England cricket star Trott inspired by Spurs success
Tottenham England cricket star Jonathan Trott hopes some of Tottenham ‘s success inspires him during the Ashes series. Trott admits he’s a huge Spurs fan. He told the club’s website: “I support Spurs because my family have. “When my grandad lived in London he supported Tottenham and my father was a Spurs supporter as well. “My first vivid Spurs memories are probably from the 1991 semi-final …

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ESPN STAR Sports Scores Renewal Sponsorship for Castrol Football Crazy Castrol resigns as title sponsor for 2010/2011 …
Çѹ·Õè 16 ¾ÄȨԡÒ¹ 2553 15:32 ¹. ESPN STAR Sports (ESS), Asia’s top sports content provider, announced that Castrol will continue its association with Castrol Football Crazy as title sponsor for the 2010/2011 football season, one of the region’s most popular football entertainment shows.

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STAR India PLUS has launched two weekly show targeting Indian nationals settled in North America. STAR India PLUS is a general entertainment channel of South Asian STAR TV group available on DirecTV and Dish Network. ICC Cricket World and Asian Variety Show (AVS) are expected new programming to be launched.
STAR India PLUS will launch ICC Cricket World on January 16th to offer Cricket news, best of cricket every week. AVS is to debut on February 7 with local events and Bollywood related news.
ICC Cricket World broadcast on every Saturday at 8:30 PM ET will offer STAR India plus Cricket fans in North America a weekly half hour episode exclusive with the latest cricket news, recent cricket action including all Tests, Twenty 20s and One-Day International matches, as well as exclusive off-field features and interviews.
Asian Variety Show broadcast on every Sunday at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT. produced in North America will be a magazine format show showcasing the best of Bollywood entertainment stories that includes Bollywood Music, movie previews, star interviews with a local focus and programming for Non-resident Indians.
David Wisnia, STAR’s Senior Vice President of Distribution, Sales and Marketing and head of STAR’s North American and European offices, said “Localizing STAR India Plus allows us the opportunity to take the next step in the natural evolution of our business. We are constantly in touch with our viewers and advertisers and as much as they are all excited about the current (Yeh Rishta, Bidaai) and new programming (Maha Music Muqabla, Pratigya) on our channel, there have been requests for more Bollywood news and cricket related shows.”
Ed Gold, State Farm Advertising Director, said “State Farm finds sponsorship of ICC Cricket World/AVS to be an effective way to connect with an important audience of Indian consumers. Just as we are there to help bring them programming that fuels their personal interests and passions, so we will ‘be there’ in their time of insurance need.”

Famous tennis star SANIA MIRZA got engaged to a hyderabadi guy Sohrab Mirza . She knows him from her childhood. They were good friends from their childhood. She got engaged at 8.40 p.m on july 10th in â??Hotel Tajkrishnaâ? Hyderabad according to there culture. Around 350 people  have been invited. Most of them are players including master blaster “Sachin Tendulkar” , â??Yuvarajâ?, famous tennis star â??Mahesh Bhupathiâ? & even some film stars are also been invited. She was dressed in the costliest way .Famous tennis star SANIA MIRZA got engaged to a hyderabadi guy Sohrab Mirza . She knows him from her childhood. They were good friends from their childhood. She got engaged at 8.40 p.m on july 10th in â??Hotel Tajkrishnaâ? Hyderabad according to there culture. Around 350 people  have been invited. Most of them are players including master blaster “Sachin Tendulkar” , â??Yuvarajâ?, famous tennis star â??Mahesh Bhupathiâ? & even some film stars are also been invited. She was dressed in the costliest way .

Famous tennis star SANIA MIRZA got engaged to a hyderabadi guy Sohrab Mirza . She knows him from her childhood. They were good friends from their childhood. She got engaged at 8.40 p.m on july 10th in â??Hotel Tajkrishnaâ? Hyderabad according to there culture. Around 350 people  have been invited. Most of them are players including master blaster “Sachin Tendulkar” , â??Yuvarajâ?, famous tennis star â??Mahesh Bhupathiâ? & even some film stars are also been invited. She was dressed in the costliest way .

Sachin Tendulkar picks out Eoin Morgan to star for England in Ashes
Sachin Tendulkar has named Eoin Morgan as one of England’s three key players for the Ashes challenge this winter, but Geoff Miller, the national selector, believes that the one-day star is unproven in the five-day game.

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Fine Star Cricket Academy wins
TUTICORIN: Fine Star Cricket Academy (FSCA) defeated Tuticorin DCA by 20 runs to win the Tuticorin DCA-Kayal Trophy in the State-level Twenty20 cricket tournament here on Sunday.

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni, popularly known as MS Dhoni or Mahi, is a cricketer and the current captain of the Indian Cricket team. Born on 7 July 1981 in Ranchi, Bihar, Dhoni rose to spectacular fame as a critical batsman & cricketer player.

Dhoni is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. MS Dhoni is one of most versatile wicket-keepers who have come through the ranks of junior and India A cricket teams to represent the national team. Dhoni, debuted in the Bihar cricket team during the 1998-99 cricket season and was thereby designated to represent India-A for a tour to Kenya in the year 2004. Along with Gautam Gambhir, Dhoni made multiple centuries against the Pakistan-A team in a tri-nation series and was selected in the Indian national team later in the same year.

Considered as one of the most nonchalant heads to captain the Indian ODI team, Dhoni led the team to their first ever bilateral ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, CB Series of 2007-08 and the Border-Gavaskar trophy 2008 in which they beat Australia 2-0, under his terrific captaincy. Dhoni’s profile was also highlights when Mahendra Singh Dhoni led team India, For the first time in history, to the number one position in the ICC rankings in test cricket.

In his Cricketing Career Dhoni has been the recipient of many national & international awards including the Prestigious ICC ODI Player of the Year award{2008-09}which also made him the first Indian player to attain this feat, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian honor, in 2009. In 2009, MS Dhoni became the highest ranked ODI batsman on the ICC Rankings List. Mahendra Singh Dhoni was named as captain of Wisden’s first-ever Dream Test XI Team in 2009. Mahi topped the list of world’s top 10 earning cricketers in 2009 compiled by Forbes. Dhoni was subsequently selected as the captain of ICC World Test and ICC ODI teams for 2009. Dhoni also has a couple of other records to his credit.

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