7 Responses to IPL Reaches Finals

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  superBul on 17 April 2010 at 7:28 am

  World bat shortage looms
  Cricket could be facing a world shortage of bats as a result of a European Union directive, according to a report in England on Friday.

  The bizarre crisis follows an EU decision to outlaw before export the chemical methyl bromide, which is an insecticide used to treat the wood in bats, because it is said to damage the ozone layer.

  Each year around 100,000 raw blades made of willow, known as clefts, are exported from England to India and Pakistan where they are made into the finished product.

  But the wood cannot leave the country without a fumigation certificate and India and Pakistan do not accept any alternative treatment for the wood apart from methyl bromide.

  It is feared the 10 million pounds a year industry could go bust within three months unless a solution is found – potentially plunging cricket into chaos.

  Geoff Watling of Anglian Willow Services told the Daily Express: “We have just been following procedures introduced many years ago by the Ministry of Agriculture. Now our entire future is under threat because of an EU directive.

  “We were told a form of heat treatment can be used as an alternative but it just doesn’t work. It was not a helpful solution.

  “Unfortunately the Indian Government cannot allow our willow to be imported without a treatment certificate. On that basis I give our industry 12 weeks to survive. We alone have 1,400 prepared trees ready to go.

  “Unless something is done we are going to run out of cricket bats. The worldwide supply of Test standard and Twenty20 bats for the national and county sides could dry up within two years.”

  A Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spokesman confirmed to the Daily Telegraph: “Under the Montreal Protocol methyl bromide was banned from 2005 in the developed world, except for quarantines, pre-shipment and critical uses.

  “Methyl Bromide is no longer allowed at all from March 19, 2010.”
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  Winston on 17 April 2010 at 8:47 am

  I’m sure they will think of something Super seeing so much money is on the line here 🙂
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  Winston on 18 April 2010 at 4:23 pm

  Dhoni played the most incredible innings today to take the Super Kings to the Semi Finals 🙂
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  superBul on 18 April 2010 at 4:31 pm

  The next game is going to be a cracker, someone will go home.
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  superBul on 18 April 2010 at 4:32 pm

  MS Dhoni is the Man of the Match He says, “It’s a tough game, you can’t always perform, but if you perform in big games, you get that tag of being the pressure player. But the fact is, Raina and Badri set the chase up. It was an emotional moment. Your franchise pays so much money for you, you should at least make the semi-finals. After that you can say it is a lottery. The kind of franchise we have got, the kind of team we have, we should have made it to the semi-finals before this game. So it was an emotional moment, at least for me.”
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  superBul on 18 April 2010 at 4:34 pm

  If you missed it , here is the last 4 balls.

  19.4
  Pathan to Dhoni, SIX, and Dhoni has carried Chennai through. Length ball again, and Dhoni has hit another huge blistering six over wide long-on. And he is pumped. He has won many big matches in his career, but I have never seen him so pumped. Punches himself in the jaw, like a boxer. The Chennai team, behind Chawla at long-off, rushes through the fielder to congratulate Dhoni
  19.3
  Pathan to Dhoni, SIX, McLeodganj, send the ball back please! misses the yorker length, and boy, has he bludgeoned it. From wide outside off, he sends it miles over wide long-on. Biggest televised six in Himachal Pradesh
  19.2
  Pathan to Dhoni, 2 runs, yes it is. Back of a length, Dhoni top-edges, skied towards long-off, Chawla is slow in coming in, and lets through two by misfielding on the bounce
  Third man and fine leg both inside the circle. Slower ball coming up?
  19.1
  Pathan to Dhoni, FOUR, lovely shot! Nearly a yorker, Dhoni goes deep into the crease, and drives this wide of long-off for four. What power
  16 required off the last over. Dhoni on strike. Irfan, who dropped Morkel, to bowl now
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  Winston on 18 April 2010 at 4:56 pm

  The Chargers have been very disappointing this year so think the Devils will go through..