SA wants CL to be a level playing field.

And I noticed an egregious error in this article which proves the locals don't know their cricket that well.


South Africa: Level the Playing Field in Twenty20 Champions League

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Business Day</A> (Johannesburg)

26 September 2008
Posted to the web 26 September 2008

Mark Smit
Johannesburg

THE tug-of-war between the Chennai Super Kings and the Titans for the services of all-rounder Albie Morkel in the new Twenty20 Champions League intensified yesterday, with Titans CEO Elise Lombard pointing out that the event could not be played on "a level playing field" as it stood.

She was alluding to the fact that the two Indian teams entered for the tournament are the two that finished top in the recent Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament in India.




The Super Kings and Rajahstan Royals are made up of players from all over the world and are, essentially, international teams.

The Australian entrants are their state finalists, Western Australia and Victoria; SA will enter the Titans and the Dolphins; England will be represented by Middlesex; and a regional Pakistani team will come later.

Lombard said it was hardly fair to expect domestic provincial or state teams - made up largely of local players - to be up against teams that include international stars from all over the world.

To make matters worse for the Titans, arguably their best Twenty20 player - national all-rounder Morkel - played for the Super Kings in the IPL and they want him for their team in the Champions League. The Titans have insisted that if the Super Kings want Morkel, there must be a financial settlement "not necessarily with us, but with Cricket SA", Lombard said.

"But that apart, we must resolve this player overlap situation. What if the Warriors had been one of the South African franchises involved? They would then have to do without Graeme Smith, who would be on call for his Indian franchise.

"I hardly think the situation is fair."

Cricket SA's GM of cricket operations Brian Basson said the Morkel situation was still fluid, but a financial consideration would have to be included in the solution.

Lombard said that, since a 10-year time-frame was envisaged for the Champions League, the anomaly had to be sorted out.

Also yesterday, Cricket SA confirmed that its contracted internationals will be "phased-in" to the Supersport Series after their busy season.

Contracted players will be available for their franchises for the start of the SuperSport Series on Thursday.

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Gerald Majola, the CEO of Cricket SA, said yesterday that Lions captain Neil McKenzie, Dolphins batsman Hashim Amla, Cobras batsmen Ashwell Prince, JP Duminy and Herschelle Gibbs, Titans spinner Paul Harris and Morkel, as well as Warriors players Monde Zondeki, Robin Peterson and Johan Botha will all be available from the start.

"The multi format players will come back for the third round. Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers, Mark Boucher and Dale Steyn have been placed in this category," Majola said.

Morne Morkel and Andre Nel (Titans and Lions respectively) will play the first two matches, but not the third (Durban and Bloemfontein respectively). Makhaya Ntini will play the second and third matches in East London and Durban respectively. Graeme Smith, who has an elbow injury, may not play any representative cricket until the Castle Test series against Bangladesh next month.

Totally agree, Bad mistake




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SA does have a point, no use having this competition if it's lopsided, everyone should be able to represent their original teams.

SA & Aus climbed into bed with the BCCI fully well knowing the rules were going to be loaded in favour of IPL sides...

Here Red, I find your posting of the article very egregious. So bounce up and down on that greased dildo.

JKLever wrote:SA & Aus climbed into bed with the BCCI fully well knowing the rules were going to be loaded in favour of IPL sides...

The Australian and SA are already well rewarded in monetary terms just for participating but it would be a more interesting competition if every domestic team was actually a domestic side. Instead some will be full of 'alien' internationals.

Brass Monkey wrote:Here Red, I find your posting of the article very egregious. So bounce up and down on that greased dildo.

And I find that advice gratuitous. Nobody has spotted the egregious error though.

Red wrote:

JKLever wrote:SA & Aus climbed into bed with the BCCI fully well knowing the rules were going to be loaded in favour of IPL sides...

The Australian and SA are already well rewarded in monetary terms just for participating but it would be a more interesting competition if every domestic team was actually a domestic side. Instead some will be full of 'alien' internationals.

I wonder why we have never discussed this before.

Red wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:Here Red, I find your posting of the article very egregious. So bounce up and down on that greased dildo.

And I find that advice gratuitous.

because you are busy?

She was already bouncing.

Red wrote:

JKLever wrote:SA & Aus climbed into bed with the BCCI fully well knowing the rules were going to be loaded in favour of IPL sides...

The Australian and SA are already well rewarded in monetary terms just for participating but it would be a more interesting competition if every domestic team was actually a domestic side. Instead some will be full of 'alien' internationals.

Well that is 100% correct, but you're being paid wads of cash to suck BCCI manhood

JKLever wrote:

Red wrote:

JKLever wrote:SA & Aus climbed into bed with the BCCI fully well knowing the rules were going to be loaded in favour of IPL sides...

The Australian and SA are already well rewarded in monetary terms just for participating but it would be a more interesting competition if every domestic team was actually a domestic side. Instead some will be full of 'alien' internationals.

Well that is 100% correct, but you're being paid wads of cash to suck BCCI manhood

Yes, the BCCI uses its metaphorical manhood to compensate for Indians' own shortcomings in that area. I read some time ago that Indians are second after Koreans in terms of being the least endowed. Taipan will be happy to note that South Africans fared well on this scale.

Oh...dear....

JKLever wrote:SA & Aus climbed into bed with the BCCI fully well knowing the rules were going to be loaded in favour of IPL sides...

Apparently they didn't.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,24406542-23212,00.html
It had been thought that Indian Premier League franchises had priority over Australian states in cases where a player qualifies for more than one team.

But a Cricket Australia spokesman said Australian players were not only free to participate in the tournament, but had a choice if two teams they represented had made the grade.

"Apparently the players have a choice in those cases where they have an IPL team and a state team based in the tournament," the spokesman said.
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I wonder if Hussey will be asked to play for the Indian franchise by his home team?They may choose the money they will be paid for Hussey.

Hussey said the other day he was playing for the Warriors. Unless of course some Chennai moolah causes him to have a change of heart.

I get the impression A. Morkel is going to play for Chennai though from what I've read.