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Baseball fields and soccer/football pitches also vary in size.Is cricket the only professional sport without a standardised ground size?
I'm doing my part for JHB and PTA. And I've got a friend down in PE that's going to at least one game, so there'll be at least one game with at least one spectator.^Great news for CPT - hope the good, but lazy, people of PE show similar enthusiasm...
One was a news thread. I think we should use this one.Please confirm which thread is going to be used for the T20 tournament starting today? Not sure why we have two...
It's bwana's fault, he keeps spamming this thread with articles.Please confirm which thread is going to be used for the T20 tournament starting today? Not sure why we have two...
oh hell no... I knew they would bring STO's into it. The direct hit rule is nice, I like it.
Not sure why a second was necessary but I can merge the two.Please confirm which thread is going to be used for the T20 tournament starting today? Not sure why we have two...
Not sure why a second was necessary but, barring any strenuous objections, I will merge the two.Please confirm which thread is going to be used for the T20 tournament starting today? Not sure why we have two...
Because the IPL owners bought the teams. They were prepared to invest in SA cricket, the local businesses weren't prepared. If SA companies had bought the teams naming would be different.Don't know why the local teams must borrow the IPL team names. No originality.
Ok, thanks for clearing that up. As usual, money talks. I still can't get over Emirates Airline Park.Because the IPL owners bought the teams. They were prepared to invest in SA cricket, the local businesses weren't prepared. If SA companies had bought the teams naming would be different.
The IPL teams want to expand their brand.
Not sure why a second was necessary but, barring any strenuous objections, I will merge the two.
Some of the local organisers say they feel as if the only question they are permitted to ask is how far they are required to bend over backwards to satisfy their new, albeit temporary, masters. Others readily agree when asked if they feel they are being colonised.
For instance, it has been decreed that a single agency will provide photographs from the matches. That means some of South Africa's finest snappers of sport, many of whom have been capturing images of the game for decades for publications around the country, will be shut out of working at the tournament for their regular employers. That's not unusual in the IPL, but it is not the South African way of doing things.
Maybe it's just part of the trade-off for what Indian expertise will mean for cricket here.
It sucks for the agencies, they really had the rug pulled out from under them, but I’m a freelancer and managed to get picked up fairly early on.