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Good news for cricket lovers !! The governing body of Olympics (IOC) has finally recognized the international governing body of cricket (ICC). This means that now the ICC can get cricket included as a sport in the Olympics. There is possibility now that we will see Cricket in the 2020 Olympics. This is great news for the sport and its fans. This will also help cricket’s popularity in other countries.

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Cricket, powerboating and sports climbing became the latest sports to be officially recognized by the IOC, a status necessary before launching a bid to become part of the Olympic programme.

“The session gave definite recognition to the three federations,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams told reporters.

The three sports can now bid to join the 2020 Olympics as the programme is always determined seven years in advance.

Golf and rugby were latest inclusions in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games when an IOC session voted them in last year. The decision about new sports for the 2020 Games will be taken at the IOC session in Buenos Aires in 2013 where the host country will also be picked.

Source : Reuters

Every one knows “My name is Bond… James Bond”

Most of the cricket loving fans have changed this to “Bond.. Shane Bond ” and they have been missing him from November 2007.
Shane Edward Bond showed his class in the opening series which he played against the two best cricket playing nations , South Africa and Australia in 2002 and took 21 wickets
in 7 matches and was adjudged the Man of the Series. The australians were blindfolded with his speed and accuracy.Though his body couldnt help him in acheiving more he gave his best to New Zealand cricket which always struggles with their fast bowlers. And the story repeated with him too as he could only play 17 tests and had to hang up his boots beacuse of the injuries.
New zealand had never lost a test in which he played. This shows how much impact he puts on the team and the pressure on the opposite team.
From a profession of traffic policeman, he turned himself into a job which was more of a pain to him, both mentally and physically. When he looks back into his career the time which he didn’t play was more than the time in which he played. But when he did play, he tore the oppsoite team into pieces with his lethal weapons pace and swing.

New Zealand cricket will be thankful to him for his spirit and commitment. Though the statistics doesnt show his calibre but bond is one of his kind and unique in  every sense.

He maynot be the MC Graths,The wasims and the Pollock but he could have been one of them.
The decision of him to join the ICL was right in his sense because he was paid lot more than what he use to get and most of the time he was out of the team due to injuries. But for him not to be seen in the international scenario was due to BCCI which used its money power to make other boards to ban the players who play in ICL. The players didnot know that they would not be allowed to play for the country when they signed the contracts of ICL . The credit goes to BCCI.

Though bond entertained us in brief spells it would have been great if he wouldnt have missed the last 18 months . He anoounced his re entry in the second T20 Game against srilanka.Lets hope he does entertain us for many years to come and reach many heights and break records in the years to come.

Welcome back MR Bond …

Cricket Fever Ends !! This time with T20 world CUP which is going to start from 5th June.Having the first ever successful twenty20 world cup in South Africa, England is the host for the ICC Twenty20 world cup in 2009.

Total 12 teams India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Australia, South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Ireland and Netherland will participate in 2009 twenty20 cup.

The ICC has also announced top two ranked teams in each group and given them a number 1 and 2 respectively. They will retain this number irrespective of whether they finish first or second in the group.

For example if Bangladesh top ranked Group A and India finished second in the same group; India will still remain as A1 and Bangladesh will remain as A2 in Super Eights stages. If Zimbabwe knockout Bangladesh in Group A then Zimbabwe will become A2.

The first two teams in each group are placed 1 or 2. They will retain this position for the Super Eight stage, irrespective of whether they finish first or second in their group, unless they are knocked out by the team 3 in their group. In this instance, team 3 replaces the position of the team they knock out.

The teams finishing first and second in groups E and F, based on points obtained in the Super Eight stage will compete in the semi-finals

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