(Home) __________(Request) __________ (Videos) __________(News) __________ (IPL)

Top search


Monday, June 29, 2009

Dhoni The power House

Dhoni has a tremendous power which he showed in the 2nd ODI between Ind and Wi. On Dwayne bravo's bowl Dhoni tried to hit a very tight short straight down the ground as usual Bravo tried to stop it was successful as the bowl hit his right thumb and passed away for a single resulting in the swelling in his thumb. He got medical attention quickly. But bravo never gave hope and bowled Continuously.

Ind vs Wi 2nd ODI

The second odi between India and West Indies ended wit a victory of the indies. Indians made a very poor start with 7 of 3 wickets Yuvi tried to recover the indian innings he played few shorts but later on he like the others gave a simple catch to the wicket keeper. he did not make any mistake in taking the catch. He took very many catches in this match. The wickets kept on falling and this resulted in less than 90 runs India lost their eight wickets. Now R P Singh came to bat with the indian skipper at the other hand. They very slowly tickled the innings but never allowed the wickets to fall. In intervals they played few shorts. R P Singh also hitted a six and a four but i the last few overs he tried to make runs and in this pressure he gave a very simple catch. Now Ashish Nehra came to bat he any how played the remaining 2 balls. I the next over in the first ball with a four Dhoni reached to 95 but in the vey next ball he got bold by a good slow bowl.
By the end of the innings Indians managed a total of 188 which was great after loosing 8 wickets by just making 80+ runs.
West indies had a very small total which they got easily and brought the series to 2 each.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Some moments of Wi vs Ind 1st ODI


Ind vs Wi

Riding on superb batting performance by Yuvraj Singh (131) and fierce bowling attack by comeback man Ashish Nehra (3 for 49), India defeated West Indies by 20 runs in the 1st ODI match. India lead four-match series 1-0. (AFP)

Italy - World Cup Champions 2006

Fabio Grosso

India seek redemption in West Indies series

KINGSTON: India
start their campaign on Friday to put the bad memory of their failure in the World Twenty20 behind them, when they face West
Indies in the first One-day International of the four match series.

India and their opponents settle back down to the bump and grind of 50 overs-a-side matches, following a heavy diet of Twenty20 cricket for several of the players in the form of the second edition of the Indian Premier League in South Africa, and the World Twenty20 in England.

But it's the World Twenty20 which is still fresh on the minds of the Indians.

They entered the competition as defending champions, and finished empty-handed, much to the chagrin of their legions of supporters at home and around the world.

They were humiliated, when they exited the competition following three defeats in the Super Eight stage, including a seven-wicket loss to the West Indies.

Tiredness and injuries were some of the factors advanced for India's demise, but they have had close to two weeks to relax and recharge the batteries.

Against this backdrop, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has asked his players to come forward and be truthful about their fitness ahead of the series.

"For me, it's the team first and then the individuals and I'd hope it's the same with everyone else in the group," Dhoni said.

"If rest is the cure for an injury, a cricketer ought to opt for it rather than let fatigue or niggles become a major setback to him and to the team.

"If anyone wants to take a break from the game, they should let me know or the BCCI."

India have also had time to beef-up their personnel for the four-match series to mitigate against the injuries which have robbed them of star batting duo Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag, the latter of whom was sorely missed in the World Twenty20, plus Zaheer Khan and Suresh Raina.

However, the new recruits have encountered a few difficulties with getting visas to travel through Britain.

Now ranked as the third-best ODI side in the World, India will see this as a chance to leapfrog Australia, and take aim at chart-toppers South Africa, setting the stage for another invigorating series.

India hasn't played an ODI series since they prevailed in New Zealand in March, but they have lost only three of their last 18 matches, and have emerged as one of strongest ODI sides over the last year.

But they face a West Indies side with their own demons to exorcise, following a miserable Test and ODI series against England.

The home team, however, marginally redeemed themselves with a semi-final place in the World Twenty20 in which they beat England to reach the final four.

They enter the series however, as strangers in their own land, since India have been in the Jamaica capital getting down to business since last Friday, and the West Indies players - including a few fresh faces - only started arriving on Tuesday.

West Indies coach John Dyson will instruct his side to play aggressive cricket to push the Indians to the limit.

"We will play aggressive cricket, we will play to win as always, and we will aim for consistency," said Dyson.

"We always look at the opposition and try and determine who the key players are for the opposition and think of ways that we may combat those key players.

"What we don't know, of course, is from the lower-profile players, how they are going to perform and perform consistently throughout a series. So that's something we have to monitor as the series progresses.

"(Winning) - it depends on the sort of pitches we're playing on, the conditions of the day, and the form of our own players, and the opposition players."

The short ODI series against India is part of a busy home programme for West Indies, who also host Bangladesh for two Tests, three ODIs and a T20 International in July and August.

Squads:

West Indies: Chris Gayle (capt), Denesh Ramdin, Lionel Baker, Darren Bravo, Dwayne Bravo, Sulieman Benn, David Bernard Jr, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Narsingh Deonarine, Runako Morton, Ravi Rampaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Jerome Taylor

India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Yusuf Pathan, Murali Vijay, Subramaniam Badrinath, Rudra Pratap Singh, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Abhishek Nayar, Ashish Nehra, Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh Karthik.

Torres warns Spain plotting another win streak

Liverpool hitman Fernando Torres has warned that Spain plan to start building another lengthy win streak, starting on Sunday against
South Africa.

The European champions saw their 15-match unbeaten record brought to an end by the United States in the Confederations Cup semi-finals and Torres said they would bounce back in the third-place playoff on Sunday.

"What hurts most is going out in the semi-finals of a big competition, not the end of the run," the blond-haired striker said.

"We knew that we couldn't possibly win every single game from now to the end of our careers and that the run would have to come to an end some day.

"We just didn't expect it to be here in South Africa, but that's the way it is. These things happen when you least expect them."

Torres said Sunday's match in Rustenburg was an opportunity to show the shock loss against the United States was just a blip on the road to the World Cup next year.

"When you lose a game and you've got a lot of players who can barely remember the last time it happened, then it shows that you're on the right track," he said.

"In fact, I'd rather this happen now than at the 2010 World Cup.

"We have to go back to square one now and start putting some more wins together.

"The most important thing now is that we keep on showing the same down-to-earth approach as we did when we went all that time unbeaten.

"The really big challenges are only just beginning."

South Africa are in the third-place playoff after losing 1-0 to Brazil on Thursday in the other semi-final.

Blatter hints African WC quotas could rise

OHANNESBURG: FIFA president Sepp Blatter suggested on Friday that the quota of African teams at World Cups could rise if they do well at the 2010
tournament next year.

The continent has six teams participating at the event next year in South Africa for the first time, via five qualifying berths and one as the host country.

In contrast, Europe has 13 slots.

Following the encouraging performance by the South Africans at the Confederations Cup, where they pushed Brazil hard in their narrow 1-0 semi-final defeat on Thursday, Blatter said it would all depend on next year.

"It will not be easy for an African team to win the World Cup because of the law of averages," he said.

"To add more African teams will depend on the results of the African teams.

"Next year they will have the advantage of playing at home in the ambiance we have here and Bafana Bafana (South Africa) confirmed against Brazil that they have improved after they almost pulled off a miracle.

"Let's see what will happen next year.

"I will advocate for Africa, or another continent, when there are doing well in the World Cup."

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Michael Jackson dies



One of music’s most successful and influential artists, Michael Jackson died earlier today in Los Angeles at the age of 50, the L.A. County coroner's office confirms. No cause of death is available yet. During his nearly half-century career, Jackson recorded a series of pop classics as part of the Jackson 5 and then became a massive solo star. His 1982 album Thriller has been certified platinum 28 times in the U.S. and is the best-selling original collection ever released.

Jackson was born in Gary, Ind., on Aug. 29, 1958, and by the age of 6 the prodigiously talented singer and dancer was performing alongside his brothers. The Jackson 5 signed to Motown in 1968 and released a string of huge hits including “ABC” and “I Want You Back.” Jackson entered the charts as a solo artist in 1972 with the song “Ben,” and in 1978 he appeared in the big screen musical The Wiz alongside Diana Ross. The following year, his album Off The Wall established Jackson as a solo superstar. Yet, even the success of that release would be dwarfed by Thriller, which included a raft of global smashes, including “Billie Jean,” “Beat It,” and “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’.”

Jackson followed up Thriller with 1987’s Bad, which itself eventually sold in the region of 30 million copies worldwide. But the star’s public profile was badly damaged in the '90s when he was accused of child sex abuse, and in recent years he had become an extremely reclusive figure. Despite his reputation as one of pop’s greatest dancers and all-round in-concert showman, he also effectively abandoned touring. However, Jackson had planned to play a series of dates in London, starting next month.

While his personal life often attracted criticism and controversy, the oft-dubbed King of Pop’s influence on the musical realm is unarguable. That influence was demonstrated in 2008 when Kanye West, will.i.am, Fergie, and Akon all contributed to the remixes featured on the 25th anniversary reissue of Thriller. In his long career Jackson also worked with some of pop’s most talented artists, including both Paul McCartney and Thriller producer Quincy Jones.

Interesting Facts

Rendezvous is a space manoeurve in which one space craft meets another.

Stage is a section of rocket having its own engine.

Launch window is the time period when a spacecraft's target- such as planet or satellite- is properly lined up with the launch point, creating an efficient fight path.

Microgravity is what spacecraft's content and crew float freely, without feeling of weight that gravity normally produces.

Orbital velocity is the minimum velocity needed to maintain an orbit around the earth or some other body.
payload is the cargo carried into space aboard a spacecraft including a passenger and instruments.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Lionel Messi

Friday, June 19, 2009

T20 england 2009

T20 champs



This is the picture of those glorious days in which india was called the champion of T20.






India has been thrown out of the ICC T20 world cup because of three consecutive defeats in the super eight matches.
First defeat by the West Indies over here team India lost because of both bowlers and the batsmen in this match no body could be blamed as no one played nicely as expected.

After winning the toss and electing to bat first Indians gave one of the worst starts which India could have ever expected. Rohit Sharma was the first on to depart just after hitting a boundary the ball before. Then was Suresh Raina to go who came at the place of no. three where Dhoni was playing from few matches. Now was Gautam Gambhir to go he tried to play a pull shot but he had to go to pavilion because of a stunning catch taken running backwards not removing the eyes from the ball and diving at the last moment. After the quick fall of wickets Dhoni and yuvraj tried to make a break at the wickets and they were quite successful in it but they could not save India from losing the match and because of Dwayne bravo’s good bowling and batting he was named the man of the match.

In this match England won the toss and chose to bat first. The start was not up to the mark as England expected first man to go was Owais Shah he was picked by a good catch by yusuf pathan but this wicket brought tensions for India as Kevin pitersen kept his leg on the ground. He and ravi brought a very good partnership and this was the main point of the game. In response to this Indians made a very bad start as again the partnership did not do well and Indians made a slow start because of this Indians faced problems in the last few overs creating the exit door for the team India. This was the last chance for the Indians to remain in the competition which they missed by 3 runs.

The last match for both the teams and was a useless match as south Africans were in the semi finals and India was out of the competition this was the last chance for the Indians to go with some respect but this was also a bad day for the Indians. Africans batted first made a quick start with nearly a run rate of 10 to 9 but they were not successful in giving a India a good total but it did not bother the Indians they decided and came that they had to lose and they were successful in it also they could not even chase a target of 130 or more.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Jean-Claude Darcheville

Dirk kuyt

Full name Dirk Kuijt
Date of birth 22 July 1980 (1980-07-22) (age 28)
Place of birth Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1]
Playing position Winger, Striker
Club information
Current club Liverpool
Number 18