Peter Moores has let the bullshit of modern sport get to him.
I can’t blame him, it happens to everyone these days, and it happens to probotic coaches once they receive their first pay check.
It’s nothing to be ashamed of.
But when you claim that the Stanford game isn’t all about money, and you call it an ‘international’ you have lost your fucking mind.
It’s not an international, you aren’t playing a country, you are playing a sponsor.
It’s like if Australia played the Snap Crackle & Pop XI, sure you are representing your country, but you are only doing because some texas good old boy came up with the Benjamins.
Alistair Cook is right, and I don’t say that easily, this is all about the cash, because without the cash this wouldn’t exist.
Test cricket was around before the cash, and if shit came to shit, would probably be around after the cash.
But 2020, and Stanford are just cash.
Disposable assets.
Like eating McDonalds, it may feel good at the time you are eating that crap, but you know if 15 minutes you’re gonna be doing a McCrap and wishing you ate some real food.
I think Alistair Cook is a good batsman, but I wish he would make more centuries, when he said this
“The actual cricket is quite unimportant, apart from financially,”
It was his only century this season.
If Moores wants to say things like,
“It (the Stanford Super Series) is an event sanctioned by the ICC”
and keep a straight face, he can.
But in real cricket, we don’t call them events, we call them series, events are when BoyzIIMen play at your local shopping centre.
And do you know why they play at shopping centres, it’s not for the love of the music.
UncleJ, If you were given an opportunity to waterboard these administicrats, like you were Dick Cheney, would you do it?
“The actual cricket is quite unimportant, apart from financially”….If only Alastair Cook’s book was as interesting as that one sentence.
It was a poorly constructed sentence though.Is his book as poorly constructed? Why does he even have a book – what’s he done???
The only intriguing aspect is will Ian Botham commentate on his first 20/20 game now it includes a jolly to Antigua? Magic 8-balls says you-bet-your-ass.
I can only say that Moores’ statement was on the same level as St Kev – who has pointed out that if the Sri Lankan tour is cancelled and thus English players are available to play in the IPL franchise (which is not driven by money oh no it’s not) then this will be GOOD for the English players for they will gain skills and experience in 20/20 – all for the next 20/20 world cup – and they will NOT be driven by money oh no they won’t.
Hor, If I was Dick Cheney, I’d take them all out hunting. Mel, he has a book? Who is he Britney Spears.
Mel, whats his book called ? Is is it about make up in different world conditions ?
Ceci do I detect sarcasm there???”…players are available to play in the IPL franchise (which is not driven by money oh no it’s not)…”Actually IPL or the BCCI has never claimed that the IPL was a philanthropic exercise. In fact Indians all over the world have accepted IPL as a solely money making spectacle (like Bollywood). Quite intresting and mature for a nation that till recently was flirting with Socialism and considered pursuit of money tacky.The only “its good for cricket” reasoning I hear from the IPL camp is that it helps local Indian players. And that is true. Consider what a confidence booster the IPL has been for a player like Ashok Dinda who got to play alongside Ponting.It is the ECB which keeps acting like its the sole guardian of cricket and money is not important.Why can’t they simply accept that they are envious of India’s imp in the cricketing world?? Why can’t they acknowledge that they too crave money?