Indian team squad for Srilanka Tour

Indian cricket team selectors have selected the 16 men squad for the next month Srilanka tour for the test match. Yuvraj Singh have been included in the 16 men squad, thanks for the selectors. Yuvaraj Singh was dropped from the team squad of Asia Cup because of his poor performance shown in Caribbean land and in Twenty20 World Cup.

Ace batsmen Rahul Dravid also comes back after he missed the test series against South Africa. As usual Sachin will be back in his position and VVS laxman on his way back to test match. Wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha have been included in the team at the expense of Dinesh Karthik.

Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Sreesanth will handle the area of pace bowling while spin will be handled by Harbhajan Singh, Pragyan Ojha and Amit Mishra.

The first test will be played in Galle from July 18. The second and third tests will be played from July 26-30 and Aug. 3-7 in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.

Squad: MS Dhoni (wk & capt.), Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag (vice-capt.), Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, M Vijay, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Ishant Sharma, Sreesanth, Amit Mishra, Pragyan Ojha, Wriddhiman Saha (wk)

Uruguay beat South Korea by 2-1

Uruguay advances to quarter finals in FIFA 2010 World Cup after beating South Korea by 2-1 goal difference. This victory for Uruguay takes its country to quarter finals after the long period of 40 years.

The key player of Uruguay Ajax striker Suarez scored his first goal in the 8th minute of the match. Then after completing the first half, in the second half that is at the 68th minute, Lee Chung-yong of South Korea scored a fantastic head goal and bring back their hopes for this crucial Knock-out match.

Till then, South Korea's ball possession was fantastic but after leveling the score, Uruguay started to take the ball possession immediately and they have did it at the 80th minute. Yes, Uruguay haven taken the corner advantage though they have not scored by this corner, Suarez takes the advantage again and strike the ball towards the goal post.

This goal brings down the hopes of South Korea though they have made best struggling on the field after the 2nd goal of Uruguay. Uruguay after their struggling 40 years, they have reached the Quarter finals by defeating at the Knock-Out match. The match was held at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.

FIFA World Cup Winners

FIFA World Cup hve started their joueney right from the year 1930. The first edition of FIFA world Cup held at Uruguay. To be surprise, the host country won the first Ever World Cup.

FIFA World Cup winners and their Opponents with goals they had scored are as follows:

1930
Place: Uruguay
Uruguay beat Argentina by 4-2.
Uruguay won the Cup and they had marked their victory to celebrate their 100th year of Independence day.

1934
Place:Italy
Italy beat Czechoslovakia by 2-1.
In this FIFA cup, then Defending Champions Uruguay refused to participate in order to take revenge on Italy's absence in the first World Cup.

1938
Place:France
Italy beat Hungary by 4-2.
Italy once again proved themselves as Champions. That time, dictator Mussolini's message was mistranslated as "Win o die" but the original message was "give it your all, guys".

1950
Place: Brazil
Uruguay beat Brazil by 2-1.

1954
Place: Switzerland
Germany FR beat Hungary by 3-2.
This final was termed as Miracle of Berne when Germany defeated then strong Hungary team. Till then, Hungary had an unbeaten record of 31 matches victory but it was put to an end by the Germany.

1958
Place: Sweden
Brazil beat Sweden by 5-2.
Brazil marked their first World Cup win against Sweden. Pele showed his brillant performace on the field. His first goal in the final match was selected as one of the best goals in the History of World Cup by FIFA.

1962
Place: Chile
Brazil beat Czechoslovakia y 3-1.

1966
Place: England
England beat Germany FR by 4-2.
England won the match when the final clash went to extra time after their scores got level at 2-2.

1970
Place: Mexico
Brazil beat Italy by 4-1.
Brazil won the cup for the third time.

1974
Place: Germany
Germany FR beat Netherlands by 2-1.
New FIFA world Cup trophy went to the Germans.

1978
Place: Argentina
Argentina beat Netherlands by 3-1.
Netherlands got defeated in their second consecutive final.

1982
Place: Spain
Italy beat Germany FR by 3-1.
Italy equalled Brazil's record of winning the cup three times.

1986
Place: Mexico
Argentina beat Germany FR by 3-2.

1990
Place: Italy
Germany beat Argentina by 1-0.
This edition of FIFA world Cup set the lowest goal per game average.

1994
Place: USA
Brazil beat Italy by 3-2(Penalty Shoot-out). The match was draw by 0-0.

1998
Place: France
France beat Brazil by 3-0.

2002
Place: South Korea/Japan
Brazil beat Germany by 2-0.
Brazil won the cup which take them to a record fifth title.

2006
Place: Germany
Italy beat France by 1-1 (5-3 Penalty Shoot-out).

Orlando Vacation Packages

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Greatest holiday in the world

Radisson Blu Hotels & Resorts, part of the Rezidor Hotel Group has introduced the the greatest holiday in the world competition. This competition has a prize of 365 hotel nights for the winner in any of the Radisson Blu hotel which is present across the world. The winner can take part in this festival with his/her partner, friends, families, colleagues or others. This offer is valid upto 2015. This is Rezidor's first campaign which uses this type of multimedia marketing.

Viewers can comment on www.greatestholiday.radissonblu.com on their own and they can win the prize. Candidates can add in videos, photos, and links to support their entry. They can even use social networking sites like facebook etc to encourage their friends to cast their vote. The candidate with the most votes will be named the winner when the competition ends on 24 July 2010.

The Radisson Blu “The Greatest Holiday in the World” competition is being promoted through a range of media including a bespoken microsite (http://www.greatestholiday.radissonblu.com), a YouTube video, the Radisson Blu website, print campaigns, outdoor advertisements at airports at major European cities, online display and social media through blogs, forums, Facebook and Twitter; hotel POS materials including in-room TV ads and eNewsletters to the leisure database throughout June and July.

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India win Asia Cup beating Srilanka

India won the Asia cup 2010 by crushing Srilanka for a mammoth score defeat of 81 runs. India lifted this Asia cup after the much long period of 15 years. Yes, 15 years back, India bagged the Asia cup held at Sharjah in 1995.

Srilanka being in good form, made India restrict to 268 for 6 wickets in 50 overs. Off this, Dinesh Karthik, the batsman who replaces Virendhar Sehwag as Sehwag was injured, have made a brillant strike and took 66 runs off 84 runs. Skipper Dhoni scored 38 off 52 balls and Rohit Sharma later came up with vital knocks helps India to put a competitive score. Rohit scored a decent 41 runs.

Defending 268 runs, the home team entered the field with lot of confidence as they were already beaten India in the previous league match of Asia Cup. But Indian seam bowlers crushed their confidence and at one stage, the Srilankan Score was 51 runs for five wickets. Off this Zaheer Khan bagged two wickets, Praveen took 1 wicket. Nehra, one among his best performance, bagged 4 wickets which was crucial wickets for India.

Man of the match award was given to Dinesh Karthik for his wonderful performace on the field. India can have this Asia Cup win as their warm up for the forth coming World cup 2011.

Hats off India!!!

Online sports betting

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Saina Nehwal won Super Series Singapore Open

Saina Nehwal, the Indian Badminton sensation has once again showed her brilliant performance on the Singapore field and clinches her maiden Singapore Open Super Series on Sunday. She played against qualifier Tzu Ying Tsi of Taipei in the final and win the final in straight sets of 21-18, 21-15.

Saina took just 33 minutes to defeat her opponent at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Saina surprises the people by winning back to back titles. She also won two super series events. Last year, she won Indonesia Super Series which brought her huge fame in her career.

Also She won her first Indian Open Grand Prix Gold at Chennai which held at Last Week. The other successful achievements are reaching the semi-finals of the All England Badminton Championships which has equal importance like Wimbledon in this Badminton game. Prakash Padukone was the first Indian man to lift the trophy, followed by Syed Modi and more recently Pulella Gopichand. Additonally Gopi Chand is the present coach to Saina Nehwal.

Saina Nehwal's performance has been increasing steadily and We all hope that she will win many titles like these and she will make Indians to feel proud on her.

Best wishes to Saina Nehwal for the rest of her career.

Camping tents

Nowadays People are thinking of moving to new places in order to explore the places. Moreover not only to explore but also to enjoy their trip, they tend to go for tour. We should be always aware that such kind of pleasure trip would never lose its speciality because of comfortless. Comfort level is very much needed as we are going to tour for the mind relaxation.

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Make sure you bring proper tents for camping with you so that nothing can stop you from enjoying your trip and I hope summitcampinggear site would help us a lot.

Argentina beat South Korea by massive 4-1

Argentina beat South Korea by scoring 4 goals against South Korea. Real Madrid's Gonzalo scored a hat-trick which paves the easy way for the victory over this asian team.

Argentina after winning two matches of the group matches, steps ahead to second round of FIFA 2010. The match was held at Soccer City on Thursday.

Higuain made his hat-trick with the goal by head in the 80th minute of the game. South Korea socred its consolation goal after the end of the first half and the goal was hit by Lee Chung-yong. But the goal was failed to control by Argentina Defender Martin even it seems to be simple ball.

The result left Argentina top of the group with six points from their opening two matches followed by South Korea with three from their first two games.

Argentina seems to be in good form in this FIFA tournament and the World Class players like Messi, Carlos, Angel di Maria bringing out their fantastic and marvelous talent on the field.

All the best Argentina!!!

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Put yourself in a World Cup video

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The football or Soccer fever got raised now and the football lovers are all gathered in South Africa to watch out battles between 32 countries. FIFA World Cup is being played from June 11 to July 11. Each and every game has its own thrill and importance. So fans are glued to different kinds of media channels to find what is happening in the FIFA world cup.

This time would be the best time to Live the Beautiful game. Watch the embedded video. Not only that but you could answer the question "What if Your TV Could," and tell Cisco and the World. You can tell them and us how if you Put yourself in a World Cup video.

Even there are many ways to enjoy this kind of beautiful game. But If you Put yourself in a World Cup video and share it with the world, then such sorts of enjoy is ultimately different from other things. The video has been made by the Cisco System. Even you can create your own video and you can share it even with your family, friends, etc. Moreover tell your favourite team and create a video and comment about it. Please leave a link to your video in the comment of this blog and I will blow it up a bit (with a link back to you).

FIFA World Cup facts

Every game has its own facts and realities. Football or Soccer is no exception for this kind of factual things. Some of the interesting facts in FIFA world cup are as below:

Germany has conceded the highest number of goals in World Cups. The total number of goals 112

With 2217 minutes on field, Paol Maldini holds the record of being the longest playing star.

France 1998 saw the highest number of goals scored in a single World Cup tournament - number of goals 171.

Germany has lost most number of finals in World Cups - the years are 1966, 1982, 1986, 2002.

Germany has won thrice- years 1954, 1974, 1990.

It's Not So Easy- Jazz Album

We all like to hear music without any discrimination of culture, language,etc. Music creates pleasure and peace of mind. Music has the potential to improve our energy level. Listening to good music will feel like living in heaven. Music is the best media through which one can get relaxation.

Jazz is a music genre that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. "It's Not So Easy" is a Jazz Album which is based on green technology. The CD of this Jazz Album is available in the site www.juewettbostick.com. This album is wonderful. The guitar part is very fantastic and lyrics found be very touching and meaningful. The performance made by Ali Woodson is seems to be amazing. This album portrays about making the world pollution free and it creates environmental awareness. Moreover the CD has experiences of the performers of this album.

This album can be obtained from nearby store or at the site. The site had other jazz albums too. The vocalists, the musicians and other technicians have did really well. One can enjoy the tremendous and wonderful jazz music in this CD. One will be excited to watch the singers, music troops, writers, etc sharing their views here. Some of the music like Forever more, precious love, etc are good and amazing. Jus try out it.

First Goal in FIFA 2010 - RSA Vs Mexico ends in a Draw (1-1)

Siphiwe Tshabalala of South Africa scored the first goal in the FIFA world cup 2010 edition against Mexico on friday. This man entered into the world cup record books after hitting the goal in the first match of FIFA world cup 2010.
19th FIFA world cup 2010 first match was played between the host South Africa and Mexico at Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg. In the first half of the match, no goals were scored by any team. But in the second half, at 55th minute of the match, Tshabalala hit the goal against Mexico which brings the first goal of this edition.

Mexico Skipper Rafael Marquez brings down the RSA dream of winning the first match by scoring a goal when only 11 minutes left for the game to end.

This led the fans leave the stadium after the First Match in Group A between RSA and Mexico ended as a 1-1 draw.

FIFA 2010 World Cup Opening Ceremony

FIFA world cup 2010, the very biggest sports event on the world kicks off with the massive opening ceremony at Johannesburg. R Kelly's stunning performance made the audience jumps off at the stadium. The crowd reaches a number of more than 84000 at the opening ceremony. Kelly performance was the highlight with his Soweto Spiritual Singers.

Though the start of FIFA 2010 at South Africa was great, absence of Nelson Mandela for the inauguration is of great miss for the FIFA inaugural event. Absence is because Mandela's grand duaghter today met with accident and she died in a car crash.
South Africa is going to play with Mexico in the opening game of world cup 2010 on Friday i.e today. The host will get extra boost as they have more supporters than others. France is ready to play against Uruguay in the second match on Friday.

Mr. Zuma was thrilled as he launched opening concert and he thanked FIFA to bring the event first time on African soil. Mr. Zuma said,

“We would like to thank Fifa for the decision to bring the World Cup for the first time to the continent of Africa. We would like to thank South Africans for having received our visitors so warmly. I want to ask you to show this warmness for the whole tournament.”

Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys, John Legend, and Shakira steal the show with their magnificent performances. Shakira performed before an international crowd at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto, South Africa, on the first night of the World Cup.Shakira performed “Waka Waka,” which is the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

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Rafael Nadal is world No 1

Rafael Nadal has proved himself that he is the king of the tennis. He has won the french open final and bagged the grand slam title on sunday.

Robin Soderling got defeated by Nadal and Nadal achieved this title in a straight sets of 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Nadal not only topped the ATP list, also he was the second man to take five titles at Roland Garros after the great Bjorn Borg.

It was the fifth French Open title for Nadal at Roland Garros, achieved in only six years.

Soderling moved up one place in the rankings to a career-high sixth while Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro, who missed the French Open while he recovers from wrist surgery, dropped to eighth.

ATP top 10 as of June 7 (previous ranking in parenthesis):

1. (2) Rafael Nadal, Spain, 8,700 points
2. (1) Roger Federer, Switzerland, 8,390
3. (3) Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 6,675
4. (4) Andy Murray, Britain, 5,385
5. (5) Nikolay Davydenko, Russia, 4,785
6. (7) Robin Soderling, Sweden, 4,755
7. (8) Andy Roddick, United States, 4,510
8. (6) Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina, 4,395
9. (9) Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 3,645
10.(10) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France, 3,185

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Robin Soderling beats Roger Federer in French Open

Robin Soderling was the man to beat Roger Federer in the Grand Slam French Open 2010. The Swiss man was sat down after his 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 defeat by Soderling. This match put an end for Roger to the 23 consecutive grand slam semi finals since 2004.

"They all come to an end at some stage," Federer said of his first failure to reach the last four of a major since Gustavo Kuerten beat him in the third round at Roland Garros in 2004.

Robin Soderling has played second fiddle to Roger Federer 12 times in his career. The match held for 150 minutes which tells the story of a very good fight indeed.

Last year Soderling was defeated by Roger in a straight sets to win the title. It was some embarassing situation which made inevitable for Roger though he defeated Nadal in the quarter finals.

Roger Federer will now get ready to pack his bags for Wimbledon to maintain his defending title at London.

Roger quoted "I really felt like my tennis was good enough to come here and do it again, but that was not the case today," he said. "You move on, move on to the grass and forget it a little bit."

Go for it Roger !!!