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COROLLA ALTIS SPORT

The Toyota Kirloskar Motor’s attracted the young car enthusiasts of India with their new model car named “Corolla Altis Sport” . The price of this stylish car is Rs 11.35 lakh. This car is equipped with the high safety features that provide all-round protection to its occupants. Only 300 units of the new Limited Edition Corolla Altis Sport will be available for sales. Toyota wants to target young buyers with the Sports Limited Edition which comes with features like front and rear bumper spoilers, headlamp garnish, sleek side skirts and rear LED spoiler.Interior changes include contemporary dual tone seat fabric and wood finish rear cup holders, which give the feeling of luxury and elegance. It is a most popular Corolla sedan model car and the new model will be launched in petrol as well as a diesel model on June 9. It will come in two exciting colors - Metallic Gray and Metallic Silver. The car lovers are very much feeling that new model Corolla Altis Sport is one of the best cars in this year. Hope that it will have good success in the Indian car Market and hope it goes well with Indian Roads.

TOYOTA KIRLOSKAR MOTORS - OVERVIEW

Toyota Kirloskar Motors is one of the leading auto manufacturer companies in India. Today, their presence in India is through a joint the venture between Toyota Motor Corporation and Kirloskar Group in India. It is well developed by the economy. In 1918, Toyoda Spinning and Weaving Company was established by Sakichi Toyoda and his son Kiichiro Toyoda. Then Sakichi was created an automatic loom in 1924. In 1937, the company was established by Kiichiro Toyoda in Japan. Soon it became the largest vehicle manufacturer of Japan and is one of the biggest vehicle manufacturers of the world. In 1947, Toyota’s small-sized vehicles were sold under the name “Toyopet”.The first Crown models launched in the USA in 1957. After that by 1965, models like Corolla build its reputation and sales.The company was awarded its first Japanese Quality Control Award at the start of the 1980s and began participating in a wide variety of Motorsports. Today, this company has made a long history in manufacturing luxury cars with attractive styling and exciting engines, which improve the quality of everyday life. Furthermore, this company is very popular due to the manufacture of high quality, capacity and comfort cars and this company employs approximately 316,000 people worldwide. Some of the most successful Toyota Kirloskar car models in India including “Camry”, “Corolla”, “Innova” and the “Land Cruiser”. The most expensive car from Toyota is a very powerful SUV named ” Land Cruiser Prado”.

SOURAV GANGULY

Now, we can see India’s famous cricketer Soruav Ganguly is in a new role. This former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly has been signed an agreement with ESPN Star Sports as a commentator for the ICC World Twenty 20, which started on 5th June, 2009 in England. So he will be part of an ESPN STAR Sports commentary panel including Wasim Akram, Sanjay Manjrekar, Alan Wilkins, Harsha Bhogle, Nasser Hussain, David Lloyd, Ian Chappell, Simon Doull, Kepler Wessels, Ian Bishop, Ranil Abeynaike and Athar Ali Khan. He will start his new innings as a commentator with Ian Chappell from the semi final of Twenty 20 World cup and it is the first time that Sourav Ganguly will be seen in the role of a TV analyst.

BIOGRAPHY

Ganguly was born in 1972 in Calcutta as the youngest son of richest business man Chandidas and Nirupa Ganguly. His full name is Sourav Chandidas Ganguly and nick name is Maharaja. He is also famous in various names including ‘Prince of Kolkata’, ‘Dada’ and ‘Bengal Tiger’. He has a brother named Snehasish Chandidas Ganguly,who is also a former Indian first class cricketer. He is married to a classical dancer Dona and they have a daughter. As a young boy, Sourav’s first interest was in football and he played football for his school team for four year.But later he was shifted to cricket and joined a cricket coaching club. He was started his international career at 19 years old during the tour to Australia in 1991-92. Ganguly is an aggressive left-handed batsman and is also an effective medium pace bowler. His one day International debut for India against West Indies in 1992, it was not good for him and he scored only three runs in this match. Ganguly was started his test career in 1996. In the final of the Independence Cup in 1998 against Pakistan, he was scored 124 runs and India successfully scored 315 of 48 overs and he won the man of the match award. In 1999 World cup, he had scored his highest score of 183 runs against Sri Lanka. His partnership of 318 with Rahul Dravid is the highest ever in the World Cup and is the second highest in all ODI cricket. Ganguly was selected the captain of the Indian cricket team in February, 2000. Under his leadership India had won many test matches and his excellent performance lead India to world cup final in 2003. In 2004, Ganguly was dismissed from his captaincy and Rahul Dravid was selected as the captain. In 2007, he was named in the squad for the world cup. He was the leading scorer for India in their first round defeat against Bangladesh. In 2000 to 2005, Ganguly became India’s most successful Test captain. In the year 2007, he had scored 1106 Test runs at an average of 61.44 and become the second highest run-scorer in Test matches of that year after Jacques Kallis. He is the fifth highest run scorer in 2007 in ODIs, where he scored 1240 runs at 44.28. In 2008, he was retired from International Cricket, ending a grateful career spreading nearly 17 years. After that, this all rounder appeared as a player in IPL matches. He is also the captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders IPL team owned by the famous Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan. Now we can see this Bengal Tiger in the role of a cricket commentator in coming days.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Ganguly was achieved many awards and honors in his cricket Career. He won the ‘Man of the Series’ award for India in England Test series in 1996, Sri Lanka in India Test series in 1997/98 and Pakistan in India Test series in 2007. He was also won the ‘The Man of the Match Series’ award 7 times in ODI Cricket. Ganguly was gained the ‘Man of the Match’ award 6 times in test cricket and also won the same award 31 times in ODI Cricket. His another achievements are he was made 183 runs against Sri Lanka in World Cup 1999, which, at that time, was the highest ODI Score by an Indian, beating Kapil Dev’s Record of 175 . Ganguly was the ‘Man of the Series’ in the ‘Pepsi Cup’ 1999 for scoring 278 runs and taking 6 wickets in total. Saurav Ganguly has the distinction of being one of the few players in the World to Score a century and take 4 wickets in the same match. He was along with Tendulkar forms the 4th best opening pair in the history of one-day cricket and was scored a century on debut at Lords in 1996, and went on to score a century in the very next match as well. He was named “Sport star Person of the Year 1998″ and also won the “Arjuna Award” in the same year. He is one of the 3 players in the world to achieve amazing total of 10,000 runs, 100 wickets and 100 catches in ODI cricket history, the others being Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya.

CAREER STATISTICS

Competition                          Test         ODI         FC           List A

Matches                               113          311           242           426
Runs scored                         7,212      11,363       14,933      15,278
Batting average                     42.17       41.02         43.92      41.51
100s/50s                              16/35       22/72         31/85       31/94
Top score                              239         183           239          183
Balls bowled                          3,117      4,561       10,968       7,949
Wickets                                 32          100            164          168
Bowling average                     52.53     38.49        36.82        38.41
5 wickets in innings                 0           2               4              2
10 wickets in match                0           n/a             0             n/a
Best bowling                        3/28        5/16           6/46          5/16
Catches/stumpings                71/–      100/–         166/–         129/–