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Sachin unveils poster of his biopic on Twitter
Finch stars as Gujarat Lions beat Kings XI Punjab by 5 wickets Powered by Aaron Finch’s 47-ball 74, Gujarat Lions defeated Kings XI by six wickets in their opener at Mohali today to get off to a winning start in the IPL. Earlier, the Lions had restricted Kings XI to 161/6 after Dwayne Bravo picked up four wickets to break the back of the batting line-up. Brief Scores: KXIP 161/6 in 20/20 overs (Vijay 42(34), Vohra 38(23), Bravo 4/22, Jadeja 2/30) lost to GL in /20 overs (Finch 74(47),
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Kohli-led Bangalore seek positive start against Hyderabad in IPL
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Bengaluru, april 11 (ianS): Formidable Royal Challengers Bangalore will aim to get their Indian Premier League (IPL) campaign off to a winning start when they take on Sunrisers Hyderabad at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Tuesday. The team from Karnataka has never won the title in the past eight editions, but led by India's Test skipper and hard-hitting batsman Virat Kohli they will aim to get the unfinished job done this time around. In 2009 and 2011, they came closest to the title but let the trophy slip out of their hands on both occasions. Kohli has been in sublime form lately, especially in the recent World Twenty20 with 273 runs in five matches to bag the Player of the Tournament. The right-handed batsman will hope he continues his good form in the cash-rich T20 League. Besides Kohli, the presence of swashbuckling batsman from the Caribbean Chris Gayle, Proteas’ AB de Villiers and recently retired Australia all-rounder Shane Watson make a fearsome batting line-up in the Roy-
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al Challengers Bangalore. Watson, who played for Rajasthan Royals in earlier IPL editions, was the costliest player in this year's auction. He was bought for a whopping Rs.9.5 crore by RCB. With his international duty gone from his shoulders, the all-rounder will aim to deliver both with bat and ball to help the Bangalore team get closer to the
.M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
quarry in their title hunt. India's Sarfaraz Khan, Stuart Binny and Mandeep Singh will also hope to contribute. RCB will miss injured Aussie pacer Mitchell Starc, but New Zealand's Adam Milne is likely to lead the bowling attack alongside Kane Richardson, Harshal Patel, Sreenath Arvind and Varun Aaron.
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In the spin department, the West Indies leg-spinner Samuel Badree, who is yet to recover from a shoulder injury suffered during the World T20, will miss the first few matches but India’s young spinner Yuzvendra Chahal will aim to deliver well in the absence of Badree. Hyderabad’s performance has been a trifle
disappointing in the past few seasons despite having match-winners in the squad. The team, led by Australia's hard-hitting batsman David Warne, will aim to put aside their poor performance in the past and start afresh on Tuesday against a good and well balanced RCB. Hyderabad will miss the services of India star batsman Yuvraj Singh who is nursing an ankle injury. But their batting lineup comprising of skipper Warner, India’s Shikhar Dhawan, England’s Eoin Morgan, Kiwi Kane Williamson and all-rounder Moises Henriques makes a good unit. India’s veteran pacer Ashish Nehra will add experience to the side alongside Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Kiwi pacer Trent Boult in the bowling department. The prized inclusion of Bangladesh fast bowling sensation Mustafizur Rahman in this year’s IPL auction will add power to the Sunrisers Hyderabad's bowling department with his clever variations. Legspinner Karn Sharma will lead the team's spin department.
MuMBai, april 11 (pTi): Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar on Monday released the teaser poster of “Sachin: A Billion Dreams”, his upcoming biopic. Sachin, 42, is making his acting debut with the movie, which has been directed by award-winning British director James Erskine. The poster shows Sachin walking on the field carrying his bat and with pads on. “55 Days of training. One pair of trousers. The Sachin story,” reads the caption on the poster. The film’s teaser will be out on April 14. Taking to Twitter to share the first look of the film, Sachin wrote, “Thank you for all the love and support over the years! Watch the #SRTteaseron14thApril at 1 PM on @SachinTheFilm.” The look was also shared by the official Twitter handle of the movie. “The journey has begun. Presenting the teaser poster of #SachinTheFilm.
Sachin Tendulkar will also be making his debut in the movie. (Getty Images)
Get ready for #SRTteaseron14thApril at 1 PM.” A Mumbai-based production company 200NotOut has helmed the movie. The retired batsman, who played an astonishing 200 Tests and scored 100 centuries across all three
Neymar's contract with Barca revealed to be $56.3 mn
liSBon, april 11 (ianS): FC Barcelona's Neymar has a 49.5 million euros ($56.3 million) deal for five years with the Spanish football giants, according to the Football Leaks website, which published on Monday a copy of the Brazilian striker's contract. The contract was signed in 2013 by Neymar, alongwith his father cum agent Neymar Senior and Barcelona president Sandro Rosell and vice president Josep Maria Bartomeu. The contract states that the player's fixed salary would be 5 million euros ($5.70 million) a season, reports Efe. The leaked documents also show that the 24-year-old received 8.5 million euros ($9.68 million) as a signing bonus. The contract has a clause stating that Neymar will receive 425,000 euros ($484,000) if he wins the footballer
enth respectively at the end of the opening lap. "People keep asking me if I'm worried -- if there's a downward trend emerging. But I'm feeling the complete opposite. There are no real flaws in our procedure and how we're working, so I know it's going to come good," Hamilton was quoted as saying by Sky Sports on Sunday. "On a personal level too, I'm in the best place I've ever been psychologically. There's very little, if anything at all, that can penetrate that. There's a long, long way to go, so I'll just keep working as hard as I have been," he said. Hamilton's second and
third-place finishes so far in 2016 means he is 17 points behind Rosberg. But ahead of the Shanghai race he has won a record four times and finished on the podium every year since 2010. "It's not been a smooth start to the season for me, so to be in the championship position I'm in right now is actually pretty positive," the Briton said. "If you can have two bad races and still come away with two podiums, that bodes pretty well. I've come back from worse, that's for sure." Mercedes have dominated the Chinese GP over the last four seasons, with Rosberg's win in 2012 the first of the modern Silver Arrows era.
of the year award during his time at Barcelona. Football Leaks is a website, created in Portugal, which defends the leaking of confidential documents to promote transparency in the sport.
Messi remains world's top paid footballer • Messi's earnings in 2015 rose by nine million euros compared to the previous figures. • The five-time Ballon d'Or winner is ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar. • Jose Mourinho was the highest earning coach on 24 million euros.
I am mentally tougher than ever: Hamilton Beijing, april 11 (ianS): Reigning Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton has declared that he is mentally tougher than ever and is confident that his 2016 season is going to come good. The triple world champion heads into this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix trailing Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg in the Drivers' Championship after the German's winning streak from the end of last year continued at the Australian and Bahrain GP. Hamilton has beaten Rosberg to pole at both races but seen his victory chances scuppered by poor starts, which have left him sixth and sev-
formats of the game, retired in 2013. He scored 34,357 runs played in the 664 international matches that he played. Awarded India’s highest civilian honour the Bharat Ratna - last year, Tendulkar is a sitting Rajya Sabha MP.
Argentina's Lionel Messi gestures. (REUTERS)
pariS, april 11 (aFp): Argentina and Barcelona star Lionel Messi remains the world's highest paid footballer with an annual income of 74 million euros ($84.3 million, £59.3 million), according to a report set to appear in Tuesday's edition of France Football magazine. Messi's earnings in 2015 rose by nine million euros compared to the previous figures, keeping the five-time Ballon d'Or
winner ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo (67.4m euros) and Neymar (43.5m euros) as the top three stayed unchanged for the third year running. France Football's estimates were based on players' pre-tax salaries, sponsorship revenues and various bonuses, it added. Angel Di Maria was the top-earning player in France with 24 million euros following his off-season move from Manchester United, with the Argen-
tine narrowly ahead of Paris Saint-Germain teammates Thiago Silva and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. However, figures in France only accounted for player wages and contract bonuses, according to the report. Despite his sacking from Chelsea in December, Jose Mourinho was the highest earning coach on 24 million euros, with Pep Guardiola and Fabio Capello rounding out the top three.
Be transparent, accountable like a public body, SC tells BCCI new Delhi, april 11 (ianS): The Supreme Court said on Monday that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) was not a private entity and as a trustee of the popular game, it has to function in a transparent manner and be accountable like any other public body. "You are not a private entity. You are accountable and answerable. You are expected to act in a manner expected of a public body. You are a trustee of a game, all your activities must inspire confidence," the apex court bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla said. "You are behaving that we will not let any change or reforms, unless you all (the constituents of the BCCI) come together and decide to reform," the bench said, asking, "How can you (BCCI) object to the laudable objective of bringing transparency, objectivity and accountability in the working and functioning" of the apex cricketing body. The court's observations came as the Cricket Club of India (CCI) -- one of the founding members of the BCCI -- assailed the Justice Lodha Com-
mittee report recommending 'one state one vote'. The CCI is one of the four entities in Maharashtra -- besides the Mumbai Cricket Association, Vidarbha Cricket Association and Maharashtra Cricket Association -- holding one vote each in the apex cricket board. The BCCI and its affiliates are objecting to the Lodha Committee report recommendations of 'one state one vote', presence of CAG representative on the BCCI board, and a cap of two tenures on office bearers with the age limit at 65 years. The court is hearing objections by the BCCI and state associations to these recommendations. As senior counsel Shyam Divan appearing for the CCI told the court that "Lodha Committee suggestions are wise, but there are other wisdom also", the court said, "If for streamlining the working and functioning of the BCCI if some undeserving voting rights are taken away, it would not be violation of any right." As Divan sought to invoke Article 19(1) (c) of the Constitution (provides for the fundamental right to form association or union), the bench told him
that Article 19(1)(c) was available to a citizen and could not be invoked by an association. Making it clear that it would not appreciate any obstructionist approach on the part of BCCI or its constituent units, the court said, "Whole purpose of the Lodha Committee recommendation was to make the BCCI accountable, objective and transparent and if structural change is suggested to promote the objective, then why it is being obstructed?" As the CCI sought to count its contribution to the game of cricket, including Brabourne Stadium and noted players, the court asked it if it represented no territory or the people and was not taking any money from BCCI, then how was it contributing to the game. "If you are promoting the game of cricket, why are you not being financed by the BCCI? It is very rare for a person to say that I will go on promoting the game, but I will not take money from the BCCI," the bench said even as Divan told the court, "We feel we have contributed to the game (cricket) and we have a right to be associated."
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