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After a long time we see some innovation on cricket pitch. Is it for the good or bad, only coming days will tell.
Its a bat called Mangoose, its is being sold for 20000 Rs. Manufactures say its being made special for T20 game.
It looks funny, how effective will it be, we have to wait and see. Mathew Hayden will be using this bat in this years IPL.
Its good to see some innovation finally make it on to the pitch. What’s next, can’t wait to see in this every changing game.
Hayden unveils new bats for T20 cricket: Rediff Sports.
Posted on 13 March '10 by Prasanth, under Sports & Games. No Comments.
All the recent super stars of sports are having bad exits to their careers.
Last night during the real madrid match saw Zidane.
Zidane his bad exit from the football during the world cup because of head butting.
Now
Tiger Woods with his sex scandals.
He had everything going for him, why did do this.
I guess its easy to judge others, but if you were in his position wouldn’t you do these things too.
This only proves that, they are also humans.
Posted on 9 December '09 by Prasanth, under Sports & Games. No Comments.
Real Madrid went on a big spending spree this season.
They bought Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United . Kaka from Milan and Benzema from Lyon. They say they made their last signing with Xabi Alonso.
They will be selling some players to get some money back.
All the three Dutch players are expted to be gone. I hope Huntelaar doesn’t go to other clubs.
This is how the team look now.
This makes for a exciting team for the coming season which will begin on Aug 30 with a match against Deportivo.
Read more about real madrid transfers.
Posted on 6 August '09 by Prasanth, under Sports & Games. No Comments.
In the recent episode of Top Gear they revealed that stig was the German F1 driving legend Michael Schumacher. But at the end of the episode they even made remarks saying that it may not be him.
It would be very cool if it really was Michael Schumacher.
Here is a wonderful clip from top gear of an American driving talent called Ken Block.
I wish i could drive like that.
I am a big fan of Real Madrid football team. I didn’t start my affection for them when the galaticos came. I liked them before that, when Claude Makélélé was running the mid field for them. And Raul was the king of Spain. Every touch he took was a goal, and Roberto Carlos was taking those stunning free kicks. Then Luis Figo came and later Zidane, it was almost perfect team then. And who can forget watching and enjoying them just passing the ball around. It was magical, thats how i became their fan.
Now its seems that every player that is big come and plays and leaves the club as its some kind of bus stop. No one is staying there and there is no team building. They bring new players and hope it works and it never does.
Its sad to see them suffer like this, will they ever get back to those days. Where there were no super stars just team players. And they became famous because of their team play, now everyone plays for their own career there is no team play.
If some one at Real Madrid is listening please let these superstars go and bring in team players.
Here is my opinion of the current crop of players.
Iker Casillas – Still best goal keeper in the world for me. I don’t think anyone makes as many saves as him in a match. Buffon has a strong defense infront of him, Casillas doesn’t. Please never leave.
Míchel Salgado – Scraps for the ball and is the teams muscles should stay.
Pepe – Very good defender should stay.
Sergio Ramos – Younger Robert Carlos hits crosses like he did when he played for Real should stay.
Fabio Cannavaro – Not that impressed, wouldn’t mind if he leaves.
Marcelo – Scraps for the ball and put in lot of effort should stay.
Gabriel Heinze – Not as good as Ramos could get more attacking player, please leave.
Fernando Gago – We need some one like Makélélé or Zindane in the mid feid he is not either of them, please leave.
Wesley Sneijder – Please leave, has not impressed me.
Arjen Robben – Too many touches and too selfish to play for a team like real madrid.
Guti – Over rated please leave.
Diarra – Could improve please stay.
Raúl González – He is still the king for me. Make him the sole forward and give him all the passes and confidence. He struggles now mostly because he tries to pass to other players who are not in the same wave length. Never leave can’t see you play for any other club
Gonzalo Higuaín – Its like a crap shoot with him one game he is all firing and the next he can’t been seen any where near the ball. Wouldn’t mind seeing him leave.
I am writing this after seeing them struggle against liverpool and go down 5-0. Its sad to see a team which reached such heights as 9 champions leagues struggle like this.
Mind you unlike others i have to stake awake upto 3:00 am in the morning to see them play. I don’t mind seeing them lose as long as they play well. Before the galaticos came, fast attacking football with crosses and darting runs and some style. Please bring that back, hope they improve soon.
After losing today’s fifth match against South Africa in the one day. South Africa have become the no 1 one day team in the rankings.
Australia are really struggling without their experienced players. In the last year or so most of their experienced players have retired like Glenn McGrath, Matthew Hayden, Adam Gilchrist. All their retirements were really badly timed. And their current experienced player are really out of form. Clarke, Hussey, Symonds are really struggling at the moment.
All this makes for an interesting cricketing scene. If any team wants to beat the Aussies this could be the best time.
Its sad to see my favourite team go through this, but i know they have some very good upcoming talent. So hope they will build the team soon and not take as long as west indies are taking.
Posted on 30 January '09 by Prasanth, under Sports & Games. No Comments.
Ferrari recently launched their 2009 formula 1 racing car. The biggest visible change is the new
smaller rear wing. Compared to previous yeas car it looks really weird. But hope it make up for that with speed.
Would like to see how fast this is compared to last years car. Also would be interesting to see how the competition responds.
Will make for an interesting 2009 season of formula one racing.
See the Ferrari F60 here
Posted on 16 January '09 by Prasanth, under Sports & Games. No Comments.
I have not played many flash games recently.
But gave this game a try and it has some wonderful graphics, i didn’t think flash was capable of doing such graphics.
The game is a clone of diner dash type of game play.
Go here to play Youda Farmer
Sathyam cinema was the best place to watch movies in Chennai. Now they have gone ahead and made it even more better by adding a gaming section. The 4,5,6 floors at Sathyam cinema now offer gaming arcade called Blur. They have a pc gaming section a console gaming section and an arcade gaming section. They even have a two lane bowling alley and restaurant and a snack bar too.
You have to register by paying 100 Rs and you get a blur card with 80 Rs which you can use. Here are the charges.
Pc gaming 1 hour 60 Rs
Consoles 1 hour 60 Rs
Arcade depends upon each game
Bowling 100 Rs per game
Weekends the prices go up a little higher.
On pc you can play all the latest games like crysis, call of duty etc.
On wii they offer Mario cart wii sports and other games
On Xbox 360 and Ps 3 they offer all the latest games like fifa 09, gears of wars etc.
They have some cool arcade games that I have not seen anywhere else. They have about 30 or so arcade gaming systems.
If you have not seen or played wii this could be the best way to give it a try. You can play with your buddy in a two player game.
If you don’t want to play for 1 hour you can stop when ever you want and continue that later when you have time. You can carry on balance for up to one month.
They even have special deals like 300 Rs for unlimited gaming for one day that’s for consoles only not arcade.
The snack bars too offer some very cool stuff to eat which you can order as you are playing and they will bring them to you.
And the friendly staff are more than willing to help you.
All in all a very good place to spend some time with friends. And best way to try out all the gaming consoles.
There is no way you can offered all three of them so this could be the way you try the other systems.
Try and avoid weekends if you don’t like crowds. They don’t allow taking pictures which is a shame because it could bring such publicity. Even though they have hoardings at the theatre. Lack of advertising of their gaming arcade is surprising.
I only came to know about it because I visit their website to book tickets. Its also quite surprising how many people still buy tickets at the counter. That too is not promoted well enough.
You can book tickets to Sathyam theater in Chennai here
They just refused a rumor that Anil Ambani group is looking into buying Newcastle. Here is something interesting they also say.
‘We have not expressed interest in Newcastle. There is nothing in the latest stories. It’s a non-starter. As of now there is no interest, although I cannot speculate on what may be the future plans of my management.’
It would be cool if he could buy a English premier league club. At least we can cheer a team with something in it for us. Russians and Saudis own English premier league clubs so why not an Indian.
Hope this goes through and we all could cheer for Newcastle.
I don’t think he should invest in India football, instead if he buys this club, he should try and get Baichung Bhutia a chance to play for Newcastle. That way many youngsters will get inspired and get into football in India.
Then they can invest in Indian Football.
