ICC World Cup 2011 Schedule

Group A: Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Canada and Kenya
Group B: India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland and Netherlands.
Schedule:

Sat Feb 19 1st match - India v Bangladesh

Sun Feb 20 3rd match - Sri Lanka v Canada

Sun Feb 20 2nd match - Kenya v New Zealand

Mon Feb 21 4th match - Australia v Zimbabwe

Tue Feb 22 5th match - England v Netherlands

Wed Feb 23 6th match - Kenya v Pakistan

Thu Feb 24 7th match - South Africa v West Indies

Fri Feb 25 9th match - Bangladesh v Ireland

Fri Feb 25 8th match - Australia v New Zealand

Sat Feb 26 10th match - Pakistan v Sri Lanka

Sun Feb 27 11th match - India v England

Mon Feb 28 12th match - Netherlands v West Indies

Mon Feb 28 13th match - Canada v Zimbabwe

Tue Mar 1 14th match - Kenya v Sri Lanka

Wed Mar 2 15th match - England v Ireland

Thu Mar 3 17th match - Canada v Pakistan

Thu Mar 3 16th match - Netherlands v South Africa
Fri Mar 4 19th match - Bangladesh v West Indies
Fri Mar 4 18th match - New Zealand v Zimbabwe
Sat Mar 5 20th match - Australia v Sri Lanka

Sun Mar 6 21st match - India v Ireland
Sun Mar 6 22nd match - England v South Africa
Mon Mar 7 23rd match - Canada v Kenya
Tue Mar 8 24th match - New Zealand v Pakistan
Wed Mar 9 25th match - India v Netherlands
Thu Mar 10 26th match - Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe
Fri Mar 11 28th match - Bangladesh v England
Fri Mar 11 27th match - Ireland v West Indies
Sat Mar 12 29th match - India v South Africa
Sun Mar 13 30th match - Canada v New Zealand
Sun Mar 13 31st match - Australia v Kenya
Mon Mar 14 33rd match - Bangladesh v Netherlands
Mon Mar 14 32nd match - Pakistan v Zimbabwe
Tue Mar 15 34th match - Ireland v South Africa
Wed Mar 16 35th match - Australia v Canada
Thu Mar 17 36th match - England v West Indies
Fri Mar 18 37th match - New Zealand v Sri Lanka
Fri Mar 18 38th match - Ireland v Netherlands
Sat Mar 19 40th match - Bangladesh v South Africa
Sat Mar 19 39th match - Australia v Pakistan
Sun Mar 20 41st match - Kenya v Zimbabwe
Sun Mar 20 42nd match - India v West Indies
Wed Mar 23 1st Quarter Final at Mirpur
Thu Mar 24 2nd Quarter Final at Colombo
Fri Mar 25 3rd Quarter Final at Mirpur
Sat Mar 26 4th Quarter Final at Ahmedabad
Tue Mar 29 1st Semi Final at Colombo
Wed Mar 30 2nd Semi Final at Chandigarh
Sat Apr 2 Final at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

Final Asian games medal tally 2010 Guangzhou, China

RANK	COUNTRY	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE	TOTAL
1	China	198	119	98	415
2	South Korea	76	64	91	231
3	Japan	48	74	94	216
4	Iran	20	14	25	59
5	Kazakhstan	18	23	38	79
6	India	14	17	33	64
7	Chinese Taipei	13	16	38	67
8	Uzbekistan	11	22	23	56
9	Thailand	11	9	32	52
10	Malaysia	9	18	13	40
11	Hong Kong	8	15	17	40
12	North Korea	6	10	20	36
13	Saudi Arabia	5	3	5	13
14	Bahrain	5	0	4	9
15	Indonesia	4	9	13	26
16	Singapore	4	7	6	17
17	Kuwait	4	6	1	11
18	Qatar	4	5	7	16
19	Philippines	3	4	9	16
20	Pakistan	3	2	3	8
21	Mongolia	2	5	9	16
22	Myanmar	2	5	3	10
23	Jordan	2	2	2	6
24	Vietnam	1	17	15	33
25	Kyrgyzstan	1	2	2	5
26	Macau	1	1	5	7
27	Bangladesh	1	1	1	3
28	Tajikistan	1	0	3	4
29	Syria	1	0	1	2
30	United Arab Emirates	0	4	1	5
31	Afghanistan	0	2	1	3
32	Iraq	0	1	2	3
33	Lebanon	0	1	2	3
34	Laos	0	0	2	2
35	Nepal	0	0	1	1
36	Oman	0	0	1	1
37	Bhutan	0	0	0	0
38	Brunei	0	0	0	0
39	Cambodia	0	0	0	0
40	Maldives	0	0	0	0
41	Palestine	0	0	0	0
42	Sri Lanka	0	0	0	0
43	Timor-Leste	0	0	0	0
44	Turmenistan	0	0	0	0
45	Yemen	0	0	0	0
	TOTAL	476	479	621	157

Preeja sreedharan wins women's 10000m event, at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou

Preeja sreedharan wins asiad women's 10000m event.kavita Raut won the silver medal in the same event.Top Indian long-distance runner Preeja Sreedharan clocked a personal best of 31:50:47 in the women's 10,000m final to clinch the country's fourth gold medal at the Asian Games in Guangzhou today.Kavita Raut, who won the bronze in the women's 10000m at the Commonwealth Games last month, walked away with the silver with a personal best timing of 31:51.44.Sreedharan, who had finished fifth in both the 5000m and the 10,000m in the last edition of the Games in 2006, raised her performance to give India a flying start in track and field competition.The 28-year-old's previous personal best for the 10,000m was 32:04:41 recorded at Watford in June, 2008.The 25-year-old Kavita's previous personal best was 32:41.31 in May this year.It was a great moment for the Indians especially for keralites as Preeja stood at podium for receiving the medal.

London Olympics - 600 days to go..

London is going to host the 2012 Olympics and the construction works of stadiums are in progress.London is training their athletes so hard that they can have a reasonable number of medals at their home ground.London considered Commonwealth games as a trial for theOlympics 2012 though the slipped away to the third position behind India at the Delhi CWG 2010.But it is to be remembered that England got 59 silver medals in the games.The gold winners of all 59 events was Australia , a country which remained in top five position of BeijingOlympics 2008. London was elected as the host city for the Games of the XXX Olympiad on 6 July 2005 at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore. London eventually succeeded in the fourth round of voting taking 54 votes from a possible 104. London faced stiff opposition during the vote from the other four candidate cities: Paris, New York,Moscow and Madrid. There will be 26 sports on the Olympic programme in London in 2012 and around 10,500 athletes. Construction work on the new lake and competition courses has been completed at the London 2012 canoe slalom venue in the Lee Valley Regional Park and this has allowed water to start flowing at the venue, so that the courses can be tested. The venue is expected to be completed later this year and will include a standard 300m competition course, a boat conveyor, a 160m intermediate/training course, a 10,000m² finish lake, and a facility building and pumping house.Thousands of seats are soon to be installed in the London 2012 basketball arena, which is reported to be one of the largest temporary venues ever used for an Olympic and Paralympic Games. The seating structure is now taking shape, before the black and orange seats – representing the colours of a basketball – are put into place. At Games-time, the venue will host basketball, handball, wheelchair basketball, and wheelchair rugby.Work has begun on preparing the ground at Greenwich Park, the site of London’s Olympic equestrian venue. The work, which will be carried out by London 2012 sub-contractors in association with The Royal Parks, will ensure that the condition of the grass is ideal for the competitors in 2012. Work will include irrigation, de-compaction, mowing, and some other enhancements. The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has also announced plans for thousands of new trees, parks, play areas, and open spaces to support the new homes being delivered in theLondon 2012 Olympic Village. Landscaping is already underway for the creation of an extensive wetlands area on the Village site, with the overall plans forthese green spaces adding to the landscaping works already underway in the Olympic Park site, which is creating one of the largest new urban parks in the UK for over 100 years.With a little under 2 years to go, the London 2012 venues are rapidly taking shape, as water is now flowing at the canoe slalom venue, the seating structure is taking shape at the basketball arena, ground preparation work is beginning at Greenwich Park, and landscaping work is getting underway at the Olympic Village. With athletes and teams now in the process of qualifying for the 2012 Games, this progress is a reassuring sign that London is on time and on track to welcome the world’s top sports people in 2012.Sources say London Olmpics igoing to be far more better than Beijing Olympics 2008

Sachin The Master Blaster

Sachin is a world famous Indian Cricketer who is still conquering records after record even at the age of 37. Most of his peer group fellow cricketer have retired. This makes Sachin an out-standing cricketer. He has a passion for cricket which most others lack. He is a wonderful all rounder also. Sachin helped India to win many crunch mathes. He has strong will power and can change the pace of a match. On my opinion there is no player who could replace Sachin. Here are some of his records..
ODI Records
Most runs in career. (17598 runs)
Most runs in an innings. (200* against South Africa)
Most runs in a calender year. (1894 runs in 1998)
Most runs against one team.(3005 runs against Australia)
Only player to score 200 runs.
Most Hundreds in career. (46 Hundreds)
Most Hundreds in a calendar year. (9 Hundreds in 1998)
Most Hundreds against one team. (9 Hundreds against Australia)
Most 150+ runs in career.(5 150+ runs)
Most Nineties in career. (18 Nineties)
Most times dismissed on 99. (3 times)
Most fifties in career. (93 Fifties)
Most fours in career. (1927 fours)
Most fours in an innings. (25 fours)
Fast to 10000 runs. ( 259 Inns)
Fast to 11000 runs. ( 276 Inns)
Fast to 12000 runs. (300 Inns)
Fast to 13000 runs. (321 Inns)
Fast to 14000 runs. (350 Inns)
Fast to 15000 runs. (377 Inns)
Fast to 16000 runs. (399 Inns)
Fast to 17000 runs. (435 Inns)
Hundred runs and 4 wickets in a match. (141 & 4/38 against Australia in 1998)
10000+ runs, 100+ wickets and 100+ catches in career.
Highest Partnership for any wicket. (331 runs with Rahul Dravid againstNew Zealand)
Highest partnership for 2nd wicket. (331 runs with Rahul Dravid againstNew Zealand)
Highest partnership for 3rd wicket. (237* runs with Rahul Dravid againstKenya)
Highest overall partnership by a pair. (8227 runs with Sourav Ganguly)
Highest overall partnership runs by openers. (6609 runs with Sourav Ganguly)
Most Hundred partnerships by a pair. (26 Hundred Partnership with Sourav Ganguly)
Most consecutive matches for a team. (185 matches)
Most Player Of the Match awards. (61 Awards)
Most Player of the Series awards. (15 Awards)
Test Records
Most runs in career. (13341 runs)
Most hundreds in career. (47 Hundreds)
Most fours in career. (1734+ Fours)
Two unbeaten 50+ runs in a match. (241* & 60* vs Australia in 2004)
Fast to 8000 runs. (154 Inns)
Fast to 12000 runs. (247 Inns)
Fast to 13,000 runs. (266 Inns)
Most hundred partnerships by a pair. (17 Hundred Partnership with Rahul Dravid)
Combined Test, ODI & T20I Records
Most Runs in career. (30638 Runs)
Most Hundreds in career. (93 Hundreds)
Most Hundreds in a calendar year. (12 Hundreds in 1998)
Most Hundreds against one team. (19 Hundreds against Australia)
Most Nineties in career.(25 Nineties) Most Fifties in career. (147 Fifties)
Most Fours in career. (3623+ Fours)
Highest Overall Parnership runs by a pair. (12400 Runs with Sourav Ganguly)
Most Hundred Parnerships by a pair. (38 Hundreds with Sourav Ganguly)
Most matches in career. (606 Matches)
Most consequetive matches for a team. (239 Matches for India from 25 April 1990 to 24 April 1998)
Most 'Player of the match' awards. (73 Awards)
Most 'Player of the series' awards. (18 Awards)
World Cup Records
Most Runs. (1796 Runs)
Most Hundreds. (4 Hundreds)
Most Fifties. (13 Fifties)
Most runs in a series. (673 runs in 2003 World Cup)
Highest Parnership runs for 3rd wicket. (237 Runs with Rahul Dravid).
Sachin is still playing and records will break regularly..