Indian Premier League

[Omni]

Well the IPL has started, yea, I didn't notice either.

One thing I did notice though, the team from Kolkata are called the Kolkata Knight Riders, well I know who I want to win, that's fantastic!

 

[Bear]

Well the IPL has started, yea, I didn't notice either.

One thing I did notice though, the team from Kolkata are called the Kolkata Knight Riders, well I know who I want to win, that's fantastic!

They played great last night to. 223-3 and some kiwi got 150+

 

[Paolo]

i wont go for them purely for the fact that ricky ponting plays for them

 

[adz]

Ricky Pooooooooooontaaaaaaaaaang

Gilly and Symonds are playing the Knight Riders Sunday night I think

 

[kanewillow]

is this being televised at all

 

[marinermick]

is this being televised at all

channel 10 HD number two channel

 

[bjw]

its also on normal channel 10

 

[adz]

Another DLF Maximum Six... cue the hippies whinging about sponsorship

 

[BrisRecky]

I havent got the patience for 20-20 can someone start a 1-1 series, get the f'n game outta the way between comercials on law and order

 

[mariners4ever]

too many commercials for my liking

 

[Auburn Mariner]

Some Kiwi!!! Brendon McCullum's extraordinary 158* off 73 balls was an amazing start to the IPL. This is like saying that Trevor Brooking, Billy Bonds & Frank Senior were just plodding East End hacks with dreadful accents and a fetish for halibut giblets (watch him react to that one!!).

Keensy, you don't go for Kolkata because Ponting is playing for them?? Are you fair dinkum?? Ganguly is a muppet, admittedly, but not supporting your country's captain and best bat of a generation is heavy stuff.

Despite some reservations (I believe that test Cricket is the pinnacle of the sport), the IPL is a massive beast that will take over the game. There is simply too much money on the sub-continent.

How's this for a trip:

1. Watch the Central Coast Mariners play in Phuket
2. Shuttle across to Kolkata, to watch the Knight Riders play in front of 90,000 (RT Ponting to make a blazing hundred)
3. First class rail to Mumbai, to watch Sachin and his Mumbai Indians
4. Goa
5. Become the only Australian in history to put on weight in India after discovering a chain of cheap, high-quality Indian buffet restaurants (Vindaloo, mmmm, yummm)
6. Do the Taj Mahal thing
7. Fly to Vietnam to watch the Mariners in Ho Chi Minh
8. Pilgrimage to Khe Sanh
9. Home

 

[fedelta]

The teams in the IPL have the most ridiculous names

 

[marinermick]

Some Kiwi!!! Brendon McCullum's extraordinary 158* off 73 balls was an amazing start to the IPL. This is like saying that Trevor Brooking, Billy Bonds & Frank Senior were just plodding East End hacks with dreadful accents and a fetish for halibut giblets (watch him react to that one!!).

Keensy, you don't go for Kolkata because Ponting is playing for them?? Are you fair dinkum?? Ganguly is a muppet, admittedly, but not supporting your country's captain and best bat of a generation is heavy stuff.

Despite some reservations (I believe that test Cricket is the pinnacle of the sport), the IPL is a massive beast that will take over the game. There is simply too much money on the sub-continent.

How's this for a trip:

1. Watch the Central Coast Mariners play in Phuket
2. Shuttle across to Kolkata, to watch the Knight Riders play in front of 90,000 (RT Ponting to make a blazing hundred)
3. First class rail to Mumbai, to watch Sachin and his Mumbai Indians
4. Goa
5. Become the only Australian in history to put on weight in India after discovering a chain of cheap, high-quality Indian buffet restaurants (Vindaloo, mmmm, yummm)
6. Do the Taj Mahal thing
7. Fly to Vietnam to watch the Mariners in Ho Chi Minh
8. Pilgrimage to Khe Sanh
9. Home

train from calcutta to bombay would be an epic journey - even in first class - would just take you so long to do

best bet is to fly from calcutta to dehli (car to agra and taj mahal) and then bombay

goa is just amazing and if you have time you can go even further south to kerala

speaking of agra, my friend shehbaz has the best tourist t-shirt

it says:

[picture of the taj mahal]
"via agra
man's biggest erection for a female"

 

[Paolo]

Keensy, you don't go for Kolkata because Ponting is playing for them?? Are you fair dinkum?? Ganguly is a muppet, admittedly, but not supporting your country's captain and best bat of a generation is heavy stuff.

Correct, ponting and ganguly are both muppets imo and reason enough not to support them.....not to mention their colours and the name knight riders(although just about all are as bad)

 

[loyalist]

contro il cricket moderno!!!

 

[dibo]

contro il cricket moderno!!!

pfft! forza plastic league!

all hail the great heritage of such famous clubs as Chennai Super Kings - everyone loves the smooth fresh flavour of superkings, right?

 

[adz]

whats wrong with knight riders ;D

 

[brett]

You see more of Ponting in the ad breaks than during the match. I don't like him either.

 

[marinermick]

hehe, spanked for 30 in an over

 

[Gen (MarinerMum)]

The gold head gear for the princesses who turn up to play.  158 innings awesome by McCullum, 6 was more common than a 4.