of course you are..
Do you love cricket?
I hope you do..
Back to the first question. Yes, you are a writer. Everyone is, you cannot deny that. So if you are one, then why don’t you exercise your right to write.
I will tell you where to write.
Here.
Cricket Sadist Monthly.
It is an upcoming cricket magazine.
You don’t have to have a blog to be featured in this magazine, a brainchild of Cricket With Balls author Jarrod Kimber, lovingly and loathingly called Uncle J Rod by all and sundry.
All you have to be is someone who can write about cricket. I bet you can do that, can’t you?
So go on, write. Get featured, and you may never know.
PS: If you have a blog, that is also not a problem. But you knew that already.
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The reason why there were lesser posts the past week was a technical issue with my laptop. Its all fixed now, and great things can again be expected.
Though this post is not about any of that. It is about something I initiated during my carefree phone-tweeting yesterday. What right now might just be in the conception stage, might and should well turn out to be the most comprehensive unofficial coverage of the IPL 2010 games.
Enter Interblogactic IPL Wars Season 1
8 IPL Teams, 8 Top Cricket Blogs
Each selects one, if that wasn’t obvious
Here is how it works. It seems like hard work, but it isn’t
say you are one of the blogs and you own kkr
During the course of the IPL, every time kkr plays, you support it, and post about the match from a kkr perspective. If you are playing deccan chargers, the blog supporting dc will post about the same game from their perspective.
Damn simple. You would say you were anyways going to do it.
But that is not it.At the end of the IPL, readers will have an entire library of posts about each match from two different perspectives.
Now to the actual competition between blogs.
At the end of every game, points will be allotted to the concerned 2 blogs. Here is the proposed points system. You don’t need to worry as all the backend work would be done by me. Here is the points system:
eg. You support team A, playing against team B
You get, if:
Team A Wins: 10 points
The blog supporting team B does not post before their next game: 50 points
There is a tie: 25 points, you obviously get 50 points if your team wins the eliminator
Your team has the player with the best strike rate (min 20 runs) in the game: 40 points
Your team has the player with the lowest economy rate (min 2 overs) in the game: 40 points
Now normally the blog which supports the ultimate ipl winner should win, but you never know.
The main aim of this is to have never seen before coverage on the IPL.
Players Already Registered:
Cricket With Balls: Delhi Daredevils
SportzFreak: Kolkata KnightRiders
Poshin’s World: Royal Challengers Bangalore
Thoughts from the Dustbin: Chennai SuperKings
All Padded Up: Mumbai Indians
Aditya’s Blog: Rajasthan Royals (wild card, new blogger)
The Cricketer: Kings XI Punjab
Paddlesweep: Deccan Chargers
All spots filled…will be coming up with a follow up post soon…
Let’s give our fans and readers something to cherish, collate and preserve out of this year’s tournament.
And may the best blog win.
Feel free to let me know of any rule changes/additions you may like
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Cricket with Balls by Jarrod Kimber. Every cricket blogger goes there at least once a day, if not twice. We go there to be inspired, to learn how the soundest of cricketing opinion can be expressed in the most humorous of ways.
It seems Jarrod, referred to as Uncle JRod in our brethren, has written another book. This one is titled “Ashes 2009 – When Freddie Became Jesus”. Its a discourse on the 2009 Ashes series featuring the cheekiest of POVs from The Wisden Cricketer Press Pass holder.
Consider this exclusive excerpt:
"He’s such a pleasure to watch that if I were a mad billionaire who hosted parties that people came to, just because there was a lot of booze and freaky sh*t going on, I’d hire Ian Bell, strip him naked, oil him up and make him practise his cover drive for hours on end in a giant birdcage. Test cricket, though, isn’t that simple."
If you found this funny, be rest assured that this particular piece of text is just a teaser of what you should expect from the book. Available at just over 7 GBPounds, it is a steal if ever there was one.
Prepare to get in bed with famous cricketers, and still not question your sexuality, or commitment (whichever applies to you).
Prepare to tickle every tickle-worthy bone in your body.
Prepare to be amazed.
Buy this book.
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By Guest Blogger Uncle J Rod, the ballsiest blogger in the milky way
- Thou shalt not use reason, you are not a journalist, you are a blogger, be as unreasonable as you need to be.
- Respect thy domestic competition, but do not make love to it.
- Thou shalt always be willing to fall in love with a cricketer, no matter what his ethnicity is, or how much he kills your country, conversely feel free to hate cricketers from your own country.
- All blogs were created equal, but then page rankings took over, so link up fool.
- Idolize your favourite cricketer, not like they are God, but like they are way cooler than God.
- On the seventh day, take the piss, even a serious cricket blog needs a day when you just sit back and take the piss.
- Thou shall look outside the big three, reach beyond India, England and Australia, you will find things happen in other countries as well.
- Feel free to bag the ICC at all times, will never lose you fans my son.
- Do not use carven images, use Google images of sexy cricket shots.
- And remember, if you can’t say anything nice, say something with such vitriol that people are afraid to meet you in real life
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