World Cup of Golf 2016 Round 2 tee times, Scores,News

2016 World Cup of Golf (known as the 2016 ISPS Handa World Cup of Golf for sponsorship reasons) is a golf tournament being be played from 24–27 November at Kingston Heath Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia. It will be the 58th World Cup.

 Twenty-eight countries will compete as two-player teams. The format is 72-hole stroke play; the first and third days are four-ball play, and the second and fourth days are alternate shot. The World Cup of Golf kicks off Thursday Down Under, featuring some of the best players from every corner of the globe. Here's what you need to know about the four-day tourney. 1.

The Basics What: The World Cup of Golf Where: Kingston Heath Golf Club, Melbourne, Australia When: Thursday-Sunday The tournament became the World Cup of Golf in 1967 and has been biennially contested 57 times.

The 2016 edition will be the 58th. Previous champions include Sam Snead, Ben Hogan, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, Seve Ballesteros, Bernhard Langer, Peter Thomson, Ernie Els, Jason Day and the late Arnold Palmer. Jason Day won the individual prize of $7 million for finishing with the lowest aggregate score to par, 10 under. Adam Scott’s seven-under-par performance pushed the Australian team to victory at 17-under, 10 shots clear of second-place finishers Matt Kuchar and Kevin Streelman of the United States. Scott looks to defend his title at home with partner Marc Leishman, as Day is sitting this event out.

 Cabrera Bello and Jon Rahim signed for a three-under 69 in the alternate-shot format, giving them a one-shot lead over Americans Ricky Fowler and Jimmy Walker, French duo Victor Dubuisson and Romain Langasque and China’s Wu Ashan and Li Haotong. Leishman’s par attempt on the 18th slid past the hole, dropping the Australians back into a tie for 14th.

IPL KKR vs Deccan Chargers a Preview

Kolkata Knight Riders ( KKR) will take on the highly spirited Deccan Chargers  in the lone IPL  Match to be played today. This match is very important for the KKR as they lost the opening match against Chennai Super kings; the match they should have easily won. Don’t know what happen to them that they failed to finish the match in style.

The two most costly players are in KKR but both failed badly in the first match. So Captain Gambhir will try not to repeat the mistakes and should open the innings for them so lead by example.

At the same time Yousuf Pathan should realize the importance of his wicket and should not attempt for silly runs to be a run out player.

This year Deccan Chargers are a complete new looks team with most unknown and not so famous names consisting the squad. The notable and some common names are Shikhar Dhawan, Ishant Sharma, Pragyan Ojha, Amit Mishra of the domestic circle.

Among the foreign players Kevin Pietersen, Cameron White, Kumar Sangakkara, JP Duminy, Dale Steyn are notable.

 The match is very important from another prospective; KKR will play their first match at Kolkatta after dropping the local southpaw Saurav Ganguly. So it is to be seen how the crowd behave and how they accept the so long their favorite team KKR without Ganguly

Pune Warriors will host the King XI Punjab in IPL Twenty20

Pune Warriors will be looking to skipper Yuvraj Singh to lead the way when they make their IPL Twenty20 against Kings XI Punjab in Navi Mumbai Today.After stunning performance in World Cup, Yuvraj Singh is all set to lead Pune Warriors against Kings XI Punjab at the D Y Patil Stadium.

Pune are struggling in the bowlers with injuries to Ashish Nehra and Angelo Matthews but South African Wayne Parnell and West Indies pacer Jerome Taylor will be available for selection.Pune will hope he can bring that form to the IPL, and inspire a young side.

Kings XI will be looking to put behind the disappointment of previous IPL and begin with a win under new skipper Adam Gilchrist.Punjab may take a few matches to get their combination working, since some experimentation will have to be done in arriving at the best XI from a squad lacking big names who pick themselves.

Delhi Daredevils will host the Mumbai Indians in IPL 2011

Delhi Daredevils host Mumbai Indians at the Feroz Shah Kotla in the 2011 Indian Premier League season. Both the teams look very good in paper though Mumbai might feel a little weak in their bowling department after loosing Zaheer Khan. Delhi did not have a good time in the previous edition of the IPL and were expelled even before the semi-final, the first time that happened in the three years.The bowling attack will be tested as the team has taken a massive gamble in Irfan Pathan and Ajit Agarkar.

Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils gave us the most explosive openers of the past going up against the most explosive of the present like Sehwag-Gambhir against the Tendulkar-Jayasuriya. Mumbai has the master himself who was the highest run getter in the previous IPL tournament. The likes of Rohit Sharma, Andrew Symonds and David Jacobs will add enough steam to the batting line up.

Both teams will look for a positive start as they look to make the play offs and challenge for their first IPL title.

IPL 20-20 New Format, a TRICKY

The IPL is getting bigger. But the real question is; is it getting better? We will the answer after 51 days of intense packed full cricket consisting of 74 matches. This year the format has caught everyone’s imagination.

The teams this year have been divided into two groups of 5 teams each. They will play 70 league matches plus 4 play off games.

Each team will play 14 league games. The other 4 team in its group twice – home and away as before; 4 of the 5 teams in the other group once – home or away, and the fifth team in the other group twice – home and away. The match will be decided by a random draw of lots.

The No 1 team at the end of the league will play No 2 in play off game A, which is effectively a semi final. Similarly the No. 3 side will play no.4 in play off game B which is the other semi final. The game A winner will automatically qualify for the final but the REAL TWIST is that the game B winner plays the game A loser to decide the second finalists.

Each of the eight franchises was allowed to retain four players each, three of whom could be Indians. If the franchise decides to retain 4 players then a sum of $4.5 million was deducted from their total purchasing power of $ 9 million.

So there is always hope against hope for the losers.

IPL Twenty20 Cricket Opening Ceremony Preview

The IPL opening ceremony of the Indian Premium League which would take place in Chennai on Friday. IPL opening ceremony would have some very big names both from the world of the cricket and that of the Bollywood.

The opening ceremony will be colourful with all the IPL Teams and with special cultural events and musical shows.King Khan will be shaking a leg at the opening ceremony of the Indian Premiere League (IPL) in Chennai.The evening of the opening ceremony would be packed with song and dance and the Bollywood of Badshah would add to the grandeur.

The 'Ra.One' star is expected to reach Chennai by today afternoon. The organizers wanted to add more colour and grandeur to the opening ceremony of the IPL. They have tried their best to get in some very talented people of the show business like Sunidhi Chauhan, Kunal Ganjawala and Akriti Kakar.

The BCCI originally considered extending the tournament format used in previous season to ten teams, which would increase the number of matches from 60 to 94.Defending Champion Chennai Super Kings will play Kolkata Knight Riders in the opening match of IPL 2011.This year of T20 extravaganza will be played at 13 venues across the country and will last 51 days.

Highest Paid players

The Best Deal for this year IPL is supposed to have been the booking of in form dashing players of Indian national team Yousuf Pathan and Gautam Gambhir by Kolkata Knight Riders. These two players are the highest paid players of this years auction.