London: England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff celebrated his final test at Lord's on Monday with five for 92 to give the home side their first victory over Australia at the home of cricket for 75 years.
Australia, who had resumed at 313 for five in their second innings chasing 522 for victory, were bowled out for 406 in the morning session. England won by 115 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series.
"To win an Ashes test match at Lord's is something that many guys have dreamt of doing over the last 50, 60 years or so and to be the 11 guys who have actually pulled it off, it feels very, very special at the moment," England captain Andrew Strauss said.
Flintoff, who will retire from test cricket after the fifth test at the Oval next month, said: "It's nice to get five on the last morning and take the plaudits but it's been a real team effort."
England's only test victory of the 20th century against Australia at Lord's came in 1934 when Yorkshire left-arm spinner Hedley Verity took 15 wickets on a rain-affected pitch, dismissing Don Bradman twice.
"We were outplayed right through the course of the game," Australia captain Ricky Ponting told Sky TV. "I think from the first ball on the first day, right up until the end today, I think England have been the better team."
Flintoff bowled magnificently for the second day in a row, rapping Brad Haddin on the pads with his third ball which beat the Australian wicketkeeper for pace.
The next drew Haddin forward, caught the outside edge and flew low to Paul Collingwood at second slip. He had not added to his overnight score of 80.
Mitchell Johnson got off the mark with a handsome drive for four off Anderson. He was then struck on the pads by a low full toss from Flintoff which would have hit the stumps but umpire Rudi Koertzen had already signalled a no-ball.
Michael Clarke, 125 not out overnight, unfurled a glorious off-drive to the boundary off Stuart Broad, who had replaced James Anderson at the Nursery end.
Johnson off-drove Broad for four to bring up the 350 but then lost Clarke, who was bowled for 136 by Graeme Swann's second delivery of the morning. The batsman was deceived in the flight by a ball which knocked back his off-stump.
CROWD SUPPORT
Flintoff, still steaming in from the Pavilion end after more than an hour of high-pace bowling, bowled Nathan Hauritz for one and Peter Siddle for seven.
Johnson, dropped on 36 hitting a difficult return chance to Swann, continued to play his shots while wickets fell at the other end. He was the last man out, bowled by Swann for 63 with nine boundaries.
Flintoff, who twisted his right knee during the first drawn test in Cardiff, said he would have been unwilling to surrender the ball on Monday.
"It's one of those situations where you are a little bit tired or you might be aching a little bit but when the crowd get behind you you just can't stop," he told Sky TV.
"I just want to give a special mention to Andrew Flintoff, who was magnificent this morning," Strauss said.
"We are not going to get carried away, there's a lot more cricket to be played in this series but to go 1-0 up and, I think, deserve a victory, makes it even better."
Ponting said his team needed to pick themselves up again for the third test at Edgbaston, starting on July 30.
"One-nil down now with three test matches to go we've got to regroup and hit the ground running at Edgbaston," he said.
"At the end of the day we were beaten by over 100 runs in a test and we can't change anything that's happened in the course of the game, only our own performances and that's what we've got to do with some hard work over the next week."
When the crowd applauded his comments, Ponting added, laughing: "That's the first round of applause I've got for five days."
Source: http://www.cricketworld4u.com
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Miranda Kerr helps Orlando Bloom forget watch loss trauma after robbery
London: Miranda Kerr has reportedly helped restore her beau Orlando Bloom's smile after the latter lost his vintage watches worth 200,000 pounds to a robbery.
The Victoria's Secret model was said to have been consoling the actor who was in New York at the time of the break-in at his LA home.
"If anyone could help a bloke forget about a trauma it would be Miranda. Orlando is still a lucky boy, that's for sure," the Daily Star quoted a source as saying.
Bloom is allegedly the owner of a collection of around 40 valuable watches.
He purportedly lost some of his favourite pieces, including a rare antimagnetic Rolex Milgauss watch from the 1950s worth 120,000 pounds.
The Victoria's Secret model was said to have been consoling the actor who was in New York at the time of the break-in at his LA home.
"If anyone could help a bloke forget about a trauma it would be Miranda. Orlando is still a lucky boy, that's for sure," the Daily Star quoted a source as saying.
Bloom is allegedly the owner of a collection of around 40 valuable watches.
He purportedly lost some of his favourite pieces, including a rare antimagnetic Rolex Milgauss watch from the 1950s worth 120,000 pounds.
Britain manufactured Japanese cars top reliability league
A British research has found that five of the top six reliable cars in Britain are Japanese, however, three of them are manufactured in Britain itself.
Warranty Direct, which compiled the Manufacturer Reliability Index top ten, listed Honda, which has its plant in Wiltshire, as the leader in the list of reliable cars, The Mirror.co.uk reports.
While, third is Derby-based Toyota and Nissan, which has a factory in Sunderland, is sixth in the list.
The research has also found that Honda-buyers can drive convincingly knowing that there is only a 10 per cent chance of a breakdown, when the car is between three and six years old.
On the other hand, Japanese companies- Mazda, Subaru and Mitsubishi- were also high in the index.
Reacting on the index, Honda spokesman Steve Kirk expressed pleasure and said: “We’re delighted to be top of the tree. It’s testament to our great workers at places like Swindon.”
The index estimated the most dependable used cars among 250 popular models.
At the bottom of the table, Land Rover was listed with a 47 per cent chance of a breakdown, while Renault and Saab ended up just behind the Rover
Why homosexual men fail to access vital services despite being high HIV risk group
A review written by University of Oxford experts highlights the fact that despite being a high risk group for HIV infection, homosexual men often fail to access vital services because of religious, political and social stigma.
Dr Adrian D Smith writes in the review that the HIV/AIDS community needs to take vital steps to address this crisis.
The review also points out that an effective response to HIV/AIDS requires improved strategic information about all risk groups, including men who have sex with men (MSM).
The authors say: "African MSM bear a considerably higher burden of HIV than do other men, and draw attention to an unmet need for prevention, treatment, and care."
Using data reported between 2003-09, the authors say that HIV prevalence among African MSM is generally considerably higher than among adult men in the general population.
They further write that in some West African countries, HIV prevalence in MSM is over 10 times that estimated in the male general population.
According to them, the difference varies substantially, but prevalence in most countries studied was higher in MSM populations.
The authors say: "Important conclusions from behavioural studies of African MSM are that unprotected anal sex is commonplace, knowledge and access to appropriate risk prevention measures are inadequate, and that, in some contexts, many MSM engage in transactional sex. Stigma, violence, detention, and lack of safe social and health resources are widely reported."
Discussing some of the challenges and misconceptions faced by the MSM community, the authors say that condoms and lubricants for safe sex are usually not available or prohibitively expensive.
They also say that messages about prevention targeted to heterosexual populations might seem irrelevant to MSM, for MSM might not consider same-sex encounters to be sex at all because this word can also infer reproduction.
The authors point out that MSM face family rejection, public humiliation, harassment by authorities, and ridicule by health workers, and most of them conceal their behaviour for fear of these repercussions.
Elizabeth Taylor released from hospital after undergoing surgery
Hollywood legend Dame Elizabeth Taylor has been released from a Los Angeles hospital after undergoing surgery.
Taylor, 77, had been admitted to a medical centre near her home in Beverly Hills on July 13, with reports claiming that she was emotionally drained following the death of her long-term pal Michael Jackson.
Her spokesperson subsequently scotched those reports, insisting that she was there for a minor surgery.
“She is in for standard tests and a minor, though painful, surgical procedure. That’s it. No drama, no shrieking, no sedation required. Nobody on her staff is worried. Period,” the Daily Star quoted the representative as saying.
The ‘Taming of the Shrew’ star, who was in the hospital for five days, returned home to continue her recuperation.
“I’m home from the hospital sore, but intact. Of course I’m still grieving for Michael... I always will,” she wrote on her Twitter.com blog.
“I’ve had many tragedies in my life, but I guess they have all taught me something. I have to look at it that way,” she added.
50 Cent slashes asking price for his mansion by £5M
American rapper 50 Cent, real name Curtis James Jackson, has had to slash the asking price for his mansion by 5 million pounds.
The 34-year-old singer, also known as Fiddy, had put the 19-bedroom pad, which has 37 bathrooms and a disco with stripper poles, on the market two years ago for 11.5 million pounds, reports the Sun.
The price of the house in Hartford, Connecticut, which was once owned by boxer Mike Tyson, was then brought down to 9 million pounds, and it has now been reduced further to 6.5 million pounds.
The singer had spent 2.5 million pounds for the home, and another 3.5 million pounds doing it up.
But the ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ star, born in tough Queens, New York, has now got tired of the two-hour commute to his home city, and also wants a more modest pad
Thursday, July 9, 2009
G8 summit to tackle food supplies
Leaders of developed G8 nations are to unveil new efforts to boost food supplies to the hungry, during the final day of their summit in Italy.
They are expected to commit as much as $15bn (£9.2bn) to efforts to help poor nations develop their own agriculture.
On Thursday, the second day of talks, the summit focused on climate change.
Leaders from both developed and developing nations agreed that global temperatures should not rise more than 2C above 1900 levels.
That is the level above which, the UN says, the Earth's climate system would become dangerously unstable.
On Friday, the summit in the Italian city of L'Aquila is turning to the issue of food security.
BBC economics correspondent Andrew Walker says the idea is to put more emphasis on helping people feed themselves.
That is to be achieved with more investment in the agriculture of developing countries, and the G8 are expected to pledge significant resources, our correspondent adds.
However, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, who is at the summit, emphasised that food aid would still be necessary.
Political breakdowns and weather problems will disrupt supplies he said, but he is keen to see more effort made to develop the farming sector.
US President Barack Obama will be meeting representatives of Angola, Algeria, Nigeria and Senegal, before embarking on an African tour later on Friday.
Source: bbc
They are expected to commit as much as $15bn (£9.2bn) to efforts to help poor nations develop their own agriculture.
On Thursday, the second day of talks, the summit focused on climate change.
Leaders from both developed and developing nations agreed that global temperatures should not rise more than 2C above 1900 levels.
That is the level above which, the UN says, the Earth's climate system would become dangerously unstable.
On Friday, the summit in the Italian city of L'Aquila is turning to the issue of food security.
BBC economics correspondent Andrew Walker says the idea is to put more emphasis on helping people feed themselves.
That is to be achieved with more investment in the agriculture of developing countries, and the G8 are expected to pledge significant resources, our correspondent adds.
However, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, who is at the summit, emphasised that food aid would still be necessary.
Political breakdowns and weather problems will disrupt supplies he said, but he is keen to see more effort made to develop the farming sector.
US President Barack Obama will be meeting representatives of Angola, Algeria, Nigeria and Senegal, before embarking on an African tour later on Friday.
Source: bbc
G8 eyes climate as summit includes emerging powers
- G8 reaches out to developing nations
- Discussions to focus on climate and trade
- UK's Brown hopes for temperature agreement
U.S. President Barack Obama will chair the climate discussions, but hopes of agreeing ambitious goals have faded after China and India rejected demands to halve the emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.
The talks come on the second of a three-day Group of Eight summit, with discussions broadened to include the heads of new economic powerhouses in recognition that the world's problems cannot no longer be dealt with by an elite few.
The fragile state of the global economy dominated the first day of the annual G8 summit, with the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Russia acknowledging that were still significant risks to financial stability.
They also agreed to try to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Farenheit) compared with pre-industrial levels and pledged to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by between 50 and 80 percent by mid-century.
"I hope we can agree the 2 degrees Celsius target with all the countries around the table today," said Britain's Gordon Brown shortly before Thursday's talks were due to begin.
The 17-member Major Economies Forum (MEF), which groups the G8 plus big developing nations, also looks set to embrace the 2 Celsius goal on Thursday, but is balking at further commitments ahead of a decisive U.N. climate conference in December.
"Tthere is a reasonable chance of achieving consensus in the MEF on the 2 degree principle but it is not realistic to expect agreement today on emissions targets," said one G8 source.
Progress could be hampered by the absence of Chinese President Hu Jintao, who withdrew from talks to attend to ethnic clashes in China's northwest that have killed 156 people and wounded over a thousand.
Indian negotiators said developing countries first wanted to see rich nation plans to provide financing to help them cope with ever more floods, heatwaves, storms and rising sea levels.
Temperatures have already risen by about 0.7 Celsius since the start of the Industrial Revolution ushered in widespread burning of fossil fuels, and Italy's prime minister said everyone should share the burden of tackling the problem.
"It would not be productive if European countries, Japan, the United States and Canada accepted cuts that are economically damaging while more than 5 billion people in other countries carried on as before," Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said.
ECONOMY, CURRENCIES, TRADE
Broader economic concerns will also be high on the agenda on Thursday, with emerging nations complaining that they are suffering heavily from a crisis that was not of their making.
China, India and Brazil have all questioned whether the world should start seeking a new global reserve currency as an alternative to the dollar. They have said they may raise this on Thursday after discussing it amongst themselves on Wednesday.
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters developing economies in the so-called "G5" had suggested the use of alternative currencies to settle trade among themselves.
The debate is highly sensitive in financial markets, which are wary of risks to U.S. asset values, and the issue is unlikely to progress very far in L'Aquila.
However, a breakthrough on trade did look within reach.
Diplomats say the G8 and G5 should agree to conclude the stalled Doha round of trade talks in 2010. Launched in 2001 to help poor countries prosper, they have stumbled on proposed tariff and subsidy cuts.
"We commit to reach a rapid, ambitious, balanced and comprehensive conclusion of the Doha Development Agenda," the G8 said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
The G5 issued their own statement, saying they was committed to try to address "any outstanding problems" on trade talks and added the successful conclusion of Doha would provide "a major stimulus to the restoration of confidence in world markets".
Saturday, July 4, 2009
David Beckham sends 'get well soon' message to swine flu-infected niece
London: Ace footballer David Beckham has sent greetings to his swine flu-infected niece Georgina Every wishing her to get well soon from the Seychelles, where he is currently staying with his wife Victoria to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary.
"David has been on the phone and he said to wish her well. She is getting better," the Daily Express quoted the soccer star's sister and Georgiana's mother, Married Lynne, as saying.
The 11-year-old is one of the three children in Georgina who have been diagnosed with swine flu, after a group of almost 90 children from St Edwards Church of England School in Romford, Essex, returned from an activity camp in Hindhead, Surrey.
But as a precautionary measure, all students, including Georgiana, are now off school, and are being given anti-viral drug Tamiflu.
Also, the English winger has been barred from seeing his older sister Lynne and her children — Georgina, Freddie, nine, and Joshua, four — as they have been told to stay at home in quarantine to prevent further spread of the contagious disease.
Spoke from her home in east London, Lynne said: "I got the phone call that Georgina was being sick on the holiday and they were bringing the children home. I took her to the doctor and he was 99 per cent sure she had it.
Former 'Big Brother' contestant and Welsh model Imogen Thomas was also diagnosed with the virus recently.
"David has been on the phone and he said to wish her well. She is getting better," the Daily Express quoted the soccer star's sister and Georgiana's mother, Married Lynne, as saying.
The 11-year-old is one of the three children in Georgina who have been diagnosed with swine flu, after a group of almost 90 children from St Edwards Church of England School in Romford, Essex, returned from an activity camp in Hindhead, Surrey.
But as a precautionary measure, all students, including Georgiana, are now off school, and are being given anti-viral drug Tamiflu.
Also, the English winger has been barred from seeing his older sister Lynne and her children — Georgina, Freddie, nine, and Joshua, four — as they have been told to stay at home in quarantine to prevent further spread of the contagious disease.
Spoke from her home in east London, Lynne said: "I got the phone call that Georgina was being sick on the holiday and they were bringing the children home. I took her to the doctor and he was 99 per cent sure she had it.
Former 'Big Brother' contestant and Welsh model Imogen Thomas was also diagnosed with the virus recently.
Led Zeppelin may fill Jackson’s 50-show O2 run with ABBA
London: Led Zeppelin have apparently been approached to alternate shows with Abba, and fill in for the 50-show run previously planned for Michael Jackson at London’s O2 arena.
AEG Live, promoters for the late King of Pop’s slated comeback tour, were said to be trying hard to woo both the bands to reform.
"Only Michael Jackson could sell out 50 nights at such a big arena, but Led Zeppelin and Abba combined might just rival him. There is huge money on the table," British tabloid The Sun quoted a source as saying.
Jackson was due to begin his ‘This Is It’ gigs on July 13.
His sudden death on June 25 has left the organisers facing a multi-million pound black hole, if they are unable fill the slots.
AEG Live, promoters for the late King of Pop’s slated comeback tour, were said to be trying hard to woo both the bands to reform.
"Only Michael Jackson could sell out 50 nights at such a big arena, but Led Zeppelin and Abba combined might just rival him. There is huge money on the table," British tabloid The Sun quoted a source as saying.
Jackson was due to begin his ‘This Is It’ gigs on July 13.
His sudden death on June 25 has left the organisers facing a multi-million pound black hole, if they are unable fill the slots.
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