India is looking all set to get the historic Test Series Win against the New Zealand in the Second Test Match of the series in Napier started from Thursday. India is aiming to get the marvelous victory against New Zealand after 41 years. India is leading the series with 1-0 in the three match test series and still looking good to get the long long awaited series victory out side the country.  The confidence of men in blue is on such high stand that no odds are making them down whether it’s the pace of bounce of the pitch, grass or seam. The skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his mates are very well set to get this victory. Though in second test M.S. Dhoni is not playing but the team is still looking good and Sehwag would like to see the same performance as the men in blue have done in the recent past as this time he is captaining the side.

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.

South Africa`s cricket skipper Graeme Smith has said that England’s new leader Kevin Pietersen should be given at least half a year to show his leadership capabilities. “Kevin Pietersen will not experience much of the pressures right now. He will be tested in the coming time and in the next couple of series. This will be the time when he will start to understand what captaining a team and getting a side to play for you is all about. It will be exciting for him to learn,” Graeme Smith said this before the last test starting at Oval.” KP will be extremely excited and tense, and he will have a lot of energy for this game. It’s simple to make one-off decisions when you know that it doesn’t actually matter in this Test. But after six months from now, can you maintain the team you desire to play and the brand of cricket you want to see from your team? That will be the time of pressure,” added Smith.
It was the excellent century that made Michael Vaughan resign the captaincy, and from there a chain of events have begin and will terminate when KP will walk for the toss on Thursday at Oval.
“I will speak one thing that the captaincy of England will definitely make KP think twice about playing an aggressive shot like he usually play,” Smith said.