The collapse against Ajantha Mendis and Muttiah Muralitharan in Test matches of India against Sri Lanka had raised expectations from the Indian one-day team exponentially, but on 27th of August at night, when a group of men shouted and yelped at the Premadasa Stadium, nearly each and everyone give a standing ovation in appreciation to the Indian Team Performance. For India, this 3-2 victory, decorated by the extra ordinary efforts of their mid-pacers and the trustworthy bat of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, always proved a bit heavy on the Lankan tigers.
India’s batting was much better than that of the Lankans. Lankan batsman failed in even chasing small scores of India. India was the more reliable team and were the most deserving side to triumph the series, but it was not a completely glib triumph, as leaving Suresh Raina and Dhoni, India’s batsmen failed. Indian consistent opener Gautam Gambhir, after a well played Test series, had a totally unacceptable outing. He at no ocassions got past the Powerplays. His efforts to take on the medium-pacers led to his collapse. Same was the case for Yuvraj Singh, who got thrust and poked and just managing 72 runs in the series. Talented Rohit Sharma’s performance will also be under question after a deprived series, though proved out to be a sufferer of bad umpiring on two occasions.

Indian captain MS Dhoni has over took South African captain Greame Smith to recoup the top spot in the most recent ICC ODI batsmen position. Dhoni unswerving performance leads him to the top position includes 71 and 76 runs in the previous two on going ODI series matches against Sri Lanka. ODI ranking of Dhoni has scored 803 points in his belt, which is 27 points higher than Smith who is in second position. Last time Dhoni had occupied the number one place in 2006.

Australia skipper Ricky Ponting is in the third position scoring 751 points pursue by his team mate Michael Hussey followed by England captain Kevin Pietersen. The master blaster of Indian team Sachin Tendulkar is positioned in ninth while another Indian out performer Yuvraj Singh manages to place in 18th rank. At the mean time, Indian fast bowler Zaheer Khan makes a come back performance in current ODI series of India and Srilanka, he is the only Indian bowler to get positioned in the top 20 ODI bowlers chart, placed in 14th  spot and manages to get 642 rating points.

Sir Alex Ferguson after making his move yesterday is expecting to land the Bulgarian probably by the end of this week. Berbatov, was handed in a transfer appeal previous week, was absent at the Spurs side which banged 2-1 at their home ground to Sunderland yesterday. “The player was not in the accurate state to play. It’s the club’s judgment to fine him. I had a talk with him prior to the game.” Furious Spurs boss Juande Ramos confessed to the media.
“It does not matter how superior a player is, but if player is not in the correct frame of mind set, then he will not give his cent percent in the field as well and I feel that he will not be good for the dressing room.” Berbatov is keen to go and with Ferguson spinning up the heat with his most recent bid, it appears definite that Spurs will be forced to sell. United offered him a £20m bid bowed down 10 days ago but they were told to return with £30m.

After pulling out a gamble on Sunday by playing with three seemers and a spinner, one must say that numbers went right for him that day. Usually Dhoni plays with five bowlers but things were lot different this time. Dhoni might be satisfied with his own form as well. He played a sparkling knock of 76 last Sunday to guide his team to a match winning score.
Even after consecutive two wins against Sri Lanka, M factor terror is still their on Indian batsman. Mendis took three wickets in last ODI as well. But Dhoni now seems to have find the way out now to sort this trouble. He says the only way out to negotiate Mendis is to attack him. Attacking this bowler and taking him for few runs will take him under pressure. Dhoni is now with the famous saying that Attack is the Best Defense. He feels that if you will keep defending Mendis he will always be right on top. So its must to attack him. Dhoni feels that playing with seven batsman is more advantageous in these circumstances than to play with the fifth bowler. He thinks that part time bowler can prove out to be a handy trump card.

Vijender’s great show at Beijing Olympics made many Indians proud. Vijender’s although lost in the Beijing’s semifinal of boxing but he still managed to win the heart of many Indians. People got very impressed by his never giving up character. Vijender lost the semifinal match at Beijing Olympics against the boxer of Cuba. Vijender has now become the first boxer of India to win a medal at Olympics. Vijender after the match said that the luck did not supported him and as a result of it he lost in the match against the boxer of Cuba at Olympics.
Vijender Kumar succeeded in beating Jack Badou of Gambia to move to the second round in the 75-kg bout but it was just a indication of what was about to come in the upcoming matches. Vijender won again in the quarterfinals of 75kg middleweight event, crushing Angkhan Chomphuphuang of Thailand by 13-3 in an uneven pre-quarterfinal match. He then devastated Ecuador’s Carlos Gongora by 9-4 in the quarterfinal match. This ensured him a bronze medal. With his sound defense and sharp reflexes, he did not permit his challenger to gain points. But then in the semifinal he lost against Emilio Correa Bayeaux by 5-8 and got ruled out of Olympics. Whatever it may be, but this Indian Boxer has raised hopes of India to win gold in Olympics of 2011 to be held in India.

At the low scoring match here at Dambulla India outplayed the home team to level the series. India won the toss and elected to bat. Things went right for India right through the beginning. Zaheer Khan gave early shocks to Lankans and pushed them in the back foot. Lankans were 11/4 at one stage but somehow managed to get 142 in the board. This Lankan innings included a well made 44 of Tushara and 26 of Kalusakera. Zaheer got four wickets under his belt. 3 wickets were picked by Praveen Kumar as well. Indian reply to this run chase got a poor start.
At one stage they were five down with only 75 on the board. But then the partnership between Dhoni and Badrinath took gave an edge to the Indians in the match. Dhoni finally got out after his bravely made 39. On the other hand Badrinath continued batted patiently to guide India home safely. Badrinath made unbeaten fighting 27. Zaheer Khan was been rewarded with the man of the match award for his four wickets. India at last won the match by three wickets.

Intense rain and lightening badly interrupted Olympic games battle on Thursday, which makes the canoe and rowing sports shifted to Friday and the quarterfinals of tennis sincerely delayed. The semi-finals of women’s to be held in the kayak and the finals of double canoe will now be played on Friday due to cruel storms which came and tattered the venue at Shunyi, which is situated just to the north of Beijing. Semi-finals of canoe doubles could only be played before poor weather uprooted the other events.
The semi-final of rowing, which was to be organized at the similar venue, was also postponed to Friday. Christine Brinker, a German shooter who received a bronze medal in the women’s skeet final at the Shooting Club of Beijing, also agreed that the environment was tough. She said that her shoes and feet were just too wet because of the rain and it made very difficult to shoot the target.
Heavy rain also putted quarterfinals of tennis in Olympic on hold with heavy rain and thunderstorms, all set to include disorder to the event. Roger Federer, Top tennis man was due to go against US number one James Blake, while on the other hand Rafael Nadal had a relatively effortless job against Austria’s Jurgen Melzer.

Cricketing God Sachin Tendulkar slipped to the poorest test ranking of his since 1992. His poor performance against Sri Lanka had played the leading role in his fall back. Sachin Tendulkar managed to score just 95 runs in the complete series with a horrible average of 15.83.
According to the recently exposed rankings of International Cricket Council Master of cricket has been dropped below to 23rd rank. This is his lowest ICC rank of Test cricket Batsman. Before the test series against Sri Lanka started, Tendulkar was positioned in 13th spot but his low average performance against Sri Lanka takes him down in test ranking. Indian attacking opener Virender Sehwag is once again back in top 10 batsmen for test cricket after March 2006. Sri Lankan wicket batsman Kumar Sangakarra brilliant performance against India has taken him to number 2 spot and he is just behind the Caribbean batsman Shivnaraine Chandrepaul. Sachin Tendulkar also injured himself during the third test at Colombo when he tried for a catch. Sachin Tendulkar must get fit soon and overcome his poor form because the world loves watching Sachin when he is in its full form.

American star Phelps has made the world record for winning the highest number of gold medal in Olympics. Michael Phelps the American Swimmer have approached from his busiest day in the pool to the Beijing Olympics in China to qualify as the second fastest for tomorrow’s 200m final which will be held at the National Aquatic Center. He looked comfortable throughout his semifinal match to defeat the opponent in just the time span of 1:57.70; this was just over half a second more of the time, which he took in Athens.
The twenty-three years old swimmer was just missed the world record of American Ryan Lochte by one-hundredth of a second. His teammate Ryan Lochte crossed the path in 1:57.69. Japanese Ken Tawakuwa set Asian record by finishing third in the semi final taking the time span of 1:58.49.Phelps will today come back to the pool representing America in the competition of 100m butterfly for men’s. The American swimmer has already made the record of winning 11 gold medals in Olympics that is the most by any player in any event of Olympics.

Britain Sensation Adlington has make Britain proud with her performance. Rebecca Adlington has succeeded in making Great Britain win first Olympic gold medal in swimming in the women’s 400m freestyle after 20 long years. The young star whose age is just 19-years rushed back down the final length and beated American swimmer Katie Hoff by a very small margin of 0.07secs to make Britain proud again after 20 years.
Great Britain Team celebrated twice as their swimmer Joanne Jackson also won the bronze medal for his country.  Rebecca finished the race in 4mins 03.22secs and became the first female of Britain to win the gold medal in the pool after Anita Lonsbrough in 1960. She is the first British woman to succeed in winning a medal of any kind after Adrian Moorhouse did it once in 1984 and Rebecca s also the first Britain swimmer to win a gold medal since in Seoul in 1988. And there can even be more medals to be received by this talented Mansfield swimmer. Her favorite event of 800m free is still to be played, and also the 4 x 200m freestyle relay. Jackson came third and finished the race in 4:03.52 minutes.