World’s top mobile phone manufacturers ‘Sony Ericsson’ offers any form of entertainment anytime, anywhere with their new touch screen phone “Sony Satio”. The main attraction of this phone is that its entertainment features. We can see our favorite TV series, mobile videos, podcasts and music by just touching the media menu on this amazing phone. We can download games, music and application by just touching of your screen and choose. The PlayNow service brings us unlimited entertainment at the fastest speed with turbo 3G or Wi-Fi connectivity. This phone has built-in GPS. It’s location-based services like Google Maps and Wisepilot help us to find the way to our destination, and we can add location information to our images by using the geo-tagging function. In addition, we can transfer Contacts, Calendar, Notes and Bookmarks from our old phone to our new one. It runs on Symbian operating system. It has 12.1 mega pixel camera with auto-focus and smile detection. Xenon flash, night mode, auto-stabilizer and the ability to Geo-tag pictures are the other features of this camera. The other features of this phone are that 3.5 inches TFT touch screen with 360 x 640 pixels, internal memory 8GB expandable up to 32GB by inserting microSD card, GPRS, EDGE, HSCSD, 3G HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA 3.6Mbps, bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB v2.0, Wi-Fi connectivities, built-in accelerometer, stereo FM Radio, office document viewer  etc. This entertainment phone will be available in Black,Silver and Bordeaux color at the price of Rs 35950 in the Indian markets.

SONY ERICSSON

Japanese consumer electronics company, ‘Sony corporation’ is one of the world’s biggest manufacturer of audio, video, game, communications, key device and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Sony’s main business operations include sony corporation, Sony Picture entertainment, Sony Computer entertainment, Sony Musics entertainment, Sony Ericsson and Sony Financial Holdings. Sony Ericsson is one of the world’s top mobile phone manufacturers producing innovative, feature-rich handsets for the global market. It is a joint venture established in 2001 by the Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones. Nowadays, Sony Ericsson’s mobiles gained an important position in the mobile world. It gained more popularity with its cyber-shot brand mobile phones. These phones have decent media viewing and good cameras.

The famous motorcycle maker ‘Bajaj Auto Ltd’ is now attracting the youth who are speed addicts by launching their fastest bike “Bajaj Pulsar 220 DTSi” in India. Though its appearance is similiar to the former models of Bajaj, but this new street fighter has amazing features. It has 4 stroke, air cooled, single cylinder, DTSi engine with a fuel capacity of 15 liters. The bike is electric start with CDI electronic ignition. The engine generates maximum power of 8500 rpm and maximum torque of 7000 rpm. In addition, it has a wet multiplate clutch and has 5 speed gears with the gear pattern of 1 down and 4 up. Its other features include a digital speedometer, analog tachometer, tubeless tires both in the front and the back and a digital fuel gauge. This amazing bike provides excellent millage of 42 Km/liter in city and 52 Km/liter on highways. The overall height and length of this bike is 1165 mm and 2035 mm respectively with ground clearance of 165 mm, wheelbase of 1350 mm and kirb weight of 152 Kg. This bike will be compete with famous bikes like Yamaha YZF-R15, TVS Apache and Hero Honda Karizma. This amazing bike will be available in black, blue grey and red colors at the price of Rs.70000 in India. .

BAJAJ AUTO

Bajaj Auto is a leading manufacturer of automobiles. They were the India’s largest and the world’s 4th largest two- and three-wheeler maker. It is based in Pune, Maharashtra. The company makes motorscooters, motorcycles and auto rickshaw. The Forbes Global 2000 lists for the year 2005 ranked ‘Bajaj Auto’ at 1946.The company is headed by Rahul Bajaj whose worth is more than US$1.5 billion. The company came in to existence in November 29, 1945. In 1959, it obtained a license from the Government of India to manufacture two and three wheelers, and it went public in 1960. Bajaj has grown operations in 50 countries by creating a line of value-for-money bikes targeted to the different preferences of entry-level buyers. The company also aims on its low cost car, which it is building with Renault and Nissan Motor, will aim at a fuel efficiency, or twice an average small car, and carbon dioxide emissions. In 1986, it managed to produce and sell 500,000 vehicles in a single financial year. In 1995, it rolled out its ten millionth vehicle and produced and sold 1 million vehicles in a year. This company revolutionized India’s scooter market with their first scooter ‘Chetak’. Now it sells only one scooter the 100-cc gearless ‘Kristal’. Recently, this company announced that they will stop the production of scooters by the March of the next year. It’s bike ‘Pulsar 150cc’ was a tremendous hit in the markets. Seeing its popularity and demand in the market, company then launched various models of Pulsar. Now they launched their latest model ‘Pulsar 220 DTSi’ in the markets.

The IPL team ‘Royal Challengers Bangalore’ pacer Praveen Kumar attained a great achievement in the third season of the ‘Indian Premier League’(IPL) on yesterday. He gained the first hat-trick of the third edition of the IPL in the match against Rajasthan Royals. His hat-trick was the seventh hat-trick in the history of IPL tournament. In addition to the player of Royal Challengers Bangalore, Praveen Kumar is also a player of the ‘Indian national team’ and ‘Uttar Pradesh domestic cricket team’.

BIOGRAPHY

Praveenkumar Sakat Singh was born 2nd October, 1986 in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is a fast-medium pacer, a hard-hitting batsman and an excellent ground fielder. Earlier, he played in the domestic cricket for Uttar Pradesh. He gained 90 wickets in his first two domestic seasons. With this performance, he was selected into ‘India A’ team. He was again shined with ‘India A’ team by taking 67 wickets in 39 matches. With his impressive figures in domestic cricket and India A team, he was selected in the India’s national team. His debut international match was against Pakistan in 2007. He gained no wickets in his first two ODI matches, but in the third match, he gained 4 wickets which helped India to defeat Sri Lanka. He  gained four wickets in a winning match against Australia in the final of the 2007-08 CB Series and he was declared as ‘Man of the Match’. He gained 40 wickets in 34 ODI matches. He is one of the best medium pace bowlers of the Indian team and he has the ability to swing the ball both ways along with line and length over speed. Recent times, he also showed keen interest in batting. He is also a player of ‘Royal Challengers Bangalore’ IPL team. He showed wonderful performance in bowling and batting in the second season of the IPL where his team came runners up. In this third season of IPL, he gained first hat-trick of this season in the match against Rajasthan Royals. He gained the wickets of Damein Martyn, Narwal and Dogra of Rajasthan Royals to reach his first hat-trick. In addition, his hat-trick was the seventh hat-trick in the history of IPL tournament.

Indian boxers really ruled in the boxing ring at the ‘5th Commonwealth Boxing Championship’. They gained team championship with six gold medals. Defending champion England is the runners up of this Championship. Olympic and World medallist Vijender Singh gained gold medal in 75 kg category. In this category, he overcome a strong challenge from England’s Frank Buglioni by ignoring the bleeding nose. It is his first international gold medal in two years. Other gold medalists are Olympian Dinesh Kumar in 81 kg category, Asian champion Suranjoy Singh in 52kg, South Asian Games gold medallist Amandeep Singh in 49kg, Asian silver medallist Jai Bhagwan in 60kg and Paramjeet Samota in +91kg category. India competed in this championship with ten members. In these members, Akhil Kumar , Balwinder Beniwal , Dilbagh Singh and Manpreet Singh were defeated in the quarterfinal stage. Previously, India won this Championship in 2005 with four gold and three silver medals in Glasgow. In 2007, India was the runners up by gaining a gold, two silver and three bronze medals. In 2010, Indian team again won team championship and it is one of the best performances by the Indian boxers in recent times. By this achievement, Indian boxing team got team and kit sponsor with the ‘Monnet Steel’ group. In addition, the famous sports and entertainment management firm ‘Perccept’ has signed five boxers including Vijender Singh, Dinesh Kumar, Suranjoy Singh, Jai Bhagwan and Balwinder Beniwal for the period of three years endorsement deal. Percept also awarded each boxer Rs 25,000 and a Siyaram’s suit.

ABOUT 5TH COMMONWEALTH BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP

The ‘5th Commonwealth Boxing Championship’ was held on 12th March to 17th March, 2010 at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi. Over 100 boxers from 14 countries in over 100 bouts were participated in this prestigious Championship. All major commonwealth boxing nations including India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, England, Wales, Scotland, New Zealand, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritius, Botswana, and the Bahamas were participated in this prestigious event. The boxers are separated in 10 following weight categories 49 kgs, 52 kgs, 56 kgs, 60 kgs, 64 kgs, 69 kgs, 75kgs, 81 kgs, 91 kgs, + 91 kgs. The tournament is a test event for the upcoming ‘Commonwealth Games’.

Directed by      :  Sanjay Puransingh Chauhan
Produced by     :  Vivek Khatkar, J. S. Rana
Starring            :  Aanaahad, Nafisa Ali, Sabyasachi Chakravarthy, Farooq Sheikh
Music               :  M.M. Kreem, Wayne Sharpe
Generation       :  Horror
Release Date   :  19th March 2010

The movie “Lahore” is the upcoming movie of Bollywood, which was already won honors at the various international film festivals. This movie is directed by Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan and it is produced by Vivek Khatkar and J. S. Rana under the banner of Sai Om Films Pvt Ltd. It is the debut film of Aanaahad and Shraddha Das. Farooq Sheikh, Nafisa Ali, Shraddha Nigam, Ashish Vidhyarthi, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Sourav Shukla and late Nirmal Pandey are the other actors of this film. This film is against the backdrop of competitive sports kick-boxing. Hope that this film is globally hit on the theatre on 19th March. However this film will not be released in Pakistan, because the Pakistan authorities found that Pakistan is protrayed in this film is in negative way and the title of this film would create a crash in Pakistan.

ABOUT MOVIE

The movie “Lahore” is the story of two brothers lived in India. The movie starts with the selection of the Indian kick-boxing team. In the stage of selection, frenzy activities taking place amongst the players, administrators, bureaucratics in varied manners. At last, Dhirendra Singh (Sushant Singh) who dreams to qualify on the basis of his merit was selected. He was ready to fight with Pakistan’s Noor Mohammad (Mukesh Rishi) in Kuala Lumpur. However, an unwanted things happened in that event. The result of that event makes the sports authority detached and rest of the world a silent witness. Another match takes place in Lahore. This time, Noor Mohammed’s opponent is Dhirendra’s brother Virendra Singh (Aanaahad). Virendra is living with an desire to quench the thirst of revenge for a long forgotten wrong doing and restore the lost pride. Winning the game is not the only thing on his mind. He wants to settle some old results and restore the lost pride of the nation. This film is not about kick-boxing only and it is about relationships bonding between two brothers and their love for sports. At the same time, the director tries his best to bond the relationship between two countries India and Pakistan through sports apart by politics and religion through this movie. This film’s tag line is “Beyond borders, between Nations lies a battle to end all wars”. Let us see that this film will end all the wars between these countries. All the actors did a wonderful performance in this film. Debutante Aanaahad plays the role of Virendra Singh who was a cricketer in early days, but for his brother, he turned into kick-boxing. Shraddha Das plays the role of Ida who is a committed and active physiotherapist of the Pakistan Kickboxing team and she falls in love Virendra Singh. This film was shot in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Lonavala, Malaysia and at Lahore. It has already won many international awards including the “Jury award” for the ‘Best Feature Film at the 42nd WorldFest International Film Festival’, Houston, Texas and also won the “Best Actor Award” at ‘Salento International Film Festival’, Italy and had all six nominations at ‘Asian Festival of First Films’, Singapore.

MUSIC

The sports based movie “Lahore” is blessed with seven beautiful songs. Songs are composed by M M Kreem for the lyrics of Junaid Wasi, Panchhi Jalonvi and Piyush Mishra. The songs of this film are in the following,

1. Ab Ye Kaafila, Singers : KK, Karthik, MM Kreem
2. Musafir, Singer : Daler Mehndi
3. Rang De, Singers : Shankar Mahadevan, Shilpa Rao
4. Saaware, Singer : MM Kreem
5. Musafir, Singer : MM Kreem
6. O Re Bande, Singers : Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Shilpa Rao
7. Lahore Theme, Singer : Lisbeth Scott

British luxury car maker ‘Bentley Motors’ is now trying to hold a position in Indian car markets by launching their luxury car ” Mulsanne” in India. This luxury sedan is powered by a 6.75-litre V8 engine with 505 Bhp and 1020 Nm of torque. It also gets an eight-speed automatic transmission and its V8 engine consumes less petrol. It’s other features include keyless entry, keyless start systems, 40GB HDD satellite navigation system, telephone, bluetooth connectivity, 6-CD-changer with 14 speakers, electrically operated rear-seat blinds for side and rear windows, pure wool, deep pile carpets and 20-inch wheels. This car is completely made by humans and they take about 650 hours of work to complete one car. This amazing car will be available in 114 paint colours, 21 carpet colours, nine wood veneers and 24 interior leather hides. In India, the price of this car is Rs 2.9 crore and will roll out in India by October.

BENTLEY MOTORS

‘Bentley Motors’ is a British manufacturer of automobiles. It was founded by Walter Owen Bentley in 1919. Earlier, this company made the aero-engines which is used in World War I. In 1931, this company was sold to another British aero-engine manufacturing company ‘Rolls-Royce ‘. Their fist car ‘Bentley 3½ Litre’ was launched in 1933. Their other models of cars are ‘Bentley Mark V’, ‘Bentley T-series’, ‘Rolls-Royce Corniche’, ‘Rolls-Royce Camargue’, ‘Bentley Mulsanne’, ‘Bentley Continental R’, ‘Bentley Brooklands’, ‘Bentley Azure’, etc. In 1998, Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motors were purchased from Vickers by Volkswagen Group. ‘Bentley Motors’ has almost a century of car building experience and now it builds the fastest, most luxurious, largest cars on the planet.

The Oscar award winning Hollywood actress Kate Winslet, who gained popularity through James Cameron’s romantic movie “Titanic” has separated from her film director husband Sam Mendes after seven years of marriage life. Mendes is also a Oscar Award winner and this couple is considered as one of the movie world’s golden couples, so their split is a big shock to the movie lovers. This couple have one son Joe, while Winslet has a daughter Mia, from her first marriage to film director Jim Threapleton. The separation is mutual and both of them have agreed for joint parenting of their children.

BIOGRAPHY

Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on 5th October, 1975 in an actors family in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK. Her father Roger Winslet and mother Sally were both actors, both her sisters Beth and Anna are actors,her grandparents Oliver and Linda Bridges founded and operated the ‘Reading Repertory’. She started her acting career at the age of eleven by playing in a television commercial for kids cereals. At that age, she is studying in high school and started to take acting lessons. Her first success was in the movie “Heavenly Creatures” in 1994. She gained ‘Empire Award’ and a ‘London Film Critics Circle Award’ for ‘British Actress of the Year’ for her performance of this film. After that, she appeared in Ang Lee’s “Sense and Sensibility” and she gained a ‘British Academy Award’ and an ‘Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress’ for her performance of this film. In 1996, she acted in the films like “Jude” and “Hamlet” and she bagged her second ‘Empire Award’ for her performance of the film “Hamlet”. She rose into the international star through James Cameron’s romantic movie “Titanic” in 1997. In this film, she appeared in the role of a aristocrat Rose opposite with the actor Leonardo DiCaprio. In addition, this film was highest grossing film for more than 12 years until 2010 and she gained  Best Actress Oscar nomination and ‘European Film Award’. After “Titanic”, she acted in the lead roles in “Shakespeare in Love” and “Anna and the King”. Her other notable film are “”Iris”, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, “Finding Neverland”, “Little Children”, etc. In 2007, she again appeared with Leonardo DiCaprio in the film “Revolutionary Road” directed by her husband Sam Mendes. She won ‘Golden Globe Award for Best Actress’ for her performance of this film. In 2008, her film “The Reader” got good reviews from the audience and she was awarded with ‘Oscar award for Best Actress , the ‘BAFTA Award for Best Actress’, a ‘Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress’, and a ‘Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress’. Winslet is also a occasional singer and her single “What If” become huge hit in European countries. She is married twice. Earlier, she married to a director Jim Threapleton and they have a daughter, Mia Honey. Later, they were divorced. Then she married to a director Sam Mendes and they have a son Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes. Now they decided to separate with each other.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Kate Winslet gained a lot awards and honors in her acting career. She is the youngest person to gain six Academy Award nominations and she won ‘Academy award for Best actress’ in the film “The Reader”. She also won ‘Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress award’ and ‘BAFTA Award for Best Actress’ for the film “The Reader”. Her other awards include ‘Golden Globe Award for Best Actress’ for the film “Revolutionary Road”, ‘BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress’ for the film “Sense and Sensibility”, ‘Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress’ for “Iris” and the ‘Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance’ by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for the film “Sense and Sensibility” and “The Reader”. She also won a ‘Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children’ for “Listen To the Storyteller” and she was was nominated for an ‘Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series’ for playing herself in a episode of “Extras”. .

Directed by    :  Vikram Bhatt
Produced by   :  Vikram Bhatt, Manmohan Singh
Starring           :  Aditya Narayan, Shweta Agarwal, Rahul Dev, Shubh Joshi
Music              :  Chirantan Bhatt, Nazam Sheraz, Aditya Narayan
Generation      :  Horror
Release Date  :  19th March 2010

The son of veteran singer Udit Narayan, Aditya Narayan who is also a singer is now coming back as a grown up man in Bollywood’s new horror movie “Shaapit”. Aditya’s last movie was “Jab Pyaar Kisi Se Hota Hai” in 1998 in which he acted as a rebellious 12-year-old boy. The director of this new horror movie is Vikram Bhatt who directed the super hit horror movies “Raaz” and “1920″. Newcomer Shweta Agarwal, model-turned-actor Rahul Dev and Shubh Joshi are the other actors of this movie. Vikram Bhatt and Manmohan Singh are produced this film under the banner of ‘ASA Film Pvt Ltd’. This horror movies explores how a curse works on one’s life. Hope that this film will be hit on the box office on 19th March 2010.

ABOUT  MOVIE

The story of the movie “Shaapit” revolves around a young man Aman(Aditya Narayan) and a girl Kaaya(Shweta Agarwal). Without knowing the curse that plagues Kaaya’s family, Aman proposed Kaaya for marriage. When Kaaya wore the engagement ring, then the unusual things happened in Aman and Kaaya’s life. They faced a car accident which almost killing both of them. Knowing the accident of his daughter, Kaaya’s father told the young couple that 300 years back their family had faced the curse of an angry Brahmin that did not allow the daughters of their family to be married.. However, couple did not believe this fact completely, but their lives are constantly in danger. Then Aman meets Pashupathi, a master of the ways of the spiritual world. He tells Aman that in some cultures, there was a belief that a generational curse works generation after generation much after the person who had uttered the curse was dead. Pashupathi also tells him that there is a way which was filled with peril to destroy the spirit and get rid of the curse. Then Aman get ready for a fight with devil for his love. All the actors did a wonderful performance in this movie. It is the debut movie of Aditya Narayan as a grown up person. He also sung four songs for this movie. It is the second movie of Shweta Agarwal who is popularly known for her television role in the serial ‘Dekho Magar Pyar Se’. In her first romantic film “Tandoori Love”, she failed to impress audience. Hope that she will attract the audience through the performance of this movie. In addition, the ace cinematographer and the director Vikram Bhatt’s father Pravin Bhatt was completed century in cinematography through this movie. Hope that this film will be super hit in coming days.

MUSIC

Vikram Bhatt’s horror movie “Shaapit” is blessed with seven beautiful songs. Chirantan Bhatt composed music of this film for the lyrics of Sameer. The main actor of this film, Aditya Narayan who is the son of famous singer Udit Narayan is also crooned four songs of this film.   The song ‘Tere Bin Jiya Na Jaye’ is a very soulful song from the powerful and magnetic voice of Najam Sheraz. Other song ‘Chaahata Dil Tumko’ is sung by Aditya Narayan who is also acting in this song scene gives a right feel to the viewers. Shreya Ghoshal, Chirantan Bhatt, Hamza Faruqui and Sunidhi Chauhan is the other singers of this film. The songs of the film are in the following,

1. Kabhi Na Kabhi To Miloge (Rock), Singers : Chirantan Bhatt, Aditya Narayan
2. Tere Bin Jiya Na Jaye, Singer : Najam Sheraz
3. Ajnabi Hawaein Bekrar Bahein, Singers : Chirantan Bhatt, Shreya Ghoshal
4. Chaahta Dil Tumko Tum Nahi Jaante, Singers : Aditya Narayan, Suzanne
5. Kabhi Na Kabhi To Miloge, Singers : Aditya Narayan, Suzanne, Chirantan
6. Hayaati Ye Hayaati Kehati, Singers : Chirantan Bhatt, Hamza Faruqui
7. Shaapit Hua Kya Kya Hota Hai, Singers : Aditya Narayan, Sunidhi Chauhan

Spanish Formula One racing driver Fernando Alonso made a dream start at the Italian glamor formula one team ‘Ferrari’. He won ‘Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix’ trophy for Ferrari. His teammate Brazilian Felipe Massa finished in second and ‘2008 World Champion’ Britain’s Lewis Hamilton finished in third place.  By winning this trophy, he became the fourth man to win on his debut for Ferrari. Fernando Alonso is a two-time World Champion of formula one racing and currently racing for Ferrari team. Alonso is considered as one of the best racing drivers of all time.

BIOGRAPHY

Fernando Alonso was born on 29th July, 1981 in Oviedo, northern Spain as the son of Jose Luis Alonso. In his childhood, Alonso participated in karting competitions by the support of his father. He won ‘Junior World Cup’, ‘Spanish Karting Championships’ and other two Spanish karting championships between 1993 and 1996. In 1998, his extraordinary talent was recognized and gave a seat in the ‘Euro Open MoviStar’ by Nissan series, and he won the championship in 1999. In 2000, he shifted into ‘Formula 3000, and he won the ‘Belgian Grand Prix’. He started his Formula One career with ‘Minardi’ in 2001 and gained attention from the faster teams like Sauber with his wonderful performance. He moved to ‘Renault’ in 2002, and he gained his first win only after 13 races. At that time, he holds the record for the youngest driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix. The year 2005 was the turning point for Fernando, because he gained the ‘ Brazilian Grand Prix  Championship’, and he become the youngest ever champion at 24 years and 59 days. He preserved his title in 2006, and he became the youngest double World Champion in Formula One history. After that, he moved into ‘McLaren’ and after the one year, he returned to Renault F1 Team. In 2000, he moved into ‘Ferrari’ partnered with Felipe Massa. Now he made a dream debut for Ferrar team by winning the ‘Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix’ trophy. Alonso currently lives in Oxford, England,  with his wife Spanish pop singer Raquel del Rosario. In addition to the formula one racing, she showed interests in other sports, like cycling, football and tennis.

Australia proved that they are the number one team in hockey by winning the ‘World Cup, 2010′. They defeated two-time defending champion Germany with the score 2-1 in the final of the ‘World Cup’ hockey on Saturday. Thus the Australians overshadowed the dream of Germany to become the first team in history to bag a hat-trick of World Cup title. This victory was Australia’s first victory after their 24- year world cup victory. Australia’s first world cup victory was in the year 1986 against England. In addition, Australia was beaten by Germany in the previous two World Cup finals in 2002 and 2006.

ABOUT AUSTRALIAN HOCKEY TEAM

Australian hockey team is the most successful team in the world. This team won any medal in the last five Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in 2004 Olympics. They are the winner of ‘Champions Trophy’ for ten times and in last December, they won their 10th Champions Trophy by beating Olympic champions Germany in the final. They won their first World Cup title in 1986 by defeating England in the final. Now they gained their second World Cup title by beating two-time defending champion and Olympic champion Germany in the final. Australia started this World Cup campaign with a loss against England. After that, they never looked back, and they won the victory against India with the score 5-3, against South Africa with record score 12-0, against Spain with 2-0, against Pakistan with 2-1 in the qualifying round matches. In the semi final, Australia defeated Netherlands with the score 2-1. At last, they won their second World Cup title by defeating Germany in the final with the score 2-1. Former Australian player Ric Charlesworth is the current coach of the Australian team and now he holds a unique record of winning the World Cup as a player and a coach, because he was the captain of the 1986 Cup squad.

Australian squad : Des Abbott, George Bazeley, Graeme Begbie, Kiel Brown, Nathan Burgers, Matthew Butturini, Liam De Young, Luke Doerner, Jamie Dwyer, Kieran Govers, Rob Hammond, Fergus Kavanagh, Mark Knowles, Eddie Ockenden, Simon Orchard, Grant Schubert, Matthew Swann, Glenn Turner.