Liverpool misses Gerrard...

Liverpool will be missing out their captain Steven Gerrard as he had been injured and will not be playing the Tuesday's Premier League match at home to Arsenal. It is expected that he will be ruled out for 7-10 days with the groin problem. It would be a tough competition for Manchester United to regain the first place only if they win against Portsmouth at Old Trafford. But a draw for Liverpool at Anfield would see them go top of the table. Robin van Persie and Emmanuel Adebayor are also likely to miss the match for Arsenal due to injuries. Instead Bacary Sagna and Eduardo will occupy their place.

Hayden and Muralitharan does the cameo for CSK

Finally they are out, from my point of view I say that it’s really difficult for other teams if they keep going like this. Hayden and Patel who made a brilliant start to the innings contributed 106 for the first wicket.Chennai Super Kings who started with match with a defeat against Mumbai Indians have now regrouped their team that had slayed the Bangalore Royal Challengers. Chasing a huge total of 179 runs under lights Bangalore Royal Challengers have lost the match by 92 runs. It was once again a poor start for the Challengers, Praveen Kumar who started the innings was bowled out by Gony.Kallis made a firing start but it was his International team mate Albie Morkel who caught him for a leg before wicket. Soon the other players went out for cheap dismissals.Dravid alone fought the battle alone scoring 20 runs and in no time even he was dismissed by Balaji.Muralitharan who claimed three wickets giving away only 11 runs was adjudged the Man Of The Match. Hayden now holds the Orange cap for scoring high runs in this season. Even Freddie’s cameo of 21 runs in just 12 balls saw Chennai set an impressive total of 179/5 in 20 overs.

Rafael Nadal,Too hot to handle....

World No.1 Rafael Nadal fired out Ecuador's Nicolas Lapentti to enter the quarter-finals of the rain-hit Monte Carlo Masters with a 6-3, 6-0.He had won the match in 93 minutes and will face Ivan Ljubicic, who dismissed Italian Simone Bolelli 7-5, 7-6.Briton Andy Murray also played well to get qualified by beating Italian qualifier Fabio Fognini 7-6, 6-4.It was Murray's first entry into quarter-finals of clay tournament. At first Murray was beaten by 108th-ranked Fognini for 5-0 later Murray came out with an advantage of 13-11.

Heavy fine for slow over rate...

IPL has decided to impose a huge fine on teams which resort to slow over rates. A fine of USD 20,000 will imposed on captain and USD 220,000 on the entire team. Following last years performance, the new rule of ban will be taking into effect. Lalit Modi said that providing mid-innings slots is mainly to add more commercial value to the league. A seven-and-half-minute break will be taken after 10 overs.Following a seven-and-half-minute break the match period will be extended from three hours to three-and-half hours....

Knight riders appoint McCullum as new captain....

Brendon McCullum has been appointed as the captain for Kolkata Knight Riders.It seems that he might be the captain for the whole season. After appointing McCullum as Captain Buchanan's 'multiple-Captaincy theory' seems to have been taken under effect.Ganguly has been sacked of from the captaincy of KKR to bring some betterment for the team. This decision has come as a blow for saurav but for the kiwi hard hitter batsman-keeper its sign of improvement in life.Ganguly follows VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid who paved the way for Adam Gilchrist and Kevin Pietersen.

Hamilton finishes first in first practice session....

Behind many controversies World champion Lewis Hamilton set the quickest time in first practice for the Chinese Grand Prix.He swept around 5.451km track in one minute, 37.334 seconds on a bright but breezy morning in Shanghai.Button is chasing a third straight win this weekend was second quickest with a lap of 1.37.450.Mark Webber finished out fifth for Red Bull's and Jarno Trulli of Toyota's and Nico Rosberg of Williams finished sixth and seventh. Finn Kimi Raikkonen finished 11th for Ferrari.

Lance Armstrong promises Giro d'Italia organisers.....

Lance Armstrong has asked Giro d'Italia organizers to have confidence in his ability to recover from a broken collarbone in time for May's race. The seven-times Tour de France winner has wrote a email stating to have trust in him. The organizers said that the 37-year-old American has assured them about his participation. He is also to race in July's Tour de France but he might get a ban because of his behavior at a doping test in March.

Hope for Bliztering starts from the Legends....

Bang Bang Bang ….The worlds cricket playing legends are set to open the batting together for the Mumbai Indians in the IPL season 2 that is going to be commencing tomorrow. With the Man of Series in the 2003 World Cup in South Africa Sachin is set to open with Powerful striker Jayasuriya.They are set to open the match with Dhoni’s men on Saturday .with J.P.Duminy, Zaheer, Robin Uthappa giving a firm support to the Mumbai Indians will they take over the Chennai Super Kings. Mean While Dhoni’s men are also not as easy to defeat because Hayden, Raina, Fintoff, AB Morkel, Nitini, Muralitharan, Oram and coach cum player Fleming provide a firm support.

What is D/L Method in cricket....???

I just read out an article about how to calculate D/L Method, its not that much easy to calculate it they use a formula to calculate it. It will be 100 at the start of the innings but as overs are completed or wickets fall the “resources remaining" falls. The expected score is the current score plus 235 times the resources remaining divided by 100. The system assumes that the average innings score for an ODI is 235.Z (u, w) = Z0 (w) [1 - exp {-b (w) u}] is the formula used and Z (u, w) is the expected number of runs to be scored in u overs when w wickets have been lost. Z0 (w) is the average total score if an unlimited number of overs were available and when w wickets have been lost. b (w) is a decay constant that varies with w, the number of wickets lost.

Chennai Super Kings wins warm-up after Raina and Patel fire....

Raina and Patel put the Super kings for a massive win in the warm-up match against Nashua Dolphins by 41 runs. Both the left handers played a pivotal role, while Patel 51 runs off 36 balls and Raina 70 runs off 41 balls. Chennai Kings who won the toss decided to bat first and set a score of 180 runs losing seven wickets.The pair made a 120 run stand at average of 10 runs per over. Nashua Dolphins who later came out to bat was rounded off and were all out for 139.

SRK to annouce Captain for Knight Riders on April 16..

After Coach John Buchanan’s four-captain theory Kolkata Knight Riders will announce their skipper for Indian Premier League’s second season on April 16.SRK said that his team captain will be announced two days before the tournament commences. The Owner will be sailing back to India to cast his vote for the parliamentary elections. Mean while, Sachin Tendulkar said that there will be no change regarding the captaincy in Mumbai Indians.

Porto's take a ordinary look on Manchester United....

Porto’s Mariano Gonzales said that his team will take Manchester United as an ordinary look at Old Trafford. Edwin van der Sar who was sacked by Gonzalez in the 89th minute to give Portugal’s champs a 2-2 draw last week. Rio Ferdinand's loss will be a main advantage for the Porto’s. Porto’s are very confident that they will play out with full involvement and concentration to win and more over they said that United were not better than us at Old Trafford and they know that.

Marat Safin crushes Lleyton Hewitt in the first round.....

After sister becoming World's No.1 player brother Marat Safin has now started out with a win over Lleyton Hewitt beating him 6-4, 7-5 in the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters. Hewitt who earlier won the US clay court Championship could not match Safin's accuracy. Hewitt, who became world number one in November 2001, had his right thigh strapped after the first set but, true to his reputation, did not give up easily. The Russian wrapped up the match to win the sets after 95 minutes.

Sachin-Jaypee Cements Brand Ambassador....

Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday said that his father, elder brother Ajit and boyhood coach Ramakant Achrekar where the one's who guided him through out his life. He said that his father was his first master who guided him through out the entire life, he always kept him advising that everything in this world is temporary and only thing that is lasting is the impression you leave on the people's mind. After his father's absence his elder brother Ajit guided him through out. Revealing his childhood coach he said, Achrekar sir was one who would take him to practice even if he skips the practice. All these secret memories he disclose at a meeting where he was after being named the Brand Ambassador for Jaypee Cements. He was also gifted a golden bat at the start of the innings.

Valentino Rossi contributes his earnings to the Abruzzo victims....

Valentino Rossi has made his decision to contribute his income to the victims of the Abruzzo earthquake in central Italy which took away 291 lives. He said that he will start writing in Newspapers and would contribute that income to the good use. Rossi who hails from Marche next to Abruzzo also will carry a sticker on his Yamaha bike as a sign of paying tribute to the people of Abruzzo.Charging money for the column in the leading news paper will surely pay some good for the people who are in need.