Alonso grabs headlines in Brazil

Renaults' Fernando Alonso has topped the time sheets on fridays' practice session for the Brazilian GP. Massa and Trulli stole the second and third place respectively.
Force India drivers Sutil and Fisichella could only manage to finish up at 19th and 20th on time sheet.

Tags: Formula One, Force India, Fernando Alonso, Brazilian GP

Force India retains Fisichella and Sutil

Force India's owner Vijay Mallya belives it was actually the VJM01 car that let down their drivers. He belives that his drivers Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil have the potential to make it to the podium and it was the car that let them down this season. Mallya belives that once the car is fixed his drivers should have no problems.

Tags: Formula one, Force india, Vijay mallya, Giancarlo Fisichella, Adrian Sutil

Gambhir banned for one Test

Indian opener Gautam Gambhir has been banned for one test by match refree Chris Broad after being found guilty for hitting the Aussie all rounder Shane Watson with his elbow. This means that Ghambir will be ruled out for the fourth and final test.

Shane Watson has been fined 10 percent of his match fee for verbally engaging with Gambhir in a manner which was not in keeping up the spirit of cricket.

Tags: Cricket, India Vs Australia, Shane Watson Vs Gambhir

Chennai - Kathipara route map

1. Vehicles proceeding from Guindy towards Vadapalani shall proceed straight along the ramp beneath the flyover, which leads to the Vadapalani side, and merge with the traffic on the main flyover.

2. Traffic proceeding from Guindy towards Porur shall keep right and proceed straight along the ramp beneath the flyover.

3. Vehicles proceeding from the airport towards Porur shall keep left at the ground level (behind the defence monument and through the Rajiv Gandhi arch).

4. Vehicles proceeding from the airport towards Guindy shall proceed along the flyover and take the free left downwards and thereafter proceed straight along the flyover (as is being followed now). Traffic proceeding from the airport towards Vadapalani shall proceed along the flyover, as is being followed now.

5. Vehicles proceeding from Vadapalani towards Guindy would have to keep left and proceed along the slip road at the ground level.

6. Traffic proceeding from Vadapalani towards the airport shall keep right and proceed along the main flyover, as is being followed.

7. Vehicles proceeding from Vadapalani towards Porur shall proceed along the flyover and take left turn along the loop (Le Meridian Loop) towards Porur.

8. Traffic proceeding from Porur towards Guindy shall take Paulwells Road and proceed along the ramp straight (right lane) towards Guindy.

9. Traffic proceeding from Porur towards the airport shall proceed straight along the ramp and take left through Loop (HTL) and merge with the traffic on the main flyover. Vehicles proceeding from Porur towards Vadapalani shall take Paulwells Road and thereafter take a free left adjacent to the flyover towards Vadapalani.

Tags: Chennai, Kathipara map, Travel

Laxman Dominates the Aussies once again

Yet another Laxmans' show against the mighty Aussies, he let his bat do all the talking to cease the critisism against him. An unbeaten 200 from just 301 deliveries with 21 boundries. At stumps day 2 the Aussies where 50 for no loss in reply to India's 613 for 7 declared.

Anil Kumble should be a very pleased man to see his men put up a great show after he won the toss and elected to bat, earlier a double ton from Gambhir followed by Laxman. One gets a feeling that India came up with a very late declaration, probably A.Kumble had different ideas he just wants to bat once, will 613 against the aussies be enough?

Laxman seems to be loving the Aussie pace attack for this is not the first time he has reached or gone pass the 200 mark, he has done it earlier against the Aussies in 2001. Any cricket follower would never forget that innings where he made 281 to save the match paring up with R.Dravid.

Ponting badly missed a quality spinner, particularly when touring the sub-continent. B.Lee, supposed to be lethal weapon wasn't effective, he just made a very early break through by sending V.Shewag back to pavilion. Its not often that you could see Ponting using eight bowlers in a test match, which includes the skipper himself.
Is this marking the down slide of the Aussie's domination of world cricket for more than a decade??

Tags: Cricket, V.V.S. Laxman, India Vs Australia 3rd test match at Delhi