West Indies switch venue of 3rd Test vs Australia
The West Indies Cricket Board says it has moved the venue of its third Test against Australia from Guyana to Dominica because of interference by Guyana s authorities.
The WICB says in a statement Friday that it moved the Test scheduled April 23-27 because of “the Government of Guyana s push to take over the management and governance of cricket in the country.”
It added that the Guyana Cricket Board “the legitimate cricketing authority” had been “prevented from undertaking the necessary tasks needed to ensure the successful hosting of the match.”
Australia is playing a three-Test series in West Indies, along with one-day and Twenty20 series in March and April.
NZ declares at 495-7 against Zimbabwe
B.J. Watling reached a maiden test century on Saturday before New Zealand declared its first innings at 495 for seven on the third day of its one-off test against Zimbabwe.
In his seventh test and first as wicketkeeper, Watling became the fifth New Zealand gloveman to post a test century when he took his overnight score from 52 to 102 before the declaration just before drinks in the morning session.
New Zealand resumed at 392-5 after only 15.2 overs were bowled on the rain-affected second day and added 103 runs in 18.2 overs before declaring.
Watling was 94 when he received a message that New Zealand would declare at the end of the current over. He hit a four, then survived a run out to reach his century from 148 balls.
Meanwhile, New Zealand captain Ross Taylor was Saturday ruled out of the remainder of the Zimbabwe series by a calf strain which forced him to retire hurt on 122 in the first innings of the Test.
Taylor was attempting a quick single early Friday as he built on his sixth Test century when he tore his right calf and was forced to hobble from the field.
Following hospital treatment, he said he would be sidelined for three to four weeks.
New Zealand are playing one Test, three one-day internationals and two Twenty20 matches against Zimbabwe before hosting South Africa from February 19.
“While it is early days, our target is to have Ross available for the one day series against South Africa in late February,” New Zealand physiotherapist Paul Close said.
Meanwhile, a full day s play was expected in Napier Saturday after much of Friday was washed out by rain.
A hope for returning International Cricket in Pakistan
2011 brings up a hope for returning international cricket in Pakistan. Due to the tries of ICC task force created a hope of returning international cricket on Pakistani grounds according to which a team named World Eleven, consists of star players from all the teams will tour Pakistan and will play matches against the green shirts.
After the World Cup 2011 Pakistani team will be busy again immediately after the Mega event Pakistan have to tour West Indies. After that Pakistan will become a host of Zimbabwean cricket team. Zimbabwe is ready to come in Pakistan and rescheduling of this series is in under process between the two boards. According to the previous schedule this series was going to be held in December of the continue year but due to security reasons and Muharram-ul-Harram this series was delayed and now this series is expected in May of the next year the numbers of the matches between the Asian and African side are also not decided yet.
The main and big challenge for the Pakistan is the hosting of Sri Lanka. But the Sri Lankan cricket Board and their players did not give any clear answer about this tour weather they will come or not. It is to be remembered that Sri Lanka was the last team that toured Pakistan in February/March 2009 and due to attacks on them they cancelled the tour and returned to their home. After that Pakistan became a “no go area” for the international teams and in the result of these attacks the matches of the World Cup which were to be held in Pakistan are transferred to India and the most important country of the South Asia is not hosting any match in the Mega event and other all cricket playing Asian countries Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka are the hosts of the biggest event of cricket.
If the Sri Lanka will agree to tour Pakistan and the entire event will hold peacefully then it will give a way for the international teams to come and play on the Pakistani grounds. The returning of international cricket on Pakistan will be a major break through between Pakistan and those countries that boycotted Pakistan. But this is totally depends on Pakistani government, officials, and the relevant administration that can they provide the fool proof security to the international teams or not and can they create that environment in which the international players will play without and scariness and tension this will be a big challenge for Pakistan.
Chain Interested To Host 2012 Asia Cup
Syed Ashraful Huq, The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) chief executive said that China is interested to host Asia Cup. He also said that hosting of Asia Cup event will be organized by China if it gets clearance from ACC.
The meeting of ACC will be held in December by ACC and in the meeting they will decide about the hosting of Asia cup. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are the major team in the Asia cup. Owing to increase in the demand and charm of cricket Asian Giant China has decided to set in the field of cricket.
Syed Ashraful Huq said PCB chairman Ijaz Butt was very happy after seeing the pitch of the Guangdong University of Technology. He added that chairman said that why can’t they have their matches on the Guangdong University of Technology grounds.
The pitches used in Asian Games were up to standards but India missed the opportunity to play in Asian games. Asia is strong cricketing block and India is the main country leading the block. The hosting of cricket will be the first step for China to enter in cricketing world. It is also hoped that India will participate in 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.
India bribed 72 nations to get Delhi CWG: Report
India is alleged to have bribed 72 Commonwealth countries $0.1million each to get the hosting rights for the scandal-hit 19th edition of the Games which will start in Delhi from October 3-14, a media report claimed.
A report in an Australian newspaper claimed that Delhi pipped Hamilton in the bid after offering huge sums of money to the 72 Commonwealth countries during the final presentation in Jamaica. The report also said that Australia received a kickback of USD 125,000 from India.
Delhi sealed the right to host the Games when their delegates emerged at the final presentation in Jamaica and offered all 72 nations one hundred thousand dollars each for athlete training schemes if they were the successful bidders, the newspaper reported. The money, subsequently paid to all nations, was not significant to Australia because it had already decided to vote for India and the payment was not an exceptionally large one.
But for small nations who have minimal interest in the Games, it clinched their vote and India went on to beat Canadian city Hamilton 46-22 in the final poll. Hamilton had offered the nations about USD 70,000 each, it said. The newspaper also claimed that some countries’ which had supported Hamilton’s bid cried foul after India won the bid. Hamilton’s bid organisers, and many of the nations who voted for them, fired off angry protests about India buying votes and the bad blood generated between several feuding nations still exists, it said.
The Commonwealth Games Association has decided to ban 11th-hour inducements as a consequence of the outrage over India’s tactics. Australian Commonwealth Games Association president Sam Coffa also accepted that India offered money to get the Games. We had a situation where Asia has had the Games only once (Malaysia in 1998) and it was worthwhile going again, he said. Even though the Delhi Games organisers are battling against time to prepare the city for the mega-event, Coffa was hopeful about a successful CWG. He, however, came hard on the Commonwealth Games Federation for not taking up the matter, in regard to the city’s preparedness, with the organisers earlier.
I still think they can pull it off. If I have any regrets it is that the Commonwealth Games Federation did not act sooner. They were behind schedule quite a few months ago and it would have helped if they had gone to India to get things moving, Coffa said. Chairman of Hamilton bid Jagoda Pike also pounced on the opportunity and said the scenario would have been different if the Canadian city was awarded the hosting rights. I think you can safely say the kinds of issues they are experiencing wouldn’t have happened if it were here, Pike said.
India bribed 72 Commonwealth countries $100,000 each
September 24, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
MELBOURNE: India bribed 72 Commonwealth countries $100,000 each to get the hosting rights for the scandal-hit 19th edition of the Games which will start in Delhi from October 3-14, a media report claimed.
A report in the Daily Telegraph claimed that Delhi pipped Hamilton in the bid after offering huge sums of money to the 72 Commonwealth countries during the final presentation in Jamaica.
The report also said that Australia received a kickback of $125,000 from India.
“Delhi sealed the right to host the Games when their delegates emerged at the final presentation in Jamaica and offered all 72 nations $100,000 (then about $140,000) each for athlete training schemes if they were the successful bidders,” the newspaper reported.
“The money, subsequently paid to all nations, was not significant to Australia because it had already decided to vote for India
Amruta Khanvilkar to be brand ambassador of Nyle shampoo
We are sure that the very name of Amruta Khanvilkar won’t ring a bell instantly in the minds of many. She features in the famous song ‘Waajle Ki Baarah’ from the Marathi film Natrang.
In Bollywood, she has featured in films like Hattrick, Mumbai Salsa and Phoonk 2. The news is that Amruta Khanvilkar has been chosen as the brand ambassador of Nyle range of shampoos. Sources close to Bollywood Hungama state that the Nyle officials were highly impressed with her hosting skills on TV, and that they wanted someone as prompt and bubbly as her to be the brand ambassador of their brand.
Hopefully, this association will have us seeing more of this PYT in Bollywood too!
The Story of Stuff
The Story of Stuff is a polemical animated documentary about the life-cycle of material goods.
Activist Annie Leonard wrote and narrated the film. Tides Foundation, The Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption, Free Range Studios and other foundations funded the film.[2] Free Range Studios produced it. It was first launched online on December 4, 2007.
The documentary is being used in elementary schools, arts programs, and post-graduate economics classes[dubious – discuss] as well as places of worship and corporate sustainability trainings. By February 2009, it had been seen in 228 countries and territories. According to the hosting site as of September 2009[update], it already had more than 7 million views.
Critics consider the documentary to contain incorrect and misleading information and/or to be politically partisan and liberal; this has led the school board of a Montana school district to ban use of the video in the classroom, citing its regulations on bias as justification.
VeriSign Announces Increase in .com/.net Domain Name Fees
March 3, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (Marketwire) — VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, today announced, effective July 1, 2010, an increase in registry domain name fees for .com and .net, per its agreements with ICANN.
VeriSign announced that as of July 1, 2010, the registry fee for .com domain names will increase from $6.86 to $7.34 and that the registry fee for .net domain names will increase, from $4.23 to $4.65.
As the economy and society becomes increasingly dependent on digital technology, it is imperative that investment in the underlying infrastructure, including .com and .net, continue to keep pace with the robust growth of the Internet and ensure its continued security and reliability. Over the last decade, the volume of Internet traffic and domain name system (DNS) queries on VeriSign’s global infrastructure has increased from an average of approximately 2 billion queries per day in the year 2000 to more than 50 billion queries per day today while maintaining 100 percent operational accuracy and stability for the last eleven years.
Over the next decade, VeriSign will continue investment to build out the .com and .net infrastructures to manage the increasing demands on the infrastructure brought on by the proliferation of Internet-enabled phones and devices and the emergence of DNS-centric technologies and services. VeriSign also continues to scale and fortify the .com and .net infrastructures globally to defend against increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks.
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Source December 17, 2009
Andy Dick Arrested
Andy Dick Arrested, Comedian Andy Dick was arrested in Huntington, West Virginia on suspicion of sexual misconduct early Saturday morning, a Western Regional Jail spokesperson has confirmed.
Dick found fame as an actor and funny guy before a stint on VH1’s Sober House in 2009. The celeb was arrested on sexual abuse charges following an incident after his performance at a local comedy club. According to The Huntington Herald-Dispatch, Dick, 44, allegedly groped two patrons of the bar Rum Runners hours after his appearance at the comedy club Funny Bone. He was reportedly arrested around 4 AM. The Huntington Police Department confirmed the arrest and charges to The Associated Press later on Saturday.
Andy Dick Arrested was first posted on January 24, 2010 at 10:53 pm.
