Canada, Australia benefits US H1-B visa reductions
Obama has touched on a sensitive and valid unemployment issue. Job losses is blamed on immigrants. Serial stream of bad news from Bears n Stearn's to Fannie Mae n Freddie Mac to Lehman brothers is further deteriorating the US job situation.
In the article "The Bitter Taste of Bigotry", it is rightly said that one man's loss in another's gain.
Canada immigration is made much simpler that within 1 year with sufficient points based on higher education a Canadian PR (permanent Residency) status can be achieved and after three years the immigrant becomes Canadian citizen. Australia has similar system within two years of PR one can become Aussies citizen.
Compare this to PR (Green Card) in US which is now taking eight painful years compounded with H1-B visas reduction and a lottery system to get H1. Citizenship is another five more years. To become an immigrant a total of thirteen years are required so that would be 1/5th of immigrants life (assuming 65 years of stressful life) spent in this cycle.
To sum up - America’s loss is another country’s gain.
In the article "The Bitter Taste of Bigotry", it is rightly said that one man's loss in another's gain.
Thousands of engineers and computer scientists arrive in America yearly to fuel high-tech businesses. Silicon Valley is filled with startups founded by immigrants, like Vinod Khosla’s Sun Microsystems and Sergey Brin’s Google. Astonishingly, Congress has actually reduced the number of special H1-B visas given to foreign workers, which allow American companies to import guest workers with highly specialized knowledge. As a result, many of these workers move to countries with more liberal immigration policies, like Canada and Australia. In these cases, America’s loss is another country’s gain.
Canada immigration is made much simpler that within 1 year with sufficient points based on higher education a Canadian PR (permanent Residency) status can be achieved and after three years the immigrant becomes Canadian citizen. Australia has similar system within two years of PR one can become Aussies citizen.
Compare this to PR (Green Card) in US which is now taking eight painful years compounded with H1-B visas reduction and a lottery system to get H1. Citizenship is another five more years. To become an immigrant a total of thirteen years are required so that would be 1/5th of immigrants life (assuming 65 years of stressful life) spent in this cycle.
To sum up - America’s loss is another country’s gain.
Labels: Australia, Canada, green card, H1-B, Immigration, India
written by Kalyan @ 1:51 AM,
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Australia team squad India vs Aus 2008 Oct, Nov series
Australian team announced its 15 member squad that will play test matches in India vs Australia 2008 October, November series.
Andrew Symmonds is out of test series ( Good news for fragile test team of India ) . He missed the team meeting and training session for a fishing expedition that irked the selectors and dropped him altogether from the series. The bad boy of cricket needs some break and his recent performances right from IPL Deccan chargers to recent Bangladesh series is a dismal mark in his cricket career. May be the days of his cricket are numbered. Got to see if Shane watson can fill his gap for mighty Kangaaroos.
New faces -- left-arm blowler Doug Bollinger, off-spinner Jason Krejza, leg-spinner Bryce McGain and pacer Peter Siddle.
Here is the 15-member team squad:
Ricky Ponting (captain), Matthew Hayden, Phil Jaques, Michael Clarke (vice-captain), Simon Katich, Shane Watson, Michael Hussey, Doug Bollinger, Stuart Clark, Brad Haddin (Wicketkeeper), Brett Lee, Mitchell Johnson, Jason Krejza, Bryce McGain, Peter Siddle.
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Andrew Symmonds is out of test series ( Good news for fragile test team of India ) . He missed the team meeting and training session for a fishing expedition that irked the selectors and dropped him altogether from the series. The bad boy of cricket needs some break and his recent performances right from IPL Deccan chargers to recent Bangladesh series is a dismal mark in his cricket career. May be the days of his cricket are numbered. Got to see if Shane watson can fill his gap for mighty Kangaaroos.
New faces -- left-arm blowler Doug Bollinger, off-spinner Jason Krejza, leg-spinner Bryce McGain and pacer Peter Siddle.
Here is the 15-member team squad:
Ricky Ponting (captain), Matthew Hayden, Phil Jaques, Michael Clarke (vice-captain), Simon Katich, Shane Watson, Michael Hussey, Doug Bollinger, Stuart Clark, Brad Haddin (Wicketkeeper), Brett Lee, Mitchell Johnson, Jason Krejza, Bryce McGain, Peter Siddle.
Labels: Australia, Brad Haddin, Cricket, INDIA vs Australia, Jason Krejza, Matthew Hayden, Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey, Simon Katich, Sport, squad
written by Kalyan @ 3:01 AM,
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Olympics 2008 Basketball schedule match start times
Image via WikipediaUS team with star players like Kobe Bryant enters Beijing with splendid welcome by winning their diamond ball Olympic similar match against Aussies whose ace player Bogut did not play in warm up match.Lisa Leslie & Candace Parker led the US Women's basketball team against Australia's warm up match.Tatiana Shchegoleva and Becky Hammon gets ready to play their part for Russia. China is betting on Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian for gold medal.
Favorite teams in my opinion are United states, Australia , Russia and China.
Interesting competition awaits and here are the start times for all basketball fans.
| Match Time | Teams playing | Match starts in another |
| August-2008-8 9:00 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 1 (Belarus vs Australia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-8 11:15 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 1 (Mali vs New Zealand) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-9 2:30 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 2 (Spain vs China) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-9 4:45 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 2 (Brazil vs South Korea) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-9 8:00 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 3 (USA vs Czech Republic) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-9 10:15 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 3 (Russia vs Latvia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-9 9:00 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 1 (Russia vs Iran) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-9 11:15 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 1 (Germany vs Angola) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-10 2:30 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 2 (Spain vs Greece) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-10 4:45 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 2 (Lithuania vs Argentina) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-10 8:00 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 3 (Australia vs Croatia ) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-10 10:15 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 3 (USA vs China) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-10 9:00 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 4 (New Zealand vs Spain) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-10 11:15 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 5 (Czech Republic vs Mali) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-11 2:30 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 4 (South Korea vs Russia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-11 4:45 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 5 (Latvia vs Belarus ) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-11 8:00 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 6 (China vs USA) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-11 10:15 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 6 (Australia vs Brazil) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-11 9:00 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 4 (Iran vs Lithuania) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-11 11:15 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 5 (Croatia vs Russia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-12 2:30 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 4 (Greece vs Germany) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-12 4:45 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 5 (China vs Spain) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-12 8:00 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 6 (Angola vs USA) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-12 10:15 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 6 (Argentina vs Australia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-12 9:00 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 7 (Belarus vs Russia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-12 11:15 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 7 (Spain vs Czech Republic) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-13 2:30 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 8 (Brazil vs Latvia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-13 4:45 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 8 (New Zealand vs China) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-13 8:00 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 9 (Australia vs South Korea) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-13 10:15 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 9 (Mali vs USA) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-13 9:00 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 7 (Germany vs Spain) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-13 11:15 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 7 (Australia vs Iran) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-14 2:30 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 8 (Angola vs China) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-14 4:45 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 8 (Lithuania vs Russia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-14 8:00 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 9 (USA vs Greece) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-14 10:15 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 9 (Argentina vs Croatia ) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-14 9:00 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 10 (Czech Republic vs New Zealand) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-14 11:15 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 10 (Latvia vs Australia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-15 2:30 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 11 (Russia vs Brazil) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-15 4:45 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 11 (China vs Mali) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-15 8:00 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 12 (USA vs Spain) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-15 10:15 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 12 (South Korea vs Belarus ) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-15 9:00 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 10 (Greece vs Angola) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-15 11:15 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 10 (Russia vs Australia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-16 2:30 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 11 (Croatia vs Lithuania) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-16 4:45 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 12 (Iran vs Argentina) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-16 8:00 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 11 (China vs Germany) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-16 10:15 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 12 (Spain vs USA) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-16 9:00 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 13 (Spain vs Mali) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-16 11:15 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 13 (Australia vs Russia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-17 2:30 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 14 (Latvia vs South Korea) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-17 4:45 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 15 (Brazil vs Belarus ) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-17 8:00 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 14 (Czech Republic vs China) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-17 10:15 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 15 (New Zealand vs USA) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-17 9:00 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 13 (Iran vs Croatia ) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-17 11:15 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 14 (Australia vs Lithuania) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-18 2:30 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 13 (Greece vs China) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-18 4:45 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 14 (Angola vs Spain) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-18 8:00 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 15 (USA vs Germany) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-18 10:15 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 15 (Argentina vs Russia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-19 2:30 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Quarterfinal game 1 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-19 4:45 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Quarterfinal game 2 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-19 8:00 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Quarterfinal game 3 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-19 10:15 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Quarterfinal game 4 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-20 2:30 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Quarterfinal game 1 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-20 4:45 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Quarterfinal game 2 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-20 8:00 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Quarterfinal game 3 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-20 10:15 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Quarterfinal game 4 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-21 8:00 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Semifinal game 1 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-21 10:15 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Semifinal game 2 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-22 8:00 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Semifinal game 1 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-22 10:15 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Semifinal game 2 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-23 7:30 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Bronze medal game | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-23 10:00 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Gold medal game | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-24 12:00 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Bronze medal game | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-24 2:30 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Gold medal game | Match Starts in -- |
Labels: 2008 Summer Olympics, Australia, Basketball, Becky Hammon, China, Kobe Bryant, Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian
written by Kalyan @ 1:28 AM,
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1st Final India vs Australia live online at Sydney Commonwealth Bank Series
1st final starts in -
India is better team than Sri Lanka in this series but not when compared with Australia. India just won one game against Australia in CB series i.e. 4th Match at Melbourne played on Feb 10, 2008 by 5 wickets. This makes Australia the defacto favorites in the 1st final game that will be played on March 2' 2008 at Sydney. Australia has its own share of batting form problems and only in last match Ponting made a revengeful century probably after he was sold for embrassing $400K in IPL. All other batsman including Gilchrist and Symmonds are out of form and not contributing to the scoreboard. Aussies bowling attack has been marvelous which saved them from all the matches in CB series.
India on the other hand is totally unpredictable both on batting and bowling. Ishanth Sharma was the only consistent bowler who fared well against both Aussies and Sri Lankans in the series. No wonder he was sold double the price of Ponting in IPL. Tendulkar regained his aggressive batting in last match with Sri Lanka. Gambhir is for batting as Ishant is for bowling. He already got couple of centuries in this series and he applies himself to the game with dedication which is missing from the rest of the players. Rohit sharma and Uthappa has to prove themselves to be on Indian squad in upcoming two finals.
If India can bowl well and at least two or three batsman makes some what average score then 1st final winner will be India.
US central time - March 1, 2008 at 9:15 PM
UK - March 2, 2008 at 3:15 AM
India - March 2, 2008 at 8:30 AM
click here for 1st final India v Sri Lanka March 1, 2008 09:00 PM [Note : This site works only in IE and you need sopcast software downlaoded to watch this game]
For full coverage of this CB series with all previous matches click here
Once match is completed I'll post highlights courtesy@youtube
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India is better team than Sri Lanka in this series but not when compared with Australia. India just won one game against Australia in CB series i.e. 4th Match at Melbourne played on Feb 10, 2008 by 5 wickets. This makes Australia the defacto favorites in the 1st final game that will be played on March 2' 2008 at Sydney. Australia has its own share of batting form problems and only in last match Ponting made a revengeful century probably after he was sold for embrassing $400K in IPL. All other batsman including Gilchrist and Symmonds are out of form and not contributing to the scoreboard. Aussies bowling attack has been marvelous which saved them from all the matches in CB series.
India on the other hand is totally unpredictable both on batting and bowling. Ishanth Sharma was the only consistent bowler who fared well against both Aussies and Sri Lankans in the series. No wonder he was sold double the price of Ponting in IPL. Tendulkar regained his aggressive batting in last match with Sri Lanka. Gambhir is for batting as Ishant is for bowling. He already got couple of centuries in this series and he applies himself to the game with dedication which is missing from the rest of the players. Rohit sharma and Uthappa has to prove themselves to be on Indian squad in upcoming two finals.
If India can bowl well and at least two or three batsman makes some what average score then 1st final winner will be India.
Match Start Times :
US central time - March 1, 2008 at 9:15 PM
UK - March 2, 2008 at 3:15 AM
India - March 2, 2008 at 8:30 AM
Watching Online or Live Streaming Sites :
click here for 1st final India v Sri Lanka March 1, 2008 09:00 PM [Note : This site works only in IE and you need sopcast software downlaoded to watch this game]
For full coverage of this CB series with all previous matches click here
Once match is completed I'll post highlights courtesy@youtube
Labels: 2008, Australia, CBSeries, Cricket, free, India, India in Australia, India vs. Australia, live, streaming
written by Kalyan @ 3:11 AM,
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Australia v Sri Lanka at Melbourne 9th Match Commonwealth Bank Series - watching online & info
As India wins the 8th game against Sri Lanka in a two wicket thriller , that makes this next game between Australia and Sri Lanka interesting.
If SriLanka looses the match then India will have some what bright chances of going into the finals.
Advantage for India is that Yuvaraj Singh and Dhoni are in excellent form now and if they get littl;e support from top order and then there is no reason of why India cannot make it to CB series final.
US central time - February 21, 2008 at 9:15 PM
UK - February 22, 2008 at 03:15 AM
India - February 22, 2008 at 8:30 AM
Australia - February 22, 2008 at 01:45 PM
click here for 9th Match Australia v Sri Lanka February 21, 2008 09:15 PM - $5.00
For full coverage of this CB series with all previous matches click here
Once match is complete I'll post highlights courtesy@youtube
Enjoy the match :)
If SriLanka looses the match then India will have some what bright chances of going into the finals.
Advantage for India is that Yuvaraj Singh and Dhoni are in excellent form now and if they get littl;e support from top order and then there is no reason of why India cannot make it to CB series final.
Match Start Times :
US central time - February 21, 2008 at 9:15 PM
UK - February 22, 2008 at 03:15 AM
India - February 22, 2008 at 8:30 AM
Australia - February 22, 2008 at 01:45 PM
Watching Online or Live Streaming Sites :
click here for 9th Match Australia v Sri Lanka February 21, 2008 09:15 PM - $5.00
For full coverage of this CB series with all previous matches click here
Once match is complete I'll post highlights courtesy@youtube
Enjoy the match :)
Labels: 2008, Australia, Australia vs Srilanka, CBSeries, Cricket, live, sri lanka, streaming, watch online, watchcricketonline
written by Kalyan @ 10:44 AM,
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Twenty20 India vs Australia 2008 Melbourne - live streaming sites, Sopcast links, highlights, Channels, live score & news
Dhoni's Team India are Twenty20 champions and beat Australia in Twenty20 comfortably in the past games. Lack of R.p Singh is a big blow to India.
India innings highlights -- "Embarrassing crash"
Only Twenty20 International - Australia v India at Melbourne
20-20: Ind v Aus at Melbourne Melbourne Cricket Ground, Jolimont, Melbourne, Victoria starts in
Match start times :
US central time - February 1, 2008 at 02:35 AM
UK - February 1, 2008 at 08:35 AM
India - February 1, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Australia - February 1, 2008 at 07:35 PM
Paid Sites & Channels
20/20 Match Australia v India January 31, 2008 Time: TBA $10.00
-> Direct TV is broadcasting Ind vs Aus only Twenty20 match (2024 channel ..most likely)
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Click me for SkySports TV live coverage schedule only
Fri 1 Australia v India 8.30am Twenty20
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Twnety20 cricket live streaming link [You need Sopcast to view this streaming]
Youtube highlight videos will be posted once match starts
Please select the match link from the left -
Recent India Austrlia series highlights
Only significant change was RP Singh is out bcoz of hamstring injury - Munaf Patel replaces him
MS Dhoni (Captain/keeper), Gautam Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, Dinesh Karthik,Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla, Suresh Raina, Virender Sehwag, Ishant Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Sreesanth, Sachin Tendulkar, Manoj Tiwary, Robin Uthappa, Yuvraj Singh
Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Nathan Bracken, Adam Gilchrist, Ben Hilfenhaus, Brad Hodge, James Hopes, David Hussey, Michael Hussey, Brett Lee, Ashley Noffke, Andrew Symonds, Adam Voges
Other live score options :
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-> India Times Cricket
-> NDTV Cricket
-> Google Cricket Directories
-> Fundoo cricket sites
-> Excite Cricket Directories
-> Harbhajan racism charge not proven
India innings highlights -- "Embarrassing crash"
Match Timings
Only Twenty20 International - Australia v India at Melbourne
20-20: Ind v Aus at Melbourne Melbourne Cricket Ground, Jolimont, Melbourne, Victoria starts in
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Match start times :
US central time - February 1, 2008 at 02:35 AM
UK - February 1, 2008 at 08:35 AM
India - February 1, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Australia - February 1, 2008 at 07:35 PM
Streaming Sites
Paid Sites & Channels
20/20 Match Australia v India January 31, 2008 Time: TBA $10.00
Live Cricket TV Streaming & Telecasting
Watch International cricket ODI and Test Match action live on your computer. Streaming featuring India, Pakistan, Australia, West Indies, England, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and South Africa.
-> Direct TV is broadcasting Ind vs Aus only Twenty20 match (2024 channel ..most likely)
-> Skysports TV Channel is broadcasting this match in UK (England)
Click me for SkySports TV live coverage schedule only
Fri 1 Australia v India 8.30am Twenty20
Free Sites - Once match starts these links will be updated
Twnety20 cricket live streaming link [You need Sopcast to view this streaming]
Highlights
Youtube highlight videos will be posted once match starts
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Recent India Austrlia series highlights
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Latest cricket videos
Indian team for Twenty20
Only significant change was RP Singh is out bcoz of hamstring injury - Munaf Patel replaces him
MS Dhoni (Captain/keeper), Gautam Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, Dinesh Karthik,Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla, Suresh Raina, Virender Sehwag, Ishant Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Sreesanth, Sachin Tendulkar, Manoj Tiwary, Robin Uthappa, Yuvraj Singh
Australian team for Twenty20
Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Nathan Bracken, Adam Gilchrist, Ben Hilfenhaus, Brad Hodge, James Hopes, David Hussey, Michael Hussey, Brett Lee, Ashley Noffke, Andrew Symonds, Adam Voges
Live Scores
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*HOT* Cricket news
-> Harbhajan racism charge not proven
Three weeks after the controversy erupted, the racism charge against Harbhajan Singh was found to be not proven by Justice John Hansen, hearing the appeal, on Tuesday. Harbhajan was instead charged with a Level 2.8 offence - abuse and insult not amounting to racism - to which he pleaded guilty and was fined 50 per cent of his match fees.
Labels: Australia, Cricket, free, India, India in Australia, live, sopcast, streaming, Twenty20, watch online
written by Kalyan @ 8:27 AM,
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Commonwealth bank series 2007 - Englands trashed Australia in two finals
As we are getting ready for Commonwealth bank series from Feb 02' 2008. This is a good starting point to look at what happened in last year Commonwealth bank series. Its not that Australia wins all the series, Hope the upcoming India, Sri Lanka and Australia series will have such surprises.
The 2007 triangular series is played among Australia, New Zealand and England. Australia lost their home series cup after a span of 15 years to England in Commonwealth bank series 2007.
The finals are unforgettable for England and Collingwood. He is the players of the match for two finals.
For Australia they don't have Andrew Symmonds and Ponting was not in form.
Here are the two finals from youtube
First Final:
Second Final:
The 2007 triangular series is played among Australia, New Zealand and England. Australia lost their home series cup after a span of 15 years to England in Commonwealth bank series 2007.
The finals are unforgettable for England and Collingwood. He is the players of the match for two finals.
For Australia they don't have Andrew Symmonds and Ponting was not in form.
Here are the two finals from youtube
First Final:
Second Final:
Labels: 2007, Australia, Commonwealth, Cricket, England, highlights, India, series, sri lanka
written by Kalyan @ 1:42 AM,
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Commonwealth Bank Series Indian team selected
I did not expect Ganguly be left out from the upcoming CB series but the reasoning seems to be fair.
With Ganguly, Dravid too is out for one days.
Dravid's poor performance may be the reason in recently completed Australia in India series.
Ganguly's fielding capabilities are questioned and rather Raina is selected in his place.
Praveen Kumar gets in with his Ranji performance.Piyush Chawla is chosen for spin attack.
Here is the Indian squad :
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Irfan Pathan, Praveen Kumar, RP Singh, Ishant Sharma, Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla
Matches schedule:
All times below are US central times:
1st Match Australia v India February 2, 2008 09:15 PM
2nd Match India v Sri Lanka February 4, 2008 09:15 PM
3rd Match Australia v Sri Lanka February 7, 2008 09:15 PM
4th Match Australia v India February 9, 2008 09:15 PM
5th Match India v Sri Lanka February 12, 2008 05:00 PM
6th Match Australia v Sri Lanka February 14, 2008 08:30 PM
7th Match Australia v India February 16, 2008 09:15 PM
8th Match India v Sri Lanka February 18, 2008 09:15 PM
9th Match Australia v Sri Lanka February 21, 2008 09:15 PM
10th Match Australia v India February 23, 2008 09:15 PM
11th Match India v Sri Lanka February 26, 2008 05:00 PM
12th Match Australia v Sri Lanka February 28, 2008 09:15 PM
1st Final TBC v TBC March 1, 2008 09:15 PM
2nd Final TBC v TBC March 3, 2008 09:15 PM
3rd Final (if required) TBC v TBC March 6, 2008 09:15 PM
With Ganguly, Dravid too is out for one days.
Dravid's poor performance may be the reason in recently completed Australia in India series.
Ganguly's fielding capabilities are questioned and rather Raina is selected in his place.
Praveen Kumar gets in with his Ranji performance.Piyush Chawla is chosen for spin attack.
Here is the Indian squad :
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Irfan Pathan, Praveen Kumar, RP Singh, Ishant Sharma, Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla
Matches schedule:
All times below are US central times:
1st Match Australia v India February 2, 2008 09:15 PM
2nd Match India v Sri Lanka February 4, 2008 09:15 PM
3rd Match Australia v Sri Lanka February 7, 2008 09:15 PM
4th Match Australia v India February 9, 2008 09:15 PM
5th Match India v Sri Lanka February 12, 2008 05:00 PM
6th Match Australia v Sri Lanka February 14, 2008 08:30 PM
7th Match Australia v India February 16, 2008 09:15 PM
8th Match India v Sri Lanka February 18, 2008 09:15 PM
9th Match Australia v Sri Lanka February 21, 2008 09:15 PM
10th Match Australia v India February 23, 2008 09:15 PM
11th Match India v Sri Lanka February 26, 2008 05:00 PM
12th Match Australia v Sri Lanka February 28, 2008 09:15 PM
1st Final TBC v TBC March 1, 2008 09:15 PM
2nd Final TBC v TBC March 3, 2008 09:15 PM
3rd Final (if required) TBC v TBC March 6, 2008 09:15 PM
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written by Kalyan @ 11:33 PM,
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Australia vs New Zealand 2007 watching online - live streaming sites for Chappell-Hadlee series
Aus vs NZ - Chappell-Hadlee series
Update: Highlights of First ODI and Twenty20 posted.
3rd ODI started and NZ is struggling to chase.
The Chappell-Hadlee Trophy in cricket is an annual three match ODI series between Australia and New Zealand. It is named after legendary cricketing families from the two countries, the Chappell brothers (Ian, Gregory, and Trevor) of Australia and Walter Hadlee and his three sons, (Barry, Dayle and Sir Richard), of New Zealand.
Australia lost the Chappell-Hadlee Series last time it was played, in February, when they rested Ponting and Adam Gilchrist in the lead-up to the World Cup. However, Aussies have chosen a full-strength side for this month's three-match series.
Let's see - Who wins Chappell-Hadlee trophy this time ?
Australia is resting their captain Ricky Ponting and their opener Matthew Hayden for the Twenty20 match on Tuesday
Series schedule & Highlights:
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Aus vs NZ One Day Schedule &, Scorecards , Commentay & Highlights :
1st ODI
Australia v New Zealand 1st ODI at Adelaide on Dec 14, 2007Australia won by 7 wickets
New Zealand 254/7 and Australia 255/3
Ponting is the star of the match completed his 24th ton in ODIs
Highlights of first ODI
Twenty20
Australia v New Zealand Twenty20 International at Perth on Dec 11, 2007Australia won by 54 runs
Andrew Symmonds is the star of the match
Australia 186/6 and New Zealand 132 all out
Highlights
Gillie superb catch video
Andrew Symonds 85 of 46 balls video
Jacob Oram 66 of 31 balls video
2nd ODI
Match washed offNew Zealand were 30/3 after 6 overs.
3rd ODI
Online Streaming links/live streaming media
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List of websites to watch New Zealand in Australia series:
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SopCast
Once matches start I'll update all the sopcast links here ....
Sopcast download
Download this sopcast , Install and log in as anonymous and you will find atleast one channel streaming the game on game day.Have patience the buffering takes a while.
If you are using Mozilla FireFox (sopcast doesn't work in Firefox), use Internet Explorer browser to view the match
If you can't see sopcast player in the site, then you need to download and install sopcast.
AFTER STARTING SOPCAST PLAYER, WAIT TILL THE BUFFERING IS DONE.
Some more sopcast compatible blog streaming links :
->livecricket.bollym4u
->Tech Satish
->Nepalibergen - Will not work in FireFox use Internet Explorer only
TVU Player
Click me for TVU player download
After downloading and installing TVU player browse through the channels and you will sure find one channel that has 'cricket.
Other TVU Player sites:
->livetvfree cricket-live-tv-tvu-player
Blogs
These streaming sites are found but are not verified for either their quality or genuinity - use your BEST judgement and referrals before buying any of these packages->Nihar's blog-> Tarik's blog
-> Dish TV
You need registration to view the series
-> myp2p
Need to install software as suggested in that site.
-> Rezwan's blog
Very useful links once matches start
-> mazatv
->mykhel
->desimedia4u
->desicrickets
->Voltstreams
->desibroadcasts
99$ 450kbps MMS streaming.....
Cricketon
live streaming video from Cricketon
New Zealand in Australia
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20/20 Match Australia v New Zealand December 11, 2007 06:30 AM
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1st ODI (1 Day) Australia v New Zealand December 13, 2007 09:00 PM
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2nd ODI (1 Day) Australia v New Zealand December 15, 2007 09:00 PM
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3rd ODI (1 Day) Australia v New Zealand December 19, 2007 05:00 PM
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WillowTV
WillowTV uses windows media live streaming.
Willow.Tv is streaming this series with the package Cricket Ticket 2007.Probably individual matches are available from Willow.TV. Conatct Willow team by email : support@willow.tv for questions.
"CricketTicket 2007 - Live streaming and highlights for all series in CricketTicket 2007 (includes 10 series, 18 Test matches and 30 ODIs). Only matches played in calender year 2007 are included."
New Zealand tour of Australia. 3 ODIs and one Twenty20 - Live video streaming and on demand highlights of all 3 ODIs and one Twenty20 International Buy Live Streaming and Highlights (US $19.95)
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ESPN
espnstarFrom yahoo answers one procedure of how to watch for free from espnstar
Go To - www.espnstar.com
Right side of the page locate small box that reads LIVE OFF TUBE.
Select the matches from the box.
Right below box locate LIVE FLASH CRICKET CENTRE.
Click on LIVE FLASH CRICKET CENTRE.
A new window 'ONLINE CRICKET' Centre will be displayed. Click on where it is displayed 'CLICK TO ENTER'
Under Live Matches, details of all live matches are displayed.
Select the match you want to watch and click on the Score Card.
New Window will be opened showing the match live.
If you just want score - you need to just click on the scoreboard in the LIVE OFF TUBE WINDOW.
TV - Channels
Here are all TV Channels that are broadcasting Australia v New Zealand 2007 Chappell-Hadlee series series.I've provided here with Channel name and the schedule.Zee Sports Americas
Country: North America/India
In North America Zee Sports is available from DishNetwork. (Channel#: 576)
Dec' 11 14:30 (IST) One-off Twenty20 International Australia v New Zealand Perth - Western Australia
Dec' 14 08:45 (IST) 1st ODI Australia v New Zealand Adelaide - South Australia
Dec' 16 08:45 (IST) 2nd ODI Australia v New Zealand Sydney
Dec' 20 04:30 (IST) 3rd ODI Australia v New Zealand Hobart - Tasmania
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SkySports
Country: UK
Tue 11 Australia v New Zealand (delayed) Sky Sports 112.30pm Twenty20
Fri 14 Australia v New Zealand Sky Sports 23am 1st ODI
Sun 16 Australia v New Zealand Sky Sports 23am 2nd ODI
Wed 19 Australia v New Zealand Sky Sports 111pm* 3rd ODI
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Cricket Nostalgia: 2006/2007 Chappell Hadlee Trophy
Black Caps butchered Australians with 3-0 lead to grab the 2006/07 series:
2nd ODI at Auckland highlights:New Zealand won by 5 wickets (with 8 balls remaining)
3rd ODI at Hamilton highlights:New Zealand won by 1 wicket (with 3 balls remaining)
New Zealand in Australia Series News :
Miscellaneous :
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written by Kalyan @ 4:40 PM,
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Australia vs Srilanka 2007 watching online - live streaming sites - highlights
Update : SRI Lanka is dismissed for 211 and is sent back into bat as the follow-on is enforced at the Gabba on day three of the first Test.
Australia was the first country to host Sri Lanka in a three-match Test series in 1995 and in the same series Muttiah Muralitharan, was called for throwing seven times by Australian umpire Darrell Hair which stirred a bigger controversy in cricket world.
Murali is the man who gets lots of attention in this series as he boycotted his country's previous Test tour in 2004 after Australia's prime minister questioned his bowling action.Murali also said the Sri Lankan team would not copy the on-field verbal tactics tried by India during the one-day series last month.let's see
1) How he reacts when aussies crowd shouts no-ball each time he delivers?
2) Can he move past Shane Warne's Test record of 708 ?
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Test Schedule &, Scorecards , Commentay & Highlights :
2nd Test Australia v Sri Lanka at Hobart from Nov 16-20.
Day2 Highlights
Day1 Highlights
1st Test: Australia v Sri Lanka at Brisbane, Nov 8-12, 2007
Australia won by an innings and 40 runs
Australia 551/4d; Sri Lanka 211 and 300 (f/o)
Highlights:
Day1:
Day2:
Day3:
Day4:
Day5:
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Sri Lanka in Australia
Single Match Options:
1st Test (5 Days) Australia v Sri Lanka November 7, 2007 06:00 PM
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2nd Test (5 Days) Australia v Sri Lanka November 15, 2007 06:00 PM
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Srilanka in AUstralia series package
Sri Lanka tour of Australia 29.95 - Watch Sri Lanka play 2 tests against World Champions Australia. Live Streaming Video and Interactive Highlights Buy Live Streaming and Highlights (US $29.95)
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Attapattu: Selectors are muppets headed by a Joker
Australia vs Sri lanka 2007 series
Australia was the first country to host Sri Lanka in a three-match Test series in 1995 and in the same series Muttiah Muralitharan, was called for throwing seven times by Australian umpire Darrell Hair which stirred a bigger controversy in cricket world.
Murali is the man who gets lots of attention in this series as he boycotted his country's previous Test tour in 2004 after Australia's prime minister questioned his bowling action.Murali also said the Sri Lankan team would not copy the on-field verbal tactics tried by India during the one-day series last month.let's see
1) How he reacts when aussies crowd shouts no-ball each time he delivers?
2) Can he move past Shane Warne's Test record of 708 ?
Series schedule & Highlights:
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Test Schedule &, Scorecards , Commentay & Highlights :
2nd Test
2nd Test Australia v Sri Lanka at Hobart from Nov 16-20.
Day2 Highlights
Day1 Highlights
1st test
1st Test: Australia v Sri Lanka at Brisbane, Nov 8-12, 2007
Australia won by an innings and 40 runs
Australia 551/4d; Sri Lanka 211 and 300 (f/o)
Highlights:
Day1:
Day2:
Day3:
Day4:
Day5:
Online Streaming links
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Cricketon
Sri Lanka in Australia
Single Match Options:
1st Test (5 Days) Australia v Sri Lanka November 7, 2007 06:00 PM
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2nd Test (5 Days) Australia v Sri Lanka November 15, 2007 06:00 PM
$20.00
WillowTV
Srilanka in AUstralia series package
Sri Lanka tour of Australia 29.95 - Watch Sri Lanka play 2 tests against World Champions Australia. Live Streaming Video and Interactive Highlights Buy Live Streaming and Highlights (US $29.95)
ESPN
espnstarFrom yahoo answers one procedure of how to watch for free from espnstar
Go To - www.espnstar.com
Right side of the page locate small box that reads LIVE OFF TUBE.
Select the matches from the box.
Right below box locate LIVE FLASH CRICKET CENTRE.
Click on LIVE FLASH CRICKET CENTRE.
A new window 'ONLINE CRICKET' Centre will be displayed. Click on where it is displayed 'CLICK TO ENTER'
Under Live Matches, details of all live matches are displayed.
Select the match you want to watch and click on the Score Card.
New Window will be opened showing the match live.
If you just want score - you need to just click on the scoreboard in the LIVE OFF TUBE WINDOW.
TV - Channels
Australi vs Sri Lanka News :
Miscellaneous :
Click Me for CricInfo Series Page
Attapattu: Selectors are muppets headed by a Joker
Mural's No Ball Bowling action videos :
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written by Kalyan @ 2:44 AM,
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"Murali is unplayable" - Waugh says in FOX sports
Will Australia bow to Murali's bowling tomorrow and will give up defending champions title? Well former Australian skipper Steve Waugh admits "Murali is unplayable"
The big match - 54 matches 16 teams and one man is the decider of the match.
The big match - 54 matches 16 teams and one man is the decider of the match.
Labels: Australia, Cricket, Murali, sri lanka
written by Kalyan @ 12:01 AM,
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Awesome Aussies bowlers butchered black caps (New Zealand) - Match won by 215 runs.
Australia just bulldozes everybody so ruthlessly as witnessed today in super eight match against NZ. NZ rested Bond and Oram in this game and probably extra 60 to 70 runs can be attributed 
to this.Australia makes team play not individuals like Team India , If one star player is out of form others will cover the team. With Gilchrist early dismissal, Hayden (pic. to left) and Ponting carried the innings to a solid start in this game.Commentators talked about how Hayden was almost dropped but selectors had faith in him and he proved that in this world cup.This match hundred is Tenth ODI Hundred for Hayden.Hayden turning out be dangerous players of ODI with his superb class and consistence.Ponting without being as brutal as Hayden, has better strike rate.Look at Hussey before the world cup he was in good form. But Hussey in this world cup previous to this match scored 4,2,5,9,3. Even this match he was dismissed for not so great score of 37.Watson showed fireworks in the slog overs by accelerating Aussie score to 348.
Its been a long time to see a successful 300 plus chases but NZ looked in control for first 11 overs with a trike rate of 7 runs per over.Once Flemming, Styris and McMillan were out , it looked like 100 is difficult for NZ.Too many single digit scores on the board.I hoped NZ will play strong against AUS to break one sided world cup games streak going on for a while.
Would RSA or SL have given decent run chase than NZ ? Probably yes.
NZ need lots and lots of luck going into semis.
to this.Australia makes team play not individuals like Team India , If one star player is out of form others will cover the team. With Gilchrist early dismissal, Hayden (pic. to left) and Ponting carried the innings to a solid start in this game.Commentators talked about how Hayden was almost dropped but selectors had faith in him and he proved that in this world cup.This match hundred is Tenth ODI Hundred for Hayden.Hayden turning out be dangerous players of ODI with his superb class and consistence.Ponting without being as brutal as Hayden, has better strike rate.Look at Hussey before the world cup he was in good form. But Hussey in this world cup previous to this match scored 4,2,5,9,3. Even this match he was dismissed for not so great score of 37.Watson showed fireworks in the slog overs by accelerating Aussie score to 348.Its been a long time to see a successful 300 plus chases but NZ looked in control for first 11 overs with a trike rate of 7 runs per over.Once Flemming, Styris and McMillan were out , it looked like 100 is difficult for NZ.Too many single digit scores on the board.I hoped NZ will play strong against AUS to break one sided world cup games streak going on for a while.
Would RSA or SL have given decent run chase than NZ ? Probably yes.
NZ need lots and lots of luck going into semis.
Labels: Australia, Cricket, Cricket Match Review, world cup 2007, world cup cricket
written by Kalyan @ 3:51 PM,
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Unstoppable Aussies wrapped up formalty game before lunch.
Australia and Ricky Pointing has just answered his own question of "the value of minnows at the World Cup and wonders if they provide any benefits for cricket's showpiece event."
Pakistan and India of course failed miserable at so called minnows hands.
Today Australia showed to rest of the cricket teams ( Pakistan and India in
particular ) how to play with minnows.If you know the winner of the game people slowly start losing interest and today's match between Australia and Ireland is just a formality of the event.
Aussies proved and made stronger of their No.1 ranking and sure will be for few more years. All cricket teams are under rebuild situation and have to see if this goes destroying the mighty Australian teams.
Got to admit such a boring game, Its Australia that is to be blamed for bowling 30 overs and giving 16 extras to Irish.Seeing this Ireland must have known that this game will get over before lunch break and Aussies took just above 12 overs to wrap this match to make both teams to enjoy the Friday afternoon at Caribbean beaches.
With this match, Aussies are the first to grab a semi-final spot today.
Tomorrow's South Africa v/s New Zealand will decide the fate of South Africa chances who is competing with England for semis spot.
Pakistan and India of course failed miserable at so called minnows hands.
Today Australia showed to rest of the cricket teams ( Pakistan and India in
particular ) how to play with minnows.If you know the winner of the game people slowly start losing interest and today's match between Australia and Ireland is just a formality of the event.Aussies proved and made stronger of their No.1 ranking and sure will be for few more years. All cricket teams are under rebuild situation and have to see if this goes destroying the mighty Australian teams.
Got to admit such a boring game, Its Australia that is to be blamed for bowling 30 overs and giving 16 extras to Irish.Seeing this Ireland must have known that this game will get over before lunch break and Aussies took just above 12 overs to wrap this match to make both teams to enjoy the Friday afternoon at Caribbean beaches.
With this match, Aussies are the first to grab a semi-final spot today.
Tomorrow's South Africa v/s New Zealand will decide the fate of South Africa chances who is competing with England for semis spot.
Labels: Australia, Cricket, minnows, world cup 2007, world cup cricket
written by Kalyan @ 4:16 PM,
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