Sparkling things ICC champions trophy$$

• Unexpected things started to happen even fifty 0ver match.(England beating both sri lanka and south Africa ,Kiwis beating lankans)
  
• Australia proved us that they are still a nice team by getting more singles rather than hitting boundaries
• some worrying factors

1. Even in a green and grassy pitch fast bowlers failed to get momentum
2. Spinners including Bhajji failed to get wickets in a spinning wicket
3. Boring one day cricket
4. batting team mostly not taking third power play in correct time,which some time cost them the match.for example India failed to take third power play when raina was on song against pak.
5. An unnecessary debate over strauss decisions on Mathews and smith.He acted differently in these two occasions
6. CROWD really disappointed CRICKET
7. Worst telecast ever by STAR network.They are putting lot of advertisements instead of showing match.Some commentators also pathetic.
   

• Last but not least """BAN ODIs"""
  

A review of champoins trophy!!

Its already six matches over,but still just one team is eliminated from the Cup and that is WEST INDIES.

Now lets discuss about Group B.The ICC started with a miracle where lankans enjoyed a victory over south Africans.Before the tournament all we telling that South Africans are main favorites.But after first match they started telling that Lanka is favorite team for cup. England,who lost the recent one day series by a worst scoreline of 6-1 to Aussies,opened their account beating Sri lanka,this result really stunned the cricket world.On the on the hand ,south Africa also won their second encounter against Black Caps.So in that group practically all the four teams has chance to go to next round.It will be mostly decided today,which team will be eliminated.I want Proteas and sri lanka to get qualified for next round, so that we can have a nice week.

Its in now Group A more confusion exists.Even though West Indies played a nice cricket in their two matches,there were no real upsets.But the thing is that Pakistan won two matches but still practically they have not got in to next round.As Both India and Australia has two matches on their hands and if INDIA wins against Australia and Windies then India will finish with four points.If australia wins against pakistan and loose against indians then,they also will end in four points.So,margin of victory is so important in this group A. only if Pakis loose to assies in a big margin ,their Net-Run-Rate will not be worst. So Pakis will have better chance of qualifying into next round. This is one scenario.There are many scenarios.

So,we could expect a nice,thrilling,entertaining and mainly not boring ICC CHAMPIONS TROPHY 2009...

Comparision of Windows and Ubuntu

This is world of the windows.My CROw SOFT has made like that.Starting from Windows 95 to upcoming Windows Seven,its nearly 15 years that they are world leaders.Even i like using their XP,which should be called as best release of MICROSOFT till now.But it was 2008 May(i think),i just came to know about Linux versions.i was thinking that even LINUX OS is not free till that time.When i was browsing some site ,i came to know it is open source.So i searched for many LINUX versions.By that time only i came to know about UBUNTU.I visited their site and came to know that we can either download their Versions or we can request for a LIVE CD of UBUNTU for free.

After less than 5 weeks, i received a post which had UBUBTU LIVE CD freely.I was shocked that they gave a free version.


ADVANTAGES of UBUNTU over WINDOWS

• UBUNBTU is open source where as we have to either buy or we to have ti install it by pirated CD
• UBUNTU is free of virus.So no need of worrying of virus or spyware or malware.Its registry is strongly protected
• AS no anti-virus needed,we can have full performance of our system
• UBUNBTU also provides Open Office which is also free ware.Even for windows, we can use it,but no body tries it.
• UBUNBTU has nice graphics ,which is copied by VISTA.
  
• For using internet,UBUNBTU is better than 98,XP(i am familier using only these two versions)

Some of the disadvantages which some argue are as follows

• A basic version wont even play a mp3 ,for doing it so we need an internet connection(some says this is biggest draw back but they have to know that even XP need drivers to play anything)
  
• We cannot run executable file initially but after downloading a software called WINE we can run mostly all files
• But it wont be able to run a game which has nice and extreme graphics.

Hence in my opinion windows need to improve in many aspects to overcome the advantages that ubuntu has.

Is Champions trophy need of the hour???

With some matches already over,there is discussion that "50 over cricket is needed or should shortened".
I am going to give a small opinion of mine.
I have different opinions. some of mine are listed below

1. If ICC thinks that Test is mother of cricket,then to protect the same why can't they abolish one day cricket.
2. ICC can shorten the game to 40 over cricket as practiced in England county.
3. ICC can follow what Mr.Records(none other than SACHIN TENDULKAR) said .just separate innings after playing 25 overs.so that we could have ODIs in tests format.
4. But in the above concept there is a big thing that has to be considered,that is time.say for example,If one team plays 25 overs,then there will be a break. Imagine a Break of 10(its needed as the opening batsman has to get ready) minutes here,then when other team finishes 25 overs. They need 40 minutes of break.So totally there might be 60 minutes of break, if there is no hindrances.So it might take 8 hours of a day instead of 7 hours.So i think there can be 40 overs match. In which one team plays 20 overs and the next team plays their twenty overs.Just to add interesting to ODIs, ICC can do like this.

There is one point which must be followed by ICC.They have to tell each board that pitch must be a balanced one.So that the match does not become bore.we need a similar pitches that we see in South Africa. We don't need pitches like in ASIA(exclude Lanka).Sri lanka is the only country in this part of the world(ASIA) which produces results in most test matches