Friday, January 28, 2011

Funny Cricket Video

Can you ever imagine a fielder fielding with his pants down? Have a look at the video it is damn funny.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Kolkata stripped of ICC World Cup Match

Eden Gardens is not ready for the India-England ICC cricket world cup match and has been stripped of this fixture. "Regrettably, Eden Gardens has not made sufficient progress to justify the level of confidence required to confirm that the venue would be ready in good time," Haroon Lorgat, the ICC chief executive, said. "This was no easy decision to take and while it is most unfortunate, it is absolutely necessary." At this point of time the decision whether Kolkata will stage the remaining three world cup matches was not clear.
So who is to be blamed for this mess? Certainly CAB officials are the prime culprit. It was not that they were not aware of the ground situation but they didnt show any urgency. Eden Gardens was supposed to be ready by 31st December but it is not match ready till now. How could ICC allow a premier world cup match to be staged when  details like the media broadcasting and sponsorship facilities were not finalized for the venue yet.? Why was the media not allowed inside the stadium when the inspection was going on? Were the CAB officials hiding something? Now Jagmohan Dalmiya is asking for a ten day extension. Why do we have to keep on asking for extensions when we are staging some international event? Cant we manage it professionally and complete all the work on time? After the negative media coverage recieved for the Commonwealth Games preparation we expected something better from our cricket officials.



BCCI is also equally responsible for this fiasco. Prof. Ratnakar Shetty kept on assuring everyone till the last moment that every thing would be ready in time but one can now say that deep down in his heart he must have known the truth. Why did BCCI allow Kolkata to stage IPL matches when they knew that Eden Gardens was one of the selected venues for the world cup? Were they so sure that the renovation work would be completed in six months? Did they not think it necessary to give Kolkata the extra time for preparation by rescheduling the IPL matches somewhere else?
The reality is that Eden Gardens has been stripped of its first match and the general public of Kolkata is at loss to watch an Indian- England world cup match live.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

ICC WORLD CUP 2011 - Teams and Groups

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Group A                                             Group B
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Australia                                             India

Pakistan                                             South Africa

New Zealand                                     England

Sri Lanka                                          West Indies

Zimbabwe                                         Bangladesh

Canada                                             Ireland

Kenya                                              Netherlands

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Bend it like Beckham

An excellent goal by David Beckham


2011 CRICKET WORLD CUP SCHEDULE


Sat Feb 19        1st Match, Group B - India v Bangladesh                   Mirpur

14:00 IST     
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Sun Feb 20        2nd Match, Group A - Kenya v New Zealand           Chennai

09:30 IST
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Sun Feb 20
14:30 IST           3rd Match, Group A - Sri Lanka v Canada              Hambantota
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Mon Feb 21
 14:30 IST          4th Match, Group A - Australia v Zimbabwe             Ahmedabad 
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Tue Feb 22
14:30 IST             5th Match, Group B - England v Netherlands               Nagpur 
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Wed Feb 23
14:30 IST              6th Match, Group A - Kenya v Pakistan                  Hambantota
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Thu Feb 24
14:30 IST             7th Match, Group B - South Africa v West Indies             Delhi
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Fri Feb 25
09:30 IST              8th Match, Group A - Australia v New Zealand             Nagpur
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Fri Feb 25
14:00 IST              9th Match, Group B - Bangladesh v Ireland                    Mirpur
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Sat Feb 26
14:30 IST            10th Match, Group A - Sri Lanka v Pakistan                   Colombo
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Sun Feb 27
14:30 IST             11th Match, Group B - India v England                           Bangalore 
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Mon Feb 28
 09:30 IST             12th Match, Group A - Canada v Zimbabwe                   Nagpur
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Mon Feb 28
14:30 IST              13th Match, Group B - Netherlands v West Indies           Delhi
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Tue Mar 1
14:30 IST             14th Match, Group A - Sri Lanka v Kenya                   Colombo
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Wed Mar 2
14:30 IST             15th Match, Group B - England v Ireland                      Bangalore
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Thu Mar 3
09:30 IST             16th Match, Group B - Netherlands v South Africa      Chandigarh 
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Thu Mar 3
14:30 IST             17th Match, Group A - Canada v Pakistan                    Colombo
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Fri Mar 4
 09:30 IST           18th Match, Group A - New Zealand v Zimbabwe       Ahmedabad
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Fri Mar 4
14:00 IST            19th Match, Group B - Bangladesh v West Indies         Mirpur
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Sat Mar 5
14:30 IST           20th Match, Group A - Sri Lanka v Australia               Colombo 
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Sun Mar 6
09:30 IST          21st Match, Group B - England v South Africa             Chennai
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Sun Mar 6
14:30 IST         22nd Match, Group B - India v Ireland                        Bangalore
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Mon Mar 7
14:30 IST          23rd Match, Group A - Canada v Kenya                     Delhi
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Tue Mar 8
14:30 IST         24th Match, Group A - New Zealand v Pakistan      Pallekele 
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Wed Mar 9
 14:30 IST      25th Match, Group B - India v Netherlands                 Delhi 
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Thu Mar 10
14:30 IST       26th Match, Group A - Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe      Pallekele
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Fri Mar 11
09:30 IST       27th Match, Group B - Ireland v West Indies        Chandigarh
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Fri Mar 11
14:00 IST       28th Match, Group B - Bangladesh v England        Chittagong
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Sat Mar 12   
14:30 IST       29th Match, Group B - India v South Africa          Nagpur 
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Sun Mar 13
09:30 IST      30th Match, Group A - Canada v New Zealand    Mumbai
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Sun Mar 13
14:30 local    31st Match, Group A - Australia v Kenya              Bangalore
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Mon Mar 14
09:00 IST     32nd Match, Group B - Bangladesh v Netherlands  Chittagong
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Mon Mar 14
14:30 IST     33rd Match, Group A - Pakistan v Zimbabwe          Pallekele
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Tue Mar 15
14:30 IST     34th Match, Group B - Ireland v South Africa           Kolkata
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Wed Mar 16
14:30 IST    35th Match, Group A - Australia v Canada             Bangalore 
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Thu Mar 17
14:30 IST     36th Match, Group B - England v West Indies       Chennai
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Fri Mar 18
09:30 IST     37th Match, Group B - Ireland v Netherlands              Kolkata
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Fri Mar 18
14:30 IST     38th Match, Group A - New Zealand v Sri Lanka     Mumbai
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Sat Mar 19
09:00 IST     39th Match, Group B - Bangladesh v South Africa    Mirpur
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Sat Mar 19
14:30 IST     40th Match, Group A - Australia v Pakistan           Colombo
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Sun Mar 20
09:30 IST      41st Match, Group A - Kenya v Zimbabwe         Kolkata
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Sun Mar 20
14:30 IST     42nd Match, Group B - India v West Indies       Chennai
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Wed Mar 23
14:00 IST      Quarter Final -A1 v B4                            Mirpur
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Thu Mar 24
14:30 IST      Quarter Final -  A2 v B3                    Ahmedabad
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Fri Mar 25
14:00 IST      Quarter Final - A3 v B2                         Mirpur 
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Sat Mar 26
14:30 IST     Quarter Final - A4 v B1                         Colombo
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Tue Mar 29
14:30 IST       1st Semi Final                                      Colombo
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Wed Mar 30
14:30 IST      2nd Semi Final                                   Chandigarh
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Sat Apr 2
14:30 IST      ICC WORLD CUP FINAL 2011        Mumbai

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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Narain Karthikeyan to join Hispania?

Is Narain Karthikeyan set to join the Hispania Racing Team in Formula 1after a six year break? Well his Twitter comments says so
"Back in F1 in 2011. Signed a deal to race for Hispania. I've always maintained that my time in F1 was not over."
His fellow Indian Karun Chandok was signed up last year and drove a few races for Hispania before he was replaced by Yamamoto because Yamamoto bought more money for the team through sponsorship.
Will Narain face the same fate? Only time will tell.....We can only wish him all the very best and hope to see him racing at the new Indian grand prix circuit.