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For upcoming India vs New Zealand home series in March-April New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has decide to add an additional Test match against Indian cricket team. According to the decision the additional Test will be held in Napier, a port city of NZ, as the tour for the series was rescheduled. Consequently, now Hamilton will host the first Test from March 19 in lieu of March 26. After that Napier will hold the second one from March 26 whereas Wellington will be the venue for the third Test from April 3. According to local media reports the Test series will begin one week earlier. India’s tour will start with a Twenty20 international in NZ on March 6. So, NZC is going to reschedule the subsequent five-match ODI series.

NZC added the additional Test match on request of The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as BCCI had wanted an extra Test to be included to facilitate recover profits lost from several cancelled events. The cash-rich BCCI said a revenue loss of roughly $25 million from the two cancelled one-day games against England and the tour of Pakistan in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks last year. That’s why, they offer to NZC to organize an extra Test match and NZC agreed with them.

Going out to the stadium and watch your favorite team playing the game is one of the popular activities. Having the spicy hot dog and cold glass of beer in the Sunday night and sitting on the bench, supporting your team is really enjoyable. Also the first thing you should do to attend to such event, you have to buy the ticket to the game. Yes, sports tickets are the hottest and most demanding items that you can buy. It’s doesn’t matter what the economic situations are, but you will always see that people lining up and buying the tickets to watch the game of their favorite team.

Now, while the sports tickets are always the best selling items and they have the uncountable demand, the first thing you should ask yourself that, what kind of sports tickets you need.

The most and best selling sports tickets are basketball, football, baseball and ice hockey tickets. If you desire to seek the tickets from the stadium box office, it isn’t ordinary to see that hundreds of die-hard fans lining up and waiting for hours to buy the tickets. So, the best choice would be, log-in to an online sports tickets seller site and order the number of tickets you desire. Make sure you log-in to a reliable and popular site. You will find web sites like Seatwave and similar sites are reliable and they will sell you your desire tickets.

However, there are number of things that you should keep in mind if you want to enjoy the game properly. Because the sports tickets are very expensive and difficult to get the hand on, so you must make sure that you are receiving your money’s worth. The major factor is to buy the sports tickets to game you want to see. There is always a chance that you will not like the game being played live.

Another important thing is the seat. You should always concern about the seat when you buy the tickets. Saving money and getting a seat far behind would not be a good choice. Because you would have the better view if you were watching the game on TV. However, spending bit more money and getting better seats will guarantee the pleasure of watching the game. So, next time you go out to buy sports tickets, make sure you sort out all this problems and make the smart move.

If you miss the school or miss your office intentionally then you need to pay fine. But, if you miss training/practice class? Missing training also may cause of your fine. And Adriano feel it hardly.

Inter Milan are set to slap a 150,000 euros fine on Brazilian striker Adriano after he missed the first practice session of the year. Inter will present their claim to the Italian league’s disciplinary authorities. Adriano did not show up for training on January 2 at Inter’s Appiano Gentile training complex, who had been on holiday in Brazil at that time.

Adriano will pay 30 percent of his January’s salary, which is the maximum punishment from the club. On the subject, Inter’s Argentine skipper Javier Zanetti told the club website,

I think he has to understand we want him to be happy and to work in the same conditions as others in order to be comfortable in himself and contribute to the work of the team.

After losing every test match amid the miserable condition minnows Bangladesh are in threat of losing their Test status because most of the top teams are unwilling to play the five-day test match against the tiger (Bangladesh Team)  in a tight international cricket schedule that is facing demands for the addition of lucrative, multi-million dollars Twenty20 matches. According to the Daily Telegraph reports complaints about the tiger’s on-field performances and results have been a regular theme of the last eight years. However, it is financial logic that has, at this moment, led the leading cricket powers to turn against them. On the other hand, with an increasing number of Twenty20 tournaments competing for room in the international cricket calendar, most of the top teams such as Australia and England are no longer prepared to play any loss-making and financially unproductive series against a weak team like Bangladesh.

Bangladesh has failed to improve performance since their first Test in November 2000 against India and now their overall record stands at only one win against Zimbabwe among 58 matches. David Morgan, president, International Cricket Council (ICC), said ‘There is no reason why a team should have to play Test matches just because it is a full member of the International Cricket Council.’ He added, ‘If a team is not gaining anything from the experience, then perhaps it might be better to settle for one-day international status.’

Bangladesh is not likely to draw enough support from James Sutherland, chief executive of Cricket Australia. Sutherland said he believes they (Bangladesh Team) are driving down the quality of international cricket at a time when it is more important than ever to keep standards high. ‘With the growth in the Twenty20 market, it is important to take the clutter out of the game,’ he said. He added ‘We need to make sure we are playing cricket for quality’s sake, not for quantity, and in recent times I’m not sure that the quality has always been there’. He further added, ‘The Bangladesh team that came here this year performed far worse than the previous team, which toured in 2003. It’s a difficult balancing act, you want to help them develop, but we lost a lot of money hosting them and I don’t think their presence is doing anything for the game.’

Some one-day series – for example the one played in Australia in the month of August and September – could be difficult for the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) to organize in the current environment. On the other hand, England, who are owing to host two Tests against Bangladesh Team at the start of the 2010 summer, are particularly keen to get some better replacements who might be much commercially viable.

Hopefully enough, Bangladesh may be the seventh-most populous country in the world; nevertheless its development plan and system has completely failed to produce any convincing or promising international cricket players for several years now. Additionally, it has been weakened seriously by a spate of recent defections to the Indian Cricket League (ICL), including that of former Bangladeshi captain Habibul Bashar. According to news later this month in Perth, Australia a meeting of ICC executive board will discuss ways of making Test cricket more attractive to protect it from aggression of Twenty20 match.

Ana Ivanovic, the French women champion and top seed for next week’s opening Queensland Tennis Centre tournament, received a marriage proposal on this Friday during her first practice session out of the seclusion of her Sunshine Coast training camp. In her first practice session yesterday she got this surprising offer, drew a marriage proposal from a ball boy. In the early teens of the boy, he also sang a self-penned song for Ana as she signed autographs.

Ivanovic gets a real fun from the proposal and she doesn’t make disappointed the boy. Smiling Ivanovic replied: “Maybe when you’re older.”

The 21-year-old Serbian tennis star and glamorous Ivanovic, world No.6 in women tennis ranking has spent two weeks preparing at the Sunshine Beach with her Australian trainer Scott Byrnes. In the New Year, now she is full fresh, she has no lingering soreness from the thumb injury, which deprived her in August and September and had completely recovered from a recent virus. Now she is trying hard and practicing well, who hopes to go one round further than her Australian Open final loss to Maria Sharapova last year, she said,

I worked hard physically in the off-season and I’m looking forward to some competition and some matches again.

The first match of her will be on Monday night at Rafter Arena, and her opponent will be determined by today’s draw, in a break with tennis conference to give audience keen to watch her first match every chance of arranging a free night.