The Stanford Twenty20 excitement is building up now with only a few days to go until the first game on the 25th October. Sky have started their adverts and worryingly, I think they are going to be using those bizarre black bats from what I’ve seen on the promo’s! Not that it matters too much, its all about the money!

Or rather, according to KP it isn’t thanks to the global credit crunch – they won’t be celebrating too wildly if they do win. Come on KP, it isn’t the players fault that there is a load of money coming into cricket right now, and don’t hold back and take the moral high ground as this is a chance for a lot of players to secure their futures so let them enjoy it (if they win).

The games are at pretty good times for us UK folk, with games starting around 9pm in the evening and it could be a good opportunity for a few beers and some (hopefully) entertaining cricket, especially on the 1st Nov and the “big” match. It seems an age since we had some cricket so I’m looking forward to it! And don’t forget the best place to keep up to date with the latest cricket news from around the globe is LiveCricketUpdates.com

P.S. Fantastic to see the Aussies battered by India this past week – we can beat them next summer! Only bad thing is we’ve got to play India in the same conditions in December first when we’ll probably do even worse!