Punter & Bracken not playing in this year’s IPL!

Quite surprising, I have to say. Lalit Modi’s tweets have been interesting to read and this tweet says that their contracts have been bought out by Kolkata and Bangalore respectively. What it means, effectively, is that both of them have got paid the amount of their contract for this year but have been asked to [...]

Flashes of Edgbaston ’05 for Punter!

Punter’s punt must have brought back the ghosts of Edgbaston ’05 as he watched the carnage unfold. For the uninitiated, it was the Ashes 2005, the series which many (including myself) consider the greatest test series ever. The first test match resulted in a resounding win for Australia by 300-something runs. On the morning of [...]

McGain losing..

Another pun over there! Looks like its a day for puns! Poor McGain…gets a debut just a week before his 37th birthday and gets launched into the stands by none other than Kallis! He’s already conceded 93 off his 10 overs. But I generally hear that leggies do give away quite some runs early in [...]

The drama continues……

Can’t get better than this, can it? Punter comes out and claims that Dan Vettori has sent an SMS to Haddin apologising for calling him a ‘cheat’. Dan (and the whole of the NZ team, don’t know why) denies that he ever sent a text to Haddin as such. So who’s lying? I’ve always known [...]

Oh dear oh dear…….

It just seems that nothing is going right for Australia. First, Brad Haddin commits a ‘foul’ by knocking off the stumps and claiming a bowled decision from the ump! Now, this is just plain tom-foolery! How low can you go to win? I don’t know how many of you remember, but a similar incident happened [...]