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England have never won a major one-day tournament and, despite pioneering cricket’s shortest format at county level, are not among the favourites to win the World cup 2009 

England have faced Netherlands in two previous ICC tournaments and have won both the matches quite easily.

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Pitch and conditions

The weather, which was so ideal for playing cricket all week , is set to give way to light showers, which will test the teams under the new Lord’s floodlights.

The Lords pitch has been slow in the  recent encounters, but expect another decent batting surface.

England (probable) 1 Luke Wright, 2 Ravi Bopara, 3 Kevin Pietersen, 4 Owais Shah, 5 Paul Collingwood (capt), 6 Eoin Morgan, 7 James Foster (wk), 8 Stuart Broad, 9 Graeme Swann, 10 Ryan Sidebottom, 11 James Anderson

Netherlands (probable) 1 Darron Reekers, 2 Alexei Kervezee, 3 Bas Zuiderent, 4 Ryan ten Doeschate, 5 Daan van Bunge, 6 Jeroen Smits (capt), 7 Tom de Groothe, 8 Mudassar Bukhari, 9 Dirk Nannes, 10 Edgar Schiferli, 11 Pieter Seelaar

Quotes

“It is a big commitment but we love the game, we don’t make a living out of it. Maybe if we do well in these kind of tournaments we will.” Jeroen Smits admits that the life of the Dutch international cricketer is not all glamour.

“We believe we can win it. I’m not saying we will win it because I don’t want to put pressure on the boys by saying we’ll win it.” Paul Collingwood doesn’t quite hedge his bets.

After Sarkar Raj, Drona is Abhishek Bachchan second movie in 2008. In this movie, Abhishek Bachchan played the role of a Prince. In an interview with masala.com, Abhishek Bachchan talks about Drona.

Interestingly, Abhishek Bachchan and Goldie Behl planned to make Drona two decades ago. The shooting started in December 2006 and completed in 2007. However, there were many computer effects which took nine months to be completed followed by post-production works. As a result, Drona took a long time to make. Finally, the movie is ready to release.

Interestingly, both Abhishek Bachchan and Goldie Behl wanted make a movie like Drona since they were children. During their childhood, Abhishek Bachchan and Goldie Behl went to Goa. Amitabh Bachchan was shooting for Pukaar. The movie was directed by Goldie Behl's father. They were staying in a hotel. One day, the two went on the set. There were some swords lying near the set and they picked them up and started to play with them and they broke them. As for their punishment, they were sent to hotel. At that time, they decided that when they would grow up and make a movie that would involve sword fight and they would throw others off the sets.

Regarding the music of Drona, Abhishek Bachchan said:

I don’t think I can choose one or two out of the whole album because I am very close to this film. Like a mother watches her kid grow up, I have seen the film come alive. Right from its conception to its story, screenplay and even the music, I was a part of it every inch of the way.

The music suits the story and the screenplay perfectly. It’s a new sound and the credit goes fully to music director Dhruv Ghanekar and Goldie for coming up with something so wonderful and versatile.

Regarding his long hair, Abhishek Bachchan said that Goldie Behl told him to grow long hair and beard. Since he played the role of a king and a warrior, the long hair and beard would give him a rugged look.

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Lalit Modi would be the next person after Shashi Tharoor to resign. Lalit Modi will have to resign for the authorities of Commissioner and Chairman of the Indian Premier League.

According to the sources, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has announced in the parliament that many crores are poured into the billion dollar league are being investigated by one cricket team at a time.

The income tax department and the enforcement directorate are investigating the funds for IPL team owners. The investigating officials will check whether necessary shareholder approvals have been taken are not..?

Already the investigation process for IPL funds has been started by the related departments. In this investigation, the details of sources for funds in all the aspects will be out and appropriate action will be taken as per the law.

On the other side, BCCI President Shashank Manohar and Secretary N.Srinivasan are planning to move a resolution against Modi at board’s working committee meeting on April 25, 2010. This meeting includes allegations against Modi and all other issues related to the Kochi IPL franchise bid. After this meeting, Modi could reduce the powers in IPL or may loose the position in IPL.

In 2007, Modi made an advance tax payment of Rs 19 lakhs. In 2008, during the first IPL, the advance tax was upto Rs 2.5 crore. In 2009, when IPL was shifted to South Africa, Modi paid Rs 32 lakh as advance tax. In 2010, the advance tax was upto Rs 11 crore.

Yash Raj Films created lots of buzz with its promotional activities for its upcoming movie, Bachna Ae Haseeno. Deepika Padukone is one of the three leading ladies in the movie and people liked her very much with Ranbir. However, she did not have much screen presence. Many critics said that Deepika Padukone looked too much glamorous for her role in the movie. Some said that Deepika Padukone's character was insignificant. Still, Deepika Padukone is Deepika Padukone. Every body likes her. Here is another post of Deepika Padukone picture series.

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This gallery has 14 Deepika Padukone images. All of them are of high quality.

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The second edition of AFC Challenge Cup 2008 football tournament will kick off tomorrow with defending champion Tajikistan taking on Turkmenistan in the opening day. This year, AFC Challenge Cup is taking place in India. Eight teams are divided into two groups of four teams each. Two teams from each group will progress to the semi final of AFC Challenge Cup 2008.

Tajikistan is definitely one of the most favorites to win the title of the tournament and they will be looking to clinch a big margin victory over Turkmenistan in their opening match. Tajikistan won the title of inaugural AFC Challenge Cup two years back in 2006, defeating Sri Lanka 4-0 in the final.

However, Tajikistan will not get three or four regular players including star player Akhmani Mohammed due to injury. Defense of Tajikistan will rely on 18-year-old Vaslev Farkhod, while their attack will be spearheaded by Rabiev Yusuf and Rabimov Ibragim, who was awarded most valuable player award in AFC Challenge Cup 2006.

Turkmenistan, on the other hand, is four places behind Tajikistan in the FIFA World ranking. Though they will go into the match as underdog, Turkmenistan could bring out some surprise performances with striker Vladimir Bayramov at his prime form. In the midfield, Begenchmuhammad Kuliyev is the main hope of Turkmenistan.

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Shashi Tharoor after the embarassing controversy of the IPL Kochi team has resigned from the  post of cabinet Minister of State of External Affairs. After a high
level Congress Core Group decided that he better walk out after
following the controversy.

Shashi Tharoor a new comer to indian politics was summoned by the
Prime Minister at his residence and was asked to produce his
resignation. Tharoor is a writer
and a former Under Secretary General in the United Nation.

Tharoor's meeting
with the PM was the second today and when he met him in the noon he
explained his side of
the story, but the explanation provided was not adequate to the PM and
later it was decided in the Core Group meetin that he better walk out.

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The climax of the much awaited Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori starrer ‘Kites’ has been revealed,the film Kites reportedly ends tragically with the lead pair Hrithik and
Barbara
committing suicide.

A
source says, "Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori, who play lovers in the
film, die in the end. They jump off a cliff into the sea. As they jump
to their
death, the film ends." Explaining why they end their life, the source
says, "Both are on the run. The law is chasing them and so is the mafia.
There is no other way out for them."

The source adds “When the couple does not see light at the end of the tunnel, it commits
suicide and gets over from the difficulties of life once and for all.
Before this they are scorched in the desert without water or food and
depend on each other's undying love to sustain each other.”

Kangna Ranaut, who also stars in the
film, doesn't die. "Kangna ko kucch nahin hota hai. Anyway she has a
very small part to play," adds the source.