Stani Army

…League. Sorry for getting you all excited there for minute, but what I really meant was that Maz at Boom Boom Korner has set up a simple fantasy cricket league with cricketweb.net for the Twenty20 World Cup and you’re free to join. In fact, if you don’t join, I will charge you.

It’s really simple. Sign up HERE (just password, user-name and email etc), and pick your players from a list (make sure you have a quick look at the simple scoring system before hand). Once you have selected your team, go to the left-hand side red panel and select ‘user comp join’, from the second drop down menu select ‘Maza786 T20 Fantasy 201 (ICC World Twenty20 2010)’. Done!

You only have a couple of days before the start of the World Cup so do it now! It will take you 10 minutes. If I did it, you can! “Don’t be so hard on yourself”, I hear you say…you did say that didn’t you? Say it! So hurry along, it’ll be nice to get everyone together.

Reports emanating from England suggest that Danish Kaneria may well be one of the two players from the county club Essex involved in a match fixing scandal. Though no names have officially come out, one newspaper reported that Kaneria, along with a lesser known member of the county club, were involved in fixing last summer.

The allegations first surfaced last month but the club was not able to comment due to an on-going Police investigation which is yet to be completed. The interesting thing was that Kaneria did not meet up with his club Essex for the start of the County Championship as it was said he was taking part in a domestic tournament in Pakistan. This raises suspicion even more that he is one of the players involved as it likely Kaneria would have chosen to come over to England and play for his county rather than take part in domestic games in Pakistan.

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