India Beat srilanka by 46 runs in Compaq cup 2009 final match

India defeated Sri Lanka by 46 runs in the the final of the Compaq Cup tri-series One-Day International cricket at the R. Premadasa stadium here on Monday.
Chasing 320, Sri Lanka were all out for 273 in 46.4 overs with Harbhajan Singh returning an impressive haul of 5 for 56.
Sachin Tendulkar (138) cracked his 44th ODI century while Yuvraj Singh (56 not out) and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (56) chipped in with useful contribution to pile on a competitive score.
Tillakaratne Dilshan (42) and Sanath Jayasuriya (36) gave Sri Lanka a flying start before Harbhajan struck crucial blows.
Thilan Kandamby (66) and Chamara Kapugedera (35) kept the hosts in the hunt but ran out of steam in the end with Harbhajan taking the last three wickets.
Full match report to follow
A sensational 133-ball 138 by Sachin Tendulkar powered India to 319-5 in the final of the Compaq Cup against Sri Lanka on Monday.
The master batsmen plundered 10 fours and one six in his 44th ODI hundred that ended in the 46th over.
Tendulkar's marathon knock was accompanied by stellar half-centuries by MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh.
The Indian batting that had struggled to get partnerships going in the previous two games, stitched three big stands to set Sri Lanka a massive challenge.
Tendulkar was also well supported by Rahul Dravid (39) in a 95-run opening stand.
After Dravid perished to Sanath Jauasuriya in the 18th over, Indian skipper MS Dhoni, who had the fortune of winning the crucial toss, joined the Tendulkar to weave a 110-run stand.
Dhoni clobbered three fours in his 62-run knock, which was put to an end by Lasith Malinga when the Indian captain tried to up the ante in the batting powerplay.
In the death overs, India was powered by a brutal knock by an unbeaten 56 from Yuvraj Singh. The southpaw hit six boundaries and one six to reach his 41st ODI fifty. Tendulkar too unleashed an array of shots that included two consecutive boundaries of Ajantha Mendis before falling leg-before to him.
Virat Kohli, who replaced Dinesh Karthik, was not out on two off as many balls.
The hosts without their star spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, hope to win the game to take revenge of their previous two bilateral series loss to India in limited overs. Ajantha Mendis has got a game in place of Muralitharan.

Sri Lanka beat India by 139 runs in 3rd ODI

Less than 24 hours after India had ascended to the position of top ODI team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s boys were brought crashing down to earth by a disciplined Sri Lankan unit who inflicted a humiliating 139 run defeat on their fancied opponents.
India failed miserably in their endeavor to deliver a performance in accordance to their top billing and were thoroughly out-played by their hosts in all departments of the game, leaving Dhoni and rest of the think-tank with lot of soul searching ahead of the final on Monday.
If Sanath Jayasuriya (98) and Thilina Kandamby (91*) proved India’s nemesis with the bat, it was the unheralded Angelo Mathews who spelled India’s doom with phenomenal figures off.
No wonder then that it was India’s second biggest defeat to Sri Lanka in terms of runs.
The only positive Dhoni could have possibly derived from today’s game was that maybe today was ‘one of those off days when everything that can go wrong, goes wrong’, which every team encounters.
Luckily for him, India had it today in an inconsequential tie!
Starting from the toss it was Sri Lanka who all the way leaving India to play catch-up cricket.
Their openers came out all guns blazing depositing the India’s new ball bowlers- RP Singh and Ashish Nehra to various parts of the park.
Ishant Sharma did provided India with their first breakthrough when he induced a thick edge off Tillakaratne Dilshan’s bat, straight into Dhoni’s gloves, but by then Sri Lanka had already breezed past the 50 run-mark in just the 8th over.
Dilshan made 23 runs off 27 balls with 4 fours.
Harbhajan Singh and Yusuf Pathan then removed Mahela Jayawardene (17) and Kumara Sangakkara (5) cheaply to raise Indian hopes, only to be thwarted by Jayasuriya first, and then Kandamby.
Jayasuriya, however, looked set to hog the limelight at R Premadasa here on Saturday.
Tha Matara Mauler treated the holiday crowd to some exceptional power hitting, answering his critics in a grand manner befitting his tremendous talents. He notched up 98 runs off just 79 balls, dissecting the Premadasa with 13 hits to the fence, before falling 2-runs short of what would have been his 29th ODI hundred.
Ashish Nehra played the spoilsport for the 38-year old warrior trapping him LBW in the first ball of the 29th over.Following Jayasuriya’s departure, however, the inexperience in the Sri Lankan ranks did threaten to come to the fore when Mathews fell almost immediately afterwards for a 37-ball 19 runs. He was beaten by part-timer Suresh Raina’s flight, only to become MS Dhoni’s second stumping.
But Kandamby and Kapugedera eased Sri Lankan nervers, much to the agony of the Indians.
The duo indulged in street-smart cricket, cutting away risky shots without compromising on the scoring rate as Sri Lanka whistled past 250 run-mark in the 45th over thanks to their 83-run partnership.

cameraman slapped by irate Bhajji before leaving for Lanka Home

Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh lost his cool on Wednesday,jabbing at a cameraman at Bangalore International Airport before leaving with the team for the tri-series in Sri Lanka.
Singh jabbed at the ANI cameraman Lakshmi Narayanan after his camera had hit him on the head while he was taking his luggage out from a car before entering the airport.
He gave an angry stare at the cameraman even as a security personnel tried to push back the lensmen who had virtually mobbed the cricketer.
The disciplinary record of the 29-year-old off-spinner at the best of times during his over decade-long international cricket career.
Harbhajan was accused of racially abusing Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds in Sydney and the 2007-08 """monkey-gate""" incident snowballed into a major crisis, threatening to tear apart the cricketing world.
In the same year, Harbhajan was banned for the remaining Indian Premier League matches during his first season after the infamous """slap-gate""", which saw him slapping his India teammate S Sreesanth in Mohali. (ANI)

Ponting retires from T20 Internationals

Australia [ Images ] captain Ricky Ponting [ Images ] quit Twenty20 [ Images ] Internationals on Monday, hoping the decision would prolong his career in other formats of the game. Ponting said he would no more feature in Twenty20 Internationals but would complete his contracts with the Kolkata Knight Riders [ Images ] in the Indian Premier League [ Images ].
"After much thought and careful consideration I have advised Cricket Australia of my decision to retire from international Twenty20 cricket," Ponting said.
"I have also spoken to (chief selector) Andrew Hilditch, (coach) Tim Nielsen and (vice captain) Michael Clarke [ Images ] and I feel this decision provides me the opportunity to prolong my Australian Test and one-day career, an opportunity I am extremely determined about," he said.
"As I said after the fifth Test in London [ Images ], I am hoping to continue playing Test cricket for as long as possible and retiring from the Twenty20 format gives me the best chance of doing this.
"I will now have set periods of rest throughout the Australian summer and while touring which I feel will be very beneficial," said Ponting, who returned home after losing the Ashes to England [ Images ].
Earlier this year, Pakistan captain Younus Khan had also quit Twenty20 Internationals after guiding his team to the World Cup glory.
"While I will no longer be available for Australian Twenty20 cricket, I look forward to playing with Tasmania's KFC Big Bash team where possible and to fulfilling my contract with the Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League," Ponting said.
Ponting has played 17 Twenty20 Internationals, scoring 401 runs at an average of 28.64 and with a healthy strike rate of 132.78.
The 34-year-old Australian, regarded one of the best batsmen of his era, has amassed more than 11,000 runs both in Test and ODIs.
Cricket Australia Chief Executive Officer James Sutherland said Ponting's absence would leave a void in the Twenty20 squad but the board supported the player.
"We are very supportive of the decision Ricky has made and understanding of the reasons behind it. Needless to say he will be a huge loss to the Twenty20 side but it does present opportunities for the other players and leaders within Australian cricket to gain further experience," Sutherland said.
"While we have not seen much of Ricky in Australia's Twenty20 matches in recent times, his innings in the first ever Twenty20 International against New Zealand [ Images ] at Auckland was probably the best innings I have ever seen in the Twenty20 form of the game," the CA official said.

Dhoni world''s top earning cricketer: Forbes

Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has topped the list of world''s 10 top earning cricketers compiled by Forbes, which also features four other players from the sub-continent Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly. Raking in USD 10 million, Dhoni is at the top of the chart followed by Tendulkar at the second spot with earnings worth USD 8 million in the list of ''The World''s Top-Earning Cricketers''.
While Singh and Dravid are at the third and fourth spot, respectively, Ganguly and Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting share the sixth place. "Paycheck figures include club and national team salaries and commercial endorsement income over the last 12 months," Forbes said.
According to the magazine, Singh earned USD 5.5 million while Dravid and Ganguly raked in USD 5 million and USD 3.5 million, respectively. Ponting also earned USD 3.5 million.
"With its deep-pocketed owners and global appeal, nine of the 10 highest-paid cricket players call the Indian Premier League (IPL) home, the publication added. At the fifth spot is England''s Andrew Flintoff with earnings of USD 4 million followed by Australia''s Brett Lee and English cricketer Kevin Pietersen both at eighth place and Australian Michael Clarke is ranked tenth.
While Lee and Pietersen raked in USD 3 million each, Clarke earned USD 2.5 million. .

Irfan and Yousuf Pathan in Tere Mere Beach Mein

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IPL first season made Rs 661 cr, cricket board got only Rs 15 cr

In its first season, the Indian Premier League (IPL) contributed less than Rs 15 crore to the coffers of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
A draft note on the IPL's income and expenditure in the year ended March 2009, part of the BCCI's detailed financial accounts being circulated among board members for their perusal, shows that while the high-profile tournament generated Rs 661 crore in total income, its surplus, which is the amount left after accounting for expenses, was only Rs 14.86 crore.
The expenses included share of franchisees in IPL's income from media rights and sponsorships, prize money, opening ceremony expenses, advertisements, and Rs 26 crore as compensation to Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals for the cancelled Champions League 2008.
Two senior members of BCCI confirmed that the board was reviewing its accounts for the 2008-09 year and a draft copy of the financial statements had been sent to the members for vetting. The accounts are expected to be approved by the board in its meeting scheduled for September 2.
According to the draft note, a copy of which is with The Indian Express, one of the biggest contributors to IPL's income were the media rights sold to broadcast company Multi Screen Media Pvt Ltd and sports marketing company World Sports Group.
The league got Rs 242 crore in the first year from the deal, which was negotiated at $1.02 billion for 10 years. This included a $108 million commitment for promoting the event. The media rights were renegotiated with the same partners at $1.6 billion, for nine years, from the second season onwards.
In the first year, franchisee consideration brought in around Rs 290 crore and sponsorships Rs 111 crore. Among the other sources of income were pouring rights (Rs 10 crore) signed with beverage company PepsiCo.
As promised by the IPL management, a large part of the revenue generated was shared with franchisees and also on initiatives to build the excitement around the event. Around Rs 220 crore, for instance, was awarded to franchisees as part of their share in IPL's central revenue pool. The league also shared the Rs 10 crore from the income from pouring rights with the franchisees. The IPL management spent around Rs 33 crore on advertising, whereas league and administrative expenses accounted for an additional Rs 65 crore.
Lalit Modi, the chairman of IPL, declined to comment saying he had not seen the accounts. He, however, said: "...profits may have been less, but you should look at the total money (generated by IPL)."
M P Pandove, honorary treasurer of the BCCI, said he could not comment on the issue because the financial accounts of BCCI for 2008-09 were still with the auditors.

Dhoni, Sehwag enjoy holiday in Kerala shooting ad film

Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his four team-mates, are enjoying a holiday in the famous Punnamada backwaters here, shooting a commercial advertisement for a multi-national soft drink company. Besides Dhoni, the other cricketers, who reached on August 17, are Virender Sehwag, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar and Robin Uthappa.
The ad shooting involving the five cricketers on four snake boats were progressing in the Punnamada waters, managers of the tourism resorts hosting the cricketers said. The cricketers would be in Kerala for the next two days, sources said.
The annual Nehru Trophy boat race, the country's biggest such event, is held in the Punnamada lake.

IPL III to kick off in Hyderabad, new venues unveiled

Four new venues and a third place playoff match will be introduced in the third Indian Premier League which will get underway in Hyderabad on March 12, 2010 with a game between IPL II winners Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders.
The final of the 45-day Twenty20 cricket league, which proved a huge success in its first two editions in India and South Africa, would be held on April 25, IPL Chairman Lalit Modi announced after a meeting of its Governing Council in Mumbai on Tuesday.
IPL III will have four additional match staging centres -- Nagpur, Vishakhapatnam, Ahmedabad and Dharamsala – and will also stage one extra match, the 60th, for the third place play-off, Modi said.
"The playing window remains the same, 45 days", Modi said before adding that the Governing Council also decided to include two more franchisees in IPL IV to be held in 2011.

Ganguly to lead Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL-3

Former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly will be reinstated as the captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders in the third edition of the Indian Premier League in 2010, team sources said Saturday.
Even as an official announcement is awaited, sources said that there could be a major reshuffle with former India coach Wright likely to replace John Buchanan as Knight Riders coach, while former Australian middle-order batsman Michael Bevan will be in the coaching panel.
Sources said Ganguly would be back at the helm in 2010 when his contract with the Kolkata team ends.
The iconic Bengal cricketer had a one-on-one with principal owner Shah Rukh Khan when the duo met in London to receive doctorates by the University of Central Lancashire last week.
"Sourav Ganguly and Shah Rukh Khan had a discussion about this when the left-handed batsman was in London last week. They have agreed in principle that Ganguly will lead the side," the source said.
"There were also discussions about the possible coaches. Wright and Bevan are the front runners. It is up to Shah Rukh to take the final call."
Ganguly, meanwhile, said that nothing is final as yet and a proper announcement will be made in due time.
"I don't take the decision of KKR alone. There are a number of people involved in the process. But hopefully in due course of time we will get a person who will coach the team. The decision has not been made yet," Ganguly said.
The Knight Riders management was also tight lipped about the development.
When contacted, Knight Riders CEO Joy Bhattacharya told PTI: "At the moment, I don't deny this (Ganguly as captain and Wright as the chief coach). However, there has not been any official announcement as yet."
Asked whether he was aware of this development, he said, "I don't want to comment on this. When there is an official announcement, we will let you know."
In the second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in South Africa, Kolkata Knight Riders were plagued with controversies especially after Ganguly was dethroned just two days before the start of the tournament.
Knight Riders coach John Buchanan, who later had to part ways with the side after their bottom place finish, had floated the idea of multiple captaincy but only to hand over the baton to New Zealand wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum.
IPL 3, which was pre-poned to accommodate the ICC World Twenty20, begins in March next year and will overlap with Australia's tour of New Zealand.

ICC launches 2011 World Cup with fanfare

The 2011 World Cup, to be hosted in the sub-continent, was today launched here with all the fanfare by the International Cricket Council with a member each from most of the previous winners present along with ICC vice-president Sharad Pawar and Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat.
Clive Lloyd, the captain of the West Indies sides that won in 1975 and 1979 in England, India`s 1983 winning-team members Balwinder Sandhu and Dilip Vengsarkar, Sri Lanka`s Aravinda D`Silva who played a major role in the 1996 Cup winning squad and Michael Bevan of Australia who was part of the team that won the crown in 1999 and 2003 were those present.
The sound and laser show that showcased the key moments of all the previous World Cups was a breathtaking affair.
Lorgat sought to dispel fears of one-day format being overtaken by the huge popularity of the Twenty20 version saying that the limited overs World Cup continued to be ICC`s showpiece event.
Pawar, the chairman of the 2011 World Cup Organising Committee, announced that the Indian board has decided to keep the ticket prices at affordable rates to encourage the student community to witness the matches and reiterated that Mumbai`s Wankhede Stadium would host the final.
"The Indian board has decided to keep the rates of the tickets low to encourage the student community. We don`t want to make too much money out of gates. This has come after what we saw in the West Indies (during the 2007 World Cup)," he added.
The last World Cup was played in front of a lot of empty seats.
Pawar also said that Pakistan, which would not hold any matches, would continue to be part of the organizational set-up.
"I`m upset that a major partner Pakistan is not organising a match due to unfortunate circumstances. They will be very much part of the organising committee and would help organize the World Cup in a dignified manner," he said.
Pakistan`s representative -- PCB`s cricket operations manager -- Zakir Khan took part in the ceremony though he did not attend the meeting of the World Cup Central Organising Committee which preceded it.
"The (50-over) World Cup is the flagship event of the ICC. What we have will hold up in the future," he announced to the audience which had several former Mumbai-based Test cricketers including Ajit Wadekar, Bapu Nadkarni and Umesh Kulkarni.
Lorgat also said that the 2011 World Cup would be over in 40-plus dates and would involve 14 teams