Monday, September 21, 2009

Champions Trophy 2009 - Sri Lanka vs England Live Streaming

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Champions Trophy 2009 Schedule


Sep-2009
Tue 22 Day/Night
12:30 GMT, 14:30 local
1st Match, Group B - South Africa v Sri Lanka
SuperSport Park, Centurion

Wed 23 Day/Night
12:30 GMT, 14:30 local
2nd Match, Group A - Pakistan v West Indies
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Thu 24
07:30 GMT, 09:30 local
3rd Match, Group B - South Africa v New Zealand
SuperSport Park, Centurion

Fri 25 Day/Night
12:30 GMT, 14:30 local
4th Match, Group B - England v Sri Lanka
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Sat 26
07:30 GMT, 09:30 local
5th Match, Group A - Australia v West Indies
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Sat 26 Day/Night
12:30 GMT, 14:30 local
6th Match, Group A - India v Pakistan
SuperSport Park, Centurion

Sun 27
07:30 GMT, 09:30 local
7th Match, Group B - New Zealand v Sri Lanka
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Sun 27 Day/Night
12:30 GMT, 14:30 local
8th Match, Group B - South Africa v England
SuperSport Park, Centurion

Mon 28 Day/Night
12:30 GMT, 14:30 local
9th Match, Group A - India v Australia
SuperSport Park, Centurion

Tue 29 Day/Night
12:30 GMT, 14:30 local
10th Match, Group B - England v New Zealand
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Wed 30
07:30 GMT, 09:30 local
11th Match, Group A - Pakistan v Australia
SuperSport Park, Centurion

Wed 30 Day/Night
12:30 GMT, 14:30 local
12th Match, Group A - India v West Indies
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Oct-2009
Fri 02 Day/Night
12:30 GMT, 14:30 local
1st Semi-Final - A1 v B2
SuperSport Park, Centurion

Sat 03 Day/Night
12:30 GMT, 14:30 local
2nd Semi-Final - B1 v A2
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Mon 05 Day/Night
12:30 GMT, 14:30 local
Final - TBC v TBC
SuperSport Park, Centurio

Thursday, July 02, 2009

India Vs West Indies 3rd ODI Live Video Streaming

It's been a year of contrasting fortunes for the two teams in the ODI format, and they have much to make up for in tomorrow's contest in St Lucia. India have had a successful 2009 in the 50-over game, with series wins in New Zealand and Sri Lanka. An unassailable lead with a win in St Lucia will boost their chances of wrapping another series away from home, making amends for their debacle in the World Twenty20 and ending their hectic few weeks ahead of a two-month break on a high. West Indies have been disappointing this year, winning four ODIs and losing eight, but have the momentum going into a crunch game with a comprehensive win in Kingston to level the series. However, they are under as much pressure to perform at home. A 2-1 lead, and more so a series win, will do a lot towards easing that burden and leaving them a confident outfit as they take on Bangladesh in their next series.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

World Twenty20 Final Sri Lanka Vs Pakistan Live Streaming

Sri Lanka has been the most consistent team in the tournament. Pakistan have been patchy at the start, but have regrouped well. The final is bound to be cracker of a contest. Will Sri Lanka be able to maintain their spotless record or will Pakistan pull a rabbit out of their hat. Catch the action live here.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

World Twenty20 Semi-final Sri Lanka Vs West Indies Live Streaming

Sri Lanka have a spotless record in this tournament. Their bowling has been their strength. Their batting has always posted competitive scores. West Indies on the other hand, have won 3 and lost 2. They are in the semi-finals and this is the only game that matters. If Sri Lanka are to join Pakistan in the Final, they will have to beat the West Indies powered by Chris Gayle.

Catch the action live;

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

World cup Twenty20 Super 8 Live Streaming - India V South Africa

India are out of the tournament. They will be playing for pride. South Africa won't be taking this game lightly. They will be trying to repeat England and bowl a whole lot of bouncers.

Catch the action live;

Monday, June 15, 2009

World cup Twenty20 Super 8 Live Streaming - Sri Lanka V New Zealand

Both Sri Lanka and New Zealand face a must win game, to keep alive their aspirations of holding the Twenty20 world cup for the first time. Sri Lanka's middle order problems were quite visible in their last game against Ireland. Will they tinker with their line in this crucial game? or will they stick with their winning combination. This will be the first time that New Zealand will experience Mendis. A lot will depend on how they handle the 3Ms, Murali, Malinga and Mendis.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

India crash out of the Worldcupt - Catch the highlights (India V England)

England Innings


India Innings

Catch the highlights of the Sri Lanka V Ireland game

Sri Lanka Innings


Ireland Innings

World cup Twenty20 Super 8 Live Streaming - India V England

The tournament has gotten a little more interesting after India's loss to the West Indies. The title holders are yet to get a win under their belt in the super 8. The game against England is their best shot. On paper, India have a much stronger team than England. However, in the game of Twenty20 cricket, one simple mistake can gift the game to the opposing team.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

World cup Twenty20 Super 8 Live Flash Streaming - Sri Lanka V Ireland

Sri Lanka have progressed well in this year's Twenty20 world cup cricket tournament. Ireland have shown that they will not roll over and let the test playing nations trample over them. Sri Lanka, under the astute leadership of Kumar Sangakkara, would not take taking Ireland lightly. They will treat this match as any other and would use this as valuable match practice and to continue their momentum towards their quest of their first world cup Twenty20 title.

Catch the action live;

Friday, June 12, 2009

World cup Twenty20 Super 8 Live Flash Streaming - Sri Lanka V Pakistan

Pakistan have been Sri Lanka's achilles heel in big tournaments. Will Sri Lankan be able to live up to their favorite tag they gained by excellent cricket in the group stage. Can they handle the pressure of the Super 8 stage? Pakistan are bound to step up to the big occasion. It is bound to be classic game of Twenty20 cricket.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

ICC world cup Twenty20 Live Free Streaming (flash)

Sri Lanka V West Indies
India V Ireland

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

World cup Twenty20 Super 8 Schedule

Thu Jun 1113th Match, Group F - Ireland v New Zealand (D1 v A2)
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Thu Jun 11 Day and Night14th Match, Group E - England v South Africa (B2 v D2)
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Fri Jun 12
15th Match, Group F - Pakistan v Sri Lanka (B1 v C2)
Lord's, London
Fri Jun 12 Day and Night
16th Match, Group E - India v West Indies (A1 v C1)
Lord's, London
Sat Jun 1317th Match, Group E - South Africa v West Indies (C1 v D2)
Kennington Oval, London
Sat Jun 13 Day and Night
18th Match, Group F - New Zealand v Pakistan (D1 v B1)
Kennington Oval, London
Sun Jun 14
19th Match, Group F - Ireland v Sri Lanka (A2 v C2)
Lord's, London
Sun Jun 14 Day and Night
20th Match, Group E - England v India (A1 v B2)
Lord's, London
Mon Jun 15
21st Match, Group E - England v West Indies (B2 v C1)
Kennington Oval, London
Mon Jun 15 Day and Night
22nd Match, Group F - Ireland v Pakistan (B1 v A2)
Kennington Oval, London
Tue Jun 16
23rd Match, Group F - New Zealand v Sri Lanka (D1 v C2)
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Tue Jun 16 Day and Night
24th Match, Group E - India v South Africa (D2 v A1)
Trent Bridge, Nottingham

New Zealand vs South Africa Highlights 2009 T20 World Cup

South Africa's bowlers, led by the unhittable spin of Roelof van der Merwe, pulled an improbable victory out of the jaws of defeat as they successfully defended a meagre target of 129 and snuck home by a solitary run to secure the Group D bragging rights in a scrappy but compelling dead-rubber tussle at Lord's.

South Africa Innings


New Zealand Innings

Monday, June 08, 2009

World cup Twenty20 Super 8 slots - 7 down, 1 to go

Seven of the eight super8 slots of the World cup Twenty 20 has been decided. The two super8 groups are;

Group E: India, South Africa, West Indies, England

Group F: New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Ireland, Pakistan/Netherlands

Pakistan have to win their game against Netherlands by atleast 25 runs or chase down their target with 3 overs to spare to qualify.

Sri Lanka V Australia World Cup Twenty20 Highlights Free (Flash)

Australia Innings


Sri Lanka Innings

India V Bangladesh World Cup Twenty20 Highlights Free (Flash)

India Innings




Bangladesh Innings

Saturday, June 06, 2009

ICC world cup Twenty20 Live Free Streaming (flash)

Bangladesh v Ireland
Australia v Sri Lanka

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Free ICC World T20 (World Cup) Live Streaming

Watch world T20 (World Cup) Live Streaming Free from England.

Streaming in windows media format.



Schedule of ICC world cup T20 in England.

Date Match


Fri Jun 5

Group B - England v Netherlands
Lord's, London


Sat Jun 6

Group D - New Zealand v Scotland
Kennington Oval, London


Sat Jun 6

Group C - Australia v West Indies
Kennington Oval, London


Sat Jun 6

Group A - Bangladesh v India
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Sun Jun 7

Group D - Scotland v South Africa
Kennington Oval, London


Sun Jun 7

Group B - England v Pakistan
Kennington Oval, London


Mon Jun 8

Group A - Bangladesh v Ireland
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Mon Jun 8

Group C - Australia v Sri Lanka
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Tue Jun 9

Group B - Netherlands v Pakistan
Lord's, London


Tue Jun 9

Group D - New Zealand v South Africa
Lord's, London


Wed Jun 10

Group C - Sri Lanka v West Indies
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Wed Jun 10

Group A - India v Ireland
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Thu Jun 11

Group F - TBC v TBC (D1 v A2)
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Thu Jun 11

Group E - TBC v TBC (B2 v D2)
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Fri Jun 12

Group F - TBC v TBC (B1 v C2)
Lord's, London


Fri Jun 12

Group E - TBC v TBC (A1 v C1)
Lord's, London


Sat Jun 13

Group E - TBC v TBC (C1 v D2)
Kennington Oval, London


Sat Jun 13

Group F - TBC v TBC (D1 v B1)
Kennington Oval, London


Sun Jun 14

Group F - TBC v TBC (A2 v C2)
Lord's, London


Sun Jun 14

Group E - TBC v TBC (A1 v B2)
Lord's, London


Mon Jun 15

Group E - TBC v TBC (B2 v C1)
Kennington Oval, London


Mon Jun 15

Group F - TBC v TBC (B1 v A2)
Kennington Oval, London


Tue Jun 16

Group F - TBC v TBC (D1 v C2)
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Tue Jun 16

Group E - TBC v TBC (D2 v A1)
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Thu Jun 18

1st Semi-Final - TBC v TBC
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Fri Jun 19

2nd Semi-Final - TBC v TBC
Kennington Oval, London


Sun Jun 21

Final - TBC v TBC
Lord's, London

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Making use of off-peak download cap

The Australian internet companies have two separate sets of caps for us poor souls: peak and off-peak. I am with TPG and their off-peak period is from 1am to 7am. If you are a person who values their sleep like me, there is no way that I would wake up at 1am to start off my torrent downloads. Fear not, there is a very simple solution. Just use uTorrent's scheduler.

uTorrent has an easy to use scheduler. It is available under Preferences->Scheduler. The "Enable scheduler" tick box has to be clicked to activate the scheduler. The scheduler has 7 rows, one for each day. Each day consists of 24 blocks, representing each hour of the day. In order to limit downloads in the off-peak time (ie between 1am and 7am) simply double click to turn the blocks green for each day between 1am and 7am (see screenshot). A single click will make the block pink, which is for seeding only. I value my cap, so I've limited the upload speed of my torrents (the speed at which others can download my torrents) to 1kB/s. This is set below the scheduler.

Windows Command Prompt (CMD) Replacement

I am sick and tired of the boring windows command prompt (cmd.exe). It hasn't changed since windows 95 (or longer). Its such an archaic piece of software that Microsoft just hasn't bother updating. My search for a suitable replacement for the windows terminal ended after discovering Console.

Console is an open source piece of software that is far superior to the Windows terminal. One of the key improvements in Console is that is allows Tabs. I hate having to open up a number of command prompt windows when I have to execute different commands from different locations. Console is fully customizable. While providing functionality to change standard things like the font, background color, mouse behavior, it also has cool features like transparency.

I love to make use of both Windows and Linux functionality. I have cygwin installed on my machine, that brings most of the commands found in the Linux world like grep, find, make etc to the Windows world. However, cygwin doesn't have a decent terminal window. Console can be configured to execute cygwin. Its easy as going to Edit->Setting->Console and setting the shell to \bin\bash.exe and setting the startup directory to the cygwin home directory.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Watch PAL TV on NTSC HD TV

We moved to Australia from the USA and shipped all our belongings from there including our 42" LCD HD TV. I was under the impression that I would be able to simply buy an external TV tuner that would enable me to watch Aussie TV. Was I ever WRONG!

There are three main analogue television systems throughout the world, PAL, NTSC and SECAM. After the introduction of High Definition TV, the old standards didn't simply go away, they influenced the new HD standards. I found this nice article about why NTSC and PAL still matter in the digital TV world. Basically, the main difference is the frame rate. HD signal based on NTSC (ie. HD in the USA) transmits 30 frame-per-second where as HD signal based on PAL (ie HD in Australia) transmits 25 frame-per-seconds. So, converting a PAL based HD signal to NTSC based HD signal is not trivial, as the missing frames have to be invented.

After painstakingly trying out different a number of set top boxes (external TV tuners) and returning them as they didn't work with my TV, I searched the web for answers. There was very little useful information out there. I decided to experiment. My TV has a PC-in VGA port. I manage to connect my old PC to the TV using a VGA cable and use the TV as a monitor. That's when it occurred to me that there should be external boxes that are capable of turning an ordinary PC monitor into a TV.

I found a couple of units that were capable of turning a PC monitor into a TV without need for a computer. One was Compro VideoMate W800F and AVerTV Hybrid STB9. As none of the major computer retailers in Australia were selling these, I didn't have the luxury of returning any of them. So I was thorough on my research. I finally bit the bullet and bought the Compro VideoMate W800F, which works perfectly with my USA TV.

A happy ending after a lot of hard work. I can now watch live games on my TV that was shipped over from the USA. TVs are very cheap over there in the US. May be, I should consider shipping a a bigger better TV from the USA in the future...

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Formatting a large partition in FAT32 with Vista

Microsoft has imposed an artificial restriction in Windows Vista that prohibits formatting a disk partition of size greater than 32GB in Fat32. This is very annoying to say the least. For people like me, who would like to have the best of both the Windows world and the Linux world, dual boot is a cheap option (in comparison to buying two machines). It is common in dual boot machines to have a common drive formatted in Fat32, that can be shared between the two operating systems.

After a little googling, I found fat32format , a nifty tool that quickly formats a drive in Fat32. Simply download the zip file from here and unzip the contents to some folder on your local drive. Then open up a command prompt as Administrator (find command prompt under Run->All programs->Accessories and right click on command prompt and choose run as administrator). Then go to the directory where the unzipped fat32format.exe file exists and execute fat32format.exe .

Its not all doom and gloom with Vista. It does provide the functionality to resize partitions. This is very useful, if you are trying to install a second OS on an existing machine. To resize a partition, simply go to
Control panel-> Administrative tools -> Computer management
Navigate to the Disk Management under Storage in the left panel. You can simply right click on any of the drives and select "Shrink volume.." to resize a partition.