Stephen Fleming to coach India?

Stephen Fleming has rejects the report about home that he would take over the responsibility to coach India after the world cup. Fleming is the former captain of 'New Zealand with an experience of playing 111 Tests and 280 ODIs. Rumor has flown that Fleming is going to succeed Gary Kirsten in being the coach of the national cricket team of India after the world cup cricket when Gary’s contract will end.

Fleming told the 'New Zealand Herald' at this moment he is not interested in coaching. He is enjoying his business and wants to give more time to his family. In Indian Premier League he is the coach of the team Chennai Super Kings (CSK). Stephen Fleming retired from 'New Zealand team in 2008. 

 Source: NDTV

2011 World Cup the most expensive cricket tournament

ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 is going to be the most expensive cricket tournament with a proximate cost of over 100 million$ .The tournament will be co-hosted by India Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Pakistan, the fourth Test-playing nation in South Asia, was kept beyond the list of co- host nation due to security concerns.

14 countries will compete for the most prestigious cricket trophy.. In group A the defending champion Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Canada and Kenya will play among themselves. Group B includes India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland and Netherlands. The nations will play 52 matches in total.

The tournament will continue for 43-days. 52 matches will be played in 13 venues of India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Sri Lanka will host 12 matches in three venues with one quarterfinal and one semifinal match. 4 matches will be in Bangladesh. All the rest 36 matches are going to be hosted by India. The final is scheduled to be held on April 2 at Mumbai’s Wankhede stadium.

India’s Final 15 Men Squad for 2011 World Cup

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced the final 15 men squad. The committee has skipped middle order batsman Rohit Sharma. They have picked up off spinner R Ashwin and leg spinner Piyush Chawla, but before the selection the committee was very worried for some of the top players were in injury especially when Sachin Tendulkar got serious injury in the last one day with South Africa. At last they included Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and bowler Praveen Kumar chief selector K Srikkanth said it is a balance team and we are satisfied with the selection. We believe the team has the strength to do the thing they need to win the cup.

The final includes- MS Dhoni (capt), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel, Piyush Chawla, R Ashwin.

Ogilvy Mumbai Started Campaign for ICC Cricket World Cup 2011

ICC has started one of the biggest cricket campaigns for Cricket World Cup 2011 to raise cricket spirit world wide. The campaign will go across the sub-continent. The campaign has been conceptualized by the Marketing Team of ICC and Ogilvy Mumbai. This is going to be the biggest sport promoting campaign in the sub –Continent The campaign started with the launch of  TVC titled ‘Tightrope’; watch the TVC here.

The Cricket World Cup is the biggest and most prestigious tournament in the game.14 countries will battle for the cup .India Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are co-hosting the tournament this year. Every team has a great covetousness to win the cup. More ever the Indian sub-continent has extra fascination for cricket. Keeping all this in mind an all-round campaign has been created for India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh including the mediums like- TV, Print, Outdoor, PR Digital and Activation.

The ‘Tightrope’ has been used metaphorically to denote the idea that every cricketer, every country, every fan wants to win the race to the cup But it is very difficult and for every player it is like walking on a tight rope. The shoots have been taken across the city of Joypur for five days. The captains from most of the playing nations, more than 400 fans and tight-rope walkers from USA and UK took part in the commercial. Bob of Good Morning Films has directed the film and Dhruv Ghanekar has composed the music.

There is also the theme song titled ‘De Ghumaa Ke’. Shankar Ehsaan Loy has Composed and sung the song. It has been released on radio channels across the country. ICC will also arrange contests, place count-down clock in venue cities, airport, and busiest shopping malls.  There will also be very specially designed ICC CWC 2011 branded vans.

Ogilvy has started nationwide school approaching campaign along with UNIAIDS to reach 70 school and involve 10000 students in an AIDS awareness campaign and Inter School Mini World Cup tournament.

Source: Best Media Info

Big Bazaar is the authorized dealer of Cricket World Cup 2011

ICC has appointed Big Bazaar to sell special cricket merchandise for World Cup 2011 in India as authorized dealer.

Big Bazaar is a chain of shopping mall in India. It works on the same economic model as Wal- Mart. Big Bazaar has 29 outlets in India at present. It is owned by Pantaloon Group.

Big Bazaar will deal in cricket merchandise designed for men, women and children. This cricket merchandise will be priced from Rs 199 to Rs 499. The apparels will include sports attire and accessories like active dry tees, shorts, sports tees, track pants, sweatshirt, head bands and caps, Big Bazaar will also keep a very special type of show piece which will bear cricket-inspired messages. They will also keep a type of  toy called “Stumpy” tagged with the official mascot of the ICC WC 2011.

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Indian Skipper Dhoni is confident to win the World Cup Cricket 2010 title

Indian captain Mahendra Sing Dhoni has expressed his deep confidence to win the trophy of Cricket World Cup 2011.He said it’s the ultimate dream of any cricketer to lift the world cup as there won and every one of India dressing room wants to win the trophy not only for themselves but for their Billions of fans He said Team India has every possibility to win the cup .In recent times India is playing very good cricket especially meeting the demand of the situation. He is happy with the preparation of his side as they have played well, backed up each other well lately.

 He also said he knows every match will be tough and will be a fresh challenge. India will have to play to their highest potentials. It will require a lot of hard work, self belief and also a positive approach. Team India is capable of displaying all these at the highest level 

Dhoni also urged the fans and spectators to do their own parts in the tournament to make it more pleasing and successful. Hew also appealed to their fans to be a part of India team and swarm up in the stadium though India not playing.

Dhoni said during a promotional ICC event to mark the 50-day countdown celebrations of the great-event starting next month. The promotional event was held at the world famous V&A Waterfront. The World Cup trophy was put on display and an official promotional film was revealed to celebrate the arrival of the flagship of the game. ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat, South Africa captain Grame Smith and Western Cape Premier Helen Zill were present in the event.

Source: Times of India

Dalmiya requests to reconsider tax on World Cup matches

Jagmohan Dalmiya, President of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) requested the state Finance Minister to withdraw the tax levied on tickets of cricket world cup to take place at the Eden Gardens. Dalmiya said the entertainment tax will increase the price of the tickets by 20%. At present the price of India match fixed at Rs 1,500 and Rs 1200 and for non-India matches at Rs 1000 and Rs 700.

Four matches in the world cup tournament ia scheduled to take place in the Eden Garden In West Bengal, India. India will play here only one match on February 17and the three other matches will be held on March 15, 18 and 20.

But Asim Dusgupta, the Finance Minister has not yet given his decision on the request Cricket Association of West Bengal has made. He has told to furnish all detail information about the arrangement. Mr Dalmiya also has promised the required information and hopeful the Minister will consider the matter.

Source: Net Indian