It seems that the plight of sports persons is becoming poorer by the day. The recent attack on national football and volley ball player Arunima Sinha alias Sonu has shocked all. She was thrown out of the train where she lost her leg and hence lost her dream of becoming an eminent sports person forever. [...]

The call of Sri Lanka’s Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage for the cricketers to come back to the country to prepare for the England tour has put all the IPL teams in trouble. Cricketers are in a dilemma as they have been given a deadline to come back by 5th May. This is not practically possible for the players as the matches will last till 28th May. They cannot leave the matches in the middle.

By the time our readers will read this article the winner of World Cup 2011 would be declared. So far no element of surprise could be seen during the tournament. We knew very well that teams like Ireland and Canada will not qualify for finals and exactly the same happened. If we talk about team India then the team needs to work on the top order. Leaving one or two batsmen rest all cannot be expected to do wonders on the field.

The 2011 World cup is on its adventurous phase. Like always, there will be many turn around. Just to make the group list long, minnows are included in this world cup. Interestingly, by defeating the big teams they have astoundingly marked their presence. The names of those teams are Ireland, Netherland, Zimbabwe, Canada and Bangladesh.

One thing is common among all these teams, as notably the name of these teams have been heard in international cricket when ever world cups are organized, later they are evanesced. However, in this case Bangladesh is an exception as it could be seen in cricket competition in Asian Countries.

The successful completion of the National Games after Panchayat elections in Jharkhand has added one more feather in the cap of Chief-minister Arjun Munda.

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina declared the ICC World Cup open at a glittering evening in Dhaka at the famous Bangabandhu Stadium. At first world cup mascot Stumpy came to cheer the crowd. Then the Bangladeshi singers spell bound crowd with their music. After this the captains of all the 14 teams sitting on tricycle turned up at the stadium. ICC chief Shard Pawar too was present at this event. The whole stadium was lit up with amazing fireworks. All the spectators were left dumbstruck when Bryan Adams gave a stunning performance.

Opening batsman and former Test captain of Sri Lanka Marvan Atapattu once referred to bureaucratic bunglers as “Jokers led by a Muppet”. This comment suits well even the current mandarins of the Cricket Association of Bengal and a similar hidebound bunch of middle-aged groupies. CAB, President Jag Mohan Dalmiya termed the, Eden Gardens as ”un-favorable and disappointing”. Majority of people are annoyed with Cricket Association of Bengal. Eden Garden has always been considered as the best stadium in the country. In the past, many matches were organized in Eden Garden.

India played the third test match against South Africa at New lands in Cape Town. Sachin completed his half century and Greame Smith’s face was full of tension, Captain of South Africa, because he knew that till Sachin was on the pitch nobody could beat Indian score.

South Africa defeated India in the first test match which was being played at Centurion Stadium by an innings and 25 runs. After that many questions arose on the ranking of team India and team India won the second test match which was played at Durban where India defeated South Africa by 87 runs and proved that team India was still capable to be on No.1 in ranking charts.

There was a time when there was no one to represent tennis in India. There was hardly anyone except Amritraj who represented India in the international circuit .As time passed Sania and Saina entered the world of tennis and badminton, even glamour entered along with them.