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Young goals twice for victory of ManU against Tottenham

2012-03-04T23:58:00.002+05:30

Ashley Young gets the net twice to shorten the distance of ManU from Man City to 2 points. Wayne Rooney puts up to the score at 45' and Ashley Young doubles then triples it at 60 and 69' to confirm the victory. However the 3rd placed Tottenham returned the goal from Jermain Defoe at 87' but could not defend the 3-1 loss.
United with 64 points is threatening the leader Man City with 66 points for the title while Tottenham remains at 3rd position 11 points behind United and just leading the fourth placed Arsenal by 4 points.

AFC Challenge Cup schedules and fixtures

2012-03-04T22:15:00.000+05:30

Warner leads Australia to victory in the first final against Sri Lanka

2012-03-04T21:30:00.002+05:30

David Warner excellent maiden ODI century helped the host get 1-0 lead in the first final against Sri Lanka in the CB Series. Warner batted till the end of the inning and made 163 of 157 balls when he was finally sent to pavillion at the last ball of the inning by Dhammika Prasad. Warner was well supported by MS Wade(64) for the 136 runs 1st wicket partnership.
In the other hand, Sri Lanka did not had the good start to their target and were 144-6 in the 30th over when Kulasekara and Tharanga took the charge and made 104 runs 7th wicket partnership and gave SL hope to win.However, the lower order SL batsmen could not grab the opportunity well and gave up at 306 giving 15 runs victory and 1-0 to the host.
The second final is being held at March 6 at Adelaide.
For further details goto http://www.espncricinfo.com/commonwealth-bank-series-2012/content/current/story/556121.html

South Africa clean swips against New Zealand

2012-03-03T19:25:00.001+05:30

Marchant de Lange bowled excellently in the debut match against New Zealand to beat the home team in the match and white wash the series 3-0. NZ struggling with the batting against excellent bowling from Steyn, Tsotsobe and of course Lange with 4-42 in the debut got crumbled on 206 in the 47th over. SA on reply played calm with Amla(76) and Parnell(27) getting the good start supported by JA Morkell(41) to get the 5 wicket victory in 44th over and white wash the series.
After losing both the T20 and ODI series, the home team is under pressure to take over the 3 match Test series starting at March-7.

Arjen Robben late strike lead Holland to victory. France strikes to Germany

2012-03-01T17:40:00.001+05:30

Arjen Robben late 2nd stike gave Nethrlands 3-2 victory over England who came back with a draw lately. Netherlands got the 2-0 goal lead with the goals from Arjen Robben(57') and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar(58') but late strikes from Gary Cahill(85') and Ashley Young(90+1') leveled the score, when Arjen Robben striked 2nd time at the last minute to confirm victory for Holland.
Olivier Giroud and Florent Malauda scored for France to give stunning victory over arch-rivals Germany. Ozil also played excellently but could not stop the defeat. Giroud scored at 21' while Malauda striked at 69', which confirmed their victory until Cacau threatened at 90+1', but the French confirmed yje win when no further goals was scored.

Messi score Hat-trick for Argetina. US gets historic win over Italy.

2012-03-01T17:33:00.001+05:30

The Barcelona and European star Lionel Messi scores a hat-trick to give his national team Argentina 3-1 win against Switzerland in a friendly match. The Barca play-maker scored at 20, 88 and 90+3'(PG) to complete the hat-trick and grabbed win for his country. Xherdan Shaqiri returned a compensation goal at 49' for Switzerland.

In the next game, USA grabbed a historic 1-0 win over 4 times world cup winner Italy. Clint Dempsey early 2nd half goal helped the USA to beat Italy.

India smashing win over SL;A must watch game

2012-02-28T16:26:00.001+05:30

India gets the unbelievable smashing win over SL to remain in the CB series at Oval. This was a must watch game as India was chasing huge target of 321 but amazingly got the victory before 13 overs with the wonderful and smashing batting from Virat Kohli.
SL batted first and with excellent centuries from Dilshan and Sangakara, got the huge score of 320. India started their inning stunningly with quick runs from Sehwag and Tendulkar, but soon lost both when Virat and Gambhir took the resposibility.Virat batted excellently till the end, completing quick century and was well supported by Gambhir at the other end who took India to almost winning side. After Gambhir, Raina came up and gave the match the finishing touches, however Virat was the highlight of today's match.
Short match details:

Sri Lanka 320-4 (50 overs)                                         India 321-3 (36.4 overs)

Dilashan - 160*(165)                                                          Virat Kohli - 133*(86)
Sangakara - 105(87)                                                       Gambhir - 63(64)
                                                                                            Raina - 40*(24)

England gets the sensational victory over Pakistan

2012-02-28T08:46:00.000+05:30

England almost sealed the last five overs to get a sensational last match victory against Pakistan and take the T20 series 2-1. The last five overs was the time to watch when Pak needed 35 runs which was not difficult to win with Misbah ul Haq and Umar Akmal on the crease and 7 wickets remaining but England produced world class bowling from captain Broad and Dernbach to get 5 runs victory.
England chose to bat first and with only Pieterson(62*) getting the good hand got 129 which was not the difficult target for Pak at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi for the excellent bowling from England got them 2-1 win in the series.

India suffers huge 87 runs loss

2012-02-26T22:54:00.003+05:30

India once again lost by huge runs margin in the 10th match of CB Series against Australia. Player of the match David Warner hit excellent 68 runs,also DJ Hussey and MS Wade completed their half centuries(54 and 56 runs respectively) to take Australia to 252-9. However, India did not started well and lost the wickets with no players exceeding 30 runs and finally collapsed at 165 to give 87 runs victory to the Kangaroos.
India is on the verge of kick-out from the series and the Final march for India strongly depends upon upcoming last 2 matches;India vs Sri Lanka(Hobart, Feb-28) and Sri Lanka vs Australia(Melbourne, Mar-2).

Stunning comeback from Arsenal with 3 goals in 11 minutes

2012-02-26T22:22:00.001+05:30

Arsenal grabbed 3 goals in 11 minutes against League leaders Man City to invert the losing match towards their favor. Louis Saha got the immediate breakthrough for City at 4' followed by Emmanuel Adebayor at 34'(PG), but the comeback goals from Bacary Sagna-40' and Robin van Persie-43' equalized at the end of second half. Arsenal got more 3 in 2nd half with two goals from Theo Walcott-65' and 68', and another one from Tomas Rosicky at 51'.
With this win the Gunners shorten their distance with 3rd placed Tottenham to 7 points.

De Villiers century marked SA win

2012-02-25T18:34:00.000+05:30

The unbeaten century from AB de Villiers help SA take 1-0 lead in the series against New Zealand. Initially batting NZ got 253-9 with 56 runs from B McCullam and 55 from Kane Williamson, however, the calm batting from De Villiers-106* supported by Dumini at first, after losing immediate 3 wickets in the powerplay, and qiuck batting Faf du Plessis at the end session who got 66* fro 49 helped SA beat the host by 6 wickets in the first ODI of the series.
The next match is being held at Napier on Feb 29.
For further details goto http://www.espncricinfo.com/new-zealand-v-south-africa-2012/content/current/story/555132.html

SL goes to top in CB Series

2012-02-24T22:38:00.001+05:30

Sri Lanka gets the last over victory over Australia to climb up to the top position in CB Series.PJ Forrest batted excellently to get 104 and supported by Clarke-72 to take Australia to score of 280-6.But the good start by skipper Jayawardene-85 and patience play by Chandimal-80 with excellent batting from Parera at the end getting 21 of 11 balls helped SL get the victory with just 4 balls remaining.

Wernbloom equalises against Ronaldo

2012-02-22T07:25:00.000+05:30

The late strike from Pontus Wernbloom helped the Russian club to equalise with Real Madrid in Champions League Leg.Christiano Ronaldo strike at 28',almost made sure that Madrid will take way the game but the last minute injury time(90+3') goal from Wernbloom equalised the game for CSKA at the match in Olimpiyskiy stadion Luzhniki — Moskva.

Ponting says bye to ODI

2012-02-21T18:06:00.000+05:30

One of the best player in ODI cricket says bye bye to the game, again with disappointment.Ricky Ponting, the former Australian captain who won two world cups: 2003 and 2007, with his captaincy says he does not expect to play ODI anymore.

"I don't expect to play one-day cricket for Australia anymore".

"I've only got Test cricket left now and I still have what it takes to be a dominant player."
"It's a bit hard to say I've retired given I've been dropped but I don't expect to play one-day international cricket any more and I'm sure the selectors don't expect to pick me either".
This was the statement given by the legend who has scored 13,704 runs with an outstanding average of 42.03, runner up to Sachin Tendulkar.He was dropped out of the team after he scored just 18 runs in five innings of CB series.However this disappointing dismissal of a legendary player is not the first for Cricket Australia.Michael Bevan also retired the same way.
The career of Ponting does not make us believe that he should be retired from ODI as happening.He is one of the legendary player, extraordinary captain and excellent batsmen that Australian team ever got.

Ricky Ponting's one-day career

Born: Dec 19, 1974 in Launceston, Tasmania
Matches: 375 (winning 165 of 230 as captain)
Debut: Against South Africa at Wellington on 15 Feb, 1995
Total runs: 13,704
Centuries: 30
Batting average: 42.03
Highest score: 164
Wickets: 3
Three World Cup wins: 1999, 2003, 2007
Second highest ODI run-scorer behind India's Sachin Tendulkar
Second highest number of ODI centuries behind Tendulkar

4 goals from Messi at 200th appearance.

2012-02-20T08:03:00.000+05:30

Lionel Messi was the star of the match when he scored 4 goals continously against Valencia to shorten the point difference from League R.Madrid to 2 points.Messi striked the goals at 22, 27, 76 and 85' and Xavi found the net at 90+1' which completely enveloped one goal striked by Pablo Piatti at 9', to give Barca 5-1 win.Messi brought out the special day for himself and Barca at his 200th appearance for the team.

3 own goals in the same match

2012-02-20T07:45:00.000+05:30

3 own goals, 2 scored by the same player helped Liverpool on their way to the next round in FA Cup after they defeat Brighton & Hove Albion 6-1 in the Anfield.Martin Skrtel opened up the goal for Liverpool which was equalised by Kezenga Lualua at 17'.Then Liverpool got the goal prizes from Liam Bridcutt-44' and 71' and Lewis Carl Dunk-75'.Andy Caroll and Luis Suarez also striked at 44' and 84' to complete the 6 goals.
The other game forecast of FA cup is listed below :
Crawley Town 0-2 Stoke City
Stevenage 0-0 Tottenham

Aussies regain top position in the series

2012-02-19T19:59:00.000+05:30

Australia climbed back to top of the table by getting a huge runs victory over India in Brisbane in the CB Series.Aussies batted first and made 288-5 with runs from Hussey(59) and Forrest(52) but Indian inning collapsed at 178 with the incredible bowling from Hilfenhaus(5-33) and Lee(3-49) to give 110 runs victory to the Aussies.The on-form Gambhir early collapse made Indian team to struggle when Dhoni(56) tried to hold on but could not stop the uge defeat.
India will face Sri Lanka at Brisbane on Feb 21.

Pieterson's hundred helped to gasp the series.

2012-02-19T19:21:00.000+05:30

The unbeaten century from the man who long awaited 37 ODIs helped England hold the series 3-0 against Pakistan in 3rd ODI in Dubai. Kevin Pieterson was the man on highlight today when he scored 111* shuting the mouth of many rumours against him to lead England to 9 wickets victory.The half century from Afridi helped Pak make 222 runs but the 170 runs opening stand between Cook and Pieterson made the chase easy and they won with 12.4 overs remaining.The only regret Cook had was he could not become the first English batsmen to score hundred thrice in consecutive ODIs as he returned at 80,however the series win had overcomed the regret.
The last match between two teams is going to be held on Feb 21 at Dubai(DSC).
For more details of the match goto http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan-v-england-2012/content/story/554135.html

Most sixes and Fastest hundred by a batsmen

2012-02-19T19:04:00.000+05:30

Most sixes and fastest hundred, both hit by a single player helped South Africa to draw the series 1-1 in 2nd T20 match against New Zealand in Hamilton.Richard Levi was the man on fire today when he hit 13 sixes and scored 100 in just 45 balls with total of 117 in 51 balls to make the 174 runs target by New Zealand look shorter in T20 game format.NZ made a good score of 173-4 by 47 runs from Guptill but the flying strikes from Levi rarely let the run rate fall below 10 except the 1st over the kiss the victory 4 overs before.
NZ won the first T20 by 6 wickets and the final T20 between the two teams will be on Feb 22 at Auckland.

FA Cup current match news

2012-02-19T10:05:00.000+05:30

The exit of another European giant came in FA cup when Arsenal was dumped in the 5th round to leave the Cup race.Sunderland got it 2-0 with the goals from Kieran Richardson(40') and one own goal from Chamberlain to remove Arsenal from the list of next round.
The report of other matches is short-listed below:
Chelsea 1-1 Birmingham
Norwich City 1-2 Leicester City
Everton 2-0 Blackpool
Millwall 0-2 Bolton Wanderers

For further details goto http://www.goal.com/en-gb/#

La Liga current match report

2012-02-19T09:53:00.000+05:30

Real Madrid moved 13 points clear off secceeeding Barcelona after they defeated Racing Santander 4-0 in a easy game totally on their sides.Christiano Ronaldo opened the goal account at 6' to give the lead which was followed by Benzema(45+1') in the first half.Second half added two more goals from Di Maria-73' and again Benzema to give the finishing touch at 89'.Real is leading the League with 61 ponts from 23 games followed by Barca with 48 points in 22 games.
The brief of other League games:
Getafe 1-1 Espanyol
Sevilla 2-0 Osasuna
For further details goto http://www.goal.com/en-gb/match/63153/real-madrid-vs-racing-santander/report

Chelsea equalised against Birmingham

2012-02-18T21:31:00.000+05:30

Chelsea played a draw in their homeground against Birmingham City at the FA cup.The early goal from David Murphy(20') was equalised finally at 62' with the goal from Daniel Sturridge to finalize the next meeting.However, the host lost a golden opportunity of winning the match after Juan Mata dropped the penalty few moments after Chelsea wqualised.

Aus vs SriLanka VB series

2012-02-17T22:12:00.000+05:30

Australia got another blow in the series after they lost dramatically against Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in the CB Series at Sydney.The effort from David Hussey(58) went in vain after the host were all out for just 158 runs their lowest total at the ground since 1997 and 4th lowest total in overall Sydney matches.Sri Lankans took over with Jayawardene-61* and Dilshan-45 by D/L method to get 8 runs vcitory.

England vs Pakistan ODI

2012-02-14T05:56:00.000+05:30

After the series loss against Pakistan, England got a very good start in the ODI series at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi by getting huge victory of 130 runs.English captain AN Cook was the highlight of the match where he scored 137 runs of 142 balls to get the team to the score of 260.Pakistan inning was trembled from the atack of Finn(4-34) who send the top four batsmen to pavilion, none of them scoring more than 15 runs.The highest run scored by Pakistani batsmen was 28(Afridi).Pakistan inning crashed at the low score of 130 runs with Patel taking 3 and Swann taking 2 wickets to grant 130 runs victory to England.
For furhther details to scorecard goto http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan-v-england-2012/engine/current/match/531631.html

India-Aus 4th match

2012-02-12T19:21:00.000+05:30

Skipper Dhoni guided India to a long awaited victory against Australia when India won the 4th match of Commonwealth Bank series at Adelaide Oval with 2 balls remaining.Australian debut PJ Forrest played a great match scoring 66 of 83 and helped Aussies reach the score of 269 with DJ Hussey(72) and skipper Clarke(38), however Indian opener and Man of the Match Gambhir gave a great start scoring 92 of 111 balls and Dhoni(44*) holding at the last minute to give victory just before 2 balls and healed the 65 runs loss at Melbourne.
The remaining match fixtures are listed below:
India v Sri Lanka at Adelaide
Feb 14, 2012

Australia v Sri Lanka at Sydney
Feb 17, 2012

Australia v India at Brisbane

Feb 19, 2012

India v Sri Lanka at Brisbane
Feb 21, 2012

Australia v Sri Lanka at Hobart
Feb 24, 2012

News of ManU vs Liverpool match

2012-02-12T18:52:00.000+05:30

The two Red rivals met again and had a rebelion match along with the clash and increasing tension between Evra and Swarez,however, ManU pushed back Liverpool 2-1 with two goals from Wayne Rooney in 47' and 50'.The match started in tension when Swarez refused to shake hand with Evra who was the cause for his 8 match, and continued during all match time.Swarez also striked a goal in 80' and tried to lift up his team points but it was not plenty enough.
Yesterday also was the big day as there were other watchable matches.Quick watch to other matches is given below:
Everton 2-0 Chelsea.
Sunderland 1-2 Arsenal
Tottenham 5-0 Newcastle United

Osasuna 3-2 Barcelona
For further details logon to http://www.goal.com/en-gb/

Zimbabwe tour of New Zealamd

2012-02-09T15:50:00.000+05:30

New Zealand sweeps the series with 202 runs of huge victory in the 3rd and last one-day against Zimbabwe at Napier.The excellent batting from McCullum(119 from 88 balls) and Guptill(85) lead the kiwis to a huge score of 370-8 to which only Brendon Taylor(65) was able to hold on but other Zimbabwees gave up and ended at 171.
Details of the series:

Tour Match: New Zealand XI v Zimbabweans at Gisborne - Jan 21-23, 2012

New Zealand XI 272/7d and 274/5; Zimbabweans 329

Match drawn

1st ODI: New Zealand v Zimbabwe at Dunedin - Feb 3, 2012

New Zealand 248 (48.3 ov); Zimbabwe 158 (41.1 ov)

New Zealand won by 90 runs

2nd ODI: New Zealand v Zimbabwe at Whangarei - Feb 6, 2012

New Zealand 372/6 (50 ov); Zimbabwe 231/8 (50 ov)

New Zealand won by 141 runs

3rd ODI: New Zealand v Zimbabwe at Napier - Feb 9, 2012

New Zealand 373/8 (50 ov); Zimbabwe 171 (44 ov)

New Zealand won by 202 runs

1st T20I: New Zealand v Zimbabwe at Auckland - Feb 11, 2012

Match scheduled to begin at 19:00 local time (06:00 GMT)

2nd T20I: New Zealand v Zimbabwe at Hamilton - Feb 14, 2012

Match scheduled to begin at 19:00 local time (06:00 GMT)

For more details goto http://www.espncricinfo.com/new-zealand-v-zimbabwe-2012/engine/series/520581.html

Barcelona reaches the final

2012-02-09T15:25:00.000+05:30

The Spanish giant is going to contest the Copa del Rey final after defeating Valencia 2-0 in Camp Nou yesterday with the goals from Fabregas(16') and Xavi(81').Barca secured the aggregate win of 3-1 to finalize the meet with Athletic Bilbao who defeated CD Mirandes 6-2.

Pakistan white washes England

2012-02-07T15:41:00.000+05:30

Pakistan secures the whitewash against England in a 3 test match series after beating England by71 runs in 4th day of 3rd test in Dubai.
Even after dismissing Pakistan for 99 in their first innings, England could not pick it up and the current leading team in the Test rank was dominated by sunny disposition of Saeed Ajmal, the Man of the Series, and the stiff-limbed tenacity of Abdur Rehmanwho shared 43 wickets between them in the series.

Liverpool missing chances for Champions League

2012-02-07T15:09:00.000+05:30

Liverpool is losing hopes for Champions League qualification when they played a draw against the 3rd placed Tottenham at Anfield.Luis Suarez made his return to the Reds' team as a second-half substitute and perhaps wasted the best chance of the match, nodding at Brad Friedel from a matter of yards while Gareth Bale shot straight at Pepe Reina when through on goal late on.Tottenham, being 7 ponits behind the leaders, is looking their title chances grow with a hard-fought point.

ManU vs Chelsea draw

2012-02-06T04:24:00.000+05:30

The sensational match of Premie Leaugue finished yesterday with a draw in the Stamford Bridge when Man U had a excellent comeback against the hosts Chelsea.The home side was secured with 3 goals lead from Jonny Evans(OG 36'), Juan Mata(46') and David Luiz(50') but Man U came back with 2 PG from Rooney((58' 69') and the draw goal from Chicharito(84').However, with the draw ManU are held 2 points back of ManC who is leading with 57 points.

Arsenal wins with hat-trick from van Persie

2012-02-04T21:00:00.000+05:30

Arsenal striked 7 goals blow against Blackburn in the Premier League match in the Emirates Stadium.The goals included hat-trick from Robin van Persie(2', 38' and 68'), to move to 5th position with 40 ponits in 24 games.Rest of the goals came from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlaine(40'and 54'), Mikel Arteta(51') and Henry(90+3').

India victory over Aus

2012-02-04T11:58:00.000+05:30

Finally India ends the 16-game away drought and gets a remarkable win against Australia in the 2nd T20 match and draws the 2 match series 1-1.Gautam Gambhir's unbeaten fifty(56*) guided India to an eight-wicket win in Melbourne when India 135-2 defeated Aussies 131.

T20 match India-Aus

2012-02-02T18:24:00.000+05:30

India is moving on with its continous losses with Aus as it lost the first T20 match by 31 runs.Watched by a crowd of 59,659, the largest ever for a cricket match in Sydney, Australia's new T20 captain George Bailey enjoyed the winner's plaudits in his first match by the aid of punishing 72 from Matthew Wade and telling cameos with bat and ball from David Hussey(42 runs and 2 for 4 from 2 overs).Australia 171-4 beats India 140-6 and leads the two match series 1-0.

La Liga match scores

2012-01-29T06:41:00.000+05:30

Yesterday was frustrating for Barcelona as they were stopped at 0-0 draw by Villareal and pushed further back in the title race while their arch rivals and League leaders Real Madrid beat Zaragoza 3-1 to increase the point difference to 7.The goals from Kaka, Ronaldo and Ozil helped Madrid get a simple win against League trailers Zaragoza.

FA cup match report

2012-01-29T06:36:00.000+05:30

The late score from Dirk Kuyt dumped the rivals Man U out of FA cup at Liverpool the last night.The match was going for a tie when the score from Daniel Agger(21') was leveled by Ji-Sung Park(39'), but the late strike from substitute Kuyt (88') secured his side's proggression.
In the next match, Chelsea dropped QPR by the penalty from Mata.

England loss against Pakistan

2012-01-29T06:25:00.000+05:30

One of the watchable match ended with a dramatic Pakistan win over England by 72 runs at 4th day in Abu Dhabi.The great effort by Monty Panesar to collapse the Pakistan 2nd inning in 214 runs with a spell of 6-62 and set an almost winning target of 145 runs went in vain as the England inning crashed at just 72 runs with the extraordinary effort from young Abdul Rehman(6-25) to awad the 72 runs victory to Pakistan.None of the batsmen leaving Strauss and Prior scored double figure while 3 batsmen went for no runs.
Former England captain Geoffrey Boycott described England's performance in Test defeat by Pakistan as one of the worst he has ever witnessed.

India-Australia 4th test score

2012-01-28T11:24:00.000+05:30

Finally, the game is over and Australia clean swips the test series at the 5th day in Adelaide test.Indians, once again proved that they are going backward as a test team by the continous losses of the test matches.Australia's 298-run victory was finalised when Nathan Lyon found the edge of Umesh Yadav's bat and Brad Haddin gloved the ball cleanly, which led to celebrations from the Australians.Indians chased a quite difficult target of 500 but had abad start on the 4th day.Man of the match Peter Siddle who took 5 wickets in the first inning was accompanied by NM Lyon who took 4 important wickets and put India to backfoot.Finally Indians collapsed at 201 giving 298 runs victory to Ausssies.
Aussie skipper Michael Clarke was awareded Man of the series which was the outcome of his outstanding batting performance in all test matches.

India- Aus 4th test score

2012-01-27T12:54:00.000+05:30

The fourth day ended with the Indians scoring 164-5, with Virat(20) and Ishant(2) on the crease. Lyon took 3 important wickets of Sehwag(62), Tendulkar(13) and Laxman(35) while Harris took the other two wickets of Gambhir(3) and Dravid(25). The Austrialians are moving towards victory with the lead of 336 runs while all the hopes of Indians are in Kohli to win and to mark their first win in the series.
Australia has already won the series and is moving to white-wash the series by 4-0.

India- Aus 4th test score

2012-01-26T14:14:00.000+05:30

Australia took India completely under them and dismissed Indian inning at 272.None of the Indian Batsman except for Virat Kohli(116) got a respected score on the 3rd day of 4th test here at Adelaide.Peter Siddle did an excellent work to crush Indian inning by taking 5 wickets for 49 including the important wickets of Tendulkar, Sehwag and Gambhir.However, Australia did not started their 2nd inning well and lost 3 wickets for 50 runs at the end of the day,but,instead,they are 382 runs ahead and are well going to swip the series by 4-0.

Score of Barca vs Real Madrid

2012-01-26T14:01:00.000+05:30

The great rivalry match between the Spanish League leaders finished at Camp Nou with a draw, but leading Barca to the semi-finals with a 4-3 aggregate win.Barca striked the goals at first half with Pedro opening at 43' and Daniel Alves at last minute of extra time.However, Real Madrid came back stunningly in the second half and equalised with Ronaldo striking at 68' and Benzema at 72', but, could not avoid the aggregate loss.

Carling Cup match

2012-01-26T13:28:00.001+05:30

The big match in the Carling Cup when two English giants were face-to-face but amazingly had played a draw. EPL leaders Man City and the Red Liverpool fought at Anfield Liverpool and played a 2-2 draw which finally put Liverpool into the finals with 3-2 aggregate.The match was dominated by the Reds, however, City were able to strike two goals by Nigel De Jong(31') and Edin Dzeko(68').Liverpool posted the goals from Gerrard(40' PG) and the deciding goal from Craig Bellamy(74').Liverpool wiil meet Cardiff City at the finals.

For the details of top scorers go to http://sportshacker.blogspot.com/2012/01/top-scorers-in-carling-cup.html

Top scorers in Carling Cup

2012-01-26T13:26:00.000+05:30

Player                             Club                    Goals   Penalties

Rubén Rochina             Blackburn            4           0
(Striker)

Peter Lovenkrands     Newcastle United           3       2
(Striker)

Michael Owen            Manchester United        3            0
(Striker)

Darren Ambrose         Crystal Palace           3           0
(Midfielder)

Edin Dzeko        Manchester City             3    0
(Striker)

Pakistan vs England cricket

2012-01-25T15:32:00.000+05:30

The second test match of Pakistan vs England is going on in Abu Dhabi with Pakistan batting at first.Until the time the score is 133-4 with Misbah-ul-Haq(18) and Shafiq(13) at the crease.

Score of India- Aus 4th test

2012-01-25T15:21:00.000+05:30

Australians are in the mood to swip the series as they made a wall of huge score at second day in Adelaide test.The double centuries from captain Clarke(210) and ex-captain Ponting(221) took Aussies to 604-7 when they declared the inning and invited India to bat. Indians, however, repeated their previous trend and lost two wickets of captain Sehwag(18) and Dravid(1) before the day finished at 61-2.

La Liga match score

2012-01-23T17:34:00.000+05:30

Barca got a handsome victory over Malaga while their rivals Real Madrid crushed Bilbao, both with the same scores of 4-1 in the La Liga yesterday. Barca took over with 3 striking goals from Star, Messi at 33, 51 and 80 minutes and goal from Sanchez at 48' while Madrid got the starting goal from Marcelo at 25', two penalty goals from Ronaldo at 46 and 67 minutes,and final goal from Callejon at 86'. Consolation goal for Bilbao was striked by Fernando Llorente Torres 13' while for Malaga was hit by Rondon at 85.

The point differnce between the top two teams is still 5 ponits with R.Madrid leading.In the other matches Osasuna and Valencia played draw 1-1 and Mallorca defeated Rayo Vallencano 1-0

Current score of Barca vs Malaga.

2012-01-22T23:54:00.000+05:30

In the La Liga, Barca is dominating at Estadio La Rosaleda to Malaga to shorten the point difference against their rivals Real Madrid. Until the 69th minutes, the score is 3-0 with Star Messi scoring at 33' and again at 51', shortly after Alexis Sanchez doubled the goal for Barca at 48'. This win can take Barca to 2 poimts lag of R.Madrid until the points is finally decided by the match of R.Madrid and Bilbao.

What is the score of ManU vs Arsenal?

2012-01-22T23:45:00.000+05:30

ManU shortened the distance with the leaders ManC to 3 points by defeating Arsenal 2-1.Goals from Valencia at extra time of first half and Danny Welbeck at 81' left Arsenal at 5th position equalising with Newcastle United with 36 points each. Although Robin van Persie gave hope at 71' but it could not save Arsenal.

What is the score of ManC vs Tottenham?

2012-01-22T21:12:00.000+05:30

Now thats thats the end of the interesting game.Wow, what a match with 4 goals in 9 minutes. But finally Man City took over by the penalty , they were rewareded in the last minute of extra time. Samir Nasri and Joleon Lescott opened for ManC in 56' and 59' but was soon eqalised by goals from Jermain Defoe and Gareth Bale in the 60 and 65th minute. Finally ManC took away 6 point clear off from ManU by the penalty goal from Mario Balotelli.

Current score of ManC vs Tottenham

2012-01-22T19:16:00.000+05:30

The match between Leage leader Man City and the third placed Tottenham has just started with 10 minutes passed and no goals from anyside. Tottenham has the oppurtunity to climb up to second position by winning this match while already three point clear Man City can increase their distance with scond placed Man U.
However the struglling Liverpool lost their match with Bolton City by 3-1 in the previous match.

Why was Dhoni banned for the last test?

2012-01-16T20:37:00.000+05:30

India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been banned for the last test with Australia for slow overrate during the match in Perth.Umpires Aleem Dar and Kumar Dharmasena reported Dhoni after India were ruled to be two overs short of their target.
India lost the test heavily by an inning and 37 runs to hand over the four match test series to the Aussies 3-0, still with a match to go.India is on the verge of Clean Swip and gets another blow of losing the captain.Sehwag will take the captaincy for last test and try to save from continous test match losses since the England tour.

Match report of Barca vs Betis

2012-01-16T20:26:00.000+05:30

Barca obtained a difficult victory of 4-2 against Beltis at the home stadium to maintain the five points difference with the La Liga leaders Real Madrid.The Ballon d'Or trophy winner Messi put the final goal on 86th minute on a penalty to confirm the victory.Barca got the start with two goal lead but were soon equalised in 52nd minute.However goals from Sanchez and Messi put them to the lead.

Man U beats City

2012-01-08T20:30:00.000+05:30

And thats it,.After a great first half for United, the second half was even for entertaining when Man U was pushed behind by two goals from City but finally United wins 3-2 after an almighty scare.This will give United a little relief of the loss they got from New Castle and City as well.

Man City getting back

2012-01-08T20:01:00.000+05:30

The match is going on a really interesting move.This time Aguero gets it after the penalty appeal was denied and United look comfortable in defence until a sloppy pass from none other than Paul Scholes allows Aguero in on goal.The match is still on and Man City have shortened the goal difference to 1 and it is City 2-3 United.

Man City returns

2012-01-08T19:49:00.000+05:30

Aleksandar Kolarov returned the goal at 48' for Man City and showed that the match is still on. Kolarov guides a glorious freekick past Lindegaard, who stood no chance. The goal came out after Richards won a freekick just over 25 yards out after being tumbled over by Evra...

ManU on fire today

2012-01-08T19:21:00.000+05:30

Manu is on total mood to take revenge with Man City. Having scored three goals on the first half they are on great move.Rooney added a second on his pocket at 40' after making a lead at 10'.

2011 Fifa Ballon d'Or Gala

2012-01-07T19:17:00.000+05:30

Messi is favourite to win the World Player of the year at Monday's annual Figa Gala in Zurich.Argentine will become the third player to win the Fifa prize three times after Frenchman Zinedine Zidane and Brazil’s Ronaldo.He will also be the first player to win the Fifa accolade for three successive years after heading off Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009 and Barcelona team-mate Andres Iniesta in 2010.
Messi will become the fourth player to win the Ballon d’Or three times, after Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini and Marco van Basten, and the second to win it three years in succession after Platini – current Uefa president – in 1983, 1984 and 1985.
Real Madrid have already announced that Cristiano Ronaldo will not be attending.Ronaldo faces competition from Barcelona duo Lionel Messi and Xavi for the prestigious individual trophy, while Mourinho is nominated for the title of Coach of the Year together with Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson and Barcelona's Pep Guardiola.

Liverpool vs Oldham 5-1

2012-01-07T07:44:00.000+05:30

Liverpool heals the loss from Man City in the Premier League by crushing Oldham Atheletic 5-1 in the FA cup.The goals by five different players saw the hosts through next round of the competition.Though the first goal scored by Robbie Simpson gave the tourist some hope but ultimate goals from Bellamy, Gerrard, Shelvey, Caroll and Delvey put the hosts to the next round.

The score of Aus vs Ind innings

2012-01-06T19:08:00.000+05:30

Australia finally crushed India by an innings and 68 runs to get a 2-0 lead in the series.The effort by Tendulkar to get his 100 and also to to lift of his team went in vain after Man of the Match Clarke dismissed him at the score of 80.
The continous test match loss of India continued with 6 in a row.

India resume innings.Tendulkar on the way

2012-01-06T06:39:00.000+05:30

After the huge inning declaration of Australia at 659-4 with the not out triple century from skipper Clarke and not out 150 from Hussey, finally the Indians have started the inning.At the end of the third day, Indians have lost the three important wickets of Gambhir-83, Sehwag-4 and Dravid-29.Tendulkar is out there on his way to a hundred century with 51 supported by Laxman at 30.

Man city 3-0 Liverpool. Real Madrid stuns Malaga

2012-01-04T18:09:00.000+05:30

Man city made a simple win over Liverpool to make a clear 3 point lead against their runner Man Utd in the Premier League at the Etihad Stadium.City took the lead at 10 minutes when Sergio Aguero striked against Liverpool keeper Reina.The host doubled their lead before half time with the header from Yaya Toure in 33rd minute and tripled it in75th minute by the penalty from James Milner.
In the other games Fulham beat Arsenal 1-2 by the goals from Sidewell and Zamora.Sunderland beat Wigan 4-1 and Tottenham beat West Bromwich 1-0.

Real Madrid made a stunning comeback in the second half to get a 3-2 win against Malaga in Copa del Rey at the homeground.Malaga stunned the Spanish giant after striking two goals before the second half but Madrid attacked with three goals in 10 minutes to silence the visitors.The two goals in two minutes from Sami Khedira and Gonzalo Higuain saw the home team draw level before Karim Benzema grabbed the winner with 12 minutes left to play.
The two sides meet again on January 10 at La Rosaleda, with a quarter-final place in the tournament at stake.

Clarke smashes India

2012-01-04T17:10:00.000+05:30

Captain Michael Clarke hit an unbeaten 251 runs blow to India on second day of the second test in Sydney when host took complete control of the match.The skipper reached the highest Sydney Cricket Ground score by an Australian and took the Aussies to 482 with the lead of 291.
Beginning the day at 116-3, the host lost only wicket of Ponting at 134 when Ishant Sharma made him caught by tendulkar.Ponting also had a good come back as he obtained a three figure after the long 34 innings but it was the captain who was shining in Sydney Ground the whole day.After dropping the Indians at 191 with the excellent bowling by Pattinson and Hilfenhaus, the Aussies are at good positions and Indians have to struggle a lot in the coming 3 days to avoid Australia taking 2-0 lead in the four match series.

Sri Lanka lead with a historic win

2011-12-30T19:28:00.000+05:30

Sri Lanka won their first ever test in South African pitch when they stopped the Proteus in 241 and got the 208 runs victory in just fourth day of the test. Altough SA started well with their batting, they crumbled and lost their four wickets in just less than one hour after lunch.The final three wickets went down in four deliveries and a fantastic year for Test cricket ended with the biggest upset of 2011.
Rangana Herath was the hero in the 4th day who took 5 wickets of 79 runs and ended Sri Lanka's run of 15 Tests without a victory.

HENRY gonna be back:says Wenger

2011-12-30T19:07:00.000+05:30

Arsenal manager Aresene Wenger confirms the comeback of his former player Thierry Henry to boost up his team.Wenger said: "To cover for two months is ideal. He has the experience and the quality. He knows the club and can help the players on and off the pitch.
Henry is highest goal scorer for Arsenal with 226 goals in 370 appearances.However the formal annoncement has not been done as the paper work is yet to complete.The French forward is expected to sign a two month loan with Arsenal.
If agreement is reached with the Red Bulls, he could feature in Arsenal's FA Cup third-round tie against Leeds on 9 January.

Hussey giving hope

2011-12-28T18:11:00.000+05:30

Hussey's outstanding performance once again saves the Green Caps from falling behind in the Ind-Aus test series in Melbourne today.His smooth 79 runs from 134 balls including 7 fours continued adding the entertain to the match in the late sessions.
15 wickets fall off 274 runs on the day 3 made the test quite interesting to watch in Melbourne.Although losing initial wickets very early send the Aussies to backfoot for sometime,the experienced batting by Ponting and Hussey was the turning point and has left the game evenly poised.
However, the brilliant bowling by young Umesh Yadav cannot be forgotten. He silenced the overjoyed Aussies by picking up four important wickets including the first three of the openers:Warner,Cowan with 1st down Marsh and 6th down Siddle not letting any one of them to get a double digit score.