Thursday, January 6, 2011

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Latest Sports Buzz

UDRS Rejected by India While the World Voices its Advantage

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 05:01 AM PST

Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) has been rejected by the Indian cricket team and above that the team has also straightly voiced that it will not go to Australia to witness its live application in The Ashes.

The blare of this technology is on a rise because of its accuracy but India has clearly rejected this application saying that the tool is not goods enough in terms of accuracy.

The recent series the Indian cricket team played against New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. The secretary of Cricket Council in India said that there were no chances at all that the team would agree to this technology.

The team is not convinced with this technology and will hence not use it in any bilateral games too. BCCI could not be diverted by the South Africa cricket about the use of UDRS and this made Graeme Smith the captain of SA quite upset about the rejection of this system who considers that UDRS should become mandatory from the ICC.

Smith after loosing the match against India in Durban expressed his annoyance about the lack of UDRS in the match and said that it is the responsibility of ICC to pave the way for the usage of this system.

This view was also shared by Michael Clarke the captain of Australia cricket team who felt that this system is absolutely accurate but there are some people who do not want to follow the right way. BCCI is so certain that this system is useless that it turned down the offer to see the system in function during the Ashes.

New Orleans Saints to suffer the IR shift of Thomas and Ivory

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 03:12 AM PST

New Orleans Saints the champ of Super Bowl in the defending spot have missed out on their top two backs after Pierre Thomas the second back was placed into the injured reserve on Wednesday while Chris Ivory the rusher of New Orleans has already been transferred to the same on Tuesday.

This loss will definitely make it difficult for the team to repeat without their leading players. The shifting of Thomas to the IR came just a day after Ivory was transferred to the reserve.

This shift officially marked an end to the season of Thomas that was plagued with bad physical injuries having taken a nagging form affecting his play.

2010 shortened campaign had Thomas playing 269 yards; rushing almost 83 times along with 2 TD's and contests standing 6 in number.

This season Thomas also had 29 grabs for a space of 201 yards. In order to fill the missing spot the team had to sign up Joique Bell from the practice squad of the Eagles in order to fill the roster.

In place of Chris Ivory the Orleans have taken up De Shawn Wynn back again on Tuesday to occupy the roster spot.

During the postseason the Saints with stats of (11-5) will stand against Seattle Seahawks with two regular players missing from the roster leaving behind just three running backs in a fit form.

The winning pressure will be on the shoulder of Reggie Bush, Julius Jones and Wynn who are actually the only three people left from the old slot.
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