"If the Kolkata Knight Riders did indeed have a talking car like the Knight Rider TV series, starring that wonderful actor David Hasselhoff (one of the few people to have been upstaged by a lip-synching car), it might be moved to say, 'Gee, Michael/Brendon, I thought that if your team doesn't qualify, that's your lot.'

Columnist Paul Lewis isn't very happy with the idea of Brendon McCullum's New South Wales appearance, if the real intention was a ticket to the Champions League and his franchise too may not be thrilled