ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Schedule

Pool A: 

England, Australia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, New Zealand, Qualifier 2, Qualifier 3 

Pool B: 

South Africa, India, Pakistan, West Indies, Zimbabwe, Qualifier 1 (Ireland), Qualifier 4

(Qualifier 1,2,3 teams are yet to be decided)

Total Matches – 49       Hosts:  Australia – 26      New Zealand - 23

  

DATE	DAY	MATCH	VENUE
14-Feb	Saturday	Sri Lanka vs New Zealand	Christchurch
14-Feb	Saturday	England vs Australia	Melbourne
15-Feb	Sunday	South Africa vs Zimbabwe	Hamilton
15-Feb	Sunday	India vs Pakistan	Adelaide
16-Feb	Monday	West Indies vs Ireland	Nelson
17-Feb	Tuesday	New Zealand vs Qualifier 3	Dunedin
18-Feb	Wednesday	Bangladesh vs Qualifier 2	Canberra
19-Feb	Thursday	Zimbabwe vs Qualifier 4	Nelson
20-Feb	Friday	England vs New Zealand	Wellington
21-Feb	Saturday	Pakistan vs West Indies	Christchurch
21-Feb	Saturday	Australia vs Bangladesh	Brisbane
22-Feb	Sunday	Sri Lanka vs Qualifier 2	Dunedin
22-Feb	Sunday	South Africa vs India	Melbourne
23-Feb	Monday	England vs Qualifier 3	Christchurch
24-Feb	Tuesday	West Indies vs Zimbabwe	Canberra
25-Feb	Wednesday	Ireland vs Quallifier 4	Brisbane
26-Feb	Thursday	Qualifier 2 vs Qualifier 3	Dunedin
26-Feb	Thursday	Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh	Melbourne
27-Feb	Friday	South Africa vs West Indies	Sydney
28-Feb	Saturday	Australia vs New Zealand	Auckland
28-Feb	Saturday	India vs Qualifier 4	WACA, Perth
1-Mar	Sunday	England vs Sri Lanka	Wellington
1-Mar	Sunday	Pakistan vs Zimbabwe	Brisbane
3-Mar	Tuesday	South Africa vs Ireland	Canberra
4-Mar	Wednesday	Pakistan vs Qualifier 4	Napier
4-Mar	Wednesday	Australia vs Qualifier 2	WACA, Perth
5-Mar	Thursday	Bangladesh vs Qualifier 3	Nelson
6-Mar	Friday	India vs West Indies	WACA, Perth
7-Mar	Saturday	South Africa vs Pakistan	Auckland
7-Mar	Saturday	Zimbabwe vs Ireland	Hobart
8-Mar	Sunday	New Zealand vs Qualifier 2	Napier
8-Mar	Sunday	Australia vs Sri Lanka	Sydney
9-Mar	Monday	England vs Bangladesh	Adelaide
10-Mar	Tuesday	India vs Ireland	Hamilton
11-Mar	Wednesday	Sri lanka vs Qualifier 3	Hobart
12-Mar	Thursday	South Africa vs Qualifier 4	Wellington
13-Mar	Friday	Bangladesh vs New Zealand	Hamilton
13-Mar	Friday	England vs Qualifier 2	Sydney
14-Mar	Saturday	India vs Zimbabwe	Auckland
14-Mar	Saturday	Australia vs Qualifier 3	Hobart
15-Mar	Sunday	West Indies vs Qualifier 4	Napier
15-Mar	Sunday	Pakistan vs Ireland	Adelaide
Quarter-finals
18-Mar	Wednesday	QF1	Sydney
19-Mar	Thursday	QF2	Melbourne
20-Mar	Friday	QF3	Adelaide
21-Mar	Saturday	QF4	Wellington
Semi-finals
24-Mar	Tuesday	SF1	Auckland
26-Mar	Thursday	SF	Sydney
Final
29-Mar	Sunday	Final	Melbourne

Indian Badminton League Auction

Indian Badminton League is a franchise league proposed by Badminton Association of India (BAI). The inaugural edition of the IBL will take place from 14 August to 31 August 2013 in India, which will have Indian as well as foreign players. The player’s auction for the first IBL was held in Delhi on 22 July 2013. The league has 6 franchises.

Team Name	City	Owner(s)
Hyderabad HotShots	Hyderabad	PVP Ventures
Banga Beats	Bangalore	BOP Group
Lucknow Warriors	Lucknow	Sahara
Mumbai Masters	Mumbai	Gavaskar, Nagarjuna, Chamundeshwarnath
Pune Pistons	Pune	Dabur India Limited
Delhi Smashers	Delhi	Krrish Group

Lee Chong Wei:

Lee Chong Wei, the No.1 badminton player in the world was bagged by Mumbai Masters for $ 135000 which is equivalent to Rs. 8,019,032 approximately. During IBL auction, this Malaysian icon got the franchises really excited, triggering a bidding war between Mumbai Masters and the Delhi Smashers.

Saina Nehwal:

Saina Nehwal, Indian badminton's leading champion, was picked by Hyderabad franchise, Hyderabad Hotshots for $ 120000. Since Hyderabad is the home town of this 23-year-old Olympic bronze medalist, her presence would give the franchise a huge boost. Her base price was set as $ 50,000.

Parupalli Kashyap:

Parupalli Kashyap, Commonwealth Games bronze-medalist was bought by Banga Beats for $ 75,000 (Rs4,455,622 approx). He also reached the quarter-finals of the Olympics at London last year.

Juliane Schnek:

World No.4 Juliane Schnek, the 30-year old German player was bought by the Delhi Smashers for $ 90000. Her base price was set at $ 50000.

PV Sindhu:

The Rising star, PV Sindhu was lapped by Lucknow Warriors for $ 80,000 (Rs4,752,664 approx). He has been hailed as one of the brightest stars of Indian badminton.

Tinh Minh Nyugen:

Tinh Minh Nyugen, Vietnamese player was bought by the Pune Pistons for a price of $ 44000. During auction, there was a bidding battle of sorts between Pune Pistons and Delhi Smashers.

Jwala Gutta:

The energetic doubles sensational star Jwala Gutta was bought by Delhi Smashers at $ 31,000 (Rs1,841,699). Jwala's base price was $ 25,000 (Rs1,485,241). Initially her base price was set as $ 50,000 but later reduced to half.

Tine Baun:

Tine Baun was sold at base price.  She is the oldest player to win the All-England Championship earlier this year.  Mumbai Masters bought Tine Baun at the base price of $ 30,000.

Taufiq Hidayat and Carsten Morgensen were sold at base price. Hyderabad Hotshots bought Hidayat at the base price of $15,000 and Banga Beats bought Carsten Morgensen of Denmark at his base price of $ 50000.

Malaysia's Boon Heung Jan was bought for $ 50,000, double the base price. V. Diju was bought by Delhi Smashers for $ 30,000. The doubles' specialist Joachim Fischer Nielsen was bought for $ 35,000 by Pune Pistons.

Manu Attriby was bought by Mumbai Masters for $ 10,000. Akshay Dewalkar was bought by Banga Beats for $ 36,000 and Tarun Kona by Hyderabad Hotshots for $ 28,000.

Oracle Upgrade from Oracle10g to Oracle11g

Below are the steps to Upgrade the Oracle database from 10.2.0.3.0 to 11.2.0.1.0:

Step 1) Installing Oracle 11g Home:

Install 11g database as a separate ORACLE_HOME in parallel to 10g Oracle Home.

Example my 10g Oracle Home is: D:\oracle10g\product\10.2.0\db_1, then my 11g Oracle Home is: E:\oracle\product\11.2.0\ db_1

Step 2) Pre-Upgrade Utility:

In 11g Home you installed, go to $ORACLE_HOME\rdbms\admin and copy the file 'utlu112i.sql' to some temp location (C:\temp).

Then login to the 10g oracle database AS SYSDBA and run 'utlu112i.sql' you copied to temp folder.

--This script provides information about databases to be upgraded to 11.2.

Step 3) Finding the Version of existing time zone files:

SQL> select * from v$timezone_file;

SQL> SELECT CASE COUNT (DISTINCT(tzname))

WHEN 183 then 1

WHEN 355 then 1

WHEN 347 then 1

WHEN 377 then 2

WHEN 186 then case COUNT (tzname) WHEN 636 then 2 WHEN 626 then 3 ELSE 0 end

WHEN 185 then 3

WHEN 386 then 3

WHEN 387 then case COUNT (tzname) WHEN 1438 then 3 ELSE 0 end

WHEN 391 then case COUNT(tzname) WHEN 1457 then 4 ELSE 0 end

WHEN 392 then case COUNT(tzname) WHEN 1458 then 4 ELSE 0 end

WHEN 188 then case COUNT(tzname) WHEN 637 then 4 ELSE 0 end

WHEN 189 then case COUNT(tzname) WHEN 638 then 4 ELSE 0 end

ELSE 0 end VERSION

FROM v$timezone_names;

If the output is 4, then it is well and good and it requires no additional steps.

If the output of this is < 4 then prior to upgrade we need to apply the Timezone patch.

SQL> select banner from v$version;

It gives DB version and accordingly you have to find the patch at Metalink. Download the zipped patch and unzip it in temp folder (C:\temp).

Step 4) Applying Timezone patch:

Copy the files from location: C:\temp\patch_file\files\oracore\zoneinfo and paste it to existing Oracle 10g location “D:\oracle10g\oracore\zoneinfo”. Make sure to keep backup of existing folder so that you could revert if any problem occurs.

Bounce the database and check the TIMEZONE version again. Again run the 'utlu112i.sql' and by now, the timezone file version should be upgraded.

Step 5) Gather Dictionary stats:

You may have found some warning messages in the output of 'utlu112i.sql' execution. Please do execute the below scripts to avoid those warnings.

Connect as SYS user,

SQL> EXEC DBMS_STATS.GATHER_DICTIONARY_STATS;

SQL> EXEC DBMS_STATS.GATHER_SCHEMA_STATS ('SYS');

SQL> EXEC DBMS_STATS.GATHER_SCHEMA_STATS (‘SYSMAN’);  (if OEM in use)

After executing the above recommended steps, run the pre-upgrade utility 'utlu112i.sql' once again to make sure, you don’t get any critical warnings.

Step 6) Starting Upgrade:

Copy the PFILE from 10g home to 11g home. In the copied PFILE, change the COMAPATIBLE parameter from '10.2.0.3' to '11.2.0.1'.

Delete the old listener service (10g) & create a new one using ORADIM utility.

Set the environment variables as in the below example.

SET ORACLE_HOME=C:\oracle11g\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1

SET PATH=C:\oracle11g\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\bin:$PATH

SET TNS_ADMIN=C:\oracle11g\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\NETWORK\ADMIN

SET ORACLE_SID=FIN89COP

Connect as SYS user,

sqlplus “/ as sysdba” –> will be connected to idle instance

SQL> startup upgrade;

ORA-32004: obsolete and/or deprecated parameter(s) specified

ORACLE instance started.

Then run the Catalog Upgrade ‘catupgrd.sql’ located in $ORACLE_HOME\RDBMS\admin.

SQL> @catupgrd.sql

--This script is to be used for upgrading a 9.2, 10.1 or 10.2 database to the new release.  This script provides a direct upgrade path from these releases to the new Oracle release.

Once the upgrades finishes, it will shut down the database automatically.

Step 7) Post-Upgrade Steps:

Login again as SYS and start the database in normal mode. 

SQL> STARTUP;

Check the dba_registry for the components and its status.

SQL> select comp_name,version, status from dba_registry;

Run utlu111s.sql to display the results of the upgrade:

SQL> @?/RDBMS/admin/utlu111s.sql

Run catuppst.sql, located in the ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin directory, to perform upgrade actions that do not require the database to be in UPGRADE mode:

SQL> @?/RDBMS/admin/catuppst.sql

Check if there are any invalid objects in the upgraded database.

SQL> select count (*) from dba_objects where status = ‘INVALID’;

If the invalid objects exist, run utlrp.sql to recompile.

SQL> @?/RDBMS/admin/utlrp.sql

SQL> select count (*) from dba_objects where status = ‘INVALID’;

This completes the upgrade.

Now the Pfile would be in 10g format. Shutdown the database, change the Pfile structure to 11g and bring it up.