Finally after a long wait India has managed to win a Championship in Hockey. India beat the host Malaysia by three goals in the final of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hocky Tournament. This is not the first time when India won the Azlan Shah Cup, they had previously won the championship in 1985, 1991 and 1995 but this victory has come after a long wait to the Indian Team and its fans. And this gap of 14 years makes it more significant in all aspects. After being disqualified in Beijing Olympics team was very down and they needed some source of encouragement and this Azlan Shah Cup brings a new life to the India hockey, former senior players of India expressed views like this after this victory.

In this tournament India had beaten Malaysia once before in the earlier group by 3-0. In the final Arjun Halappa was the first to get his team a lead in the 8^th minute but India could not keep that lead for much time as Azlan Misrom scored the first for Malaysia and level the score. In 20^th minute Prabhjot Singh get the lead for India again and in 41^st minute Shivendra Singh scored the third goal for India and till the match time they managed the lead by 3-1.

Game                : India v Malaysia

Competition      : Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2009 Final

Date                   : April 12, 2009

Final score        : India 3-1 Malaysia (Result- India win)

Goal scorers     :  Arjun Halappa 8?, Prabhjot Singh 20?, Shivendra Singh 41?/ Azlan Misrom 11?

Carlos Sainz the formar world rally champion from Spain got the overall lead in a rally championship in Dakar on Sunday. He won the second stage of 237 km Special rally from Santa Rosa to Puerto Madryn.

France’s defending champion Stephane Peterhansel, who was in Mitsubishi took the second place, while he has finished the race by 1 Min 14 Sec difference. Giniel De Villiers from South Africa got the third place; he was 1:56 seconds behind.

Nasser Al-Attiyah of Qatar, in a BMW, finished on the 9^th position; although he was the winner of opening stage on Saturday.

After the disasters incident “Terrorist Attack in Mumbai” India’s tour of Pak is likely to be called off. After this news in media all the cricket fans in India, Pakistan and all over the world are disappointed. But there are hopes coming after the news, when India says a high-level team will visit Pak to assess the situation and decision will be taken in two weeks. I think cricket can be a good medium for both the countries to come closer. As the situation after Mumbai Blasts have become worst but as far as the cricket fans are concerned they want India to tour Pakistan.

SINGAPORE: Renault’s Fernando Alonso hauled off an unexpected win in the Singapore Grand Prix, while McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton unmitigated his method one competition lead. The lattice after fuel pump stoppages in succeed looked to have ruined his weekend, Alonso profit from a premature security car period that twisted the race around. The Spaniard won his 1st race since previous year’s Italian Grand Prix and the twentieth of his profession. Williams’ Nico Rosberg was 2nd, his greatest-ever Grand Prix end, while Hamilton was 3rd.
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Ballan sprinted away from a break with group on the last round in Varese to come first by 3 seconds from group-friend Denmark’s Matti Breschel, Cunego and Damiano. It was a correct triumph for Ballan, who had roofed many breakaways and revealed great team allegiance to the race. Ballan’s triumph gave Italy a 19th world race designation and an Italian will wear the coveted rainbow jersey for the third successive year.
Luxembourg’s Christian Poos and Venezuela’s Richard Ochoa Quintero were the earliest riders, who make an important move during the next lap of the15-lap 260km road race and they speedily opened a lead of over two minutes.

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Nick Faldo has crash out his competitor Sergio Garcia and Lee Westwood for the first time in Ryder Cup on Friday. This was a reaction given by Europe captain’s at the first day clash out in Ryder Cup. It was a Lee Westwood who just manages to equal Arnold Palmer’s unbeaten twelve match’s record. Lee said, I believe in consistent performance which give me new mind set to target my goal, I was young and dynamic and there was a long way to go in my career and

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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.

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.

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.