India vs SriLanka Final ODI Live Score and updates

India vs Sri Lanka (Ind vs SL) 6th ODI Live Streaming Score and updates

January 13 2010 : The battle for the tri-series has reached the end and the final match is scheduled for today. Team India is taking on the other visitors Sri Lanka in the crucial match and it is a tense one since M S Dhoni and his boys are aiming for the top slot in the ICC rankings with this one.

This is a day/night match and the experts say that even toss is also crucial for the result. Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lankan captain and his men are keen on taking revenge since they lost the series to India the last month. So the fight is going to be crucial.

As for India, the comeback of opener Virender Sehwag has increased the ammunition in a big way and they are hoping that he fires today to give the team a crackling start. Andhra Café wishes Team India a huge victory and good luck for getting the number one spot.

India high on confidence for final

India would seek to maintain its supremacy over Sri Lanka and start the season on a positive note when it takes on the islanders in the final of the cricket tri-series here on Wednesday.

India lost its opening match of the tri-series against Sri Lanka, but bounced back strongly with three thumping wins — two against Bangladesh and one against Sri Lanka — to be high on confidence as it goes into the summit showdown.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s men had a successful ODI record last year, winning four series. They would be eager to pocket the ongoing tri-series as well, which will come as a morale booster not only going into the Test series against Bangladesh starting in Chittagong on January 17 but also for the tough season ahead.

After the Asia Cup in Pakistan in June 2008, India has won all the tournaments involving Sri Lanka except for the ICC Champions Trophy and Dhoni and his men would want to extend their dominance over the islanders at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Wednesday.

A win will also narrow down the gap between India and current ICC ODI rankings leader Australia. India is seven points adrift at 123 points going into the tri-series. The match will also create a record of maximum number of games being played between any two countries in one-dayers.

Sehwag returns

India’s batting still remains the strong point with the top-order in good nick. Virender Sehwag’s return after missing two matches would also bolster the already strong Indian batting line-up.

Sehwag’s return to the playing eleven means Dinesh Karthik, who did reasonably well in the last two matches, will have to sit out.

India’s bowling, though, has been patchy and inconsistent in the tournament so far. The Zaheer Khan-led bowling attack struggled in the first two games before producing an impressive performance on Sunday against Sri Lanka, which, Dhoni said, was one of the best efforts in recent times.

However, inconsistency at the ‘death’ continued to haunt the Indian bowling department as it again leaked runs in the final overs against Bangladesh on Monday.
Desperate

Sri Lanka, on the other hand, would be desperate to record a tri-series victory. The Sri Lankans must be a bit low in morale after their crushing defeat at the hands of India in their last match, especially after being on a roll following three successive victories. But with Tillakaratne Dilshan and Upul Tharanga in great touch and Sangakkara providing the stability at the number three spot, the islanders can beat any side on a given day.

Captain Sangakkara has been the tournament’s second highest scorer with 219 runs, behind Virat Kohli, while former skipper Mahela Jayawardene, who has a century under his belt in the event, provides the class and solidity in the middle-order.

The teams (from):

India:

M.S. Dhoni (capt.), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh, Sudeep Tyagi, Dinesh Karthik, S. Sreesanth, Ashok Dinda and Amit Mishra.

Sri Lanka:

Kumar Sangakkara (capt.), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mahela Jayawardene, Upul Tharanga, Thilan Samaraweera, Thilina Kandamby, Lahiru Thirimanne, Thissara Perera, Malinga Bandara, Nuwan Kulasekara, Thilan Thushara, Suraj Randiv, Suranga Lakmal, Chanaka Welegedara, Mahela Udwatte and Dinesh Chandimal.

Big Haiti Earthquake in Port-au-Prince

Big Haiti quake topples buildings, many casualties

January 13 2010 : A major earthquake hit impoverished Haiti on Tuesday, toppling buildings in the capital Port-au-Prince, burying residents in rubble and causing many deaths and injuries, witnesses in the city said.

The magnitude 7.0 quake, whose epicenter was inland and only 10 miles from Port-au-Prince, sent panic-stricken people screaming into the streets as a cloud of dust and smoke from falling buildings rose into the sky.

As darkness fell amid scenes of chaos and anguished cries from victims, residents desperately tried to dig out survivors or searched for missing relatives in debris-strewn streets.

The presidential palace was among buildings damaged, Haiti's ambassador to Washington, "My country is facing a major catastrophe," he added.

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and has a history of destructive natural disasters. Some 9,000 U.N. police and troops are stationed there to maintain order.

The quake, followed by aftershocks, prompted a tsunami watch for parts the Caribbean but this was later canceled.

"Everything started shaking, people were screaming, houses started collapsing. It's total chaos," Reuters reporter Joseph Guyler Delva said in Port-au-Prince.

"I saw people under the rubble, and people killed," he added, saying he had witnessed dozens of casualties.

U.S. President Barack Obama said his "thoughts and prayers" were with the people of Haiti and pledged immediate aid.

The United States would provide both military and civilian disaster assistance to the Caribbean country, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at the start of a speech on Asian relations in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who is the U.N. special envoy for Haiti, also pledged assistance. The Inter-American Development Bank said it would provide $200,000 in immediate emergency aid.

PALL OF DUST AND SMOKE

A local employee for the charity Food for the Poor reported seeing a five-story building collapse in Port-au-Prince, spokeswoman Kathy Skipper told.

Another Food for the Poor employee said there were more houses destroyed than standing in Delmas Road, a major thoroughfare in the city.

"Within a minute of the quake soil, dust and smoke rose up over the city, a blanket that completely covered the city and obscured it for about 12 minutes until the atmospheric conditions dissipated the dust," Mike Godfrey, who works for USAID, told.

"The international airport appears to be functioning," he added, saying he saw an airliner take off after the quake.

Experts said the quake's epicenter was very shallow at a depth of only 6.2 miles, which was likely to have magnified the destruction.

Dale Grant, a U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist in Golden, Colorado, told Reuters there had been no quakes this large in Haiti for more than 200 years.

"There were two major quakes there in 1751 and 1770 but, since then, there has not been a quake of this magnitude," Grant said.

PEOPLE SCREAMED 'JESUS, JESUS'

Speaking to CNN from Port-au-Prince, Ian Rogers of the charity Save the Children said he could hear cries of anguish and mourning rising up from around the city in the darkness.

Homes and buildings built on hillsides had come crashing down along with earth and rubble.

"All the roads currently are blocked," Rogers said. "People were screaming 'Jesus, Jesus' and running in all directions," Delva said.

The Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, where many foreigners stay, suffered at least some minor damage.

A group of 12 U.S. students from Lynn University in Florida were visiting Haiti with Food for the Poor and some were able to send text messages to say they were fine, Skipper said.

The powerful quake was felt in southeastern Cuba, about 160 miles from the epicenter. Cuban authorities evacuated coastal residents because of the initial tsunami threat.

"I was seated on the terrace and I thought my chair had slid out from under me but I realized it was an earthquake," said Eduardo Machin, a resident of the coastal city of Santiago de Cuba. "It was very strong."

Sailors at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in eastern Cuba felt the quake but there was no damage to the base or the detention camp where the United States holds 198 foreign terrorism suspects, said Chief Petty Officer Bill Mesta.

"It just shook a number of the buildings," Mesta said.

Cruise Line Royal Caribbean said initial reports indicated there was no damage to its Labadee beach resort on Haiti's north coast. No ships were in port when the quake hit, the line's spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez said.

One ship had been scheduled to stop at Labadee on Tuesday but was rerouted earlier in the day because of bad weather.

Bomb Blast in Iran : Massoud Ali Mohammadi dead

Blast Kills Iranian Nuclear Physicist Dr. Massoud Ali Mohammad.

January 12 2010 : An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed Tuesday by a remote-controlled bomb planted on a motorcycle parked outside his home, state news outlets reported. Government-controlled media reports blamed the attack on "anti-revolutionary" elements within the country and on Iran's foreign foes.

Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, described by his colleagues as a non-political person, was killed as he left his house in the north Tehran neighborhood of Qetariyeh. Tehran's chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said Ali-Mohammadi was a nuclear scientist.

The rare bomb attack comes amid tensions between the government and a vocal grassroots opposition movement and international pressure over Iran's controversial nuclear program, which Tehran says is aimed only at energy production and other peaceful activities but the United States and its allies believe is focused on creating nuclear weapons.

Iran has accused the United States of kidnapping a nuclear scientist who was on pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in May, and of snatching a former deputy minister of defense who disappeared early in 2007 while visiting Istanbul.

Shahram Amiri, the scientist, has been transferred to the U.S., Iran's foreign ministry said in December. According to U.S. and Israeli media, former defense minister Ali Reza Asgari defected while in Turkey. A senior U.S. official told The Washington Post in March, 2007 that Asgari was cooperating with Western intelligence agencies.

It is unclear whether Mohammadi, the scientist killed Tuesday, was actively involved in the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, which controls the country's nuclear program. Essays written by him and posted online show that he was involved in quantum mechanics and that he specialized in elementary particle physics.

The Tabnak Web site, which has close ties t0 supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accused "America and Zionist agents" of orchestrating Tuesday's bomb attack, along with the "hypocrites" -- a reference to the exiled opposition group the People's Mujaheddin Organization of Iran. That group in the past has exposed parts of Iran's nuclear program. It also is responsible for hundreds of political killings since the 1979 Islamic revolution. But its power and influence have waned significantly in the last decade.

"Considering the kind of attack and previous threats by security and terrorist services close to America and the Zionist regime, probably this terrorist attack was sponsored by those services and carried out by the agents of the Hypocrites or the agents of the Zionist regime," Tabnak wrote.

Mohammadi's colleagues at Tehran University blamed the "enemies of Islam and the revolution" for the killing. "They should know that the blessed tree of the Islamic Revolution of Iran becomes stronger and more fruitful with blood." the Tehran University public relations department said in a message issued on Tuesday according the university's Web site.

"He was not political and had no political activities," the head of Tehran University's science department, Ali Maghari, told the semi-official Mehr news agency.

Compared to neighboring countries such as Iraq and Pakistan, bomb attacks in Iran are rare. In October, 42 people, including six Revolutionary Guards senior commanders, were killed in a suicide attack by insurgents in Iran's tumultuous southeast region, where drug smugglers and separatists are active.

Massoud Ali Mohammadi was a lecturer in nuclear energy and no suspects have yet been arrested, Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said.

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NATO: 13 insurgents killed by missile

January 12 2010 : NATO says a missile fired from an unmanned aerial vehicle has killed 13 insurgents in southern Afghanistan.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization says international forces saw a group of insurgents preparing ammunition Tuesday morning in the Naw Zad area of Helmand province.

The international force says among those killed were insurgent mortar teams moving equipment. NATO says there were no reports of civilian casualties.

NATO says another missile fired from an unmanned aircraft killed three insurgents in the Nad Ali district of Helmand on Monday.

Early

Afghan police say a member of the Afghan National Police has been killed and two others wounded in a suicide attack at apolice station in south-central Afghanistan.

Uruzgan provincial police chief Juma Gul Hamit says a suicide bomber detonated his cache of explosives Monday evening near the gate of a police chief's office in Dihrawud district.

Hamit says the attacker tried to enter the office where a meeting was under way. Although wounded by police, the bomber detonated his explosive vest, killing the one policeman and injuring the two others who kept him from going inside.

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