New Zealand rolled over by Afridi

Abu Dhabi: Shahid Afridi shone with bat and ball to steer Pakistan to an emphatic 138-run victory against New Zealand in the first One-day International in Abu Dhabi for a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.

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Afridi smashed 70 off 50 balls and then claimed two wickets.

Electing to bat first, Pakistan recovered from an awful start to pile up 287 for nine in their stipulated fifty overs.

At one stage Pakistan were in trouble at 75/4, But Latif (64) and Afridi added 101 for the fifth wicket and resurrected the Pak innings.

Later, Kamran Akmal chipped in with an unbeaten 67, including four sixes, to lead Pakistan to an imposing total.

In reply, New Zealand lost wickets at regular intervals and were bowled out for 149 in 39.2 overs. The only resistance came from Aaron Redmond (52) and Daniel Vettori (38). New Zealand lost their last five wickets for just 10 runs within five overs.

The second game in the three-match series is also in Abu Dhabi on Friday.

The three-match ODI series was relocated to Abu Dhabi after New Zealand refused to tour Pakistan over security fears.


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Zaheer sparkles on comeback

Zaheer Khan was the cynosure of all eyes at the Sector 16 Cricket Stadium here on Tuesday.

Considering the man was making a comeback after a prolonged shoulder injury, his performance was the highlight of the day. At stumps his figures read 3 for 45, proving that he was not only fit but in fine form.

He along with fellow pacer Ajit Agarkar (4 for 41) helped Mumbai keep Punjab down to 242 for 9 on the first day.

Punjab skipper Ankur Kakkar won the toss and elected to bat on a good batting surface. Asked to bowl on a flat track, the visiting bowlers stuck to the task and kept Punjab batsmen under check right throughout the day.

On a day, which was dominated by the Mumbai bowlers, Ravi Inder Singh's knock of 104 (17x4; 1x6) was the only saving grace for Punjab.

Earlier, the hosts were pegged down when the Zaheer Khan got rid of opener Sunny Sohal with scoreboard reading just 12 runs. Sohal was caught behind by Vinayak Samant for two runs.

The next man, Uday Kaul, along with Ravi Inder Singh put up 68 runs for the second wicket, highest of the innings, before the former was sent packing by Agarkar on 28 runs.

Taruwar Kohli failed to make any impression. He fell victim to Zaheer.

Having tasted success, Zaheer started breathing fire and got rid of Pankaj Dharmani, who scored just 9 runs, and left the home team reeling at 120 for 4 in 41.6 overs. Agarkar bowled with purpose. The seasoned bowler trapped Punjab skipper Ankur Kakkar in front of the wicket. Batting well with the lower order he completed his well-deserved century with a fine boundary on the off side.

ICC Cricket World CUP -2011

The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the tenth Cricket World Cup, and will be hosted by three South Asian Test cricket playing countries; India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It will be Bangladesh's first time co-hosting a Cricket World Cup. The World Cup will use cricket's One Day International format, with fourteen national cricket teams scheduled to compete. The World Cup will take place during the months of February and March 2011, with the first match being played on 19 February 2011.

The World Cup was originally to have been hosted by Pakistan as well, but in the wake of the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team in Lahore, the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab, the International Cricket Council (ICC) were forced to strip Pakistan of its hosting rights. The headquarters of the organising committee were originally situated in Lahore, but have now been shifted to Mumbai. Pakistan was supposed to hold 14 matches, including one semi-final.

French Title won by Federer

Roger Federer swept past Swede Robin Soderling 6-1 7-6 6-4 to clinch his first French Open title on Sunday and complete the full set of grand slam crowns. The Swiss equalled Pete Sampras's record of 14 grand slams, becoming only the sixth man to win all four major tournaments after sealing victory in just under two hours. "It was really not easy to deal with my emotions," said the 27-year-old Federer, who lost to world number one Rafael Nadal in the three previous finals.

"It might be the greatest victory of my career." The 23rd-seeded Soderling had ended Nadal's four-year reign on the Paris clay in the fourth round. "To me, he is the best player in history," the Swede said. Federer, the second man after Andre Agassi to win all four grand slam titles on all surfaces, started the match confidently by racing into a 4-0 lead. Soderling held serve for 4-1 but Federer, who had never lost to Soderling in nine previous matches, kept up the pressure and clinched the first set on the Swede's serve with a crosscourt passing shot. BRIEFLY INTERRUPTED The match was briefly interrupted after a man came on to Centre Court with a red and blue flag during the fourth game of the second set.

He jumped from the stand opposite the media box and approached Federer, touching him with the flag and trying to put a hat on his head. Leaping over the net towards Soderling, the man was tackled by Roland Garros security officers and carried away from the court.

Federer lost three points in a row after the incident as Soderling levelled for 2-2. "It was clear that he was not going to do anything to me, but what is 'normally' nowadays?," Federer told French TV channel France 2. "It is difficult to stay calm in such conditions.

Maybe I should have taken a two-minute break after that game." Both players held serve to a tiebreak which Federer cruised through 7-1 after serving four aces. The Swiss broke in the first game of the third set when his opponent sent a forehand wide and he never found a solution to turn the situation around.

England beat Pakistan

England stayed afloat in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament after humbling Pakistan by 48 runs in their must-win Group B match at the Oval in London on Sunday.

Going into the match, England's chances of making the super-eight stage hung by a thread following the humiliating defeat to the Netherlands in their opening match on Friday. But, facing early elimination from the home event, their top-order responded magnificently as they posted a challenging 185 for 5 after being sent in to bat.
Kevin Pietersenmade a timely return to the side and scored a masterly 58. He was well-supported by man of the match Luke Wright (34) and Owais Shah
England then restricted Pakistan to 137 for 7 in their 20 overs.

Though skipper Younus Khan held one end up with a defiant unbeaten 46, Pakistan failed to recover from a top-order collapse.

Stuart Broad (3 for 17) caused the early damage by dismissing Kamran Akmal (6) and Salman Butt (28) with consecutive deliveries in the sixth over after Dimitri Mascarenhas had got rid off Ahmad Shahzad (4).

Younus and Shoaib Malik (20) offered resistance and revived the innings with a 46-run partnership, but the required run-rate soared over 12 runs per over.
And once Malik was caught behind off Wright, Younus was left stranded as his teammates came and departed in a hurry.

Earlier, Pietersen and Wright shared a 53-run stand for the second wicket to set the tone for England's innings with a 16-ball 34.

Pietersen also added 66 for the third wicket with Owais Shah (33) after Pakistan put England in to bat.

At one stage the hosts were heading towards a 200-plus score but Saeed Ajmal's double strike the 17th over pegged them back.

INDIA win First Match against Bangladesh

With two upsets already witnessed in the tournament, defending champions India ensured they were not caught off-guard as they came up with a thumping 25-run victory over Bangladesh in the ICC World Twenty20 [Images], in Nottingham, on Saturday.

Bangladesh's hopes of repeating their 2007 50-over World Cup upset failed as they could put up only 155 for eight in reply to India's massive 180 for five.

Pragyan Ojha vindicated Mahendra Singh Dhoni's decision to play two spinners as he finished with magnificent figures of four for 21 in his four overs. He was deservedly named man of the match.

For Bangladesh, opener Junaid Siddique smashed a quick 41 from 22 deliveries, but the rest of the batsmen failed to deliver.

Earlier, Gautam Gambhir played the sheet anchor role to perfection with a solid half-century, while Yuvraj Singh [Images] provided the finishing touches to the innings with some powerful strokes in the final overs, as India posted a healthy total.

Gambhir hit a steady 50 from 46 deliveries to provide solid platform, before Yuvraj stole the thunder on an otherwise gloomy day with a blazing knock of 41 from just 18 deliveries, inclusive of three boundaries and four sixes.

In the day's other matches earlier, New Zealand beat Scotland by seven wickets while the West Indies won by as many against Australia .

T20 World Cup teams 2009

AUSTRALIA

Australia’s 15-men squad for ICC World Twenty20 2009 in England:
Ricky Ponting (captain), Michael Clarke (vice captian), Nathan Bracken, Brad Haddin (wk), Nathan Hauritz, Ben Hilfenhaus, James Hopes, David Hussey, Michael Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, Peter Siddle, Andrew Symonds, David Warner, Shane Watson.


SOUTH AFRICA

SOUTH AFRICA'S 15-men squad for ICC World Twenty20 2009 in England:
Squad: Graeme Smith (c), Herschelle Gibbs, Johan Botha (vc), AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher (wk), Albie Morkel, Morne Morkel, Justin Ontong, Wayne Parnell, Robbie Peterson, Dale Steyn, Yusuf Abdulla, Roelof van der Merwe.


INDIA
INDIA'S 15-men squad for ICC World Twenty20 2009 in England:

Mahendra Singh Dhoni(c), Virender Sehwag(VC), Gautam Gambhir , Suresh Raina , Yuvraj Singh , Yusuf Pathan , Rohit Sharma , Harbhajan Singh , Zaheer Khan , Ishant Sharma , Praveen Kumar, RP Singh, Ravindra Jadeja , Pragyan Ojha and Irfan Pathan.


SRILANKA

SRILANKA'S 15-men squad for ICC World Twenty20 2009 in England:

Kumar Sangakkara (C), Muttiah Muralitharan, Sanath Jayasuriya, Tillekaratne Dilshan, Mahela Jayewardene, Chamara Silva, Angelo Mathews, Ajantha Mendis, Thilan Thushara, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Isuru Udana, Farveez Maharoof, Jehan Mubarak, Indika de Saram.



ENGLAND
ENGLAND'S 15-men squad for ICC World Twenty20 2009 in England:

Paul Collingwood (C), Ravi Bopara, Stuart Broad, Adil Rashid, James Kirtley, Darren Maddy, Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior (wk), Chris Schofield, Owais Shah, Ryan Sidebottom, Jeremy Snape, Vikram Solanki, Chris Tremlett, Luke Wright.



PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN'S 15-men squad for ICC World Twenty20 2009 in England:
Younis Khan (), Misbah-ul-haq, Kamran Akmal (wk), Shoaib Mallik, Shahid Afridi, Salman Butt, Ahmed Shehzad, Sohail Tanvir, Yasir Arafat, Umar Gul, Iftikar Anzum, Fawad Alam, Mohammad Aamir, Shahzaib Hasan, Saeed Ajmal.


WEST INDIES

WEST INDIES 15-men squad for ICC World Twenty20 2009 in England:
Chris Gayle (c), Denesh Ramdin (wk), Lionel Baker, Sulieman Benn, David Bernard jnr., Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Fidel Edwards, Andre Fletcher, Xavier Marshall, Kieron Pollard, Darren Sammy, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Lendl Simmons, Jerome Taylor.

NEW ZEALAND

NEW ZEALAND'S 15-men squad for ICC World Twenty20 2009 in England:
Daniel Vettori (c), Brendon McCullum (vc & wk), Peter McGlashan (wk), Neil Broom, Martin Guptill, Jacob Oram, Ross Taylor, Jesse Ryder, Ian Butler, Brendon Diamanti, James Franklin, Scott Styris, Nathan McCullum, Kyle Mills, Iain O’Brien.

BANGLADESH

BANGLADESH 15-men squad for ICC World Twenty20 2009 in England:
Mohammad Ashraful (c), Mashrafe Mortaza (vc), Junaid Siddique, Tamim Iqbal, Shamsur Rahman, Raqibul Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Naeem Islam, Mahmudullah, Abdur Razzak, Shahadat Hossain, Syed Rasel, Rubel Hossain and Mithun Ali (wk).

IRELAND


IRELAND'S 15-men squad for ICC World Twenty20 2009 in England:

William Porterfield (c),Andre Botha, Jeremy Bray, Peter Connell, Alex Cusack, Trent Johnston, Kyle McCallan, John Mooney, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Regan West, Andrew White, Gary Wilson (wk)


SCOTLAND

SCOTLAND15-men squad for ICC World Twenty20 2009 in England:

Gavin Hamilton (c),Ryan Watson,Kyle Coetzer,Navdeep Poonia,Neil McCallum,Colin Smith,Craig Wright,Jan Stander,John Blain,Dewald Nel,Glenn Rogers,Richard Berrington,Gordon Drummond,Majid Haq,
Fraser Watts.


NETHERLANDS

NETHERLAND'S 15-men squad for ICC World Twenty20 2009 in England:

Jeroen Smits (captian & wk), Peter Borren, Mudassar Buhkari, Tom De Grooth, Maurits Jonkman, Alexei Kervezee, Dirk Nannes, Ruud Nijman, darren Reekers, Edgar Schiferli, Pieter Seelaar, Eric Szwarczynski, Ryan ten Doeschate, Dan van Bunge, Bas Zuiderent.
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INDIA Grab the series

India won the match & series as well with the dashing openers Gambhir & Sehwag had made outstanding performance in the IV ODI series Both players are in not out stage while finishing up the match Sehwag made 125 runs from 76 Balls while Ghambir made 62 runs from 67 balls it was a fantastic series victory for INDIA.T20 matches won by New Zealand and ODI series win by INDIA as one match left because of rain

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Top most TV Networks are ABC, NBC CBS, PBS, TBSUSA, CNN, TNT, NDTV, BBC & Lifetime.

Team India is ready for the next Match

After winning two ODIS against New zeland .Dashing bats man Sachin has to sit out due to injury on abdomen muscle even though in his absence other players has to prove themselves as well .Yuvraj,Dhoni and Sehwag had proved their team work for defeating New zealand Team.Even though the upcoming match against New zealand might be good compared to the previous matches played .It was the touch time for the New Zealand time to play with INDIAN'S even though they chased previous target 393 they just lost the match around 56 runs .Now it was the time time to pr0ve themselves for grab up at least 1 math win.INDIA has more chances to grab up the series compared to New Zealand.

All About World Bank

Developed countries even faces loss of jobs especially USA ,UK many more countries even government had made many packages to boost up the economic crises still the economic condition is unstable.people are limiting their expenditure's as well.Even world bank also stops giving loans to Industries Especially for Software Industries and Manufacturing Industries as well.we cant expect when this crises will be going to halt..

Lankan Player's injured in Lahore

Six Cricketers of Sri Lankan on Tuesday on their way to Stadium.In the History of Sports it had happen ever before any where .Five of the Body Guards Killed and 6 Lankan Players are Wounded when this incident was happen Pakistani players are in Hotel .As per the reports Dozen terrorist's had bashed with Gun .

According to the reports at first Pak Cricket Board accept invitation from INDIA fro playing cricket at their premisis but unfortunately INDIA rejects their propsal to play in Pak due to Security reasons.After that Lankan accepted to play cricket in PAK.

But this incident makes World Cricket for Security Issues .

Team INDIA New Dress Code

Team INDIA new Dress code launches on 18 Feb 2009on their tour to New Zealand a head .Performance will be considering for each and every player's .Team Entering with full of hope and Confident to gram the series as well. Team India will play five one-day matches three Test Matches and two Twenty20 internationals.By taking this into considering the previous tour to New Zealand in 2002 INDIA lost both one-day series and Test matches taking this as consideration Team is going to pretend extraordinary performance in the coming up series as well. After winning one-day series and one Twenty20 match against Srilanka INDIA will be hoping to enter into New Zealand with full Fitness and Confident

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Frenchman Nicholas Anelka said that he and his fellow striker Didier Drogba could have saved Brazilian coach Luis Felipe Scolari's future at Chelsea.Lot of people might be knowing that match of Foot Ball is very crazy and tumbling so as to get one win.Both of the Teams much have a mutual commitment in Winning as early as possible after the match starts .But most of the strikers has lay down their practicing FootBall as such.
Scolari, who was sacked last week, had said that Anelka and Drogba were incompatible when it came to play in tandem during his tenure at Stamford Bridge. But Anelka said that the Brazilian never tried playing both the strikers together.
"A lot of people said we couldn't play together - but we never tried it. In 20 minutes we scored three goals," Anelka was quoted as saying by The Daily Telegraph, after his hat-trick in Chelsea's 3-1 FA Cup win over Watford.
Both Anelka and Drogba played upfront in the match and the Frenchman felt that the combination could change the complexion of any game.

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