CORRECTING and REPLACING SVASE Names Launch: Silicon Valley 2010 Top Award Winners

June 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Startups BioVantage,Breakthrough, Green Platform, Micello, tenCube,
TruedomainVoted Highest Honors by Launch: Silicon Valley Expert VC-Angel Panel
and Audience

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(Business Wire)–
For the release dated June 08, 2010, the Clean Tech category: BioVantage URL
should read http://www.biovantageresources.com/ (sted www.biovantage.com).

The corrected release reads:

SVASE NAMES LAUNCH: SILICON VALLEY 2010 TOP AWARD WINNERS

Startups BioVantage,Breakthrough, Green Platform, Micello, tenCube,
TruedomainVoted Highest Honors by Launch: Silicon Valley Expert VC-Angel Panel
and Audience

The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE) today announced
the selection of the “Launch: Silicon Valley 2010, companies awarded “Most
Likely to Succeed” honors in categories, including: Clean Tech, Life Science,
Mobile, Next Generation Internet (2) and Technology.

The six winners were chosen from 29 new companies from Silicon Valley and around
the world that presented to the audience and a panel of Silicon Valley VCs and
Angels, whose combined votes determined the winners. Nearly 400 companies
applied to present at Launch: Silicon Valley 2010.

Video replays of winning companies` event sessions and presentation summaries
are available for viewing and download after midnight tonight at

http://www.svase.org.

“This year`s presenter and awardees were outstanding. Launch: Silicon Valley has
grown to become a major Silicon Valley event showcasing the products and
services from the most exciting of the newest startups from around the world,”
said Chris Gill, President and CEO of SVASE. “The success of this year`s event
clearly demonstrates that the next generation of emerging technology companies
views Silicon Valley as the place to pitch their products and network with the
SVASE community of top VCs, Angels, corporate executives, prospective customers
and partners to help launch their next stage of success.”

Past event finalists have gone on to raise well over $300 million (as per
publicly available information, numerous additional deal closing amounts have
not been publicly disclosed) following their selection as Launch: Silicon Valley
award winners.

Launch: Silicon Valley 2010 award recipients by presenting category are:

Clean Techcategory:BioVantage,http://www.biovantageresources.com/

Life Science category:Breakthrough, www.breakthrough.com

Mobilecategory:Micello,www.micello.com

Next Generation Internet 1 category:tenCube,www.tencube.com

Next Generation Internet 2 Category: Truedomain,www.truedomain.net

Technologycategory:Green Platform, www.greenplatformcorp.com

For more information about the event, and an overview of all the companies that
presented at “Launch: Silicon Valley 2010,” please visit the following URL:

http://launchsiliconvalley.org/index.htm

Launch: Silicon Valley2010 was designed as Silicon Valley`s demonstration
platform to uncover and showcase products and services from the most exciting of
the newest startups in cleantech, life science,mobile, next generation internet,
and technology. Launch: Silicon Valley provides companies with the opportunity
to present themselves to investors and other influencers who can help shape
their success. In addition to the presentations, participants also have the
opportunity to network with the audience.

Launch: Silicon Valley is co-presented by SVASE, the early stage venture capital
firm Garage Technology Ventures and Microsoft, which will host the event at the
Microsoft Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View. Additional sponsors include
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Townsend Townsend and Crew, Hewlett Packard, the Band
of Angels, Sand Hill Angels, the Angels Forum, Cooley LLP, The Kauffman Fellows
Program, Business Wire, Digivam, Halosys Technologies, Life Science Angels,
Foglifter Media, Alchemy Search Partners, People Connect, Hawaii High Technology
Development Corporation, LeadForce1, Joyent, Link Silicon Valley, and
VentureDeal.

About SVASE

Founded in 1995 by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs, The Silicon Valley
Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE) is the largest and fastest growing
nonprofit in Northern California dedicated exclusively to helping technology and
life science entrepreneurs start and grow successful businesses.

SVASE provides support and resources for entrepreneurs, from the idea through
initial rounds of funding to product launch, delivered at 12 monthly events and
a continually evolving web site. For more information about SVASE, please visit
www.svase.org.

About Garage Technology Ventures

Garage Technology Ventures is a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund
headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with investors that include Thomas
Weisel Partners and CalPERS, the California Public Employees Retirement System.
Garage is focused on investing in emerging technology startups in the Western
U.S. Garage is also the creator of the “Art of the Start,” a renowned conference
series for entrepreneur education. For more information about Garage, please
visit www.garage.com.

SVASE
Jeff Lettes, 408-406-1161
Director of Communications (SVASE), Principal, Global Media Strategy
jlettes@globalmediastrategy.com

Copyright Business Wire 2010

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INTERVIEW – Johnson says no rival to give Bolt a jolt

May 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Ben Johnson, the disgraced former sprinter who was banned from competition in 1993 for using steroids, said athletics is fortunate to have Usain Bolt but the sport lacks the kind of rivalries that marked his time in the spotlight.

Johnson, who waged a memorable rivalry with American Carl Lewis during his prime, said Olympic and world champion Bolt is capable of running even farther away from the pack and could lower his 100 meters world record of 9.58 seconds to 9.4.

“Track and field has not the excitement like there used to be anymore. The excitement is gone,” Johnson told Reuters in Harlem on Thursday after participating in a sports symposium.

“We know Bolt is going to win all the time.”

Bolt has electrified the sprint scene since setting the 100 metres world record two years ago in New York, registering an Olympic and world record triple in the 100, 200 and 4×100 relay at the 2008 Olympics, and lowering the current 100m standard at last year’s world championships in Berlin.

Johnson was clocked at a world record 9.79 seconds when he beat Lewis for gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics before he tested positive for steroids at the Games and had his medal and record stripped away in a startling plunge from prominence.

“Carl Lewis and I were a big rivalry,” Johnson, 48, said.

“We didn’t like each other. But Carl Lewis brought the best out in me and I brought the best out in Carl Lewis. Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson was like Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier back in the ’70s boxing.”

Johnson, banned from competing for life in 1993 after a second positive doping test, now helps train young sprinters in Toronto. The Jamaican-born Johnson does not attend top track events but said he noticed that Bolt has room to improve.

“From what I’ve seen on the replays, I think if he can work on the first 10 metres on his start — he doesn’t have to work on the 30 and 40 — just get the reaction, he can run a 9.4.”

Before the symposium on the future of Jamaican athletics, Johnson, still looking fit in a dark dress suit with his familiar shaved head and sad eyes, told a news conference that his autobiography “Seoul to Soul” would reveal new evidence of sabotage related to his positive dope test.

Saying he was “singled out” as a doping cheat and “wrongfully convicted”, Johnson defended his prowess as a sprinter and said his use of steroids only served to allow him to train harder, not to run faster.

“Usain Bolt and I come from different generations,” he said. “When I was running, I was running 9.79 on a slow track. Now technology has changed and he is running 9.5. So things have changed over the years.

“I’m not saying he is not good. He is great. And it’s good for Jamaica and it’s good for all the kids in Jamaica to say I want to be a part of that.”

(Editing by Frank Pingue; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

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Victory save face at Docklands

April 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Melbourne Victory skipper Kevin Muscat buried his grand final penalty demons and restored some respectability to his side’s Asian Champions League campaign in a 1-0 win over Kawasaki Frontale on Wednesday night.

On the same ground he missed a spot-kick in the Victory’s A-League grand final penalty shootout loss to Sydney FC 10 days earlier, Muscat slotted home the Victory’s second-half winner against the Japanese side at Docklands.

Victory goalkeeper Mitch Langerak was outstanding for his side, pulling off four vital saves to deny the wasteful visitors.

They included a reflex save from a deflected shot in the dying seconds to maintain his side’s lead.

Melbourne had lost its opening three matches in the ACL, including a 4-0 hammering by Kawasaki in Japan last week.

But they were far more lively on home soil, though Kawasaki had more than enough chances to win the game.

The match turned on a 60th minute decision by Iranian referee Saeid Mozaffari Zadeh to award a dubious penalty to Melbourne.

Striker Robbie Kruse went to ground under a light challenge from Kawasaki defender Takanobu Komiyama, which replays showed was well outside the area regardless of the level of contact.

But Muscat stepped up and put away the penalty, easing a little of the disappointment from his rare miss in the grand final.

The Victory will need all other results in the ACL to go their way to have any hope of making the top two and advancing to the second stage of the competition.

Victory coach Ernie Merrick was full of praise for Langerak’s performance, as well as the courage of Muscat to step up and take the match-winning penalty.

Muscat was missing for the 4-0 defeat in Japan, but his physical presence certainly aided his side in the return game.

“His pre-match speech before the boys went out was first-class, and the boys keep stepping up when he asks them to,” Merrick said.

“He was pretty keen to take that penalty and score, and he did it.

“It was a faultless penalty, first-class penalty, and it was under pressure. I think it was good for Kevin.”

Kawasaki coach Tsutomu Takahata believed his side was feeling the effects of a short turnaround from a weekend match, then the long trip to Melbourne.

“I think the players did well considering the long distance of travel. But I felt Melbourne’s energy was better than their energy in their away mission last time,” he said.

The Victory’s next match is a home clash with China’s Beijing Guoan on April 14.

South Koreans motoring

Seongnam Ilhwa meanwhile has powered into the last 16, maintaining its unbeaten record in Group E with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Guoan in the Chinese capital, with Colombian Mauricio Molina getting the decisive goal with 16 minutes remaining.

Seongnam and fellow South Korean side Suwon Bluewings progressed and Japan’s Gamba Osaka took a giant step towards joining them.

Suwon made the grade by beating China’s Henan Jianye 2-0, with a first-half strike by Brazilian Jose Mota and a second in the dying minutes from Kim Dae-Eui enough to secure its passage from Group G.

It gives Korea three teams in the knockout rounds after Jeonbuk Motors qualified yesterday alongside Japan’s Kashima Antlers.

The fourth Korean club, defending champions Pohang Steelers, are well placed to make it four-out-of-four.

J-League stalwart Gamba, the 2008 Asian champion, inched closer to progressing with a convincing 3-0 win over Singapore Armed Forces, whose campaign ended with just one point from four games.

In Group A, Iranian side Esteghlal came away with a superb 1-1 draw against Al Gharafa in Doha which saw the visitor retain its one-point advantage over its rival.

However, Al Ahli of Saudi Arabia is breathing down its neck after doing the double over United Arab Emirates side Al Jazira, as a brace by Victor de Oliveira saw Al Ahli move onto six points, just two adrift of the leader.

On a good day for Iranian sides Sepahan, beaten finalist in the 2007 AFC Champions League, defeated Uzbekistan Cup winner Pakhtakor 2-0 in the Iranian city of Esfahan, which saw it reduce the gap between the two sides to just a point.

Sepahan won the match with two goals in two minutes of the second-half as Senegalese striker Ibrahima Toure opened the scoring in the 74th minute and Iranian international defender Bengar Mohsen added the second a minute later.

The last match of the day’s entertainment saw Saudi Arabia’s Al Shabab go top by a point from Pakhtakor after it prevailed 3-2 at home to the winner of the inaugural AFC Champions League Al Ain.

Melbourne Victory: 1 (Muscat 59′)

Kawasaki Frontale: 0

- AAP/AFP

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Bangladesh skipper slams board for investing in flowers instead of technology

March 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

London, Mar 23 (ANI): Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan has slammed his own board for investing in flowers rather than getting latest umpiring technology at their disposal.

With a lack of latest technology at their disposal, officials have not been able to refer to TV replays during the current Test series.

Bangladesh has suffered, with three howlers going against them on Monday, The Sun reports.

And after the Mirpur Stadium was covered in garlands for ICC President David Morgan, Shakib claimed his board’s priorities are all wrong.

“If we’d taken the referral system, they would have had to spend money. But I think it’s more important than all these flowers.”

Shakib thinks England would be facing defeat in the second Test if the television referral system was in place in Mirpur.

Ian Bell, Matt Prior and Tim Bresnan survived close calls as England took a 21-run lead at stumps on day three.

“You have seen the TV. You have seen what the decisions were and what the decisions should have been. It is really bad for us that we did not use the referral system.”

The Umpire Decision Review System can be used in any Test series, but the home board and home broadcaster are liable for the cost and implementation of the technology.

“I think we would have asked for a referral four times with full confidence. Three of them would have come our way, 100%,” said Shakib. (ANI)

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Bell, Bresnan star in England fightback

March 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Ian Bell cracked a superb 138 and Tim Bresnan an unbeaten 74 to lead England’s recovery on the third day of the second and final Test against Bangladesh on Monday.

England was in danger of conceding a first-innings lead before posting 8 for 440 in its first innings at stumps in reply to Bangladesh’s 419, thanks to Bell’s 10th Test hundred and Bresnan’s maiden half-century.

The tourists were struggling at 4 for 174 early in the day before being revived by Bell, who added 98 for the fifth wicket with Matt Prior (62) and 143 for the next with Bresnan.

England was just four runs short of Bangladesh’s total when Bell was caught by debutant Jahurul Islam while slog-sweeping left-arm spinner Shakib Al Hasan. He smashed one six and 15 fours in his 263-ball knock.

Bresnan, batting in only his second Test innings, hit five fours in a defiant 214-ball knock.

Skipper Shakib put pressure on England after dismissing Jonathan Trott and Prior in the morning, but Bell and Bresnan applied themselves well to deny the hosts success for more than a session.

The Bangladesh captain was the most successful bowler with 4 for 99 off 57 disciplined overs.

Bell, who survived a leg-before appeal off left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak on 82, reached his hundred when he cut seamer Rubel Hossain for a four.

He offered a chance on 119 when he flicked seamer Shafiul Islam, but diving Imrul Kayes failed to latch it at square-leg.

Bangladesh was unlucky not to get the wickets of Prior and Bresnan early in the batsmen’s innings.

Prior was on 9 when he survived a confident appeal for leg-before off Rubel, although TV replays suggested the ball would have hit the leg-stump.

Bangladesh’s appeal for a catch against Bresnan was also turned down but TV replays suggested the batsman inside-edged a Shakib delivery on to his pad before being caught at silly-point when on five.

Prior and Bresnan both went on to play crucial knocks and ease pressure on their team.

England suffered a setback in the morning’s third over when makeshift opener Trott was bowled by Shakib at his overnight score of 64, the ball hitting the pad and elbow before rolling on to the stumps.

England leads 1-0 in the series following their 181-run victory in the opening Test in Chittagong.

- AFP

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Bond and Southee knock over Aussies

March 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Pacemen Shane Bond and Tim Southee have dismantled Australia as New Zealand bookended the five-match one-day series with a consolation victory in Hamilton.

Chasing yet another ordinary total of 241, the tourists folded for 190 with the knowledge they had already wrapped up the series with their third win in game four.

Bond (4 for 26) and Southee (4 for 36) maintained pressure on the Australian line-up all evening to secure a 51-run cakewalk.

Shane Watson’s stellar summer continued with a 79-ball 53, while Mr Closer Mike Hussey (46 from 55) and James Hopes (40 off 56) got starts, but one of them needed to go on with it to get Australia over the line.

Skipper Ricky Ponting was the victim of a horrible decision, adjudged caught behind off the glove for a golden duck despite Shane Bond’s delivery hitting him flush on the helmet.

Ponting stood his ground and eyeballed local umpire Gary Baxter, giving him a whimsical expression before making his exit.

Adam Voges (5) also appeared a tad unlucky when Asad Rauf gave him out caught behind off Southee, with replays showing air between bat and ball.

Cameron White (6) failed for once on this tour, putting a Southee delivery down the throat of skipper Daniel Vettori who was backpedalling from mid-off.

Ponting was philosophical about his dubious dismissal.

“That’s the game isn’t it? I was answering the question about not being given out the other night (when he was plumb lbw in Auckland),” he said.

“Probably the most disappointing thing was tonight we had a couple in our top four or five that went against us.

“The umpires are out there doing the best that they can as well, just like us as players. You’ve just got to get on with it and try to fight your way back into the game.”

Ponting also confirmed vice-captain Michael Clarke would “definitely” play in Friday’s first Test against New Zealand in Wellington.

Clarke skipped the last three one-day games of this week’s series for personal reasons and travelled home to Sydney where he has announced his split from fiancee Lara Bingle following a nude photo scandal.

“Michael’s definitely coming,” Ponting said.

“When I have a chance to turn my phone on back in the rooms tonight I’ll probably have an idea of exactly when.

“It sounds like he’ll be back here and getting himself prepared to play the first Test.”

Australia’s bowling attack earlier dominated a Black Caps innings laden with silly shot selection to appear what set up an easy run chase, the home side only able to amass 9 for 241 from their 50 overs after being put in by Ponting.

Every Australian who delivered a ball took a wicket, with Mitchell Johnson turning in the best figures of 2 for 42, but their efforts were rather inefficient as they conceded an appalling 29 extras (19 wides, three leg byes, seven no balls).

Scott Styris’ innings was one of few highlights for the embattled Kiwis, the Brisbane-born right-hander hitting two fours and a six on his way to 55 from 66 deliveries when he chopped a Hopes seamer onto his stumps.

The Black Caps relied otherwise on cameos from Ross Taylor (30), Gareth Hopkins (26) and Daniel Vettori (28), who also fell victim to questionable shot selection as he walked across his stumps and was knocked over by Doug Bollinger.

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Pak replays its two old claims after Lahore attack

May 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Lahore, May 28 (ANI): After every brazen terror strike in Pakistan, two claims are almost certain to follow. First, that the intelligence agencies had prior information about the attack, and second, involvement of ‘foreign hand’ namely India.

Wednesday’s suicide attack in Lahore, targeted the ISI building, in which over 30 persons, including a dozen security personnel were killed was no different in this regard.

According to The Daily Times, the Home Department was ‘informed on Monday or Tuesday’ that a terrorist strike could be carried out in the provincial capital.

A top Home Department official said that intelligence agencies had also informed that an explosives-laden vehicle might be used to target a government building or a prominent personality.

Meanwhile, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that Indian involvement in the suicide attack could not be ruled out.

Sanaullah said the concerned authorities were investigating the matter thoroughly to trace the mastermind. (ANI)

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Pak replays its two old claims after Lahore attack

May 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Lahore, May 28 (ANI): After every brazen terror strike in Pakistan, two claims are almost certain to follow. First, that the intelligence agencies had prior information about the attack, and second, involvement of ‘foreign hand’ namely India.

Wednesday’s suicide attack in Lahore, targeted the ISI building, in which over 30 persons, including a dozen security personnel were killed was no different in this regard.

According to The Daily Times, the Home Department was ‘informed on Monday or Tuesday’ that a terrorist strike could be carried out in the provincial capital.

A top Home Department official said that intelligence agencies had also informed that an explosives-laden vehicle might be used to target a government building or a prominent personality.

Meanwhile, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that Indian involvement in the suicide attack could not be ruled out.

Sanaullah said the concerned authorities were investigating the matter thoroughly to trace the mastermind. (ANI)

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Ronaldo backs United to make history

May 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, May 7 (ANI): Cristiano Ronaldo believes Manchester United will make Champions League history in Rome on May 27.

United are just one win away after their powerful 3-1 victory over Arsenal.

I have always believed we were going to win it again. That is what we have been trying to do and now we are in the final, so we have a great opportunity.

It was not an easy match. Arsenal are a good team, so to score three goals at their own ground is just amazing. The whole team were superb and we deserve to be in the final,” The Telegraph quoted Ronaldo, as saying.

Ronaldo said that he was tremendously disappointed about the fact that Darren Fletcher may miss the final after the red card he was shown for a tackle on Cesc Fabregas.

TV replays showed the Scotland international touched the ball before he made contact with the Spaniard, raising some hope that Italian referee Roberto Rosetti will ask for the decision to be overturned. (ANI)

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Rooney pulls out of FA Cup semi-final with a fractured foot

April 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, Apr.18 (ANI): Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney has been ruled out of tomorrow’s FA Cup semi-final amid fears he that has a fractured metatarsal.

Club coach Alex Ferguson is set to throw in Federico Macheda for his first start at Wembley.

Ferguson admitted that he would make changes after the midweek Champions League win over Porto – in which Rooney was seen limping briefly – with one eye on next Wednesday’s league game against Pompey.

By pitching Macheda, 17, Ferguson is putting his remarkable unbeaten record in FA Cup semi-finals on the line. Ferguson has won all eight of his previous semi-final ties, with four going to replays.

He believes Everton could prove the sternest test yet with David Moyes desperate to underline seven years of impressive progress at Goodison Park by winning his first trophy.

Ferguson accepts he will be open to criticism if he doesn’t field his strongest team but argues that United’s overloaded fixture list means he has to rotate his players. (ANI)

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NZ coach casts cloud over Tendulkar’s catch

March 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Hamilton (New Zealand), Mar.20 (ANI): New Zealand cricket team coach Andy Moles on Friday expressed doubts over whether Sachin Tendulkar had taken a slip catch of opener Tim McIntosh’s bat cleanly.

McIntosh was controversially dismissed for a duck as New Zealand began to chase down India’s lead of 241 runs. At the close of play on the third day, the Kiwis were precariously placed at 75 for the loss of three wickets.

Tendulkar’s role in McIntosh’s demise-three balls into New Zealand’s quest to erase a 241-run deficit-threatened to take some sheen off another high point of his 157-test career.

Replays confirmed there was doubt Tendulkar had legitimately caught the edge at first slip.

He was confident, as was English umpire Ian Gould who raised the finger.

Unlike a similar incident during India’s innings, Gould and Australian umpire Simon Taufel did not consult the third umpire.

New Zealand coach Andy Moles thought the Tendulkar catch should have been referred.

“You all saw the TV shots, it’s fair to say we’re surprised it wasn’t referred,” Moles said.

Tendulkar, who left the field to ice a bruised left index finger, disagreed. (ANI)

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Vettori clears the air with Haddin ahead of MCG ODI

February 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Melbourne, Feb.5 (ANI): New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori’s text messaged Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin to clear the air following the glove affair in Sunday’s one-day match, and both players are happy to move on.

Kiwis skipper Vettori told Haddin he in no way intended to refer to the wicketkeeper as a cheat, after questioning his role in the dismissal of batsman Neil Broom, which replays showed should have been no-balled because Haddin’s gloves were in front of the stumps.

Haddin thanked Vettori in a reply text and said he would also like to put the incident behind them. Earlier that day, Haddin had attacked Vettori for questioning his integrity.

Fox Sports quoted Australian captain Ricky Ponting as saying Haddin had received “an apology” from Vettori yesterday but the Kiwis denied this.

For them, it was a gesture to clear the air rather than apologise for what they deemed an unfair dismissal, with Broom ruled to have been bowled by Michael Clarke, despite camera angles suggesting Haddin’s gloves broke the stumps. (ANI)

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Haddin says disappointed with Vettori’s lack of decency

February 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Melbourne, Feb.3 (ANI): Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has said he is disappointed with Black Caps captain Daniel Vettori for insinuating that he cheated by deliberately claiming a false dismissal during Sunday’s one-day match in Perth.

Vettori said after the game that Haddin knew the wicket of Neil Broom was not legitimate, after the batsman was ruled to have been bowled by Michael Clarke in the 36th over despite replays showing Haddin’s gloves were in front of the stumps – an automatic no-ball.

New Zealand players were furious as they watched the replays while Broom trudged off.

“I’m pretty disappointed in Dan that he didn’t have the decency to come and speak to me after the game if he had an issue with it, rather than air his thoughts at a press conference,” Haddin said yesterday.

“I think the polite or decent thing to do was to come and ask me, he’s played a lot of cricket now and he knows too well what happens with these situations, I thought it was a bit low,” The Age quoted Haddin, as saying.

Haddin is positive the ball hit the bails before deflecting into his hands, although the Kiwis believe he knocked the bails off with his gloves.

“I think you saw from Haddin’s reaction that he knew something was wrong so he probably should have made more noise about it,” Vettori said after hitting the winning run off the final delivery of the match, inflicting a fourth successive loss on the struggling Australian side.

Ponting was riled by Vettori’s statement, and said he would be exchanging strong words with his counterpart should replays prove inconclusive. (ANI)

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Haddin angry over Vettori’s cheat claim

February 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Perth, Feb.2 (ANI): Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has angrily denied claims by the New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori that he cheated during the one-day clash at the WACA yesterday.

The dispute centers around the dismissal of Black Cap Neil Broom at a vital stage of New Zealand’s two-wicket win.

Broome was given out bowled by Michael Clarke in the 36th over, but replays quickly showed Haddin had clipped off the bails with his gloves rather than the ball.

Vettori said Haddin’s reaction to the incident had been “disappointing” given he believed the Australian gloveman “knew something (was) wrong” with the dismissal.

That drew an angry response from captain Ricky Ponting, who said if Vettori was calling his teammate a “cheat” he should have the evidence to back up such incendiary claims.

Haddin also retaliated today, saying he was also disappointed that Vettori had not approached him before making his feelings known.

“I was disappointed in that, because he had not had a chance to speak to me after the game. I was very shocked after reading today’s paper that he did not come and speak to me,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Haddin, as saying.

“I am pretty disappointed he has questioned my integrity. I think that is quite poor,” he added. (ANI)

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United fight back to book final berth

January 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London – Manchester United overcame a 1-0 first-leg deficit on Tuesday, beating Derby County 4-2 in the second leg to secure their place in the Carling Cup final by a 4-3 aggregate.

Kris Commons had given Derby a surprise first-leg victory, but they were blown away before half-time at Old Trafford, conceding three goals in a 20-minute spell.

Nani got the first with a spectacular swerving drive, although television replays suggested goalkeeper Roy Carroll might have done rather better.

John O’Shea, played onside by Gary Teale, rolled in his first of the season to make it 2-0, and Carlos Tevez headed a third from a Rafael cross.

Derby steadied in the second half, and pulled one back with an 80th minute Giles Barnes penalty, after Jonny Evans had tripped Paul Green.

Cristiano Ronaldo converted an 88th-minute penalty after a foul by Carroll on Tevez seemingly to make the game secure.

But Derby still weren’t finished, Barnes driving in a low free-kick in injury-time.

Tottenham Hotspur take a 4-1 first-leg lead to Burnley in Wednesday’s second semi-final. dpa

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‘Boom-Boom’ Afridi accused of slapping autograph hunter

January 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Lahore, Jan.10 (ANI): Shahid Afridi may be in for more trouble, after media reports claimed that he slapped an autograph hunter after a cricket match between Habib Bank Limited (HBL), and Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).

A television reporter and a cameraman of a private television channel claimed that they saw Afridi slapping a man who was asking for an autograph from him, the Daily Times reported.

However Afridi, has denied the allegations saying: “I didn’t slap anyone. There was this guy who was chasing and pushing me for an autograph. I just pushed him away.”

Meanwhile, the Pakistan Cricket Board has said that an enquiry would be carried out to probe the incident.

Afridi, known for his flamboyant and aggressive batting, has been involved in such incidents earlier too when he was seen on camera thrusting his bat at a spectator who swore at him on his way up the steps after being dismissed in a game. Replays seemed to show that the action was not meant to cause injury, though the spectator had to move out of the way to avoid contact.

He was found guilty and given a four-game ODI suspension. He missed Pakistan’s first two 2007 World Cup matches due to the ban. (ANI)

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