The golden moments of the victory of the Indian cricket team in the World Cup Finals is still fresh in the memory of each and every Indian. The moments had also dominated the 2009-10 BCCI awards function that was held in Mumbai at the Taj Land’s End on 31st May on Tuesday.

The event was attended by the victorious team as well as some of the former veteran cricketers. The evening was a moment of pride for captain MS Dhoni and for his boys. As per the promise of the BCCI, the team members were handed over cheques of Rs two crores for each member.

Moreover, even the support team were given Rs 50 lakh cheque each. The evening was graced by some of the former cricketers like Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Balwinder Singh Sandhu, Ravi Shastri and Yashpal Sharma.

The most nostalgic moment of the event was when an audio visual presentation of the moments of the victory at the Wankhede Stadium on 2nd April, was played. The presentation had re-lived the moments of the victory against Australia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Sachin Tendulkar was honored with the Indian Cricketer for the year 2009-10, while Salim Durani was honored with the lifetime achievement award.

In 2002, a 17-year-old boy Parthiv Patel surprised the whole world by taking up the crucial responsibility of wicket keeping for the first time at tent Bridge, in England. However, after nine years the player wasn’t given many opportunities with only 18 ODIs and 20 tests in his name.

Parthiv Patel with the Legendary Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar

After playing for the Chennai Super Kings in the first two seasons in the Indian Premier League, this year the cute faced boy has got a position in the Kochi Tuskers Kerala. When asked Parthiv if he was disappointed, as he was the opening batsman when in CSK, he said that he has better opportunities in KTK.

Patel said that he enjoyed being in CSK, and also got to learn a lot from his opening partner Matthew Hayden. The cricketer said that he has got more opportunities in KTK as he has many roles to play in this team.

In KTK Patel is a wicket keeper batsman. Parthiv added that over the years he has worked a lot on his wicket keeping and has improved a lot too. The wicket keeper added that he is not disappointed that the KTK hasn’t got a good start in the season, but their win against the Mumbai Indians had indeed surprised everyone.

Popular badminton player Jwala Gutta has again caught some attention. Earlier the shuttler was said to be dating with former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin, but she had denied it saying that they were rumours spread by someone from the Badminton Association of India.

But the player is now quite often seen along with Azharuddin’s son Asaduddin. And the fact is that the two have been spotted together a number of times in Hyderabad, or store launches or even at a felicitation ceremony.

The Common Wealth Games Gold medalist is accompanied by Asaduddin in every match that she plays. After the match finishes, Jwala will be seen sitting next to Asaduddin and chatting away.

The two were recently also seen in an IPL’s post match party, however the two were reluctant not to be clicked together. Jwala insisted that the two are just friends and since she knows him since long they go along everywhere. Asaduddin is also an aspiring player, who will soon be seen in the mainstream games in the coming years.

Jwala was earlier married to badminton player Chetan Anand. But now she has filed for a divorce from Chetan and has not been in talking terms since then. Jwala was also alleged that she was responsible for the split between Azhar and his wife Sangeeta Bijlaani.

After the herculean victory of the Indians over the Sri Lankans in the World Cup Finals, good news is coming for the cricket fans. But this time the news may be a bad one for the female fans of cricketer Zaheer Khan, as he approaches towards planning his wedding.

Zaheer Khan may soon tie the knot with actress Isha Sharwani. Not many were aware that some thing was brewing since years between the two secretly. Zaheer and Isha knew each other since 2005 and had been together for a while.

But in between the two had called off their relationship and had moved on in their respective careers. The good part is when the two were not together, none of them had even thought getting hitched with some other person.

But last year it was announced that the two are back together and the bond between the two had grown stronger this time. Sources close to the couple have also said that the two will soon be deciding on their wedding dates. When asked the ‘Kisna’ actress, she couldn’t deny the news and said that she would not like to comment on it. Celebrations will now continue in Khan’s residence, first on the World Cup victory and now for Zaheer’s wedding.

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The M A Chidambaram Stadium on Friday shined and glittered, as many stars of Bollywood descended at the opening ceremony of the Indian Premier League in Chennai, India. The stage was set for the most spectacular crowd, which had still the excitement of the World Cup win.

Fireworks and some amazing performances had marked the opening of the most awaited season of the IPL 2011. As the captains of the teams came up on the stage to mark the beginning of the season, the crowd cheered the loudest when the victors of the World Cup, Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh arrived.

Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan along with south actress Shriya Saran entertained the crowd with the most popular dance numbers of Bollywood as well as Tollywood. The president of BCCI in his speech, welcomed the two new teams Kochi Tuskers Kerala and Pune Warriors.

The popular Prince Dance Group too had graced the occasion with their performance. Bollywood singers Sunidhi Chauhan and Kunal Ganjawala performed on the best of the Bollywood tracks. The singing trio Sona, Mansai and Akriti performed on ‘Aa Dekhen Zara’ from the movie ‘Rocky’. In the concluding segment Shahrukh entered by saying a few lines in Tamil language and continued to perform on the stage.

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Sachin Tendulkar who is on top of his game right now, since India Won the ICC World Cup 2011 may think of retirement plans soon as his dream of winning the World cup for the Indian team has finally come true. India played like true champions in the World Cup and Sachin’s career is at a all time high since he broke into the international circuit in the year 1989.

Sachin known as the little master is by far the best batsmen in the world with 99 hundreds in international cricket to his credit. Sachin Tendulkar would know for himself that if he had to retire, this is the best time. The IPL season starts in a few days and Sachin is the captain of the Mumbai India team and he can still continue to play IPL. For international cricket the competition is getting more fierce in the Indian team and the only thing that is against him is his age.

Sachin’s career has been more than 20 years and it is very tough to sustain a career for so long and to be successful as he has, its truly legendary. Sachin may have not announced anything regarding his retirement as for now, but fans should not be suprised if he soon announces the same.

He will not let down his fans and he has done more than one could for India cricket and has literally lifted the Indian team for 20 years. All the Indian cricket team fans are just waiting to see the little master back in action.

India Vs Pakistan : The Indian team takes on arch rivals Pakistan in the semi- finals of the ICC World cup 2011.The Indian team got a big boost by the presence of Mike Horn, the high-profile adventurer and motivational guru whose pep talks are said to do wonders to the team’s confidence.

Further just before the training session, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Kirsten and bowling coach Eric Simmons and curator Daljit Singh walked up to the pitch and had a long, hard look at it.

Indian team management wanted to know the nature of the wicket and were satisfied when they were told that he pitch was expected give the same results as it did in the other two World Cup matches. MS Doni, the Indian captain was assured by the curator that the batting side would be able to produce at least 270 to 300 runs on that wicket.

According to sources, a significant worry was the dew factor in the evening. They were told that there could be dew on the wicket during the second innings of the day-night match. To reduce the effect, the groundsmen might stop watering the pitch in the last couple of days,” he added.

Later, team India had a long training session. Outside the stadium, fans were cheering for their heroes. India has defeated Pakistan in all the games played at any World Cup.

The 40th match of the World cup 2011 will be played between defending champions Australia and Pakistan. The match will also feature both team trying to get the top spot in Table A.

The game will be held in Sri Lanka at Colombo. The only problem at this venue is that rain could be a big problem as we have seen before. There are chances of showers and we really hope the match does not get interrupted due to rain.

Umar Akmal from Pakistan who missed the last game due to injury will be back for this important game. Shoaib Akhtar will also be doubtful for this game and if he does not play, the Australians will be more than happy. Shahid Afridi who has had a great tournament with the ball is all ready to take on the defending champions.

On the other side, the Australians have been unbeatable in the tournament and are still playing like champions.

For Australia, John Hastings might play if the team decides to rest a quick bowler.

World cup teams

Australia 1 Shane Watson, 2 Brad Haddin (wk), 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Michael Clarke, 5 Cameron White, 6 Michael Hussey, 7 Steven Smith, 8 Mitchell Johnson, 9 Brett Lee, 10 Jason Krejza, 11 Shaun Tait

Pakistan 1 Mohammad Hafeez, 2 Kamran Akmal (wk), 3 Asad Shafiq, 4 Younis Khan, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Umar Akmal, 7 Shahid Afridi (capt), 8 Abdul Razzaq, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Abdur Rehman, 11 Wahab Riaz

Tina Stewart, a young Middle Tennessee guard basketball player was killed as she was stabbed to death on Wednesday night. The 21 year old was killed at her apartment which is located near the campus of her university. Murfreesboro Police officers state, they have successfully arrested two suspects and they are trying to find the third one who is reportedly involved in this crime.

As the police reached the spot, Tina was sent to the Middle Tennessee Medical, where she was finally pronounced dead, her death was the cause of multiple body wounds. The police quote, the third suspect involved here could be a woman and search has intensified to arrest her.

Middle Tennessee President was present at a press conference where he said the entire university is grieving over the death of Tina. It was for the first time in the history of the university, where such an eerie incident has taken place. Tina’s father is in a complete state of shock and has refused to speak or give more details about their daughter’s death.

Los Angeles Dodgers baseball legend and hall of fame inductee, Duke Snider died at the age of 84 at a hospital in Escondido, California. He was a huge baseball star back in the 50’s and his career expanded up to 16 seasons and more than half a dozen world series. He was a well known figure in American baseball, and was an inspiration to almost everyone.

A veteran statement made by the Dodgers themselves reveal, he was one of the most feared hitters in the game of baseball. If his career achievements were to be accounted, he had a total of 389 home runs and 1,271 RBIs which is huge for a baseball player to achieve in his in entire career.

In the year 1980, Duke Snider was inducted in the Hall Fame, for he had achieved a lot in his career, and had brought a huge change in face of American baseball. Players today regard him as a person of great standard and exquisite talent, for there was no one who could replace the quality standard kept forward by Duke during his career.