Saina Nehwal, a rising player had a great chance to win the All England title. But unfortunately she could not make it. She lost her game in straight games to unseeded Japanese Eriko Hirose in the quarterfinals on Friday.

Saina lost the game by 21-11, 22-20. The match was played against Hirose, who on Saturday took the pride of becoming first Japanese to reach the final of the event since 1979.

However, Saina maintained her position in the second game but at last the Indian player fell short as Hirose was strong in the game and she held her nerves to tie up the final round.

After the first One-day International at Wellington, between Pakistan and New Zealand, the pressure is increasing on the Pakistani Cricket Team. Shahid Afridi is the captain and also the senior most player of the Pakistani Cricket Team.

Because of different reasons, Afridi was not able to lift up the event as his team was bowled over for a worthless 124 runs. His team wrapped up giving a chance of an easy victory of 9 wickets to New Zealand.

Nathan Hauritz, the Australian off-spinner has said that he is doubtful on taking part in the remaining One-day series against England. He is also doubtful for the World cup. This is not his wish but the circumstances forced him to give this kind of statement.

The reason behind his execution is the severe injury on his right shoulders. This injury needs the keyhole surgery and recovery time will not be managed before the event.

Alex Kountouris Team, the physio has stated that Hauritz got the injury during the One-day against England on Friday.

Virat Kohli has been showing great performance continuously and if things continue the same way, he might create history and records this time. Now the time has come for the Indians to hold the head high in honor and pride for some of the rising Cricket players.

There is a belief in every Indian’s heart that, this time India can win a series from South Africa just before the advent of World Cup.

One of the very fine talents in South Africa, the spinner who plays for Nashua Dolphins, Imran Tahir, has now finally been given the green signal to play for South Africa. He is of Pakistani origin and has been now awarded with South African citizenship by naturalization and is now eligible to play for the country.

Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, the popular Indian cricketer, is enthusiastic not just about his sport, but also about dance and fashion. And he has no prejudice in expressing his love for the same.

Sreesanth admits that cricket, cinema and fashion are the current faces of entertainment, and he has no issues with being seen as frequently on Page 3 as on the sports pages.

English skipper Andrew Strauss is very impressed with the performance of his bowlers, specially the efforts from Stuart Broad who was rested in the test series against Bangladesh. The skipper has said that the bowlers played a big role to take the side to 2-0 lead in the series over the Australians.

The Australians started their innings in a terrific manner with 21 for no loss in just two overs but then the seam bowlers put break on them. Eventually the Aussies have managed to score only 239-7.

Mr. V.K.Verma has been re-elected as president of the Badminton Association of India (BAI). According to the Indian Olympic Association secretary general Randhir Singh, it has been the victory for the "Olympic movement" in India. He has said that the re-election of Mr. Verma indicates the fault of sports ministry.

The ministry has earlier fixed at most 12 years as a fixed tenures for sports administrators. Hence Verma was facing a huge opposition form the ministry on this issue.

All the members of Tollywood gathered together to raise money for a good cause. All the cine stars played cricket and there was a special name for this event Cricenema, which means the fusion of Cricket with cinema. All the stars competed for a noble cause and the event was a resounding success.

The four teams in the fray were Balayya Lions', 'Chiru Cheetahs', 'Nag Kings' and 'Venky Warriors'. All the teams were present with their brand ambassadors. All the matches were played in a friendly atmosphere at Hyderabad's Lal Bahadur Stadium.

The re-election of V. K. Verma as the President of Badminton Association of India (BAI) was hailed as a big victory for the Olympic movement by the Indian Olympic Association Secretary General, Randhir Singh.

Mr. Verma was under pressure and facing a lot of opposition from the union Sports Ministry. The Government aimed to fix the tenure of sports administrators to 12 years.

Everybody seems to be in pursuit of an answer as to what went wrong to the boy who used to turn cricket balls into lemons.

As a 14-year-old day-scholar from Chandigarh at his father Yograj Singh's playing-days mate Dilip Vengsarkar's academy at Azad maidan, Yuvraj Singh debunked a few myths.

The BCCI corridors reverberate that Yuvraj is being regarded as a negative influence on the youngsters in the team.

India's Saina Nehwal was witnessed to have bounced back in her own spectacular style at the Nehru indoor stadium on tenterhooks, before emerging in the $1,20,000 Yonex Sunrise-India Open Grand Prix gold badminton championships here on Sunday.

The women's top seed and World No. 6 managed to tackle the very tough challenger Choo Wong Mew of Malaysia, the second seed, to grab win by 20-22, 21-14, 21-12 in 56 minutes in the singles final.

Asia's Test-playing nations are reported to have initiated with their preparations for next year's World Cup, when they compete for the region's top one-day prize from Tuesday.

The four-nation Asia Cup will be contested in Sri Lanka over the next 10 days.

India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, who co-hosted the World Cup in February-April, will also witness Pakistan in a round-robin preliminary league with the top two teams in the final, slated to be held on June 24.