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India Sweep the Proteas

Article by coolfool - Indian National Reporter
A few days after the Indian and South African U19 teams had faced off against each other, it was time for the seniors to show their mettle. An important series for the Indians if they wanted to close in on the 2nd spot which is currently held by New [...]

The Homegrown Pavilion Dream

On Nov 2, 2007 manger Fruitl00ps (me) was assigned a local amateur cricket club to train them and turn into professionals and achieve glory! Fruitl00ps named the team “NRI Sixters” (NRI stands for Non-Resident Indian). Having read the rules and giving a quick thought to the game system/mechanics, Fruitl00ps quickly decided to put one of [...]

India U19 Retain Top Spot

Hi, this is coolfool.
From 11th May, 2009 to 15th May, 2009, the Indian and South Africans were involved in a 3 match tussle as the Indian U19s toured the South Africans colts. The tour was pretty close, and nto many runs were scored in the first two games.
First match: After winning the toss, SA captain [...]

Scots salvage pride but Irish Triumph

With the third and final game just finished I have decided to write a review on the tour of Ireland vs Scotland U19s.
The end result was 2-1 to Ireland U19s, with the Scottish team winning the last match to gain some pride back and denying the Ireland team a 3-0 series whitewash.
The tour started with [...]

Australia beat the U19s best

A crowd of 7,998 arrived at India U19 CG to see the top two U19 teams battle it out. The Indian’s, ranked no.1, were here to play and it took them just 9 deliveries to take there first wicket. Ravuri bowled Day with a ball that knocked over the stumps. The Australians however fought back [...]

Who’s up for a Challenge?

I was asked by Lambert what I thought about an idea he had, on creating a league structure for the National team, his idea was solid but relied on having just 1 fatigue structure overall, which was never likely to be adopted, nor was going to be popular.

And so we got thinking, how do you [...]

Weekly Butlee Column Episode #3

Todays Topic is called “Upsets (Don’t get upset)“.
 
In thinking about today’s topic, I had a clever idea that all the episodes in this little story here could link to one another, and I figured out that I can go from match ratings, to upsets - because esstentially what tells us in FTP what an upset [...]

Zimbabwe Masters vs India - Preview

Zimbabwe today will play a masters friendly involving only players above 28 years of age against India at Mwene Mutapa stadium. The game is expected to a draw large crowd as former legends such as former captain Jack Jones & 1st ever batsmen to hit a century Albert Rowlands were announced in the lineup along [...]