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- Indian thump Bangladesh in Twenty20 World Cup 2009
- Holland stun England in Twenty20 World cup opener 2009
- Google Wave - new wave in communication?
| Indian thump Bangladesh in Twenty20 World Cup 2009 Posted: 06 Jun 2009 09:52 PM PDT
India comprehensively defeated Bangladesh and laid to rest the ghosts of the previous World Cup encounter at Port of Spain when the latter brought about their exit from the World Cup in 2007. Batting first the Indian team put up a good total of 180 runs at the loss of five wickets. The openers started the innings in a steady manner with Gambhir and Rohit. Rohit Sharma in his short innings that he played displayed streaks of brilliance with his first drive that raced to the boundary. He hit three boundaries and two sixes in his knock of 36. He looked at ease, with ample of time to play his shots although there were bouts of haste and impulsiveness which surfaced from time to time in his innings. It was one of those that brought his downfall when trying too had to scuttle a ball to the boundary he was bowled by Hasan. Dhoni and Gambhir played safe with singles but it appeared that Indians were beginning to lose the plot as the run rate had begin to drop and the Indians were just 70 odd runs in the 10th over. Although a sense of urgency set in, it required the services of ‘Blaster’ Yuvraj Singh’s clinical powerful clean hitting to steer the Indian ship to a respectable total. Yuvraj plundered the Bangladesh bowler as boundaries and sixes rained in the otherwise pale and insipid innings. He hit four mighty sixes targetting the midwicket fence and three boundaries to help India reach a respectable total.
The Bangaldeshi batsmen showed some intent with an aggressive display of strokes by the Siddique at the start as he scored 41 runs from 22 balls with three sixes. However, the other batsmen failed to rise to the ocassion and the team eventually capitulated to some willy Indian bowling performance from the lkes of Pragyan Ojha who spun a web around the batsmen. He grabbed 4 wickets for a paltry 21 runs and won the coveted Man of the Match award. Apart from Siddique, it was a rather lacklustre performance from the ‘Tigers’ who were expected to repeat the Port of Spain performance. But as goes the saying ‘Lightening does not strike twice’, the same was displayed by the Indians who won the match with ease. However, the services of Sehwag was missed at the top of the order and fans around the world would be praying he recovers soon to give the side the boost with his drives, cuts and pulls! Check out more Twenty20 World Cup Videos These posts might be of your interest |
| Holland stun England in Twenty20 World cup opener 2009 Posted: 06 Jun 2009 07:55 PM PDT
The openers did the bulk of the scoring for the English side and the side managed 162 on the board for the loss of five wickets in the stipulated twenty overs. The Dutch chased the total set by England and were helped in the process by some shoddy fielding by the English players that saw run out chances go begging and sloppy overall fielding. The Dutch batsmen showed fighting spirit and the match went down to the last ball which went for overthrows and led the side to victory. For the Dutch, it was Grooth who did the bulk of the scoring with six hits to the fence and a big six! This loss would have sent a cold chill down the English side’s spine. The loss would be a wake up call for the side which despite having heavyweights like Collingwood, Owais Shah and Anderson failed to impress its fans! Check out the Twenty20 World Cup Videos in our VideoBuzz sectionThese posts might be of your interest |
| Google Wave - new wave in communication? Posted: 06 Jun 2009 07:48 PM PDT
Users can add people during a conversation at any point. And to avoid any kind of confusion that prevails regarding the thread of the conversation, the tool provides a playback option which would recapitulate the conversation with the concerned individuals, now that is new!! So, looks like a combination of orkut, picasa and communication knit together in real time. Watch the demo video below to know more about Google Wave. Apart from the these feature, the tool has two more aspects - for developers it provides them the option to contribute to the wave by building robot extensions (or in plain terms write programs) which would improve the tool. It gives the option to embed waves into your own site (using Javascript) which would in turn make the wave more collaborative. The tool is in open source which would mean free for use. So, something on the lines of say a twitter (which the company has already worked upon) could be plugged on your page. This feature may be on similar lines to facebook where you can have your set of features like games etc on your page. Google ‘Wave’ as the name of the tool sums it up that there are several of them, and all can be put together to make a larger wave. This tool would extend Google’s efforts in collaboration and communication space as it has already come up with Google Apps that has messaging and collaboration for offices. So, this tool would be for the end user/individual space and would help Google get into this territory also. Google has now tools which cater to the different spheres and userbase. Google analytics, Trends, Site Search and Website Optimizer cater to websites. Google Apps, Enterprise Search Solution Checkout and Local Business Center would be for enterprises while Google Wave & other offerings from Google labs would be for individuals. These posts might be of your interest |
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