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Supreme Court tells N. Srinivasan to step down as BCCI president for fair IPL scam probe
NDTVCricket | Updated: March 25, 2014 11:16 IST

The Supreme Court has asked N. Srinivasan to step down as BCCI president to ensure a fair probe of the Indian Premier League fixing and betting scandal. Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, who was a team official of Chennai Super Kings, has been indicted by a Supreme Court appointed inquiry committee of betting and sharing team information.

A two-member Supreme Court bench comprising Justice AK Patnaik and Justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla is hearing on Tuesday the inquiry reports submitted by the Justice Mukul Mudgal committee on betting and match-fixing in Indian Premier League 2013.

The Mudgal committee submitted two reports to the Supreme Court on February 10. The first, signed by retired judge Justice Mudgal and Additional Solicitor General of India L. Nageswara Rao, asked the court to “decide the further course of action” because the probe committee did not have the power to impose punishment. Another supplementary report, signed by Nilay Dutta, a vice-president of Assam Cricket Association and a member of the IPL Governing Council, said: “This should not be misinterpreted to mean that the report suggests that the Hon’ble Court would decide on the punishment or penalty to be imposed.”

The BCCI, which supports Dutta’s comments, now wants the Supreme Court to let it start fresh disciplinary proceedings against Gurunath and Chennai Super Kings under the IPL franchise rules.

Supreme Court tells N. Srinivasan to step down as BCCI president for fair IPL scam probe.

It further tells that of SN will not step down ISC will issue necessary orders.

So, party is over for the Pig 3 chief.

Eat more sugar cane..!

Men vs Women…. Very Funny

Did You Know?! A woman’s “I’ll be ready in 5 minutes” and a Man’s “I’ll be home in 5 minutes” are exactly the same !

A man will pay $20 for a $10 item he needs.

A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn’t need, because it’s on sale.

Women always have the last word in an argument.
Anything a man adds after that is the beginning of a new argument.

A woman worries about the future — until she gets a husband.

A man never worries about the future — until he gets a wife.

Men are vain; they will check themselves out in a mirror.

Women are ridiculous; they will check out their reflections in any shiny surface: mirrors, spoons, store windows, and bald heads

When purchasing a shampoo:

Women look for: Effectiveness, Brand, Smell, what it does to hair, Ingredients, Color, Quality, Design, Recommendations, Reviews, Quantity, popularity

Men look for: It says Shampoo

Women lie about their age, Men lie about their Income

A woman makes a list of things she needs, then goes out to the store and buys those things.

A Man waits till there is nothing left in the fridge, then goes grocery shopping and buys everything that looks good.

If Rosy, Jane and Tanya go out for lunch, they will call each other Rosy, Jane and Tanya.

If John, Mike and Paul go out they will call each other Scrappy, Big Bear and KingKong

A man has five items in his bathroom — a toothbrush, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.

The average number of items in the typical woman’s bathroom is 247. A man cannot identify most of these items.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot & love him a little.

To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot & not try to understand her at all.

Secrets of LUCK..!

By Professor Richard Wiseman, University of Hertfordshire

Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve?

A psychologist says he has discovered the answer.

Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck.

I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune. I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.

Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had them take part in experiments.

The results reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behavior are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.

I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities.

I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying: “Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $50.”

This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.

Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected.

As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties’ intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends.

They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of jobs.

Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. My research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could be used to create good luck. I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person.

Dramatic results! These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck. One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The results were dramatic: 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier.

The lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become lucky.

Finally, I had found the elusive “luck factor”.

Here are Professor Wise man’s four top tips for becoming lucky:

1) Listen to your gut instincts – they are normally right

2) Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine

3) Spend a few moments each
day remembering things that went well

4) Visualize yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call.

Have a Lucky day and work for it.

The happiest people in the world are not those who have no problems, but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect.

Integrity is to act according to moral and ethical principles.

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

Aristotle (384-322);
philosopher

“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

The ordinary person strokes their ego. The exceptional person polishes their craft.

How the Kangaroos were conquered by the Eagles..!

First of all, the whole nation thanks the Pakistani cricket team, for giving immeasurable joy and happiness to the entire nation, on the very auspicious occasion of the Pakistan Day, falling on the 23rd March.

The positive attitude and the aggressive mind set of our cricket team, was visible from the very word go. Our players displayed the INTENSITY of a wounded tiger, which was clearly missing against the Indians, thus Pakistani team was looking a totally different unit, from the Friday’s match.

Let us now dwell, on where we improved over the 1st match and where still we could have done a better job.

1. The score we got in 20 overs vs India, was achieved in 14 overs vs Australia. Our run rate (RR) on completion of 10 overs (83 runs) was reasonably good at 8.30 runs /over. In the next 10 overs, we scored another 108 runs, at a RR of 10.8 runs/over. We scored 191/5, at a healthy RR/ over of 9.55.

2. Pakistan played only 34 DOT balls (22 or 3.4 overs in 1st 10 overs and ONLY 12 or 2 overs in 2nd portion of 10 overs). Remember, we played 51 DOT balls against India.

3. Pakistan ONLY gave 5 no ball runs, that too on a single no ball, bowled in the whole Australian innings. Whereas, Australian bowlers also bowled 1 no ball, but gave 9 runs on wide account, by bowling 3 wide balls. This also reflects remarkable bowling discipline displayed by the Pakistani bowlers, as compared with the Australian bowlers.

4. Here, we must give full marks to the captaincy of Mr. M. Hafeez, for keeping his cool and focusing on the victory, in this high voltage match, when Australia blasted off to 102/2 in just 8 overs, during which the last 5 over, went for 82 runs. The way Hafeez marshalled his bowlers and fielders, immediately paid dividends in the next 10 overs, which resulted in 8 wickets for 58 runs.

5. We must salute the captaincy of Muhammad Hafeez, who in my opinion deserves 99 marks out of 100, for his crisis management abilities.

Just let me repeat, that we got to overcome our following short comings, if the remaining 3 matches journey to the final match, has to be without any hiccups.

a). Again our score in the 6 power play overs, was just 34 runs, when ONLY TWO fielders are allowed out side the 30 meters circle. We may ask Shahid Afridi to open the innings, with license to play freely, as per his temperament. However, we must aim for a score of 60-80 runs in the power play period. Not forgetting that Australia scored 82 runs against us last night, in 30 balls during overs numbers 4 to 8, even when they had lost both of their openers, in the first six balls; and their score was just 8/2, in the 1st over. Actually, we don’t have to look back whatever happens. Just focus on our aim of 60-80 runs in the power play overs.

b). Again we played a very high number of 22 dot balls in the 1st 10 overs. As we did in the 2nd half of the innings, where we played 12 dot balls, our aim should be (as we are aiming to be the world T20 champions) that not more than 8-10 dot balls are played in the 1st half, where there is a luxury of 6 overs of power play, as well. Our players ought to shun any negativity coming into the mind, due to the falling of early wickets, as was displayed by the Australian number 3 and 4 batsmen.

c). Mr. Hafeez, must realise that there is no room for complacency, because our position in the group is extremely precarious; as Australia, can easily bounce back, with better run rate, to oust us, from the race of the semi finals.

d). The joke must now end, of playing Shoaib Malik and Kamran Akmal. Believe me, whatever, they are contributing to the team, Younis Khan, Fawad Alam and Misbah ul Haq can do much better. These players (Shoaib and Kamran) are not the T20 material (obviously nothing personal against them or any other player, management committee members or any PCB person). And now, the next matches against the West Indies and Bangladesh, are going to be very crucial for us, because if we have to remain in the contention for the semi finals, we have to win these games with not a big margin, but with a HUGE margin.

e). As our team showed during the match against Australia, our players must remember that OFFENCE IS THE BEST DEFENCE. All our game scheming and strategy planning, must be based on just one premise, not just to win, but to win with a HUGE margin.

Wishing and praying for all the best for our cricket team in the days ahead.

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad

Lahore.

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Mon Mar 24 (20 ovs)

09:30 GMT | 15:30 local
14:30 PKT 18th Match, Group 1 – New Zealand v South Africa
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong 22 – 30° C
Mon Mar 24 (20 ovs)
13:30 GMT | 19:30 local
18:30 PKT 19th Match, Group 1 – Netherlands v Sri Lanka
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong 22 – 30° C

Tue Mar 25 (20 ovs)

13:30 GMT | 19:30 local
18:30 PKT 20th Match, Group 2 – Bangladesh v West Indies
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur 24 – 35° C

Thu Mar 27 (20 ovs)

09:30 GMT | 15:30 local
14:30 PKT 21st Match, Group 1 – Netherlands v South Africa
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong 23 – 32° C
Thu Mar 27 (20 ovs)
13:30 GMT | 19:30 local
18:30 PKT 22nd Match, Group 1 – England v Sri Lanka
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong 23 – 32° C

Fri Mar 28 (20 ovs)

09:30 GMT | 15:30 local
14:30 PKT 23rd Match, Group 2 – Australia v West Indies
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur 24 – 38° C
Fri Mar 28 (20 ovs)
13:30 GMT | 19:30 local
18:30 PKT 24th Match, Group 2 – Bangladesh v India
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur 24 – 38° C

Sat Mar 29 (20 ovs)

09:30 GMT | 15:30 local
14:30 PKT 25th Match, Group 1 – Netherlands v New Zealand
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong 23 – 32° C
Sat Mar 29 (20 ovs)
13:30 GMT | 19:30 local
18:30 PKT 26th Match, Group 1 – England v South Africa
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong 23 – 32° C

Sun Mar 30 (20 ovs)

09:30 GMT | 15:30 local
14:30 PKT 27th Match, Group 2 – Bangladesh v Pakistan
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
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Sun Mar 30 (20 ovs)
13:30 GMT | 19:30 local
18:30 PKT 28th Match, Group 2 – Australia v India
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
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Mon Mar 31 (20 ovs)

09:30 GMT | 15:30 local
14:30 PKT 29th Match, Group 1 – England v Netherlands
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
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Mon Mar 31 (20 ovs)
13:30 GMT | 19:30 local
18:30 PKT 30th Match, Group 1 – New Zealand v Sri Lanka
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
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Tue Apr 1 (20 ovs)

09:30 GMT | 15:30 local
14:30 PKT 31st Match, Group 2 – Bangladesh v Australia
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
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Tue Apr 1 (20 ovs)

13:30 GMT | 19:30 local
18:30 PKT 32nd Match, Group 2 – Pakistan v West Indies
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
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Thu Apr 3 (20 ovs)

13:00 GMT | 19:00 local
18:00 PKT 1st Semi-Final – TBC v TBC (1st Group 1 v 2nd Group 2)
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
N/A

Fri Apr 4 (20 ovs)

13:00 GMT | 19:00 local
18:00 PKT 2nd Semi-Final – TBC v TBC (1st Group 2 v 2nd Group 1)
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
N/A

Sun Apr 6 (20 ovs)

13:00 GMT | 19:00 local
18:00 PKT Final – TBC v TBC (Reserve Day 7th April)
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
N/A