Mumbai Indians Won the CLT20

Mumbai Indians 202 for 6 ( Smith 44, Maxwell 37, Tambe 2-19) beat Rajasthan Royals 169 (Rahane 65, Samson 60, Harbhajan 4-32) by 33 runs

A furious finish from Mumbai Indians' middle order propelled them to a monumental total before a chase-breaking over from Harbhajan Singh snuffed out the last of Rajasthan Royals' spirit, driving Mumbai to their second major title of the year, as they won the Champions League final by 33 runs.

The Royals bowlers had been disciplined in their first 12 overs, which only cost them less than seven an over, but a Rohit Sharma onslaught unseamed their resolve and the remaining batsmen took maximum toll on a waning attack. Glenn Maxwell provided the most frenzied death-over innings, mauling 37 from 14, but Sharma, Dinesh Karthik and even Harbhajan struck at over 200 to help plunder 120 runs from the last eight overs of the innings.

Eighteen-year old Sanju Samson was imperious in Royals' response, and he led Ajinkya Rahane in a 109-run second-wicket stand that provided a fine base for the chase. But even as Rahane completed his fourth fifty on the trot, the Royals' scoring slowed, and Harbhajan eventually sunk the opposition in a 17th over that claimed three wickets and cost only four.

Before that over Royals had needed 48 runs from four overs, and with seven wickets still remaining, a successful chase was conceivable, particularly as Rahane remained in the middle. But it was Rahane who made the first mistake, advancing to swat a full toss straight to deep midwicket, when it seemed he could quite easily have muscled it over the Feroz Shah Kotla's short boundary. Two balls later Stuart Binny was undone by some extra bounce and had his leg stump removed, before Kevon Cooper missed the last ball and overbalanced, and a sharp Karthik did not miss his chance.

The most disheartening sight of the match followed in the next over when, having demoted himself to No. 8, Rahul Dravid's final act on a professional cricket field was having his leg stump flattened by a prosaic yorker from Nathan Coulter-Nile. Earlier, Sachin Tendulkar had fared little better, when he missed a Shane Watson inducker by a distance to have his own off stump uprooted.

Two days shy of his 42nd birthday, Pravin Tambe delivered another remarkable spell, and he might wonder how his team-mates could have indulged the opposition so meekly when he had conceded only 19 from his four overs, while taking the two wickets that placed him atop the tournament wicket-takers' list.

Halfway through Mumbai's innings, Royals might have thought they would have to bowl poorly to concede 170. Smith had been effective at the top of the innings again, but by his standards, his 44 had come at a relatively humdrum pace - off 39 balls.

Source: espncricinfo

Manchester United beat Sunderland 2-1 as Adnan Januzaj nets twice

Adnan Januzaj netted twice on his first Premier League start as Manchester United came from behind to beat Sunderland 2-1. Craig Gardner had got the hosts off to the perfect start when Phil Jones and Nemanja Vidic both failed to clear their lines before the ball eventually fell to the midfielder who fired past David De Gea and into the bottom corner.

Kevin Ball's side almost doubled their lead midway through the first half when the lively Emanuele Giaccherini saw his header expertly palmed away by De Gea following Adam Johnson's cross from the left. 18-year-old Januzaj, who had impressed in only his third appearance for David Moyes' side, levelled proceedings when he guided Patrice Evra's cross past a helpless Keiren Westwood.

The Belgian youngster then fired the visitors into the lead on the hour mark when he volleyed across Westwood and into the bottom corner after Nani's cross was headed into his path by John O'Shea. Robin van Persie had the chance to kill the game off in the closing minutes after Antonio Valencia played him through, but he poked wide with the outside of his boot despite being unmarked.

Sunderland's interim head coach Ball decided attack was the best form of defence and went for it from the off. It took the hosts just five minutes to get their noses in front, as Giaccherini tricked his way past Evra on the Sunderland right all too easily and fired in a cross which Jones thumped straight at team-mate Vidic.

The Serbia international could do little more than present the ball to the fast-arriving Gardner, who drilled a low shot across keeper De Gea and into the bottom corner. United's efforts to get back into the game were subdued at best. Januzaj fired in a series of shots from distance, most of which were blocked by a defence in which the recalled Valentin Roberge in particular proved impressively stubborn, while Wayne Rooney, back in the starting line-up after recovering from a shin injury, carelessly ran into an offside position as he attempted to get on the end of Evra's 14th-minute cross to the near post.

But Moyes' men were astonishingly fragile at the back, where Jones in particular was found wanting on more than one occasion, and the Black Cats could have gone in at the break with a significantly bigger lead to defend after it. Gardner made the most of the defender's indecision to run in on goal once again with nine minutes gone, but with the unmarked Jozy Altidore pleading for a cross, he delayed and Jones managed to recover.

However, it was De Gea who came to the rescue 11 minutes before the break when he somehow managed to claw away Giaccherini's goal-bound header with a save of genuine quality. Westwood was called upon to beat away Nani's 41st-minute shot, but Giaccherini might have doubled Sunderland's lead in the final minute of the first half when he was presented with another golden opportunity by Adam Johnson's run through a porous United defence, only to sky his effort high over the bar.

United's desperation was summed up within three minutes of the restart when Januzaj collapsed in a heap as he went past John O'Shea inside the penalty area and was promptly booked for diving. But the Belgian was not to be denied and his industry paid off seven minutes later when he played the ball out to Evra on the left and then worked his way into the penalty area to meet the Frenchman's cross with an assured finish.

Westwood had to get down well to keep out a 58th-minute Van Persie snapshot, but he was powerless to prevent United taking the lead three minutes later. O'Shea got his head to Nani's right-wing cross and the ball dropped nicely for Januzaj, who gleefully dispatched it into the bottom corner with a sweet left-foot volley.

Van Persie should have made sure at the death after being played in by substitute Valencia, put prodded his effort wide of the upright.


Source: skysports

Wigan Win the Match over Maribor to 3-1 goals in Europa League

Two goals by Nick Powell and one from Ben Watson secured Wigan a 3-1 wins over Maribor in Europa League Group D at the DW Stadium.

Powell opened the scoring on 22 minutes after exploiting on an error by Maribor goalkeeper Jasmin Handanovic. Jean Beausejour's rebounded cross did not look probable to reason any danger but Handanovic mysteriously perforated the ball behind him for Powell to nod into a void net.

Watson doubled the lead 11 minutes later by driving a header home after outstanding work down the left by Beausejour. Owen Coyle's side had other chances to put the game outside the visitors in the first half with on-loan Manchester United forward Powell at the heart of all Wigan's most auspicious attacks.

Callum McManaman started to find more planetary down the right as the half drew to a handy and his subtle cross to the back post just evaded Beausejour. Roberto Martinez, the man who led the Latics to their questionable FA Cup victory last season, watched on from the directors' box as his previous side made another piece of history.

The hosts should have been out of sight before Maribor captain Tavares dragged a goal back on the hour mark. Jean-Philippe Mendy forced his way into the area and Tavares was on hand to notch past Scott Carson.

Powell then had two further probabilities to surface the game off but hit the post with one from two yards and then couldn't fairly convert a cross minutes later.

Powell did have the final word though, bouncing past two Maribor defenders in strike time earlier hammering low past Handanovic.

The result left Wigan well located on four points in Group D, two behind Rubin Kazan, who hammered Zulte 4-0 earlier on Thursday and who the Latics play home and away next.

Source: Skysports

Collaborating Sports with Nature

MILAN — the models, covered solitary in usual light from the openings, walked delicately in sporty sandals and in outright stillness. And the power catastrophe at the Marni display Sunday obtainable nutriment for supposed.

 Fashion — and not impartial the summer 2014 Milan period — has developed so boisterous and disorderly, it is occasionally threatening to distinct performance from product.

But here were needed clothes contribution a stimulating and actual present floor of the greenness of countryside merged with the liveliness of sport.

“It’s really about sensuality in form — you can be sensual in layers of light organza and you can be modern in oversized trousers. It’s all about individuality,” said the designer Consuelo Castiglioni, mentioning to slim, calf-length dresses and skirts, damaged with sports plugs and sandals; or to pants cut on all-encompassing smoothed lines and with cavernous cuffs; or further static to the difference of augmented flowery prints and of fleecy extravagant peplums on white jackets.

This combination of the useful and the decorative, the idealistic and the bouncing is a certain tendency and the notion fitted well with the idiosyncratic spirit of Marni — with or without illuminations and music.

Where would Donatella Versace have been deprived of the rhymer shriek of “Versace, Versace, Versace” to confirm the brand’s highway cred later all these years?

The designer on-going the Versace gathering with the soul of the street: high-end denim as a blouson highest with loop skirt and chains rotund the neckline — a sample of Gianni Versace’s metallic lattice of the 1980s re-entered at the end of the display.



Source: NYtimes

Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bean Bryant born on August 23, 1978, nicknamed the "Black Mamba", is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He entered the NBA as the crow flies from high school, and has played for the Lakers his whole career, winning 5 NBA championships. Kobe Bryant is a 15-time All-Star, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, and 12-time member of the All-Defensive team. As of March 2013, he ranks third and fourth on the league's all-time postseason recording and all-time consistent season scoring lists, correspondingly.

Kobe Bryant relished a prosperous high school basketball career at Lower Merion High School, where he was acknowledged as the top high school basketball player in the country. He acknowledged his suitability for the NBA Draft upon graduation, and was nominated with the 13th inclusive pick in the 1996 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets, then trafficked to the Los Angeles Lakers. As a novice, Kobe Bryant earned himself a reputation as a high-flyer and a fan favourite by winning the 1997 Slam Dunk Contest.

Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal led the Lakers to three successive championships from 2000 to 2002. A animated dispute between the duo and a loss in the 2004 NBA Finals was monitored by O'Neal's trade from the Lakers after the 2003–04 season. Following O'Neal's exodus Kobe Bryant became the keystone of the Los Angeles Lakers franchise. He led the NBA in scoring for the period of the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons, setting numerous scoring records in the procedure. In 2006, Kobe Bryant scored a career-high 81 points in contradiction of the Toronto Raptors, the second most points scored in a single game in NBA history, second only to Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in 1962. He was endowed the regular season's Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) in 2008. After losing in the 2008 NBA Finals, Kobe Bryant led the Lakers to two sequential championships in 2009 and 2010, earning the NBA Finals MVP Award on both occasions.

At 34 years and 104 days of age, Kobe Bryant became the youngest player in league history to touch 30,000 career points. He is also the all-time leading scorer in Lakers franchise history. Since his second year in the league, Kobe Bryant has been nominated to start each All-Star Game. He has won the All-Star MVP Award four times (2002, 2007, 2009, and 2011), tying him for the most All Star MVP Awards in NBA history. At the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, he won gold medals as a member of the USA national team. Sporting News and TNT named Kobe Bryant the top NBA player of the 2000s.

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