Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Cricket: Game of Tournaments !

In the world Cricket is played in three form that is Test Match, One day International and recently added but hugely successful T20.Test Match and One day International is played among below mentioned in alphabetic order countries -
1. Australia
2. Bangladesh
3. England
4. India
5. New Zealand
6. Pakistan
7. Sri Lanka
8. South Africa
9. West Indies
10. Zimbabwe
    and often now a days add one or two T20 Matches in the fixture of above coded countries when ever they played against each other, and throughout year so much cricket is played that cricketers always complaints of wear & tear and fatigue but administrators of respective countries always neglect their cricketers genuine problem and release statement that if any player want to opt out for any series just let them know no problem they have countless players who are ready to play for country at any given times thus thought of losing their place in the national team they keep on playing series after series which result in injuries to the cricketers and below is example how much cricket is being played in a year ?
   From the beginning of this year Indian and International cricketers keep on playing cricket which includes their commitments towards their respective countries it mean they have to representative when ever their country have to play cricket against other country which on an average a country play five to seven series of Test Matches and it can be from one test Match to maximum five test matches and One day International can be one match to maximum seven to eight matches and some T20 Matches also included in their fixtures and other then this they had played till September plus have to play below coded Tournaments in coming time of this year-
18th April,2009 to 24th May,2009 IPL Season II
Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) world popular International Premier League (IPL) which this year completed only second year but because of huge Money generator to everybody who are part of this league whether it is franchisee, cricketers, broadcaster so it become eye catcher of everybody and because of money cricketers are announcing retirements just to play for IPL so that their commitments towards their country wont stop them to play for lucrative tournament.This year Indian Premier League (II) was played in South Africa from 18th April,2009 to 24th May,2009 and in this tournament almost all the well known cricketers of world who are playing presently for their countries were part of it barring they were not playing from their country and in the second edition of IPL fifty four matches were played.
International Cricket Council T20 Trophy,England From 05th June to June 21st ,2009
    In the span of just two weeks after IPL ends it was schedule of T20 Tournament and other then permanent members of ICC it included three other teams for this tournament and they get chance to play ICC T20 world cup because they won ICC qualifying Championships tournament to play for T20 and they were Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland and in this tournament fatigue and injury was visible in the Indian player Virender Sehwag which he carried from IPL and forcibly ask not to play tournament, it raises lot of concern among followers of game back in India. Then India played series against West Indies.Tri series against Sri Lanka as host and third team was New Zealand which completed just week ago.
ICC Champion Trophy,2009(ODI Tournament)South Africa 22nd Sep to 05th October,2009
ICC Champion Trophy,2009(ODI Tournament) going to start from today in South Africa in which Eight Playing countries are taking part barring Zimbabwe and Bangladesh and they are Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa and West Indies and below mentioned all times of Matches are Indian Standard Time.
ICC Champions Trophy, 2009
Game Number
Date n Time
Match
Venue
1
22/Sep/09;6p.m.
South Africa v/s Sri Lanka
Centurion, Tshwane
2
23/Sep/09;6p.m.
Pakistan v/s West Indies
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
3
24/Sep/09;1p.m.
South Africa v/s New Zealand
Centurion, Tshwane
4
25/Sep/09;6p.m.
Sri Lanka v/s England
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
5
26/Sep/09;1p.m.
West Indies v/s Australia
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
6
26/Sep/09;6p.m.
India v/s Pakistan
Centurion, Tshwane
7
27/Sep/09;1p.m.
New Zealand v/s Sri lanka
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
8
27/Sep/09;6p.m.
South Africa v/s England
Centurion, Tshwane
9
28/Sep/09;6p.m.
Australia v/s India
Centurion, Tshwane
10
29/Sep/09;6p.m.
England v/s New Zealand
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
11
30/sep/09;1p.m.
Australia v/s Pakistan
Centurion, Tshwane
12
30/Sep/09;6p.m.
India v/s West Indies
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
13
02/Oct/09;6p.m.
A1 v/s B2
Centurion, Tshwane
14
03/October/09;6p.m.
B1 v/s A2
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
15
05/Oct/09;6.p.m
TBC v/s TBC
Centurion, Tshwane
Champion League(India) from 8th October to 23rd October,2009

After the gap of just three days Champion League will start in India from 8th October to 23rd October,2009 in which twelve Champion teams will participate from seven countries to win the inaugural Champion Trophy and games will be played on T20 Format.The teams which will participate in Champion League are-
1. Royal Challengers Bangalore (IPL) India
2. Deccan Chargers (IPL) India
3. Delhi Daredevils (IPL) India
4. Cape Cobras South Africa
5. Diamond Eagles South Africa
6. Victorian Bushrangers Australia
7. New South Wales Australia
8. Otago Volts New Zealand
9. Trinidad and Tobago west Indies
10. Wayamba Sri Lanka
11. Somerset County Cricket England
12. Sussex Sharks England
    and just after three days Champion League conclude Australia will play seven match one day series in India and until December India has tight schedule so if players complaint of too much cricket then they are by no mean wrong and above mentioned detail show that they are playing not like a human beings but like a machine and in this process if they get injuries then one should not surprise and lot of players are missing series because of injuries, list have names like Virender Sehwag,Zaheer Khan,Balaji,Ashish Nehra one can easily count them on to their fingers. Tournament or series winning team not get time to celebrate their victory and loosing team not get time to consider what went wrong in their strategy as next series or tournament begins. With so much cricket people are loosing interest in the game and its example is that Champion Trophy begins and right now very little interest towards this tournament in India.

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