The Tri-Series between India, Sri Lanka and New Zealand dubbed as Compaq Cup 2009 starts on September 2009. Here is consolidated list of TV channels around the globe that are broadcasting Compaq Cup 2009 series in all continents/countries ( US, Canada, UK, Australia, India, UAE and Africa) and the respective TV channels. Included is the schedule of the channel links with match start times and channel numbers.

US - Direct TV & Dish Network

Direct TV DirectTV is yet announces on its website the package -

Here is the Direct TV Schedule

Previous Cricket Direct TV Channel numbers are 2024, 478 and 479

Dish Network

Dish Network is yet to offer this package but last time because of Zee Sports IPL 2009 was not offered on Dish.

Call Dish Network (USA) and tell customer service that you want cricket - Compaq Cup 2009 (Note there is an ashes series happening currently and make sure it is Tr-Series). Current Dish customers call: 1-888-686-2388
From past experience, usually they start offering the package 3 or 4 days before the event.

Here is pay per view sports events schedule from Dish PPV Dish schedule



Note : MOST LIKELY DISH MAY NOT SHOW THIS EVENT.

Canada - ATN

TBD

UK - Sky Sports and BBC – Highlights

Here is TVGuide link

India - Ten Sports

Ten Sports to broadcast all Compaq cup matches in India.

Here is TenSports Channel and schedule link

UAE, Dubai & Middle East - Ten Sports Arab Digital Distribution

If you have Pehla Gold, Pehla Silver and Firstnet Premium subscriptions then you can watch the series live on ten Sports.

Here is an announcement by Arab Digital Distribution (ADD) , the largest pay television management company in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

Africa - Supersport2

Supersport2 provides coverage for Compaq 2009 matches in Africa continent.

Here is SuperSoprts2 TV Schedule link

New Zealand - Sky Sport3

SKY Network Television provides coverage for Compaq 2009 matches in New Zealand.

Here is Sky sport3 TV Schedule link

Labels: Cricket, Ind vs SL, India, sri lanka, TV Channels

India, Sri Lanka and New Zealand tri-series known as 'Compaq Cup 2009' begins on September 8, 2009. The Tri-Series is played in Sri Lanka. There are total four matches including final.

Here is the schedule and match start times -

Match date & time	Match schedule details	Stadium	Match starts in -
September 8 - Tuesday  14:30 local, 9:00 GMT, 5:00 EDT 4:00 CDT	1st match - Sri Lanka vs New Zealand	Colombo, Sri Lanka - Premadasa Stadium	SL vs NZL, Sri Lanka vs New Zealand match starts in - -
September 11 - Friday  14:30 local, 9:00 GMT, 5:00 EDT 4:00 CDT	2nd match - India vs New Zealand	Colombo, Sri Lanka - Premadasa Stadium	Ind vs NZ, India v New Zealand match starts in - -
September 12 - Saturday  14:30 local, 9:00 GMT, 5:00 EDT 4:00 CDT	3rd match - Sri Lanka v India	Colombo, Sri Lanka - Premadasa Stadium	SL vs IND, Sri Lanka v India match starts in - -
September 14 - Monday  14:30 local, 9:00 GMT, 5:00 EDT 4:00 CDT	Final - TBD vs TBD	Colombo, Sri Lanka - Premadasa Stadium	TBD v TBD match starts in - -

Labels: Cricket, Ind vs SL, India, sri lanka, TV Channels

One more cheerleaders row that happened in India-Sri Lanka series. The newspaper quote I liked comparing Cheerleaders with frescoes featuring topless women.

NZHerald :

Sri Lanka's cricket authorities have dumped a team of eastern European cheerleaders from the one-day series against India after locals protested over the scantily-clad women at Dambulla International Stadium. Cultural Minister Yapa Abeywardena said: "It is not in keeping with our tradition," he said. "I have asked the cricket board to drop this item immediately." In keeping with our tradition? Clearly that tradition has nothing to do with the fifth-century Sigiriya rock fortress, a World Heritage site near the ground known for its frescoes of bare-chested women.

Cheerleaders in cricket is very recent as far as I know . The first time I noticed them is with Twenty20 world cup hosted in South Africa where the music and dance added the glamor to short version of cricket. IPL continued that tradition amidst the protests in India during the May'2008 IPL matches. Some controversies too that media enjoyed when one popular Bollywood actor -Emran Hashmi- to promote his "match fixing" movie --Jannat-- kissed one of the cheerleaders from Deccan Chargers team during the match between Deccan Chargers and Kings XI Punjab.

This is just the start of controversies around Cheerleaders in cricket -- a clash of culture happening with the gentleman's game.

Labels: Deccan Chargers, ICC, India, Indian Premier League, Kings XI Punjab, Sigiriya, South Africa, sri lanka

LG ICC Awards 2008 Video

The final winners of LG ICC Awards 2008 are

1) Yuvraj Singh of India wins Twenty20 award. Six sixers in a over and got the first Twenty20 cup for Dhoni lead team India.

2) Graeme Smith leads Test Team of Year

3) Ricky Ponting leads ODI Team of Year

4) Sri Lanka cricket team wins Spirit of Cricket Award

5) Simon Taufel is Umpire of Year again. Five times in a row.

6) Charlotte Edwards (England's captain) is Women's Player of Year

7) Netherlands allrounder Ten Doeschate is ICC Associate Player of Year

8) Shivnarine Chanderpaul is ICC Cricketer of Year

9) Ajantha Mendis new spin star of Srilanka team (Murali's successor) named as ICC's Emerging Player

10) Mahendra Singh Dhoni is ODI Player of the Year with his consistent batting performances.

11) Dale Steyn is Test Player of Year

Dhoni and Yuvi the stars of team India bagged the coveted ICC awards for India.

Here are the nominees list :



ICC Awards 2008 videos from Dubai coutesy @ YOUTUBE -- five videos

Labels: 2008, Ajantha Mendis, Awards, Cricket, Dale Steyn, ICC, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Ricky Ponting, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Simon Taufel, sri lanka, Yuvraj Singh

Image via WikipediaThe Asia cup 2008 played among six countries India,Pakistan,Sri Lanka,Bangladesh,UAE and Hong Kong in Lahore and Karachi Stadium in Pakistan From June 24 (24-6-2008) to July 06 (02-06-2008)

what are the options to watch this game online for someone who is in North America and have internet connection but not TV.

Here are few options available for Asia Cup 2008 live streaming sites.

Willow TV - The official live streaming site

Willow.Tv is the official site which is having live streaming as well as videos section and in case if you missed this great game you can watch replays from there.



Note : They have just put up the link but not yet the prices for the event.

Watch the live streaming game on webwide in Internet Explorer only thats the disadvantage of Willow.TV as it works only on Windows and IE.

I wish Yahoo streaming comes to rescue with other platforms and browsers soon. Here is the post that I've covered some good news.

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Labels: Asia, Asia Cup, Asia Cup 2008, Cricket, Hong Kong, Internet Explorer, North America, Pakistan, sri lanka, United Arab Emirates

Asia Cup 2008 will be played in Pakistan with six teams. Six cricket teams are Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and India. Matches are played from June 24' 2008 to July'6 - 2008 at both Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore and National Stadium, Karachi

Here is detailed Asia Cup 2008 schedule with match start times , venues and team vs team details -

Once the group matches are over the team according to their rankings in the group will start playing from June 28. On June 28 the team with #2 ranking in GroupA will play against Group B's #2 ranked team.
*TBD -- To Be Decided

Match date & time	Match schedule details	Stadium	Match starts in -
June, 24' 2008 on Tuesday at 16:00 local Time, 10:00 GMT	Group A - Bangladesh vs United Arab Emirates	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	Bangladesh vs United Arab Emirates match starts in - -
June, 24' 2008 on Tuesday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Group B - Pakistan vs Hong Kong	National Stadium, Karachi	Pakistan vs Hong Kong match starts in - -
June, 25' 2008 on Wednesday at 16:00 local Time, 10:00 GMT	Group A - Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka match starts in - -
June, 25' 2008 on Wednesday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Group B - Hong Kong vs India	National Stadium, Karachi	Hong Kong vs India match starts in - -
June, 26' 2008 on Thursday at 16:00 local Time, 10:00 GMT	Group A - Sri Lanka vs United Arab Emirates	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	Sri Lanka vs United Arab Emirates match starts in - -
June, 26' 2008 on Thursday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Group B - India vs Pakistan	National Stadium, Karachi	India vs Pakistan match starts in - -
June, 28' 2008 on Saturday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Bangladesh vs India	National Stadium, Karachi	Bangladesh vs India match starts in - -
June, 29' 2008 on Sunday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Sri Lanka vs Pakistan	National Stadium, Karachi	Sri Lanka vs Pakistan match starts in - -
June, 30' 2008 on Monday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh	National Stadium, Karachi	Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh match starts in - -
July, 2' 2008 on Wednesday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Teams TBD India vs Pakistan	National Stadium, Karachi	India vs Pakistan match starts in - -
July, 3' 2008 on Thursday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Teams TBD Sri Lanka vs India	National Stadium, Karachi	Sri Lanka vs India match starts in --
July, 4' 2008 on Friday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Teams TBD Bangladesh vs Pakistan	National Stadium, Karachi	Bangladesh vs Pakistan match starts in - -
July, 6' 2008 on Sunday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Teams TBD FINALS	National Stadium, Karachi	Finals match starts in - -

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This last ball six by Chandrapaul reminds me of Javed Miandad hitting six of a full toss ball from Chetan Sharma in Sharjah. As experienced bowler of Sri lanka - why did he bowl a full toss to a man who already hit a boundary in the previous ball.Jayawardene at deep midwicket action at one time made it look like he has it safely until the ball cleared the rope.

Good Job Shivnarine Chanderpaul !!

Last ball six video courtesy @@ Youtube

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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.

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

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:

Labels: 2007, Australia, Commonwealth, Cricket, England, highlights, India, series, sri lanka

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

Labels: Australia, CBSeries, India, sri lanka, team india

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 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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List of websites to watch Srilanka in Australia 2007 series:


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Mural's No Ball Bowling action videos :

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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.

Labels: Australia, Cricket, Murali, sri lanka

Two strongest cricket teams of this world cup cricket 2007, New Zealand and Sri Lanka, showed their best of the best so far in this cup. Why did New Zealand loose this crucial match ? Because Sri Lanka played mind game when Sanath, Sangakkara and Silva were out for small scores.New Zealand failed to capitalise Sanath Jayasuriya's early dismissal and did not recover from Styris dismissal.

First Half:

Tharanga used to be one the best new opener from sub continent in the recent past except for world cup matches.The SL opener (I think..I think..I don't think..I think - he spoke to commentators during lunch time with too many "I thinks"), played the very required innings as he has been failing on a regular basis.He fired in this important tie to take his team off to a flier.He got lucky some times when Bond almost got him out twice in one over.Very close calls.Tharanga played very well under pressure answering all his critics for selecting him in the team for semis.Specially the way Franklin was attacked is very impressive by hitting hit him in one over for extra cover and over the slips to third man.Sanath Jayasuriya who had great run in this tournament got out for a superb delivery off Franklin.Looked like even Jayasurriya couldn't believe how he got out as ball blind sighted him and made to the stumps between his bat and pad.This is the only time in entire match that NZ got psychological edge over SL.NZ of course failed to capitalize this.

Sangakkara failed again to play to his potential in this match.He played slowly playing anchor role(lack of better words, sangakarra actually struggled to get runs) giving the hitting part to Tharanga.That was one of first excellent partnerships for SL by Sangakkara playing the anchor role.Catch towards mid off fielder Flemming ending the slow run rate innings of Sangakkara.Jayawardene back in form just at the right time for SL in this world cup.Good captain innings by Mahila with five half centuries and a very crucial century match innings of today when big players like Sanath and Silva were out.Mahila initially took lots of time settling down playing like Sangakkara.The lower middle order comprising of Dilshan, Silva and Arnold have done well adding quick runs to the score board.Silva's LBW decision is just plain bad - It is clear inner edge off the bat with the audible sound,this decision in my opinion costed SL at least 40 to 50 runs on their score board.

How is NZ bowling ? Bowling at its worst to the date in this match. The bowling of NZ which previously fared well under the leadership of Bond for early breakthroughs totally failed in this match.In the middle overs none of the bowlers Patel or Oram or Vettori managed to pick up wickets at regular intervals as they did in super eights.If they had done their home work of not just getting Jayasuriya out but others too they would have given Lankans tough competition.

Second Half:

Fleming who is not at all consistent in this world cup failed again in this crucial match with just a single on score board.Taylor who had fantastic time in the fielding fell for meager nine runs.Fulton who bounce backed to form played a slow innings in this match.Styris,the star performer for NZ put up decent score and quick runs for NZ.Why did Jayawardane gave bowling to Fernando in power play that too when Styris is playing ? Poor captaincy that costed quite a no ball runs and huge hammering from Styris. As commentators put it "Styris is in the form of his life", hitting Murali dosras over the boundaries during the power play. Jaywardane corrected his power play mistakes by taking NZ expensive Styris catch.Two wickets from two balls from Murali doosras put the match on Sri Lanka side.

How is Sri Lankan bowling ? As good as it gets,SL bowling is considered to be the strongest of all teams in this worldcup with senior players Vaas,Malinga and Murali. The fielding too of SL in this match is just fantastic.

Sri Lanka in World Cup Cricket 2007 finals.

Labels: Cricket, Cricket Match Review, sri lanka, world cup 2007, world cup cricket