Brazil vs China Football match in Olympics 2008

Brazil vs China Football match in Olympics 2008

Ronaldinho is for Brazil and Brazil is in Olympics 2008. Olympics 2008 is in China now. The most popular football/Soccer teams in the world, Brazil, which has secured two victories against Belgium and New Zealand. They have to face with the host China on Wed Aug 13 at the local time 19:45. Brazil beat New Zealand by 5-0 and Belgium 1-0. He is leading the Brazil Team for Olympics 2008 as a Captain. Although he was some inactive during the match against Belgium but was totally confidence against New Zealand and secured 2 goal himself.

His fitness levels should also be improving after being on the field for the full 90 minutes against Belgium and the Kiwis. His fitness -- or lack of it -- had concerned FC Barcelona last season. Although he was sidelined for long spells with injuries, there was speculation that he was out late at night clubs too often and that was affecting his condition.

Ronaldinho was in rest for his injury but now he has come round and giving full efforts for his team in the ongoing Olympics 2008. Not only his team but also his club is happy for his returns.

There is not doubt that China is not a strong football/soccer team in the world. It could be easy for Brazil to beat.

Sri Lanka Squad for ODI series and ICC Champions Trophy 2008

Sri Lanka is one of most favorite teams in the subcontinent. They are the champion of Asia now. During the battle of Asian Cricket tournament they beat India with some magic of spinners. Ajantha Mendis was the hero of the tournament. India is in Sri Lanka now to play a three Test and Five ODIs. It is almost sure that Sri Lanka will be the winner of the Test series because the third and last test is on the favor on Sri Lanka. India is batting and securing 161 runs by losing 5 important wickets.

Sri Lankans are being inspiring to take the lead of the Test series also the next ODI series after the Test mach. The ODI series will be taken place on 18 August.

Sri Lanka is aiming to the lead in ODI series and that is why they have declared the squad. They also declared the squad for ICC Champions Trophy 2008 that will be placed in Pakistan. Although the all-rounder Farveez Maharoof and fast bowler Dilhara Fernando has been decorated their name in the announced squad for ICC Champions Trophy 2008 and ODI series alongside India but Kaushal Weeraratne will be placed in stead of Farveez Maharoof in the home ODI series along with India.

Squad for series vs India: Mahela Jayawardene (captain), Sanath Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara, Chamara Kapugedera, Chamara Silva, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chaminda Vaas, Kaushal Weeraratne, Thilan Thushara, Nuwan Kulasekera, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis, Mahela Udawatte, Dilhara Fernando.

Squad for Champions Trophy: Mahela Jayawardene (captain), Sanath Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara, Chamara Kapugedera, Chamara Silva, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chaminda Vaas, Farveez Maharoof, Thilan Thushara, Nuwan Kulasekera, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis, Mahela Udawatte, Dilhara Fernando, Jehan Mubarak.

Time schedule and Fixture of ICC Champions Trophy 2008

ICC Champions Trophy 2008 will be grounded on September in Pakistan. The three play ground has been selected as a venue of the second popular international nation Cricket tournament in the cricket world and that inaugurated first and the hosted country was Bangladesh. Now tenth year is running now and it was held after two years. First two tournaments it was knockout and the last three was robin rounded and this 6th tournament will be similar way. The next host country has been selected West Indies.
The first match will be held between the host country of 2008 Pakistan and the next 2010 host country West Indies at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. In the robin round match the team will be taken part by dividing two groups.

Fixture of ICC Champions Trophy 2008:

ICC Champions Trophy 2008 ( One Day International )
11 Sep 2008 Pakistan vs West Indies
1st Match Group A, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
12 Sep 2008 New Zealand vs Sri Lanka
2nd Match Group B, National Stadium, Karachi
13 Sep 2008 Australia vs India
3rd Match Group A, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
14 Sep 2008 England vs Sri Lanka
4th Match Group B, National Stadium, Karachi
15 Sep 2008 South Africa vs New Zealand
5th Match Group B, Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
16 Sep 2008 West Indies vs India
6th Match Group A, National Stadium, Karachi
17 Sep 2008 Pakistan vs Australia
7th Match Group A, Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
18 Sep 2008 South Africa vs Sri Lanka
8th Match Group B, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
19 Sep 2008 England vs New Zealand
9th Match Group B, Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
20 Sep 2008 Pakistan vs India
10th Match Group A, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
21 Sep 2008 Australia vs West Indies
11th Match Group A, National Stadium, Karachi
21 Sep 2008 England vs South Africa
12th Match Group B, Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
24 Sep 2008 TBC vs TBC
1st Semi Final, National Stadium, Karachi
25 Sep 2008 TBC vs TBC
2nd Semi Final, Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
28 Sep 2008 TBC vs TBC
Final Match, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
This is one of the prestigious tournaments of international Cricket Era. According to the timetable all the match are day-night and 50-50 formatted. Here is a complete fixture of the ICC Champions Trophy 2008.

India vs Sri Lanka 2nd Test: Batting and V Sehwag’s century

India started very well in the first innings of second Test in Galle. At the end of the day they scored total 214 runs by losing four wickets. With the opening batsmen G Gambhir and V Sehwag’s skillful batting sent India to 151 runs without losing wicket. Due to rain and wet gourd the match stared again after long time gap and India lost their valuable four wickets in as short time at the end of the day. This is very crucial stars for Sri Lanka. They all leave the field with full of confidence.

I have quote these lines form southasiafair.com where the writer praise V Sehwag so much for his century and leading the Indian team in the rainy day of Test Cricket history. In the opening partnership with Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag added 167 runs which made the ground of Indian innings. Though the later batsmen could not carry on winning momentum thanks to a short collapse in the middle order which saw four Indian batsmen going back to the pavilion within 11 runs, Virender Sehwag still remains at the crease as a constant threat for the Sri Lankan bowlers. He is the only hope for Indian team now.

It seems that India is following the last day of the first Test match when India was beat seriously at the SSC Play Ground. But the only century holders of Indian team and most dependable batsman V Sehwag is still unbeaten VVS Luxman is assist and also will come to the field tomorrow. So enjoy the match between India vs Sri Lanka match form Galle Stadium, Sri Lanka.

Which TV Channel acquired the 2012 Olympics telecast rights

The most popular sub-continent Sports Television Channel ESPN STAR Sports, always serves for the spots fans of this area. This time it has secured the telecast right of Olympic Games 2012 that will be held in London and 2010 Winter Games Vancouver.

The network will telecast the London Olympic Games in 22 countries across the Indian subcontinent and South East Asia.
It will provide over 200 hours of coverage for the London Games and over 60 hours of coverage for the Winter Games.
In addition, ESPN STAR Sports will broadcast Olympic golden moments from over 30,000 hours of Olympic Games archives.

ESPN STAR Sports is the pay channel for Asia and the channel, the International Olympic Committee allowed telecasting the Olympic Game live. Asia TV viewers could have enjoyed the Games and FIFA World Cup and 2009 Confederations Cup at that time.

Sri Lankan squad for the First Test with new but reliable players

Sri Lanka selection board has declared their squad for 1st Test alongside India in a good combination. Beside six batsmen it also announced four bowlers the total number of 14 members. We cannot see the mane of all-time best player Sanath Jayasuriya in the Test Squad because of his retirement form Test matches. The name that is coming in media with a bold and big word is Ajantha Mendis whose magic movement beat India in the Asia Cup Final.

Squad for first Test: Michael Vandort, Malinda Warnapura, Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene (capt), Thilan Samaraweera, Chamara Silva, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Prasanna Jayawardene (wk), Chaminda Vaas, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis, Thilan Thushara, Nuwan Kulasekara, Chamara Kapugedera

Rahul Dravid, the ex-captain of Indian Cricket team, thinks that India should take all the Sri Lankan players in great observation because not only Ajantha Mendis but also others blowers are not less aggressive for Indian batsmen.

Although there are some new face in the host Sri Lankan declared 14 members team but have a big confidence, similar for the bowlers. I have quoted the lines of positive side of them.

While batsmen Michael Vandort, Malinda Warnapura, Thilan Samaraweera and wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene have sealed their spots, there could be a tussle for the No.6 slot between Chamara Silva and Tillakaratne Dilshan. Silva was impressive in the tour game, compiling half-centuries in both innings. Chamara Kapugedera, another middle-order batsman, makes a comeback to the Test squad after an impressive last few months with the one-day team.

India still does not declare the name of the men who will go to the SSC ground for the first Test against Sri Lanka in the 2008 season. We all saw some of the players who suppose to be out of the squad. I think after few hours we all could know the name of the players in the declared squad.

Test series of Sri Lanka and India live and detail analysis

The first Test of Sri Lanka vs. India will be held on 23 July, 2008 at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo in Sri Lanka. One of the strongest team of the sub-continent Sri Lanka, last visited India to play a three matches Test series when India was hosted and won the series by 2-0. On the other hand Sri Lanka has a good winning statistics in the last three Test series where South Africa, Bangladesh and England were the opposition teams. It was 2005/06 season when they visited India and lost the series. The important thing is that the winning rate of the both teams, India is in the steps a head.

Timetables and schedules of the three Test matches:

The first Test will be commenced on 23 July just after one day. According to the Local time it is half an hour first that IST. At 10:00AM of local time the first test venue will be full of thousand of cricket fans of both teams at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground.

The second Test of the forthcoming series will be grounded on 31 Jul 2008 at Galle International Stadium, the popular play ground of Sri Lanka. Similarly, the match will be held on 10:00AM and according to GMT it will be 05:00AM.

With the third and final Test match the Test series will come to end with the match of R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo.

Winning statistics of the two teams:

This is the 10^th stage, where Sri Lanka and India is going to play their Test series and the 5^th stage form 1982/83 season, when India is visiting Sri Lanka. India fist visited Sri Lanka in 1985 and played three matches. Sri Lanka secured the series victory of 1-0 and the time in 2001 Sri Lanka got victory by 2-1 of three. On the other hands India also got two victories and one series came drawn. So it is clear that Sri Lanka a real lion in it home gourd. The important thing is that it is ST Jayasuriya who secured 340 run and achieved record and the total runs was 952. Most probably, it was the highest run in an innings. After 10 years Sri Lanka and ST Jayasuriya is coming to face each other.

The forthcoming Test series named as Idea Cup cricket series. Idea is one the Cellular company of India, secured the title sponsorship. Aditya Birla Group, the owner of Idea Cellular, has got the sponsorship first time. That is why they are proud of. According to the Idea Cellular MD Sanjeev Aga, “Idea as a part of the Aditya Birla Group recognises that cricket is almost a religion in our country. This is the first time that Idea Cellular and Ten Sports are associating on a cricket based property and we believe that this will add tremendous brand value and saliency. We hope that Idea subscribers and Ten Sports viewers will have an entertaining experience watching the Idea Cup."

Telecast Right holders Ten Sports and Zee Sports:

Dubai-based Taj Television that is also the 50% owners of Zee Group and also owners of popular satellite sport channel for the Asia Ten Sport, will show the three Test matches between Sri Lanka and India. Ten Sports will telecast the matches with English Commentary, and Tony Greig, Ian Bishop, Ranjith Fernando and Arun Lal declared in the commentary control panel. Beside the English commentary Zee Sports will telecast the test series live with Hindi commentary.

Beside this electronic media, digital media-internet media also telecast the Idea Cup Test series live in various way, such as text commentary, ball by ball, full and short scoreboard with flash and texts. 3D animation and Video streaming has got popularity in the for the high speed internet service. IP TV or Internet live TV will show the matches live too.

So enjoy the series between Sri Lanka and India in your preferable media. India is full of aggressive movement so that they must have beaten the host team as revenge of Asia Cup.

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