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A memorable trip to lords

Few Days ago when I was in London for a holiday on the last day of the trip a guided tour of the famous the mecca of cricket Lords happened which i never thought in my dreams that this day would come in life to see the ground in person. On that tour there was 10 to 15 people. At the start of the tour they told us the history of the ashes.They showed the place where ganguly took off his shirt and Kapil Dev lifted the 1983 world cup. They showed the place where the records of bowlers who took 5 wickets each or more and the bastman who scored the highest individual scores at that ground. I was so much happy that i could not believe that i was at the ground. They showed the committee room where the meetings happen of MCC members and the history about the ground. The Lords ground has 18 pitches used for county matches, under 16 matches and International matches. They told the history of the ground and took us the media centre from where the commentary takes place and it was pleasure to c...

First leg of IPL 7 comes to end

The first leg of the popular Indian premier league came to end yesterday. The matches were played in UAE and the people enjoyed the matches and there was full capacity crowd in all of the three venues where the matches were played in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. In 20 matches played so far few matches went to the last. As the standings Kings XI Punjab are sitting pretty with 10 points, CSK at 2nd position with 8 points, Rajasthan at 3rd with 6 points, KKR at 4th with 4 points, Bangalore Royal Challengers at 5th with 4, followed by sunrisers , Delhi and the last place goes to Mumbai Indians as they have 5 matches on a trot. Of all these teams Kings XI Punjab are going great guns with the likes of Maxwell is at the top of runs scorer with 300 runs in 5 matches. He scored 95,89,95 to give a the team a brilliant platform and when the batsman did not score many runs the bowlers performed brilliantly to restrict the opponents.CSK losing the 1st match against Punjab scoring 205 in that ga...