ICC Cricket World Cup 2011: warm-ups schedule

Pakistan was on the list of the hosts of the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup. It has been omitted because of security reason. And all the scheduled matches are planed to be schedule in India and Bangladesh. According to the announced schedule by International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday Pakistan will play their matches in Sri Lankan cricket grounds.

Pakistan, 1992 Cricket World Cup Champions will take on Bangladesh 15 February in Dhaka and along with England and both matches are slated as day-night games.

The inaugural ceremony of the World Cup will be taken place between Bangladesh and co-hosts India on 19 February and the final match on April 2, 2011 at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

All the matches of Pakistan will take place in Sri Lanka and the first encounter will be played against Kenya at Hambantota on Feb 23.

Indian men will stat their World Cup campaign with the match Bangladesh but they will meet to the strong oppositions New Zealand and Australia during warm-up match.

The 1999 World Cup Champions will play two matches too. Their position will be Netherlands and West Indies.

World Cup warm-ups schedule:

Feb 12: New Zealand v Ireland (Nagpur, D/N).

Feb 12: Zimbabwe v South Africa (Chennai, D/N).

Feb 12: West Indies v Kenya (Colombo).

Feb 12: Sri Lanka v Netherlands (Pallekele).

Feb 12: Bangladesh v Canada (Chittagong, D/N).

Feb 13: India v Australia (Bangalore, D/N).

Feb 15: Australia v South Africa (Bangalore, D/N).

Feb 15: Ireland v Zimbabwe (Nagpur).

Feb 15: Kenya v Netherlands (Pallekele).

Feb 15: Bangladesh v Pakistan (Dhaka, D/N).

Feb 16: India v New Zealand (Chennai).

Feb 16: Sri Lanka v West Indies (Colombo).

Feb 16: England v Canada (Dhaka).

Feb 18: England v Pakistan (Dhaka, D/N).

Canon unveiled PowerShot S95 to capture HD video, pictures asking price $400

Recently, Canon has introduced three point-and-shoot cameras. All the camras are able to capture high-definition photo and video. The point-and-shoot PowerShot S90in

The PowerShot S90 is the preview version of PowerShot S95. It was marked as the top-rated fixed-lens camera of 2010. S95 is capable to capture 720p high definition video and macro shoot. 

It has been incorporated a 10-megapixel CCD, f2.0, 3.8X-optical-zoom lens (28mm to 106mm) and a HDMI port. The user has option to control exposure manually. Its new feature Smart Auto mode will help to take quality picture in extreme situation.

PowerShot S95 is called the pocketable fixed lens camera to capture high quality picture and 720p video will be available by the end of August. The asking price is $400.

source: cnet

Sri Lanka vs India 3rd match preview and live score Micromax Triangular series 2010

Visitor India is going to take on the host Sri Lanka on 16 August, 2010 in a must win match of the ongoing Micromax Triangular series at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. The 3rd match of the series will be kicked-off at 14:30 local, (09:00 GMT).

Sri Lanka already has made heavy but beating New Zealand in the first match and stores full point. A single win can make the Lankan men to qualify for the final. Sri Lanka   is doing well from the Test series. As a host they will get huge facilities from wicket and weather.

On the other hand India is fighting for the existence. You all know that India was lost to the Black Caps in men by 200 runs in the first match. So, it is a do or die match for them otherwise they will be wiped out from the tournament.

Sri Lanka and India both does not brought any changes in the 11 men which they announced in the previous matches. At the hole tournament’s timetable has been fixed as day-night and the condition of the pitch will be very supportive for the pacer who will bowl in the second half. It is expecting that the team will win the toss will elect bat first.

Neo Cricket Sports TV channel  is showing the whole tournament live and in a lot of websites that will provide text commentary of the match.

Dell Studio 15 (1558) is available in discount price $389

The Dell Studio 15 (1558) is a 15.6 inch laptop that is selling more than 35% discount.  The Studio 15 is featured with Core i5 2.4GHz and 6GB DDR3 RAM. It you want to the high-end notebook is been offering for $729.99 which is kept $389 less from the previous price. By using coupon you will get this opportunity by 17 August.

Beside Core i5-450M 2.4GHz processor but in Turbo Mode the CPU will performed as 2.66GHz. It has been equipped 6GB DDR3 memory, 500GB storage drive with 7200RPM, ATI Mobilty Radeon HD 5470 512MB, HD Audio 2.2, 802.11n WiFi, and the optical drive is DVD writer. It hopes that the 6-cell battery will keep you for touch in long time. The product has 1 year warranty which will run with the OS is Windows 7 Home Premium.

Source: Logicbuy

Chelsea cashed a wonderful wins in Premier League 2010-11

Defending premier league champions has started the new season with a tremendous victory against West Bromwich Albion by scoring 6 goals on Saturday. Chelsea striker Didier Drogba earned a hat-trick in the first match whereas the France man Florent Malouda scored two.

Reuters wrote:

"It was necessary for them to have a full recovery and we knew the first game of the pre-season we couldn't play them.


Chelsea Boss Carlo Ancelotti is pleased with the performances after overcoming the week, performances in the preseason matches. At the same time he has a supportive mentality for the players to spend more days in rest so that they can cure extra pressure of World Cup 2010

ESPN Star Sports to select B Bachchan as brand ambassador, Broadcast in169 countries

Indian Premier League or Champion League cricket is totally charming place of the Bollywood stars. The audiences who watched the billion dollar tournament has experience to be popular with the superstars. This year, the views will meet with a new face but very well known person of bollywood named Big Bachchan.

You already been heard that the Cricket Champions League will be held in South Africa under the title of Airtel Champions League T20 earlier. Popular sports ESPN Star Sports (ESS) channel will telecast the whole matches this year. The channel has selected actor Amitabh Bachchan as the brand ambassador for promotion.

The important thing of the event of the tournament this year is, ESS is spending a large number of bucks for marketing to make a big buzz over the globe. The tournament will be started from 10 September in ohannesburg. IPL season 3 runners-up Mumbai Indian will take on South Africa’s Highveld Lions in the opening match.

In a speech ESS Managing Director Manu Sawhn explained that they are they will broadcast the Airtel Champions League T20 in 169 countries in 14 languages.

Sri Lanka will win the Test series against India!

At the end of the day 4 of the third and series result fixing test Indian bating lineup is on the fork. It already has been lost three important wickets just adding 53 runs when their target to cash 256 runs. So, it was a very easy target was bought by the Indian bowlers. Now, India requires 304 runs with seven wickets remaining. The top three batsmen have played very reckless cricket which could brought bad luck at Indian tents that causes series lost. There is alternative of wins to make the series drawn. 207 runs is a very narrow target to achieve.

If Sri Lankan batsmen could add three hundred more runs in the second innings then it would a hard target to achieve for Indian crews. It is still not so easy to overtake the target because Lankan bowling already has picked up three most vital wickets earlier.

The debutant bowler Randiv has brought good success in both innings. In the first innings he picks up 4 wickets and 3 from second innings. It could tell that Sri Lank could win the test series because bowlers are doing well and the 5th day’s pitch will go to the favor on bowlers.