John Dyson has been fired from WI Coach

John Dyson was recruited as a West Indies coach in October when he was a responsible coach of Sri Lanka team from 2003-2007. Now, he has been fired from the responsibility of the coaching just before one month ago of the ICC Champions Trophy 2009. The 55-year-old was the former Australian opening batsman and right arm slow-medium bowlers. The cause of the fire would be the recent white-wash to Bangladesh.

Guardian reported:

The side had a Test record of three wins, seven draws and nine defeats during his tenure and a 9-25 win-loss ratio in one-day internationals. West Indies fared better in the 20-over format, reaching the semi-final of the World Twenty20 in June. But perhaps their greatest achievement under Dyson was their 1-0 Test series victory over England last winter, a result that brought them the Wisden Trophy for the first time since 1998.

In his cricket career he has played 30 test matches and 29 one-day internationals but the average was just 26.64 and 32.82. The recent series lose and controversy decision during the visit of England too. During the absent of the head coach the assistant coach David Williams will take the responsibility of the team during the ICC Champions Trophy 2009 that will be held in South Africa from 13 September.

Four new venues and one match added for IPL's third season 2010

IPL third season has been scheduled from March 12 to April 25 in 2010. In this season, the fans of the short formatted Indian club cricket tournament will see some new features that stack in recent meeting. More that five new points have been added here. It will be played 60 matches instead of 59 because of 3^rd and 4^th place that was not held in the previous two seasons. The authority has been selected four new venues.

Cricinfo

Nagpur, Visakhapatnam, Ahmedabad and Dharamsala are the new venues, hosting some games of the Mumbai Indians, Deccan Chargers, Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab, respectively.

Some players who attended in the unauthorized Indian Cricket League will allowed to play on the side of any teams from the next third season. 'Strategic timeout' will be reduced this year which was increased in the second season that was held in South Africa in 2009 and will be two breaks during the match time. Two clubs will be attended in the season four and the matches will be 94 instead of 60 in 2011.

Shahrukh Khan and Katrina Kaif to pair in Yashraj film

King Khan and Katrina Kaif will be coupled in Yashraj’s next film. This is amazing news for Katrina Kaif and Shahrukh Khan’s fans. Because both are famous artist of Bollywood and first time they are going to pair in a film.

Till now, many movies of Katrina Kaif has got huge Box-Office hit. First time Katrina Kaif’s got prize from Maine ‘Pyaar Kyun Kiya’ for her good performance. Later she acted with Aksay Kumar in ‘Namastey London’ that was Katrina Kaif’s super-hit film. Next time Katrina Kaif’s maximum film was hit. Especially all films with Aksay Kumar have got successful. ‘Namastey London’ ‘Partner’ ‘Welcome’ ‘Singh is Kinng’ all films were hit and Kairina Kaif acted with Aksay Kumar in the film. ‘Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya’ Katrina Kaif acted along with Salman Khan from the film Katrina Kaif got Award but next film was ‘Yuvvraaj’ with Salman Khan did not get a good response in Box-Office. Katrina Kaif’s ‘New York’ has been released recently and gross huge earnings.

There was much news in media that Shahkukh Khan does not like Katrina Kaif. As King Khan has a misunderstanding with Kaif so audience could thought that he may not be paired with Katrina Kaif. At this moment we get information that King Khan and Katrina Kaif will appeared as a couple in Yashraj film.

Source: Apunkachoice

Highlights Sri Lanka vs Pakistan: Twenty20 Pakistan Innings

Wining toss Pakistan elected to bat first to dominate Sri Lankan bowlers. Losing one-day and test, the Twenty20 Champions Pakistan takes the match very seriously. Although it lost first wicket in the first ball, other batsmen pulled Pak score in a stable position. Imran Nazir, Shahid Afridi and Umar Akmal revive Pakistan.

Pakistan lost the most potential wicket of Kamran Akmal in the first ball of the innings. Another opening batsman Nazir and Malik adds 35 runs but lost Malik personally 14 runs. Pakistan lost Nazir in 59 but Afridi and Umar pulled become the golden pair for Pak side and in 125 runs Pakistan lost Umar’s wicket. Afridi-Umar made a highest 66 urns partnership in this innings.

Hard-hitter batsman Shahid Afridi personally hits a half-century from 58 balls by sending ball six time out of the boundary rope. As a result Pakistan could reach 172 runs by losing 5 wickets.

So Sri Lanka have to score 173 runs to win the only twenty20 match.

Sri Lanka vs. Pakistan Twenty20 Time and venue

Pakistan cricket team has proved that they are the most powerful team in Twenty20 formatted cricket at this moment. Both the teams Sri Lanka and Pakistan last meet in this short formatted tournament in England, the second season of T20 World Champ. That time Pakistan washed out and achieves the trophy. The visitors already have been lost the Test and One-Day series, now eyes on to win the single Twenty20 tournament. It hopes that the R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo will celebrate the match with full of crowd because it is time to take a hand over visitors of World Twenty20 defeat.

12 Aug 2009 Sri Lanka vs. Pakistan

Only Twenty20 International, R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Live action starts from: 13:30 GMT (19:00 IST)

Sri Lankan consecutive wins in the first three ODI powered and promoted for the series wins but last two was controlled by the visitors. Just before a week of the Tri-Nation Series R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo is going to celebrate 2^nd Twenty20 international. The first T20 match was held between India and Sri Lanka February this year when India visited Sri Lanka instead of visit Pakistan for Mumbai Terrorist attack.

According to GMT the match will be held at 13:30 and the Host time will be 19:30 but the visitors’ local time will be one hour less that the host time. According to Pakistan time the match will be held at 18:30.

Alienware M17x gamming Laptop from Dell is in Indian market

Dell Alienware has brought out the most powerful gaming laptop M17x in Indian market. Its Anodized aluminum looking nice and will find in different color. Alienware’s M17 series M17x notebook has 17-inch display with 1920x1200 resolutions. Its weight is 11.68 pound. It supports 8GB of Ram and 7200 rpm hard disk. But its exact configuration is 4GB of Ram and 250GB Hard disk capacity. It also supports Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M GPUs. Its 9-cell battery could support long time battery life. Its price has begin from Rs 1,39,000.

Details of Alineware’s M17x:

Display: 17-inch

Screen resolution: 1920x1200 pixels

Processor: Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad processors

Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista (64 bit)

Ram: 4GB or 8GB

Hard Drive: 250GB or 7200Rpm

Battery: 9 Cells

Weight: 11.68 pounds

Price: Rs 1,39,000 ($1,799).

Source: Techtree, Iblogger and MSN

India passed the first practices session before Tri-Nation series

After Twenty20 World Championship 2009, India comes to the practice camping from 10 August. Aim is to face the Tri-Nation odi series in Sri Lanka among the host SL, India and New Zealand. The first practice session all teammates did not attend was not full of team mates. The seven men along with Indian skipper MS Dhoni had to face all the in three tests; fitness, mental test and playing condition. But legend batsman Virender Sehwag may not attend in the pre Champions Trophy Practice session for shoulder injury.

It is true that India will get a very good opportunity before champions’ trophy. Indian players will take on two competitors who could be competitors in South Africa on September. Coach Gary Kristen is satisfied of the players’ physical fitness. India took part in the Kit Ply Tri-Nation series in Bangladesh when Indian lost to Pakistan. In 2000 India lost to New Zealand and 2002 India and Sri Lanka became the winner jointly.

Source: Wikipedia, Zeenews