ICC Champions Trophy 2009 preview all nations

You already have heard that the 6^th season of ICC Champions Trophy 2009 (Mini World cup) is going to hold in South Africa at two play grounds The Wanderers and Centurion from 22 September 2009 where eight nations will take part as well. Six teams are taking part in the Warm-Up matches and England and Australia is taking parts in Natwest One-day international series. South Africa, West Indies, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and New Zealand already has played a matches each and on 20 September there will another warm-up match when New Zealand v India at Potchefstroom Pakistan v Warriors at Benoni and Sri Lanka v West Indies at Pretoria.

India is considered one of the strongest team at this moment. In the recent tour of Sri Lanka won the Compaq Cup triangular series. And last two New Zealand as well as West Indies performed well. It could say easily that last tow year they did not lose any one-series including the home series along with England.

Sri Lanka is one of the well formatted team of Asia that could do well in the last few series especially against Pakistan in odi and test and against New Zealand in the home series except losing in the final along with India. Their eye-catching showdown in the recent twenty20 world cup in England claims congratulate when the turning hand and most successful spinner Muttiah Muralitharan could not attend.

Pakistan is the third country from South Asian region and recent twenty20 world champions are determine to take the title this time. There last two tours were very fruitfulness although the home series was disappointed their fans. But, the series against Australia after a long break was hopeful.

Australia is on the way of series win. In the Natwest one-day international series, they are expecting a 7-0 victory over the host England. The last tours were very painful events for then Oceania giant especially the tour of South Africa. For England same thing is reflecting. Ashes series winner are dominated by Australian.

New Zealand is the 2^nd season winner and expecting to do well. In the press conference Black Cap captain was explaining their situation and expected highly to get the title second time. During the last series could not do well in Sri Lanka even when India visited to them, they lost their fame ever.

West Indies is the only nation who played most time in ICC Champions Trophy final and achieves title one time and two times runner up. Their last performances were very stable that could be appreciated. Though they were kept them to play international cricket when Bangladesh visit to them, it difficult to assume how they could perform in the 6^th stage.

At this moment all the fans are waiting to observe the worm-up matches result. The second worm-up matches will be staged on 20 September and look eyes on the fixture and timetable of the Champions Trophy 2009.

Manchester United v Manchester City: Who will win?

Perhaps, the most anticipate match of English Premier League 2009-2010 will be held tomorrow between Manchester United and Manchester City. There are many reasons behind it. The readers who use to read news everyday there is nothing to describe anything. But I just want to remind some important points once more and lack and strong movement of both teams.

In the season 08-09 United got a narrow wins over city in the home and away matches. When united were dominated in whole season with a lot of star players like Ronaldo and Tevz and more. At the same time they could become the title holder and number one football in English premier league. At this moment they have lost two stars and some of the present players suppose to keep out due to injury from Sir Alex Ferguson’s side. Among them Rio Ferdinand, goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar and midfielder Owen Hargreaves. Especially, Ronaldo and Tevez scored wining goal on the opposition net.

Manchester City is going to showdown with the complete team without Brazilian trikers Robinho and Zimbabwean striker Benjani. Vincent Kompany, Carlos Tevez and Roque Santa Cruz and Emmanuel Adebayor is considered the best players on the side of Manchester City.

Manchester united and City both has lost one match each and holding the second and third position by earning same points. United meet with one of the strong opposition Arsenal this season and secured wins as well as this is City’s first match one of the best team of Premier league.

It is sure that the point of interest of the encounter between City and United will be Carlos Tavez as Sir Alex Ferguson ignored him.

Indian squad for ICC champions Trophy and Sachin Tendulkar’s 17000 runs milestone

India has announced a 15 man squad for the ICC champions Trophy where Virender Sehwag is not named. Although it was know to all that he is suffering from shoulder injury problem from Twenty20 world cup, he could be if he comes round his problem. In the recent tour of Sri Lanka when Sachin Tendulkar scored a 70 runs average. After a six month breaks he has returned his form at the age of 36 when India is fighting for the top ranked ODI team as a third nation.

The 36 years old Sachin Tendulkar is just 106 runs from 17000 milestones. As he has been drawn his name in the 15 man squad for South Africa showing a team best performance in the recent triangular Compaq cup 2009 tournament. He as added 200 more runs from the tour adding a hundred in his career.

I explained in the previous article that the changing batting order brought a big success during the tour of Sri Lanka when Rahul Dravid was promoted as an opening batsman along the Sachin Tendulkar. And, I also mentioned that they both will be turning point of India of the upcoming Champions Trophy 2009. anyway I am not taking credit for it just it seems to me and explained even a kids could understand it easily.

I am a big fan of Sachin Tendulka and will want to see him in Indian squad. At the same time I hope that he will be the highest total runs holds of the world of 20,000 runs in One-day formatted cricket. Well all know the Cricket is a game where fitness is the most important issue for the players.

It is sure that Virender Sehwag returns would boot Indian team most instead he will lead Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy finals. Gautam Gambhir who came back home keeping unfinished the last tour, will came back to the squad in ICC Champions Trophy.

Indian Squad:

MS Dhoni (Captain/wicketkeeper), Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Ishant Sharma, RP Singh, Ashish Nehra, Dinesh Karthik, Praveen Kumar, Amit Mishra and Abhishek Nayar.

Largest storage Half-Terabyte 2.5-Inch HDD from Toshiba

When Toshiba Lightweight Netbooks U.S. laptop computer product has already been sold its 10 percent, at the same time its Storage Device Division unveiled a high-performance storage drive. SATA certified environment friendly company largest storage driver has half TB of capacity.

Aim to target the next-generation digital video cameras and other consumer electronics products the 2.5-Inch a thin and light drive has brought out under MK1634GAL family. The thin and light HDD will a big part of those Laptop manufacturers who like to introduce ultra light notebook for the consumers.

Product Specifications

Model Number MKXX56GSY

Maximum Capacity (Formatted)(1) 500GB / 320GB //250GB / 160GB(1)

Number of platters 2 // 1

Areal density (max) 395 Gb/in(2)

Media transfer rate (max) 1,255 Mbps

Average seek time 11 ms

Rotational speed 7,200 RPM

Buffer memory 16MB

Interface SATA 3.0Gb/s (and SATA 1.5Gb/s)

Serial ATA Revision 2.6 (ATA-8)

Interface transfer rate 3.0 Gb/sec

External dimensions (WxDxH; mm) 69.85mm x 100.0mm x 9.5mm

Weight (g) 115 // 98 g (max)

Energy consumption efficiency 0.0020 / 0.0031 // 0.0040 / 0.0063 W/GB

Shock resistance:

Operating 3,185 m/s(2) (325 G, 2ms)

Non-operating 8,820 m/s(2) (900 G, 1ms).

HP ProBook 5310m Notebook PC: An Ultra thin business laptop, has a 3D DriverGurd

Recently, HP has introduced inexpensive low power chip of single-core Intel Celeron SU2300 equipped notebook new ProBook 5310m lightweight business laptop by name. It will be produced with environment friendly material like polyvinyl chloride plastic and brominated flame retardants instead of pvc materials, totally a green laptop. It is an ultra-low voltage 1.20 GHz Celeron processor with 1 MB Level 2 of cache and front bus speed will be 800 MHz.

I have found an interest on its security and reliability system. HP ProtectTools will help the users to project data with the customization security solutions managing passwords. And, 3D DriverGurd will protect your gadget if it falls from three-axis accelerometer.

The 13.3-inch HD BrightView ProBook 5310m notebook has 2 megapixel fixed focused instigated webcam. The storage drive of the business laptop has 2.5 inch 320 GB of 7200 rpm speed and have an external USB CD/DVD R/RW. It also has 2GM of RAM that can be extended to 4 GB and the 4-cell lithium ion battery will provide 6hours of working backup and extended 6-cell will support 8 hours.

Source: hp.com and PC World

IE 8 internet browser can extend Laptops life

I think the users will be surprised hearing that the browser can save you laptops battery life. In the recent research conducted by AnandTech has published the result. By using Gateway laptops run with windows XP and Vista, it continued experiments on Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. They found the IE 8 internet browser saves more than 5 percent more battery life.

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It may not have even occurred to you that your choice of browser could impact your laptop's battery performance. But these new findings suggest that in some cases using IE 8 could extend your battery life by up to 40 minutes.

According to the Counter summary table that Internet Explorer has 65% usage share in internet browser market. But according to the last month report IE has lost near about 10% usage share than previous months. The research repots has brought out when IE’s popularity to internet usage share is going down day by day. Well, we are waiting to see that if they can come back to their pervious stage.

ICC Champions Trophy 2009: venues Fixture, time schedule and live TV action

Top ranked eight cricket teams are going to take part, ICC organized Champions Trophy torment, is also known as mini world cup cricket is one of the most expected cricket events for the cricket fans all over the globe. It regularly holds after two year. This year the event is going to host by South Africa, the Twenty20 world cup inaugural championship was hosted too. This is the sixth edition of the 50 overs formatted one-day international tournament.

ICC Champions Trophy was started in 1998 as a knock out tournament in Dhaka. Later it has been formatted as group stage, knockout (semifinals and final) and four teams will play each other in the group state match where India and Pakistan will be in the same group in A. So a big opportunity for the cricket fans of both countries.

You all know that the event was scheduled to hold in Pakistan one year ago but due toe some cricket playing counties for anxiety of security concern of Australia, England, South Africa and New Zealand crickets ICC postponed it for one year. Later they decided the venue as South Africa. The three play grounds Wanderers Stadium and Centurion Park and Johannesburg stadiums of South Africa have been selected for the champions’ trophy 2009.

Fixtures of ICC Champions Trophy 2009:

Date	The Wanderers	Centurion
Tue 22 Sept		SA v SL (D/N)
Wed 23 Sep	Pakistan v WI (D/N)
Thu 24 Sept		SA v NZ (D)
Fri 25 Sept	SL v England (D/N)
Sat 26 Sept	WI v Australia (D)	India v Pakistan (D/N)
Sun 27 Sept	NZ v SL (D)	SA v England (D/N)
Mon 28 Sept		Australia v India (D/N)
Tue 29 Sept	England v NZ (D/N)
Wed 30 Sept	India v WI (D/N)	Australia v Pakistan (D)
Fri 2 Oct		A1 V B2 (D/N)
Sat 3 Oct	B1 v A2 (D/N)
Mon 5 Oct		Final (D/N)

From Asia three test playing countries are taking part in the ICC Champions Trophy 2009 except Bangladesh. So the time schedules according to the Asia will be most important. Sri Lanka, India and the end country Pakistan according to the geological location will and time is almost half an hour vary from each other except Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka have one hour time gap to Pakistan and India have (+/-) half an hour to each countries. According the Indian time the dayer matches will be started at 13:00 IST and the day-night will be at18:00 IST.

Europe based TV channel Sky Sports will show the matches live for in UK, Wales and Scotland. New Zealand is the only nation can watch match on Sky Sports and Fox Sports is ready to give effort for Australia.

The Indian fans can watch the matches on DD National beside Star Cricket and Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia and Pakistan have opportunity to watch on Star Cricket as well.

DIRECTV for USA, super sports for African countries, Asian Television Network ATN for Canada, BTV for Bangladesh and GEO Super is ready for the Pakistan fans.