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2011-02-02T08:04:00.000-08:00

INDIAN TEAM

2011-01-29T22:24:00.000-08:00

Indian squad for the 2011 World cup is

The 15-member team is:

MS Dhoni (C)
Sachin Tendulkar
Virender Sehwag
Gautam Gambhir
Yuvraj Singh
Suresh Raina
Virat Kohli
Yusuf Pathan (all-rounder)
Zaheer Khan
Ashish Nehra
Munaf Patel
Praveen Kumar
Harbhajan Singh
R. Ashwin
Piyush Chawla

They might play with 5 batsman, 1 WK, 1 BIG hitter and 4 bowlers.

The batsman in the team will be as follows

· Sachin

· Sehwag

· Gambhir

· Kohli

· Raina

To be honest this must be top five. YUVRAJ doesn’t deserve to be in top 5. He can fight his place with Yusuf. The next two Batsman may be

· MSD

· Pathan/Yuvraj

Yuvraj can’t fight with neither of Kohli and raina. As they are the best in asian pitches. So he can have a place fight with Yusuf. Its time to earn a place in INDIAN team rather than getting a place in name of credits

The Bowlers may be picked as below

· Harbhajan

· Zaheer

· Praveen Kumar

· Nehra

As there is a batting power play, any team won’t go with more spinners , unless the pitch looks terrible slow which is unlikely to happen in this world cup. Also playing Munaf in eleven will cost INDIA the match. If Harbhajan fails or picks injury then India will play with ASHWIN. I want to see Ashwin playing in any one match , as he deserve to be in WC.

India is sure favorites to reach last four. That will be cake-walk. But from then on winning two matches to take cup will be difficult

First World Cup of the decade

2011-01-29T21:57:00.000-08:00

To my Knowledge, I can now remember 4 Cricket WC’s (1996, 99, 03, 07), as I started to see cricket from those days. Of those 1996 World cup produced the best one. How many could forget the semi-finals of the 1996 WC between Australia and West Indies. In the last 5 Wc’s , an Asian team has managed to enter to the finals. As far as records are concerned 92 World Cup has been most un-predictive world cup as Pakistan clinched from no-where. Thanks to Wasim bhai and Imran Khan for their performances in the finals.

As far as 2011 world-cup is concerned, it may not be as difficult for non-Asian countries to dominate unlike previous venture. After IPL’s , playing in Indian sub-continent pitches has become easy for non- Asian teams. So this may be no favorites filled World cup . Also the present form of the OZ suggests that their chances are little less compared to their previous attempts.

To be honest , this is going out to be batsman friendly WC. Some of the things that has to be worked out are

· There is a mandatory ball change in 35^th over , which will make reverse swing out of equation

· *The flattest INDIAN wickets ever

· *Lack of quality Fast bowlers

· *3^rd BATTING PP

As there are some matches even in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, its going out to be a fun filled WC . Every team irrespective of form has selected 2 or more spinners. For instance South Africa has selected Imran Tahir , in their squad who has an incredible domestic record , but is uncapped player .

There can be most number of 300 + scores in this World cup. As time nearing ,we can expect a run rain soon J

BOSS ENGIRA BASKARAN review-NANBENDA

2010-09-22T07:04:00.000-07:00

If SMS made youths to laugh,BEB makes every body to cry because of its tracks. Director Rajesh has delivered even his second movie as a comedy entertainer.He has used the best way of story narration in Boss Engira Baskaran (Humor).The highlight of the movie is the director's humorous way of narration. The crowd is kept entertained continuously by the dialogues of Santhanam. Arya himself, has done a great job with Santhanam. Their combination has worked out well for the movie. Boss Engira Baskaran contains single line quotes and dialogues from Santhanam which will definitely be a part of regular mocking conversations among friends and colleagues. The dialogues and timing are excellent which makes us enjoy the movie.
Yuvan Shankar Raja as usual has done a great job with his music. The music complements the movie sensibly. But cinematography of each song is not as good as film and comedy. Nanbenda wordings comes atleast 6 or 7 times but in any situation it doesn't bore us.

BEB is such a nice comedy perfect family entertainer

Team for australian series

2010-09-21T07:19:00.000-07:00

What made selectors to take zaheer khan in upcoming austrailian series. Even in CLT20 he didn't live up to his expectTions. He still need some rest to be part of a test squad.

Dhoni's eleven for the series is as follows
Sehwag
Gambhir
Dravid
TendulkAr
Laxman
RainA
Dhoni
Mishra
Ojha
Ishanth
Zaheer( as selectors picked him he is in the eleven)

The only worry in this might be pujara. I don't understand the reason behind the selection of him in this time where he won't find a place in the teAm. They should have pLayed him in the recent Bangladesh test match. Now imagine if he plays against Aussies then who knows it might be end of cArrier.

I don't understand why bhajji is Being picked. He was dropped from last series against Lanka but now picked in the squad with out doing any thing in domestic or in CLT20.

If veeru gets going what is there in the match except him!

Last but not least , Common wealth games from october, so is this series really need at this time? BCCI should think of it and act in future

Bushrangers - My pick

2010-09-21T06:59:00.000-07:00

Bush rangers started this CLT20 edition poorly but they once again proved why they are champion in Australia in their match against wayamba. eventhough it's not certain whether they will go to semis they have won 3 out of 4 mAtches ,where one has to feel sorry if they are not in semis.
In this match bush rangers proved why they are such a unit when fielding depArtment is taken into consideration. The runout which got the wicket udAwTte is athletic and energetic. This McKay is such a guy who pull out Miracles. I remember his slow delivery which took tendulkAr when he was 175 in that ODI where australians managed to pull of victory in whisker.
But still I feel there is some one who is completely missing in this line-up. That is none other than the giant Cameroon white . By the way he plays no player can be such an asset to Australian team. Many thinks he is over-hyped . But frankly speaking he doesn't fit in royal challengers line-up as he fit in Bush rangers.

Things that worry alot
*)if superkings win against warriors then most probably victorians are out
*)if superkings looses match then most probably there might be match between two aussise team yet again this year which can be bad for them

But still i support victoria bushrangers

Sparkling things ICC champions trophy$$

2009-09-28T20:36:00.001-07:00

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

Even in a green and grassy pitch fast bowlers failed to get momentum
Spinners including Bhajji failed to get wickets in a spinning wicket
Boring one day cricket
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.
An unnecessary debate over strauss decisions on Mathews and smith.He acted differently in these two occasions
CROWD really disappointed CRICKET
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!!

2009-09-26T20:37:00.001-07:00

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

2009-09-26T02:36:00.000-07:00

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???

2009-09-25T04:20:00.000-07:00

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

If ICC thinks that Test is mother of cricket,then to protect the same why can't they abolish one day cricket.
ICC can shorten the game to 40 over cricket as practiced in England county.
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.
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