Record opening stand lifts South Africa

Graeme Smith and Neil McKenzie doubled South Africa's first-innings 170 from Dhaka and then some, frustrating a lifeless Bangladesh on a placid track to the tune of a record 405-run opening stand in one day. After winnng the toss South Africa elected to bat first,the openers pile on the runs as Bangladesh bowlers toiled on the first day's play. At the end of the day's play Graeme Smith was not out on 223 and Neil Meckenzie was not out on 169.The world record of 413, between India's Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad, is just nine runs away. Hope these openers break the records and add to their credits and ultimately these South Afrcian openers rocks!!!!

Gilchrist fires but Srilanka clinch a thriller

Adam Gilchrist provided the fireworks but Sri Lanka's seamers had the extinguisher at the MCG, Chasing 222 Australia were cruising as Gilchrist belted 83 from 50 balls, but a collapse of 6 for 16 in ten overs ensured Sri Lanka regained some pride with a 13-run win. After Srilanka won the toss,they elected to bat first,great bowling by nathan bracken who took 4 wickets just 29 runs from 10 overs reduced lankans to a modest total of 221.Dilshan scored 62 and Jayawardene scored 50.Then while chasing Australia was off to a flying start with the first wicket partnership contributing 107 runs but later on the Srilankan seamers troubled the aussie batsmen with some great bowling as the wickets tumbled at regular intervals.The last wicket partnership contributed to the score but it did not las longer before jayasuriya finally bowled lee in the first ball of the 49th over.Finally,Srilanka won the match by 13 runs.Gilchrist won the man of the match award for his fiery batting.Hope he will continue this form in the finals also!!!

Hogg calls time on his career

Brad Hogg has joined the retirement epidemic sweeping Australia's mid-30s players and will step down less than a year after many rated him the world's most effective limited-overs spinner.Hogg has decided to exit at the age of 37. There are just a few personal issues that are probably the main reason for this decision he said.Hogg said his career highlights included being part of Australia's record-equalling 16 consecutive Test wins, playing in two World Cups where the team was undefeated, and "playing alongside legends" such as Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting.He will have a maximum of three matches to add to his 121 games and 154 victims that make him the sixth most successful Australian bowler.He finished with 17 wickets in a career of seven Tests.Finally the left arm chinaman bids adieu to international cricket after the CB Series finals.

Harbhajan an 'obnoxious weed' - Hayden

Harbhajan Singh has not endeared himself to many Australians in recent months.The pair clashed during Sunday's CB Series game at the SCG when the Indians complained that Hayden had called Harbhajan a mad boy.Speaking on a Brisbane radio station, Hayden said it's been a bit of a long battle with Harbhajan, the first time I ever met him he was the same little obnoxious weed that he is now. His record speaks for itself in cricket.This comment means that it will only serve to deepen the animosity between the two sides that has surfaced during India's tour.Then yesterday he was reprimanded for breaching the Rule-9 of Code of Conduct by the Cricket Australia. The Board then announced some disiplinary action will be taken against Hayden for offencing Harbhajan with illegal words.I think everyone's over it a little bit now, just trying to get on with the finals and play some cricket.

Indian Tourism and Cultures

India has been considered to be a land with rich cultural heritage. Centuries after centuries, this country has seen rulers like Rajputs, Moughals, English, Portuguese. Besides, various religions also flourished at different times in this country like Buddhism, Jainism etc. All these factors have played their role in making an impact on the culture of this country. One can find the traces of different cultures in Music, dance, architecture, festivities, languages spoken, traditional beliefs and customs, food and many more like these. It is the development in these aspects of life that makes the heritage of India one of the most vibrant and most exhaustive.The Incredible India is bounded by the majestic Himalayan ranges in the north and edged by an endless stretch of golden beaches, India is a vivid kaleidoscope of landscapes, magnificent historical sites and royal cities, misty mountain retreats, colourful people, rich cultures and festivities. Besides these activities the Indian Tourism organises several tours all over India for the benefit of the people during the holidays.There are several packages in these tours.For more details visit http://www.india-tourism.com/ so the culture and heritage of India remains a memorable one in everyone's life!!!

Nayanthara Races Ahead

Actress Nayanthara has raced ahead of all other heroines to achieve the number 1 slot in kollywood. She had also acted in some Telugu films and had achieved great success.Now in kollywood,film such as Yaaradi Nee Mohini she acted with Dhanush which is in due for release this month.Next she is currently acting with Vishal in the film titled Sathyam which is due for big summer release.The next project is that she will be paired opposite with Superstar Rajinikanth's starrer in Kuselan,the shooting will be started in mid March.Then she will play the lead role in the film titled Aegan directed by RajuSundaram.After the success of Billa,Ajith has once again teamed up with Nayanthara for this film.Nayanthara ultimately rocks in kollywood!!!

INDIA THROUGH TO FINAL IN U-19 WORLD CUP

India Under-19s were stretched for the first time in the tournament but held their nerve in a tense chase under lights in wet conditions at the Kinara Oval to beat New Zealand by three wickets to reach their second successive final.After electing to bat first NewZealand was restricted to a modest total of 205 in 50 overs.Anderson was the top scorer for NewZealand with 70 runs.Virat Kohli was the pick of the Indian bowlers taking 2 wickets for 27 uns from 7 overs.Then the Indian chase was interuupted by rain and after late hiccups Goswami and Kohli contributed some good partnerships which lead to India's victory.India beat Nz by 3 wickets in d/l method in which Indians were asked to chase a target of 193 from 43 overs. From the Indian side Goswami scored 51 and Kohli scored 43. Kohli won the man of the match award for his all round performance.They now await the outcome of the South Africa-Pakistan clash on Friday.The winner of this match will play against India in the final on Sunday.Hope India will clinch the Under-19 world cup!!!

INDIANS FALTER ONCE AGAIN AT SYDNEY

At the 10th match at the sydney ground,Australia have beaten India once again by 18 runs and this has made India a must win situation against Srilanka in the next game to be played at Hobart on Tuesday in order to make it to CB series finals... In today's game Australia won the toss and choose to bat first....Openers Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden burst out of the blocks with some damaging strokeplay, before Gilchrist was caught brilliantly by Indian skipper MS Dhoni for 16 from just seven deliveries....Ponting and Hayden shared some good partnerships before Hayden was out for 54.... Then came Clarke who some fiery stroke plays was out for 33...Andrew Symonds scored 59 off 49 balls to end his lean form and mean while Ricky Ponting was back in form in this series with his 26th ton in the odi's as Australia pile up the runs and set India a target of 318 to chase in 50overs....Then while chasing Indian top order batting fell like a cropper.... Gautam Gambhir and Dhoni steadied the Indian innings with some good partnerships.... Robin Uthappa and Gambhir then kept the score ticking over by putting on 67, but India's hopes suffered a fatal blow when the centurion's brave knock came to an end when he was stumped by Adam Gilchrist, who completed six dismissals, off the bowling of Brad Hogg for 113....Uthappa was finally out for 51.... Fast bowler Brett Lee took five wickets, including three in seven balls late in the innings....A sparkling century from Gautam Gambhir could not save India from an 18-run defeat at the hands of Australia in today's match....Ponting was declared the man of the match for his winning ton....Hope the Indians will be back to winning ways against Srilanka in the next game and will secure a place in the finals....

INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE-2008

On-field action aside, we could have just witnessed the most eventful day in cricket's history, one when players were bought like stocks at a share market. In the frenetic Indian Premier League auctions,the day kicked off with the blockbuster news of Dhoni being bought for US$1.5 million by Chennai. That set the ball rolling, and no other player was able to catch up with it by the end of the day. Dhoni was part of the first group of players to be auctioned and grossed more than double what Adam Gilchrist did ($700,000 from Hyderabad).
Top ten players at the auction were....
Mahendra Singh,Sanath Jayasuriya,Ishant Sharma,Irfan Pathan,Jacques Kallis,Brett Lee,RPSingh,Harbhajan Singh....
The icon players were....
Sachin Tendulkar,SouravGanguly,Rahul Dravid,Yuvaraj singh and Virendher Sehwag....
At the end of the Dhoni being bought for US$1.5 million by Chennai was the highest paid cricketer inIPL...Andrew Symonds was bought by Hyderabad for US$ 1.35 million next to Dhoni....However other players was bought by Mohali,Mumbai,Kolkata and Bangalore....They had the winning bid of less than 1million US dollars....Indian premier League finally with this auction will change cricket as it played forever.......

DEJA VU IN NAPIER

The thrilling tie played out by England and New Zealand in Napier is one of those days when a captain really earns his match fee. With New Zealand needing seven from the last over and all his main bowlers used up, Paul Collingwood turned to the part-time medium pace of Luke Wright who produced a nerveless final over... New Zealand after winning the toss sent England into and the England pile up the runs as the pitch favours batting a lot more.... PaulCollingwood six 6's in his knock of 54....Other players contributed to the score were Mustard who socred 83,Cook scored 68,bell socred 43 and pietersen scored 50...Finally England set a target of 341 from 50 overs for the kiwis...... Then Nz batting came as the chase was a fighting one... Ryder and Mccullum shared a partnership of 70 runs from 10 overs....Then Jamie How who played a brilliant knock shared 90 plus partnerships with Mccullum and Taylor..... How socred a fighting hundred of 139 in which he hit ten 4's and three 6's.... But however his knock goes in vain...Vettori who wasted some balls in the slog overs and that was the reason that the match has ended in a tie.... However it was a day of fantastic cricket played by both the teams in the odi's...Hope we will wait for the result of the last match to be played at Christchurch on Saturday... NewZealand leads the series 2-1.............

SACHIN-THE RECORD HOLDER

One of the most renound and a legendary cricketer who is known all over the world has beckoned several world records to his credit....His career profile and his records are shown below.....
Full name- Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born -April 24, 1973, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Current age -34
Little MasterBatting style- Right-hand bat
Bowling style -Right-arm offbreak, Legbreak and Googly
The records to his credit are described below...
He becomes the first player to cross 16,000 odi runs in cricket.... He holds the record fo the most number of centuries in odi as well as in test cricket.... He is the only indian player who has played more than 400 odi's next to Sanath Jayasuriya......During the 1999 World Cup, Sachin Tendulkar became the second highest run getter in Cup history next to Javed Miandad..... As these records beckons the little master blaster and i hope he will play better cricket in order to increase hs recent form in cricket and add more records to his career....Little Master always rocks!!!!!

CHENNAI- BECOMING A SMOKE CITY

Now a days due to the movement of vehicles and the burning garbages Chennai has become one of the most affected city due to smoke....These smoke that casues air pollution spoils the earth's atmosphere and poses a greater threat to a man's life..... Take an example,on the way to kishkinta, a dumping yard is present in Kannadapalyam where most of the garbages are burnt and the children who are studying in the near by schools causes suffocation and breathing problems.... These smokes will also led to lung cancer and other major problems in a man's life.... Due to the movement of heavy vehicles which causes traffic on the roads and they produce smokeless gas into the atmosphere and these will to the depletion in the ozone layer and also spoils a human life.......How these smokes can be eradicated ?....Justify them with a proper solution in order to produce a smoke free city....

CAREER TO CHOOSE

Choosing your career is an important step because your future is at stake. It is generally observed that a large section of students are unaware of what they want to achieve in life. Undoubtedly it may result in waste of precious time as well as money.After finishing your school education the students should adopt to join a UG programme... Then after finishing the UG programme some students adopt to join companies and they try to settle in their life soon.... In the other case some students write exams such as GRE,CAT,GMAT...etc to perform PG Programme such as MBA,MS....etc in foreign universities in order to gain better knowledge and these successful studies enables one to set a meaningful and attainable goal.....One can also choose other careers such as LAW,HOTEL MANAGEMENT,ARMED FORCES...etc in order to achieve their desired goals....So choose a successful career and gain better knowledge,work more and earn more and live a haapy life.....

FRAGILE BATTING BY THE INDIANS

In the Common Wealth Bank ODI Series the 7th match between Australia and India had taken place at the Adelaide Oval today....After winning the toss Australia elected to bat first.. Early on the Indian seam bowlers rocked the Australian top order batting with some good bowling performance....Then Michael Clarke and Hogg steadied the Australian Innings with some good partnership...Clarke socred 79 of 108 balls and Hogg scored 32 were the top scores for Australia..From the indian side pathan was the pick of the bowlers ... Australia was finally set a target of 204 for the indians to chase. Then came the indian batting the Australian bowlers was truly impressive rocking the indian top order batting..only Gambhir played some fine shots scoring 34 runs... Then came yuvaraj singh and dhoni who steadied the indian batting but it did not last longer... Other indian batsman failing to capitalise the impressive Australian bowling attack... From the Australian side Johnson took 3 wickets... Then Michael Clarke was finally declared man of the match... Hope the indians will be back to winning ways in the next game....

HOW TO IMPROVE READING SKILLS

Many college students discover that there is significantly more to read in college than there was in high school. Students frequently remark that they don't have enough time to read through all of their assignments during the week.For better communication or to speak fluently in English read daily English News Papers so that you can improve your knowledge by seeing the meanings of the difficult words in dictionary which is not known to you and also gather information about what is happening around us in our day to day life from all over the world...Then if time permits read english novels which will help you gain better knowledge and you can speak effectively.....Then you can write your own posts or comments in the editor column of the newspaper which will help you to avoid and to know what are the grammatical mistakes so that reading and writing skills in englsih can be improved which will help you in a man's life to reach higher levels.....

Leading Rivals

In all the aspects of life there are leading rivals..... I have to mention a few regarding these rivals..... In the field of sports like cricket, Australian fast bowler Glenn Mcgrath as well as Brett Lee will be the leading rival to Sachin Tendulkar who is the legend of Indian Cricket.... In tennis Novak Djokovic will be a leading rival to Roger Federer as he won the recent
Australian Open in 2008... In the field of cinema eventhough there has not been any rivalry between KamalHasan and Super Star Rajinikanth there has been decades of rivalry between rajini fans and kamal fans...In the history of battles Gauravas who had been a great rivals to Pandavas .even though gauravas were hundred in number pandavas with a meagre strength were able to get the support of almighty.....Finally in the latest era of high grade technology to mention a few
Mukesh Vs Anil
TCS Vs CTS
Yahoo Vs Google
Nokia Vs Sony Ericcson
Though there has been a rivalry between these great enterprueners it has finally lead to the development of the whole world as a one union .These developments which might do a great things to the people , will they lead to anything which will affect the whole mass? will this lead to development or deplement think .....think ..........