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January 28, 2010

Abhimanyu Mithun and Wriddhiman Saha in Indian test squad

Filed under: Cricket,sports,uncategorized — Tags: , — admin @ 3:07 am

Today India announced their test team that will play against South Africa from 1st week of February. Few changes have been made in the new team squad. Abhimanyu Mithun introduced in Indian Cricket test squad where he will play his debut match against South Africa.

Other than Mithun, a Tamilnadu batsman S Badrinath was also included in Indian side along with Wriddhiman Saha. S Badrinath, ABhimanyu Mithun and Wriddhiman Saha all of three new players included for making their first debut match against South Africa.

Four senior players Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid, Dinesh Karthik and Sreesanth were dropped due to some sort of injury as they were unfit to play the test beginning from Feb 6.

Abhimanyu Mithun born in 1989 is from Bangalore has been selected as a replacement for Sreesanth. Earlier he has played from Karnataka, Karnataka XI and Royal Challengers Bangalore. He is a right hand bat and right arm medium pace bowler. While Wriddhiman Prasanta Saha born in Shaktigarh has already played for India, Bengal, India A, Kolkata Knight Riders. He is aright hand batsman and joined the team as a replacement for Dinesh karthik.

The Indian test team announced today consists of following players –

MS Dhoni (captain/wk), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, S Badrinath, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Amit Mishra, Pragyan Ojha, Ishant Sharma, M Vijay, Sudeep Tyagi, Abhimanyu Mithun and Wriddhiman Saha.

First Test match against south Africa will begin from Feb 6 at Nagpur stadium followed by second test match from Feb 14 at kolkata stadium.

January 25, 2010

Zheng and Henin in semifinals – kirilenko out

Filed under: sports,Tennis,World — Tags: , — admin @ 9:12 pm

Today Justin Henin defeated Nadia Petrova to become the first women to enter the semis in this Australian Open 2010. Petrova gave a good fight, but anyhow Henin won in two straight sets 7-6(3) 7-5. The other biggest upset occurred when Jie Zheng of China defeated Maria Kirilenko of Russia in simple straight two sets. She thrashed Kirilenko by 6-1, 6-5.

Jie Zheng became the first Chinese to way ever goto semis of Australian Open. And the way she defeated Kirilenko, it seems this time she is another big mountain to cross. In 2008, she also managed to enter into the semis first time into Grand Slam playing Single in Wimbledon. ABout four year ago she has paired with Yan ZI to win the first ever Grand Slam for their most populous country.

And Henin Hardin dream to win the championship looks possible as their only two hindrance her way to get her next Grand Slam. With the score Card its obvious to get that she had a good clash with Petrova, but anyhow she managed to move one step ahead. After coming out of retirement, this was her second match and she managed too book her seat in last four in race of Australian open Women Championship.

Henin said in an interview that ” I am very surprised to reach the semifinals”. She said she is feeling more calm bu the pressure will be coming soon in coming days.
After the loss of Petrova and Kirilenko, now there will be no Russian in Women’s Race for Championship. Since 2004, there was at least one Russian in last four in Australian Open.

Australian open quarterfinal begins – Andy Roddick vs Cilic first

Filed under: sports,Tennis,World — Tags: , , — admin @ 12:33 pm

On day 9th of Australian Open 2010, world will witness first quaterfinals match under men’s category on 26th January. In this match Andy Roddick seeded 7th from US will Clash with Marin Cilic of Croatia who is ranked 14th in this tournament. This match will be played between Rod Laver Arena at 11:00 hours.

This match will follow the second quarterfinal match between Andy Murray of Great Britain ( Rank 5) with world’s number 2 position holder Rafael Nadal at the same court at 19:30hrs.

Seventh seeded Andy Roddick has just managed to overcome a dead end by defeating a strong challenger Fernando Gonzalez and booked a quarter final seat. He defeated Gonzalez in 5 sets 6-3 3-6 4-6 7-5 6-2 in almost three and half hours. In second and third set, Gonzalez gave a huge setback, but Rodick managed to defeat him by winning last two consecutive sets.

On the same day on 26th of Jan, two matches of Woman quarterfinals will take place. Justine Henine will clash with Nadia Petrova of Russia and in second match Jie Zheng of China will clash with Maria Kirilenko of Russia. Thisday will also witness two matches of Men’s doubles and women’s doubles.

January 24, 2010

Walmart clown commercial is the winner

Filed under: sports,World — Tags: — admin @ 4:22 pm

While the AFC Championship is going on and Jets and Colts have made the surrounding warmer with the heat of the match. And here this is, the Walmart Clown Commercial that rocked the intervals between the match and anyhow relieving the pressure. Hence Clown commercial is the winner. Clowns and unicorns and puncture wounds are always funny. The antidote to that funny commercial is the very next ad featuring bloated Luke Wilson shilling for AT&T.

While everyone watching this Jets vs colts game, this commercial came out of no where and made people crazt out there. Its a must watch funny commercial that will sooth you while watching this game.

This commercial features a dad dressed up like a clown and endevours to entertain everybody with his comedy, but something unusual occurs in this and fun become tragedy for him.

Jets vs colts and vikings vs saints today live

Filed under: sports,World — Tags: , — admin @ 10:30 am

Today two most fierce match in Football league NFL is going to take place in just few hours from now. First match is between New York Jets and Indianapolis Colts at 3:00 p.m. EST on CBS followed by Vikings and saints match 6:40 p.m. EST on FOX. The New York Jets are in to play one of the toughest games against the toughest team Colts.

While the New York Jets knocked off AFC North Champion Cincinnati earlier followed by wildcard rematch against them then defeating Chargers 17-14 in San Diego. While the Colts the mightier one, has continuously made a winning streak of consecutive 23 matches at NFL and just set a franchise record with their 13th consecutive home victory. The Indianapolis Colts were 7 – 1 in the regular season and 1 – 0 in the playoffs as the beat up on the Ravens last week, 20 – 3. The single loss in the regular season at home was to the today’s opponent Jets but throw that game away because that’s the game where a lot of the Colts main players were rested, including Peyton Manning in the second half of the match.

Well definitely it seems that for today match, ball is in court of Colts but Jets also can’t be underestimated due to their previous performance. So the key to victory for Jets will lie in passing defense and offensive rushing attack.

Followed by th AFC championship, there will be another most awaited battle of Vikings and Saints today. As per the team strength and past performance, odds are in favor of Vikings. Earlier The Vikings crushed the Cowboys 34-3 and Saints defeated the Cardinals 45-14 in the Divisional Round.

January 23, 2010

Pakistan vs Australia 2nd ODI today live

Filed under: Cricket,sports,World — admin @ 5:46 pm

Today Pakistan will take on Australia at the second odi just few hours from now. This match is going to start at 9:30 AM local time. Australia earler defeated Pakistan in their opening match against them, credit goe to century of Cameron WHite’s century.  WIth their splendid performance in first one day international, Australia won their first match with 5 wickets. The Australian team will try to make the lead to 2-0 by defeating the oppositon, while Pakistan will try to level this difference.

The most worrying factor for Australia is the Michael Clarke injury. He was hit on his ribs by Mohammad Aamer before he got dismissed. Its not confirmed whether he will play 2nd ODI or not.

So here is the mst probable squads of both the team for today’s match.

Australian Squad – Shane Watson, Shaun Marsh,  Ricky Ponting (capt),  Michael Clarke,  Cameron White, 6Michael Hussey, Brad Haddin (wk), Nathan Hauritz, Clint McKay, Peter Siddle,  Doug Bollinger.

Pakistan Squad- Salman Butt,  Kamran Akmal (wk), Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf (capt),  Umar Akmal,  Shoaib Malik,  Shahid Afridi,  Umar Gul,  Mohammad Asif,  Mohammed Aamer,  Saeed Ajmal.

This is only a prediction and not certain because official announcement has not been made till now. Pitch condiditon for today’s match is very good. Its a batting pitch and few showes expected at anytime at the first half. Temperature is normal 25 C. The team who will win the toss should prefer batting first.

India vs Bangladesh 2nd test match live next

Filed under: Cricket,sports,World — Tags: , , — admin @ 10:54 am

Its time for the second test match between India vs Bangladesh that will be played tomorrow. This match will be played in Dhaka – the capital city of bangladesh. This match will begin tomorrow at 9:30 local time in DHaka.

Bangladesh has already proved their might in the first test match and they have displayed their die hard attitude in last test ,where Bangladesh gave India a fierce competition and their was a moment in match when some could might think that Bangladesh can take away the match from India. But thanks to the outstanding performance of Sachin Tendulkar who take out Indians from much expected grief at the beginning.

In first test match, Bangladesh scored 242 and 301 while India managed 243 and 413/8, nevertheless India won the match. Now Bangladesh cannot be understood as a tiny opponent, they had prove already themselves in last Tri- nation series tournament and as well as in first test match against India. However, India is still considered to be mightiest side, but any improvement in bowling and fielding of bangladesh can do the damage.

Changes in 2nd test match.

Bangladesh has included off-spinner allrounder Naeem Islam in their squad and india has brought back Indian Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Probable Bangladesh squad-

Tamim Iqbal,  Imrul Kayes,  Shahriar Nafees,   Mohammad Ashraful,  Shakib Al Hasan (capt),  Raqibul Hasan,  Mahmudullah,  Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Shafiul Islam,  Shahadat Hossain and  Rubel Hossain.

Indian squad

Virender Sehwag,  Gautam Gambhir,  Rahul Dravid,  Sachin Tendulkar,  M Vijay,  Yuvraj Singh,  MS Dhoni (capt, wk),  Harbhajan Singh,  Zaheer Khan, Amit Mishra,  Ishant Sharma.

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