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Barcelona were heading the Sunday's clash against Real Betis with 22 consecutive wins. But the winning streak almost halted when the opposition took a 2-0 lead within 24 min. When all hopes were lost Eto'o came to the rescue. He scored his 100 premier league goal for Barcelona at the 45th min. He netted a ball which came as a rebound from the keeper's save. The Cameroon striker then scored the 23 goal of this season at the 84th min. They managed to get a 2-2 draw which prevented them from ending their winning streak. Unfortunately for the Real Betis fans Eto'o genius play brought Barcelona back into the game. Eto'o had a chance to even finish the game as 3-2, but he spilled a strait cross from Xavi which went wide of the post. With people Eto'o, Messi, Hendry it may be difficult stopping these premier league gaint's winning streak.
In IPL(Indian premier league), Andrew Flintoff becomes more special to the Indian businessmen.In this month Andrew Flintoff become the richest player in the IPL. Jointly Kevin Pietersen also bought for US $1.55million.He finishing all the test matches and one day international he goes to play IPL in April. Recently Andrew Flintoff is in excellent form even though his team did not perform well since September. So we expected that Flintoff will ahow his performance in IPL. As Flintoff now injured in his hip, so he did not play 4th test match against West Indies. But Flintoff is more confident on his recovery. He hopes that he don't want to miss the IPL. He says that IPL is has one more month to go. He misses Barbados Test and his aim is to play all one day international and IPL matches. Flintoff is an talented player he does all the magic in the field. Flintoff is a man with positive approach and he guides his team in a great manner at critical time. He give suggestions to his team mates to bowl in right track. He will play his original game in IPL. We will watch and wait for IPL.
Manchester United is ranked no 1 in the Barclay's premier league. Sir Alex Ferguson at the beginning of the season showed interest in signing up the spur's striker Dimitar Berbatov and after several hurdles he signed him successfully. And it is considered as one of the good deal as Berbatov is having a great time with Manchester United. So now with Tevez, Rooney and Berbatov on the side it is always Rooney and Berbatov who begin the game as strikers. The Real Madrid's president Vincent Boluda had approached with deal to take Tevez for loan. According to sources Kia Joorabchian Tevez's agent was contacted with a four-year contract at 3.5 million Euro's / season. Since Tevez has not been a regular started it may his opportunity to prove his skills. However Alex Ferguson may be unwilling to wrap up the deal because of his frosty relationship with Real Madrid . So is the deal possible? Time must only tell.
Recently,attention has increasingly shifted in cricketing circles from cricketing issues to non-cricketing issues to non-cricketing ones. The masala in cricket may attract attention of many cricket followers but the role of the media must be appreciated in publishing the results of Ranji Trophy matches. Usually domestic cricket is ignored when an international series is being played in India. Bengal beating Karanataka and then losing to the young Gujarat side, Mumbling to another young side Madhya Pradesh,Maharashtra losing to Hyderabad and Baroda losing to Punjab are some of the good things happening to Indian cricket. Good,because these sort of upsets are setting a certain trend in Indian cricket. Going through the match reports and the scorecards of Ranji Trophy matches,one observes that we have young medium pacers performing creditably on placid pitches though the responsible associations would have us believe that they were green tops. Then some young batsmen playing good impact innings against experienced attackers. And you also see the passion and pride on the faces of Narendra Hirwani and Mukund Parmar,who have been figuring in the national championships for almost two decades. No matter what you say, Nilesh Kulkarni keeps performing whether the pitch is conductive to his style of blowing or not. How the efforts of these performers going to be recognized is the question BCCI has to answerable some selectors are watching only tests and others are sitting at home watching the game on television.
Jumped onto the cricket ground at the age of 16, the master blaster Sachin Tendulkar continues to influence and dominate the Indian cricket for around 19 years. He has many times been a savior to the Indian cricket team by giving his good performance when needed .The "god of cricket" has an excellent test and one day record . He has many feathers such as the highest run getter, highest no of centuries and so on which has overflowed his cap. But sachin has showed his reluctance towards 20-20(his wanted break during the 20-20 word cup, missed first half of the ipl, returned home during the Srilankan 2020 game). Adding fuel to the fire he was cut out from the 20-20 squad against Newzeland his comments that he" does not want to disturb the balance of the team" was just a lame excuse. Sachin has played only one 2020 international game in 2006. So let us hope that he gives an awesome performance during the 2nd edition of the IPL starting on April 6.
