Phillip Hughes Funeral ceremony at Macksville on 3rd December

Cricket executives, fans and players are in shock by the death of Mr. Hughes. The funeral is scheduled to take place on 3rd December at the Macksville High School sports stadium.

An outburst of emotion sparked up nationwide after the tragic death of 25-year-old Australian cricketer, Phillip Hughes. He passed away from a "catastrophic" injury to his head on November 27, just three days before his birthday. He battled for life for two days at the St Vincent's Hospital, after being struck on the head by a bouncer in a Sheffield Shield game on November 25. The Hughes' funeral will be held on December 3 at 2pm in the Macksville High School sports stadium.

Hughes' funeral will be witnessed by around 5000 people including past and present cricketers. The funeral procession moves through the mid-north coast town’s streets so the shops will be shut down on Wednesday. The journey from Coffs Harbour to Macksville will take about 45 minutes by car.

IPL 2013 Teams and Players List

During the time when any IPL season is on for all common people in India, it becomes the usual part of their lives to cherish their favorite players or team in every match of the season. This is the main reason for massive popularity of IPL in last five seasons... and for sure it will increase by all means with IPL 6. The IPL 2013 schedule has been cautiously planned to ensure optimum crowd turnout, meanwhile, April and May are considered as the best months of the year when cricket is played at its best on Indian cricket ground.

The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2013 is sponsored by PepsiCo as the title sponsor. In 2007, The Indian Premier League was established by Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). DLF Ltd is replaced by PepsiCo in the 6th season of IPL, shortened as IPL 6 or IPL 2013. DLF had not renewed their initial 5 year contract which was completed with the last season. The new Sponsor PepsiCo has its contract for 5 years of 396.8 crore which will end with the 2017 season. IPL 6 or IPL 2013 will start on 3rd of April and final match of this season will be held on 26 May 2013. Opening ceremony tickets of IPL 6 are assumed to be outlay around Rs. style="font-size: 13px;">1800 to Rs. 10,000, as per the type of tickets.

This year IPL 6 or the Cricket Carnival is back with total 9 TEAMS in the subcontinent with lots of new exciting surprises keeping viewers hooked to their TV sets. So let’s have a quick view for all teams and players of IPL season 6.

Mumbai Indians (MI):
Captain: Ricky Ponting
Coach: John Geoffrey Wright
Owner: IndiaWin Sports Pvt. Ltd. Subsidiary of Relaince Industries
Chief Mentor: Anil Kumble

• Sachin Tendulkar
• Suryakumar Yadav
• Sushant Marathe
• Y Singh Chahal
• Harbhajan Singh
• Jalaj Saxena
• Dhawal Kulkarni
• Dinesh Karthik
• Abu Nechim Ahmed
• Aditya Tare
• Munaf Patel
• Pawan Suyal
• Rishi Dhawan
• Lasith Malinga
• Pragyan Ojha
• Rohit Sharma
• Aiden Blizzard
• Ambati Rayudu
• Amitoze Singh
• Dwayne Smith
• James Franklin
• Kieron Pollard
• Mitchell Johnson

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB):
Captain: Virat Kohli
Coach: Ray Jennings
Owner: Vijay Mallya

• Zaheer Khan
• Chris Gayle
• Cheteshwar Pujara
• Karun Nair
• Mayank Agarwal
• Vijay Zol
• Virat Kohli
• Harshal Patel
• K P Appanna
• Muttiah Muralitharan
• P Parameswaran
• Sandeep Warrier
• Saurabh Tiwary
• R Vinay Kumar
• Daniel Vettori
• S Aravind
• Sunny Sohal
• Syed Mohammad
• Tillakaratne Dilshan
• AB de Villiers
• Abhimanyu Mithun
• Abhinav Mukund
• Andrew McDonald
• Arun Karthik

Chennai Super Kings (CSK):
Captain: MS Dhoni
Coach: Stephen Fleming (New Zealand)
Owner: India Cements Ltd.

• Suresh Raina
• MS Dhoni
• Murali Vijay
• Srikkanth Anirudha
• Ravichandran Ashwin
• Ravindra Jadeja
• Shadab Jakati
• S Badrinath
• Wriddhiman Saha
• B Aparajith
• Vijay Shankar
• Nuwan Kulasekara
• Albie Morkel
• Ben Hilfenhaus
• Dwayne Bravo
• Francois Du Plessis
• Michael Hussey

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR):
Captain: Gautam Gambhir
Coach: Trevor Bayliss
Owner: Shahrukh Khan (Red Chillies Entertainment) and Jai Mehta, Juhi Chawla (MehtaGroup)

• Lakshmipathy Balaji
• Gautam Gambhir
• Yusuf Pathan
• Manoj Tiwary
• Rajat Bhatia
• Manvinder Bisla
• Brad Haddin
• Sunil Narine
• Brendon McCullum
• Brett Lee
• Debabrata Das
• Eoin Morgan
• Iqbal Abdulla
• Jacques Kallis
• Sarabjit Singh Ladda
• Shakib Al Hasan
• James Pattinson
• Laxmi Ratan Shukla
• Pradeep Sangwan
• Ryan ten Doeschate
• Shami Ahmed

Delhi Daredevils (DD):
Captain: Mahela Jayawardene
Coach: Eric Simons
Owner: GMR group

• Ajit Agarkar
• Yogesh Nagar
• Irfan Pathan
• Kedar Jadhav
• Siddharth Kaul
• Andre Russell
• Virender Sehwag
• Mahela Jayawardene
• Manpreet Juneja
• David Warner
• Kevin Pietersen
• Morne Morkel
• Shahbaz Nadeem
• Varun Aaron
• Gulam Bodi
• Umesh Yadav
• Naman Ohja
• Pawan Negi
• R van der Merwe
• Ross Taylor
• Unmukt Chand
• Sujit Nayak
• Venugopal Rao

Rajasthan Royals (RR):
Captain: Rahul Dravid
Coach: Monty Desai
Owner: Shilpa Shetty, Lachlan Murdoch, Raj Kundra

• Rahul Dravid
• S Sreesanth
• Shreevats Goswami
• Siddharth Trivedi
• Stuart Binny
• Dishant Yagnik
• Ajinkya Rahane
• Ashok Menaria
• Brad Hodge
• Harmeet Singh
• Owais Shah
• Brad Hogg
• Kevon Cooper
• Shane Watson
• Shaun Tait
• Samuel Badree
• Ajit Chandila
• Ankeet Chavan

Kings XI Punjab (KXIP):
Captain: Adam Gilchrist
Coach: Darren Lehmann
Owner: Ness Wadia

• Praveen Kumar
• R Sathish
• Adam Gilchrist
• Gurkeerat Singh
• Harmeet Singh Bansal
• Azhar Mahmood
• Bhargav Bhatt
• Ryan Harris
• Mandeep Singh
• Bipul Sharma
• David Hussey
• Paul Valthaty
• David Miller
• Siddharth Chitnis
• Dimitri Mascarenhas
• Nitin Saini
• Parvinder Awana
• Piyush Chawla
• Shaun Marsh
• Sunny Singh
• Manan Vohra

Pune Warriors (PWI):
Captain: Michael Clarke
Coach: Pravin Amre
Owner: Sahara India Pariwar

• Murali Kartik
• Rahul Sharma
• Alfonso Thomas
• Yuvraj Singh
• Marlon Samuels
• Ali Murtaza
• Ishwar Pandey
• Steve Smith
• Angelo Mathews
• Ashish Nehra
• Ashok Dinda
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar
• Manish Pandey
• Dheeraj Jadhav
• Eklavya Dwivedi
• Harpreet Singh
• K Upadhyay
• Luke Wright
• Anustup Majumdar
• Udit Birla
• Mahesh Rawat
• Mithun Manhas
• Raiphi Gomez
• Robin Uthappa
• Shrikant Wagh
• Mitchell Marsh
• Wayne Parnell
• T Suman
• Tamim Iqbal

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SH):
Captain: Kumar Sangakkara
Coach: Tom Moody
Owner: Kalanidhi Maran, (Chairman & MD - Sun Network)
Mentor: Kris Srikkanth
Mentor-Ambassador: VVS Laxman

• Kumar Sangakkara
• Parthiv Patel
• Chris Lynn
• A Jhunjhunwala
• Akash Bhandari
• Ashish Reddy
• Dale Steyn
• D Ravi Teja
• Ishant Sharma
• Akshath Reddy
• Anand Rajan
• Ankit Sharma
• Bharat Chipli
• Biplab Samantray
• Cameron White
• Amit Mishra
• Jean-Paul Duminy
• Juan Theron
• Shikhar Dhawan
• Veer Pratap Singh

Pune IPL cheerleader Sana arrested for illegal prostitution

Sana Manish Chirawala, IPL cheerleader was arrested for her involvement in a prostitution racket on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 around 4.30 pm by The Pune crime branch. The Social Security Cell (SSC) of the Pune Police has taken Sana and her local female agent, Seema Jagtap into custody on charges of prostitution under Sections 4, 5 and 8 of the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act (PITA). As per senior inspector Bhanupratap Barge of the social security cell of the crime branch, the case against her and Jagtap has been registered at the Koregaon Park police station. 22 year old, Sana lives in Mumbai, and also takes up modeling assignments. When they were informed about Sana that she was in search of prospective customers, they got the lure to contact her agent 34 years old, Seema Jagtap, over the phone.

Suresh Raina's Tweets stir Controversy

An attacking left-handed batsman and an athletic fielder, Suresh Raina is known for his ability to hit the stumps from the infield. He has charming personality as well as fine character in the Indian dressing room….is it so? Unfortunately in the recent times, Suresh Raina has become the point of focus in India due to his embarrassing tweets against Pakistan players on their exit from the World Twenty20 tournament and this badly embroiled him in a controversy.

Brett Lee retires from all format of International Cricket

Australia's fast bowler Brett Lee announced retirement from International Cricket. Though, he will continue playing in Australia's Twenty20 Big Bash & the Indian Premier League, this announcement is surely going to upset some of his fans. Brett is described as a fierce, fine, brave and generous opponent who always maintained the standards of sportsmanship. The 35-year-old bowler was forced to return home from Australia's recent tour to England because of a calf injury which made him realize enough is enough.

Nathan Lyon: A New comer Australian Spinner

Nathan Lyon is a new Australian off-spinner, who born on November 20, 1987 in Young, New South Wales. He is a great spinner and gets fame within few months of entry in the Australian team. The journey of this 24-year-old cricketer is amazing. With only 4 first-class matches to his credit, the career of Nathan Lyon's took a massive jump when he gained a surprise call-up in Australia's Test squad for the tour to Sri Lanka. He had an excellent international debut as he took a wicket on the very first ball of his career. He likes to spend more time outdoors going to the beach or water-skiing rather than watching TV, movies, or playing computer games. As his area of expertise in the kitchen, he credits his skills at cooking 2 minute noodles.

Shoaib Akhtar will retire in ODI after WC

The fans of Shoaib Akhtar will be really disappointed after hearing the news that he retires from the international game after WC 2011.

Pakistan's pacer Shoaib Akhtar, 35, recently announced that he will retire in ODI after the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup so it is very surprising news for his fans as they will miss the fastest bowling. Apparently, Akhtar broke the news on Thursday morning to his teammates and manager of the decision at the Premadasa Stadium in an emotional farewell speech and was squeezed by fellow players and staff members. Before the world cup, it was considered that after the tournament he may retire, but he told the news himself hence its end of a stormy career which was flawed by numerous controversies, counting a dope scandal.