens will happen, cricket will always be there, look at the history in the game

But thats exactly REB's point flyer, test cricket will always be there.....but CA's priotrities are about money in their pockets rather than embarking on a plan to see australia return to the number 1 ranking in test cricket. For REB, and myself included, it should be the other way around.

Wouldn't be so sure that test cricket will always be here.

[AFLflyer]

but why do you care so much about all that, as long as test cricket remains don't worry yourself! what ever happens will happen, cricket will always be there, look at the history in the game

But thats exactly REB's point flyer, test cricket will always be there.....but CA's priotrities are about money in their pockets rather than embarking on a plan to see australia return to the number 1 ranking in test cricket. For REB, and myself included, it should be the other way around.

yeah i actually agree that TEST criscket should be the number one form of the game and i hope it always will be! i also think people are cashing in.
i also enjoy 20/20, it's still cricket just in a quicker form! exciting etc.
just dont undersatnd why you would boycott it. The game is only going to expand in the future, so why not go with the times is my only real point i guess.

[valleys07]

Wouldn't be so sure that test cricket will always be here.

Well the BCCI and CA are greedy, but surely not greedy enough to let test cricket die

[valleys07]

i also enjoy 20/20, it's still cricket just in a quicker form! exciting etc.
just dont undersatnd why you would boycott it. The game is only going to expand in the future, so why not go with the times is my only real point i guess.

I agree flyer, i enjoy the 20/20 concept also. But in the bigger picture if t20 was to contribute to the demise of the domestic and test competitions i would be in favour of scrapping it.

[Media Park]

I have so many people who cannot understand how I can sit there and watch a full five day Test match, only for a draw.

I find it enthralling, the battle between bat and ball, which is certainly on a more even keel than in T20...

The same people talk to me at work about how exciting the T20 is, and don't understand why I don't go bananas over it...

I know all of these weird and wonderful Test cricket stats, most of which are from before I was born, and I have been alive for the entirety of T20's, and couldn't tell you jack about it.

I will be at the game tomorrow, purely because it is cricket, and I need a holiday, but it doesn't give me the thrills I get watching blokes bat for a day to save a match, or a quick bowler bowling twenty plus overs a day (unlike Nannes/Tait types who struggle for twenty plus balls).

Back on topic...

DV, no they haven't...

[Darth Vader]

I have so many people who cannot understand how I can sit there and watch a full five day Test match, only for a draw.

I find it enthralling, the battle between bat and ball, which is certainly on a more even keel than in T20...

The same people talk to me at work about how exciting the T20 is, and don't understand why I don't go bananas over it...

I know all of these weird and wonderful Test cricket stats, most of which are from before I was born, and I have been alive for the entirety of T20's, and couldn't tell you jack about it.

I will be at the game tomorrow, purely because it is cricket, and I need a holiday, but it doesn't give me the thrills I get watching blokes bat for a day to save a match, or a quick bowler bowling twenty plus overs a day (unlike Nannes/Tait types who struggle for twenty plus balls).

Back on topic...

DV, no they haven't...

hahaha you really are a scream MP.

[smithy]

If you wanted a new car you wouldn't be able to drive it out of the showroom until you paid for it. You couldn't get out of Woolies with a trolley full of goodies until you paid for it. You won't even get out of a dentist or doctors surgery until money or kind changes hands. Why would you play some dodgy version of the beautifl game in India for nothing - just on the word of some greasy spiv who says the cheque is in the mail. Teams should insist on payment up front then let the IPL wankers try and run the circus without any teams.

Unless it was a cheap, tacky version of a classic model that the great unwashed could purchase on hire purchase without really understanding or caring about the stately lines of the original.

regards,

REB

But what if the cheap, tacky version was the highest selling model and the only one that made money, meaning without it no cars of any kind would be made?

Ah yes, I know why the cheap tacky version is made...I just wont buy one.

regards,

REB

I seem to remember you mentioning you played a lot of Indoor Cricket years ago REB ?
16 overs per side, 4 overs per batsman etc etc.

Still haven't purchased a cheap tacky version in the past ?

[brod]

Just want to check, is this thread still about the Redback and their non-payment for the Champions League?

[Darth Vader]

Just want to check, is this thread still about the Redback and their non-payment for the Champions League?

Perhaps when the lads sober up after last night's victory we could ask them?

[Brucetiki]

The Players Association has stepped into this farce, calling on it's Members to boycott this year's Champions League as the BCCI still haven't paid the participating teams.

[Grahaml]

Which would suck. It would punish the players more than the BCCI. The BCCI will just invite other teams, eventually they'll get the 10 teams or whatever they want. Or the teams will pick different players. The tournament will go ahead and the Indians won't care the best from the rest of the world isn't there, especially if it means the Indian sides get an easier path.

The players who do boycott will just end up missing out on playing, and the potential prize money others will get (eventually). Not to mention some blokes will get 1 chance in a lifetime to play in this. For many this will be their only chance to play a form of international cricket.

[Brucetiki]

Which would suck. It would punish the players more than the BCCI. The BCCI will just invite other teams, eventually they'll get the 10 teams or whatever they want. Or the teams will pick different players. The tournament will go ahead and the Indians won't care the best from the rest of the world isn't there, especially if it means the Indian sides get an easier path.

The players who do boycott will just end up missing out on playing, and the potential prize money others will get (eventually). Not to mention some blokes will get 1 chance in a lifetime to play in this. For many this will be their only chance to play a form of international cricket.

Perhaps the best option is to remove the ICC sanction for this tournament, and perhaps create another Champions League tournament excluding the BCCI from running it and excluding the IPL teams (perhaps an independent board with one representative from each test nation except India to run it).

[brod]

Which would suck. It would punish the players more than the BCCI. The BCCI will just invite other teams, eventually they'll get the 10 teams or whatever they want. Or the teams will pick different players. The tournament will go ahead and the Indians won't care the best from the rest of the world isn't there, especially if it means the Indian sides get an easier path.

The players who do boycott will just end up missing out on playing, and the potential prize money others will get (eventually). Not to mention some blokes will get 1 chance in a lifetime to play in this. For many this will be their only chance to play a form of international cricket.

Perhaps the best option is to remove the ICC sanction for this tournament, and perhaps create another Champions League tournament excluding the BCCI from running it and excluding the IPL teams (perhaps an independent board with one representative from each test nation except India to run it).

First Prize--A large pizza and 2lt bottle of coke

[Brucetiki]

Which would suck. It would punish the players more than the BCCI. The BCCI will just invite other teams, eventually they'll get the 10 teams or whatever they want. Or the teams will pick different players. The tournament will go ahead and the Indians won't care the best from the rest of the world isn't there, especially if it means the Indian sides get an easier path.

The players who do boycott will just end up missing out on playing, and the potential prize money others will get (eventually). Not to mention some blokes will get 1 chance in a lifetime to play in this. For many this will be their only chance to play a form of international cricket.

Perhaps the best option is to remove the ICC sanction for this tournament, and perhaps create another Champions League tournament excluding the BCCI from running it and excluding the IPL teams (perhaps an independent board with one representative from each test nation except India to run it).

First Prize--A large pizza and 2lt bottle of coke

At least they'll be paid on time

[brod]

The ECB may prevent counties from playing in the Champions League Twenty20 unless payments are made up front, according to a report in the UK's Telegraph.

The board insists that the two counties that qualify for the qualification stage of the tournament - which will be the winners of the two Friends life T20 semi-finals; Lancashire v Leicestershire, and Hampshire v Somerset - have to receive the money to cover their costs from the tournament organisers before they are allowed to compete in the tournament that starts in September.

[brod]

In a similar vein..

Simon Katich and Ramnaresh Sarwan are among a group of cricketers still owed contract payments from the BCCI for the 2010 Indian Premier League.

FICA, the international cricketers' representative body, has revealed that the money has remained unpaid for more than 18 months despite numerous entreaties by the players and their management. Tim May, the FICA, chief executive, said no response had been forthcoming.

[Jimmy]

but why do you care so much about all that, as long as test cricket remains don't worry yourself! what ever happens will happen, cricket will always be there, look at the history in the game

But thats exactly REB's point flyer, test cricket will always be there.....but CA's priotrities are about money in their pockets rather than embarking on a plan to see australia return to the number 1 ranking in test cricket. For REB, and myself included, it should be the other way around.

yeah i actually agree that TEST criscket should be the number one form of the game and i hope it always will be! i also think people are cashing in.
i also enjoy 20/20, it's still cricket just in a quicker form! exciting etc.
just dont undersatnd why you would boycott it. The game is only going to expand in the future, so why not go with the times is my only real point i guess.

...just go with the times eh? Glad you weren't around Germany in 1939 lol

I'm with reb and co, couldn't give a shit about the Mickey mouse crap, focus on test cricket which is REAL cricket!