Captain of the year: Ricky Ponting (Australia)
Umpire of the year: | Simon Taufel (Australia)
Associate Player of the year: | Ryan ten Doeschate (Netherlands)
Women’s Cricketer of the year: | Charlotte Edwards (England)
Spirit of Cricket award: | Sri Lanka team
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Dhoni is consistently changing his batting position in the ODI team. He likes to keep himself floating around in the middle order to accommodate others around. He displays a true leader’s quality in helping others to perform ahead of him. But, where should he bat? Which is the best position for him? With these questions in mind, I did an analysis of his previous 118 matches, of which he went in to bat 105 times. The analysis includes all matches until 24 Aug 2008, including the third ODI recently completed against Sri Lanka. Batting PositionsWhen he started playing for India, he was considered to act as a bridge between the batsmen and the bowlers. This is where, normally, most of the wicket-keepers fit in. So, in his first series against Bangladesh, he came in at No. 7. Things changed in the immediate next series against Pakistan. In the second match of the series, he was asked to bat at No. 3. He responded with an aggressive knock of 148, his first ODI hundred. In the next series, Indian Oil Cup involving Sri Lanka and West Indies, he opened the innings with Sehwag in the first match against Sri Lanka. That’s a rare occasion. He has opened the innings for India only twice, against England being the other one. Since then, he was tossed around the batting order, anywhere from #3 to #8. But, the majority of the innings were at #4 to #7. In the last five matches he played, all of them against Sri Lanka, he came in at #4, #5, #6, #5 and #6. In the Kitply cup final against Pakistan, he batted at #7. Dhoni himself admitted that it was a mistake and he would prefer to come in early. Now, let us look at the statistics. Runs Scored By Batting PositionThe following graph shows the number of runs scored by Dhoni at the various batting positions.  As you can see, he has been there up from #2 to all the way down at #8. His main contribution comes from #6 at a total of 1218 runs. His scores at #3, #4 and #7 are very close to each other and are hovering around the 600 runs mark. Dhoni’s contribution at #5 is also not far behind that mark. Certainly, #2 and #8 do not look good. If you look at the number of innings he has played at each position, then it becomes clear that he has played most of his innings at #6. That explains the reason for the spike at #6.  Career Averages and Strike RatesTo put things in perspective, let us look at the following graphs depicting the career averages and strike rates.   Interestingly, he has a phenomenal average of 94.00 at #4. This coincides with an astounding strike rate of 112.67. He has scored a century and 7 half-centuries during his 11 innings at #4 position. His statistics at #3 also looks very healthy with 2 centuries and 2 half-centuries. He has an average of 42.00 at #6, which is better than #5 and #7. Interestingly, he has a century to his name at #7. But, that came when he was batting for Asia XI against Africa XI. Data UsedThe complete data used for the analysis above is listed below in a tabular format.  Conclusion
I feel that Dhoni should bat at #4, which looks like his favourite position. But, until the Indian youngsters start to play their role to perfection, Dhoni will be a floater in the batting line-up. He likes it and enjoys it. Let us see what else is in store for us!
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Cash is one commodity that you don't find when you are really in need of it. There are situations when you cannot afford to wait. It could well be an emergency, a well deserved holiday, school fees or any other unexpected expenses that needs your immediate attention. The idea is to have just enough cash to tide over until the next payday. This is where payday loans can come in handy for you. Payday loans are also known as cash advance loans, check advance loans and deferred deposit check loans. It is that form of loan which helps you to get small amount of money for a shorter period of time. Normally, the loan amount ranges from about $100 to $1500. Just be careful when you are on the look-out for payday loans. Compare the various offers available. You have to find the credit offer with the lowest Annual Percentage Rate (APR). APR reflects the total cost of credit, expressed as an annual percentage of the amount of credit. It makes it easier to compare lenders and loan options. It is certainly true that payday loans charge a higher interest compared to other forms of credit. But, the higher interest is offset by the simplicity of Faxless Payday Loans. It is also very helpful to those with bad credit history and to those who do not like to go through the banks’ credit approval process. PaydayLoanQuotes.com is a FREE comparison service where you can request quotes from their network of licensed lenders. They will attempt to match your information with a lender. While they do not guarantee a perfect match, they compare offers from various lenders to find the lowest rate available for your profile. While you take the payday loan, just make sure you borrow only as much as you can afford to pay with your next pay check. You should also have enough to make it to the following payday, after paying off your loan.
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Gambling should be entertaining and not seen as a way of making money. If you consider gambling from this perspective, then you will not chase losses. Enjoy gambling as part of your friends and not to escape from boring and lonely life. Bet365 is the internet and telephone betting division of the bet365 Group Limited, one of the UK's leading betting and gaming groups. The group has held a UK license since 1974 and now has over 600 employees. Bet365 provides a range of online betting services through our online casino, Sportsbook betting facility, interactive games section and a dedicated online poker playing area. They provide a one wallet system so that you can enjoy the benefits of our full range of services through one manageable account. You can try football betting or betting on any other sports. Bet365 aims to provide their customers with a secure online environment for all their online betting needs. Please note that it is against the law for those under 18 to gamble and bet365 takes its responsibilities in this regard very seriously. They carry out electronic age verification checks on customers who use payment mechanisms that can be used by children. In addition, they carry out age checks on a random selection of all other customers regardless of the method of payment. Be sure to check whether it is legal in your own country to play betting.
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Which is the toughest decision you have made in life? If you throw this question, mostly you will get the reply as “buying a house”. Buying a house or constructing a house is one of the most difficult tasks in one’s life. There are too many factors involved in the final decision. If you have made so much effort to find the right choice for your house, you should also make an extra effort to find the right choice for your home improvement.
The conversion of a brick-and-mortar house to a pleasant home involves many processes. So, it is prudent to choose the right product from the right supplier. I have to mention about Anglian Home Improvements, who makes the complicated process easy. For more than thirty six years Anglian has been renowned amongst UK homeowners as the place to go for high quality home improvements.  Anglian takes the greatest possible care to minimize disruption from quotation right through to after-sales service, and make sure you understand exactly what’s happening. They offer a host of products to cater for most aspects of your home improvements. The product range covers doors, windows, conservatory, driveways, garage doors and so on. There are so many reasons why people choose Anglian. But it's not just the outstanding design, quality, reliability or choice that makes them so sought after, it's also the sheer value for money. Don’t miss to check out their special offers on some of the best deals around, on everything from windows to driveways, conservatories to Roof trim.
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Australia is a vibrant, diverse, unique, intense and colourful country. It’s a country larger than the whole of Europe and unless you are backpacking for a year, you will need several holidays in Australia just to see half of it. Visit the cities of Sydney and Melbourne, dive the Great Barrier Reef, walk in the rainforest, drive the Great Ocean Road, surf the great beaches, cruise the beautiful Whitsunday Islands, enjoy the rugged west coast or the vast desert of the red centre. Adelaide's generous boulevards and elegant architecture provide the perfect backdrop for all sorts of activities. No matter what takes your interest, there's something that will pique your curiosity. Get active and enjoy the sunshine, natural parklands and beach lifestyle of Perth, one of the country's most beautiful cities and the capital of Western Australia. If that interests you, get on the flights to Australia with DialAFlight. DialAFlight is a leading independent UK travel company offering flights, hotels & travel ideas worldwide. Full of useful travel information, their website is the starting place to find the holiday of your dreams. From here you can search for flights, hotels, car hire and many travel ideas including weekend breaks, beach holidays, spa holidays & much more. To book with DialAFlight you need to call and speak with one of their UK travel consultants who will ensure that your requirements are fulfilled. By speaking on the phone you can be sure that your tailor-made holiday is exactly as you want it.
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Northern Cyprus is an island of golden beaches, brilliant weather, mountain forests, ancient castles and sun-bleached villages. It is a small country, only about 1800 square miles of area. However, the variety in terms of topography, flora and fauna, and levels of development are great. North Cyprus is referred to as the last jewel in the Mediterranean. The sea side town of Kyrenia with its surrounding mountain villages offers all the modern facilities of an European town. Kyrenia is the most popular area for property investment. English is widely spoken, the locals are friendly, and the cost of living is probably the lowest in the region. Local food, both fresh in the markets, or eaten at restaurants, is of excellent quality. Wellington Estates Ltd is a North Cyprus Property Developer with UK management. Their mission is to purchase attractive parcels of land and construct quality holiday and retirement villas for UK customers. They are committed to design and build villas on land owned by them. North Cyprus Property is an outstanding investment opportunity, and a great location for holidays or retirement.
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Staying abreast of new technologies and making the right technology decisions is not an easy task. The usage of right technology is as important as the business concept itself. We had seen many brilliant concepts went down the drain as they did not embrace the right technology. Setting up a successful e-commerce site may be very complicated. But, it is made simple for you by Ashop. Ashop Commerce is a world-class provider of shopping cart software, internet programming and digital imaging who cater toward small to medium sized businesses that are looking to build or simply start their online division of business. Ashop is offering solutions to manage your entire website and online business from one complete ecommerce shopping cart software. Ashop claims to be one of the worlds most easy to use web based administrations with award winning features that allow the merchant to build an online store capable of competing with the webs most powerful sites for a simple, low monthly fee. Ashop Commerce shopping carts are integrated with all major banks, gateways and third party processors including PayPal (full functionality integration). Credit cards are now a widely accepted form of payment in online stores and the built in SSL protection (checkout security) means your customers pay with confidence. What more! It is the right time to have a feel of the features offered by Ashop shopping cart software. Ashop is offering a 10-day free trial now.
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What is Smorty?Smorty is a service that acts as a communication link between advertisers and bloggers. It provides a cost-effective solution to promote a product, service, company, blog or a web site. Advertise on blogs:The advertisers get a chance to display their products through quality blogs. The blogs, which already have a substantial readership, provide a swift way to reach a wide customer base. By advertising on blogs, the advertisers can build quality relevant inbound links to increase search engine rankings. No wonder, blog advertising is considered as one of the best advertising strategies available now. Get paid for blogging:The bloggers have worked hard to create an online presence. Now, they have a chance to use their online presence to some good effect. The bloggers are paid to review the advertiser’s products. The blogger can be frank with their opinion on the product. It is not compulsory to write positive reviews about the products. I have recently signed up with Smorty as a blogger. I am quite impressed with their quick response in reviewing my application. It only took less than five hours to get my blog approved. I got two offers immediately to express my opinion. Smorty, a smart service!
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 You need a balanced diet to have a healthy lifestyle. A balanced diet is a diet that has all the essential nutrients in right proportions. It means having different types of food in appropriate amounts. We are normally dictated by our taste buds, and very rarely we look at our bodies’ nutritional needs. Our favorite foods feature plenty of starch, fats, salt and sugar, and often plenty of meat. Fruits and vegetables are high in vitamins, minerals and dietary fibre. Naturally, they have very low fat. Fibre plays a vital role in reducing the risk of diabetes, hypertension and heart diseases. Lane Labs, LLC, a specialty company for daily supplements has just released a high-end daily nutritional supplement and is giving away thousands of free trial packets. My Daily Veggies, a delicious blend of whole dried vegetables that you can mix with water and drink, or mix into your favourite dishes to boost their nutritional value. It’s good for your health! And it tastes like vegetables. You get the same fiber, the same vitamins, the same minerals, enzymes and phytonutrients as real fresh (or canned or frozen) vegetables. The only things missing are the salt and sugar that many manufacturers add when they process foods. My Daily Veggies contains NO added salt, NO added sugar, NO preservatives. Try it out and Drink My Daily Veggies.
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 Dell is one of the best known online company. Dell is very confident and promoted the concept that by going online, they can cut-down the middleman and pass on the savings to customer. This direct selling approach has helped Dell to customize each and every product they sold to customer. In fact, I liked this concept as it gave me the freedom to choose what I want and discard the features that I am not really interested in. You can choose various products and compare their prices. I enjoyed their services and in fact bought some desktop computers for my company through their online service. Recently, I came to know that you can shop online and save using Dell Home coupons and promotional codes. This service is offered by KeepCash.com. I found that KeepCash offer a complete list of all the Dell Home coupon codes on the web. Some coupon codes require a minimum purchase to receive the discount, so please checkout the KeepCash website for further details. To summarize, KeepCash is a deal and online shopping coupons website. They provide you with money saving coupon codes along with the best product deals that are designed to help you keep cash in your pocket, which is where it belongs. Using KeepCash is simple! Just click on the Deals tab to see the latest product deals, or you can find some money saving coupon codes by clicking on the Coupons tab.
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If you want your blog to be reviewed, then you can try this site. The Review Blog is offering a free review of any blog, just visit this place for more details.
PayPerPost has launched the PayPerPost Direct, a different dimension to the Get paid to blog review system adopted by PayPerPost. There are two problems with the original PayPerPost concept: 1. Advertisers have no control on who will write the reviews for them. 2. Bloggers have to be on their toes to get the right opportunity to write. Most of the time, a good opportunity with more revenue is taken up by those vigilant bloggers online. So, the bloggers have to choose a less paying opportunity or an opportunity that is not related to the main content of their blog. With PPP Direct, PayPerPost makes an attempt to address these two issues. While bloggers with less popular blogs would still continue with the mass marketing strategy, those bloggers with good reach and traffic would love the new one-to-one approach. The most attractive part of PPP Direct is that their service charges is comaratively lower than their main competitors. A quick search on the SponsoredReviews web site gave me an indication that they charge 35% transaction fees. Likewise, ReviewMe seems to charge about 50% for the review offer. So, if the advertiser offers $100 for a review, a blogger will get only $50 from ReviewMe, $65 from SponsoredReviews while he will get as much as $90 from PPP Direct.
With PPP Direct, the bloggers have the freedom to fix their own review prices. They can offer cheaper reviews and attract more advertisers or increase their review prices slightly and earn more money with less reviews.
At the end, this is a win-win situation for both the advertiser and the blogger.
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Amazon is one of the best known internet superstores. Even though they are best known for their books and magazines, they also offer comparison shopping on a huge number of products. I enjoyed their services to recommend books that may be of interest to you. Recently, I came to know that you can shop online with Amazon coupon codes. This service is offered by CouponChief.com. I found that CouponChief.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Coupon Chief, Inc. CouponChief team strive to provide a one stop coupons deal and discount resource for Web site visitors. The focus is on customer support and providing up to date coupon codes and promotional deals.
CouponChief team is constantly adding new merchants and coupon codes, promotion codes, and offers, so do visit them again and again for all your online shopping purchases!
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Its not long ago Edward "Ted" Murphy, a world-renowned leader in interactive marketing, has laid the foundation for PayPerPost. Ted launched the company's service in June and PayPerPost became the world's first Consumer Generated Advertising Network. PayPerPost is a grand success thanks to Murphy's creative prowess and passion for unconventional marketing. PayPerPost announced yesterday that they received $7 million dollars in funding. The financing, in fact, brings the total amount of capital raised by PayPerPost to over $10 million, giving the company considerable resources for further development as the industry’s leading Consumer Generated Advertising marketplace. I have enjoyed being with PayPerPost as a blogger. I am also sure that there are many, many satisfied advertisers supporting PayPerPost. The new funding shows exactly this. PayPerPost established themselves in the new revolutionary concept in advertising and this pays off. PayPerPost laid the necessary foundation to stay for ever and it continues to attract a critical mass of participants from both the advertising and blogging communities. It is believed that PayPerPost’s business model will enable the company to thrive in the evolving paid-content arena. To express their appreciation to the advertisers and bloggers for the overwhelming support during the last eleven months, PayPerPost has announced a 7 day promotion called Lucky 7s. Here is the full version of the press release from PayPerPost: The PayPerPost Revolution Accelerates, Sponsored Blogging Marketplace Secures $7 Million Series B
Draper Fisher Jurvetson leads round and joins Board of Directors
ORLANDO, FL – (June 12, 2007) – PayPerPost, the leading marketplace for advertisers to reach bloggers and other consumer content creators, today announced it has completed a $7 million second round investment led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an investor in the company's Series A and one of the world’s leading high-technology venture capital firms. The financing brings the total amount of capital raised by PayPerPost to over $10 million, giving the company considerable resources for further development as the industry’s leading Consumer Generated Advertising marketplace. Additional participants in the round include existing investors Inflexion Partners and Village Ventures as well as new investor DFJ Gotham. With this investment, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein also joins PayPerPost’s Board of Directors.
“PayPerPost created this exciting new advertising space and has established itself as the industry leader,” said Ted Murphy, chief executive officer of PayPerPost. “Although we’ve only used a portion of our first round capital, this added support from investors unlocks significant growth potential. Our content creator and advertiser ROI metrics clearly demonstrate the upside for PayPerPost’s model. We intend to use this capital to build the infrastructure, visibility and professional expertise necessary to reach and retain a greater network of advertisers and content creators than ever before.”
Since its founding in June of 2006, PayPerPost has signed more than 6,500 advertisers to its groundbreaking service, which has enabled Consumer Content Creators to be compensated for their efforts discussing specific companies, products or services via blogs, videos or other media. The content creators are required to disclose relationships with advertisers on their blog, providing transparency for the end reader. Over 125,000 Internet postings, most in the form of blogs, have already earned money for their creators through PayPerPost’s innovative marketplace. PayPerPost recently released PayPerPost Direct, a disruptive new service that allows advertisers to contract and negotiate directly with individual bloggers they identify through a safe, managed system.
“PayPerPost has laid a strong foundation for the future,” noted Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. “It continues to attract a critical mass of participants from both the advertising and blogging communities. Analogous to Overture’s sponsored search model, we believe PayPerPost’s business model holds disruptive potential and will enable the company to thrive in the evolving paid-content arena.”
To mark the $7 million dollar funding, PayPerPost has launched a new website detailing the company’s service offering at http://www.payperpost.com. Bloggers and advertisers can easily sign up at the site and begin leveraging the self service marketplace.
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OpticsPlanet is one of the leading optics suppliers with a wide selection of sport optics, tactical and military gear, microscopes, and designer eyewear. Are you a security personnel or nature lover or a hunter looking for night vision devices to turn the darkest nights into light. OpticsPlanet has a complete variety of Night Vision equipment in the world: Night vision goggles, Night vision scopes, Night vision binoculars, Night vision riflescopes, Thermal imaging, Digital Night vision viewers and cameras. OpticPlanet's knowledgeable customer service will be able to recommend the best night vision scope for your application – neighborhood watch, hunting, security, SWAT, law enforcement or military. See into the night with OpticPlanet's attractively priced night vision devices, built by the best Night Vision brands in the world including ATN, Yukon, Bushnell, Trijicon, Weaver, Aimshot, Insight Technology, ITT and many more. Please visit OpticPlanet's home page for more information.
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SCORE Education Centers are widely recognized by media as one of the top tutoring service providers in the United States. SCORE has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The New York Times and The Boston Globe – just to name a few. One thing attracted me to SCORE is their caption "When children love to learn, they will learn". True enough. In fact, we, as parents, have experienced this throughout our life. We have heard "Love your job, You won't be working even a single day. You will enjoy it". The same concept has been applied by SCORE to children education. How great! SCORE Educational Centers have been providing kids with a fun way to catch up, maintain and get ahead in their studies. SCORE works with children in grades pre-K through 10th grade to help them achieve their goals and reach their academic potential in mathematics, reading, spelling and writing. Their curriculum include personal academic coaching, positive reinforcement, and a customized curriculum that adapts to each child's pace and learning needs. Their summer programs are built based on the research finding that kids lose an average of one month of learning over the summer break. Help your student have fun, retain learning and get ready for a great school year with a Score Summer Program. If you are interested, please click here.
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OpticsPlanet.com is an online retailer with a wide selection of optics and technology productions - telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, night vision, flashlights by Meade, Coronado, Simmons, Celestron, Bushnell, Nikon, Barska, Burris, Brunton, Leupold, Surefire, Streamlight. Meade and OpticsPlanet.com introduces a revolutionary way to explore our universe. The new Meade mySKY is a fun, interactive, multi-media, hand-held guide to the universe that locates and identifies celestial objects in the night sky. You will feel as if you have an astronomer for company. It features a full-color LCD screen and the added ability to control a Meade Telescope. It is so simple that no knowledge of the night sky is needed. MySky aligns itself, thanks to the GPS Auto alignment feature, without any input from the user. Turn it on, point it at a celestial object, and pull the trigger to identify planets, stars, nebula, galaxies and more – over 30,000 objects. Find Saturn, Arcturus or the Andromeda galaxy in seconds. The whole family will love MySky, will make a great gift not only for a young astronomer or curious student, but for anyone who is interested in the latest technology, gadgets, science, or unusual gift ideas. Shop for all your astronomy needs at OpticsPlanet.com. They not only guarantee lower prices, but also promise FREE UPS on all orders above $29.95.
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I started blogging close to a year ago. My plan is to have a simple platform to put across my views. Once that first goal was reached, I wanted to make some decent money online. I tried affiliate networks like Commission Junction and then Google AdSense. With due respect to these programs, I was making negligibly small amount of money. It was not my cup of tea. I was slowly getting lost in the cyberspace. That’s when I came to know about PayPerPost (PPP). PPP is one central location that connects bloggers and advertisers. It pays bloggers for writing reviews about websites, products, services and/ or companies. The one thing that is special about PPP is the TRANSPARENCY with which they review blogs for acceptance. In fact, even before PPP, I tried to sign up with one of their competitors. But, they straightaway rejected my blog without citing any reasons whatsoever. The standard answer popped up “Your blog does not qualify. Please submit your blog after few months”. It’s like a black box approach. I had no idea how to improve my blog to get it accepted. So, when I submitted my blog to PPP, I was doing it with a bit of skepticism. As expected, my first submission was rejected. But, to my surprise, the PPP team gave me a clear reason for rejecting my blog. I took my time to set right my blog. In a few days again, I made my second attempt. Again, it was discarded; once again with valid reasons. This time I was more confident. I submitted my blog for the third time after taking into consideration the reasons for rejection. My blog was accepted the third time. I should salute the PPP team for guiding me in the right direction. So, I happily started to explore the opportunities provided by PPP. The first opportunity I took got me $6, which is almost my one year’s earnings through other sources. My second opportunity brought me $10. Now, I am a happy PPP blogger, juggling between my regular posts and the opportunities presented by PPP
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