Daily Sports News

Australia beat England in the third one- day international in Nat West at Rose Bowl to take a lead of 3-0 in seven match series. Cameron White strike his first ODI century a prime mover for Australia’s victory. England won the toss and decided to take the first strike they congregated 228-9.

Match- winning joint venture by White 105 and Michael Clarke 52 added 143 runs made easy for Australia to win. White’s century included of one six and nine fours batted coolly right through the match. England batted inadequately in all the three series. In spite of this captain decided to bat first. England did not loose their heart and they remained determined with the final score 228 with the loss of nine wickets. England did set some calculated sort of target to try to defend the team. With the win, Australia is in leading position in the seven matches of one-day series. On the other hand, England does have a lot many issues to struggle about it. Aussie striking lead indicates of getting Champions Trophy.

Since 1970 Argentina the main winner of World Cup but this year, they are in risk of loosing World Cup after the defeat of Paraguay to 1-0. Diego Maradona’s have vowed of fighting while his team are at one point behind Ecuador they are in fourth position our with two games to play and only top four team assured to be qualified.

In fifth side of final tournament along with fourth position team in North Central America and Caribbean, group. In the interim Brazil strike Chile by 4-2 and continued to stay third in their group that licensed Brazil to ninth victory in South American qualifying group. Ecuador hit Bolivia 3-1 with goals from Edison Mendez, Manachester United’s Antonio Valencia, and Birmingham’s Cristian Benitez. Defeat of Argentina has piled pressurized on coach Maradona. His side needs to play with Uruguay and Peru. He uttered saying as long as he have a drop of blood left, he will fight to get Argentina qualified. He added saying we are not out of World Cup and continue to fight no matter who all condemn him.

Geraint Thomas is among one of six British riders join up Team Sky a new Professional cycling squad. Geraint Thomas is the Olympic gold medalist. More riders are yet to be proclaimed with a conjecture that GB star Bradley Wiggins might join with these riders.

Welshman Thomas was the youngest rider in Tour de France in 2007. Current team is assuming of joining Tour de France next year with the goal of obtaining victory by 2014. David Brails ford the GB performance director was accountable for providing 34 medals at Beijing Olympics and Paralympics will handle the team financed by broadcasters BSkyB. These opportunities will enable top British cyclists to be trained together and most importantly possibility of gaining success for future World Championships and Olympic Games. Brailsford uttered in following weeks and months other riders will join from Britain and overseas. Name for Team Sky Squad until now are Geraint Thomas, Peter Kennaugh, Steve Cummings, Chris Froome, Ian Stannard and Russell Downing.

England boomed into 5-1victory over Croatia at Wembley. Fabio Capello coach of England team tagged as their best performance under him. England pay backed in a most wide-ranging manner thanks to a powerful performance from Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard both scored twice while Wayne Rooney finished off scoring succeed record.

Capello expressed his view stating, he is very happy as they accomplished the target pity early. He added saying, a best performance under him, they played quick, and movement of ball was awesome and first 20 minute of the game was mind bowling. Capello was enchanted, as his team was qualified for World Cup. Both performances next to Croatia team were delightful. Fall out from Euro Cup 2008 with the loss of 3-2 over Croatia was at Wembley when Steven Mc Laren was the precursor of the team. John Terry the captain of England team was uniformly pleased. Slaven Bilic Croatian Manger was surprised by England’s performance and he did not even assume in a nastiest dreams. England players did look quick and assertive from the start of first goal. At half- time, it was only 2-0 and then we accepted a third goal it was difficult to come back. He added saying if they enhance playing like this then definitely, they can win the World Cup.

Spaniard Rafael Nadal defeat France’s Gael Monfils and get into quarter-finals of US Open. Nadal displayed great strength 6-7 (3-7) 6-3 6-1 6-3 to win set-up with Fernando Gonzalez. Rafael world number three player is back after a serious knee injury and abdominal problem but he did not portray any sign at the time of match.

Juan Martin Del Potro and Marin Cilic also triumph set up quarterfinal tie. During the final match held at Arthur Ashe Stadium, Monfils verge a high quality first set in tiebreak after failing to serve out a 5-3 with his huge serving and heavy forehand taking him through. However, after some enthusiastic celebration Nadal maintained an unbelievable stamina. After the pair exchanged break midway through the second set, Nadal broke again out of breath while eighth game of exhausting rallies that left his competitor tired.

Nadal expressed his knees condition very good and added saying he is very happy after playing the last two matches. He said it is third time in his career-entering quarterfinal. Gonzalez seeded 11th beat seventh seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 in a lively match on Louis Armstrong Stadium. Gonzalez controlled his temper and took back in third set tiebreak. Trailing 5-4 in the fourth set, the pressure became too much for Tsonga as he double faulted twice and handed over the game and match. Sixth seed Del Potro proved too strong for Juan Carlos Ferrero as he moved into the last eight with 6-3 6-3 6-3 win. Del Potro lost to Murray in quarterfinal last year but has risen to sixth ranking and barely lost to Federer in five set in French Open semi- final.

After being tagged as back markers for almost two seasons, but all changed as Giancarlo Fisichella drove the every improving VJM02 to a second place finish at the Belgian Grand Prix at Sap on the weekend. Finally it was months of persistence and hard work that showed the much desired results for the Indian owner Billionaire Dr Vijay Mallya. The team Dr Mallya took over has a long history as it was called Spyker when he bought it, before that it was Midland and before that it was Jordan.

Force India was quite optimistic as they came into the Belgian Grand Prix after the changes they had introduced in Valencia. They were surely expecting some points out of the race but never ever dreamt of taking the pole position in the qualifying.

Force India was deprived there first victory in F1 by the Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen as he used the KERS energy boost to optimum use and went past Fisichella. Sabastian Vettel finished third behind the Force India car. Robert Kubica finished fourth in his BMW Sauber ahead of teammate Nick Heidfeld.

Although Lewis Hamilton crashed in the first lap of the race but Heikki Kovalainen did some consolation for the team as he finished sixth. Rubens Barrichello drove his last three laps with an oil spiting engine and managed to finish seventh for the Brawn Mercedes team, but things went worst as he came into the pit lane after the race, his engine busted into flames. The last point for the Belgian Grand Prix was taken by Nico Rosberg in his Williams Toyota.

Some of the disappointments and retirements at the spa were Alanso, Trulli, Button, Grosjean, Hamilton and Alguersuari. Now a major question and doubt on all minds is if Force India can repeat its performance for the rest of the season.

Rubens Barrichello won a F1 Grand Prix after a gap of almost 5 years as he secured a victory at the European Grand Prix in Valencia on Sunday. It was an amazing weekend for the 37 year old Brazilian as he finished the race ahead of Hamilton.

Hamilton started the race in the pole position and there was a tough fight from the start of the race for the top spot, but Barrichello took the lead as Hamilton went for his final pit stop and was delayed due to a tyre change fumble. To everyone’s surprise in a post race analysis it was revealed that Barrichello would have still won the race even if there was no fumble in the McLaren pit.

Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen had a great start of the race as his KERS assisted car pulled into third place which made sure that he had podium finish if nothing went wrong. He managed to grab the third place. Rosberg continued his good run in Valencia too with a fifth place finish and a made a tally of seven consecutive points finish. Alonso in his home grand prix managed to finish sixth.

Current F1 championship leader Jenson Button finished seventh in his BGP001 and leads the table with 72 points, a clear 18 points difference over team mate Barrichello who is at 54 ahead of Webber. BMW had scored there last point in Silverstone, but Robert Kubica got them the final point by finishing eighth as he took the spot from Webber on the second pit stop.

Red Bull team had a disappointing day at Valencia as Webber lost his season second sport to Barrichello and finished a disappointing ninth and team mate Vettel retired on the 24th lap due to an engine failure. Force India drivers could only manage a tenth and twelfth finish, though during the middle part of the race Fisichella was running at eighth position but could not capitalize on it.

Grosjen made his F1 debut in Valencia but his race did not start well as he damaged his front wing and later on lost a lot of time due to a half spin. Biggest disappointment of the day was Luca Badoer who made his debut for Ferrari and could only finish second last at seventeenth position.

2009 FORMULA 1 TELEFONICA GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE

A display of dazzling driving skills took World Champion Lewis Hamilton to seal his first pole of the 2009 F1 season at the European Grand Prix at Valencia, Spain. Hamilton had won the last race in Hungry but today he beat team mate to secure the pole ahead of team-mate Kovalainen. This is an amazing result for McLaren-Mercedes take the first row on the grid.

Rubens Barrichello of Team Brawn-Mercedes took the second spot ahead of RBR driver Sebastian Vettel in the second row on the grid. His team mate and current season leader Jenson Button finished fifth ahead of Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen making the third row on the grid.

Fernando Alonso of Renault could not take the pole in his home grand prix as he finished behind Nico Rosberg of team Williams. Alonso surely will be disappointed as he will start the race on Sunday on the fourth row of the grid. Button’s closest challenge and second in the season ranking Mark Webber could only manage a 9th place qualifying and will start the race on the fifth row of the grid ahead of BMW driver Robert Kubica.

Team Force India would certainly be disappointed as Adrian Sutill who clocked the best timing in the morning practice could only manage to qualify in twelfth place behind BMW driver Nick Heidfeld.

As Massa is still unfit to race and Michael Schumacher was ruled out of the dream comeback due to a neck injury problem, Ferrari brought there long time test driver Luca Badoer to Valencia. Ferrari will certainly be disappointed as he is placed last on the grid and nothing much is expected out of him on race day too.