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Chuffed to say this is out today, thanks to
@PitchPublishing
It is the story of some street cricketers made good ... before it all went bad
On fixing, what cricket does to combat it, aspirations, and bouncing back
Available here: bit.ly/3V3Pomq
Individual scores of 202, 130, 97, 97, 69 and 66 in the same game, but POM has to be the bloke who got 61. Janith Liyanage, what a player. Unbelievable game 🇱🇰🏴
Reason for captain Harpreet’s absence is here: emiratescricket.com/news-det…
Rohid ($95k) also recalled
Aayan ($95k) and Khuzaima ($75k) both retained
They all might be able to get a week of ILT20 in at a stretch if they are picked for the playoff
Having been out the ODI side for some time, Muhammad Waseem has been recalled for UAE’s triseries against Oman and Ned
If he retains his place for the subsequent qualifier playoff, he won’t be able to take up his TWO-HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR ILT20 contract 🤯
Hope Qais survives this. Unable to even hold his drink himself he’s in such pain. Not much sympathy from the comms
UAE players should forget about ILT20 and their lost earnings. They now need to try to save their ODI status at the playoff in December
Real possibility they'll lose it and be relegated to third tier of 50-over international cricket
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Stressful December incoming for UAE’s ODI players who’ll have to pass up their ILT20 deals (unless they can get the playoff switched) 💲
And Milind Kumar has upped his ODI ave to 70, keeping him above Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill (and ten Doeschate) 🇮🇳🇺🇸
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13,000km to have the match abandoned without a ball bowled because of a wet outfield
Qualifier playoff/ILT20 clash now a near certainty for UAE, so Aayan ($95k), Khuzaima ($75k), Ibrar ($46k), Ali Naseer ($40k), Haider ($38k), Dhruv ($10k), Arfan ($10k) all going to be sweating
Yes, ILT20 is incredible for Afghan players. Massive fees for some of them, and four guaranteed places per squad - the same as UAE - even though it's not even their home league
Feels like unreal times for UAE cricketers
Waseem's $210k fee for a month at ILT20 would take a decade or more to earn playing for national team 🤯
GG and Vipers each took 5 players, not just the min 4 🇦🇪
And @DJBravo47 loves Alishan Sharafu 🟣🟡
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Fazalhaq Farooqi, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Liam Livingstone are all top players, obvs
But more than four times as good as the likes of Babar Azam, Usman Tariq, Naseem Shah, Fakhar Zaman, etc?
ILT20 continues to have a de facto Pakistan Tax 🇵🇰
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Each of Babar, Naseem and Fakhar have gone for their base rate so far. Massive advantage for Desert Vipers …
It’s happening. Babar Azam goes for his base rate of 80k. US owned Desert Vipers face no contest in bidding from the Indian owned teams 🇺🇸🇵🇰🇦🇪🇮🇳
Babar Azam confirmed for the ILT20 auction on Thursday; $80,000 base price
Usman Tariq, Naseem Shah and Fakhar Zaman, all title winners last year, in it as well
Will Desert Vipers (the only non Indian owned team) get to bid for all of them unopposed again like last year?
Liam Livingstone for $350k 🏴
Rahmanullah Gurbaz $310k 🇦🇫
Faf du Plessis for $300k 🇿🇦
Crazy money
On which measure, how much would these have gone for in their pomp?
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