INDIA WINS THE ICC WORLD CUP 2011!

India shattered the day dreams of Sri Lanka by 6 wickets to lift the ICC WORLD CUP 2011, in style, at the Wankhade Stadium, Mumbai! MS Dhoni (91 not out) and Gautam Gambhir (97) helped India to win the ICC World Cup 2011 in a thriller of a game at Wankhade! Dhoni joined legendary Kapil Dev to lift the coveted trophy for India, after a very long wait of 28 years!

Sri Lankan pacer Lasith Malinga dismissed Sachin Tendulkar (18) and Virender Sehwag (0) early to give severe heart burn to millions of Indians, who were watching the game. Tendulkar was going smoothly as he hit two fours in his 14-ball 18 innings before Malinga struck in the seventh over.

Dhoni played a great captain's innings in the summit clash as he hit two six and eight fours in his 79-ball innings; & the icing on the cake was his sixer which made Indian score easily cross the required target of 275 by 2 runs! The skipper added a record 109-run partnership with Gambhir for the fourth wicket, which was the highest for India in World Cup finals, to chase the challenging 275-run target. Unlucky Gambhir narrowly missed the great chance to score a hundred in the World Cup final as Lankan all-rounder Thisara Parera clean bowled him in the 42nd over, when he was at 97!

President Pratibha Patil and her Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksha were among the host of high-profile personalities who attended the India-Sri Lanka World Cup final match at a fully packed Wankhede stadium today! Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, Union Minister Kapil Sibal, former Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor, Business tycoon Mukesh Ambani, Preity Zinta, Aamir Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Suniel Shetty, Aftab Shivdasani and veteran actor Vinod Khanna along with southern superstar Rajnikant were also present to watch the great match, in the first All-Asian summit contest in the history of the tournament.

YUVRAJ SING WAS DECLARED THE MAN OF THE TOURNAMENT (MAN OF THE SERIES!) & INDIAN CAPTAIN M.S DHONI MAN OF THE MATCH!

 At 11.30pm (Indian Standard Time), 02-04-11, the Indian Captain M.S. Dhoni Lifted The ICC World Championship Trophy!

Earlier, Sri Lanka's captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and elected to bat & Mahela Jayawardene slammed his 14th one-day hundred, second of this mega-event, to help Sri Lanka post 274/6 against India. India made one change in the side that beat Pakistan in the semifinal, bringing in the Kerala fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth in place of the injured Ashish Nehra, thus MAKING HIM A LUCKY MASCOT, as was the case in the 20-20 last year!

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TEAM INDIA : Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Munaf Patel.

TEAM SRI LANKA : Kumar Sangakkara (capt), Mahela Jayawardene, Upul Tharanga, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Thilan Samaraweera, Chamara Kapugedera, Suraj Randiv, Thisara Perera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Muttiah Muralitharan.

Umpires: Simon Taufel (AUS) and Aleem Dar (PAK)

TV umpire: Ian Gould (ENG)

Match referee: Jeff Crowe (NZL)

DEVESTATING EARTH QUAKE & TSUNAMI IN JAPAN!

TOKYO: A devastating tsunami triggered by the biggest earthquake on record in Japan killed more than 1,000 people along the northeastern coast on Friday after a wall of water swept away everything in its path, as it swept away boats, cars and homes while widespread fires burned out of control. The unfolding disaster in the wake of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and 10-metre (33-feet) high tsunami prompted offers of help from dozens of countries.


Thousands of residents were evacuated from an area around a nuclear plant north of Tokyo after fears of a radiation leak, but officials said problems with the reactor's cooling system were not at a critical level. Other Japanese nuclear power plants and oil refineries were shut down and one refinery was ablaze.


Stunning TV footage showed a muddy torrent of water carrying cars and wrecked homes at high speed across farmland near the coastal city of Sendai, home to one million people and which lies 300 km (180 miles) northeast of Tokyo. Ships had been flung onto a harbour wharf, where they lay helplessly on their side. Domestic media said the death toll was expected to exceed 1,000, most of whom appeared to have drowned. Auto plants, electronics factories and refineries shut, roads buckled and power to millions of homes and businesses was knocked out. Several airports, including Tokyo's Narita, were closed and rail services halted. All ports were shut.


The earth-quake, the most powerful since Japan started keeping records 140 years ago, sparked at least 80 fires in cities and towns along the coast, Kyodo News Agency said. The 1995 Kobe quake caused $100 billion in damages and was the most expensive natural disaster in history. Economic damage from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was estimated at about $10 billion. It is mot a solace that earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas & the country accounts for about 20 per cent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater. 


Google launched a crisis response page following the earthquake at google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html. It includes a "person finder" in English and Japanese which allows users to ask for information or provide information about individuals.


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