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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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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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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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These days money has become the most powerful factor through out the world. I was really shocked to see that one small game Cricket is going to establish a new example, a new trend which includes the combination of sport ship along with the power of money and glamor. This is for sure the best example of globalization.

I was surprised to see the immense popularity which Indian Premier League, the organization of the T20 cricket matches, by the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI), got during last season. This year, IPL 2 has crossed the boundaries of nation, and now it is all set to develop a new example of globalization.

A tournament which was originally developed for India is now shifted to South Africa (for the reason of General Elections in India). The tournament which was mainly claimed by the organizers that it will provide the platform for the Indian players has now totally shifted to the hands of the players who don’t belong to India. Here are a few examples:

The captaincy of the Kolkata Knight Riders has taken from the Icon Player of team Saurav Ganguly and given to the dashing Kiwi player McCullum. As far as the point of view of the team is concerned, they are free to take any decision in the favor of their team, but I think the idea of dropping Ganguly as the skipper, or the idea of four skippers in a match, which was in air a few days back, are all silly, as without Ganguly there is no identity of the team. As far as my views are concerned, I think Dada should come back to India. People from Bengal are really hurt from this issue and we don’t know why Dada is still there in the team. He is undoubtedly the best ever player of the Kolkata and the team which is representing the City of Joy should for sure include him as the skipper.

The second example is the exit of Mohhamad Kaif and a few more players (all Indian) from the Rajasthan Royals team. The reason behind is still not clear to any one, some one claims it is because of a rift between the skipper and coach Shane Warne and Kaif, some says it is because of an attempt to cut the cost of the team. If the first reason is true then too my views is that the team management require interfering in the matter and solving the matter. If the second reason is true then why they did not remove any player who was not Indian?

These examples are a few examples which are a clear indication that Indian Premiere League is not the Indian League any more. For last season at least it looked like an Indian league whether it is because of the Indian Players in the decision making slot, or whether it was played in the presence of the cricket crazy Indian fans, but this time I am not sure if it can generate the same type of attraction among the Indian people.

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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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The year 2009 has arrived and when we will look behind to the year 2008, we will find these as the main events of the year 2009 for India.

First One: Nuclear Deal.

Indo-US Nuclear Deal has for the first time proved that national welfare has more value than the political selfishness. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was so keen to pass this bill that he never considered about his own government. Later he got the support of the Parliament too. Finally India got the strong friendship of United States. India got the inclusion in the N-Club along with the regular energy supply.

Second One: Mumbai Terror.

New form of world wide terror, 26/11 strikes to India in Mumbai. Despite providing lots of proof of the involvement of the Pakistani based terrorists organization’s hand behind this attack, Pakistan is not at all agreeing to the claim of the Indian Government. Year 2008 provided some big hole in the security system of the nation, Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmadabad, Delhi, Guwahati and then Mumbai taught some lesson to the security forces. People from different states came together and forced to the government to take some serious step against terrorism and to change the attitude.

Third: India on Moon.

Indian scientists got the huge success of the accomplishment of the mission moon. The cheapest and the best mission to the moon were named as Chandayaan I. This established India into the super powers of the world. India is now ready to provide the cheaper space program to other countries too, and ISRO is planning to launch the manned mission to the Moon very soon.

Fourth: Aarushi Murder Case.

One sad incident of the murder of Aarushi in her own house despite the presence of her parents in the house in Noida is still unsolved. This murder case got the biggest attention of the media; still CBI is unable to solve the case.

Fifth: Assembly Elections.

Termed as the Semi-Final of the parliamentary elections which is scheduled in the year 2009, the assembly elections in Manipur, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir proofed that Democracy is the back bone of the country. People came out to vote even despite the “Boycott” of the elections by some unwanted forces in J&K. Performance of the governments became the major criteria during these elections.

Sixth: Flood in Bihar.

The development of the Bihar Government during last four years was washed away in the flood. The problem was not so much tragic as the situation was. Attitude of the people caused more problems to the people who suffered during the flood situation. We need to change our system to tackle the situation.

Seventh: Fall of the Share Market.

The impact of the global market fall was so big that it reached to the Mumbai Stock Exchange too. Sensex falls deeply and this caused affect on the job sector too. Real Estate, Aviation, became the victim of the slow down. Finally India is thinking about how to recover from this impact.

Eight: First Individual Gold Medal in Olympics.

The biggest dream of India came true this year. Abhinav Bindra clinched first ever individual Olympic gold medal for India in the men’s 10m air rifle shooting. Other than him, Vijendra Kumar and Sushil Kumar too came up with medals and India is now taking the other sports (other than cricket) seriously. Jitender Kumar too won the heart of the fans.

Ninth: Lessons on Cricket Ground.

India virtually became the super power in the field of cricket too. India got the new captain in all the format of cricket in the form of M. S. Dhoni. India performed quite well in the three formats of cricket T20, ODI and Tests too. Some of the seniors like Saurav Ganguly and Anil Kumble retired this year.

These are the main incidents of the year 2008 which happened in India.

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In a recent decision BCCI has agreed to the request of the England cricket team to postpone the remaining two matches of the present Hero Honda Cup series due to the terror attack in South Mumbai. In this series England has already lost 5 matches in a row and they are 0-5 down to India.

Although the desicion was taken for the remaining two ODI matches which were supposed to play in Guwahati and Delhi, but BCCI is hopeful that they can be able to host the two test matches.

Venkatesh Prasad has confirmed that the team management has got the information that England team is going back so the members of the Indian teams are also returning to their homes.

England team management has confirmed that they are going back, but did not confirmed anything about the two test matches, which are scheduled in next month.

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Today is the Diwali, the festival of lights and I thought to create a list of 10 most beautiful or sexiest eyes of India. There are so many beautiful actresses in India and few of them are even recognized through out the world too.

10. Bipasha Basu:

Bipasha Basu

One of the sexiest heroine of Bollywood. She was born on January 7, 1979, in New Delhi. She is often considered as one of Asia’s sexiest celebrity women.

9. Kareena Kapoor:

Kareena Kapoor

Her nick name is Bebo. She was born on September 21, 1980, in Mumbai. She was the grand-daughter of the biggest show men of India Raj Kapoor.

8. Celina Jaitley:

Celina Jaitley

Former Miss India Celina Jaitley was born on June 9, 1981. She was a finalist in the Miss Universe contest, and the winner of Miss India, Miss Margo Beautiful Skin, Indiatimes Surfer’s Choice, and MTV’s Most Wanted awards.

7. Shilpa Shetty:

Shilpa Shetty

Shilpa Shetty was born on June 8, 1975. She was the winner of the British Celebrity Big Brother TV show in 2007, with 63% of finals vote. This has turned her global image.

6. Deepika Padukone:

Deepika Padukone

She was the fire-crackers of last year Diwali. She was born on January 5, 1986. With her debut in Bollywood (the Indian film industry), she became the hot cake.

5. Priyanka Chopra:

Priyanka Chopra

One of the former Miss World, and Miss India World too. She was born on July 18, 1982, in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. Andaaz was one of her biggest blockbuster.

4. Preity Zinta:

Preity Zinta

I am the fan of her characteristic dimple. She was born on January 31, 1975. Last year she joined IPL (Indian Premiere League) too, which gave the glamorous look to the Cricket.

3: Katrina Kaif:

Katrina Kaif

I placed her at number three, cause I love the natural looking eyes of Katrina Kaif. She was born on July 16, 1984. She was earlier considered as the girlfriend of the dashing actor Salman Khan, but now she has made her mark in the Bollywood with the movies like Welcome, Namastey London and Singh is King.

2: Genelia Desouza:

Genelia Desouza

This is the surprised name in this list, as I love her from her very first film, Tujhe Meri Kasam. She was born on August 5, 1987. She was even recognized as the Fair and Lovely girl. Her recent flickers like Mere Baap Pehle Aap, and Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na are the biggest hit.

1: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan:

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Here comes the number one, and she is the Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, former Miss World. She was born on November 1, 1973. She married to Abhishek Bachchan, son of the star of the millenium Amitabh Bachchan. She was often acclaimed as the most beautiful woman in the world.

Preparing a list of 10 eyes of India was not an easy task. Please do provide us your feedback on this, we would love to hear from you about this.

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India defeated Sri Lanka in 3rd ODI by 46 runs today and won the five day match series by 3-1 with one match still to go on. India won the first ever One Day Series against Sri Lanka on Sri Lanka ground creating an historical record.

India won the toss and set a respectable target of 259 but the hosting team was all out in 46.2 overs at a score of 212 only. Led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Indian youth brigade done a fabulous job. Dhoni (71), Raina (72) and Kohli (54) are those who made their half century and contributed most to the victory.

Opener Gautam Gambhir (17) was the first one who was sent back to pavilion by Kulasekara. yuvraj singh was struck off by Chaminda Vaas before opening his account. Yuvraj became his 400th victim when he flicked a simple catch at short mid-wicket to Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene for a duck.

Virat Kohli, the Delhi lad was seemed in form but was departed after making 54 runs giving a big blow to India. But soon the India skipper MS Dhoni walked in to take charge with Suresh Raina. Both have been cracked their half centuries scoring 71 and 72 respectivily before departing. The duo powered the Indian total past 202 runs in 38 overs.

Among other players Rohit Sharma scored 18, Harbhajan Singh soon departed after making only 2 runs, while Badrinath gave 6.

In Sri Lankan team, only Jayasuriya (60) cracked his half century and added some good runs to the scores. Thushara and Kapugedera devoted 40 and 30 runs respectively. Others are departed back to pavilion one by one. After 30 overs, Lankans were 132/5. After 33 overs, they were struggling at 142/6. And after 42 overs, Sri Lanka was tottering at 194/8.

Suresh Raina was awarded Man of the Match. For complete score card, please visit Cricket Updates.

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