Sri Lanka With the half centuries of Skipper Mahela Jayawardene and Malinda Warnapura,in the seond inning, Sri Lanka has won the third and final test match from India with the margin of eight wickets remaining. And with it they have won the three test match series from India with the margin of 2-1. Both the Sri Lankan batsmen completed their half centuries as Mahela Jayawardene made 50 runs and M. Warnapura remained not out with the score of 54. Day First Batting first, India had made 249 runs in the first inning that included opener G. Gambhir’s knock of 72 runs. Ajantha Mendis was the most successful Lankan bowler as he took 5 Indian wickets and game only 56 runs in the first inning. India had lost three wickets for 104 till the lunch time on day first and all the damage was done by Lankan fast bowler D. Prasad. The remaining two wickets were taken by Muralidharan. It was once again that the Indian middle order failed to perform well. Second Day Day two did brought only wretched fortune to India as three of its main players got injured. Sri Lankan scored 251 runs for six gaining a lead of 2 runs on day two. Sri Lanka has made 396 runs in their first inning that included a solid century by Kumar Sangakara. Harbhajan Singh, Skipper Kumble and Zaheer took three Sri Lankan wickets each and the remaining one wicket was taken by Ishant Sharma. But one the third day it had become clear that India is going to loose the series as it was struggling at 165/5 when third day’s play ended. Fourt Day Rahul Dravid and injured VVS Laxman resisted to some exent as both of the Indian batsmen made half centuries in the second inning of the match. It was the only recognized pair of batsmen that could steer away the victory from the hands of Lankans. Indian batting also suffered because of injuries to Laxman, Sachin and Ishant Sharma. India lost its last two wickets as none of them resisted well. Indian batsmen could made only 268 runs in their second inning and Laxman remained not out for 61 runs and he also completed his 6000 runs in the test cricket. The other leading Indian run scorer in India’s second inning was Dravid who made 68 runs. India has gained only the [...]
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King Khan in Crisis
August 16th, 2008 
krishna Shahrukh Vs Bachchans Recent incidents indicate that Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan who projects himself as the new King of Bollywood is slowly and steadily heading towards bad times. First is his spat between him and Amitabh Bachchan that remained for many days into the headlines. It has become very clear that a cold war is going on between Shahrukh Khan and the Bachchan family that has divided the film industry into two parts, Though rift has not yet surfaced but in long term it will affect the industry badly. As Bachchan’s are on a world tour to promote Bollywood as the leading entertainment industry Shahrukh Khan has started his own world campaign. Shahrukh Vs Salman Another news that followed was the verbal fight between Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan that erupted at Salman’s girlfriend Katreena’s birthday party and both the Khans were seen exchanging blows. This not ended here. Salman along with his girlfriend drove to Shahrukh’s residence and threatened his family. Shahrukh retaliated by expelling Katreena from his world tour program. With this incident Shahrukh has lost one of his friends who is also a superstar and can challenge his supremacy in future. Shahrukh Vs Bharat But the worst was yet to follow when a Mumbai court responding to veteran actor Manoj Kumar’s petition ordered to Shahrukh and film director Farah Khan to delete a scene form there picture Om Shanti Om in which Manoj Kumar has been mimicked. It must be noted that producer Yash Chopra has acted as mediator between Manoj Kumar and director Farha Khan and had assured him that the scene will be deleted before the film is released. But it did not happened. Now court has given its judgment in favor of Manoj Kumar who has planed to file a defamation suit against Shahrukh’s Red Chillies Productions and director Gauri Khan who had not kept their promise. Public Manoj Kumar has worked in many Hindi films and most of them are patriotic films. In the eyes of the public of Indian his is a special image. His movie ‘Upkar’ is an evergreen patriotic picture that influences the youngest generations of India even today. He is known as ‘ Bharat Kumar’ in India. It must be noted that India’s is called “Bharat” also. Shahrukh has this time targeted an veteran actor who has a special place in the hearts of Indians and has [...]
