World Cup 2007 Final

World Cup 2007 Final: Australia v Sri Lanka at Bridgetown
After 46 days and 50 matches, nine nations, so many island transfers, hitches and glitches the day of the ninth World Cup final has dawned.Australia won the toss and elected to bat first. Unfortunately match delayed by rain. I will be back with details later on.
Australia 281/4 (38/38 ov)
Sri Lanka 215/8 (36.0/36 ov)
Australia won by 53 runs. Man-of-the-Match award went to Adam Gilchrist. Sri Lanka gave them a game but on the day came up just short.

Finally World Cup 2007 Final is over.Congratulations to Australia who were the best team from the first match and maintained their high standard throughout.Australia have won the World Cup for the third time in a row. Now Question is that will they make it four in four in Asia in 2011? Who knows what can happen in future, It might can rain whole day. I am happy for Aus but sad for Sri Lanka at least they should have got to play 50 Over game, but this rain ruined everything for them.

Anyway thank you for reading my cricket blog over the last seven weeks.

Part of life

I have searched and collected for the the best quotes on the Internet and also in different books and have presented them here. This page brings you all together the best collections of different quotes. For those of you who appreciate reading quotes, enjoy! If you have time to kill, why not read all of them? :)

Success is counted sweetest in part of life.

The word "love" deepest passion in everyone. All of us have experienced the gift of love in various forms: love of a mother, love of children, lover, brother and sister ,friend... However, as easy as it is to love and be loved, it is very difficult to express love.

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone,
but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

If you love someone,
do not put their name in a heart because hearts can be broken,
instead put their name in a circle,
because circles go on forever.

Australia Vs South Africa, 2nd semi-final

Australia bulldoze into the final.This time no dramatic Cricket World Cup exit for South Africa - just a big defeat by a professional Australian side that never let South Africa into the game. Australia won by 7 wickets (with 111 balls remaining) .Man-of-the-Match award went to Glenn McGrath.
South Africa 149 all out (43.5 ov)
Australia 153/3 (31.3 ov)

The simplest way to say is that South Africa tried to take the game to the Australians, lost their entire top order mostly to some ill-judged shots, and the game was basically over. Australia took 31.3 overs and lost 3 wickets to overall South Africa's score, which represents a severe thrashing in anyone's books.
In basic terms, South Africa's 2007 World Cup outcome is the same as 1992 and 1999, beaten semi-finalists. Anyway, this time they simply weren't good enough, and no-one can blame rain, bad luck, RIchie Benaud or anything outside the team.
For the Australia, I will stick to the main facts...into their 4th successive World Cup final, an opportunity to be the first side to win 3 in a row, 27th game without defeat in World Cups, 21st win in a row at World Cups. The only other fact I will add is that Sri Lanka were the last side to beat them in a knock-out match to win the 1996 Cup..... I don't have a choice to change that but still want some other team to win world cup this time in other word someone please stop them.

First Semi-Final

Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand
Sri Lanka 289/5 (50 ov)
New Zealand 208 (41.4 ov)
Sri Lanka won by 81 runs. Mahela Jayawardene, the Man of the Match.
So Sri Lanka enter their second World Cup final (after the memorable one in 1996). New Zealand fail to cross the semi-final stage for the fifth time in World Cups but when they reflect on today they will look back at a truly outstanding knock by Mahela Jayawardene, probably the defining innings of the tournament.

Once Sri Lanka had made 289, New Zealand didn't have much of a chance, especially with the pitch taking turn and Sri Lanka posessing a varied attack. Muralitharan teased and tormented with 4 for 31 while Malinga and Vaas turned in excellent support acts. New Zealand had a chance at 100 for 2 but a collapse of sorts left them high and dry.

Murali said "Wicket turned a bit and Mahela played a brilliant innings so that made Sri Lanka win the match. It was one of the brilliant hundreds.So that's it for today for the first semi-final. Thanks for stopping by , Good night and good luck.

Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand started

New Zealand v Sri Lanka playing at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica.
After 64 games, including those warm-ups, New Zealand v Sri Lanka has reached the highly anticipated first semi-final of the 2007 World Cup. Match has started let see who win this time I am in Sri Lanka side. Hope they win. Sri Lankan Players are batting first.
Sri Lanka 289/5 in 50 ov (RR 5.78)

"while all Sikhs are Singhs, all Singhs are not Sikhs."

"An important distinction to be noted here is that "while all Sikhs are Singhs, all Singhs are not Sikhs."
Today there is nothing to write about cricket so I thought let me find out more about my last name "Singh" ancient history. It all started like this we went to sam's club and one of there staff who was working on the counter shaw my last name in membership card and she asked me where are you from then she asked if you are not sikh and you are not from Panjab then how come your last name is Singh? I had reply her back what ever I knew.Then when I came back home went on "http://www.answers.com/" to find out a lot about my last name and offcours I want to share with my friends.

Singh is an ancient Indian Vedic name meaning "Lion", 2000 years old to ancient India. It is mainly used by sikhs.It is also used by some other groups such as Rajpoot , Dogras, Gurkhas, gujjars, Jats, Marathas, Bhumihars ,few maithil Brahmins which is in part of Mithila(Bihar), Yadavs and Kurmis in Bihar and uttar Pradesh.

This session belongs to http://www.answers.com/ but I wanted to put is here so my friends and blogger can read it in my blog. Singh is derived from the Sanskrit Simha meaning "Lion". It is used throughout Northern India with various transliterations. For example, in Hindi (Devnagari script), the name is written as सिंह (Sinh) and pronounced as सिंघ (Singh). In Punjabi (Gurmukhi script), the name is written as ਸਿੰ(Singh) and pronounced as Singh. In Gujarati, it is spelled as Sinh. Marathas use Sing.
Although it is a common misconception to call both the lion and the Tiger by the common name "Sher" (of Turko-Persian origin) in Northern India and Pakistan, most terms for the tiger in various Indo-Aryan tongues include Baagh (Hindi), Baaghaa (Bengali), Baghiyaad (Punjabi) and Vaagh (Gujarati and Marathi). All these are derived from the Sanskrit word for tiger, Vyaagraha.

"Singh" was ancient Indian name for Lion, dating back over 2000 years old. After the birth of the Khalsa brotherhood in 1699, the Sikhs adopted the name "Singh" due to the wishes of Guru Gobind Singh. "Kaur" was the equivalent name for women.
[1]Guru Gobind Singh, gave the name "Singh" to all the Sikh men so that all in the community would be equals. As a display of equality, the name Kaur (meaning: "princess") was given to all the Sikh women. The Guru said, "You are my beloved princesses, my daughters. You must be respected. How can this world be without you?" [citation needed] These two names were given to the Sikhs on April 13 and 14, 1699.

Naming Patterns:
Sometimes, Singh is used as a middle name after the given name and followed by the caste/clan/family name. For example, "Balraj Singh Khuman", "Kartar Singh Virk", "Natwar Singh Gujjar", "Daljit Singh Khanna" etc (Pattern: 1. First name, 2. Singh, 3. family/clan name).
One usage is the given name and Singh as the surname. For example, "Jaspal Singh", "Kishan Singh", "Raghubir Singh", "Mohan Singh" etc.
Singh is sometimes dropped and only the given name followed by the family name is used. For example, "Navtej Sarna", "Rajvir Chauhan" etc.
Just like Sikh males have 'Singh' in their middle name, Sikh women use 'Kaur' in their middle name.