Yash Raj Film’s real wedding!

So far we have seen Yash Raj film is equivalent to grand wedding ion screen .But this time they have surprised all by arranging grand real wedding.  We can see the grand filmy wedding in Chandni, Silsila, Dilwaale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge and other movies. This time The Yash Raj production house hosted a non-Bollywood wedding in real YRF style as a part of the promotion of their would be releasing movie Band Baaja Baaraat.

Kochi franchise will play in IPL 4

Kochi franchise survived the axe to play in the 4th IPL. On Sunday the IPL Governing Council approved the ownership structure. With this approval the suspension hovering over the franchise ended. BCCI ensured at least eight teams will be in the tournament.

Sachin in the Highest base prize Club for IPL

The BCCI has prepared a list of some selected players of the coming IPL commanding minimum price in the auction to begin in January.

The price will be considered the base price for those players. Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh will command the highest bid of Rs 1.84 crore. Yusuf Pathan, Zaheer Khan and Suresh Raina are clubbed in the second highest price of Rs 1.38 crore. The other players of team India are placed in Rs 92 lakhs club. Sourav Ganguly and Anil Kumbale are included into this level. But the players can increase decrease their base pries freely.

BCCI has chalked out this base price going through a comprehensive study of the performance of the players in the past IPL, national and international matches .BCCI has sent the list to each of the association on Saturday.

Each association will also make a list and produce it to each franchisee. Before it the association will procure signature of their players. The franchise will then prepare their plan for auction. The final approved list will be released in the first or second week of December. 

source: Express India

Fake IPL cricket star cheated girls

A fake IPL cricket star has been arrested who impersonated as Raviraj Patil, a real IPL star. He cheated many girls and their families posing as a groom.He also cheated some film starlets.

Bangalore police has arrested the cheater Somashekhar (27) from Mumby with a fake ID of Raviraj Patil . The police have found several fake ID cards with him claiming he is a senior member of KSCA and the Indian Cricket Control Board. He had different visiting cards and IDs for using on different occasions.

Somashekhar collected all possible information about Raviraj Patil from internet and begun to impersonate Patil. Being furnished with all information about Patil, the cheater approached the local dailies and managed to get feature and photo about him published posing Patil. He then advertised in a leading Cannada daily seeking bride. Many families from within and outside the state begun to cal Somashekhar . Somashekhar Visited the families with his girlfriend Susheeelamma (32), stayed with the prospective brides family .He would have sexed with the girl and then refused to marry her demanding money.

Somashekher cheated many families in this style .The victim families would not go to police for fear of scandals. But at last a cheated family of North Karnataka reported to police against Somashekher who cheated the girl and demanded 2 lakh rupees. Bangalore police arrested him on this allegation.

Somashekher also cheated some film starlets posing as the marketing head of the Karnataka State Cricket Association promising to help them getting lucrative advertisement offers.

Police arrested the accused in 2005 also on cheating charge and he was sentenced to one and a half years imprisonment He then cheated a district cricketer claiming himself as the captain of Ranji Trophy. Somashekhar took 1500 Rs from the player promising him a chance to play in the team. He also cheated a Cannada film maker with lacs of rupees promising him to make him a partner of his advertisement company.

Source: NDTV

Ganguly may not play for KKR

Sourav Gaguly, one of the most successful captains of Indian cricket, may not play for Kolkata Night Riders in the forth coming Indian Premier League. Sourav says his first choice is, of course KKR. If situation changes he is open to play for any team as he still wants to play IPL.

The current rumor is that KKR will not retain Gunguly this session. Sourav rejects and says to a media that Shah Rukh Khan is abroad and no decision has been taken.

As Ganguly is willing to play IPL he hopes to be picked up by some other team from the player auction in January if KKR do not retain him. He is currently playing Ranji Trophy cricket with Bengal. He hopes to regain necessary vigor and strength from this tournament for IPL. Sourav Gunguly has stopped playing international cricket in 2008.

Source: Playing11

Duncan Fletcher to Give Consultancy to New Zealand

Duncan Fletcher is going to work as a full time coaching consultant for New Zealand for the rest of their visit in India. He is a former cricket coach of England. Mark Greatbatch is New Zealand’s present coach. He has welcomed Fletcher with the hope Fletcher will offer valuable ideas.

Mark Greatbatch has confidence in Fletcher. He said Fletcher has great career behind and gathered vast experience. So to get some feedback from such a person is always an opportunity.

In fact Fletcher will not take the duties of head coach. He will be in the background and simply watches the practice, and see first couple of games.  The coaches will sit with him and discuss his thoughts on cricket

Roger Mortimer is the high performance manager of New Zealand team. He is also pleased as he thinks Fletcher will have a full exposure of New Zealand players and management and give valuable ideas on it. Duncan is a world class cricket expert. New Zealand authority expects someone will get valuable cricketing knowledge from Duncan and engage them for the team.

New Zealand is very worried about their recent performance. They have lost in the last six one day internationals including the first opening one day with India on 28th November. They also lost test series 1-0 against India during this visit. Before this they lost both one–day and Test series with Bangladesh.

source: Tvnz

Cricket World Cup 2011: Knockout Matches at Home for Hosts

India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are jointly hosting Cricket World Cup 2011. If any of the teams can qualify for knockout stages they will have to play their knockout match in their own land irrespective of where they finish in group. If two host nations draw each other up to knockout stages, the team placed higher in the pre- tournament seeding will get preference. If India draws Sri Lanka in knockout stages India will play home as they were placed bettering pre tournament seeding. Sri Lanka will play India away but Bangladesh and other teams at home. If Bangladesh goes to knockout stages drawing another host nation, they will play abroad but home if they are to play with other nation in this stage.

 This rules implies that the fate of the host teams can’t be known until the last group game on March 20. The last group game will be between India and West Indies in Chennai.

Two quarter finals will be played in Mirpur, one in Ahmedabadand the forth in Colombo. If all the host nations qualify foe quarterfinals and do not draw each other they will play simply at home.

The league stage is divided into two groups with seven teams in each. Four top teams from each group will qualify for quarterfinals. India and Bangladesh are in the same group. So they are not meeting in Knockout stages. The semi finals will be played in Mohali and Colombo. Here also the hosts will get preferences to play at home.