Lalit Modi
People not up on their cricket will probably neither know nor care who he is, but the man is a megolamaniacal, short-sighted, avaricious imbecile intent on pushing his IPL circus at the expense of everything else just because is suits his bank balance and panders to his humongous ego. Test cricket is one of the things I love most, A good test can enthrall, stimulate, excite and leave time to read the paper and have a chat while the part timers are on for the few overs before the new ball.

Modi appreciates none of these things and would happily see the greatest game on earth perish ignominously so his baseball-lite twenty twenty league nonsense can proliferate infectiously. Cricket should not be about corporations and big money and muscly men smacking hapless bowlers around the park. It is by nature a quirky game, long and full of strangeness and outside the maintsream.


Fuck you, Lalit Modi
(WarneMarsh My priority for frivolity begets quality jollity, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:37, 4 replies)

Sorry, I have no idea what you just typed
I got as far as the word cricket and slipped into a coma
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:41, closed)

Nice rant
and couldn't agree more.

Clickety click
( Another_tragic_case wished he hadn't eaten all the cake, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:44, closed)

I agree.
20 20 seems oddly arbitrary and frankly, quite stupid. Less of this would be much appreciated. Or, none at all.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:44, closed)

^ this
I would add more, but all the Twenty20 fans' attention spans would drop off before they got to the end of my sentence.
( Sonic the Hedgetrimmer doesn't care what you think, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 21:51, closed)