CRICKET WORLD CUP 2011

After 14 Years, Cricket World Cup is finally returned to Asia (India-Sri Lanka-Bangladesh). Last time World Cup was hosted in Asia in 1996 and Sri Lanka merge winners of the ICC Wills World Cup. Unfortunately, this time Pakistan will not host any games of 2011 world cup because of security concern.

ICC has tried their best to shorten the 2011 world cupIndia will host 29 matches, Sri Lanka will host 12 matches and 8 games will be hosted by Bangladesh. as compared to 2007 world cup. So there will be 49 number of games will be played in 2011 as compared to 51 in 2007. Also the length of the tournament will be shorten by a week. Out of forty nine games,India will host one quarter final in Ahmedabad, one semi final in Mohali and Final of World Cup 2011 in Wankhede

Stadium, Mumbai. While Sri Lanka will host the 2ndst semi final in R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo and Bangladesh will host 1st and 3rd quarterfinal in Mirpur, Dhaka. quarterfinal and 1

Fourteen teams will participate in 2011 World Cup with 14 teams divided into two groups each containing seven teams. Group A contains Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Canada while Group B includes India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland and Netherlands.

The tournament will start with the game between India and Bangladesh on February 19th at Mirpur, Dhaka and tournament will ends with the Final on April 2 in renovated Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. There will be total 13 venues will be used for the tournament.

First quarter final will be played on March 23rd in Colombo, while second quarter final will be played on March 24th in Mirpur. Third quarterfinal will be played in Ahmedabad on 25th March and fourth quarterfinal will be hosted by Sri Lanka in Colombo on March 26th 2011. First semi final will be played on 29th March in Colombo and second semi final will be played on March 30th in Mohali

Groups for the 2011 World Cup

Group A:	Group B
Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Canada, Kenya.	India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherlands.

Match no.	Time (local)	Date	Teams	Venue
1	14:30	19 Feb	India vs Bangladesh	Dhaka
2	09:30	20 Feb	New Zealand vs Kenya	Chennai
3	14:30	20 Feb	Sri Lanka vs Canada	Hambantota
4	14:30	21 Feb	Australia vs Zimbabwe	Ahmedabad
5	14:30	22 Feb	England vs Netherlands	Nagpur
6	14:30	23 Feb	Pakistan vs Kenya	Hambantota
7	14:30	24 Feb	South Africa vs West Indies	New Delhi
8	09:30	25 Feb	Australia vs New Zealand	Nagpur
9	14:30	25 Feb	Bangladesh vs Ireland	Dhaka
10	14:30	26 Feb	Sri Lanka vs Pakistan	Colombo
11	14:30	27 Feb	India vs England	Kolkata
12	09:30	28 Feb	West Indies vs Netherlands	New Delhi
13	14:30	28 Feb	Zimbabwe vs Canada	Nagpur
14	14:30	1 Mar	Sri Lanka vs Kenya	Colombo
15	14:30	2 Mar	England vs Ireland	Bangalore
16	14:30	3 Mar	South Africa vs Netherlands	Mohali
17	14:30	3 Mar	Pakistan vs Canada	Colombo
18	09:30	4 Mar	New Zealand vs Zimbabwe	Ahmedabad
19	14:30	4 Mar	Bangladesh vs West Indies	Dhaka
20	14:30	5 Mar	Sri Lanka vs Australia	Colombo
21	09:30	6 Mar	India vs Ireland	Bangalore
22	14:30	6 Mar	England vs South Africa	Chennai
23	14:30	7 Mar	Kenya vs Canada	New Delhi
24	14:30	8 Mar	Pakistan vs New Zealand	Pallekelle
25	14:30	9 Mar	India vs Netherlands	New Delhi
26	14:30	10 Mar	Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe	Pallekelle
27	09:30	11 Mar	West Indies vs Ireland	Mohali
28	14:30	11 Mar	Bangladesh vs England	Chittagong
29	14:30	12 Mar	India vs South Africa	Nagpur
30	09:30	13 Mar	New Zealand vs Canada	Mumbai
31	14:30	13 Mar	Australia vs Kenya	Bangalore
32	09:30	14 Mar	Pakistan vs Zimbabwe	Pallekelle
33	14:30	14 Mar	Bangladesh vs Netherlands	Chittagong
34	14:30	15 Mar	South Africa vs Ireland	Kolkata
35	14:30	16 Mar	Australia vs Canada	Bangalore
36	14:30	17 Mar	England vs West Indies	Chennai
37	09:30	18 Mar	Sri Lanka vs New Zealand	Mumbai
38	14:30	18 Mar	Ireland vs Netherlands	Kolkata
39	09:30	19 Mar	Australia vs Pakistan	Colombo
40	14:30	19 Mar	Bangladesh vs South Africa	Dhaka
41	09:30	20 Mar	Zimbabwe vs Kenya	Kolkata
42	14:30	20 Mar	India vs West Indies	Chennai
43	14:30	23 Mar	First Quarterfinal	Dhaka
44	14:30	24 Mar	Second Quarterfinal	Colombo
45	14:30	25 Mar	Third Quarterfinal	Dhaka
46	14:30	26 Mar	Fourth Quarterfinal	Ahmedabad
47	14:30	29 Mar	First Semifinal	Colombo
48	14:30	30 Mar	Second Semifinal	Mohali
49	14:30	02 Apr	FINAL	Mumbai

EPL TEAM OF FIRST HALF OF 2010-2011 SEASON

I Choose 4-4-2 Formation To Choose My EPL Team of 2010-2011 Season of First Half.

Goal-keeper

Joe Hart (Man City)

Difficulty of Decision : Easy

Others consideration : P.Cech (Chelsea) , BenFoster

(Birm)

Left-Back

Leighton Baines (Everton)

Difficulty of Decision : Hard

Others consideration : A.Cole (Chelsea) , Patrice Evra (Manchester United) , Assou-Ekotto (spurs)

Center-Back (Left)

Vidic (Man United)

Difficulty of Decision : Easy

Others consideration : Ridgewell (Birmingham) , Robert Huth (Central Defender)

Center-Back (Right)

Terry (Chelsea)

Difficulty of Decision : Normal

Others consideration : Gary Cahill (Bolton), Christopher Samba (Blackburn) , Elmohamady(Sunderland)

Right-Back

Bacary Sagna (Arsenal)

Difficulty of Decision : Hard

Others consideration : Branislav Ivanovic (Chelsea), steven taylor(Newcastle)

Midfield (Right)

Nani (Man United)

Difficulty of Decision : Easy

Others consideration : Matthew Etherington (Stoke) , Lennon (Spurs) ,

Midfield (Center)

Nasri (Arsen

al)

Difficulty of Decision : No

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Others considera

tion :

van der Vaart (Spurs) , Luka Modric (Spurs) , Arshavin(Arsenal)

Midfield (Center)

Tim Cahill (Everton)

Difficulty of Decision : Hard

Others consideration : Chris Brunt (West Brom) , Charlie Adam (Blackpool) , dempsey(Fulham) , Young(Aston Villa) ,

Yaya Toure (Man City)

Midfield (Left)

Gareth Bale (Spurs)

Difficulty of Decision : Easy

Others consideration : Malouda (Chelsea) , Downing (Aston Villa) , Gamst Pedersen(Blackburn) , David Silva (Man City)

Striker (1)

Tevez (Man City)

Difficulty of Decision : Hard

Others consideration : Drogba (Chelsea) , Elmander (Boltan) , Bent (Sunderland)

Striker (2)

Carroll (Newcastle Unite

d)

Difficulty of Decision : Normal

Others consideration : Chamakh(Arsenal) , Wellback(Sunderland) , Kevin Davies (Boltan)

FLOPPED STARS IN 2010-2011 EPL

Welcome to the show of Flop stars.

You have seen players race for the Golden boot, race for the PFA player of the year award, race for becoming a hero, becoming a legend. But sometimes, they run vertically down the career curve and that is when they seem to be called as flops, fallen angels or heroes turned to zeros.

Here Is My List Of Flop Stars

1.Manuel Almunia (Arsenal)
could be heading out of Arsenal Football Club this summer.Arsene Wenger has finally lost patience with his number one of last season, and is closing on a deal to sign Fulham’s Australian shot-stopper Mark Schwarzer.
The Gunners coach has recently confessed that Almunia struggles with confidence ahead of big games, and it is difficult to see the Spaniard having much of a future at the Emirates Stadium.According to The People, Almunia, formerly of Celta Vigo, could be heading back to Spain, where Atletico Madrid are prepared to offer the 33-year-old a fresh start.However, he could eve struggle for regular first team football at the Vicente Calderon, as Atletico have two fine young goalkeepers in Sergio Asenjo and David De Gea.

2.Christian Poulsen (Liverpool)
Danish midfielder has failed to impress since his £4.5 million summer move from Juventus and could be on his way out of Anfield as soon as January.New director of football strategy Damien Comolli does not believe Poulsen has a future at Liverpool and wants to bring in a younger replacement with more potential.It is believed manager Roy Hodgson would back the sale of the former Sevilla star but only if an upgrade can be brought in as he is concerned by the small size of his squad.

3.Yaya Toure (Man City)
Yaya Toure is the highest paid midfielder now with the rich dad Manchester City.City's manager Mancini grabbed Toure from Barcelona as a free agent and offered him the highest ever paid salary. However, we find no logic behind signing Toure. City had Vincent Kompany and Nigel De Jong who were developing as good future players. The addition of Toure simply means a block in the career of those.Secondly, highest paid player? No you gotta be kidding.Toure is known for his physical prowess and technical ability on the pitch, he is a monster and can dominate over the players. However, he has shown no sign of greatness since his transfer and will be just "good" for City this year.And you don't spend millions behind a "just good" player. Logical enough to mark him as a flop one.

4 Joe Cole (Liverpool)
Cole has been a microcosm of Liverpool’s season. Having made changes over the summer both entered the season with expectations relatively low, coming off a down year they were expected to return to their level of form if not better. These modest expectations have not been met. Joe Cole continues to frustrate, a bright pre-season was marred by a lapse in judgement as he ruled himself out for 3 matches. On his return he was placed on the left wing, despite his preference to play in the middle of the pitch where he feels he is best, as a left winger he has been poor. His crossing is not of the standard required and as he drifts inside he clutters the middle of the pitch alongside Lucas, Gerrard, Meireles and Maxi who also tends to drift inside. Not to labour the point but this would be effective if Liverpool’s full-backs were allowed to overlap. No, Joe Cole has shown the same level of performance for Liverpool as he did for Chelsea, alot was made of the youngster coming through at West Ham, now 28 (29 in a week) Cole has fulfilled none of that promise. At Stamford Bridge last year as Inter knocked out Chelsea Cole was introduced to a large cheer from the fans but he flattered to deceive as usual and was inconsequential for 20 minutes. At Liverpool he continues this poor form. In a position that doesn’t suit him, taking playing time away from players who could be more useful on the wing Joe Cole’s tenure at Liverpool has been as bad as their season

5 Raul Meireles: (Liverpool)
The Portuguese midfielder was one of the more expensive (excluding Man City) transfers of the summer. Bought with the proceeds of Javier Mascherano’s forced sale, Meireles was to replace the defensive nature of the Argentinean with some creativity and dynamism, so far all Meireles has accomplished has been to make Lucas look better by comparison. This is (of course) not to write him off completely, he has never been a prolific goal-scorer and is more a box-to-box player who very rarely misses a game, however so far he has shown very little quality to go with his effort. His passing has seemed limited (this may be a tactical instruction) and his shooting has been woeful, in a Liverpool team that has been all accounts terrible it would be hard to stand out or even excel but for 12 million more has been expected

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How To Choose The Right IPO

Over the last year or so, the stock market has been hogging the limelight. Companies have been coming out with Intial Public Offerings (which is when the company first makes its shares available to the public by getting them listed on the stock exchange). Everyone wants to join the party and make money.

Let's say you do get in on an IPO. Here are a few things to look out for.

1. No History
It's hard enough to analyze the stock of an established company. An IPO company is even trickier to analyze since there won't be a lot of historical information. Your main source of data is the red herring, so make sure you examine this document carefully. Look for the usual information, but also pay special attention to the management team and how they plan to use the funds generated from the IPO.

2.The Lockup Period

If you look at the charts following many IPOs, you'll notice that after a few months the stock takes a steep downturn. This is often because of the lockup period.When a company goes public, the underwriters make company officials and employees sign a lockup agreement. Lockup agreements are legally binding contracts between the underwriters and insiders of the company, prohibiting them from selling any shares of stock for a specified period of time. The period can be anything from 3 to 24 months. 90 days is the minimum period stated under Rule 144 (SEC law) but the lockup specified by the underwriters can last much longer. The problem is, when lockups expire all the insiders are permitted to sell their stock. The result is a rush of people trying to sell their stock to realize their profit. This excess supply can put severe downward pressure on the stock price.

3.Avoid the Hype
Since IPOs only happen once for each company, they are often presented as "once in a lifetime" opportunities. Of course, some IPOs soar high and keep soaring. But many end up selling below their offering prices within the year. Don't buy a stock only because it's an IPO - do it because it's a good investment.

4.Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs) **

If the issue has been subscribed more in qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) followed and non-institutional section, then the probability of IPO to be a hit increases.

HAPPY BUYING