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Common wealth games: Common Wealth Games means the games of money factor to our sports bureaucrats in India the wealth (money) is common to be collected in their pockets rather than using the same doing the needful. The event will happen in anyway who so ever condemn the same. It is regardless that anyone will participate in it or not. Do not worry, it is the loot, come and take. The name of Great India is associated with all this you need not worry about this fact. It is not possible to think even about the bid of Olympics 2020 if any pride is left in you. The Indian Sports bureaucrats are busy in the loot of public money (common Wealth) in name of Common Wealth Games projects. We are having only two months to go with the games, our bureaucrats are busy not to decide the parameters for hosting Common Wealth Games like event, but they are busy in creating an emergency committee panel to investigate into the large scale financial irregularities and corruption. No one thinks about the tarnishing of the India’s Image. That if why some top foreign athletes and some Indian athletes too decided to pull out. Total of Rs. 35,000 crores are provided for the project Common Wealth Games saying that they will provide the games facilities to those 90 percent of out children who does not have games facilities and have no access to them. We hope to win all the medals of the world tomorrow. Spending of thousands of crores of rupees like this but by ignoring the common wealth of the country (Common Child) no hopes left. re rightly and in lighter note Mr Aiyar said that with the hitting of rains in the capital, it was delightful that the rain would enable a good production of agriculture in the country and create hazards in preparations of the projects of the Common Wealth Games. The remarks of MP’s would have been the cause of embarrassment to the Common Wealth Games committee or the government or us otherwise, no one is speaking for the same and let the things go on continuously, this is how the things are managed. Rs. 700 crore if given by the Prime Minister for the training of the athletes, with confidence we can say it will be seen in the medal tally, said Suresh Kalmade, the chairman of [...]

Sri Lanka Vs India- Final day 3rd test match: The final day of the 3rd test match started with Ishant Sharma at 2 and Sachin Tendulkar at 11 with the loss of 3 wickets on the last day(Vijay, Sehawag and Rahul Dravid). India was 53 at 3 wickets on 6th Aug. 2010 at the end of the day. The sun is there in the sky peeping out. There is drizzling today with covers on. The pitch is not having many cracks only hair line stuff is there. Ajantha Mendis said last evening that there is a hope the pitch will help him to get wickets, we will use the opportunity. Malinga said that the pitch is turinig now and there is no bounce and pace but he will do something and try to get the wickets. He thought that the spinners will be more effective on the pitch. We will try spinners. Someone said that Sachin Tendulkar will answer the critics with the match winning inning in these tough conditions. Will Laxman and Raina will continue to win their dreams in the test cricket. Now Sri Lanka’s team is in the middle of the ground with the coach Bayliss giving some instructions. Wire money online to India with Xoom.com for as low as $4.99 India inning: Tendulkar and I Sharma are on the crease. Welegedara started with to Tendulkar the first ball was bouncer and no run came out. Next ball came with one run and there are 2 runs in this over, one run was of no ball. Sharma was with no run in this over. Randiv to Tendulkar started the 19th over round the wicket and turned down the leg. In 2nd ball Tendulkar headed for a run. To level the series India need to win the test and it will be very much interesting to see them approach the day. But in order to win or survive they have to preserve the wickets also during the 1st session. Ishant Sharma aims to see off as much as possible in the morning and others will cash the match in the afternoon. 2 runs in 20th over. After 21st over Ishant Sharma was 4 runs of 25 balls and Sachin Tendulkar was 14 of 28 balls with one four. Randiv got the wicket of Ishant Sharma caught by Sangakkara for 4 runs in 27 minutes 26 balls no 4 [...]

Sri Lanka Vs. India: In 1st innings India got the lead of 11 runs with gritty contributions of the middle and late order batsmen. The two early wickets of Sri Lanka by V Sehwag is sufficient for India to gain upper hand in the 3rd and final cricket test with the help of runs by VVS Laxman 56, Abhimanu Mithun 46, Suresh Raina 62 and Amit Mishra 40 India was 436 for this notable performance of today’s against 425 of Sri Lanka in the 1st innings. Thilajaratne Dilshan at 13 and Tharanga Paranavitana at 16 both the openers of Sri Lanka were removed by V. Sehawag to leave the hosts at 45 for 2 in sixteen overs with Kumar Sangakkara at 12 and Suraj Randiv as the night watchman were at the crease at the close of the day. With only two days for the match at P Sara Oval the pitch will aid the bowlers which appears to be a thrilling finish. V Sehwag with 109 and Sachin Tendulkar with 41 lost in the pre lunch session but the tailenders were totally responsible for the lead of the1st innings for India. Latish Malinga got the 100th wicket of his test career as Sachin Tendulker for 41 runs caught by Parsana Jayawardene. Only one rund was added by Sachin Tendulkar in his yeaterday’s score. He took the wicket of Murali Vijay also. He made his century of wickets in his 30th test match. He is the third Sri Lankan bowler to get this honour, after Muthia Murlidharan and Chaminda Vass they hasve on their record 800 and 355 wickets respectively. After two years of his off from the game he played at Galle and took 7 wickets in the first test match of the Indian players. In the second he was injured. He is also one wicket behind the century in one day cricket also. India has to win the match to keep the three match series to level, but having a disadvantage of bating at last on the wearing pitch. India was 180 for two but V Sehwag resumed the position and completed his century in a style and was off for 109 at the ball of Lasith Malinga caught by Suraj Radiv at mid off in 105 balls with the help of nineteen 4’s, when he was at 52 was given a chance and he made use of [...]

src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”> India Vs Sri Lanka: The 3rd test match started on 3rd Aug., 2010-Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first. 1st Innings- The first wicket was lost by Sri Lanka in 4th over for 15 runs in hand Sharma took the wicket of Paranavitana. In this series it was the 1st time that Sri Lanka lost the first wicket with out a good score in their account. 2nd wicket was lost in 25th over for 102 runs Dilshan’s wicket. K Sangakkara was the third wicket in 43rd over. 4th wicket in 73rd over was M. Jayawardene. 5th wicket was and at the end of the day Sri Lanka was 293 for 4in 86.5 overs T Samaraweera 65, and A Mathews 26. Wire money online to India with Xoom.com for as low as $4.99 2nd day of the match: 4th August, 2010 K Sangakkara Sri Lanka Captain toped the score with 75 for fourth wicket Jayawardene along with Samaraweera they pust on 84 runs Samarweera was out for leg before wicket Rod Tucker Australian Umpire’s decision at Ojha’s ball. 56 runs were made by former captain Mahela Jayawardene. 65 runs were made by Thilan Samarweera and remained unbeaten. Sri Lanka was packed for 293-4 and is 1-0 in the series. International Flight Sale! Get up to Rs.5000 instant discounts! Sachin Tendulkar break the record: Every batting record is now held by him with this third match of this series and the final against Sri Lanka in Colombo. He breaks the record of Steve Waugh’s record of 168 matches. Andrew Symonds who is one of the commentators of the series said that the charm of the series game was lost with out the great players like Sachin Tendulkar and Muttiah Muralitharan who retired from test matches. This is undoubtly a great leap of Sachin Tendulkar which any player in future can surpass. Ponting, Kallis and Boucher are in the race only can only get nearer. The game is losing the players to whom people love to watch and pay. Sri Lanka Inning: AD Mathews and Samarweera were on the ground, after 100 overs Sri Lanka was 330-4 AD Mathews was 45, and TT Samarweera wass on 77. Sri Lanka was 350 after 8th over of the day and 100 of Samarweera was completed in 229 balls with ten fours. At launch they were at 396 of 6 wickets in [...]

Does age matter for Sachin Tendulkar? Leaving by the above cite, master Sachin Tendulkar seems to be understandably frenetic by the questions thrown at him every time he is out for composer with media. It is always difficult to realize the grandness of specified questions, linking age with show, a piece reading Sachin comes up with a specific critique. With 48 centuries and 55 half-centuries in Tests and 46 lots and 93 fifties in One-Day Internationals, It doesn’t suppose the statue ‘to prove’ should be misused with him. At the age of 37, the right-hand looks miles better than the other cricketers around him. One can sort the total of badness that goes in for much vigor and suffer for author. Righteous be happy for the haughty moments Tendlya has gifted us and provide solitary the 300 greet. It testament upraise when it leave get. Wire money online to India with Xoom.com for as low as $4.99. Sachin Tendulkar played well in second test match: Say what you same, none of the world’s sportsmen of the recent era meet the corresponding pressures of sprightliness in the bowl than does Sachin Tendulkar. God to a cardinal fans, and that’s in his own region unequaled and doesn’t track into informing a fan substructure around the cricket grouping that makes him the game’s hottest possession, he knows scrutiny equal no else jock, Lynn McConnell written in the book ‘The man who embodies sportsmanship’. With a longish cricketing journeying of over two decades, the command workman has played apiece and every ballgame on worthiness and at the same indication has not hesitated to go after his trademark shots. A century of socialism gobs not far, the legendary stuffing artist has set sights on something which we humans can’t see. Every instance Sachin faces a ballgame, it enters a book assemblage. Tendulkar waits for the bowler’s effort equal a military bailiwick opprobrious path waiting to clout an opponent-moving speedily into perspective, experience his bat to pass the comedienne where he testament. It’s a rarefied combining of book classicism and the inventive aggression of recent One-day cricket, wrote Psychologist Dramatist for Quantify Press. In the second test against Sri Lanka at Colombo, it was effortful to say who was debuting, Suresh Raina or Sachin Tendulkar. With stupendous performances that come with correspondence that’s anticipated from poet and “fit” players, it’s elated case so-called fans and cricket [...]

Sangakkara, Jayawardene yield India in wind: Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene reveled on their challenger hunting hit to publicize India chasing leather in the second test match on Tuesday. Sangakkara scored 219 which is his seventh double-century, and Jayawardene made 174 as Sri Lanka asserted at 642-4 on the endorse day at the Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC). India started well: India, who trail by one match in the three-match serial, replied confidently with 95 for no diminution by stumps, but works encounter a stressed hale to touch 443 and refrain the embarrassment of people on for the position game in a row. Virender Sehwag was undefeated on a typically enterprising 64 off 63 balls, while Murali Vijay was on 22. India’s quatern principal bowlers conceded over 100 runs each as Harbhajan went for 1-147, Ojha for 1-172, Abhimanyu Mithun for 0-117 and Ishant Sharma for 1-102. Sri Lanka players peformed well: Sangakkara and previous leader Jayawardene continuing the run-spree after untier Tharanga Paranavitana’s century on the forward day on a dead grille that afforded no exploit to the bowlers. The adult duo, who compiled Trial cricket’s maximal partnership of 624 runs at the selfsame locale against Southwest Continent quatern geezerhood ago, put on 193 runs for the position lattice. Sangakkara’s seventh double-century brought him rank with Sap Hammond of England. Exclusive Inhabitant story Don Bradman (12) and West side Amerind Brian Lara individual more scores of 200 or author. Jayawardene’s 10th three-figure bump at the SSC is the most by a batsman at a uni-nominal surface, surpassing Bradman’s score of figure at the Melbourne Cricket ground. Second day of test match: Play the day at 312-2, Sangakkara and Jayawardene added 65 runs from 14 overs in the first hour, easily perception off the indorse new clump claimed previous on Monday eve. By tiffin, Sri Lanka had hammered 145 runs in 29 overs in the salutation session. Sangakkara emotional to 199 with quaternity boundaries in one over from left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha, and then reached 200 with an unkind cardinal to base man off Harbhajan Singh. Sangakkara, who was on 214 till the lunch, seam in the 4th over after the hurt when he unkind a lazy ride off part-time spinner Virender Sehwag to single mischance Rahul Dravid. The left-hander hit 29 boundaries during his seven-hour remain at the bend. Jayawardene smashed 20 boundaries and a six in [...]

Lack of experience: At Galle the Sri Lankan cricket team outsmarted  completely, Mahendra Singh Dhoni the Indian skipper admitted that what proved costly for the Indian team was that they failed to build partnerships and lack of experience of new bowlers in pace attack. In the absence of the two pacers S Sreesanth and Zaheer Khan and Dhoni said Abhimanyu Mithun and Ishant Sharma were inexperienced seam but they did not did too badly, only lack of experience was shown. After India was defeated by ten wickets Dhoni added as per the condition there, they lacked the bowling experience. They were under the pressure of learning experience, but they did well of their job after the first day. They did not got a good start for which they were looking for. They continued just 3 sessions that day. But there were some positive points also. Sehwag batted well and Mithun bowled well. There were many other areas of work to be done. We will come well in the next match by learning from the mistakes, Dhoni said. The loss of two wickets by Murali broke the partnership of Yuv Raj Singh and Dhoni in the first innings was the turning point of the match. This partnership between Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh was very important for the Indian team to avoid the follow on and that was the position where we can save the match.  But Murali took wickets of both of us as he bowled very good deliveries. It was very important to keep on batting and keep going when the follow on was enforced. Once again when some type of partnership was built, Malinga got the wickets that time was a very difficult time for Indian team. After losing top 6 or 7 batsman and without heavy amount of runs on your side it is very difficult to come back to game. It was explained by Dhoni. It was too hot to handle both the bowlers Muttiah Muralitharan and Lasith Malinga for the Indian players. You did not want loss wickets to the opponent team’s best bowlers as they are Murali and Malinga.  But they got the better of you, they bowled beautifully and the pressure was put on the Indian batsman and they got out. Sri Lanka bowlers played well: Malinga’s reverse swing was going on what an action he has adopted.  The wicket was not a fresh [...]

India Vs Sri Lanka: On the final day of the 1st test match 2010 of Sri Lanka vs India, indeed the stakes were very high. In the second innings, at the close of the fourth day, India was 181 for five and there was a need of 63 runs. Which made a strong chance for Sri Lanka to win the test after batting for their second innings. To save this match for the Indian team batsmen it would have been a very big task. As this match is the last match of Muttiah Muralitharan, the match will be remembered, he has 792 test wickets in hand and the need is for 8 more wickets to make 800. He captured in the 1st innings 5 wickets and in the 2nd innings he captured only one still he needs two more in today’s match. India Inning: The final day or the 5th day of 1st test match of India vs Sri Lanka began at 10:00 local time and 04:30 GMT on 22nd July., 2010. It can be watch on Ten Sports TV channel from 10:00 AM in India. For Indian batsmen, the last day was a very tough day. As they were forced to follow on and in the 2nd innings when they came to bat they suffered an early loss. Virender Sehwag was not able to score more than thirty one and Gautam Gambhir was ducked. A 119 runs partnership was made by Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar for the third wicket. With the stay of 209 minutes Dravid scored 44 runs in 152 balls. Just in 142 balls Sachin Tendulkar scored 84 runs with the help of 11 boundaries and on six. Which was only the happiest part of the day’s game for the fans of Indian Cricket was Sachin Tendulkar’s term. Malinga was the successful bowler of Sri Lanka who had other things in mind by capturing three wickets in 2nd innings by giving 33 runs only. Both the wickets of Dravid and Tendulkar was a matter of few minutes for him. He also got the wicket of Gautam Gambhir.  India fans were praying that if India can save the match and Sri Lankans will pray for the game but also they will pray for the 2 more wickets of Muttiah Muralitharan to make his 800 in test cricket. On the last day of the match he needed only [...]

MS Dhoni sign huge endorsement deal: Newly-married captain of Indian cricket team MS Dhoni has subscribed what correspondents say is the large marketing agreement ever prefabricated by an Asian cricketer. According to report, the deal with the sports management society Rhiti Sports is worth $42m over two years. According to deal, the society appendage his endorsements, merchandise, advertising rights, digital rights and his appearances on gregarious networking sites. In an interview with Press Trust of India news agency, Rhiti pandemic manager Sanjay Pandey told that they signed a contract in a period hind and according to deal, from now onwards we will be handling all the endorsements of Dhoni. The collection surpasses that prefab prefabricated by batsman Sachin Tendulkar with sports management business Iconix – worth $40m over trio period from 2006. The Asian cricket skipper was acclaimed throughout the country for success the position ICC Twenty20 Domain Cup honour in 2007. Dhoni was mated earlier this period and glorious his 29th birthday. Often described as Bharat’s most pensionable bachelor, he wedded his childhood sweetheart Sakshi Singh Rawat at a snobbish start external the blue townsfolk of Dehradun worst period. He is currently rumored to support nearly 22 directing brands, including Cola, Reebok, Aircel, Godrej and Hersheys. A Forbes mull stylish twelve month said that Dhoni was the world’s richest cricketer with reference earnings of $10m, followed by Tendulkar at $8m. Wire money online to India with Xoom.com for as low as $4.99. Mahinder Singh Dhoni locomote Sachin Tendulkar: Quite shocking spell measure the name of the title? But this is the fact that Mahi stroke Sachin. Now the topic grow how is it realistic and in what cost? Don’t be scare or worried, Mahi beats him by signing an support mint. The Amerind leader of cricket Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been subscribed by ruling kind. He subscribed 200 Rs. crore aggregation with a talent management consort surpassed Sachin Tendulkar in the drawing activity. Dhoni has transform a two-year lessen with Mindscapes Rhiti and Sports Direction, which manages the Asian pilot longish through a common hazard. The Rhiti Sports affirm most this lessen. The Mass manager of Rhiti Sports Sanjay Pandey affirm that they make made a mickle with Dhoni. He said we possess entered into a two-year representative with him and now we module wait after his whole spectrum. He said we possess signed the diminish in ending week [...]

India Vs Sri Lanka: Wire money online to India with Xoom.com for as low as $4.99. 18th July, 2010 Sunday at 10.00 AM IST, at Galle International Stadium, Galle, Sri Lanka the match was played between India and Sri Lanka. The team for Sri Lanka is T Dilshan, K Sangakkara(C), N Paranavitana, M Jayawardene, A Mathews, T Samaraweera, P Jayawardene, M Muralitharan, R Herath, C Welegedara and L Malinga. India’s team is MS Dhoni (C), Sachin Tendulkar, Suresh Raina, Amrit Misra, Harbhajan Singh, Pragyan Ohja, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj singh, Murali Vijay, Sreesnath, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Ishant Sharma, Rahul Dravid, Wriddhiman Saha(WK) and Zaheer Khan. Umpires for the match are Daryl Harper of Australia and Rod Tucker of Austriala, third umpire will be Tyron Wijewardene and Match referee will be Andy Pycroft. Abhimanyu Mithun for India makes his Test Debut in this Test. The gold coin with Muralidaran’s picture on it was flipped by Kumar Sangakkara, Dhoni called for heads and the coin tailed, Sri Lanka won the toss and they elected to bat. With a little moisture the pitch looks brown and dry on the nice day pitch curator suggests that a turn will be taken by the pitch from fourth day. So, the winners of the toss if batting first will survive the first innings with good total. The weather conditions with temperature 27 degree Celsius and there are chances of raining throughout Test match. The match started with a delay of half an hour as the outfield was wet but hates off to the ground staff they did a commendable job to start the match. In recent Asia Cup where India beat Sri Lanka in the final and lifted the trophy after a long period of more than a decade. Both the teams are now once again clashing at Galle, Sri Lanka for a Test Match series of Three matches. At Galle International Stadium, Galle the match would have been so thrilling contest as Muttiah Muralidaran the spin legend will drop curtain after this match to his test career, he is eight wickets behind the 800 victims in Test Cricket after his eighteen years of career, if he succeeds in this test match he will be the first test player to do this. He holds the record of having 103 wickets in 14 matches. He dismissed Rahul Dravid six times and Sachin Tendulkar 7 times in his [...]