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Thursday, March 25, 2010

UEFA Champions League Quarter Finals

UEFA Champions League, The Path to MADRID has been finalized. The Match-ups are as shown below.
Olympique Lyon Vs Bordeaux
Bayern Munich Vs Manchester United
Arsenal Vs Barcelona
Inter Vs CSKA Moscow

No doubt that Arsenal Vs Barcelona appears to be the best of the match-ups and will be an interesting contest to follow.

Mar 30 14:45 ET Bayern Munich v Manchester United - Allianz Arena
Mar 30 14:45 ET Lyon v Bordeaux - Stade de Gerland

Mar 31 14:45 ET Arsenal v Barcelona - Emirates Stadium
Mar 31 14:45 ET Internazionale v CSKA Moscow - Giuseppe Meazza

Apr 6 14:45 ET Barcelona v Arsenal - Estadio Camp Nou
Apr 6 14:45 ET CSKA Moscow v Internazionale - Luzhniki Stadium

Apr 7 14:45 ET Bordeaux v Lyon - Stade Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Apr 7 14:45 ET Manchester United v Bayern Munich - Old Trafford

Cheers,
Vishal

Friday, March 12, 2010

IPL 2010 - Go Chargers Go

IPL 2010 is kicking off in half an hour time. The Inaugral match is between the last year Champions Deccan Chargers and the last year Bottom Ranked Kolkata Knight Riders.
Deccan Chargers squad
AC Gilchrist*†, A Ashish Reddy, Anirudh Singh, AA Bilakhia, HH Gibbs, Harmeet Singh, RJ Harris, VVS Laxman, MR Marsh, MD Mishra, PP Ojha, DB Ravi Teja, KAJ Roach, R Sharma, RG Sharma, RP Singh, DR Smith, TL Suman, B Sumanth, A Symonds, WPUJC Vaas, Y Venugopal Rao, AS Yadav
Kolkata Knight Riders squad
SC Ganguly*, VR Aaron, AB Agarkar, AB Dinda, Eklak Ahmid, RS Gavaskar, CH Gayle, BJ Hodge, Iqbal Abdulla, M Kartik, HH Khadiwale, CK Langeveldt, BB McCullum†, AD Mathews, BAW Mendis, CR Pathak, CA Pujara, WP Saha†, OA Shah, I Sharma, LR Shukla, MK Tiwary, G Vignesh

On a Separate topic which is still related to cricket but not IPL,I was reading Harsha's Three captains and one bat. Harsha made some good points but I do not agree with all of them. The match fixing Saga has always been a mystery not just to me but many avid supporters of the world cricket. We are still not sure about what really happened and got transformed in case of the Indian Side of the story then how can we comment on Pakistan's side of the story. BCCI is stronger, richer and has control over the cricketing decisions that India takes where as the same doesn't hold right with PCB. Azhar and Jadeja were banned from International cricket but I always beleived that there was more to the match fixing saga than just the named players. My assumption was that the ICC, BCCI and Cricketing Officials had to make some tough decisions to save the sport and they had to set threshold for banning the players and may be the named players have crossed the threshold. Otherwise, if the fans get a clear picture of what happened they would definitely lose the interest in the sport itself.
Anyways I ll restrain myself from trying to dig deep into unknown territories and let's Njoy IPL 2010.

GO Chargers GO!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Countdown to Oscar Night

Oscar fever is catching up and there are 5 days for the live event to be telecasted.
I haven't had a chance to watch a whole lot of English movies to make my assessment of the nominations but I would try to watch the Oscars just for the buzz and glossy look.
Few of us would have doubt that the major awards would be swept by the James Cameroon team of Avatar but we should watch and confirm the same. For a full list of Oscar nominees click down on the link.
All Oscar Nominees
I wanted to watch Inglourious Basterds but I didn't may be I will in the near future. What more? Meryl Streep is nominated yet an other time for her film 'Julie & Julia' in the Actress in a Leading Role Category.

Wishing all the nominees best of luck and viewers fun time for the Oscar event.

Njoy
Vishal