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.

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.

Tennis ace Maria Sharapova is in love – with her dog, Pomeranian Dolce.

Maria Sharapova’s losses in the third round at the U.S. Open, but this news gone to the sidelines, in every fan’s mind she’s still alive into the tournament through a commercials ad during tournament telecasts. The 30-seconds ad for the Canon Power Shot digital camera features the glamorous photogenic tennis star with her equally photogenic dog, Dolce. And this cute dog gets so much popularity in a short time, even faster than Sharapova, which can easily make her jealous. But Sharapova really likes her dog. Dentsu America’s chief creative officer, Mike Wilson says: “We wanted to get beyond Maria, the tennis player, to Maria, the person, and one of the things Maria loves most is her dog, Dolce.”

And though Sharapova says she likes to take “tons of photos” of the real Dolce, She admits that Dolce hates to travel and would rather be at house than on a professional photo shoot. She strictly declared: “He’s a homebody.”

Ex Chelsea coach insists his forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a better player than Manchester United leading light Cristiano Ronaldo. Mourinho directly told BBC Sport that,

Ronaldo is a good player but he is certainly not the best. He also added that, He deserved the Golden Ball award because his team won the Champions League and the Premier League. But, for me, Ibrahimovic is the best.

With the coach at the present in charge of Inter Milan of Italy - Manchester’s opponents in the last 16 of the Champions League next spring - Mourinho has started the mind games. Mourinho’s comments are sure to fan the flames ahead of Inter’s clash with Manchester United. For attacking the Ronaldo, Mourinho said there were more than a few players better than the Manchester United winger.

When I think of how a player should be, I think of (AC Milan’s) Kaka, Ibrahimovic and (Barcelona’s Lionel) Messi, Messi is a phenomenon, but in my opinion, Ibrahimovic is the best.  Mourinho told Italy’s Raidue radio.

Yet Ronaldo doesn’t give any comment against Mourinho’s. Ronaldo will get the opportunity to show his skills when Manchester United and Inter will meet in the Champions League second round.

Inter’s boss not only appreciated his present striker Ibrahimovic but also pleased about his formal club striker Drogba.

“Drogba is more than a player for me; he’s a part of me, an extension of the coach on the pitch.”

Owens performance against the Portsmouth is now making Newcastle manager Kinnear desperate to keep him in the contract with the Magpies as Owen is out of the contract end of this session. However, Michael Owen is also linked with several others premier league clubs. Nevertheless Kinnear have said last week that it is unsure for Owen whether he would be in the club for next season but after the performance against Portsmouth Kinnear said: “I’ve had a good relationship with Michael from day one.”

Michael Owen was born at 14, December 1979 in Chester, England. He is at this time still England’s forth-highest scorer with forty goals. He signed Liverpool Football Club at the age of 13. In 2004 Real Madrid signed Owen for £8 million and after scoring 18 goals and played 41 games he joined Newcastle.

Football icon Diego Armando Maradona arrived to a stirring reception by thousands of frenzied fans who stayed awake till past mid night carrying Argentina’s national flag for first sight of the legend at the city airport. He was come with by his girl friend Veronica, and a personal assistant. Security planning was heavy for Maradona from the time he arrived at midnight on Friday. 5,000 strong security men had a traumatic time to control the surging crowd.

He gives assurance to help for opening a football school on the first day of his visit to encourage the sport in India, which is being set up to guide young talents and help extend the sport at a grass roots stage. In this purpose, he helped lay down a foundation stone for the Indian Football School. Others, in her tour Maradona also went to the house of Mother Teresa. Inside the Mother Home, he prayed with the nuns for a while, picked up books on the life of the late Mother Teresa and shook hands with orphans brought up by the Missionaries of Charity.

Everywhere he was going, very surprised and happy to see so many people on the streets to greet him, waving and blowing kisses to the throngs of fans lining the streets to get a glimpse of the football legend. Before wrapping up his two-day trip he watched an exhibition match with Indian players later Saturday.

The tour of this great player brings an enormous cheer for the Calcutta, when many Indian cities on terror and hijack alerts.

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To come here with that mentality and showing the character the players showed gives us a big boost for the rest of the season. We have belief, we have quality and we showed coming from behind in the other games that we had character. This is enough to make us contenders; this is enough to put us at the top of the table now.

A 10th minute goal from Xabi Alonso was enough to stop Chelsea’s 86 match league run without defeat at Stamford Bridge and send the visiting team three points obvious at the top of the table as the only unbeaten side in the top flight. The link up play among Xabi Alonso, Robbie Keane, Steven Gerrard, Dirk Kuyt and later Ryan Babel was unbelievable up front, showing off a ton of creativity; if they continue their same display then it will be the best chance to achieve their goal.

At the present, after beating Man United and Chelsea, they have to remain that level of consistency going for the rest of the season. If they can, we may have a real fight between four teams at the top of the table instead of just two. Cause within past few seasons it seems to all that the fight is bounded only ManU and Chelsea.

The remarked came out 8 November when Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Director General (Operations) Salim Altaf as telling to the press after a joint World Cup committee meeting. The joint World Cup committee 2011 met formally last 8 November for the first time though it was formed for in June 2007.

According to the Daily Times, Salim said, “ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat told representatives of the Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh cricket boards during a meeting in New Delhi this week that they needed to fast track preparations that are running 10 months behind schedule.” He added, “The ICC had advised us to go into overdrive. The budget for the World Cup would be approved next year in June.” He also said that the ICC would be contacting the respective authorities and governments to discuss a common visa for World Cup 2011 visitors as well. As his word, “They want a common visa like the one issued for the last World Cup in West Indies in 2007.”

in this tournament India, former world cup champion, is due to host 22 matches, including the final match of the tournament whereas Pakistan, another ex-champion, host for 14 matches in; on the other hand, nine matches will be held in Sri Lanka and six matches in Bangladesh. Among the matches, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will host the two semi-finals whereas Bangladesh, the youngest member of test family, will host the opening ceremony on 20, February 2011.

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