The Sri Lankan selectors had selected Tillakaratne Dilshan as the skipper for the Tuesday’s Twenty20 match against India next week.
Middle-order hard-hitting batsman Chamara Kapugedara has been selected as the vice-captain for the match.
Controversial fast bowler Lasith Malinga has been included to the 15 man squad. Due to a knee injury, Malinga had remained out for almost a year from the team. The fast bowler played his last match in February 2008 in an ODI against Australia in Melbourne.
Former Indian middle-order prolific batsman Ajay Jadeja has added another feather to his cap. The former cricketer has made his debut as a professional golfer at the PGTI Players Championship. The event will be played from February 3 to 6.
On his debut, Jadeja carded one-under 69 to be tied 12th along with the likes of Shamim Khan and Harendra Gupta. Jadeja was penalized by one stroke in the first hole. However, the former Indian ODI skipper left behind the seasoned S.S.P. Chowrasia.
Fujifilm has got another reason to be back in the news.
Fujifilm has announced new FinePix F200EXR camera, which covers up a variety of features including high-speed burst shooting as found in prior higher-end models from Fujifilm.
FinePix F200EXR, the new high-end digital point-and-shoot camera, has a 12-megapixel Super CCD EXR sensor and a 5x optical zoom that can handle wide-angle shots.
According to company, the Super CCD EXR sensor helps increase the quality of a picture. The new cameras from Fujifilm had got three modes:
Scientists have identified more than 12 new species of frogs inhabiting in the forests of Western Ghats, in a discovery that underscores our ignorance of the natural world's diversity.
A team of biologists led by Delhi University professor S D Biju and Franky Bossuyt of the Amphibian Evolution Lab in Brussels describes up to 12 new frog species they found in a survey of Western Ghats forests published in the latest issue of the Zoological Journal of Linnean Society, London.
The government of Puducherry appreciated the parents who got their children immunized for the second phase of polio immunization across the Union Territory on Sunday.
Speaking on this, Dr Dilip Kumar Baliga, Director of Health and Family Welfare Services said that for the purpose of immunization programme, the officials including paramedics, supervisors and Aanganwari workers were deployed in various centres. He said that all efforts to ensure that the immunisation drive was conducted smoothly.
VeriSign, Inc, the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world, has announced that the WiMAX Forum® has chosen VeriSign’s Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to defend the rapidly increasing wireless broadband ecosystem.
After a wide-ranging selection procedure, VeriSign has been chosen to offer security solutions based on PKI for WiMAX™ networks that combine the speed of broadband with the ease of wireless to deliver the ‘last mile’ of connectivity on quick, metropolitan area networks.