Cricket's bias towards batsmen increased with ICC approval to "Free Hit for No Ball" which empowers a batsman to go for a free-hit without fearing a dismissal in the delivery following a front-foot no-ball. The rule has already been implemented in Twenty20 cricket. The International Cricket Council has approved a number of changes to the playing condition in today's annual meeting. The highlights of the changes are : Free Hit for No Ball Additional fielder outside the circle during Power Play in ODI Mandatory ball change after 35 overs in ODI Increase in minimum boundary size Number of overs will be reduced proportionately in interrupted ODI match The only objection to the "Free Hit for No Ball" rule being implemented ...

The Cricket Legend Sachin Tendulkar passed his 15000 runs as India chasing a score of 227 to beat South Africa in the second ODI in Belfast. He took 5 runs( 1 + 4 overthrow) on Andre Nel's last ball of the over, but before that he hit 160th six of his ODI career in the 4th ball of the same over. I was expecting Sachin to complete his 15000 runs with a bang, but it was completely opposite, Anti Climax of 5 runs through overthrow. ODI Record of Sachin Tendulkar ( including India Vs South Africa in Belfast on 29th June 2007)  Span Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 0 4s 6s 1989-2007 387 377 ...

She nearly admitted on Koffee with Karan show but didn't explicitly say "YES" for having a boob job (or Karan didn't force her). But in an interview for Mid-day she spoke about her silicon’s. Rakhi Sawant admits boob job and says she plans to get rid of them soon only to have them back six months later. Actually couple of days back, Mid day published her picture showing scar near her armpits which could have forced her. In the past on Big Boss show and Koffee with Karan, Rakhi had admitted to getting botox shots on her face and lips but always maintained that she never got silicon breast enhancements. Excerpts from Rakhi Sawant's interview on Mid-Day Did you get a boob job? (A long ...

Shilpa Shetty is all set to appear on London's West End later this year, she has landed a role in Miss Bollywood. She won't sing and stick to the dancing for the Moulin Rouge-themed prodution. Shilpa's spokesman Dale Bhagwager tells the BBC, she is not a professional singer, but she excels in dancing and performing and I think that is what she would be looking at. Her role requires lots of dancing and acting and that's something she loves doing anyway.' Her costumes will be designed by popular Indian designer Neeta Lulla and they will represent the ethics and culture of India. The Sun quoted Shilpa as saying, The whole song-and-dance routine of a musical really fascinates me ...

The 19 year old blonde, French teenager Tatiana Golovin risked breaking the strict Wimbledon dress code when she appeared on an outside court for her rain-delayed first-round match against Su-Wei Hsieh, of Taiwan, wearing red knicker. But after a probe during a rain break, the blonde-haired beauty was cleared when the offending undergarment were officially designated ‘knicker’ rather than ‘cycling short’. Had her red undies reached down beneath the level of her skirt, Golovin would have been ordered to leave the ground by Wimbledon officials. The Wimbledon rules state: Each individual item of clothing must be almost entirely white. Any competitor who appears on court dressed in a manner deemed unsuitable by the Committee will be liable to be defaulted. After being cleared, 17th seed Golovin said,  “They said that ...

First of all, Welcome Bollywood Actor Aamir Khan to the blogosphere,  the latest to be bitten from this blogging bug. Blogging hasn't yet gained massive popularity in India as it is US or Western World, but it is fast catching up.  Last year, Bipasha Basu started his blog but didn't enable the comments section and branded it as diary instead of Blog, which were the reasons that it didn't get much popularity.  Aamir Khan's blog is basically a promotional tool for the Lagaan DVD and learning tool ( according to Aamir Khan) for the actor. Although, he started his official website a year back on June 2006, but the website is still "Under Construction" phase with a letter ...

Google Offers Money For Gadgets Google has announced the launch of Google Gadget Ventures, a new Google pilot program dedicated to helping developers create richer, more useful Google Gadgets Google Ventures provide two types of funding : Grants of $5,000 to those who’ve already built gadgets and want to improve and develop it further. Seed investments of $100,000 to developers who’d like to build a business around the Google gadgets platform. Eligibility Your Gadget is already in Google gadgets directory and gets at least 250,000 weekly page views Only Google Gadget Venture grant recipients are eligible for Seed Investments funding. How to Apply? Grants : Submit a one-page proposal detailing how you’d use the grant to ...

Ever since Microsoft started Windows Live Suite last year, they have been keeping a steady pace of new services integrations in the Windows Live Suite. Lot of online products and services have rolled out and become popular with millions of people worldwide, which includes Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live OneCare and others. The new arrivals in the managed beta testing of Windows Live Suite is Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta and Windows Live Folders Beta. Windows Live Photo Gallery Windows Live Photo Gallery beta is an improvement on the initial version of Photo Gallery they shipped with Windows Vista and now available for Windows XP SP2 as well. Here are the list of some new features that you will see in ...

Myspace, Bebo, Facebook and LinkedIn. Where do you stand? According to the research, the decision to join any social networking websites is based on the education and upbringing. Danah Boyd, a researcher at the University of California and internet sociologist spent nine months interviewing the US teenagers who uses these social networking websites and her data shows a clear gap between the populations of each sites. The data suggests Facebook members are more likely to be white, univeristy graduates and from the families who emphasize education and going to college, whereas Myspace  is the domain of non-white working class folk,Latino, Hispanic and immigrants teens. Myspace is a cool thing for High school teens. Boyd said,    The divide is very much clear in US Army, ...

It's 75 years to the day since India made their entry into the Test fold. It was a glorious summer day in 1932 when CK Nayudu walked out to lead a bunch of novices against England at Lord's. India's Test debut, at Lord's on June 25, 1932, started in dramatic fashion when they reduced a strong England side to 19 for 3 inside the first hour. But there was to be no fairytale ending and India lost the match by 158 runs. In 1929 India were admitted to the ICC and the India's Test debut should have happened in 1930-31 but a tour by MCC was cancelled because of a civil disobedience campaign, and another attempt the following season was scrapped when threats to ...