IPL3 salaries still 'DUE'

Kings XI Punjab, owned by Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia and Mohit Burman have not yet cleared the dues of its players  like Yuvraj Singh and Irfan Pathan. 

It has been reveled from the sources that Yuvraj was initially paid Rs 1 crore in August and he is still waiting for the rest of his salary, which is more than Rs 3 crore. 

Pathan,also has not been paid at all for last season.Kings have given an undertaking that they will pay the players "as soon as the BCCI pays us for IPL 3". BCCI owes Kings Punjab an amount of  Rs 22 crore for IPL3.

Whenever the players demanded their salaries, Kings expressed helplessness saying their bank account was seized by the income tax authorities due to service tax issues.

 We will pay the players once we receive the payments," a Kings official said. 

The IPL rule book says that if a team fails to pay its players on time, the board has the discretion to pay the players from the franchise's revenue share.

Rajasthan royals  too crossed the deadline of payment of the salaries to its players and have written "apology letters" to them. 

It is a matter of concern.The players need to be paid for their work.BCCI needs to act quickly to ensure a release of the funds of teams.The delay in payment definitely puts the goodwill of the franchisee at stake,with the owners are constantly haunted with other issues.

 

Facebook Profile Redesigned

On Sunday night, Facebook's profile page got a major overhaul.
Facebook is redesigning the profile pages of its 500 million-plus users to make it more of a reflection of their real lives and emphasize one of the site's most popular features, photos. 

Profile page now puts all the personal information at the top of the page and shows similarities between friends on the right side of it. For instance, if I visit my brother's page I can see a bunch of his recent photographs, I can see where he works, goes to school and when is his birthday.On the righthand side, there is a box about our friendship that includes how many friends we have in common, mutually tagged photos, etc.


The changes are meant to make it easier for users to tell their story - who they are, where they work, their life philosophy and the most important people in their lives. The changes place a bigger emphasis on visuals, from photos to images of users' interests.


This surprise is welcomed happily because facebook has now turned out to be a user friendly social networking site. It not only provides u with the ease and comfort of quickly searching through the profile but is also wite attractive in its appeal. Though it is a recent concept,but it has been accepted by many now.Even I found it to be interesting and wanted to find out new feature! So go ahead and experience it.

Dhoni's gameplay

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, quite evidently, doesn't believe only in new hairstyles; he has the courage and foresight to go for a complete makeover too, and not just off the field. 
 
He has, of course, already come a long way from his "hippie" days: he is not a simple, small-town boy anymore; he is confident and easily the country's most demanding star now. 
 
Dhoni could have stopped right there: after all, he is already the captain of the national team. But then, he hasn't come so far by playing it safe: he was primarily a wicket-keeper but he knew it wouldn't take him too far. So he opted for the big and high-risk shots which caught the eye of the selectors. 
 
It was in 2006, during the Pakistan tour, that he faced his moment of reckoning though. He had already made an impact in the One-dayers, with a smashing 148 and a blistering, nearly record-breaking 183 not out. But for the first time, he was seeing real pace bowling.
 
Shoaib Akhtar came at him so fast that he wondered if he deserved his place. Luckily, his batting partner in Faisalabad was Sachin Tendulkar: he simply asked him to relax and play his natural game; a few deliveries later, he smashed Akhtar for a six and ended with a century. 
 
There was no looking back after that; his reputation, however, had already started preceding his future. He came to be known as the big hitter and a smasher.
 
Over the last season, the India captain is riding on another change, probably his most significant one in his life of an anchor. 
 
Dhoni batted at number Three or Four in the IPL and in two games in the Twenty20 World Cup too. 
 
In One-dayers, his record is impressive.
IN ODI'S Dhoni have played 171 matches in which he scored 5,733 runs with 7 centuries and 37 half centuries.183 runs is his highest score in an ODI.
Being a wicket keeper he caught 177 catches and stumped 55 times of his 171 matches.


As of January 2010, Dhoni is the highest ranked ODI batsman on the ICC Rankings List. Dhoni was named as captain of Wisden's first-ever Dream Test XI Team in 2009 and has topped the list of world’s top 10 earning cricketers compiled by Forbes.
recently,Dhoni married Sakshi. Sakshi Dhoni, a Kolkata girl, is studying hotel management and was working as a trainee at the Taj Bengal where the two of them met two years ago. 

IPL dispute to be solved through Arbitration

Rajasthan Royals and BCCI have agreed to take the dispute over the IPL franchise's contract termination to an ‘out of court settlement’ also known as arbitrator. Royals moved to Bombay High Court last month after the BCCI terminated the contract with them for the IPL.

Royals' lawyer Janak Dwarkadas told the court, “Both the parties have decided to solve the dispute through arbitration as per the contract terms”. He also said that, “Justice B N Srikrishna will be the sole arbitrator”.

Another IPL franchise, Kings XI Punjab Kings, owned by actor Preity Zinta and industrialist Ness Wadia, has filed an arbitration petition in Bombay High Court challenging Cricket Board's decision to terminate their IPL franchise contract. Kings XI Punjab lawyers told the court that they too seek to resolve the dispute through arbitration before Justice Srikrishna.

BCCI terminated the franchise of both the teams on the ground that they had changed the shareholding pattern without informing the Board or IPL Governing Council.

According to Kings XI Punjab, it is a "deliberate and calculated" move of BCCI with an interest of making large profits by seeking new bids, as the value of franchisees had gone up considerably.

As per the records, the two recent franchise,Kochi and Sahara, had fetched Rs 330 crores and Rs 370 crores respectively to BCCI, in contrast to a sum total of Rs 76 crores by Punjab in Mohali bid in early 2008.

The court then posted the matter of Kings XI for hearing later this month. 

This cancellation of contract of teams will hardly affect the players of Rajasthan and Punjab as they would be put up for bids in auction later as their contract with the clubs ended in September'10 itself.

The issues needs to be solved quickly because the young,budding players then will have a platform to showcase their talent.This surely will give them a good start in their career.

HAIDER:Not RUNNING TO SCORE But RUNNING To Save His Life

Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider is sensationally leaving his team due to death threats for refusing to fix matches.The 24-year-old, who has played just one Test, four ODIs and three Twenty20 internationals, is under pressure and thought of dumping his team in the middle of the just-concluded ODI series against South Africa in the UAE.

"My family is still getting threats. I have decided to retire because there is lot of pressure on me and I can't take it," Haider told 'Geo News' from London.

Haider claims that he received death threats for refusing to fix the fourth ODI in the series which Pakistan lost by 2-3.He was approached by one person who asked him to fix the fourth and fifth match or otherwise he would have to face serious consequences.
Haider took his passport from the team management after the fourth ODI on saying that he wants to buy a mobile connection but, instead fled to London.

"The administration needs to be cleaned up as fast as possible,"says Imran Khan former cricket player for Pakistan.


Sadly, this incident give rise to the feeling that players are linked to bookies or are controlled by them.The team and the players who are involved in corruption, should not be spared.
I think the roots of match fixing lies within the PCB itself. Otherwise, why Haider would fly to England without informing the PCB bosses?
 He also knows that these people are powerful enough, and that's why he did not come back to Pakistan. And now they have suspended him without hearing his story.Haider is now seeking for political asylum in Britain.

WAY TO GO BHAJJI

"It was my dream to score a Test hundred," said Harbhajan. "But I never dreamt I would be the man of the match for my batting, not in Tests, maybe in one-dayers. A big thanks to Laxman, without whom I could not have scored this."

Harbhajan showed no signs of nerves even in the 90s and reached his 100 runs in style, with a lofted six off Daniel Vettori.
"Harbhajan played his natural game and put the pressure back on to us. He blocked our attack and played so well and aggressive cricket that he managed to take the game away from us," Vettori said.


It has been revealed that Bhaji's teammates had been encouraging him all the time to go for the maiden hundred. 
He has been always capable of a big knock and he proved it today.Harbhajan did not let the team down.

I think the off-spinner have the capability to be the great 'All Rounder' for India like 'Kapil Dev'.

India proved once again that we can comeback from any conditions and we are still the NO-1 in the world of cricket.

You need not be a big guy like Hayden to hit centuries..You just got to  have a big heart like Bhajji....

PAUL,THE OCTOPUS passes away

Paul the octopus, who shot to fame during this year's football World Cup in South Africa for his flawless record in predicting game outcomes, has died, in his aquarium in Germany.

His success made him almost a bigger story than the World Cup itself.It's undeniable that Paul the Octopus was the real star of the 2010 football World Cup.

Paul correctly fore casted all eight World Cup games what he was asked to predict, including Spain’s 1-0 win over the Netherlands in the final.

"Paul amazed the world by correctly predicting the winners of all Germany's World Cup clashes, and then of the final," said Sea Life manager Stefan Porwoll.

He was to the 2010 World Cup football championship what cheerleaders are to the IPL: the element of fun.The aquarium has already been grooming a successor, to be named Paul like his mentor.Paul,is now an iPhone application.