It's just Cricket

I have come across this cricket game, but it's not any ordinary cricket game, it's a game in which you manage a team. It's free to register and play, if you have a crap team then you may have to pay to get better players. You can get a couple of free credits a day but not many, it's quiet a popular little game, i have been playing for a couple of weeks and I'm really impressed, you play a match everyday, but sometimes it's every other day, if i was you i would give it a go. Here is the link:
http://cricinfo.cricketmanager.co.uk/f.php?f=jackchafer

England are home but for what decision

England dropped down at Heathrow a couple of hours ago, so that means they are at the moment safe from the big boom bombs, in Mumbai. Will they be back, well who's knows, I don't! Officials from both England and India are adamant that the Test series will go ahead, particularly after the BCCI agreed to shift the second Test from Mumbai to Chennai after a request from the ECB. Is that enough though?, to me it sounds like no. It also sounds like Mr Pietersen doesn't want to go, but knows that if the team go he has to go or it'll look like hes a wuss.

He says:

We need to make sure the security's right - but if it's not safe then we won't be coming back," "People are their own people, I'll never force anyone to do anything or tell them to do anything against their will. On the field I may ask people to do things in a certain way but people run their own lives. We'll have to see how the security is.
"I do think the BCCI will make every single effort to get us back here playing Test-match cricket in India. There are TV rights and financial considerations and they run world cricket don't they? But we will not come back to India if it's not safe. My life means more to me than anything else and I won't come back if it's not safe."

Sean Morris, the chief executive of the Professional Cricketers' Association, said the ultimate decision on the tour will rest with the ECB. "It won't be down to the players, it'll be down to the ECB ultimately, and we are comfortable with that, We have worked very well with our board in the past, so we are confident of the processes involved and with the people who provide the information."

There is the strong possibility of a weakened England side returning to India if players make individual decisions on whether to tour. There is a precedent for that, as following the 9/11 attacks in 2001 Robert Croft and Andrew Caddick opted out of the India tour.

We are missing him!

If you like Marcus Trescothick then you would have been glad to see him win the £20,000 prize for his autobiography "coming back to me" also you would have been glad to see him with a huge smile back on his lips. After years battling the depression that ended his international career, Trescothick at last looked at peace as the champagne and canapés were raised in his direction . As everyone one was so happy that day applauding him congratulating him, But i wonder was someone thinking we need him back more then ever before. That's what I would have been thinking. Especially in thee ODI's. England are 4-0 down in the series, England's opening pair have struggled from the start of the current tour. Ian Bell is averaging 21, Matt Prior 15. Ravi Bopara, brought in for Sunday's defeat in Bangalore, made just one. Bell now averages just 33 after 27 matches at the top of the order; Prior 25 from 28. Trescothick, in almost five times as many matches opening for England, averaged 37 - with 12 hundreds, four more than any other England player in history and twice as many as Kevin Pietersen. Even a better statistic is that Marcus averages 53 in one-dayers in India, compared to Bell's 23 and Prior's 24. The thing was it wasn't that he's got 53 for an average in India it was the way he would do it, He would smash it all around the park, he was our Adam Gilchrist or Chris Gayle, he has a strike rate of over 100 in India, what more could you ask for?

Then there's the Test arena.

Trescothick averaged just under 44 in the the test matches, and 48 in India .With the ability to score quickly off the fast bowlers at the start of an innings, and being able to play the spinners perfectly, he was suited to the subcontinent. When you look ahead to the Ashes, There is only Vaughan, Pietersen, Bell, Harmison, Strauss, Flintoff, i suppose Collingwood. Wear did the rest go,

Garent Jones- Crap

Simon Jones - Injured never been picked since

Matthew Hoggard- Got dropped because he had one bad match

Trescothick- Went a bit loopy and retired from International crick

Ashley Giles- Retired because he knew Monty had taken his place

From that we can see we miss 3 players, Hoggard because of his excellent bowling, Trescothick because of his hitting and batting starts and lastly Simon Jones because he just makes the ball do things, like go to the toilet.

It was Trescothick's aggression on the first morning of the second Test that seemed to convince England, already a match down, that they could actually take the Australians on and beat them.
We were used to seeing Australia score 50 off the first 10 overs, but not England. That opening stand of 112 with Andrew Strauss at Edgbaston set the tone for both the day (407 England runs

by close of play) and the rest of the series.

Trescothick is still only 32 years old, two years younger than Vaughan and a year younger than Ricky Ponting. By rights he should be at his peak.
Instead, he'll see out the remainder of his playing days at his beloved Somerset, determined to never again be more than a car journey away from wife Hayley and daughters Ellie and Millie. Because if he does he'll start crying again.He's not coming back!

He said:

"India's a fantastic place to play cricket," he said on Tuesday, "but I don't envy them being out there.
"There were a lot of things left uncovered for me throughout the two years of trying to deal with the illness, and it was definitely a very cathartic process writing this book.
"To write about it and get it all out in the open was great and to read it back was quite an amazing experience. This was my opportunity to tell exactly the story that me and my wife went through."