McCain catches right hooks

When Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama last weekend, he became the most prominent voice yet to join a growing chorus of disillusioned conservatives now openly criticising Republican candidates John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Last month, the Pulitzer prize-winning conservative columnist George F. Will compared Senator McCain’s response to the financial crisis with that of “a flustered rookie playing in a league too high” and described his temperament as “dismaying”.

Shortly after Will’s baseball analogy, columnist Kathleen Parker wrote in the right-wing National Review that, to her great disappointment, governor Palin was “clearly out of her league” and urged her to bow out as contender for the vice-presidency.

New York Times columnist David Brooks, himself a former National Review writer, then joined the fray, making the now infamous remark that Palin represented “a fatal cancer to the Republican Party”.

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Bangladesh Cricket Board hands 10 year ban to Indian Cricket League rebels

Bangladesh cricket chiefs said on Wednesday that 13 players who opted to compete in the unauthorised Indian Twenty20 league will be banned for 10 years.

The Indian Cricket League unveiled late on Tuesday its new Dhaka Warriors team in New Delhi, which comprises 11 Bangladesh internationals reportedly earning $200,000 each over a three year period.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board held an emergency meeting on Wednesday and decided to ban the players for joining the unapproved league for 10 years, BCB spokesman Rabeed Imam said.

“We don’t have full reports of who have joined the ICL. But today, the board has decided that whoever has joined the unapproved league would be automatically banned for 10 years,” he said.

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