MIRPUR: It was dadagiri of a different kind as Virender Sehwag stood and delivered, the last part of a brilliantly-crafted innings of 175 on virtually one leg, as Team India buried Bangladesh under a deluge of runs in the opening match of the 2011 World Cup at the Shere-e-Bangla National Stadium here on Saturday.
Put into bat by Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan, the Indian innings was powered by the flamboyant Sehwag and a wonderfully-paced unbeaten century by young Virat Kohli. Bangladesh, left with a mountain to climb after India finished with 370 for four, made a bold attempt to chase down the target, but went down fighting by 87 runs.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Friday, October 15, 2010
Washing machine dropped from balcony
Australia's Commonwealth Games experience ended on a sour note on Friday with the news an athlete was sent home earlier in the week for bad behaviour and a washing machine was dropped off an eighth-floor balcony at the team's residence.
India's media have slammed the 400-member Australian team for alleged drunken behaviour during the last few days of the Games, when most athletes had finished individual competitions.
Athletes reported that a number of their teammates were drinking alcohol and enjoying themselves on Thursday when the Games concluded in New Delhi and the closing ceremony took place.
But festivities took a turn for the worse when a washing machine was found outside an Australian residence in the village.
Local media reported it was dropped from a balcony on the eighth storey of the ten-storey building but no one was injured.
Perry Crosswhite, chief executive of the Australia Commonwealth Games Association, said athletes in the vicinity were interviewed by police but no one was detained.
On Friday morning, about 300 remaining athletes departed Indira Gandhi International airport on a Qantas charter flight for Sydney. "There certainly was an incident with the washing machine," Crosswhite told journalists at the airport.
"We don't know who did that. Delhi police came around and they've done a report and an investigation and we'll hear about that."
Crosswhite also said there were reports of athletes from other countries being in Australia's area of the village. He also said one un-named Australian team member was sent home "a few days ago" for bad behaviour but would not reveal if alcohol was involved.
"I'm not going to tell you," Crosswhite said.
"It's a matter between our team and ourselves. It's a matter of confidentiality. We'll do a report to their sport (federation)."
He said the person was sent home a few days ago after they finished competing.
Crosswhite has been involved in Olympic and Commonwealth Games since the 1976 Montreal Olympics and said end-of-competition celebrations always result in a few unfortunate incidents.
"At the end of the Games, these things happen," he said.
"When everybody is finished, they're letting their hair down, they do all sorts of things."
"We just sort of manage it and we get on with it."
Champion diver Matthew Mitcham said he witnessed booze-fuelled behaviour in the village.
"As you can imagine, the last couple of nights (there was) a bit of grog around. It's just a free-for all," Mitcham told journalists at the airport.
"That's the problem when a lot of people start celebrating together and alcohol gets involved."
Marathon runner Michael Shelley said he noticed athletes returning to the village from all-night sessions as he sat down for breakfast on Friday.
"There was quite ... some funny people in the morning coming back to breakfast when we were just going to breakfast," Shelley told journalists at the airport.
India's media have slammed the 400-member Australian team for alleged drunken behaviour during the last few days of the Games, when most athletes had finished individual competitions.
Athletes reported that a number of their teammates were drinking alcohol and enjoying themselves on Thursday when the Games concluded in New Delhi and the closing ceremony took place.
But festivities took a turn for the worse when a washing machine was found outside an Australian residence in the village.
Local media reported it was dropped from a balcony on the eighth storey of the ten-storey building but no one was injured.
Perry Crosswhite, chief executive of the Australia Commonwealth Games Association, said athletes in the vicinity were interviewed by police but no one was detained.
On Friday morning, about 300 remaining athletes departed Indira Gandhi International airport on a Qantas charter flight for Sydney. "There certainly was an incident with the washing machine," Crosswhite told journalists at the airport.
"We don't know who did that. Delhi police came around and they've done a report and an investigation and we'll hear about that."
Crosswhite also said there were reports of athletes from other countries being in Australia's area of the village. He also said one un-named Australian team member was sent home "a few days ago" for bad behaviour but would not reveal if alcohol was involved.
"I'm not going to tell you," Crosswhite said.
"It's a matter between our team and ourselves. It's a matter of confidentiality. We'll do a report to their sport (federation)."
He said the person was sent home a few days ago after they finished competing.
Crosswhite has been involved in Olympic and Commonwealth Games since the 1976 Montreal Olympics and said end-of-competition celebrations always result in a few unfortunate incidents.
"At the end of the Games, these things happen," he said.
"When everybody is finished, they're letting their hair down, they do all sorts of things."
"We just sort of manage it and we get on with it."
Champion diver Matthew Mitcham said he witnessed booze-fuelled behaviour in the village.
"As you can imagine, the last couple of nights (there was) a bit of grog around. It's just a free-for all," Mitcham told journalists at the airport.
"That's the problem when a lot of people start celebrating together and alcohol gets involved."
Marathon runner Michael Shelley said he noticed athletes returning to the village from all-night sessions as he sat down for breakfast on Friday.
"There was quite ... some funny people in the morning coming back to breakfast when we were just going to breakfast," Shelley told journalists at the airport.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Magical Laxman seals thrilling one-wicket win
VVS Laxman overcame his sore back to become the hero of a nail-biting one-wicket victory for India, who retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in dramatic fashion in Mohali. In one of the most memorable finishes in recent history, Pragyan Ojha picked up two leg-byes off Mitchell Johnson to seal the result, which until that delivery could also have been a tie or an Australian win.
The match was firmly in Australia's grasp when the No. 10 Ishant Sharma joined Laxman with 92 runs still required, but the pair ground Australia down and left a dejected Ricky Ponting still winless as a Test captain in India. The visitors' hopes were raised again when Ben Hilfenhaus (4 for 57) trapped Ishant lbw - although the ball would have missed leg stump - with 11 runs needed.
In the final, chaotic scenes, Australia continued to attack, desperate for one wicket. They thought they had it two balls before the winning runs were struck, when Mitchell Johnson rapped Ojha on the pads only to have a strong lbw shout denied. Adding to the commotion, Ojha wandered out of his crease and a throw from gully that would have found him short missed the stumps and ran away for four overthrows.
When the winning leg-byes arrived, the Indian players streamed onto the field as the Australians thrust hands on heads. For sheer on-field tension, the finish ranked up there with Australia's last-minute SCG win of 2007-08. But that match was overshadowed by claims of poor sportsmanship; this time there should be no such post-script.
On that occasion Ishant was the last man out as the sun set over Sydney; in Mohali he was every bit as important as Laxman, with a defiant innings of 31 in their partnership of 81. But Laxman was the star. The Australians will wonder how they let such a golden opportunity slip; the answer lies in the hands, or wrists, of one of their chief tormentors of recent years.
Entering the final day, Ponting's men feared Sachin Tendulkar, who went to stumps unbeaten on 10, much more than they were concerned about Laxman. They knew that in the first innings VVS had been very, very sore. He'd batted at No. 10, with a runner, and was hampered in his strokeplay. Two days later, the man with the most unique initials in cricket was very, very stubborn.
Again he had a runner, Suresh Raina, but just as important were the eight boundaries he struck in his 73, which came from 79 deliveries. Had he not started to farm the strike in the dying stages, he would have finished with a strike-rate of more than 100 for only the fourth time in his 188 Test innings.
Laxman flicked the ball through gaps and was always looking to counterattack as Ponting continued to set aggressive fields. His approach was critical, for Australia had all the momentum in the hour before lunch when Doug Bollinger, who did not take the field after lunch due to abdominal stiffness, made two breakthroughs, including the key wicket of Tendulkar for 38.
But try as they might, Australia under Ponting simply haven't been able to close out a victory in India. In 2008 he was over-defensive, failing to push for wickets and grab opportunities when they arose. This time Ponting didn't do much wrong; Laxman was just too good.
India began the day needing 161 runs and for an hour they were cruising, as Tendulkar and Laxman brought the target down with a rapidity that alarmed Ponting. Nathan Hauritz had picked up the night-watchman Zaheer Khan, caught at slip, but was leaking runs and when he conceded 14 off an over, Ponting knew the fast men were his only option.
Cheers went around the ground as Tendulkar passed 1000 Test runs in a calendar year for the sixth time in his career, and it seemed that he was destined to deliver India to victory. But his desire to score quickly brought his undoing, when he tried to cut Bollinger over the cordon to the vacant third-man region.
The ball was too close to his body and he steered it to gully, where Michael Hussey grabbed the sharp chance. Tendulkar was gone, and the atmosphere cooled down slightly as the runs began to dry up. Then came the second big moment of joy for Australia, when the presence of a runner cost MS Dhoni his wicket.
Laxman drove Bollinger to mid-on and his runner Raina took off for what should have been a comfortable single. But Dhoni appeared confused by Laxman remaining in his ground and the hesitation was enough to give hope to the fielder Hilfenhaus, whose superb direct hit at the striker's end finished Dhoni's stay on 2.
When Bollinger's fast, well-directed bouncer had a fending Harbhajan Singh caught at slip two balls later, Australia were in control. Laxman and Ishant had other ideas, and the rest is history. The great shame is that this is only a two-match series
Sunday, August 15, 2010
READ IT IF U R AN INDIAN
How independent we are in reality and whether we are really independent?
• 63 years of freedom, the richer are getting richer, poorer are getting poorer and a common middle class man is a crushed between the two classes.
• We have reached the moon but yet there are many homes where a girl child is not been accepted.
• Women are treated as Sex toys even though they have reached to the status of being Doctor, Engg., astronaut etc. Till today the rapes and molestation of women is increasing every day.
• We are attacked by the people who are threat to our nation
• The corruption, the imbalance of society, political games, and unawareness of rights is dropping one side of our country in a gutter.
• Cruel intentions of external and internal people are because of the injustice, races discrimination, politics and narrow mindedness of the old tradition like sati, dowry, domestic violence, poverty which is exists in our country even today.
• Laws are made by our elected representatives and thrown upon on us. And we call ourselves the largest democracy in the world. Most of our fundamental rights are denied to us. And we are expected to co-operate. India is said to be a secular state. But our secularism goes for a ride whenever there is communal tension in any part of our country.
• Shortage of pure drinking water, Electricity, Food, employement. India may win an Oscar for being the Dirtiest country.
• Youngsters in many parts of India today cannot choose their partners. If they still do and the choice violates arbitrary, extra-legal norms set down by caste panchayats, the consequence can be death. Honour killings in India estimated to be among the highest per capita in the world.
• The word 'dependent' is the core of the word 'independent'. No Indian, no community, no society, no individual is independent in the true sense of the term.
• So, are we really independent? We were under the bondage of British, and now we are under the bondage of poverty and darkness. India , Its high time now… Wake Up. Letz come together and make this place a better place to live. JAI HIND
• 63 years of freedom, the richer are getting richer, poorer are getting poorer and a common middle class man is a crushed between the two classes.
• We have reached the moon but yet there are many homes where a girl child is not been accepted.
• Women are treated as Sex toys even though they have reached to the status of being Doctor, Engg., astronaut etc. Till today the rapes and molestation of women is increasing every day.
• We are attacked by the people who are threat to our nation
• The corruption, the imbalance of society, political games, and unawareness of rights is dropping one side of our country in a gutter.
• Cruel intentions of external and internal people are because of the injustice, races discrimination, politics and narrow mindedness of the old tradition like sati, dowry, domestic violence, poverty which is exists in our country even today.
• Laws are made by our elected representatives and thrown upon on us. And we call ourselves the largest democracy in the world. Most of our fundamental rights are denied to us. And we are expected to co-operate. India is said to be a secular state. But our secularism goes for a ride whenever there is communal tension in any part of our country.
• Shortage of pure drinking water, Electricity, Food, employement. India may win an Oscar for being the Dirtiest country.
• Youngsters in many parts of India today cannot choose their partners. If they still do and the choice violates arbitrary, extra-legal norms set down by caste panchayats, the consequence can be death. Honour killings in India estimated to be among the highest per capita in the world.
• The word 'dependent' is the core of the word 'independent'. No Indian, no community, no society, no individual is independent in the true sense of the term.
• So, are we really independent? We were under the bondage of British, and now we are under the bondage of poverty and darkness. India , Its high time now… Wake Up. Letz come together and make this place a better place to live. JAI HIND
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Neil panicked while making love to Priyanka
Neil Nitin Mukesh has a long way to go, when it comes to love making scenes. This was discovered when Neil landed up in Coorg last month to play the first of Priyanka Chopra’s seven husbands in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Saat Khoon Maaf. During the love making scene Priyanka had to put all her acting skills into action to get the shy Neil to perform at par with her.
Apparently, there are seven love making sequences in the film with the seven on-screen husbands of the actress, each of different moods and playing time. The love scene with Neil turned out to be somewhat more complicated than he had bargained for. That’s when Neil panicked.
Thorough professional Priyanka sailed through the love scenes with her other onscreen husbands. With Neil there was apparently some awkwardness and after much re-takes the shot was okayed. Neil doesn’t deny the absence of an adequate comfort level with Priyanka. “But that’s because I hardly got to know her before working with her in Coorg. It was like…in and out. We didn’t get to know one another at all. I hardly had time to reach Coorg before we started shooting. There was no time for proper rehearsals”.
Neil couldn’t help but compare his inadequate chemistry with Priyanka to his great rapport with Deepika Padukone during the shooting of Lafangey Parindey, “Oh, with Deepika it was different. It was just the two of us. We had ample time to know one another before we faced the camera. In Saat Khoon Maaf I am just one of the seven men in Priyanka’s life. It was almost like Aadmi musafir hai aata hai jaata hai”.
Having said that Neil is all praise for Priyanka and Vishal Bharadwaj. “She is amazing on camera. I just loved watching her give her shots. As for Vishal Bharadwaj just being directed by him is a learning experience.” Coming back to the love scene in Saat Khoon Maaf Neil protests, “It isn’t as if I was camera shy. I just didn’t get enough time to get comfortable. I’ve done a love making scene earlier with Rimi Sen in my first film Johnny Gaddar.”
Apparently, there are seven love making sequences in the film with the seven on-screen husbands of the actress, each of different moods and playing time. The love scene with Neil turned out to be somewhat more complicated than he had bargained for. That’s when Neil panicked.
Thorough professional Priyanka sailed through the love scenes with her other onscreen husbands. With Neil there was apparently some awkwardness and after much re-takes the shot was okayed. Neil doesn’t deny the absence of an adequate comfort level with Priyanka. “But that’s because I hardly got to know her before working with her in Coorg. It was like…in and out. We didn’t get to know one another at all. I hardly had time to reach Coorg before we started shooting. There was no time for proper rehearsals”.
Neil couldn’t help but compare his inadequate chemistry with Priyanka to his great rapport with Deepika Padukone during the shooting of Lafangey Parindey, “Oh, with Deepika it was different. It was just the two of us. We had ample time to know one another before we faced the camera. In Saat Khoon Maaf I am just one of the seven men in Priyanka’s life. It was almost like Aadmi musafir hai aata hai jaata hai”.
Having said that Neil is all praise for Priyanka and Vishal Bharadwaj. “She is amazing on camera. I just loved watching her give her shots. As for Vishal Bharadwaj just being directed by him is a learning experience.” Coming back to the love scene in Saat Khoon Maaf Neil protests, “It isn’t as if I was camera shy. I just didn’t get enough time to get comfortable. I’ve done a love making scene earlier with Rimi Sen in my first film Johnny Gaddar.”
Emma Watson denies auditioning for TGWDT role
London (ANI): A representative for Harry Potter star Emma Watson has denied reports that the actress is auditioning for the lead role in an upcoming big screen adaptation of ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’. Watson, 20, had sparked speculation she was trying for the role of edgy computer hacker Lisbeth Salander after she debuted a short pixie hairstyle earlier this month, the Daily Express reported.
She was said to be leading the race for the role, fighting off competition from actresses including Ellen Page and Carey Mulligan. But according to GossipCop.com, a spokesperson for Watson has denied the speculation, saying the rumour is “absolutely false on all accounts”.
Peepli Live hit by plagiarism controversy
Aamir Khan might not dream in his wildest dreams that his film Peepli Live, which is about the pledge of the toiling farmers, would get into controversy. But anything can happen in this publicity-hungry world. Surprisingly, Peepli Live has been dragged into controversy for one of its songs.
The film has been caught in a plagiarism row over the use of the song “Chola Maati Ke Ram” composed by Gangaram Siwar from Chattisgarh. However, sources said that the makers of the Peepli Live have got its rights.
“The song “Chola Maati Ke Ram” has been composed by Gangaram Siwar in Chattisgarh, but the Habib Tanvir theatre group has officially purchased rights for the song. So I don't understand why people from Chattisgarh are asking for their due again," The Times of India quoted Nageen Tanwir, the singer of the song in the film, as saying. “Many of these village musicians are financially deprived and you cannot blame them for trying to make the most of this opportunity,” he added.
Aamir’s home production Peepli Live, directed by debutante Anusha Rizvi, is all set for release tomorrow, August 13. It features Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghuveer Yadav, Malaika Shenoy, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Shalini Vatsa, Farrukh Jaffer and Vishal O Sharma in the lead roles.
Well, it looks like the controversy will do more good than harm to the film, as it will surely give huge publicity.
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