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Post by chetak » Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:21 pm

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Post by Peregrine » Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:31 pm

Has PSL 3 really failed to pull in big crowds?

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DUBAI: With just minutes to go before the start of a potentially explosive HBL Pakistan Super League game featuring defending champions Peshawar Zalmi and table-toppers Multan Sultans on Tuesday night, there was hardly any kind of buzz at the iconic Dubai International Stadium.

A few dozen spectators had made their way into the Ring of Fire and by the looks of it, not many were likely to follow them. In best-case scenario, the crowd attendance was expected to a thousand or so. Worst-case scenario: a few hundred.

The alarming part for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is that it’s not a one-time happening. Low crowd attendance has been a trend for PSL 3 and that doesn’t augur well for this relatively new T20 league.

The state-of-the-art Dubai stadium hasn’t attracted big crowds since the launch of the league in 2016 but this year even Sharjah, previously a magnet for fans, has really failed to pull in big crowds. Apart from Friday’s double-header, last week’s Sharjah leg of PSL didn’t attract any big hordes of fans and that must have come as a big disappointment for the PCB.

The falling spectator interest in PSL is surprising considering that the league is claiming to have become bigger and better in its third year. It has added a sixth franchise – Multan Sultans – and is now looking forward to move to Pakistan for the last three games of the season including the March 25 finale in Karachi.

Critics argue that its the failure of PCB’s marketing team. They blame the board’s marketing gurus for taking things for granted.

They might have a point. The Board did some aggressive marketing campaigns for the inaugural edition and then repeated the same mantra last year. This year, however, the pre-tournament hype lacked intensity. If there has been any efforts on the part of PCB to ensure bigger crowd attendance then they have hid them well.

The low turn-outs in Dubai isn’t a big surprise considering that the Dubai International Stadium is situated far from the city centre. Even bigger hurdle in the way of fans is that it isn’t linked to the city by any kind of public transport.

But Sharjah, which will host a series of PSL games next week, has delivered an unpleasant surprise.

Even the participating players are surprised.

“It is not a good sight playing in front of empty stands,” said a senior players featuring in PSL. “As a cricketer, you want to perform in front of a full house because it’s the fans who bring the best out of you. Unfortunately, you rarely get a chance to do that here,” added the player, who requested anonymity.

Reviving crowd interest in the league is certainly a big task for the PCB but it can achieve that goal with a single move: taking the entire PSL season to Pakistan next year.

The Board is mulling over that idea but much will depend on the availability of foreign players for such an enterprise.

“It will be like a dream come true if the entire PSL is held in Pakistan,”
said the senior cricketer. “But chances of that happening are slim because it will be really tough to convince foreign players to play in Pakistan for an entire season.”

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Re: Cricket

Post by hanumadu » Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:21 pm

Presstitutes like to talk about Talibanization of Hindus but Talibanization of Indian muslims is complete. Shami turns out another philandering, wife beating muslim.

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Post by Peregrine » Thu Mar 08, 2018 5:08 pm

Bangladesh vs India, 2nd Match, Series: India and Bangladesh in Sri Lanka T20I Tri-Series

BANGLADESH 139/8 (20.0 Overs)

INDIA 140/4 (18.4 Overs)

India won by 6 Wickets

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Re: Cricket

Post by Kabir » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:26 am

Somehow a victry against the bhookanangas has started giving the same satisfaction as against the pakis; especially after their photoshop abuse of Indian players and all the more as BD fans and girls hate loosing to India :D

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Re: Cricket

Post by hanumadu » Fri Mar 09, 2018 4:19 pm

More on Mohd Shami.


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Post by KJo » Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:43 pm

Rohit Sharma has gone for about a month with poor scores. So my prediction is that he will wake up, shout AOA, read the Kalima and slay a few Kafirs with a big score within the next 2 matches!

Last few matches of Sharma.

Bat & Bowl Team Opposition Ground Match Date Scorecard
11 India v Sri Lanka Colombo (RPS) 12 Mar 2018 T20I # 659
17 India v Bangladesh Colombo (RPS) 8 Mar 2018 T20I # 657
0 India v Sri Lanka Colombo (RPS) 6 Mar 2018 T20I # 656
11 India v South Africa Cape Town 24 Feb 2018 T20I # 655
0 India v South Africa Centurion 21 Feb 2018 T20I # 654
21 India v South Africa Johannesburg 18 Feb 2018 T20I # 652
15 India v South Africa Centurion 16 Feb 2018 ODI # 3978 Insights on
115 India v South Africa Port Elizabeth 13 Feb 2018 ODI # 3976 Insights on
5 India v South Africa Johannesburg 10 Feb 2018 ODI # 3973 Insights on
0 India v South Africa Cape Town 7 Feb 2018 ODI # 3971 Insights on

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Post by hanumadu » Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:53 pm

RS's scores in 2016 in Australia in consecutive matches. The last three of T20s.
171* 0 11 0 0 v Australia Perth 12 Jan 2016 ODI # 3723
124 - - 0 0 v Australia Brisbane 15 Jan 2016 ODI # 3724
6 - - 0 0 v Australia Melbourne 17 Jan 2016 ODI # 3725
41 - - 1 0 v Australia Canberra 20 Jan 2016 ODI # 3726
99 - - 1 0 v Australia Sydney 23 Jan 2016 ODI # 3727
31 - - 0 0 v Australia Adelaide 26 Jan 2016 T20I # 485
60 - - 0 0 v Australia Melbourne 29 Jan 2016 T20I # 486
52 - - 0 0 v Australia Sydney 31 Jan 2016 T20I # 489

His scores in Champions Trophy this year.
91 - - 0 0 v Pakistan Birmingham 4 Jun 2017 ODI # 3878
78 - - 0 0 v Sri Lanka The Oval 8 Jun 2017 ODI # 3882
12 - - 0 0 v South Africa The Oval 11 Jun 2017 ODI # 3886
123* - - 0 0 v Bangladesh Birmingham 15 Jun 2017 ODI # 3891
0 - - 0 0 v Pakistan The Oval 18 Jun 2017 ODI # 3894

Many more series' where he scored consistently.
So your assertion that he is inconsistent are wrong. He cannot have the averages he has if he is as inconsistent as he is made out to be. He has been especially consistent in the ODIs.
He averages more than the other Indian opener in both the limited over formats.

Hashim Amla was a greater failure in the SA odis. RS won a series winning match for us, but Amla could not even win a single match for SA. You don't hear calls for Amla's ouster.
21 India v South Africa Johannesburg 18 Feb 2018 T20I # 652
He made 21 in 9 balls in this match. This is not a failure by any means in a T20. In that match, SA Made more runs than us from overs 7 to 20. We won the match in the power play. And Kohli mentioned his innings in the post match interview as what made the score possible.

So he failed in a few T20 matches with a second rung team in a inconsequential tournament that no body gives a fig about. But his overall record is nothing but of consistency for the last few years.

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Re: Cricket

Post by KJo » Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:01 pm

Wait and watch. :mrgreen:

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Post by hanumadu » Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:25 pm

Your statement is already wrong in the context of his past record. Wait and watch what? That he will succeed in the next match? or he will succeed once only every few matches? What is it exactly that you want us to wait and watch? That you are a soothsayer who can predict RS's scores?

Why don't you tell us what is your measure of consistency and let us see if he matches up to it or not? And lets see how many in the Indian team matches up to it.

Picking on a few scores but ignoring his performance for the last several years shows your prejudice against him.

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Re: Cricket

Post by KJo » Tue Mar 13, 2018 4:50 pm

hanumadu wrote:
Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:25 pm
Your statement is already wrong in the context of his past record. Wait and watch what? That he will succeed in the next match? or he will succeed once only every few matches? What is it exactly that you want us to wait and watch? That you are a soothsayer who can predict RS's scores?

Why don't you tell us what is your measure of consistency and let us see if he matches up to it or not? And lets see how many in the Indian team matches up to it.

Picking on a few scores but ignoring his performance for the last several years shows your prejudice against him.
Why are you getting so worked up?

Are you Rohit Sharma?? :shock: :o

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Re: Cricket

Post by hanumadu » Wed Mar 14, 2018 2:45 am

Nice try to evade the question.
Again, what is your criteria for consistency? Is it your perception that will determine if he is consistent or not?

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Re: Cricket

Post by Suraj » Wed Mar 14, 2018 3:48 am

Some idle time on statsguru tells me:
India test performance:
Period : Total : Win : Loss : Draw : Tie
Overall : 521 : 144 : 160 : 216 : 1
30s-50s : 65 : 6 : 26 : 31 : 0
1960s : 53 : 9 : 21 : 22 : 0
1970s : 64 : 17 : 19 : 28 : 0
1980s : 81 : 11 : 21 : 48 : 1
1990s : 69 : 18 : 20 : 31 : 0
2000s : 103 : 40 : 27 : 36 : 0
2010s : 88 : 43 : 24 : 21 : 0

We're closing in on bridging the 16 match W:L gap after decades of a <1.00 W/L record that did not change until this century.

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Re: Cricket

Post by KJo » Wed Mar 14, 2018 2:25 pm

KJo wrote:
Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:43 pm
Rohit Sharma has gone for about a month with poor scores. So my prediction is that he will wake up, shout AOA, read the Kalima and slay a few Kafirs with a big score within the next 2 matches!
Rohit Sharma on fire :mrgreen:

Rohit Sharma*(rhb) 33 33 2 1 100.00

Go Rohit Go! Maaro century!

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Re: Cricket

Post by KJo » Wed Mar 14, 2018 3:05 pm

Well played Rohit!
Too bad he could not get to a century but good knock.

RG Sharma run out (Rubel Hossain) 89 (61b 5x4 5x6) SR: 145.90

Now he can nap for another 7-8 matches before rinse and repeat.

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Post by Peregrine » Wed Mar 14, 2018 5:00 pm

Bangladesh vs India, 5th Match - Series: India and Bangladesh in Sri Lanka T20I Tri-Series, 2018

INDIA 176/3 (20.0 Ovs)
B'Desh : 159/6 (20.0 Ovs)
India won by 17 runs


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Post by Peregrine » Thu Mar 15, 2018 3:48 pm

Losing sponsors, PSL franchises are fuming

DUBAI: Just three-years old, the HBL Pakistan Super League has already established itself as one of the biggest brands to come out of the country.

But despite its initial success, the T20 league continues to face stumbling blocks.And one of the biggest losers are the six franchises.

Sources in various PSL franchises told ‘The News’ that all the six teams have been losing money since the initiation of the league back in 2016.

“Not a single of the franchises is breaking even,” a well-placed source said.

Despite suffering from financial losses, the franchises have been fully backing the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in its campaign to turn PSL into one of the best T20 leagues in the world.

However, there is one reason why many of the franchise owners are fuming. They believe that instead of supporting them, PCB is, directly or indirectly, robbing it of sponsors.

“We are all fully backing PCB because we own PSL and want to make it the best T20 league in the world,” said one franchise owner. “But the Board will have to rethink its marketing strategy. It will have to treat the franchises as major stakeholders but unfortunately some of their policies are having adverse effects on the finances of the franchises,” he added.

The single biggest lament of some of the franchises is that the PCB has given a too much of a freehand to its marketing partners Transmedia.

“They (Transmedia) are dealing fatal blows to some of the franchises by luring away their sponsors. This practice should be stopped. The franchises are already struggling because so far PSL has not been a money-making business for them.“

The Board should ask its marketing partners to find their own sponsors instead of poaching on sponsors that are associated with the franchises,” an official of one of the franchises told ‘The News’.

According to a senior official of one of the PSL franchises, Transmedia has succeeded in luring away sponsors from them because it was in a position to give them a better deal because it had PCB’s backing.

“The thing is that anyone working on behalf of the PCB can offer sponsors better deals. But you cannot go and make a pitch to a company that is already associated with a (PSL) franchise. They should find new sponsors for the Board instead of luring away companies associated with the franchises. This practice should be stopped,” he said.

According to sources, the issue was also raised in a meeting between the six franchise owners and Najam Sethi, the PCB chairman, at the Inter-continental in Dubai Festival City.

The franchise owners demanded that the PCB should make things more transparent and allow the franchises to be a part of the process through which it will sell title and broadcast rights for future editions of the league including PSL 4 in 2019.

“HBL’s title sponsorship was for three years which means that PCB will be signing up a new title sponsor. It is expecting to get a sum that is at least three times more than the previous deal with HBL,” said a source.

“The franchise owners want to be in the loop when the PSL rights are sold. They want in and the PCB has assured them that it will find a way,” another well-placed source disclosed.

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Re: Cricket

Post by hanumadu » Sat Mar 17, 2018 12:41 am

KJo wrote:
Wed Mar 14, 2018 3:05 pm
Well played Rohit!
Too bad he could not get to a century but good knock.

RG Sharma run out (Rubel Hossain) 89 (61b 5x4 5x6) SR: 145.90

Now he can nap for another 7-8 matches before rinse and repeat.
Show me where he has failed for 7-8 consecutive matches in any one limited overs format (either 50 overs or t20) since 2014.
He went without half century for 5 consecutive 50 over ODI matches once and that is his longest failure streak in ODIs.
Once he did not score a half century in 4 ODIs.
At all other times, he did not go without a half century for more than 3 matches in ODIs.

It is not possible to average 44 if he is scoring only once in 7-8 matches or even once in 5 matches.

He averages 30 in t20s which is a good average.

You are carrying a perception hangover that is at least 4 years old. Please update yourselves.

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Post by Indrad » Sat Mar 17, 2018 4:30 pm

BL vs SL
Peacefuls of BD fought with SL players on & off the field and even smashed dressing room of BD players.
No idea of more details. Case being investigated by Courtney Walsh.
Gaali Galauj throughout game and BD captain even asked his batsmen to pull out from middle.

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Re: Cricket

Post by ricky » Sat Mar 17, 2018 7:10 pm

Ahh, good ol tigers, world beaters since 2007..There are somethings in the world that can never change; pakis will continue to whore themselves to all and sundry and "the TIGERS"will continue to be immature man childs. Trawling the cricket forums for an insight into the bangladeshi view of thinking can be very illuminating, its a weird mix of "we are marginalized and oppressed onlee/discriminated against"and "kya ukhad lega be"(what can/will you do); every comment is a amalgamation of these sentiments, which may or may not be symptomatic of their national view of thinking. Many are the sentiments that the bd board has "graciously" accepted to pay the damage fee, so there should not be any problem; why do people criticize tigers when they are doing so good, actions on the field and off it(though in the stadium) should not be compared with. Victimhood on one hand and entitlement on the other, are like the trademark features of india's neighbours.

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Post by Indrad » Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:04 am

https://twitter.com/AmarUjalaNews/statu ... 3549256704

BD even performed nagin dance in middle of pitch

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Re: Cricket

Post by Suraj » Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:13 pm

I was about to say I feel sorry for the beedis, but I shook myself to my senses and will instead say
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Re: Cricket

Post by Peregrine » Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:15 pm

India vs Bangladesh, Final

BDESH: 166/8 (20.0 Ovs)
INDIA : 168/6 (20.0 Ovs)

India won by 4 wkts


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