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'It's nice having a phone that doesn't understand time zones'

Whining about jet lag, and bigging up the All-Stars

Alex Bowden
13-Nov-2015
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Alviro Petersen's been on his travels.
Wait for it…
But we all know how travel affects cricketers. Jimmy Neesham's not been getting much sleep.
Maybe it's the jet lag. But is this a new low for complaints of that nature?
If not, this is.
However, the opportunity to make time-zone complaints came to an end in sad fashion for Neesham when he had to go home injured. After only recently having returned from injury, the frustration for him must be off the scale.
He'll be as busy as Chris Gayle in coming weeks.
And Gayle's days on?
Fortunately for Neesham, cricketers have long careers these days. Look at the T20 All-Stars games for evidence of this.
Here's Shane and Shoaib: spin and speed and also strange selfies.
So what are these matches all about?
Wrong. The T20 All-Stars is all about seeing middle-aged men in tracksuits.
It's also about playing at some of the grandly named stadiums in the US.
And being T20, it's obviously to some extent about sixes. The spinners didn't think much of the size of the boundaries for the opening match.
Come on. It's not impossible to keep the runs down. Just ask that world-famous philosopher, Virender Sehwag.
Is it possible that Dale Steyn might want to grow plants up the insides of the walls of his house?
Is it possible that Kevin Pietersen's emoji habit is still running wildly out of control?
Is it possible that the spirit of Michael Vaughan might have occupied the body of Herschelle Gibbs?
Is it possible that Yuvraj Singh is being sarcastic?
Finally, is it possible that we could pay one more visit to somewhere we haven't been in quite some time - Tino Best's Modesty Corner.

Alex Bowden blogs at King Cricket