McCullum my miss first match with Kenya

Perhaps, Nathan McCulluam is going to miss the first match of New Zealand with Kanya on Sunday in Chennai. He was hospitalized on Thursday night for high fever and discharged on Saterday morning. Though Mc Cullum is fit to play, Daniel Vettori, the captain won’t take the risk to play him as the match is against a weak team.

Nathan Mc Cullum is a regular player of New Zealand’s ODI team. Most often he plays as the 2nd spinner of the team and managed an economic bowling rare of 4:50 in last twelwe minths. He has also made two half centuries in the recent tournament against Pakistan.

Source: EspnCricinfo

India won the First World Cup 2011 Match

India won the first World Cup match against Bangladesh by 87 runs. Bangladwesh won the toss and chose to field. India made a high score of 370 lossing only 4 wickets and playing full 50 overs Virendar Sehwag did another of his epic innings of 175 out of 140 balls He did a very charming innings with 14 fours and 6 sixs..Virat Kohli made his maiden world cup century.He scored unbitten 100 out of 83. G Gamvir scored 39 out of 39 balls. Its very unfortunate for Sachin Tendulkar that he was made run out after 28 runs from 29 balls. YK Pathan made 8 runs. 

Bangladesh started well but after the gone of Tamim Iqbal with his 70 out of 84 the remaining wickets of the host team did go regularly.Tamim did the highest score. Among the rest Imrul Kayes 34 (29) Junaid Siddique 37 (52),Sakib Al Hasan*55 (50),Musfiqur Rahman 25 (30),Raqibul Hasan not out 29 (28). None of the others crossed single digit. Bangladesh made 283 runs altogether by 9 wickets and plying full 50 overs. Zaheer Khan took 2 wickets, MM Patel 4, Harvajan Singh 1 and YK Pathan took 1 wicket. V Sehwag is the player of the match.

It’s the first match of World Cup Cricket 2011 match. The day night match was held in Mirpur Stadium in Dhaka.

ESPN-Cricinfo Awards announced

ESPN Cricinfo Awards have been announced today in Bangalore Tendulkar, Laxman, Styne, Umar Gul, Michael Husseyande Tim Southee Won the awards. Laxman has been given test batting awards for his 96 in Durban. Styne has been given the bowling prize for he took 7 wicket giving 51 runs against India in Nugpur test in a bad condition. The jury has given Tendulkar one day award for his unbitten double century against Africa. It’s the first and only double century in the one day cricket history. The 10 jury member ranked Tendulkar number 1.Tendulkar also won the same prize last year. Umar Gul won one day award for his 6 wickets against England at the Oval giving 42 runs only.Gul also won last years T20 prize. Tim Southee took five wickets only in 9 balls with a hat-trick.The jury gave him the T20 prize for this outstanding performance. Myke Hussy made a score of 22 runs from only last 4 balls in World T20 and this saved Australia in semi final and took the team to final.

Source: http://www.espncricinfo.com/awards2010/content/current/story/500425.html

Cricket officials are public servants Indian Supreme Court

In a ruling the Indian Supreme Court has upheld the Kerala High Court’s view that the cricket officials of Kerala are public servants. This will create a very far reaching effect on Indian Cricket administration that from now onward anyone can sue against the cricket officials.The Kerala Cricket Association tried to established in the High Court that the Cricket Association is a private body and cannot be tried under The the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, which applies only to public servants.

Justice VS Sirpurkar and TS Thakur comprised the bench. The KCA president, TR Balakrishanan, and secretary, TC Matthew filed the appeal against the Kerala High court. But the Bench rejected the appeal and explained that the Kerala cricket board enjoys monopoly on cricket in the state and so does public function. So the cricket body must be tried under the public law. The BCCI is such a body and KCA is a member of it.  BCCI is consistently trying to hold that it was a private body.

The original case was filed two years ago in a vigilance court in Kerala by Balaji Iyengar who was, a chartered accountant and former Kerala junior cricketer. He sued against KCA. The vigilance court gave the judgment holding that the cricket bodies are private body. Then the complaint went to high court and won the case.  Afterward KCA appealed to Supreme Court.

The complainant, Balaji Iyengar , a chartered accountant and former Kerala junior cricketer, had filed the original complaint against the KCA in the Vigilance Court two years ago. The court ruled in favor of the KCA, saying its officials were not public servants, but Iyengar challenged the ruling in the High Court.

Source: NDTV

Two South African franchises didn’t get CLT20 prize money yet

Two South African franchises didn’t get  CLT20 prize money yet though 4 months have past after completion of the event on September 26, 2010.The Warriors and the Lions who will get US$ 1.5 million as their prize money.

The matter was leaked last Tuesday at the launch of the Standard Bank Pro20, when Alviro Petersen, a Champions League Twenty20 candidate, in answer to a question said that he was still waiting to fill up his wallet with the prize money.

Docrat and Dave Emslie, the two chief executives of the two franchises are not aware of the due payment as they thought the money was paid in time. Tim May, the chairman of the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations' said that CLT20 is jointly owned by the BCCI, CSA and CA and they woe a total amount of 6 million US $. He also said the participation fees also have not been paid though the rule is to pay within 20 days of the completion of the tournament.

May said the FICA has been told to pay in the last of January or in early February. As soon as the money is transferred from India CSA will notify the franchise and the money will be divided among the franchises with the biggest amount to the warriors.

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World Cup Cricket matches in Mumbai Multiplex

Some Multiplex and cinema theatre owners of Mumbai want to display world cup cricket matches. They have started to talk with the ESPN Star Sports (ESS) to obtain rights to show matches. ESPN Star Sports (ESS) is the official telecast rights holder of the World Cup Cricket. ESS has not given any final words to any party and still negotiating with several parties.

Indian Television Wrote:

Said Cinemax CEO Sunil Punjabi, "We have had talks with the rights holder for live screening for the World Cup. There are issues like commercial rights and delivery that are to be sorted out. We are expecting that by the first week of February, this will be sorted out."

Last year many Multiplex displayed IPL matches live. PVR, a leading Multiplex, screened 48 IPL matches last year.

ESPN-Star Sports-NewsX to add Magic Moments of World Cup Cricket

NewsX has come to add to the cricket fever of the cricketer through a program titled ‘World Cup – Magic Moments’ in collaboration with ESPN-Star Sports. This program will produce some of the greatest and most attractive moments of the past nine world cup matches. Magic Moments have been started in one hour episodes from 20th January and continue till 16th February at 7.00 a.m. and 11.00 p.m. As expected, some memorable moments of Indian cricket played in the last world cup tournaments and of course the great triumph of 1983 showing how a rank outsider team won the trophy under Kopil Dev’s magnificent leadership, will be there in the program. The great knocks of the Indian batsmen, bowling feats, happy and disappointing moments will be represented in the episodes concerning India.

The program will cover also some of the most enjoyable clashes between the players and teams as well as the best performance of the superstar and the emerging players, and also the blunders that cost the team a heavy price.


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