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Pakistan wins ICC World Twenty20

A side which fell just short of the World Title in 2007, a side which has been under trouble a lot in the last year because of internal struggles, a side whose matches were cancelled, postponed and lacked much practice, has now been been able to lift the Trophy. It has won the ICC World [...]

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Netherlands upsets England

In the first match of the much awaited T20 World Cup, we saw one of cricket’s most dramatic upsets. A last ball victory gave the minnows a much needed boost.
Needing seven off the last over Ryan ten Doeschate and Edgar Schiferli ran for their lives and with two needed off the last delivery, Stuart Broad [...]

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Google Squared

When Searching for content on the web search engines we often encounter situations where we are required to use many search queries to find complete information about an object.We would need to research a lot to collect what we need.
According to Google’s Official Blog, “Google Squared is an experimental search tool that collects facts from [...]

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Pakistan favourites for World Twenty20 – Wasim Akram

Wasim Akram has tipped Pakistan to win next month’s World Twenty20 in England. Pakistan have lost just three of their 17 Twenty20 internationals and convincingly beat Australia by seven wickets in Dubai earlier this month.
“Pakistan has the best winning ratio of all the teams in the Twenty20 cricket, so if they continue to keep that [...]

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Champions Twenty20 League

Number of Teams expanded from Eight to Twelve
The domestic Twenty20 winners of West Indies, Sri Lanka and New Zealand, as well as Delhi Daredevils, will also get an opportunity to participate in the inaugural Champions Twenty20 League, to be held from October 8-23 in India, just after the Champions Trophy. Lalit Modi, the tournament’s chairman, [...]

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Indian Premier League 2009 – Gethu and Vethu Players

We always produce a list of Gethu and Vethu after a major event.
To know what Gethu and Vethu means click here.
To see our previous list of Gethu and Vethu Tamil movies of 2008 click Here.
In IPL 2009 Gethu are those players who have lived up to the expectations and delivered when required and also those [...]

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Indian Premier League – Emergence of Younger Players

This year’s IPL has been extremely dramatic and has seen the table toppers being thrown out of the tournament in two dramatic matches in the semi finals. Two teams which were at the bottom of the table last year have made it to the finals and what a turn-around it has been for the teams.
These [...]

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IPL Semifinal 2 – RCB makes it to the finals

If you hadn’t read our analysis of the previous semifinal click here.
What a turn it has been for the two team lying at the bottom last year. The underdogs winning has always pleased the minds. Even halfway through the tournament Bangalore didn’t look that threatening. Now all of a sudden, they are knocking off every [...]

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IPL Semi-final 1 – Gilchrist Hurricane hits Delhi hard

The skillful and outstanding batting by the retired Australian giant Adam Gilchrist made the Deccan Chargers charge into the finals. They have gained immense confidence from such a crushing victory over Delhi, the best team so far in this season of the IPL.
Even after winning the toss Gilchrist wanted to field first just when everyone [...]

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Semi-Finals of the IPL – An Analysis

The league matches of the Indian Premier League have come to an end (It should have stopped with this – It is meaningless to have knock-out matches in a League Tournament but well, it is the IPL and anything can happen in this).
Four teams have made that decisive cut to enter the semi finals, with [...]

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