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At the beginning of the IPL season, every Delhi Daredevils press conference seemed to have two major themes  the strength of their newly acquired batting line-up and the seeming weakness of their nice spin bowlers.

The batsmen and the pacers acquitted themselves more often than not through the league phase, taking them to the top of the table, but the spin question returned to haunt them against team Kolkata Knight Riders in the first Qualifier match on a slow pitch in Pune.

Kolkata team packed their XI with three spinners plus the slow-medium pace of player Rajat Bhatia, and the extra pace of Delhi's fast bowlers work out to the advantage of player Gautam Gambhir's side.

Now, in the knockout match against two-time defending champions Chennai Super Kings 2012 looming on Friday, skipper player Virender Sehwag and the Daredevils think tank must be in a quandary whether to stick to their strength or bring a second specialist spinner into the line-up.

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The  great player Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is hoping to carry on England's recent tradition of successfully unleashing teenage tyros at major tournaments when he heads to play Euro 2012 next month. From Michael Owen's player electrifying performance against Argentina at the 1998 World Cup to Wayne Rooney's player dazzling displays at Euro 2004, England have been unafraid to give youth players its head at international level games.

While there are risks in picking unproven talent witness player Theo Walcott's inclusion in England's 2006 World Cup squad Oxlade-Chamberlain has done enough in his short career to suggest that his selection might pay off. Used sparingly by Arsenal this game season following his transfer from Southampton, the 18-year-old demonstrated frequent flashes of precociousness in his 16 first team appearances.

A sparkling nice  performance for Arsenal in their 3-0 Champions League win over AC Milan in February persuaded England manager Roy Hodgson that the attacking midfielder deserved a place in his squad.

Hodgson is adamant that player Oxlade-Chamberlain's selection will not be a repeat of Walcott's ill-fated sojourn in Germany six years ago, when the teenager never kicked a ball during England's campaign game.



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The frightening part was not that player LeBron James erupted for 40 points, 18 rebounds and nine assists in year 2012   101-93 victory over the Pacers. It's that that's exactly what some thought he would have to do to get this Eastern Conference semifinal series back to 2-2 heading into basketball  Game 5 in Miami. 

The BBC has now moved to a new different generation of mobile phone applications and has embraced all forms of Social Media of world full  for their Olympics coverage as well as investing heavily in their traditional free to air waves coverage.

The great Prime Time broadcasts will be headed by Gary Lineker, who said his research methods had changed dramatically in the past 3 months and he vowed he will continue to use social media of Twitter despite his share public spat with Joey Barton during the Olympics Games.

"Twitter has changed different way I research, it is certainly easier now, I just more pose a question on Twitter and 8,000 people get back to me within 10 minutes," said Lineker, who has garnered 600,000 followers in his 3 months on the world social network.

"These are the Olympics Games with a lot of gizmos, everything is covered, its in high meaningful definition, some of it in 3D, whereas before you would watch one channel. It is so much better for the world viewer." Another BBC broad caster Clare Balding said the recent Boat Race nice drama had shown the immediate value of Social Media Twitter in driving extra viewers to the world television.

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 The All-Star defense mans  has been as steady as they come while logging workhorse minutes all season, making it surprising to see him getting caught up white ice a few times and committing at least one egregious turnover in the first two periods at  night against the Devils.

Even still, Girardi redeemed himself nicely from his early mishaps, slamming home the first nice goal of the game early in the third period and assisting on the second by player Chris Kreider in a 3-0 win in Game 1.''He is the first one to admit he probably wants some of those plays back that he made, but he is  a heck of a warrior and a competitor,” said defense partner player Ryan McDonagh, who had to most cover for a few of Girardi’s early mistakes.

“He’s going to bounce back. All-Star for us this year, and it’s no coincidence he gets that nicely goal and a big play on the assist and just finishes the nice game hard defensively.”


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The player Dwayne Bravo smashed excellent a last-ball six as Chennai Super Kings pulled off a stunning five-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders in a dramatic Indian Premier League (IPL) match to keep their hopes of a play-off berth alive.

  The winner of Chennai Super Kings occupy fourth spot in the IPL Points Table and are tie with KKR at 17 points. With five runs required from the last ball, Bravo (11 not out off seven balls) smashed player Rajat Bhatia for a six over long on to stun a jam-packed crowd at Eden Gardens. Chasing 159 for a win, players Michael Hussey (39 from 56 balls) and Murali Vijay (36 from 25 balls) set the platform with a 97-run stand from 10.2 overs for the first opening wicket.

The player Sunil Narine's mystery bowling, in which he claimed 2/14, swung the momentum in favour of KKR before Chennai Super Kings captain of skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (28 balls from 21 balls) set up the match beautifully , taking 18 runs from the penultimate over bowled by Marchant de Lange. Nine runs were required from the last over but with player Mahendra Singh Dhoni being dismissed when he was bowled by nice a slower ball by player Bhatia in the second ball, the match went down to the wire.

 The excellent aiming to send the force ball out of the park, player Bravo miscued one delivery in the penultimate ball when his bat slipped out of his hands on to the midwicket to take the match to a last ball finish.With the great win today, Chennai Super Kings climbed to fourth spot in the table to with 17 points from 15 matches, the same as KKR who occupied the third spot with a better best net run rate.The win also avenged Chennai Super Kings first-leg defeat at home against the same opponents.

The next interesting match coming up the great Chennai Super Kings Vs Punjab.

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The Malik-led Sialkot Stallions team has won the national T20 great championship and super eights titles this season. The star-studded Sialkot side that includes young player Imran Nazir, Rana Naved, Shakeel Ansar has been the great  national T20 champions in Pakistan six times.

The BCCI announced that Pakistan would be allowed to send its national T20 team for the great Champions League during its working committee meeting in Tamil Nadu Chennai. The governing board of the Champions League that includes the South African and Australian boards will have to ratify the BCCI recommendation at its meeting later this month of season .

Although the nice spirits Sialkot team was due to take part in the first Champions League in 2008 and some of its players had already reached great India for this purpose, things didn`t work out when in the same month in November that year the Mumbai terror heavy attacks took place. 

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The player Melky Cabrera singled four times to extend his hitting streak to 11 games, player Gregor Blanco drove in three runs with a pair of top hits and the San Francisco Giants beat Arizona 7-3 on Sunday to take two of three from the Diamondbacks.

The player Brett Pill hit a two-run homer and Barry Zito (2-1) earned his first win since his opening start. Jason Kubel went 3 for 4 with a pair of doubles and drove in two runs for the Diamondbacks, who finished their homestand 1-5.

San Francisco had a season-high 14 top  hits, 10 of them against player  starter Joe Saunders (2-3).

Zito allowed three runs and five hits in six innings. He struck out five, walked three and hit a batter with a pitch. The left-hander entered with a 2.21 ERA but, thanks mostly to a lack of offensive full  support, had not won since a 7-0 shutout at Colorado on April 8. Zito has not given up more than three runs in any of his seven starts runs.

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The Great Player with Lakers, Clippers, Kings in playoffs and Dodgers on top of West, no place has it better in sports than Tinseltown.For 2012 years, Los Angeles has been where the downtrodden of the sports world dwell. Yes, the widespread agony went on hiatus when the Lakers held the top occasional parade. But that hardly made up for the rest of it. 

 The football game of 2012 even with a 2-0 victory over the Montreal Impact before a sparse but boisterous crowd at BMO Field on Wednesday night, Toronto FC remains the only one of 19 teams in Major League nice Soccer without a win or a point to show for the 2012 season.

But the Reds’ win in the semifinal of the great Canadian Championship 2012 ends their 11-game win less streak in all competitions (0-9-2). And it sends them to the final of the 2012 championship, beginning next week, where they will look to win a fourth straight title. More importantly, it offered a huge spirits boost of confidence to the local 11 and extended the lifeline to beleaguered main head coach Aron Winter, who undoubtedly would have faced more calls for his firing if the Reds had lost goals again.

But Toronto certainly didn’t make it easy on themselves. After opening the scoring in the second minute, the Reds young's played the final 74 minutes down a man. That was a particularly grave situation given that the Impact only needed a tie to win on away last goals after the two clubs played to a 0-0 draw in Montreal last week.

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This great Boxing fight is no doubt a disappointment to fans across the country and isn't the fight everyone wants to see. As a result, the interest in this fight could be minimal at best and that isn't good for the sport and two of its strong best fighters. But with this new idea of showing a major heavy boxing event in movie theaters is a great idea to help bring in more people to watch.

 Though we are expecting Manny Pacquiao, the pound-for-pound king, to fight against the undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., looks like we need to wait a little bit longer because they have different fights in the first half of the year. Floyd Mayweather Jr. is scheduled to fight the great American boxer Miguel Cotto this upcoming May 5, 2012 while Manny Pacquiao is going to have his own fight may be  this June 2012.

The great champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced that his next opponent inside the boxing ring is going to be the WBA junior middleweight king Miguel Cotto. He announced this in front of the members of the Nevada State Athletic Commission and the Mayweather vs Cotto Boxing fight is going to be held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on May 5. 

The great  first three woman home in Sunday's race; defending world champion Mary Keitany, world champion Edna Kiplagat and world silver medallist Priscah Jeptoo were each selected for the Games.Wilson Kiplagat, who won Sunday's race, and twice world champion Abel Kirui, who finished sixth, will represent Kenya in London along with Moses Mosop who finished third in the Rotterdam marathon this month.

The player Kipsang set the second fastest time ever when he clocked two hours three minutes 42 seconds in Frankfurt last October. Makau set his world record of 2:03:38 in Berlin in the previous month.

Geoffrey Mutai, winner of the New York and Boston marathons last year and Emmamuel Mutai, who won London last year but finished seventh on Sunday, were excluded from the men's team although they had been included on a provisional list released this year.

Samuel Wanjiru, who plunged to his death from the first floor balcony of his home last year after his wife found him in bed with another woman, won Kenya's first men's marathon gold in Beijing four years ago.
Athletics Kenya will name the men's 10,000 team for the Games on June 2 at the Prefontaine Diamond League Meeting in Oregon while the remainder of the team will be named on June 23 after the final trials.

The  great Chennai Super Kings' bowling coach, player Andy Bichel, is hoping to witness another high-scoring contest when the defending champions play Royal Challengers Bangalore in their return-leg Indian Premier League fixture at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore on Wednesday, April 25, 2012.

While speaking to the media reporters on the eve of the nice crucial match, Bichel said that going with the nature of Chinnaswamy wicket and the star-studded top order of RCB, which includes likes of Chris Gayle, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Virat Kohli and in-form AB de Villiers, another high-scoring game is on the cards.

 "Let's RCB's batting looks heavy at top of the order fully packed with overseas players, I think it will come down to a nail-biting over,” said the Chennai Super Kings fast bowling coach at the pre-match press conference in Bangalore on Tuesday. The last match played between the two outfits, at Chennai’s backyard, MA Chidambaram Stadium, was also a high scoring game in which the CSK chased down a colossal 206-run target with a last-ball four, plundering 43 runs off the final two overs.

Both sides share points on the table with four wins in seven outings so far, but great player Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings find themselves ahead of RCB on the standings, owing to their better net run-rate. However, donned in red, player Daniel Vettori’s Royal Challengers will go into Wednesday’s the cricket game with three wins on the trot and will be high on confidence

Most welcome to the clash between Mumbai Indians and Punjab. Mumbai have found themselves in quite an uncomfortable spot after their recent outbursts on the battle of field and the fair play table has reflected that quite precisely, by placing them at the bottom.

The great player Harbhajan's side will have to try and find a way to channel their aggression in a manner that is more productive because as of now they are placed in the bottom half of the points table, with a game in hand. Great King Punjab have bigger headaches at the moment as they have been able to register just three wins out of their seven games.

The last time these two sides met a few days ago, player David Hussey's men came out on top. Punjab will be desperate to keep their winning momentum going while Mumbai will surely treat this as their grudge match. We should be in for a thriller today, so sit back and enjoy the action unfold. The Great Kings XI Punjab have won the toss and elected to bat

Teams: 

Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): James Franklin, Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik(w), Kieron Pollard, Ambati Rayudu, Robin Peterson, Harbhajan Singh(c), Clint McKay, RP Singh, Munaf Patel

Kings XI Punjab (Playing XI): Nitin Saini(w), Mandeep Singh, Shaun Marsh, David Hussey(c), Azhar Mahmood, David Miller, Siddharth Chitnis, Piyush Chawla, Praveen Kumar, Bhargav Bhatt, Parvinder Awana