Olympics kick starts today in Beijing with grand opening ceremony and rest of the world can take some time to appreciate how China has turned around to host the mega event in style.Media reports suggest that China is doing all the is possible to make this a great success and show the world that China has arrived into the main stream. Already they are making giant strides in various business and now into sports.
From India's Medal prospects, the shooting contingent is confident of repeating the feat achieved by Rothore and pretty sure of bringing back couple of Gold this time. We also have the great individual players in Tennis Sania Mirza and the doubles Kings Mahesh and Peas to bring some medals. Good luck to all the participants and China for a successful Olympics.
We also have Cricket this week end!!!!!!
For the first time in years that cricket has been pushed out of the main sports page in the Indian newspapers to give way to the Mega event Olympics. India takes on Srilanka today to play the decider of the series with both winning 1 match each. Even though India won the 2nd test Srilanka starts favorites for the decider with home advantage. The Curator has given hopes for the fast bowlers stating that the pitch will have good bounce and pace, hope its not part of the off the field game plan of the Srilankan think tank. Toss will be very vital on the result of the match, as in all the sub-continent wickets the pitch plays true for the first 2 days and starts to break and keep low from the 3rd day winning the toss and posting reasonable total of say 450+ will always help take the 1st innings lead and put pressure on the side batting 4th.
Kumble must be praying for his top guns to fire in this test, Sachin,Dravid and Ganguly have not scored a 50 in this series and Laxman has only one to credit. Karthik is the biggest failure in the tour with bad performances behind and in front of the stumps , dropping at least 4 catches and not scoring many runs. IMHO kumble just should not play a combination because they won the last test match, its ridiculous if karthick plays this test match in spite of having a reserve keeper in Parthiv Patel.
Sorry about not writing on Indian's big victory on the 2nd test, i was not able watch the match fully so could not write my views on the match. I just thought it would not reflect my opinion if i write based on news paper reports. Any way i will try to write on this 3rd test catching the highlights.
England Dominates Day 1
England bundled out South Africa for 190+ and sitting pretty at 50 for 1. South Africa was at 100 for 1 at one stage and some brilliant bowling from Harmison and Anderson quickly pushed them to 140 for 5 with harmison taking 2 and Anderson taking 3 and reached a personal milestone of 100 test wickets. Panesar and Broad helped to finish of the SA tail with 2 wickets each and it was thumps up for the new England Captain Peiterson on day one on his new role. Ntini sent back strauss early but could not push for another wicket as Bell and Cook played the rest of the day with no problems and stroke the ball well.
Wish the readers enjoy all the sporting actions in store in the coming weekend and through out the Olympics.
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All the very best to all our participants in the Olympics. Hope we win a Gold after a very long wait.
Indians have won the very crucial toss this morning. Now they will have to make use of this advantage to put a challenging total on board. I would like to see some big innings from our middle order. Its really a very long time since they have fired.
In my opinion this can well be one of the last few chances for Dada & Laxman. The have been failing consistently and this is the right time to provide chance for one of the upcoming youngster. It would be great for Rohit Sharma or any other young player to play along side Sachin early in their carrier. There should not be a scenario where all the four batting giants quitting the arena at same time which could land the Indian test team into the hands of a bunch of inexperienced youngsters. Hope such a scenario doesn't happens.
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