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My dear friends, if you are a returning visitor of our website I News India, then you must be aware that on 11th of April 2008 we published one article with the title of: Irfan Pathan stumped in Shivangi’s Love! We are happy to announce that today the Sultan of Swing of Indian Cricket has confirmed that he is going to marry the lady love of his life i.e. Shivangi Dev. The dates of the marriage is not yet final, but according to Irfan Pathan it can be very soon.

As we got huge comments on our last article, so we can also say that it is a decision which can break thousands of lady hearts in India. Shivangi Dev is originally belong to a Gujrati family and her dad is an Indian Diplomat in Australia. Irfan confirmed today that the parents of the couple are now ready for the marriage and they are ready for the marriage now.

At present time Shivangi is residing in Australia and working there as a CA and also she loves teaching dancing to children. Irfan met with the lady love of his life in 2003, in a match in Canberra. When Irfan was asked about the marriage venue then he said, it was not yet finalized but it will be probably Vadodara.

Irfan today also confirmed that it was he who proposed her three years back, and thus he confirms the news which we published on 11th April 2008 about them. It is true that initially both the families resisted to the idea of the marriage but with time all of them has accepted the relationship. I News India wishes them very best in their life ahead.

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Hey friends, I am creating this post for you people to wish a warm Best of Luck to the Team India. As you all are aware that 12 cricket playing nations India, Bangladesh, Ireland, Pakistan, England, Netherlands, Australia, Sri Lanka, West Indies, New Zealand, South Africa, and Sctland are going to fight for the World Cup in the Twenty 20 cricket format which is beginning today at England.

As you all are aware that Team India is the defending champions and other 11 countries are going to challenge them for the trophy. India is placed along with Bangladesh and Ireland in the Group A, while Pakistan, England and Netherlands are placed together in Group B. The most toughest group of the tournament is the Group C which contains Australia, Sri Lanka and West Indies, while the Group D is containing New Zealand, South Africa and Scotland.

At the moment Team India is looking highly capable of retaining the Title. The team at the moment is a bunch of some highly talented youngsters along with some multi talented guys and captained by the Mr. Cool M. S. Dhoni. If you look at the top order then dashing opener Virender Sehwag is there with much talented Gautam Gambhir. This opening pair is the best of all the teams which are playing there. If you give an eye on the middle order then you can truly find India as the World Champions. Middle order of team India is having the firepower in the form of the King of Six Yuvraj Singh, most attacking batsman Suresh Raina, very dependable Rohit Sharma and the skipper himself. Along with them the team has the superb all rounders like Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja and Irfan Pathan. Now if you see the bowling attack then it too have the balance which is very much required for a World Champions team, the seam attack department is there in the hand of Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, highest wicket taker in the IPL 2009 Rudra Pratap Singh and much reliable Praveen Kumar, and then the spin attack is there in the hand of Harbhajan Singh and Pragyan Ojha. Remember the team has two batsman who can bowl brilliantly at crucial time, I am talking about Yuvraj Singh and Rohit Sharma, Both has shown their talents in the IPL 2009 by taking the hat-trick in the tournament. Yuvraj Singh took 2 hat-tricks while Rohit Sharma took 1. Now if your team is having these type of players how can you assume them not to retain the trophy. Only thing which can damage the performance of the team India is the overconfidence, which they will have to take care of.

So friends, here is the space where you can wish the best of luck to your favorite Team India especially in your own style. You can post the comment here and this will show them how much you love them and how much you care about the world champions.

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The big question of the moment is about the performance of the Indian cricket team in the upcoming Twenty 20 World Championship. It is a well known fact that India is the winner team of the 2007 Twenty 20 world cup, and they are looking as the most eligible contender for the 2009 title at the moment.

I am the biggest fan of the Indian cricket team, but still I have a doubt. I am feeling that there is something which this present team is missing. My doubt is getting more strength after seeing the defeat of the Indian team in the practice match against New Zealand. This practice match was played between India and New Zealand at Lord’s, London, on tomorrow 1st of June 2009.

Team India won the toss in the match and asked Kiwis to bat first, with the help of some brilliant knock by McCullum and Taylor Kiwis made 170 runs for 7 wickets in the 20 overs. Although the first wicket partnership between Gambhir and Rohit Sharma was of 42 runs that too in only 5 overs, but once Gambhir became out, wickets of Team India fell regularly and then despite the briliiant knock of 45 by Raina and unbeaten 41 by Ravindra Jadeja, Team india fell short of 9 runs.

Although it was a practice match and the power hitter like yuvraj Singh did not bat in the match, also India gave rest to the dashing opener Virendra Sehwag, still the defeat is causing concern in the mind of the followers. It is also true that Team India will not face many problem in going to the next round as they are in a safe group. Indian team has got the place in Group A along with the weak teams like Bangladesh and Ireland, so they won’t have to worry so much, but this format of cricket is very unpredictable and Bangladesh is a team which has a few times defeated us at a crucial moment.

Another matter of concern for me is the sideeffects of Indian Premiere League. Many international players like Rickey Ponting ignored IPL, but almost all Indian players from the present team were a part of around a month long tournament. Hence, almost all of them are feeling tired. Another big concern is the injury of Zaheer Khan, which is again the outcome of the IPL. Although Indian skipper MS Dhoni is saying that these issues are not going to affect the performance of the Indian team, and even Sachin Tendulkar is having the feeling that India will retain the championship.

So let’s wait and watch how Team India is going to fair in the Twenty 20 World Cup 2009.

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It’s only in its second season yet, but the term IPL and money have almost become synonymous. It’s no  doubt that the 20-20 cricket format has been evolved for wholesome entertainment-with all the music, cheerleaders and sixes, and anything which entertains has huge money attached to it; especially when its cricket. Needless to say IPL has made all the parties attached to it-the players, team owners, BCCI and sponsors; all happy.

Well a little bit about the Indian premier league’s origin- so it’s only in its second season, it was launched by the BCCI in the year 2008. The format of the IPL is much on the lines of English premier league (remember all the flashy names like Knight Riders and Deccan chargers!), and the much controversial cheerleaders are also taken from it. The IPL is basically based on the franchise system where the highest bidder gets to own the team. Also this encourages a lot of betting. That is the reason that IPL has huge stakes involved in it. In fact it is not just a sport now, it’s more of a business and the businesspersons involved are A class celebs. Be it SRK, Preity Zinta or  Ambani, all of them are big time celebrities. They all have huge stakes in their own teams in IPL, amounting to some hundred crores of rupees! And here is the jaw dropping figure- the total base price for auction in IPL was whopping $400 million! Quite a sum I would call it.

Dhoni was the most expensive player in the first season bought by the Chennai super Kings team and now in season two Andrew Flintoff has beaten Dhoni for the most expensive player title. Basically there much more than meets the eye at the IPL. It has graduated from being a sport to being a form of entertainment and currently the IPL is Post Graduating from being entertainment to a big money making industry.

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With a cricket crazy nation like ours, where from kids to grandmas are hooked to the square cuts and clean bowled, seldom do we pay much attention to our official national game-hockey. How many times have you ever heard your friends praising our hockey players, and let alone praising, do you even know the player’s names when you know what is the favorite bathroom song of your favorite cricketer?

Well I am not trying to make you feel guilty here but just talking about how your days are going to change as our very own national sport hockey is bringing back home the prestigious trophies. Recently our hockey team beat the host nation Malaysia 3-1 to bring home the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, which was the fourth such experience for our hockey team. This just happened at the right time for India would be facing the world cup challenge next year. And all our team needs right now is support from us fans, the media and the government. All three entities can together bring back the game of hockey to life.

Probably hockey needs to learn a lot from its counterpart cricket. So to begin it needs its own well organized federation like BCCI to make the sport more organized and to fill its shortcomings. The next big support has to come from the media be it electronic or print. Our hockey team has been winning in the past as much as our cricket team but still it fails to make it to the headlines, where as even when a cricketer gets married; his photographs are adorned on the front pages. So probably the media can bring about the much needed change and move up hockey as much as cricket. Well I am not saying that hockey should replace cricket, but may be the two of them could co-exist together.

When people will see or read more of hockey then obviously they are bound to get more involved in it. Also our government should not be partial towards cricket and completely ignore the national sport. I mean have you ever thought when our cricket team wins; the government announces flats, lands and huge sums of money for the cricketers whereas when the hockey players win, they barely make it to a page in the newspaper. So basically the system needs to be revamped, like government investing more in hockey, building proper infrastructure and training facilities, people taking a little more interest in the sport, media putting some extra words on the victories and I am sure soon the game can win back its well deserved position.

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Indian Premiere League 2009 is over now, and I am really surprised to see the winner of this tournament. Not only I but many others are also feeling in the same way. No one ever assumed that a team which went for the last place during the last year will become the champions this time.

The credit should be given to the skipper of the Deccan Chargers Adam Gilhcrist. He lead the site upfront from the very beginning and he got the support from his team members especially like Rohit Sharma, Pragyan Ojha, Gibbs and finally he hold the championship.

The tournament at the initial level was very much exciting and till the very last league match it was not sure that which team is going to meet for the semi final matches. If you see the Points Table of the DLF IPL 2009 then you will see that Delhi Daredevils is at the top of the table with 20 points in 14 matches.

On the other hand Chennai Super Kings were at the second position. While the position three and four was decided after the last league match of the tournament, and the most surprising thing is that the number four team defeated the number three team in the finals and thus became the champions.

If you calculate the total points after the finals then you can see that Deccan Chargers who played 16 matches and got only 18 points is the champion of the tournament while Delhi Daredevils with 20 points in 15 matches are not the champions. How will the organizers define this?

Any ways, it the system of the tournament which actually works in the manner that the team which will perform good in the last two matches i.e. the semi final and the final will become the champions. So we should not think about the positioning of the teams in the points table.

Batting first after losing the toss, Deccan Chargers was schoked by the Jumbo. In the very first over he dismissed the danger man and the player of the tournament Adam Gilchrist. After the fall of Gilly other plyers like Suman, Symonds and Rohit Sharma along with Gibbs restored the innings of the Deccan Chargers and finally they manage to make 143 runs. A target of 144 was looking easier for Royal Challengers Bangalore and the way in which Van Der Merwe and Taylor were batting it was looking easily achievable, but they fell short of a few runs.

The main reason behind the loss of match for Royal Challengers Bangalore was the lack of the good partnership. No one even tried to stay for a few minutes on the creaze. Thus Deccan Chargers became the winner of the Indian Premiere League 2009.

Congratulations to all the members associated with the Decccan Chargers.

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Dear friends, we are up with the Watch Live Cricket section on our website with the help of cricfeeds.com. This is a gift for the visitors of our website I News India, who love cricket and who prefer to watch online cricket.

You can check http://cricket.inewsindia.com/ for watching live cricket matches, as if you are watching the match in the stadium. Along with watching the live matches you can also watch the News from the cricket world, and Videos, Players Profile and many more. You can also check the full score card of the matches.

I am sure that you people will like it. Indian Premiere League is going on in South Africa and I am sure that many people will be interested to watch these matches so now you can easily watch the matches, along with reading news on our website.

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It was not expected for most of the people out here in India as well as some of the people out there in South Africa too. Three old guys Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble steal the attraction of the opening day in IPL second session.

Sachin Tendulkar who him self says that this format is not fit for him and that’s why he is not a part of the Indian team for Twenty20 matches, made a superb half century in the opening match of the Indian Premiere League 2009 against Chennai Super Kings. Because of the brilliant half century by Master Blaster Mumbai Indians defeated Chennai Superkings, last year Runner Up team, by 19 runs. Sachin made 59 runs in 49 balls, he hit 7 boundaries in his innings.

Another old guy Rahul Dravid, who was never considered fit for Twenty20, even he was axed from the ODI’s too by some of the selectors who think that only hitting big shots is the matter which makes sense in ODI’s and Twenty20, proved once again that cricket is not only the game of power hitting. When he joined the crease in the second match against defending champions Rajasthan Royals, his team Royal Challengers Bangalore was struggling at 17 for 3 wickets in 4.5 overs. Then he took the responsibility and brought his team to a respectable total of 133. He made 66 runs in only 48 runs and he hit 8 boundaries and 1 six. Of course Vijay Malya will be pleased to see this match winning inning.

Then it was the turn of one of the most senior player of the tournament Anil Kumble. Jumbo who has taken retirement from Tests as well as ODI’s too, took 5 wicket in just 3.1 overs. His bowling figure of 3.1 Overs 1 Maiden and 5 runs and 5 wickets were superb and it caused the worst defeat for the defending champions Rajasthan Royals. They got all out for the lowest total of the tournament, they made only 58 runs. Thus Bangalore Royal Challengers won the match by 75 runs.

The two man of the match of the opening day were Sachin Tendulkar for the match one and Rahul Dravid for the match two. Both of these genius has proved their ability in this format of the cricket too. I am now keen to see the performance of Saurav Ganguly in the first match against Deccan Chargers tonight.

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Last year my favorite team was Kolkata Knight Riders, though the team did not played well enough to reach to the semifinal stage but till the last match I supported the team. Although I liked the Mumbai Indians and Delhi Daredevils too but none of them reached to the finals of the IPL session one last year.

Many people were asking me the favorite team for this session, so I thought to post my choice. As expected it was Kolkata Knight Riders till two days back, but the removal of Saurav Ganguly as the skipper of the team caused my heart break and I decided to not follow the team matches now. I strongly believe that Saurav Ganguly was the best ever player from Kolkata so far, and he should be the skipper of any team which is basically developed in the name of Kolkata. It is one sort of insult for Dada, and I would not support the team now.

This session I have also decided that I am not going to support the matches in which Harbhajan Singh and Mahender Singh Dhoni were playing. It is because that these two players were my favorite players, but a few days’ back they insulted the nation, by skipping the Padma Shri award function, which is the most prestigious award for the civilians of India. This clearly indicates that these people are now an image which is bigger than their country, which I never appreciate, although I know I am no one to put finger on these celebrities, they are such a big guys that they would not be affected from such type of opposes, but, still I think I should oppose them. I love my country India and I will never support the people who will do any thing to insult my nation, so I am here by announcing that I will not support the Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians any way in the matches from now on.

I think that Mr. Dhoni is now thinking that no one will ever replace him from the captaincy of Team India, but friend you never know when you are out from the frame. People love you because you have served the nation, but if you are going to insult the nation no one is going to love you then. Same for Mr. Bhajji too, we still remember the face of Bhajji after the slap incident (with Shreesanth during last session) and when BCCI was suppose to ban him forever.

Any ways, I do like the Mumbai Indians team because of the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, who was not only the icon but he is the greatest son of India. MS Dhoni and Harbhajan should at least take a few lesson from him, he has never missed any such type of award function despite the busy schedule. Any ways leave the issue now, so the three teams are out of my mind and they are KKR, MI, and CSK. Now coming to the fourth team which is for sure not suppose to get my support, and that is Rajasthan Royals, the defending champions.

I have mentioned the reasons against them in the last article: The Best Example of Globalization. Now out of the remaining four team Kings XI Punjab, Delhi Daredevils, Bangalore Royal Challengers, and Deccan Chargers, I don’t have any reason to support the last two depending on the performance in the last session. So for me only two options are left, one of them is Kings XI Punjab. I like the team but I am not the supporter of this team.

So this year I am going to support the Delhi Daredevils, the reason behind this is the form of the dashing openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir. Other then them I too like Amit Mishra, Ashish Nehra, Manoj Tiwary, Farvej Maharoof, McGrath and Dilshan. So for this session my favorite team for IPL 2 is Delhi Daredevils.

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I still remember the days when the first session of Indian Premier League was going on, after the evening not many people are looking outside their home. Everybody was just sitting in front of their TV screen and was watching the match. No one was looking interested to do any work except cheering for his or her favorite team.

The TRP of the SET MAX the official broadcaster of the tournament increased within very first week of the tournament and remain at the highest level throughout the tournament. Max was looking keen to gain the same TRP once again during the second version of the smaller format of the cricket match. As we are well aware that Indian Premier League, which is popularly known as IPL, is organized by the Indian cricket board BCCI. It is a tournament of twenty 2o cricket matches.

A few days back lots of drama evolved around the organization of the second version of the IPL, which is going to be known as IPL 2. The actual problem was the dates which were colliding with the general by elections in India, and thus Indian Government was not so much interested to take the risk. After the Mumbai attack government was not really looking to provide any opportunity to the terrorists. So lots of arguments came in and against the organization of the IPL 2 and finally the organizing body decided to take away the organization from India to some neutral locations.

After much consideration between England and South Africa for the possible location to host IPL 2, BCCI decided to organize the IPL 2 in South Africa. The detailed schedule of the IPL 2 is given below:

With the World Cup of Twenty20 is scheduled after the IPL 2, so it will definitely provide a good platform for practice to our players, as we know that we are the world champions. So hopefully at the end of this IPL 2 we can be able to provide much match practices to the players for the Team India for T20 World Cup.

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