He said,”My wife gifted me at our anniversary.” The gift is earrings. He also thinks that the earrings will not only be lucky for him,also for the whole Shrilankan team as well.

However he never disagreed that cricket is all about good performance. Still he believes that people need some lucky objects with the performance. That is why he fully trusts the earring.

Not only chamara, but also Muralidharan and other player also keeps faith on the earrings. But I personally think that shrilanka itself is a good team so they can play well. Still they are keeping faith on their lucky charm. So all the very best for them.

however still with the presence of the earrings, they lost yesterday with Pakistan. This really proves Cricket is all about performance as well as game of uncertainty.

The 6.5 degree earthquake has made their country fall in a vulnarable situation. The news of the christ church was the good morning news for them as danniel Vettori written in Twitter. They are just praying for their country now.

Still now 65 people have lost lives in the disaster and there are more chances to get more deadbodies. This is the second attack on christchurch. The last attack was on september 2010 the and rikhter scale rate of the earthquake was 7.

The unfortunate kewies are in great mourn. But can they give their best performance in the world cup. Or they will fire the field with the power of mourn toinspire the country people?

Question: you have chosen to field first even winning the toss and that’s the talk of the town?
Shakib Al Hasan: I don’t actually see any reason to make it a big issue. Actually when you have no cause you have to find something—that’s the thing.

Question: but after loosing the toss if opposition makes 370 and wins then there will be criticism.
Shakib Al Hassan: at Mirpur stadium last 10 over are critical for bowler because of dew factor. But there wasn’t much dew that day. Then what happened? Actually It was their day.

Question: then where was the problem?
Shakib Al Hasan: actually worse playing with new ball was the pillar of our failure that day. Bowlers gave much run. If we got more wickets at first this big score may not took place at scoreboard.

Question: mass people are saying that if Bangladesh chose to bat first and made the score they made at the last match with India, India might not chase it successfully. What do you think?
Shakib Al Hasan: On this field we made 294 against India and they won that before.

Question: do you have any dissatisfaction about your decision?
Shakib Al Hasan: no. we have thought about about it for lat 5-7 days.

Question: what do you find positi.ve in this match?
Shakib Al Hasan: I think inspiration of the audience. They have recharged us a lot.

For the first time the ICC World Cup 2011 is going to be arranged in three South Asian countries, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India. All these countries have many cultural assets and they have showed their marvelous cultural items in the opening ceremony display. And from the preparation it was easily assumed that they are gonna show something and really what they have displayed was really great.

The guests of bangladesh are very happy and greatfull with their hospitality. Dhaka , the city of rickshaw has been well decorated to attract the guests. No doubt, that this is a great event for bangladesh. And the bangladeshi people left no try undone to present their beautiful country in front of the world.

The opening ceremony starts with AMAAR SONAR BANGLA, the national anthem of Bangladesh presented by the leading cultural organization Chayanot. Then the BCC chairman, Prime minister gave their speech and opened the ceremony officially. After that the Bangladeshy singers welcome the world for the world cup 2011 with their song.

Then the segment comes to see the players. The captains Of the 16 teams were carried in the stadium by the rickshaw-the traditional vehicle of bangladesh and just after that Sonu Nigam amazed the whole stadium with his song.

Just after that the most awesome segment was presented in the stadium. INDIA. SRI-LANKA and BANGLADESH displayed their own culture,art,tradition,history with the music of traditional song and music. that’s not all. Then Brian Adams rocked the stadium. At the end Shankar, Ehsan And Loy sand the world cup theme song and the final part blast the field.

no doubt that the opening ceremony was really great . now we will look orward to watch the performance of the Teams.

watch the match schedule

In this selection Matt Prior was the surprise, though he is not playing current ODI series in Australia.

England is in Group B its World Cup, where others team are India, South Africa England, Bangladesh, Canada, Ireland, The Netherlands and West Indies
Their World will begins against Netherlands at Nagpur on February 22.

England Squad:

1. Andrew Strauss (Captain)
2. Jimmy Anderson
3. Ian Bell
4. Tim Bresnan
5. Stuart Broad
6. Paul Collingwood
7. EoinMorgan
8. Kevin Pietersen
9. Matt Prior
10. Ajmal Shahzad
11. GraemeSwann
12. James Tredwell
13. Jonathan Trott
14. Luke Wright
15. MichaelYardy. (AP) SNK

Shah Rukh said that he will talk to Ganguly and that KKR will try to take him onboard, since he remains unsold in the recently concluded IPL auction.

To everyone’s horror, among the 28 players who were re-auctioned at the request of the franchises, Ganguly’s name was kind of disqualified.It was Murali Karthik who turned out to be a gainer as he was bought by Sahara Pune Warriors at $400,000.

There is every reason that the most successful Indian captain will feel insulted as he had prolonged his cricketing career only to play in the IPL. With franchises turning their backs on him, it is certainly one of the most ignominious ends for the Prince of Kolkata.

One of the realistic reason could be his base price of $400,000. By the time the re-auctions of the unsold players were held, it became clear that his old team KKR who had a purse of $425,000 won’t bid for him. Ditto for Chennai Super Kings who had almost exhausted their purse with only $385,000 remaining.

Everyone was looking forward to Sahara Pune Warriors – a franchise with whom Ganguly has been linked for quite some time. However with three editions already over, even the new teams know how to get their economics right as most of them found it fit to spend the remaining money on uncapped domestic players who would form the core of the team.

But his fully fit and destructive batting compatriot Chris Gayle, as well as batting legend Brian Lara, and several other notable West Indians have failed to attract interest on the second and final day of the IPL players’ auction yesterday.

“I’m sure all those IPL franchises, everyone will know what I’m capable of,” said Gayle.

“I didn’t have anything to prove. It’s unfortunate things didn’t come off in the IPL, disappointed, but at the same time you’ve got to live life, and still got to move on.”

The 26-year-old Taylor was sidelined with hip and back injuries for most of last year, and only recently resumed competitive cricket in his native Jamaica.

He is part of Jamaica’s squad for the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship, which opens today in Antigua, but this failed to deter the Pune franchise, and he was bought for the base price of US $100,000.

This means only three players from the West Indies are likely to feature in this year’s fourth edition of the IPL.

The others are Kieron Pollard, one of the four “protected players” retained by the Mumbai Indians franchise for US $900,000, and fellow all-rounder and compatriot Dwayne Bravo, whose contract was picked-up by reigning champions, the Chennai Super Kings, for US $200,000 on the first day of the auction on Saturday.

All other West Indians, including Gayle and Lara remained unsold, and their prospects for this year look very dim.

For Gayle, it’s a major financial setback. He stood to earn a minimum of US $120,000, plus match fees and bonus payments under the terms of a West Indies Cricket Board retainer contract.

But he, along with Bravo and Pollard chose to snub the retainers hoping to shop their skills around the World, including the IPL.

Gayle shrugged off the disappointment and blasted 61 off 31 balls in an Australian T20 Big Bash match for Western Australia against New South Wales yesterday in Sydney.

Apart from Taylor, two-dozen other West Indians, including Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Fidel Edwards, and Kemar Roach, were under consideration, but none bagged a deal.

Several other high-profile players missed-out on IPL cash. They include England’s Ashes-winning trio of batsmen Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell, along with fast bowler James Anderson.

Police had not yet identified a suspect or released the name of the other victim.

Connecticut coach Randy Edsall said that,”the team was heartbroken and devastated over the loss of Howard, a junior and the team’s starting cornerback who came to the school to get away from the violence on the streets of his hometown. He became the first person in his family to go to college”.

Edsall said, “Howard’s death was especially tragic, because he was about to become a father. No additional information about the expectant mother, identified by Edsall as Howard’s girlfriend, was provided by police or the university”.

Joanglia Howard said,” she got news of her son’s death about 4 a.m., and described him as a “good kid” who never got into trouble”.

Hemsky is very close to the competition, but will sit for one more game. The same situation is facing Gilbert Brule, who missed the recent California road trip by being attacked with a stomach virus. But they could both play against Buffalo on Tuesday at Rexall Place.

The coach Renney will make only one lineup change from Thursday’s 3-2 shootout loss at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Nikolai Khabibulin will return in goal after Devan Dubnyk’s sterling work against the Kings, but the Canucks surprisingly will stick with backup goalie Cory Schneider, who was in net Thursday when the Canucks wallpapered the Blue Jackets in Columbus. Roberto Luongo will play the Philadelphia Flyers in Vancouver on Tuesday. The Flyers are already in town, and practised after the Oilers and the Canucks, who have a 7-1-2 record over their last 10 games, Sunday morning.

This is the fourth time the Oilers have played the Canucks on Boxing Day, and they have a 1-2 record.

There are two big keys against the Canucks, who have the best goals-for and -against differential (plus 26) in the West: somehow finding a way to stop the Sedin twins, Henrik and Daniel, and holding off Manny Malhotra, Ryan Kesler and Henrik in the faceoff circle whic is definitely a huge task.

Henrik leads the NHL in assists with 35, while Daniel has the most first-goals (six) in the league and as a pair, they have 38 points in their last dozen games.Malhotra is second in faceoff percentage (62.8), with only Washington’s Dave Steckl (63.8) better; Kesler is seventh (59 per cent) and Henrik 26th in the league (53.9).

However, for fight fans and UFC 124 competitors, only two of the directives are for more than 45 days.

The full list of suspensions are kind of as follows:

Josh Koscheck: 60 days
Joe Stevenson: 60 days

Dan Miller: 45 days
Joe Doerksen: 45 days
Sean Pierson: 45 days

Sean McCorkle: 30 days
John Howard: 30 days
Rafael Natal: 30 days
Matt Riddle: 30 days
T.J. Grant : 30 days
Pat Audinwood: 30 days

Georges St. Pierre: 28 days

Thiago Alves: 21 days
Jesse Bongfeldt: 21 days

Ricardo Almeida:14 days
John Makdessi: 14 days

Stefan Struve: 7 days
Jim Miller: 7 days
Charles Oliveira: 7 days
Mac Danzig: 7 days
Dustin Hazelett: 7 days
Mark Bocek: 7 days