Just to show that the owners of these IPL franchises are completely nuts, Ashwell Prince was given 175,000 d’s to play.
I didn’t realise Indian millionaires were on magic mushrooms.
Fancy giving Ashwell money to play in 2020, he should be paying people to play in it.
I wouldn’t select him in a backyard game, whee my only other option was the special needs kid with the wooden leg.
Ok so I am biased by the fact when i watch him bat I want to reach up my own @ss and pull out my lower intestines.
Sure in a test match, if you need someone to sit at the crease like a piece of petrified coal he is useful, but 2020, where you are to play like your overdosing on red cordial, Ashwell and his mittens are hardly the tonic to get Indian’s frothing at the mouth.
So I have this idea.
Dear Mumbai Indian chief,
Save yourself 75,000 smackers, I’ll come over for 100,000 and be an @ss clown on the field for you.
Put me in the first game, I’ll charge every ball,bowl beamers, sledge everyone, run around naked on the field, call everyone bastard monkey proboting weeds and then finish by hitting on the bollywood chick that owns that franchise.
If that is not worth more to the owners than Ashwell Prince fumbling around the crease like a crab on a volvo I don’t know what is.
Also I am willing to walk around with a kingfisher beers in my hands at all time, so some of that 100,00 can be paid for with product placement.
Remember IPLers. Cricket is a game, 2020 is a show, and Ashwell is a german existential play, whilst I am Vegas Showgirls number.
say what you want, India now owns cricket and it can bloody well pay anybody anything they want and get them to play.Michael Clarke and Mitchell Johnson, in their hurry to appease CA have kicked the boat. So sad, Clarke will be made the captain of your team and will still be driving his holden barino, when Symonds would have already bought an island off Tasmania and will be shopping for a jet to take him there.
Actually Michael Clarke has a sick father, and that is the main reason he is not playing. And Mitchell Johnson has a hot girlfriend, and i wouldnt leave her alone either.
moving the discussion back to prince, worth noting that he was the ONLY player put up in the first round of auctions and not picked / bid for by any team (md. yousuf doesn’t count, he has a contract wrangle with ICL so no one bid for him in the IPL). so clearly prince has done something special (i’m not saying on-field, and i’m not guessing what else…) in the interim…
by the way, caught the end of the ICL game last night, where inzy and azhar mahmood clattered 60 odd at 10 an over off ian harvey’s (and some indian has-beens and never-weres) bowling and won. felt like a great ODI game from the late ’90s!
Ashwells mittens the first part was all about him not getting selected in the first auction, rightfully so.
Its crazy, its insane, its totally mindboggling these auctions.Ashwell gets 175K and the man who single handedly almost won the T20 WC for Pakistan gets a mere 125K.???
turning black money in white??