ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2010 - Schedule - Fixture - Results

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Date/ Time*	Team 1	Team 2	Match	Location	Weather
30 Apr, 10 Friday 05:00 AM	New Zealand	Sri Lanka	T20	Georgetown, Guyana	Forecast
30 Apr, 10 Friday 09:00 AM	West Indies	Ireland	T20	Georgetown, Guyana	Forecast
01 May, 10 Saturday 01:30 AM	Afghanistan	India	T20	Gros Islet, St Lucia	Forecast
01 May, 10 Saturday 05:30 AM	Bangladesh	Pakistan	T20	Gros Islet, St Lucia	Forecast
02 May, 10 Sunday 01:30 AM	India	South Africa	T20	Gros Islet, St Lucia	Forecast
02 May, 10 Sunday 05:30 AM	Australia	Pakistan	T20	Gros Islet, St Lucia	Forecast
03 May, 10 Monday 01:30 AM	Sri Lanka	Zimbabwe	T20	Georgetown, Guyana	Forecast

Serena Williams named Player of the Year

Serena Williams has been named 2009 WTA player of the year and shared doubles team of the year with sister Venus.

Serena, 28, won last year's Australian Open and Wimbledon singles titles, while also reaching the US Open semi-finals and French Open quarter-finals.
"2009 was one of the best seasons of my career and winning the player of the year award for the third time is a great achievement for me," she told the WTA website after the ceremony in Miami.
"It will always be memorable for me not just for my singles accomplishments, but because Venus and I won four titles together and I am thrilled to be sharing the doubles team of the year award with my sister."
Alongside Venus, Serena captured the 2009 US and Australian Open and Wimbledon women's doubles titles.
"I love playing doubles with Serena as we have so much fun on the court together," said Venus.
"At the beginning of the 2009 season Serena and I decided to put a lot of emphasis on doubles and I am thrilled that we were able to achieve so much together."
Belgium's Kim Clijsters took comeback player of the year honours after her US Open title and won her seventh sportsmanship award from the WTA.
US teen Melanie Oudin, a 2009 US Open quarter-finalist, won newcomer of the year, while Belgian Yanina Wickmayer took most improved player honours and American Liezel Huber won her fourth career player service award.
Russian Elena Dementieva won fan favourite singles player of the year in an internet fan vote.

Tendulkar unveils Dungarpur's portrait at CCI

Mumbai: Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar today unveiled Raj Singh Dungarpur`s portrait at the Cricket Club of India here and recalled his long association with the late cricket administrator.

"It`s an emotional moment for me. I was associated with Rajbhai for a long time and today it gives me immense pleasure to see Rajbhai`s portrait here," said the champion batsman after unveiling Dungarpur`s portrait at the main hall of the CCI.

Tendulkar also recalled with gratitude all the help he had received as a young boy from Dungarpur in fulfilling his dream of playing for the country.

"I was very close to him from my schooldays and he was among those instrumental for giving me the opportunity to play for the country. You may have talent but it needs the right platform and Rajbhai was instrumental in providing it," said Tendulkar. 


It was under Dungarpur`s stint as the chief selector that Tendulkar was chosen for the first time to play for India as a member of the team that toured Pakistan in 1989.

The batting great also remembered that Dungarpur was instrumental in sending him to England in 1986 (with the Star Cricket Club managed by former Rajasthan pacer Kailash Gattani).

He also rued that when Test cricket returned to the Brabourne Stadium owned by CCI after a long gap, Dungarpur was not alive to see his dream come true. "It was his dream that Test cricket returned to CCI. We played a Test against Sri Lanka here (in December last) but unfortunately Rajbhai had passed away. But I`m sure he would have watched us play from somewhere," Tendulkar said.

Australia make flying start to world track cycling championships

Melbourne: Cameron Meyer won the men's points race for the second year running as Australia got off to a flying start at the world track cycling championships on Wednesday.
His compatriot Anna Meares earlier won the women's 500 metres time trial, the first medal of the five-day championships. 
Germany won the men's team sprint, ending France's four-year domination of the event, while Britain failed to reach the final in a major upset and had to be content with bronze. 
Sarah Hammer of the United States won the women's individual pursuit in the day's other final, beating Britain's Wendy Houvenaghel. 
Meyer, 22, destroyed the field as he won the 160-lap points race with 70 points, followed by Peter Schep of Netherlands with 33 and Milan Kadlec of Czech Republic with 27. 


The event features 24 riders and points are awarded during the race for the winners of 16 intermediate sprints and also if a rider laps the main field.

Meares won the time trial for the third time to add to the titles she won in Melbourne in 2004 and Palma three years ago.

Titleholder Simona Krupeckaite of Lithuania, racing last, finished second and Olga Panarina of Belarus was third.

Britain, firm favourites to win the men's team sprint, could manage only the third fastest time in qualifying, although they easily beat China for the bronze medal.

Chris Hoy was in the British team, returning to the Ballerup track where he suffered a serious crash 13 months ago which forced him to miss the last world championships. 

Commonwealth Games 2010 expense is Rs 10,000 crore: Verma

Mumbai: Laying to rest speculation that the Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2010 budget has overshot, CWG Director General V K Verma said that the entire estimated cost of the games was Rs 10,000-crore.

"The (speculated) CWG cost is a myth. The entire cost of the Games is Rs 10,000 crore, which is USD 2 billion as compared to the USD 28 billion spent by China during the (Beijing) Olympics," Verma said addressing a gathering at the India International Sports Summit.

Out of the Rs 10,000-crore while Rs 2,000-crore will be spent on hospitality, the rest of the money would be spent on building infrastructure like flyovers and stadiums, which is there to last, he said.

Verma said that if India expects to host the Olympics in the near future, they should start laying the platform from now. The time has come to show the world that India is capable of hosting a mega event, he said.

Verma, who is also the vice-president of World Badminton Federation, said that India got an opportunity to host the World Badminton Championship, following the popularity of the game in the country and the success the country achieved in the sport.

According to a survey, India is the second largest badminton playing nation with 1.7-million players. India languished at the 27-28 position eight years ago but have now rose to seventh position,he added.

Melbourne GP under pressure to banish boredom

Melbourne: Formula One officials will hope this weekend's Australian Grand Prix can inject life into a championship which stalled on the starting grid at the highly anticipated season-opener in Bahrain a fortnight ago.

Despite the arrival of three new teams and the return of Michael Schumacher

among four world champions at Sakhir, the refuelling ban, intended to discourage drivers from playing safe, instead resulted in a procession decided at qualifying.

The underwhelming spectacle, in which most drivers made just one pitstop to change tyres and were largely unable to overtake, prompted F1 bosses to demand quick rule changes to avoid further snooze-fests from tarnishing the championship race.

Unsurprisingly, Ferrari, whose Spanish driver Fernando Alonso led a victorious one-two finish with Brazilian team mate Felipe Massa at Sakhir, have supported the governing body FIA's cautious response to the complaints.

"We have to wait and see different races and check the situation, without being emotional," double world champion Alonso told local media. "Something that confuses the fans is changing the rules all the time."

The threat of a boring Australian Grand Prix is somewhat diminished by the bumpy street circuit's record of spills and upsets but the qualifying positions remain the most likely pointer to the podium places.

Comeback easy for Clijsters, Henin

No wonder Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin headed back to tennis convinced they could get back into Grand Slam contention.

It didn't take Clijsters long, as she swept to victory in last year's US Open, and Henin will doubtless soon be back to her dominant best, despite her early defeat to Gisela Dulko in last week's BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, according to Mike Staniforth of Press Association Sport.
One look at the current movers and shakers at the top of the women's world rankings suggests that were it not for the timely comebacks of the Belgian pair, the game would be in a state of significant turmoil.
This week's new world number two, behind the conquer-at-will Serena Williams, is Caroline Wozniacki, a talented 19-year-old from Denmark who was on the receiving end of Clijsters' comeback win at Flushing Meadows.
Nobody would dare suggest Wozniacki is not a very good player. Yet aside from her US Open runner-up slot, she boasts six WTA Tour titles - none of which could by any stretch of the imagination be regarded as significant.
Wozniacki seems at pains to distance herself from her ascension to such lofty heights, perhaps mindful of the scorn heaped upon Dinara Safina last year for her long stay at world number one despite failing to break her Grand Slam duck.
Wozniacki said: "The ranking is just a bonus. I think I'm a great player and I've had a lot of good results. It's not easy to beat me. I just think I'm a fighter and I think the ranking speaks for itself."
Jelena Jankovic, who beat Wozniacki in the Indian Wells final, was once regarded one of the fresh new talents the game badly needed. But the Serb boasts one solitary Grand Slam runners-up slot and treads water in the lower reaches of the top 10.