Excuses for the Misses

Great topic for the blog. Some good excuses for the Missus so that you can play cricket. Please share responsibly, and use wisely!

Excuse 1: I volunteered for some charity work at Community Park - teach some kids. It's a whole day affair, but it will be good for my karma!!

Excuse 2: I'm sorry I've been crowding you so much for the last few days. It's only because I love you. Tell you what, I'll give you some space today - the whole day!!

Excuse 3: I'll go do the grocery shopping at Devon. You just chill out and relax at home. See you in the evening!

Excuse 4: I think one of the guys needs some help, so we're all getting together at Washington Park to cheer him up. Can't let a friend down, you know....

and ...........

Week 13 Predictions and Results

We are now officially in the business end of the season. Some teams need to wrap up their playoff spots, others are beginning their famous run to the playoffs and others fight relegation. Few teams in Division 1 or 2 have meaningless games at this point in the season. Looks like it's going to go down to the wire.....

Predictions and Results for Week 12

Just about a month n half away from regular season end. Still most of the play-offs spots are wide open. Many interesting games coming up this weekend. Lets get on with predictions, discussions and word-wars for Week 12.

Predictions and Results for Week 11

Predictions, results, general mud-slinging, and all around good times during week 11.

Predictions and Results for Week 10

The long weekend has come and gone. Time to get back to being serious. Time to play some cricket. Time to predict winners and losers, update the blog with results, and generally talk about anything (but the CER hopefully!).

Good luck to all.....

Week 8 Predictions and Results

The last week before the long weekend and what can be viewed as the middle of the season. After this, teams can take stock of their position, and then make a run at the playoffs. No team has secured a berth as yet, but there are some knocking on the door on all three divisions. Who takes another step closer to the post season?

Week 7 Predictions and Results

Predictions, news, results, and general chatter for Week 7.

Week 6 Predictions and Results

Time for week 6 predictions, deliberations, and results. Now we start getting into the meat of the season and separating the "pretenders" from the "contenders". Good luck to all!

Week 5 Predictions and Results

Lot of controversies going on this week and lots to keep the bloggers busy. But lets not forget the reason we are all here - the game of cricket. So, while important issues and controversies must be discussed and acted upon, lets also keep an eye out on this weeks games and make some bold predictions. Good Luck to all and hope good weather and better sense prevails!

Kudos to MWCC team for winning CER and Welcome back Tango!!

MWWC Management finally sent the team to CER and the team loaded with tons of talent comprehensively won the tournament. Congrats to the entire team !!

Also our king blogger Tango is back and to his demand, I am starting this new thread ...

Also lets discuss about Cricket all over the world and in the midwest region .. 2 great test matches and IPL season coming to end in the coming weekend ...

दूसरा हफ्ता

Well, week 1 was a bit of a damp squid (all puns intended). Only a handful of games took place, but already there was one upset, two titans stayed the course, and some good cricket all around. Will the weather Gods relent and finally allow some cricket to be played, or will Rup add to his cooler collection?

ps. I tried enabling this "hindi" translation feature for the heading. Interesting.... For those of you that don't read hindi, it means week 2.

Week 1 Predictions and Results

Week 1 for the Midwest Cricket Conference is about to start. Time for wood and leather to make contact, time for the words to heat up, and time for the rivalries to be renewed! Last year we had a first-time Champion for both Divisions. What will this year bring for the new teams in Division 1 and the new teams in Division 2? Will the old powerhouses still remain dominant, or will some new upstarts have their way?

About time to find out....

Season 2008 - just a month away

Guys ..

Hope you all are out of hibernation and have started practising for the 2008 Season with your teams. We already had a strongly contested elections this year and hope to see many similar cricket matches on the cricket field this season.

So as usual, we will see new teams joining the league, players moving around, may be new grounds and many other changes hopefully. Again time for predictions for the Div 1, Div 2, Div 3 winners ..

Let us start predicting on Division winners right away .. and see who is right at the end of the season .. Also post in about any updates about your teams or new teams if you have ..

And most important question, will we see Tango and Neanderthal_walking jugal-bandi on the blog this year ??

Congratulations to Muslim Gymkhana and Advancers!!

We have two new Champions today. Muslim Gymkhana lifted the Division 1 Championship by defeating Purdue University while Advancers completed a superb season with a thrilling 12 run win over a fighting IIT to claim the Division 2 Championship. Both IIT and Purdue can be proud today. They played hard and fair, but it was not their day. Both matches were at Washington Park and what a terrific atmosphere we had!. We should congratulate and thank the folks that made all the arrangements at the ground today. There was a large tent ( very important on a hot and fairly humid day), chairs, food, beverages and an impressive turnout. Hats off to all the volunteers!! We got one more final tomorrow and that should bring down the curtain on this 2007 season. We may have to put the whites and the kit away for a few months, but Shekhs tells me that blogging can keep one warm -- you got to listen to the sage -- Lets keep it blogging, folks.

Our New Address!

If you look up at the address bar you may notice that we have a New address!!!
Yes, we are now at www.midwestcricketer.org
Please spread the word...