Pawar powers ICL revival

Sharad Pawar long time friend of Subash Chandra (Zee TV) owner of the ICL inflicts life into ICL. After the stupendous success of IPL, with the ban on cricketers playing the league and very low TRP rating for the league, it is almost done to the trash.

Pawar has given the ICL new lease of life by leaving the decision on the players involved in the league with the associated board and made it clear that ICC has got nothing against the players and they are eligible for the T20 Champions Trophy planned by the BCCI. Kapil must be a happy man now and should be taking the next logical step by fighting for selection of players from ICL for Team India. ECB is the major beneficiary of this move with many players playing in ICL are already playing in county cricket.

Yet another good game in the carrebian today, as its going to be T20 we can expect tight contest with big hitting WI take revenge for the test series lose. Australia with the new found success in IPL starts Shaun Marsh and Shane Watson should be fighting to gain supremacy in this format of the game.

Coming back to the local cricket politics, its sad that a former BCCI president should create problems to the smooth functioning of the TNCA. For the past 5-6 years the TNCA elections had no surprise and everything was dominated by the India Cements and had good understanding with other corporates like (MRF,Chemplast,TVS,India Piston's etc), now the old horse A.C.Muthiah raising issues on the way elections are conducted for the TNCA. Its sad that it has come out in the open and i am sure things will not be as smooth as it is now and one can expect few court cases and delay in executing the elections scheduled this month end. SPIC has not done anything good for cricket in the recent past, with its own teams in the lower division league from once 1st division champions. It will help local cricketers if he helps building a worthy team and bring back the glory days for their team.

Euro-2008 : Germany wins comfortably over Portugal with a 3-2 score line. Germany dominated through out the match with some great performance from Ballack,Podlosky and Klose backed up by the come back man Schweinsteiger starting with a stunning right foot goal and brilliant passing.