The fight between the AIG Management and the US government continues with the US government making it clear that it will use all the available tools to stop the company in lavish bonus payments to its top brass. The company is maintaining that the bonus payment is part of a two year old agreement, but the government insists that the company is not eligible for any bonus payments since it has gone into deep crisis , and gobbled up over 170 billion of US tax payers money. In all probability, you can see major management changes in AIG , in the coming weeks, because the current tango is likely to force few top brass people to move out.
India crushed New Zealand in a battle of batsmen today at Christchurch. India scored their highest ever total : 392 for the loss of just 4 wickets. In reply, New Zealand managed only 334, losing all the wickets in the process. The match produced one of the higest runs scored in a match : a total of 726 runs being scored of the 100 overs. Sachin Tendulkar scored his first 100 in New Zealand while the century by Ryder for New Zealand ended up being in the losing side. With this, India has taken a 2-0 lead over the hosts. This is an unbeatable lead since the 5 match series has already lost a match in between because of rain.
The Australian cricket team was lauded for their stellar performance for over a decade, but what has also been worrying sports lovers is the arrogance of quite a few of their players on the field. There were indeed a few leading cricket legends who have been voicing against the partisan approach of the ICC to the wrong deeds of the australian players. But over the last few months, the Australian cricket team has been handed over the message in a more effective way, through smashing defeats at the hands of India / South Africa and New Zealand. Suddenly, we are seeing a lot of low profiling and also some element of better behaviour from Australian players. Let us hope that sense will prevail and people will start liking australian players not only for their capability but also for their good behaviour.
The England cricket team was in news few days back for the record bidding rates generated for two of their star batsmen. Today the team is in news for posting their worst ever second innings total of 51 runs all out against West Indies team. With this the team has lost their test match with innings defeat which was not expected by even pessimistic people. Let us hope that the team will bounce back in their next set of matches.
The Ricky Ponting lead Australian Cricket team is continuing with their horror times. Few months back it was the Indian team that gave them a severe defeat, which was followed by a dominating performance from the South African team last month. Within few days of taking a 4-1 knock from South africans, the Australian team faced their first match loss against New Zealand team. This has forced the Australian cricket board to act immediately, which has put Ricky Ponting on a two match rest citing no reasons.
Serena Williams who is the second seed in the women’s category will be facing the Russian star in the Australian open tennis championship tomorrow. The fight is indeed expected to be a tough one given the wonderful winning streak of the Russian star. Serena Williams , in the meanwhile, would fight to her fullest capacity to ensure that she wins the grand slam title second time. All the best to Serena Williams.
The Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s young and energetic cricket team continued with their winning streak, through their emphatic win over the Sri Lankan team in their first one day international match held in Sri Lanka today. The Sri Lankans , who were put to batting first by Dhoni, could put only 246 runs with lone contribution from Jayasuriya. The Indian team , even with Sehwag, pulled off the victory comfortably with contribution from Ghambir, Yuvraj, Dhoni and also Raina.
Year 2008 is one of the best years for Indian cricket team. It defeated the most powerful Australian team in a more convincing manner early in the year, and now it is the turn of the England team to receive a solid defeat in both the one day game and the five day test match series. India won all the five one day matches , and has also won the five day match series 1-0. The England team was ruling the first test match on the first four days but finally India rose up to the occasion and posted one of the best run chases to win the thriller.
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The final tally of Olympics reads totally in favor of the hosting country ie., China with a huge lead on others in terms of gold medal. The second in the line is US and third comes Russia. Other countries following suit are Japan and others. India comes 50th in the ranking with just one gold medal to their credit taken by Abhinav Bindra for individual shooting.
