India become the new champion of cricket by defeating Sri Lanka in final

India vs Sri Lanka final

Blue shirts have become the new champions of cricket by getting 6 wickets victory in India vs Sri Lanka final of ICC World Cup 2011 played at Wankhede Stadium of Mumbai. Blue shirts got the target of 275 after losing 4 wickets when 10 balls were remaining. Gautam Gambhir suffered by nervous nineties. Dhoni scored unbeaten 91 runs.

India vs Sri Lanka final: Lankan innings

According to details in India vs Sri Lanka final, guest captain Kumar Sangakkara win the toss and elected to bat first. Lankans goes early in trouble by losing the big wicket of Upal Tharanga, he scored 2 runs. This time captain came to join Tillakaratne Dilshan. Dilshan turned back to pavilion after scoring 33 runs. Sangakkara and Mahila Jayawardene batted sensibly and added 72 runs in the third wicket partnership. Sangakkara was taken by Yuvraj Singh when his score was 48. The fourth Lankan wicket fell on the total of 179, when Samaraweera was dismissed by the same bowler on the individual score of 31.

Chamara Kapugedera became the second wicket of Zaheer Khan. With the wicket he levels Afridi’s highest 21 wickets in the tournament. On the other end senior batsman Mahela Jayawardene continued to move his side’s total. Nuwan Kulasekara and Jayawardene added 62 runs in the mutual cooperation. Nuwan Kulasekara goes runout on 32. After completing the limited number of overs, Lankan side posted the total of 274/6 on the scoreboard. Jayawardene was unbeaten on 103. Zaheer Khan and Yuvraj Singh got two wickets each.

India vs Sri Lanka final: Indian Innings

Following the target, the home side goes early in trouble by losing the big wicket of Virender Sehwag. Lasith Malinga not permitted him to open his score account. Little master Sachin Tendulkar failed to play a big innings this time and became the wicket of Malinga, Kumar Sangakkara made no mistake in taking his catch behind the wickets. After losing two wickets, Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli played very sensibly and played beautiful strokes all around the ground. Both players added 151 runs in the third wicket partnership. The innings of Kohli was finished by Tillakaratne Dilshan when his score was 35.

This time captain MS Dhoni to join Gambhir once again India got success in making a big partnership and both players added 109 runs in the mutual cooperation. The innings of Gambhir ended when he was three behind from his century. Next Yuvraj Singh, along with Dhoni not permitted Lankan bowlers to create more hype and got their target on the second ball of second last over. At the Dhoni was notout on 91 while Yuvraj on 21. Lasith Malinga got 2 wickets in India vs Sri Lanka final.

World Cup: Sri Lanka survive Kiwis late assault to reach final

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka succeeded in reaching the World Cup final for second time in a row after avoiding late bowling assault by New Zealand here at the R Premadasa Stadium on Tuesday.

Chasing 218, the co-hosts reached the target to beat the Kiwis by five wickets with 13 balls to spare in the first day-night semi-final as veteran off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan said goodbye to his home crowd.

Opener Tillekaratna Dilshan (73) and captain Kumar Sangakkara (54) hit half-cneturies to set a foundation for Sri Lanka’s victory to qualify for the World Cup final for the third time and second in succession.

They had won the final in 1996 at Lahore, Pakistan but lost it in 2007 at Kingston, Jamaica.

Sri Lanka play the winners of Wednesday”s semi-final between India and Pakistan in Mohali.

Muralitharan took his 534th wicket off his last ball on home soil as New Zealand were bowled out for a below-par score of 217 in 48.5 overs.

Muralitharan, who last year retired from Tests after finishing as the highest wicket-taker with 800, now aims to win his second title — after being part of the 1996 Cup winning squad — in Saturday”s final in Mumbai.

Sri Lanka, cruising along at 160-1, lost four wickets in the space of 25 runs to raise fears of an unlikely defeat before Thilan Samaraweera (23 not out) and Angelo Mathews (14 not out) guided them home with an unbroken 35-run stand.

New Zealand, who for the sixth time failed in a World Cup semi-final, seemed to be succumbing like England did during their 10-wicket quarter-final defeat at the hands of Sri Lanka, but they staged a brave rearguard action.

It was 34-year-old Dilshan who was once again in rampaging mood, taking the co-hosts to 40 by the eighth over in the company of Upul Tharanga who fell after scoring a 31-ball 30 with four boundaries and a six.

Dilshan then found an equally aggressive and in-form partner in captain Sangakkara as they added 120 for the second wicket, before Dilshan played straight into the hands of Jesse Ryder off Tim Southee.

Dilshan hit 10 boundaries and a six during his 93-ball knock. He also became the top run-getter of the tournament with 467.

Sri Lanka then lost Mahela Jayawardene (one) and Sangakkara in the space of eight runs and then Chamara Silva (13) before the team held their nerve.

It was Ajantha Mendis (3-35) and Lasith Malinga (3-55), along with Muralitharan (2-42), who kept New Zealand under control after Daniel Vettori won the toss and opted to bat.

Scott Styris, who top scored with 57, added 77 for the fourth wicket with Ross Taylor (36) but the Sri Lankan bowlers never allowed them to run away with a big total, dismissing the Kiwis in 48.5 overs.

Styris and Kane Williamson (22) added 42 in the batting powerplay but New Zealand lost their last seven wickets for just 56 runs.

Sri Lanka once again dismissed hard-hitting Brendon McCullum through a spinner when left-armer Rangana Herath bowled him in the eighth over for 13.

Martin Guptill (39) and Jesse Ryder (19) took the total to 69 before Muralitharan had the big left-hander caught off a quickish delivery.

Soon it became 84-3 when Malinga bowled Guptill with a ferocious yorker after the opener had hit three boundaries off 65 balls.

Final ICC World Cup 2011 Squads of All Teams

Final World Cup Squads of All Teams: All of the teams going to participate in ICC World Cup 2011 have announced their final squads. On the last day of deadline given by ICC, 19 January, New Zealand, Ireland, Kenya, West Indies, Bangladesh, Netherlands and South Africa announced their squads on the final day of the deadline. Rest of the teams has already announced their squads. After the announcement of their final squads by all boards the process of selection for mega event has ended. The squads of different teams are listed below.

(1) Australia:

Ricky Ponting (Captain), Michael Clarke, Shane Watson, Brad Haddin, Michael Hussey, David Hussey,
Cameron White, Tim Paine, Steven Smith, John Hastings, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Hauritz, Brett Lee,
Shaun Tait, Doug Bollinger

(2) India:

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

(3) Sri Lanka:

Kumar Sangakkara (Captain), Mahela Jayawardene (vice-captain), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga,
Thilan Samaraweera, Chamara Silva, Chamara Kapugedera, Angelo Mathews, Thisara Perera, Nuwan
Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Dilhara Fernando, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis, Rangana Herath.

(4) South Africa:

Graeme Smith (Captain), Hashim Amla, Johan Botha, AB de Villiers , JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Colin
Ingram, Jacques Kallis, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Robbie Peterson, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir,
Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Morne van

(5) England:

Andrew Strauss (captain), Matt Prior, Ian Bell, , Paul Collingwood, Tim Bresnan, Eoin Morgan, Kevin
Pietersen, James Tredwell, Luke Wright, Graeme Swann, Jonathan Trott, Michael Yardy, James Anderson,
Stuart Broad, Ajmal Shahzad

(6) Pakistan:

Shahid Afridi, Misbah-ul-Haq, Mohammad Hafeez, Kamran Akmal, Younis Khan, Asad Shafiq, Umar
Akmal, Abdul Razzaq, Abdur Rehman, Saeed Ajmal, Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Sohail
Tanvir, Ahmed Shehzad
The captain name is not announced yet by PCB.

(7) New Zealand:

Daniel Vettori (Captain), Hamish Bennett, James Franklin, Martin Guptill, Jamie How, Brendon
McCullum, Nathan McCullum, Kyle Mills, Jacob Oram, Jesse Ryder, Tim Southee, Scott Styris, Ross
Taylor, Kane Williamson, Luke Woodcock

(8) West Indies:

Chris Gayle (Captain), Sulieman Benn, Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Narsingh Deonarine,
Andre Fletcher, Wavell Hinds, Nikita Miller, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar
Roach, Darren Sammy, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Jerome Taylor

(9) Bangladesh:

Kumar Sangakkara (Captain), Mahela Jayawardene, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga, Thilan
Samaraweera, Chamara Silva, Chamara Kapugedera, Angelo Mathews, Thisara Perera, Nuwan Kulasekara,
Lasith Malinga, Dilhara Fernando, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis, Rangana Herath.

(10) Ireland:

William Porterfield (Captain), Andre Botha, Alex Cusack, Niall O’Brien (wk), Kevin O’Brien, George
Dockrell, Trent Johnston, Nigel Jones, John Mooney, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Albert van der Merwe,
Gary Wilson, Andrew White, Ed Joyce

(11) Zimbabwe:

Elton Chigumbura (Captain), Regis Chakabva, Charles Coventry, Graeme Cremer, Craig Ervine, Sean
Ervine, Greg Lamb, Shingi Masakadza, Chris Mpofu, Ray Price, Ed Rainsford, Tatenda Taibu, Brendan
Taylor, Prosper Utseya, Sean Williams

(12) Netherlands:

Peter Borren (Captain), Wesley Baressi, Mudassar Bukhari, Atse Buurman, Tom Cooper, Tom de Grooth,
Alexei Kervezee, Bradley Kruger, Bernard Loots, Adeel Raja, Pieter Seelaar, Eric Swarczynski, Ryan Ten
Doeschate, Berend Westdijk, Bas Zuiderent

(13) Kenya:

Jimmy Kamande (Captain), Seren Waters, Alex Obanda, Elijah Otieno, Rakep Patel, David Obuya, Collins
Obuya, Steve Tikolo, Tamnay Mishra, Maurice Ouma, Nehemiah Odhiambo, Thomas Odoyo, Shem
Ngoche, James Ngoche, Peter Ongondo

(14) Canada:

Ashish Bagai (Captain), Rizwan Cheema, Harvir Baidwan, Nitish Kumar, Hiral Patel, Tyson Gordon,
Henry Osinde, John Davison, Ruvindu Gunasekera, Parth Desai, Karl Whatham, Khurram Chohan, Jimmy
Hansra, Zubin Surkari, Balaji Rao, Hamza Tariq

Obama says Iraq war is ending, his promise is kept

VINEYARD HAVEN: President Barack Obama said on Saturday Iraq could ‘chart its own course’ and told Americans the drawdown of U.S. troops helped fulfill a promise he made during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Obama, who is vacationing on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard, declared in his weekly radio and Internet address that “the war is ending” and pledged to take care of troops who are returning home.

The U.S. military recently cut its strength to under 50,000 troops in Iraq, helping to make good on Obama’s promise to end the war launched 7-1/2 years ago by his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush.

Obama’s Saturday remarks may be a preview of a rare, televised address the president plans on Tuesday evening from the White House Oval Office about the troop drawdown.

“On Tuesday, after more than seven years, the United States of America

Sri Lanka choose to bat v India

DAMBULLA: Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat first in the one-day tri-series final against India on Saturday.

Sri Lanka fielded an unchanged side. India made one change with Rohith Sharma replacing Ravindra Jadeja.

Teams:

India: MS Dhoni (captain), Dinesh Karthik, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohith Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel.

Sri Lanka: Kumar Sangakkara (captain), Mahela Jayawardene, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga, Angelo Mathews, Chamara Silva, Chamara Kapugedera, Suraj Randiv, Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Kulasekara, Thisara Perera. AGENCIES

Sri Lanka opt to bat against India

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and elected to bat against India in the final of the tri-nation ODI cricket series at the Ranagiri International Stadium here Saturday.

Sri Lanka: Upul Tharanga, Tillekaratne Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara (captain-wicketkeeper), Mahela Jayawardene, Chamara Silva, Chamara Kapugedera, Angelo Mathews, Suraj Randiv, Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Kulasekara, Thisara Perera.

India: Dinesh Karthik, Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain-wickerkeeper), Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel. AGENCIES

Floodlights Improved For Tri-Series In Dambulla

Rangiri Dambulla Stadium was under great criticism during Aisa Cup. The reason for criticism was flood lights of the stadium. Now during the current tri-series the flood lights have been improved. Now there will be enough light in the stadium that is required for cricket.

Ashley de Silva, Sri Lanka Cricket’s head of cricket operations stated that the illumination levels of lights have been increased after their replacement. The previous capacity of bulbs in the stadium was 1000-1100. These bulbs are erected on eight towers with each tower containing 21 bulbs. After the replacement the range of these bulbs has now reached to 1300 and 1400 watts.

The previous level of lights was not appreciated by players as they thought that the light was not enough for playing. Scott Styris said earlier in the week that conditions should be little brighter to have good sight of the ball.

The slandered of lights were first questioned during Asia Cup when it was complained by many cricketers that it is difficult to play in low light. Gautam Gambhir complained that spinner cant be picked in such low light. Lasith Malinga declared it not up to international standards. Now after the replacement of lights it is thinking that problems of cricketers will reduce after it.

Sehwag leads India fightback in final test

COLOMBO: Virender Sehwag led India”s bold reply to Sri Lanka”s first innings of 425 with an unbeaten 97 on the second day of the third and final test on Wednesday.

Sehwag cracked 17 fours, 11 of them off left-arm pacer Chanaka Welegadara, as India reached 180 for two. Sachin Tendulkar, making a record 169th test appearance, is unbeaten on 40.

Earlier, Thilan Samaraweera eased to a 12th test hundred and was unbeaten on 137 when Sri Lanka”s final wicket fell.

Lasith Malinga gave Sri Lanka the breakthrough in the 11th over when Murali Vijay lofted an easy catch to mid-on with his score on 14.

Angelo Mathews then got rid of Rahul Dravid for 23 trapping him leg before, but in his next over he put down a hot return catch offered by Sehwag with his score on 52. Sehwag and Tendulkar have so far added 88 for the third wicket.

Samaraweera had reached his century in the final over before lunch, moving from 99 to 104 courtesy of an overthrow as he pushed the ball for a single to square leg but the return to the bowler”s end ricocheted off the stumps and sped to the boundary.

Sri Lanka lost their last four wickets for 44 runs after lunch with Ishant Sharma ending the innings with the wickets of Ajantha Mendis and Chanaka Welagedara.

Sri Lanka lead the series 1-0.

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MUMBAI: As has been the norm, bad reviews and doomsday prophesies greet every new Akshay-Priyadarshan starrer but against all odds they somehow manage to pull the movie to a substantial if not humongous collections.

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