Champions Trophy 2009 - Sri Lanka vs England Live Streaming

Champions Trophy 2009 Schedule

Sep-2009
Tue 22 12:30 GMT, 14:30 local	1st Match, Group B - South Africa v Sri Lanka SuperSport Park, Centurion
Wed 23 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 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 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 12:30 GMT, 14:30 local	8th Match, Group B - South Africa v England SuperSport Park, Centurion
Mon 28 12:30 GMT, 14:30 local	9th Match, Group A - India v Australia SuperSport Park, Centurion
Tue 29 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 12:30 GMT, 14:30 local	12th Match, Group A - India v West Indies New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Oct-2009
Fri 02 12:30 GMT, 14:30 local	1st Semi-Final - A1 v B2 SuperSport Park, Centurion
Sat 03 12:30 GMT, 14:30 local	2nd Semi-Final - B1 v A2 New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Mon 05 12:30 GMT, 14:30 local	Final - TBC v TBC SuperSport Park, Centurio

Sri Lanka India Compaq cup Game 3 Highlights

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

ICC world cup Twenty20 Live Free Streaming (flash)

Sri Lanka V West Indies
India V Ireland

World cup Twenty20 Super 8 Schedule

Thu Jun 11	13th Match, Group F - Ireland v New Zealand (D1 v A2) Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Thu Jun 11	14th 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	16th Match, Group E - India v West Indies (A1 v C1) Lord's, London
Sat Jun 13	17th Match, Group E - South Africa v West Indies (C1 v D2) Kennington Oval, London
Sat Jun 13	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	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	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	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

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

ICC world cup Twenty20 Live Free Streaming (flash)

Bangladesh v Ireland
Australia v Sri Lanka

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

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.

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...

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.