IPL 2 - Rules to Game

The Indian Premier League(IPL) in Season 2 is ruling the roost in South Africa, but some of the rules applicable to the T20 cricket games being played are not quite game.

Just what is achieved by having the 'strategic time out' breaks in every innings of every game? What is so strategic about this? Maybe this is needed for generating more commercial revenue and more hype. Because this is not needed for any cricketing reasons. The strategic time out is taken after every ten overs in an innings of twenty overs. The players cannot be tired in just ten overs. Normal drinks breaks are taken after every one hour in Tests and after every 15-17 overs in one-day internationals (ODI). But those breaks are only for 2-3 minutes. There have been complaints from players and others against this rule and the IPL authorities had agreed to look into this after the season. But then, why it was introduced in the first place?

Duckworth and Lewis rule is applied in rain interrupted ODIs that uses very complicated calculations to set revised targets in reduced overs to arrive at a result. Earlier, for applying D/L method a minimum 25 overs had to be compulsorily bowled. Due to emergence of T20 cricket the minimum was reduced to 20. In IPL 2 the Delhi Daredevils won a match in less than 5 overs using D/L method. There seems to be no rule regarding minimum overs to be bowled for such games. So, it is a possibility that a team can win a match achieving a target set for just one ball when the weather gods permitted time enough for only a solitary ball to be bowled. Though D/L method talks of minimum 5 overs in T20 the IPL rule book says nothing. Even a five over minimum is a mockery of cricket.

And, what about the sartorial cover code for the cheerleaders? There seems to be no rules either for determining this. Sometimes these gyrating damsels are clad quite decently while at times the dress gets reduced to the barest minimum!

A boisterous goodbye to cricketing rules?

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Football Profit System Review - Is Football Profit System a Scam?

Is the Football Profit System a scam? This is one of the latest soccer betting systems released on the internet, and it profits by taking advantage of the movement of odds in the Asian Handicap market. Although I was very skeptical about this system at first and had no idea what the Asian Handicap was and how it works, the system made me really intrigued to find out more. So does this football betting system really work or is it just another internet scam?

1. Football Profit System Review

After testing this soccer betting system for more than 2 weeks in the initial testing phase, I have managed to achieve a strike rate of a little over 94%, very close to the figures stated on its website. Overall, the system is quite easy to understand, but beginners are encouraged to read the manual more than once to fully grasp its concepts and get the confidence to apply the methods.

Football Profit System will require an average of 20 minutes per day to use, and can be used on any betting account with low levels of capital $100 and above. It can be used to make money from all major bookmakers and works with most of the major leagues around the world, including the English Premier League, Serie A, La Liga, Uefa Champions League, Uefa Cup and many other competitions.

2. Profiting From The Asian Handicap Markets?

The 2 options in Asian Handicap is to either receive handicap or to give handicap. A punter who is giving handicap wins his or her bet when the 2 teams draw their game or when the underdog team wins the game.

This was an unknown market to me before, but now that I have learned to understand it using Football Profit System, I know that it is one of the most profitable markets to make money from when punted with the right strategies.

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English Premier League Week 21 Saturday Review

The English Premier League kicked off the New Year with an early kick-off on Saturday saw a Midlands derby at Villa Park between Aston Villa, who are trying to break into the "big four" and West Bromwich Albion, who are trying to fight their way out of the relegation dog fight. However it was the home team, Villa who won 2 - 1.  The win promoted Aston Villa into third place in the English Premier League ahead of the current champions Manchester United who play Chelsea on Sunday in the weekend's top clash.

Aston Villa went into half-time with a 2-0 lead but West Brom scored just four minutes after the start of second half to give the visiting fans some encouragement but their team could't turn the pressure into an equalising goal.

Aston Villa are now on 39 points, which is one more than Manchester United, although the Champions will still have a couple games in hand even after their game game against Chelsea.  Villa are also unbeaten  in nine league games as they seek to finish in the top four to claim a  berth in Europe's Champions League.  If they keep this form up though, they could do even better.

Manchester United will regain third place later today if they don't lose  at Old Trafford to another Title contender Chelsea.   In the other Sunday game, Harry Redknapp's Tottenham visit Wigan and Steve Bruce.

The result of the day was probably at Stoke, as they  pulled themselves out of the bottom three with a home draw against the league leaders Liverpool. Stoke now have 21 points and jump a place above Tottenham into  17th place, while Liverpool moved four points ahead of Chelsea before their games at Man Utd.  It could have been 6 points clear for Liverpool but the more the game went on the less likely it looked that they would secure another away win.  

It was not a good performance from the leaders and it might have been a lot worse when Stoke's Rory Delap hit the underside of the crossbar from close range  in the first half.  Then Stoke's Ryan Shawcross did put the  ball in the net in the 31st minute, but it was disallowed for offside. Although Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard did twice rattled  shots off the post in the second half. 

After the game Liverpool Manager Rafael Benitez, said, "It was a difficult game.  When you can't control the game, you find it hard  to win."  Can't really argue with that.  Although Benitez could probably hear the laughter of Alex Ferguson and the rest of the Utd team all the way from Manchester after the Spaniard's rather strange little diatribe on Friday against the Utd manager.

One of the teams Aston Villa are trying to knock out of the top four are Arsenal who left it late to beat Bolton 1 - 0. Arsenal moved level on points with Manchester United with the home win over Bolton, though the Gunners have played three more games. Second - half substitute Nicklas Bendtner scored in the 84th minute as Arsenal extended its unbeaten run to eight matches overall.

Marouane Fellaini and Mikel Arteta scored the goals for Everton as they won for just the third time at home this season. The victory lifts the Toffees  into sixth place with 35 points.  There was some bad news for Everton and Fellaini though.  He picked up his 10th yellow card of the season, which is good going by anyone's standards.  That's a booking every two games. Anyway, as a result Fellaini will miss both Merseyside derbies at Anfield taking place this morning. Firstly in the league and then in the 4th Round of The FA Cup.

Andy Carroll's goal in the 78th minute gave Newcastle the home draw  with West Ham. Newcastle's Michael Owen opened the scoring in the  19th minute and Craig Bellamy tied it 10 minutes later. Carlton Cole  then put West Ham ahead in the 55th minute.

Kenwyne Jones's goal with eight minutes remaining gave Sunderland the  away draw with Middlesbrough. Afonso Alves scored just before halftime  for Boro.

Portsmouth vs. Manchester City and Fulham vs.  Blackburn both fell victim to the very cold weather currently hitting the UK and were postponed due to frozen pitches.

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