The Champ is here -----MUMBAI INDIANS

NOKIA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE T20 ,2011, FINAL
Mumbai Indians 139 (Franklin 41, Bhatkal 3-21, Vettori 2-30) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 108 (Dilshan 27, Harbhajan 3-20, Chahal 2-9, Malinga 2-23) beat by 31 runs


On a night of mediocre cricket, the Mumbai Indians kept their surprise run going to win the biggest prize, in financial terms, in non-international cricket. James Franklin was the only man to keep his head in a suicidal Mumbai innings, which helped them reach 139, but the Royal Challengers Bangalore once again choked in a final to lose despite a start of 38 for 0 in four overs. For the vanquished this was a painful repeat of their IPL final in Johannesburg where they froze while chasing 144. The victors, though, can claim they once again won the big moments: through Franklin's sober innings, through Lasith Malinga's two sixes amid a collapse, through an extra over given to Malinga that produced a wicket and through their spinners' seven overs for 29 runs and five wickets.

Match details

Toss Mumbai Indians, who chose to bat Series Mumbai Indians won the 2011/12 Nokia Champions League T20

Player of the match Harbhajan Singh (Mumbai Indians) Player of the series SL Malinga (Mumbai Indians)

Umpires HDPK Dharmasena (Sri Lanka) and M Erasmus (South Africa) TV umpire BF Bowden (New Zealand) Match referee RS Madugalle (Sri Lanka) Reserve umpire BR Doctrove (West Indies)

Match notes

Mumbai Indians innings Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 43 runs, 2 wickets) Mumbai Indians: 50 runs in 7.3 overs (45 balls), Extras 2 Mumbai Indians: 100 runs in 13.4 overs (82 balls), Extras 4 Innings Break: Mumbai Indians - 139/10 in 20.0 overs (AN Ahmed 2) Royal Challengers Bangalore innings Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 42 runs, 2 wickets) Royal Challengers Bangalore: 50 runs in 7.1 overs (44 balls), Extras 10 Royal Challengers Bangalore: 100 runs in 17.5 overs (108 balls), Extras 18

Its time for holiday.....

I am leaving Bhawanipatna today. Our Dussera vacation is scheduled from 1st Oct. to 12th Oct. My planning for the vacation is to enjoy the puja and buy some books.

Mumbai rockkkkkkssssssssssssssss

Lasith Malinga looked stunned when Mike Hussey swept his fast yorker to the boundary. But by the end of the evening, it was Malinga's turn to leave Chennai Super Kings shattered.

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What he couldn't do with the ball, Malinga ( 37 off 18 balls) did with the bat when CSK had all but wrapped it up. Coming in at No. 9, he hit left-arm spinner Shadab Jakati for two consecutive sixes in the 17th over and even Mr Cool MS Dhoni panicked.

He missed a stumping and when Malinga's edge off Bollinger went to the third-man boundary in the 18th, the match had turned on its head. Mumbai Indians needed 11 off the last over and with Doug Bollinger bowling, the IPL champions still fancied their chances.

But Malinga was in the zone and when Harbhajan hit the crucial boundary with two balls to go, it was all over for CSK. Harbhajan kept his head and finished the job in 19.5 overs, which gave Mumbai Indians one of their best wins ever.

Chasing 159 for victory, the Mumbai Indians started with a flourish with Sachin Tendulkar, sitting in the dressing-room, looking really happy. Davy Jacobs and Aiden Blizzard were going great guns, but the moment Dhoni brought his spinners on, things started falling into place for CSK.

Ashwin had Jacobs stumped down the legs while Raina got the wickets of Blizzard and Suman with subtle variations of flight that left Mumbai Indians in the doldrums.

Local boy R Sathish looked to take the fight to CSK, but Ashwin's carrom ball had him plumb in front. When Kieron Pollard left, even the biggest Mumbai fan didn't expect a win, but Malinga had other ideas.

Earlier, Hussey was in a league of his own. He has been playing for CSK for the last three seasons and knows all about the conditions. He knows that the pitch is slow (despite being relaid) and the best way is to wait for the ball instead of committing early.

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Facebook will delay its initial public offering until the end of next year so employees can focus on developing products for the No. 1 social networking website, the Financial Times reported.

Facebook, which is expected to have one of the biggest IPOs in history, plans to go public at the end of 2012, a later public debut than it originally planned, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the company.

The newspaper reported that chief executive Mark Zuckerberg wants to delay an IPO until September or later in 2012 so employees can stay "focused on product developments rather than a pay-out." The decision was not related to market conditions, the paper said.

Tendulkar - the great

A famous banner read, “Sin as much as you wish when Tendulkar plays, for the Gods are busy watching him too”. Mathew Hayden too had commented during Australia’s tour of India in 1998 "I have seen God. He bats at no. 4 in India in Tests." I religiously followed Sachin from the time I was in school. I was a devout follower of Diego Maradona and during my ritualistic thesis of Sportsworld and Sporstar magazines; I had stumbled upon an article that indicated Tendulkar adored Maradona. 

Yes, even Tendulkar has had his share of slumps and he has extraordinarily uplifted himself and cover driven every critic into oblivion. This is a firm trait only becoming of the perfectionist. I have watched Tendulkar at the MCG during the Boxing Day test matches; a hush descended when he walked in, the Aussie crowd sipped their beer without a murmur while the Indians went down on their knees. God blessed us with his willow, he then looked up to the heavens and brandished his weapon to the thundering firmament. Does any other cricketer deserve this veneration?

The Tihar tea party

In the last few months a steady stream of high profile party goers are having a long drawn tea party in India’s and South Asia’s largest prison complex. Some have taken a while to reach the venue, but they have made it, while some more wait in the wings for the invite. A bit like the tea party that would be hosted by the Queen at Buckingham they await for the ‘Queen’s’ order to march to Tihar. Tihar has been home to India’s most notorious criminals and serial killers and is now famously hosting a stream of Ministers, MPs, a prodigal daughter, wheeler-dealers and corporate tycoons. 
From Kanimozhi to Amar Singh, the toilet has become a pestilent factor and a primary reason why Amar Singh has now been shifted to the hospital.  I think he wanted to escape Tihar’s toilet more than anything or anyone else in this world. What are the luminary’s expectations of the condition of a jail toilet? Are they expecting the same Italian marble flooring and Kohler fittings that they have in their palatial homes?  
As the tea party in Tihar continues, one thing is certain. What goes around comes around. Life in prison for these VIPs would have been better, hygienic, safer and a bit more bearable if they had deployed taxpayer resources for the betterment of the constituencies they were responsible for. Had there been cleaner governance or had even 80% of those in the Government did what they were meant to be doing; the effects would have undoubtedly trickled all the way down to Tihar or at Chanchalguda where Janardhan Reddy is taking a bath under the trees. But, for now the price that these people are paying are a result of their own follies. So be it, let the tea party in Tihar continue. 

sachin

I felt very sad when Sachin got out for 91 in the last test against Engalnd. I am eagerly waiting for the 100th century from Sachin.

Jai Ho Anna

Anna Hazare on Sunday warned of an “unprecedented revolution” in the country if the Lokpal Bill is not passed by August 30 and said the government will have to“either get the Bill passed or go.”

Accusing the government of “betraying” the civil society on the Lokpal issue, Mr. Hazare, whose fast entered the sixth day on Sunday, told a large gathering of his supporters at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi that the government is not “honest” in its intent to fight corruption.

“If the government does not get the Lokpal Bill passed by August 30 there would be an unprecedented revolution in the country by the people... The government will have to either get the Bill passed (in Parliament) or go,” he said after a large number of people marched from India Gate to the Maidan expressing solidarity with him.

Calling his campaign against corruption as the beginning of “second struggle for Independence”, the 73-year-old Gandhian asked the youth to keep the “flame of revolution burning whether Anna is alive or not.”

Anna Hazare protest against corruption

Live! Reject Hazare's plea, says Chidambaram

August 17, 2011

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18:37 PM  Home minister addresses LS on Hazare protest:  These are the highlights of what Home Minister P Chidambaram told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday regarding Anna Hazare'e protest.

• Parliament should reject Hazare's argument that only his Jan Lok Pal bill be passed.
• Do not diminish the right of Parliament to make laws, every other right is with them (civil activists).
• We will take a political decision on the manner in which to move forward.
• Hazare has right to protest at an agreed place, for as long as he wants, subject to conditions.
• Hazare was inevitably but unfortunately arrested.

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17:58 PM  New terms for Anna's fast near finalisation:   Anna Hazare is likely to be granted permission for holding his indefinite fast in Ramlila Maidan but with conditions that there will be no fast-unto-death and no use of loudspeakers beyond 10 pm.

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17:54 PM  Watch Justice Sen's impeachment live from RS!:  This is the link for those of you who want to want to watch Justice Saumitro Sen, as it happens in the Rajya Sabha

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17:46 PM  India earns Rs 2.15 lakh cr from telecom:  Everyone knows of the Rs 1.76 lakh crore skimmed off in the 2G spectrum sale, but how much has the government earned so far as entry fees in 2G, 3G and the new-fangled BWA?
The government today said it has received over Rs 2.15 lakh crore so far from telecom operators as spectrum fee and licence fee.
Up to June 2011, the government has received Rs 1,27,775.47 crore as spectrum charges and Rs 88,095.38 crore as licence fee from operators, total amounting to Rs 2,15,870.85 crore, Minister of State for Communications and IT Milind Deora said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
"These figures include entry fee in respect of 2G, 3G and BWA," he added.

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17:39 PM  Nationwide protests in support of Anna :  Nationwide protests continued for the second consecutive day today against the arrest of Anna Hazare, with political parties holding rallies in various states to press their demands that included a strong Lokpal Bill.
Mumbai: supporters thronged Azad Maidan protesting the "undemocratic" manner in which the 74-year-old was taken into custody.
In Andhra Pradesh: TDP supporters demonstrated across Andhra Pradesh against his arrest with the party chief former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu leading a dharna at a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Secunderabad.
In Karnataka thousands of students skipped classes as they thronged Freedom Park in Bangalore at a rally, with former Supreme Court judge Santosh N Hegde, also joining the dharna.
In Indore, BJP workers staged a sit-in waving placards against the police action against Hazare.
The Orissa Assembly was adjourned twice amid uproar as BJP and ruling BJD MLAs condemned the police action.
In Tamil Nadu, a large number of people observed fast and more than 300 activists assembled at Adyar in Chennai under the banner of "India Against Corruption", an umbrella body of the citizen's movement fighting for a powerful Lokpal Bill.

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England of top

For the first time in 32 years following a crushing win by an innings and 242 runs over India in the third match at Edgbaston, England claimed the number one rank in the ICC Test championship table.England had started off the series in third position behind South Africa and trailing top-ranked India by eight ratings points.England accomplished its mission in great style, winning the first Test at Lord’s by 196 runs, and then followed it with a convincing 319 runs victory at Trent Bridge before sealing the series.If England wins The Oval Test, it will finish on 125 ratings points while India will drop to third on 117 ratings points.If India wins or draws the Test, it will stay ahead of South Africa in second position.

Today we are celebrating the 65th independence day of India. But think despite of the 65 years of independence we are lagging behind day by day. Our neighbor country China is growing rapidly. In 2008, China hosted the Olympic games and secured 1st position in medal tally. But in India we are failed to qualify for the Olympics in our national game Hockey.
The roads which were made by the British empire are living today, but the roads made by the Indian people are lasting for few months only. The railway tracks made by British empire are also living. The buildings which were made by them are now visiting places in India . Even we are fighting, criticizing each other  in the room made by them which is 'Parliament' today. So we have to proceed a long long way .......so that the world says yeah this is the Golden India.