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14th National Veteran Senior Cricket Cup match Muzafar Garh Senior VS Rajanpur Senior played at Faisal Stadium Muzafar Garh. Rajanpur batting first 170 all out after 30 overs. Qamber Hussain Bhatti 57, Muhammad Iqbal 29, Muhammad Naeem 20 & Abdul Rehman 20 runs. Muzafar Garh bowling Khalid Ayoob 3/26, Tanveer Abbas 3/8 & Arshad Khan 2/19 wickets. In reply Muzafar Garh Senior 171/7. Rashid Khan 53, Khalid Mehmood 23, Moeen Khanzada 21 & Tahir Butt 19 runs. Rajanpur bowling Abdul Razzaq 3/27 & Muhammad Iqbal 2/29 wickets. Abdul Rouf, Ghulam Hurr Umpire & Tehseenullah was the scorer.

Mumbai, March 16, 2012 (Washington Bangla Radio) Indian singer Kailash Kher will perform at a India-Pakistan cricket match in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

Kailash Kher has been known to bowl over the audience with his spell bound performances. He gives his best shot at every performance that has the magic to transport the audience into another world of their own.

He gave his first voice as a singer to cricket. He had performed 9 years back, when he had started his career, before Allah Ke Bandey through the jingle for the India Pakistan World Cup of 2003, “Choona Hai Aasman”.

By Partha Pratim Chandra

Calcutta, India, March 14, 2012 (Washington Bangla Radio) Once a FIFA Official mentioned Indian Football (soccer) as a sleeping Goliath. But India’s devastating Performance in International Football Circuit earned them parody, it’s not Goliath any more, only sleeping. It’s only defeat, degradation and darkness that shrouded Indian Football for last two decades.

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By Anurag Jain
IIS Probationer, With inputs from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt of India

New Delhi, Feb 13, 2012 (Washington Bangla Radio / PIB India) Sport is an inherent aspect of social and cultural life of a country. Sport is also an integral component of education and human personality development. To make sporting culture as a way of life of people, there is a need for adequate sports infrastructure facilities. Around 770 million population in our country are children, adolescents and youth. Hardly, 50 million of them have access to organized sports facilities that too concentrated in urban areas. Around 75% population, living largely in rural areas, are deprived of rudimentary sports facilities. Severe inadequacy of sports infrastructure and community coaching facilities are the constraints for promotion and development of sports in the country.

Mumbai, Jan 19, 2012 (Washington Bangla Radio / Free-Press-Release.com) CELEBRITY CRICKET LEAGUE - SEASON II promises to be BIGGER & BETTER with 6 Teams, 15 League matches, 2 Semi-Finals and 1 Explosive finale. Live this January and-February on Sahara One and FILMY.

Celebrity Cricket League (CCL), an initiative combining the two most popular forms of entertainment - cinema and cricket is set to bring together Bollywood and the southern film industry to play the game of cricket this January. For the first time in India, the film fraternities from West Bengal, Bollywood and southern film industry – Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam will come together to play in the T20 format. This multi-starrer action entertainer will be aired live on Sahara One and FILMY. Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) aims to bring entertainment to another level by mixing film industry with India's most loved sports Cricket.

By Indrajit Ghosh Dastidar

Gargi Banerji, Former Cricketer of Indian National Cricket Team Discussing with Manish Gupta, Honorable Minister Government of West Bengal regarding development of Women's Cricket of Bengal

Calcutta, Sep 7, 2011 (Washington Bangla Radio) In 1890 Women's cricket in India was born amidst the unstable political ethos.  Initially, matches were played between mixed teams with six men and six women making up a team. News reports published in the magazine Indian Cricket in the 1930s has documented women's first forays into cricket.

In the match in Kathiawar in the 1930s beat their men counterparts comprehensively.

Nevada, USA, April 21, 2011 (Washington Bangla Radio) Former Central Masonic Hall in Hull (England, UK) is Hindu Temple and Cultural Centre now.

Before it, Hindus in North and North-East Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire either had to travel to Bradford or Birmingham or gather at various halls for religious needs. Hull and East Riding Hindu Cultural Association purchased this majestic building and transformed it into a Hindu temple, which is now a focal point for religious and social activities for the community; including pujas, bhajans, weekly prasad-bhojans, musical and dance performances, yoga workshops, social gatherings, etc.

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Kolkata, West Bengal, April 4, 2011 (Washington Bangla Radio / India PRwire) Gearing up for the fourth season of India's most extravagant cricketing bonanza - the Indian Premier League, Nokia India has announced the renewal of its association with the Kolkata Knight Riders for the 4th straight year. Nokia will continue as the principal sponsor of the KKR team.

Mumbai, April 4, 2011 (Washington Bangla Radio / PRLog) MAX, India’s Premium Hindi Movies, Special Events channel and the official broadcaster of the DLF IPL is all set to bring the excitement back with DLF IPL 2011.

With 10 teams competing for the trophy, 74 matches and the entire nation cheering for their favourite teams, it will only get bigger and better than ever before.

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MAX has also brought exciting changes to its flagship show extraaa innings T20.  This show needs no introduction to the Indian masses as it is the first and only cricket wrap-around show which has revolutionized the way audiences consume cricket.  MAX is all set to bring to your homes, the excitement, glamour and LIVE analysis of the 4th season of the world’s biggest cricket extravaganza, the DLF IPL.

OAKLAND, CA, Mar 17, 2011 (Washington Bangla Radio / PRLog ) The Golden State Warriors are hosting the team’s first-ever Bollywood Night, presented by Adobe, on Wednesday, March 16 against the Dallas Mavericks at Oracle Arena (7:30 p.m.), the team announced today.

The festivities will include special Bollywood style entertainment throughout the evening, including a pre-game performance by Aerodance, a halftime performance by Bhangra Empire and an exclusive post-game performance by American Idol finalist Anoop Desai.  Additionally, Warriors’ guard Stephen Curry and Vivek Ranadivé, Warriors Vice Chairman, will participate in a post-game Q & A to be hosted by Raj Mathai, news anchor at KNTV-TV in San Jose.