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IPL’s (Indian Premier League) 2010 season is commencing from tomorrow 6:30 AM PST and it will be live on Youtube . This will be a treat for all the cricket fans around the world.

The partnership of Google and DFL IPL is a first major step to broadcast this big event live on the world stage. This will help propagate cricket to different parts of the world (specially non – cricket playing countries) and increase its popularity.

Youtube will broadcast all the 60 games live.  It will broadcast these games with 5 minutes delay but honestly this hardly matters and no one cares.

Last year’s IPL champions – Deccan Chargers ( a team representing Hyderabad ) will try to defend the title. It will be amazing contest between 8 teams contending for the championship.

Cricket lovers mark you calender with the fixtures and tomorrow’s inaugural match is between Charges and Knight Riders.

I am supporting Mumbai Indians this season and my wife is with Royal Challengers.

Go Mumbai Indians!!

[Update]: This streaming is not available for US viewers. What a bummer!!!

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Australian Open is the first major tournament of the year and it will be most exciting finale. We will be grateful to see the clash of the Titans -Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. These two players will be facing each on hard court for the first time.

Nadal is tired after his one of the longest game (longest in Australian Open history, it lasted for 5 hours and 14 minutes) vs Fernando Verdasco yesterday. Federer had a comparatively easy semifinal encounter against Any Roddick, he won the match in straight 3 sets.

If we go by statistics, Nadal has an edge over Federer -

		Federer	Nadal
Total	18	6	12
Sets	62	25	37
Finals	14	4	10
Major	7	2	5

I am all up for this grand finale and I am supporting Federer and my wife is supporting Nadal, lets see who wins the battle!

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