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India Crushes W Indies by Innings and 1St Test Kohli Targets Period of Test
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2016 SPORTS Sri Lanka captain frustrated as 2 more players injured PALLEKELE: Sri Lanka’s injury problems while bowling at practices. Both will be Australia captain Steve Smith also a test match in Sri Lanka. ner with left-arm spinner Stephen O worsened ahead of today’s opening test assessed by the team physiotherapist leads an inexperienced team keen to Both captains said that the pitch is Keefe. match against Australia, with fast bowler ahead but Lakmal’s participation is the make up for Australia’s poor recent dry and likely to offer early turn to the Suranga Lakmal and allrounder more doubtful. record in Asia. Since winning its last spinners. Sri Lanka will heavily rely on Squads: Dhananjaya de Silva joining the list of Mathews spoke of his frustration at three-match test series in Sri Lanka 1-0 left-arm spinner Rangana Herath to keep Sri Lanka: Angelo Mathews (captain), possible absentees. the injury problems and urged for a five years ago, Australia lost against Australia batsmen at bay supported by Dinesh Chandimal, Dimuth Karunaratne, Fast bowlers Dhammika Prasad, stronger recruitment drive. “It has been a Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates and off spinner Dilruwan Perera. Kaushal Silva, Kusal Perera, Kusal Mendis, Dushmantha Chameera and leg-spinner very frustrating few months, not only on a tour of India: 2-0 and 4-0, respec- Roshen Silva who had scored heavily Dhananjaya de Silva, Roshen Silva, Jeffrey Vandersay were injured during Sri one bowler, we’ve lost so many. You tively. “We’ve got quite a few new play- at domestic level and averages more Nuwan Pradeep, Vishwa Fernando, Asitha Lanka’s recent tour to England while can’t blame them, the workload has ers, as well having just lost about seven than 50 in first-class matches is likely to Fernando, Rangana Herath, Dilruwan seamer Shaminda Eranga was suspend- been very high,” Mathews said. -
Captain Cool: the MS Dhoni Story
Captain Cool The MS Dhoni Story GULU Ezekiel is one of India’s best known sports writers and authors with nearly forty years of experience in print, TV, radio and internet. He has previously been Sports Editor at Asian Age, NDTV and indya.com and is the author of over a dozen sports books on cricket, the Olympics and table tennis. Gulu has also contributed extensively to sports books published from India, England and Australia and has written for over a hundred publications worldwide since his first article was published in 1980. Based in New Delhi from 1991, in August 2001 Gulu launched GE Features, a features and syndication service which has syndicated columns by Sir Richard Hadlee and Jacques Kallis (cricket) Mahesh Bhupathi (tennis) and Ajit Pal Singh (hockey) among others. He is also a familiar face on TV where he is a guest expert on numerous Indian news channels as well as on foreign channels and radio stations. This is his first book for Westland Limited and is the fourth revised and updated edition of the book first published in September 2008 and follows the third edition released in September 2013. Website: www.guluzekiel.com Twitter: @gulu1959 First Published by Westland Publications Private Limited in 2008 61, 2nd Floor, Silverline Building, Alapakkam Main Road, Maduravoyal, Chennai 600095 Westland and the Westland logo are the trademarks of Westland Publications Private Limited, or its affiliates. Text Copyright © Gulu Ezekiel, 2008 ISBN: 9788193655641 The views and opinions expressed in this work are the author’s own and the facts are as reported by him, and the publisher is in no way liable for the same. -
Cricket World Cup Begins Mar 8 Schedule on Page-3
www.Asia Times.US NRI Global Edition Email: [email protected] March 2016 Vol 7, Issue 3 Cricket World Cup begins Mar 8 Schedule on page-3 Indian Team: Pakistan Team: Shahid Afridi (c), Anwar Ali, Ahmed Shehzad MS Dhoni (capt, wk), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Mohammad Hafeez Bangladesh Team: Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Yuvraj Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Irfan Squad: Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Moham- Singh, Suresh Raina, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Sharjeel Khan, Wahab Riaz mad Mithun, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Ra- Mohammed Shami, Harbhajan Singh, Jasprit Mohammad Nawaz, Muhammad Sami him, Sabbir Rahman, Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), Bumrah, Pawan Negi, Ashish Nehra, Hardik Khalid Latif, Mohammad Amir Mahmudullah Riyad, Nasir Hossain, Nurul Pandya. Umar Akmal, Sarfraz Ahmed, Imad Wasim Hasan, Arafat Sunny, Mustafizur Rahman, Al- Amin Hossain, Taskin Ahmed and Abu Hider. Australia Team: Steven Smith (c), David Warner (vc), Ashton Agar, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, John Hastings, Josh Hazlewood, Usman Khawaja, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Max- well, Peter Nevill (wk), Andrew Tye, Shane Watson, Adam Zampa England: Eoin Morgan (c), Alex Hales, Ja- Asia Times is Globalizing son Roy, Joe Root, Jos Buttler, James Vince, Ben Now appointing Stokes, Moeen Ali, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, David Willey, Steven Finn, Reece Topley, Sam Bureau Chiefs to represent Billings, Liam Dawson New Zealand Team: Asia Times in ALL cities Kane Williamson (c), Corey Anderson, Trent Worldwide Boult, Grant Elliott, Martin Guptill, Mitchell McClenaghan, -
Younis Undaunted by English Attack in Lord's Test Return
SPORTS SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2016 Pink ball makes India debut as day-night clamor grows NEW DELHI: India will witness its first ever multi-day fans),” Ganguly, who sat alongside former Australian pink ball game at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens from today, batsman Dean Jones and India’s VVS Laxman at a pro- a possible precursor to a day-night Test later this year motional event on Thursday, was quoted as saying by in the world’s richest cricket market. The four-day the Indian Express website. “Just think about Virat match is an inter-club final between Mohun Bagan Kohli facing Jimmy Anderson in a pink ball Test-the and Bhowanipore Club which is being hosted by the spectacle it will present. Let’s see the problem, address Cricket Association of Bengal, headed by former India it and try to fix it with the technology we have.” The skipper Sourav Ganguly. Kolkata club match will be broadcast live in India with KOLKATA: In this photograph taken on June 16, 2016, for- The success of the experiment is expected to have many prominent former Indian cricketers providing mer Indian cricket captain and current president of the a bearing on efforts by the Board of Control for Cricket commentary. The BCCI also announced earlier this Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) Sourav Ganguly (R) and in India (BCCI) to host a day-night pink ball Test month that the domestic Duleep Trophy tournament former Indian batsman VVS Laxman play with a pink crick- against New Zealand in October. “Time has come to in September will be played under lights with a pink et ball during an event at the Eden Gardens ground . -
ICC Annual Report 2014-15
ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 INCLUDING SUMMARISED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OUR VISION OF SUCCESS AS A LEADING GLOBAL SPORT, CRICKET WILL CAPTIVATE AND INSPIRE PEOPLE OF EVERY AGE, GENDER, BACKGROUND AND ABILITY WHILE BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN CONTINENTS, COUNTRIES AND COMMUNITIES. Strategic Direction A BIGGER, BETTER, GLOBAL GAME TARGETING MORE PLAYERS, MORE FANS, MORE COMPETITIVE TEAMS. Our long-term success will be judged on growth in participation and public interest and the competitiveness of teams participating in men’s and women’s international cricket. Mission Statement AS THE INTERNATIONAL GOVERNING BODY FOR CRICKET, THE INTERNATIONAL CRICKET COUNCIL WILL LEAD BY: • Providing a world class environment for international cricket • Delivering ‘major’ events across three formats • Providing targeted support to Members • Promoting the global game Our Values THE ICC’S ACTIONS AND PEOPLE ARE GUIDED BY THE FOLLOWING VALUES: • Fairness and Integrity • Excellence • Accountability • Teamwork • Respect for diversity • Commitment to the global game and its great spirit 01 CONTENTS FOREWORD 02 Chairman’s Report 04 Chief Executive’s Report 06 Highlights of the Year 08 Obituaries & Retirements DELIVERING MAJOR EVENTS 12 ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 20 ICC Women’s Championship 22 Pepsi ICC World Cricket League PROMOTING THE GLOBAL GAME 26 LG ICC Awards 2014 28 ICC Cricket Hall of Fame 30 Cricket’s Great Spirit PROVIDING A WORLD-CLASS ENVIRONMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL CRICKET 34 Governance of the Global Game 36 ICC Members 38 Development 40 Commercial 42 Cricket -
All Ball-By-Ball Commentary Used Here from Espncricinfo
INDIA DRS REVIEWS LEGEND Red: Umpire's Decision Challenged, STRUCK DOWN Green: Thought about Challenge but DID NOT REVIEW Black: Umpire's Decision Challenged, UPHELD Orange: Exhausted the Reviews and Could Not Challenge. OUT IF REVIEWED Blue: Wanted to Challenge, Ran Out of Time All Ball-by-Ball Commentary Used Here from ESPNcricinfo INDIA V ENGLAND 1st Test Rajkot 1st innings 62.5 Yadav to Root, no run, that looks close, and Dharmasena says not out. Full, swinging in, and Kohli reviews. Root's head falls over while trying to work the ball into the leg side, and the ball goes past his inside edge and hits pad in front of middle and leg. Was that hitting leg stump or going down? Looks very close to me. No inside-edge. Let's see what ball-tracking says. It says umpire's call, clipping the outside of leg stump, and Root is a lucky, lucky boy. 82.6 Yadav to Stokes, no run, ooh, that's some monster bounce and late reverse away from the left-hander. Excellent delivery, Stokes is beaten going for the back-foot punch away from his body. Umesh wants to review, but Kohli doesn't. There really didn't seem to be an edge there 2nd innings 1.3 Jadeja to Cook, no run, very excited lbw appeal from Jadeja, as the ball spins in to hit the pad, similar to the first innings but Gaffaney shakes his head this time. India decide not to review, mindful that's Cook's dismissal in the first innings was ultimately shown to have not been hitting by Hawk-Eye 12.2 Ashwin to Hameed, no run, has he pinned him again? Ashwin slides the ball past Hameed's bat to hit the back leg, as in the first innings.. -
Guptill Stars for NZ
SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2015 Guptill stars for NZ HAMILTON: Opener Martin Guptill hit a fighting cen- 37 runs to get a sniff of an upset victory. tury to guide New Zealand to their sixth consecutive Corey Anderson, who hit three fours and as many victory in the World Cup with a three-wicket win over sixes, fell for 39 before Tim Southee hit a six and a four an inspired Bangladesh in Hamilton yesterday. Guptill to seal New Zealand’s first win after seven successive scored 105 for his sixth one-day hundred to help the defeats against Bangladesh between 2010-2013 — all co-hosts chase down a daunting 289-run target with away from home. Hasan finished with 4-55. Earlier, seven balls to spare on a batting-friendly pitch at Mahmudullah rescued Bangladesh from a struggling Seddon Park in a match in which the Black Caps were 27-2 after they were put into bat. tested for the first time in the tournament. Mahmudullah, dropped on one by Anderson off Guptill’s knock overshadowed Mohammad Southee, anchored the innings and added an invalu- Mahmudullah’s second consecutive hundred, his 128 able 90 for the third wicket with Soumya Sarkar (51) not out propelling Bangladesh to 288-7 in their 50 and another 78 for the sixth with Sabbir Rahman who overs. New Zealand had already made sure of top spot made a fiery 23-ball 40. in Pool A and they will face the fourth-placed finishers Mahmudullah steered paceman Mitchell from Pool B-where Pakistan, Ireland and West Indies McClenaghan towards third man for a couple to com- are still alive-in the fourth quarter-final in Wellington plete his hundred off 111 balls before blowing a kiss on March 21. -
14301039,14301045,14301046 Cse
BEST 11 SELECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING SUBMISSION DATE: 05.04.18 SUBMITTED BY: Aminul Islam Anik(14301039) Sakif Yeaser(14301045) A.G.M. Imam Hossain(14301046) Department of Computer Science and Engineering Supervisor: Amitabha Chakrabarty, Ph.D Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Declaration We, hereby declare that this thesis is based on results we have found ourselves. Materials of work from researchers conducted by others are mentioned in references. Signature of Supervisor Signature of Authors Amitabha Chakrabarty, Ph.D Aminul Islam Anik Assistant Professor (14301039) Department of Computer Science and Engineering BRAC University Sakif Yeaser (14301045) A.G.M. Imam Hossain (14301046) ABSTRACT Cricket has become the most popular game not only in Bangladesh but also around the world. Day by day it is gaining more people’s attention. The name and glory of team Bangladesh has trespassed the country’s border and it is creating a huge impact in the world cricket. To make sure the continuous development of the team, a more professional approach and help from IT sector is needed. Remembering this fact, we used machine learning to select the best players from the standby list based on the previous playing statistics and then from that players we have found out the winning team combination. We have collected the data from websites that offers trustable sports statistics. Feature selection algorithms like Recursive feature elimination and univariate selection are used to find out the attributes that are more related to the output feature. Machine learning Algorithms such as linear regression, support vector machine with linear and polynomial kernel was used to predict the runs scored by a batsman and runs given by a bowler. -
ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2020
MEDIA GUIDE Version 3 / January 2019 2 The ICC would like to thank all its Commercial Partners for their support of the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup South Africa 2020. ICC U19 CRICKET WORLD CUP 3 I’d like to welcome all members WELCOME of the media here in South Africa and those around the world who ICC CHIEF EXECUTIVE will be covering the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2020. This is the second time that South Africa has On behalf of the ICC, I would like to take this hosted the tournament which is close to the opportunity to thank Cricket South Africa, its staff, hearts of all of us at ICC and is considered a very ground authorities and volunteers in helping us important event on our calendar. It provides organize this important event. I would also like players with an unrivaled experience of global to thank our commercial and broadcast partners events and a real flavour of international cricket for their support in making our events so special at senior level, while cricket fans around the world and taking them to the widest possible audience. can watch tomorrow’s stars in action either in A word of appreciation is likewise due to my person, on television or via the ICC digital channels. colleagues at the ICC, who have worked so hard in preparation for this event. A host of past and present stars have come through this system and the fact that a number of the I would also like to thank all members of the world’s best current players including Virat Kohli, media for your continued support of this event, Steve Smith, Joe Root, Kane Williamson, Sarfraz whether you are here in person or following from Ahmed and Dinesh Chandimal have all figured in your respective countries around the world, the past ICC U19 World Cups, demonstrates the calibre coverage you drive is crucial to the future success of cricketers we can expect to see during this event. -
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MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2016 SPORTS Celtic cruise into Scottish Cup semi-finals GLASGOW: Leigh Griffiths showed the range in the 14th minute before Gary Celtic made a host of changes for the Tierney’s cross to stroke the ball past Derek take a 54th-minute lead through James way as Celtic cruised into the Scottish Cup Mackay-Steven added a second 11 minutes match at Parkhead after their disappoint- Gaston. Keatings. On-loan Celtic star Anthony semi-finals after comfortably seeing off later. Callum McGregor curled home a third ing draw with Dundee in midweek, which McGregor completed the scoring 10 Stokes released David Gray wide on the Championship side Morton 3-0 at Parkhead in the 35th minute to end any hopes saw their lead at the top of the Scottish minutes before the break as he beat the right and Keatings emphatically fired home yesterday. Morton had of causing an upset. Premiership cut to four points. goalkeeper with a bending effort from the his cross. The Scottish champions scored three The win eases the pressure on under- But any nerves the home side had were edge of the box to send the Hoops sup- However, the holders grabbed an first-half goals to join Glasgow rivals fire manager Ronny Deila as Celtic pro- soon settled as Griffiths took advantage of porters home happy. equaliser in the 77th minute as two substi- Rangers-who demolished Dundee 4-0 in gressed to their sixth semi-final in seven Tom O’Ware’s misjudged header to collect Holders Inverness Caledonian Thistle tutes combined to earn the Highlanders a Saturday’s quarter-final at Ibrox-and years. -
Artistic and Aesthetic Elements of Advertising in Bangladesh
International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 8, Issue 3, March-2017 1406 ISSN 2229-5518 Artistic and Aesthetic Elements of Advertising in Bangladesh Mohammad Ferdous Khan Shawon Abstract:Advertising, mainly an aid for branding products, services or events to people commercially, plays a great role to construct the society, economy and state. It is not only a medium of publishing the content, also a subject of art and industry. Besides it plays a vital role in economic sphere. A successful or effective advertisement contains artistic and aesthetic elements to catch the attention of its audience. One can find useful information, source of entertainment and various beauty tips from advertisements and thus it becomes popular. It provides message to the customers or consumers. This research mainly aims to operate on various types of advertisements in Bangladesh, such as- newspaper advertisements, billboard promotion, Television Commercial (TVC) and digital advertising. The prime objective of the research is to evaluate the artistic and aesthetic elements of advertising in Bangladesh. Keywords: Advertising, Advertising Agency, Aesthetic, Artistic, Billboard,Newspaper Advertising, Poster, TV Commercial. 1. INTRODUCTION Advertising plays a vital role in society, it At present, there are around 500 advertising promotes the goods or services. agencies in Bangladesh. But newspaper Advertisingattracts the mind of customers or advertising is very popular medium in consumers. Industrial revolution helped to Bangladesh. Because the newspaper covers expand the advertising industry in Europe. all classes of people. The objective of the At present, in this rapid development of advertising is to promote the goods and technology, people can see different types of services. -
Gambhir and Dravid Take India to a Draw
14 Saturday 8th January, 2011 BY S. RAM MAHESH his guard, settled into his bal- hour and a quarter, asked uncom- Barring a short period after Qualifying School Golf 2011 anced stance, and resumed. fortable questions with his left- lunch when he seemed to lose con- CAPE TOWN: Neither India nor Sehwag batted with greater cir- arm orthodox from both over and centration and aimed rash shots at South Africa deserved to lose this cumspection than common. Only around the wicket. Him not being Steyn and Harris, Gambhir batted Mithun turns pro most even of series; neither did, as on occasion did he attempt to light a big turner of the ball added to with clarity. His scoring strokes the third Test here in Newlands the ‘firecrackers' Harbhajan Singh the difficulty, for the batsmen were were often an extension of his final qualifying stage to earn concluded in a draw on Thursday. thought he might. forced to delay their decision to defence, bat held soft and straight full cards. Four days of animated cricket, He left as just as the hour was play or pad the ball away till the till contact before a turn of the Perera missed the top spot where the momentum swung less about to be marked, a speeding, last possible instant. wrists or a punch of the arms by one stroke when abruptly than at Durban, but no length ball from Morkel accosting The odd delivery ripped and timed and placed the ball. Australia’s Blair Wilson less dramatically, had reduced the a defensive stroke even as it was bounced from the rough, main- Steyn ended Gambhir's four- carded a final round par 72.