IPL Hyderabad Team is Deccan Chargers

DC owned IPL Hyderabad team is named DC-Deccan Chargers.Last it unvelied the name,logo and anthem.
Name:Deccan Chargers
Captain:VVS Laxman
Vice-captain:Adam Gilchrist
website:DeccanChargers

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DLF Indian Premier League

1. Team Bangalore - Royal Challengers - Rahul Dravid
   
2. Team Chennai - Super Kings - MS Dhoni
   
3. Team Delhi - Dare Devils - Virendra Shewag
   
4. Team Hyderabad - Deccan Chargers - VVS Laxman
   
5. Team Jaipur - Rajasthan Royals - Shane Warne
   
6. Team kolkata - Knight Riders - Sourav Ganguly
   
7. Team Mohali - kings XI Punjab - Yuvraj Singh
   
8. Team Mumbai - Mumbai Indians - Sachin Tendulkar
   

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IPL Cricket Ka Karmayudh Ad

For the last one week most of the Televisions channels are being screened with the IPL's 20-20 ad with punch line 'Cricket Ka KarmaYudh'.Here is the Hindi Version of the ad.



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IPL Teams' Logos

Mumbai -Mumbai Indians
Mohali - Kings XI Punjab
Delhi - Dare Devils
Hyderabad Deccan Chargers
Jaipur - Rajasthan Royals

Kolkata - Knight Riders
Chennai - Super Kings
Bangalore - Royal Challengers
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'Youngistaan' wins the commonWealth Bank tri series

By defeating Australia in the second best of three finals in a thrilling fashion, India wins the CB triangular series by 2-0 margin.

India wins the U/19 World Cup

India lifted the U19 World for the Second time when it beat South Africa by 12 runs on Sunday.For videos and interesting statistics refer Iccevents-Yahoo

Previous Victories

1988 Australia beat Pakistan

1998 England beat New Zealand

2000 India beat Sri Lanka

2002 Australia beat South Africa

2004 Pakistan beat West Indies

2006 Pakistan beat India

February Tit bits

• BSE India launched its Hindi version of website : hindi.bseindia.com.Prior to Hindi it was available in English and Gujarati
• Useful website on ERP, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne in specific: itzErp
• India enters Finals in Commonwealth Bank series and U19 World cup.
• Yahoo supports OpenID 2.0. OpenID standard lets netizens use the a single UserID+Password to login to several sites.
  

Winners of IPL Bids

1]Mukesh Ambani's Reliance for Mumbai - $111.9 million
2]Deccan Chronicle for Hyderabad - $107.01 million
3]Vijay Mallya's UB Group for Bangalore - $106 million
4]India Cements for Chennai - $91 million
5]GMR Holdings for Delhi - $84 million
6]Consortium led by Preity Zinta for Mohali - $76 million
7]Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies (with Juhi Chawla and Jay Mehta) for Kolkata - $75.09 million
8]Emerging Media, a consortium including Manoj Badale of England, Lachlan Murdoch and some other investors for Jaipur - $67 million

The Indian Premier League[IPL],stage for 20-20 tournament was created BCCI in 2007 and has been approved by ICC.Basically it has formed eight teams based on the eight cities.Any one can own a team by bidding at the auction.The base price was set as UDS $50m per team for a period of 10 years.The winners of the bid will own these eight teams in the fray. They can run them in their own styles, bring their own sponsors and even name the team according to their choice (in consultation with the IPL forum). In the inaugural year, they will have to buy the players in an auction; subsequently, they will be free to trade the players as is done in various leagues around the world. They will also get a share in the profits, starting from television revenue, gate money and merchandising. They will even be free to list their teams on the stock exchange.

Source:Hindustan Times and TOI

India does a check to Australia's winning streak

Its India again, that halted Australia's record consecutive wins.Last time it happened in 2001 at Kolkatta.This time it happened in its own soil.This 72 run win@Perth in the 3rd test match, can be attributed as one of the finest Test wins abroad.

Score Card:Cricinfo

Yuvraj 6 sixes feat in the First Twenty Twenty World Cup

World Cup 2007 + Google

It seems Google has indexed the World's cricket fever

India World Cup Team

Batsmen
Rahul Dravid (Captain)
Sachin Tendulkar (Vice-Captain)
Sourav Ganguly
Robin Uthappa
Yuvraj Singh
All Rounders
Virender Sehwag
Irfan Pathan
Wicketkeepers
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Dinesh Karthik
Bowlers
Ajit Agarkar
Harbhajan Singh
Anil Kumble
Zaheer Khan
Sreesanth
Munaf Patel

World Cups so far

So far eight world cups have been conducted.Australia has won 3 times,West Indies 2 times and India,Pakistan and Sri Lanka Once each.England has conducted the tournament 4 times, but has never won the cup.In 1987 the world cup was conducted for the first time outside England.West Indies for the first time was unable to make it to Finals.More over the games were reduced from 60 overs to 50 due to the shorter daylight hours on the Indian Sub-continent.England lost the cup to Australia by a narrow margin of 7 runs.
Lord's hosted the Final Matches for four times.The latest World Cup was won by Australia in South Africa.
World Cups Statistics
1975 : Hosted by England and won by West Indies[60 Overs Match]
1979 : Hosted by England and won by West Indies[60 Overs Match]
1983 : Hosted by England and won by India[60 Overs Match]
1987 : Hosted by India/Pakistan and won by Australia[50 Overs Match]
1992 : Hosted by Australia/New Zealand and won by Pakistan[50 Overs Match]
1996 : Hosted by India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka and won by Sri Lanka[50 Overs Match]
1999 : Hosted by England/Scotland/Dutch and won by Australia [50 Overs Match]
2003 : Hosted by South Africa/Zimbabwe/Kenya and won by Australia[50 Overs Match]

Source : http://www.icc-cricket.com

Cricket World Cup 2007

The biggest sporting event of the year 2007 is going to start in another 50 odd days in the Caribbean islands.Despite the initial doubt in the air about the West Indies' capability in conducting the sporting event of this kind,it seems be everything is going on smoothly and the country has geared up with12 stadia in 9 venues.
Some Statistics of the Current World Cup
Total number of teams participating : 16
Groups and Compositions: 4[A,B,C and D]
Group A : Australia,South Africa,Scotland and The Netherlads
Group B : Sri Lanka,India,Bangladesh and Bermuda
Group C : New Zealad,England,Kenya and Canada
Group D : Pakistan,West Indies,Zimbabwe and Ireland
The event will start with 16 warm up matches on Mon 05 Mar.
The Opening Ceremony is on Sun 11 Mar.The actual contest wll start with Host competing with Pakistan on Tue 13 Mar and will close on Sat 28 Apr at Barbados.
Links for reference
Teams taking Part in the World Cup
Team Grouping
Match Schedule
Match Venues

Sreesanth's Dance

Each and every one, right from the Players in the field, Commentary box, Audience , Spectators around the world enjoyed this emotional yet funny event that took place between Sreesanth and Nel on the eve of First Test match against South Africa on Sunday.India went on to Win this match and marked it the first ever Test Win on the South African soil.Watch it here....

BlueBillion

"Join the Blue Billion".This is the phrase we are coming across very frequently in the Indian television channels these days.Whats it all about.Of course its a marketing gimmick.Here Blue is the colour code of Indian Cricket team and Billion represents the population of India.Whenever a major tourney like World Cup approaches this kind of catchy phrases like "Hoo Haa India " ,"Common India" etc will be floating across in this cricket mad country.

This time as the 2007 World cup is fast approaching and as part of the ongoing iccchampionstrophy , Pepsi India has come up with this phrase.Not this all , partnering with Yahoo it has launched a website that will be active till this worldcup.The website host several contests,Quizzes and wallpers,screen savers etc for downloading.Not this all it will let you earn some credits for various activities as shown like Participating in a promotion,Referring Friends,Downloading wallpapers/screen savers/media skins etc.,And here goes the offers you can avail the earned credits Offers.
The counter on the home page says so far 224009 have become part of the blue billion.That mean 1 out of every 50 has already become part of the blue billion.If you wanna be part of the blue billion ping this website BlueBillion with your Yahoo email ID.