2011 Indian Tour of South Africa ODI Series - Jan 12 - 23, 2011

1st ODI at Durban -Jan 12,2011

South Africa 289/9 (50 ov); India 154 (35.4 ov)
AB de Villiers 76;J P Duminy 73 and H M Amla 50 were the top scorers
Virat Kohli 54;Suresh Raina 32 and Dhone 25 were the top scorers
Zaheer Khan 2-44 ;Munaf Patel 2- 36  and Rohit Sharma 2-30 were the top wicket takers
Tsotsobe 4-31;Steyn 2-29 and Morne Morkel 2-12 were the top wicket takers

South Africa won by 135 runs
Player of the match - LL Tsotsobe

2nd ODI at Johannesburgh -Jan 15,2011

India 190 (47.2 ov); South Africa 189 (43 ov)
Yuvaraj Singh 53;Dhoni38 and Sachin Tendulkar 24 were the top scorers
Graeme Smith 77;Miller27 and Ingram 25 were the top scorers
Tsotsobe 4-22;Steyn 2-35 and Morne Morkel 2-32 were the top wicket takers
Zaheer Khan 2-37 and Munaf Patel 4-29 were the top wicket takers
Player of the match - MM Patel 

India won by 1 run

3rd ODI at Cape Town - Jan 18,2011

South Africa 220 (49.2 ov); India 223/8 (48.2 ov)
F du Plessis 60; J P Duminy 52 and Graeme Smith 43 were the top scorers
Yusuf Pathan 59;Suresh Raina 37;Virat Kohli 28 and Harbhajan Singh 23 Notout were the top scorers
Zaheer Khan 3-43;Munaf Patel 2-42 and Harbhajan Singh 2-23 were the top wicket takers
 Morne Morkel 3-28 and Steyn 2-31 were the top wicket takers

India won by 2 wickets 

Player of the match - Yusuf Pathan

4th ODI at Port Elizabeth - Jan 21,2011

South Africa 265/7 (50 ov); India 142/6 (32.5/32.5 ov)
J P Duminy 71 Notout;H M Amla 64 and J Botha 44 were the top scorers
Virat Kohli 87 Notout and Suresh Raina 20 were the top scorers
Yuvaraj Singh 3-34 and Nehra 1-27 were the top wicket takers
Tsotsobe 2-25 and Peterson 2-46 were the top wicket takers

South Africa won by 48 runs (D/L method)
Player of the match -  JP Duminy

5th ODI at Centurion - Jan 23,2011

South Africa 250/9 (46/46 ov); India 234 (40.2/46 ov)
H M Amla 116 Notout;Van wyk 56 and J P Duminy 35 were the top scorers
Yusuf Pathan 105;Parthiv Patel 38 and Zaheer Khan 24 were the top scorers
Zaheer Khan 2- 47 ; Munaf Patel 3-50 and Yuvaraj Singh 2-45 were the top wicket takers
 Morne Morkel 4-52;Steyn 2-32 and Tsotsobe 2-57 were the top wicket takers

South Africa won by 33 runs (D/L method)

Player of the match  - HM Amla 

Player of the series  - M Morkel

South Africa wins the ODI Series 3-2  

2011 Indian Cricket Tour of England

India to play Pataudi Trophy 4 Test Matches;One T-20 Match and Natwest Series 5 ODI's

1st Test at Lords - July 21-25,2011

England 474/8d

 
Kevin Pietersen 202 Notout and  Matt Prior 71 were the top scorers
                                    

 Praveen Kumar 5-106 and Zaheer Khan 2-18 were the top wicket takers

and 269/6d

Matt Prior 103 and Andrew Strauss 32 were the top scorers

Ishant Sharma 4-59;Praveen Kumar 1-70 and Harbhajan Singh 1-66

                                         
               

India 286

Rahul Dravid 103 Notout and Abhinav Mukund 49 were the top scorers

and 261

Suresh Raina 78;VVS Laxman 56 and Rahul Dravid 36 were the top scorers

                                      

England won by 196 runs


2ndTest at Nottingham- July 29-Aug1,2011 
England 221 and 544 
Stuart Broad 64 and Andrew Strauss 32 were the top scorers
Praveen Kumar3-45 ;Ishant Sharma 3-66 and Sreesanth  3-77 were the top wicket takers
Ian Bell 159;Tim Bresnan 90;Matt Prior 73;Eoin Morgan 70 and Kevin Pietersen 62 were the top scorers
Praveen Kumar 4-124 ; Ishant Sharma 2-131and Sreesanth 2-135 were the top wicket takers


India 288 and 158 
Rahul Dravid 117;Yuvaraj Singh 62 and VVS 54 were the top scorers
Stuart Broad 6-46;James Anderson 2-80 and Tim Bresnan 2-48 were the top wicket takers
Sachin Tendulkar 56 and Harbhajan Singh 46 were the top scorers
James Anderson 3-51;Stuart Broad 2-30 and Tim Bresnan 5-48 were the top wicket takers
England won by 319 runs 

3rd Test at Birmingham- Aug 10-13,2011
India 224 and 244
Dhoni 77 and Gambhir 38 were the top scorers
James Anderson 2-69 ; Stuart Broad 4-53 and Tim Bresnan 4-62 were the top wicket takers
Dhoni 74 Notout;Sachin40 and PraveenKumar 40 were the top scorers
James Anderson 4-85; Stuart Broad 2-28 ;Graeme Swann 2-88 and Tim Bresnan 1-19 were the top wicket takers

England 710/7d
Alastair Cook 297;Eoin Morgan 104;Andrew Strauss 87 and Kevin Pietersen 63 were the top scorers

England won by an innings and 242 runs


4th Test at Oval - Aug 18-22,2011

England 591/6d

Ian Bell 235;Kevin Pietersen  175;Andrew Strauss 40 and Alastair Cook 34 were the top scorers
Sreesanth 3-123 ;Suresh Raina 2-58 and Ishant Sharma 1-97 were the top wicket takers

India 300 and 283
Rahul Dravid 146  and Amit Mishra 43 were the top scorers
 James Anderson 2-49; Stuart Broad 2-51 ;Graeme Swann 3-103 and Tim Bresnan 3-54 were the top wicket takers

Sachin 91 andAmit Mishra 84 were the top scorers
 James Anderson 1-54 ;Stuart Broad 2-44;Tim Bresnan 1-30 and Graeme Swann6-106
England won by an innings and 8 runs

England wins the  Testmatch Series 4-0 and won the Pataudi Trophy

                                             

T20 at Manchester - Aug31,2011 

India 165 (19.4/20 Overs) and
Ajinkya Rahane 61;Suresh Raina 33 and Rahul Dravid 31 were the top scorers

Dernbach 4-22;Stuart Broad 2-37 were the top wicket takers
England 169/4 (19.3/20 Overs)
Eoin Morgan 49;Kevin Pietersen 33 and Ravi Bopara 31 were the top scorers
Munaf Patel 2-25;Praveen Kumar 1-27 and Virat Kohli 1-22 were the wicket takers
England won by 6 wickets

1st ODI at Chester -le-Street - Sep 3, 2011 

India 274/7 (50 overs) and  England 27/2 (7.2 overs) 

No Result because of rain 

2nd ODI at Southampton -Sep 6,2011

India 187/8 (23/23 overs) 

Ajinkya Rahane 54;Suresh Raina 40;Rahul Dravid 32 and Parthiv Patel 28 were the top scorers

Tim Bresnan 3-43 and Graeme Swann 3-33 were the top wicket takers

and England 188/3 (22.1/23 overs)

Alastair Cook 80Notout;Kieswetter 46;Ian Bell 25 and Ravi Bopar 24 were the top scorers

Aswin 2-42 and Vinaykumar 1-33 were the  wicket takers

 England won by 7 wickets

Man of the Match - Alastair Cook

3rd ODI at Oval -Sep 9,2011

India 234/7 (50 overs); England 218/7 (41.5/43 overs) D/L Method

 Ravindra Jadeja 78;Dhoni 69 and Aswin 36 Notout were the top scorers

Kieswetter 51;Ravi Bopara 40 and Tim Bresnan 28 were the top scorers

James Anderson 3-48;Tim Bresnan 1-32;Dernbach 1-53;Stuart Broad 1-47 were the wicket takers

Aswin 3-40;Ravindra Jadeja 2-42 and Munaf Patel 1-63 were the wicket takers

England won by 3 wickets

Man of the Match - Ravindra Jadeja

4th ODI at Lords -Sep11,2011 

India 280/5 (50 overs); England 270/8 (48.5/48.5 overs)

Suresh Raina 84; Ajinkya Rahane 38 and Dhoni 78 Notout were the top scorers

Ravi Bopara 96;Ian Bell 54;Graeme Swann 31 and Tim Bresnan 27 were the top scorers

Stuart Broad 2-52 and Graeme Swann 2-49 were the top wicket takers

R P Singh 3-59;Praveen Kumar 1-35;Aswin1-44;Munaf Patel 1-54 and Ravindra Jadeja 1-60 were the top wicket takers

Match Tied by D/L Method 

Man of the Match - Ravi Bopara and Suresh Raina

5th ODI at Cardiff -Sep16,2011

India 304/6 (50 overs); England 241/4 (32.2/34 overs) D/L Method

Virat Kohli 107;Rahul Dravid 69 and Dhoni 50 Notout were the top scorers

Jonathan Trott 63;Alastair Cook 50 ;Bairstow 41 Notout and Ravi Bopara 37 Notout were the top scorers

Graeme Swann 3-34 and Dernbach 2-73 were the top wicket takers

Vinaykumar 1-42;R P Singh 1-51;Ravindra Jadeja 1-52 and Virat Kohli 1-44 were the wicket takers

England won by 6 wickets

Man of the Match -Bairstow

Player of the Series - M S Dhoni 

England wins the ODI Series 3-0

world's largest family

An Indian Ziona Chana from Baktawng village in Mizoram has the largest family in the world with 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren

 Ziona Chana lives with his family in a 100-room, four storey house

Ziona Chana and his 39 wives

 28 of the 39 wives od Ziona Chana
 
Engi, 5, youngest child of Ziona, poses with other children of the family

Ziona's family members eat breakfast at their residence in Baktawng village in Mizoram

Buddh International Circuit

The Buddh International Circuit,The Formula One Racing Circuit in Greater Noida,U.P,India will host the inaugural Formula One Indian Grand Prix on October 30, 2011
Buddh International Circuit was officially inaugurated on 18 October 2011.The circuit will be part of the 2,500 acres (10 km²) Jaypee Greens Sports City.The Buddh International circuit logo consists of a ‘B’ which also resembles a heart.
The circuit was officially named the Buddh International Circuit because -
The name is derived from the word Buddha  and represents peace and calm
The name is also a reference to the Gautam Budh Nagar District in which the circuit is located

Indian F 1 Grandprix


 Grid girls get set to take the track before the inaugural Indian Grand Prix.

The Indian Grand Prix took place on 30October2011 as the 17th race of the 2011 Formula One Season. On 30 October 2011, the first F1 Grand Prix was held at the circuit. Sebastian Vettel won the event, his 11th of the season.Sebastian Vettel won the Indian Grand Prix at Buddh International Circuit ahead of Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso.

Sachin Tendulkar waved the chequered flag to welcome Sebastian Vettel.

  














McLaren Mercedes driver Jenson Button of Britain, Red Bul chief technical officer Adrian Newey and driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany, and Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso of Spain celebrate after the Indian F1Grand Prix

Grand Prix grid girls stand on the track holding Indian flags

 

Col Muammar Gaddafi

Col Muammar Gaddafi

• Born in Sirte, Libya 7 June 1942
• Attended military academy in Libya, Greece and the UK
• Seized power on 1 September 1969

•  In 1971 Col Gaddafi, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad formed the Federation of Arab Republics, but it failed to take off as an organisation

• Col Gaddafi blended the elements of socialism and Islamic ideals and by 1975 had outlined his political philosophy in the first of three volumes of his Green Book.

• Renames Libya the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya – its slogan" "God! Muammar! Libya! Enough!" in 1977
• During the 1980s Col Gaddafi hosted training camps for rebel groups from across West Africa and backed a number of militant groups including the Irish Republican Army and the Palestine Liberation Organisation(PLO)
• Pan Am flight 103 from Heathrow to New York is brought down by an on-board bomb over Lockerbie three days before Christmas, killing 270 people in December 1988.Gaddafi agrees to pay $2.7bn compensation to relatives of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing
•                                                                                                          

• Married twice, with seven sons and one daugther
• Tony Blair meets Gaddafi in the Libyan leader's desert tent in 2004

•  In 2009 Col Gadaffi visits the US for first time to address the UN general assembly. It is meant to last 15 minutes but he blusters on for an hour and a half, accusing the security council of being terrorists and demands $7.7bn compensation to Africa for European colonialism. Intrigues Americans during visit by bring his bedouin tent to sleep in

• The Libyan leader's personal bodyguard contingent often provoked interest. The "Amazonian Guard" was made up entirely of women, specially trained in the use of firearms and martial arts, and reports suggest a condition of their employment was that they remained virgins. 

Gaddafi was a huge admirer of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952

 In the heady days of 1969 - when he seized power in a bloodless military coup - and the early 1970s, Muammar Gaddafi was a handsome and charismatic young army officer.

Significant Oil reserves had been discovered in Libya in the late 1950s, but the extraction was controlled by foreign petroleum companies, which set prices to the advantage of their own domestic consumers and benefited from a half share in the revenue

Col Gaddafi demanded renegotiation of the contracts, threatening to shut off production if the oil companies refused.

Libya became the first developing country to secure a majority share of the revenues from its own oil production. Other nations soon followed this precedent and the 1970s Arab petro-boom began.

Moammar Gaddafi is accused of -
committing grave human rights violations.
massacring of 1,200 political prisoners in the Bouslim jail in 1996
funding and supporting several terrorist organizations and separatist movements in Africa, the Middle East, the Far East and Latin America.

 Media Headlines on Gaddafi's Death

 

 

 

Muammar Gaddafi Dead: Libyans Celebrate

 The Libyan fighters on Thursday overran the remaining positions of Muammar Gaddafi loyalists in his hometown of Sirte, ending the last major resistance by former regime supporters still holding out two months after the fall of the capital Tripoli

Tunisians and Libyans living in Tunisia wave Libya's National Transitional Council flag as they celebrate on October 20, 2011 in the Mohamed V street of Tunis after the announcement of the death of Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi

 Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters celebrate in the coastal city of Sirte on October 20, 2011 after the final bastion of resistance by forces loyal strongman Muammar Gaddafi fell to fighters of the new regime

Libyans wave their new national flag as they celebrate in the streets of Tripoli following news of Muammar Gaddafi's capture on October 20, 2011