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ICC T20 WORLD CUP 2010 WINNERS - ENGLAND

At last England cricket team gained World Cup title. They gained their first T20 World Cup title by defeating their Ashes rival Australia by 7 wickets at Bridgetown. England team appeared in many World cup finals, but they were failed to lift the World Cup title. In 1979 world cup final, they were defeated by India and in 1987 world cup final, Australia defeated England. Pakistan ended their hopes of gaining 1992 world cup title in the final match and in 2004 mini World cup final, West Indies defeated England. However in ‘2010 T20 World cup’ final, England team showed their outstanding bowling as well as batting display against Australia. In this final match, England won the toss and selected to field. In the early overs of this match, England showed terrific bowling performance against Australia. At the end of 3rd over, they reduced Australia to 8/3. However, with the help of Cameron White and Hussey brothers, Australia gained 147 runs by lossing six wickets in 20 overs. Cameron White scored 30 runs from 19 balls, M.Hussey gained 17 runs from 10 balls and David Hussey took 59 runs from 54 balls. The English players gained the target score of 148 runs very easily with the help of Kieswetter’s 63 runs and and Kevin Pietersen’s 47 runs. Kieswetter was declared ‘Player of the Match’ and Kevin Pietersen was declared ‘Player of the Tournament’ for his 248 runs in the tournament.

England Squad : Paul Collingwood (c), James Anderson, Ravinder Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Craig Kieswetter, Michael Lumb, Eoin Morgan, Kevin Pietersen, Ajmal Shahzad, Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann, James Tredwell, Luke Wright, Michael Yardy

HISTORY

The England Cricket team is one of the best leading cricket teams in the world. England is the home of cricket, and it was the nation that introduced the sport to the world. England’s cricket team represents England and Wales, and it is controlled by England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). This team played their first ODI in 1971 against Australia and got the test status in 1877 along with Australia. Furthermore, got the ICC membership in 1909 along with Australia. Australia and England were at the time the two leading cricket playing nations in the world and England played many cricket matches with them. England’s cricket team holds the position of 6th in Test and ODI in ICC rank listing. They played their first Twenty20 match on 2005. England’s cricket team gained many achievements in cricket. They have won 307 of the 885 Test matches they have played and have also finished runners-up in 1979, 1987 and 1992 Cricket World Cups. In the 1975 World Cup held in England itself, the hosts did reasonably well to reach the semifinals where they were defeated by their arch rivals Australia. In the 1979 world cup also held in England, and they had a runner up in that World Cup. In the 1987 world cup, they performed very well to reach the finals, and they lost by just 7 runs to Australia. In 1992 World Cup, they finished runners up for the third time. In the 1996 World Cup, England lost to Sri Lanka in the quarter finals. However, in the 1999,2003 World Cup, this team was failed in the first round. It is the wonderful news that England has never won the World Cup. This team produced many star players including Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott, Tony Greig, Graham Gooch, Allan Lamb, Nasser Hussain etc. Current squad of this team also contains many powerful players such as Michael Vaughn, Kevin Pietersen, Steve Harmison, Andrew Strauss, Andrew Flintoff, Stuart Broad etc. In the inagural T20 World Cup, Engalnd team was defeated by South Africa and New Zealand in Super eight round. So they did not qualify for the semi final. England is again out from the semi final of second T20 World Cup. In super eight round, they were defeated by South Africa and West Indies. However, the England team gained the third T20 World cup title by defeating Australia by seven wickets. In this world cup, England was in Group D along with West Indies and Ireland. In the group round match, England was defeated by West Indies according to the Duckworth–Lewis method and match between Ireland was abandoned due to rain. Then according to run rate, England was qualified for super eight match. In super eight match, England defeated Pakistan, South Africa and New Zealand and qualified for semi final. In the semi final, they defeated Sri Lanka and entered in the final. In the final, they defeated their Ashes rival Australia by 7 wickets.

63RD CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

Cannes film festival is one of the famous, recognized and respected international film festivals of the world. The ‘63rd Cannes film festival’ was started on 12th May, 2010 with the Hollywood film “Robin Hood” directed by Ridley Scott. In this year, 19 films are competing for  “Palme d’Or” prize. In these films, six are from French productions, five are Asian films and other films come from Britain, Mexico, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. The films such as “Outrage”, “Another Year”,  “Biutiful”, “On Tour”, “Outside the Law” etc are some of the films competing for highest price “Palme d’Or”. Another 19 films have been selected for “Un Certain Regard” category and 9 films to be shown ‘Out of competition’ category. Famous American film director Tim Burton is presiding the jury with the support of other eight jury members including Italian cinematographer Alberto Barbera, English actress Kate Beckinsale, French screenwriter and director Emmanuel Carrere, Italian actress Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro, French composer Alexandre Desplat, Spanish director Victor Erice and Indian director Shekhar Kapur. Many celebrities were attended opening ceremony of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. They included Indian actress and former Miss world Aishwarya Rai, who has been a permanent Cannes attendee for many years, actors Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchet and Salma Hayek. British actress Kristin Scott Thomas presided the opening ceremony and this 12 day film festival will be ended on 23rd May with an Australian film “The Tree” directed by French female director Julie Bertuccelli. So get ready for watching this amazing film festival.

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

A Cannes film festival is one of the famous, recognized and respected international film festivals of the world. This festival was founded in 1939 as a suggestion of the French minister Jean Zay. It is considered as one of the world’s most prestigious and oldest film festivals along with the Venice Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, and Toronto Film Festival. The first Cannes festival was held from September 20 to October 5, 1946 in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France. Since then, it has been held annually in the May at the ‘Palais des Festivals et des Congrès’, in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France. In this festival, many films are viewed and judged by the internationally selected film committee which usually includes film experts from around the world. This festival not only brings world recognition to little-known directors, actors and writers, but also honors the film industry players who either have been forgotten or were not recognized in their lifetime. In addition, this festival attracts many celebrities such as Pamela Anderson, Aiswarya Rai etc from around the world. The’Palme d’Or ‘(Golden Palm)award is the most prestigious Award in Cannes Film Festival. It is given for the ‘Best Film’. The award is sometimes shared by multiple films in one year. ‘The Grand Prix’ is second the most prestigious prize of this festival. ‘The Jury Prize’ is considered as the third most prestigious prize at the Cannes film festival, after the Palme d’Or and the Grand Prix. A total of 57 full-length films from across countries is showcased in the festival. This global audience festival is attended by many movie stars and is a popular venue for movie producers to launch their new films and attempt to sell their works to the distributors who come from all over the globe.