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.

WIMBLEDON 2013 CHAMPIONS

 

The huge event Wimbledon 2013 bids adieu with lot of exciting games and moments. It has shown the mixture of hard work, emotion, human value, excitement, temperament, pride and the list goes on. May the best win is the mantra of Wimbledon and this year the Wimbledon 2013 championship was bagged by Andy Murray and Marion Bartoli in men & women’s singles event respectively.

 

 

Andy Murray wins Wimbledon 2013 men's final with straight-sets victory over Novak Djokovic. British tennis has been waiting for this moment for almost 77 years and the wait is over now. Murray became the first British men’s singles winner at The Lawn Tennis Championships since Fred Perry in 1936. He is also the first British man to win Wimbledon in short trousers. “Winning Wimbledon is the pinnacle of tennis,” said Andy Murray. He added that the few days before the tournament are really difficult and for the last four or five years, it’s been very, very tough, very stressful, a lot of pressure. 

 

Murray had a story of lot of tough losses, but every year he had been finding little bit of improvement which everyone could sense with the way his ranking was going. He admitted that he did not want to go to sleep last night in case his Wimbledon win turned out to be a dream. In the dramatic final game, even after winning two sets against Djokovic, Murray was not able to breathe easy as everyone knows the recovery caliber of Novak and he could bounce back from nowhere and so the environment, but finally the day went in favour of the British man.

 

Marion Bartoli beats Sabine Lisicki in straight sets to win Wimbledon 2013 women's singles final. Winning her first grand slam title with this dominant 6-1, 6-4 victory and dominating throughout the entire tournament without dropping a set shows her caliber and I would say the cup deserves her rather than saying she deserves the cup. Her father Walter was the pillar behind her and he was the one whom she thanked most generously, the one she embraced most tenderly when it was all over. Her happiness reflected in her words. She expressed her joy as “You went through pain, you went through tears, and so in those five or 10 seconds before you shake the hand of your opponent you feel almost like you are not walking any more on Earth.” Bartoli has established a reputation as a fast learner. She has recorded an IQ of score of 175, as well as showcasing ability this fortnight to recite the Fibonacci sequence by rote. 

Bartoli had won £1.6m for her first grand slam title and when she was asked about that she replied "I don't even know how much I won, so it will be a surprise and that's not what I'm thinking about right now, I don't even realize I won Wimbledon so the first step is for me to actually realize that I won Wimbledon, then we'll see what is happening with the money."The opponent in the final Sabine Lisicki dissolved in tears after the first set as she had not offered even a glimpse of her best. As Lisicki began to cry midway through the second set, Bartoli said she wanted to "give her a hug" but her empathy is matched by her drive and her determination to win.