Three brothers Made History in the Cricket by Playing World Cup-2003 with Together.

There are many cricket families in the world. Two or three bothers or sisters, cousins, brother in law, sons & father or uncle of same family played cricket in many countries. Even, many of them played many club or international matches together. Two brothers had played with together in the world cup several times. Three brothers have not played world cup with together till now. But Namibian three brothers, Louis Jacobus Burger, Andries Johannes Burger and Sarel Francois Burger had played world cup-2003 with together. This Burger family has created record in the world.

Louis Jacobus Burger is the oldest brother of them. Louis Jacobus Burger was born on March 12, 1978 at Windhoek in South Africa. Louis Burger’s ODI debut was become on 10 Feb in the world cup- 2003 against Zimbabwe. He played only 6 one day international matches till now and those were in the world cup-2003.This right handed batsman had scored only 12 runs in the world cup. After world cup-2003, Louis Burger has not played any international match. He has become captain in 2006.After becoming captain; Louis Burger has shown overwhelming batting performance. He has done two fist-class centuries against Limpopo and the United Arab Emirates in 2006.This right-arm medium-pace bowler also showed his bowling charisma against Australia in the world cup-2003.Then, he took 3 big wickets (Matthew Hayden, Michael Bevan and Ricky Ponting) for 39. It is the best bowling of his carrier.

Andries Johannes Burger is older than Sarel Burger and younger than Louis Jacobus Burger. Andries Johannes Burger was born on August 25, 1981 in Newcastle. He is also known as Jan-Berry Burger. Andries Burger’s ODI debut was become on 10 Feb in the world cup- 2003 against Zimbabwe. In the world cup-2003, he showed his brilliant batting performance against England. Then he scored 85 from 86 balls. It is the highest score among the Namibians. He is performer of several records of his country such as top score (85), highest batting average (33.16) and highest batting strike rate (over 100).This leg-break bowler took 3 wickets in the 6 ODI international matches. Sometimes Andries Burger takes part as a wicket-keeper.

Sarel Francois Burger is the youngest brother of three brothers. Sarel Burger was born on February 13, 1983 at Windhoek in Namibia. Sarel Burger’s ODI debut was become on 19 Feb in the world cup- 2003 against England at Port Elizabeth in South Africa. He played only two international matches. This right handed batsman scored only 11 runs in his two international matches of the world cup. But his batting average of first-class matches is 32.35.This right arm medium fast bowler has taken 22 wickets of his 10 first-class matches but has not taken any wicket in the international cricket.

So these three brothers have written their name in the golden page of cricket history.

Diego Forlán is Selected for the Golden Ball by FIFA.

FIFA declared the Golden Ball Award contenders for the 2010 World Cup in a press meeting on Friday. FIFA's Technical Study Group elected the contenders and the winner from contenders has selected by representatives of the media. To get 23.4% vote Forlán has become the winner of the Golden Ball Award. 31 years old Forlán has won the Golden Ball Award after closing the World Cup trophy with overwhelming performance. Only for Diego Forlán's overpowering performance, Uruguay has played semi-final. He scored 5 goals same as Holland's Wesley Sneijder and Spain's David Villa.There are also some young players who have played very well in the World Cup. For example, 20 years-old, Thomas Muller has won the Golden Boot for the peak scorer of the World Cup. Moreover, 23 years-old, Messi and German rising young player Ozil have played very well. There were also some players who had sky-scraping hope for the team but they could not pretty distribute for their country. For example, Rooney, Kaka didn’t play well. Rooney didn’t any a goal and rarely appeared ominous to the opposition as his World Cup wrecked with a snivel. His substandard performance replicated the performance of his team. While before the play newspapers and magazines of England was full of his high admiration. Uruguay was two times world cup winner in 1930 & 1950.After then, they played last semi-final in the World Cup in 1970. After it Uruguay didn’t performed as like prior. But after many years they have played semi-final. If luck should have favor, ever they could have played final. Nevertheless they have no sorrow to drop by Germany because of being perfect team after many years. The whole nation is very happy for this overwhelming performance in the World Cup. The center of this ecstasy is Diego Forlán Who has become the best player in this World Cup. This striker has performed overpowering performance for his team in the World Cup. After 80 years, Diego Forlán has achieved this glorious Award as a Uruguay player. José Nasazzi achieved the Golden Boot in the World Cup-1930. Before Diego Forlán, any Uruguay player can’t win Golden Boll still now.

C.B. Fry was the Greatest All-rounder Sportsman of Any Era of England.

Charles Burgess Fry was an English cricketer. But it will be a great mistake to introduce him as a cricketer because Charles Burgess Fry was not only a cricketer but also a footballer, athletic, rugby player, politician, diplomat, academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher. This polymath English star was born on April 25 in 1872 at West Corydon in England. Fry was all rounder on the field of cricket, football, athletic and rugby of England. Nevertheless, Fry is most familiar as a English cricketer.

In the cricket, Fry started play for Surrey in 1891. After that, C.B Fry played for London County (1900 – 1902), Oxford University (1892–1895), Sussex (1894–1908), London County (1900 – 1902), Hampshire (1909 – 1921) and Europeans (1921 – 1922). Fry was captain of Sussex (1904–1908). This creative right-handed batsman scored over 30,000 first-class runs. His test first appearance was become on February13, 1896 v South Africa. He was captained of England national team in 1912. England never lost a test Match under the captaincy of C.B Fry. He captained 6 test matches of England in 1912, winning four and drawing two. Fry played 23 international test cricket matches. He scored 394 runs at average 32.18 runs. Fry twice scored test centuries against Australia and South Africa. This right arm fast-medium bowler took 196 wickets at 394 appearances in first-class matches but didn’t take any wickets at 6 appearances in international matches. Fry scored 30886 runs at 394 appearances in the club career. The average of his first class test matches was 50.22 runs.

In the football, C.B. first educated his union football skills at Repton School and was awarded his blue for soccer at Oxford University. In 1894, Fry joined the famous amateur club. After, Charles Burgess Fry attended Southampton in 1900. Fry played his first appearance against Tottenham Hotspur to be player of Southampton in December 1900. C.B Fry also played the FA Cup final against Sheffield United. After leaving Southampton, Charles Burgess Fry joined Portsmouth in 1903. C.B Fry was called by England national team in 1901.This defender (full back) played only one international match against Ireland on March 9, 1901. Fry didn’t any score both of club & international career.

In the field of athletics, Fry became equal with the American Charles Reber at world long jump record of 7.17 m in 1893. It was steady for 21 years. Fry became third in the long jump and triumphed the 100 yards at the world's primary international athletics match. He also won gold medal at the 1896 Olympics. Charles Burgess Fry also played Rugby union for Blackheath and the Barbarians.

He was not perfect only in the games & sports but also all spheres of life. Charles Burgess Fry was presumably the most variously talented Englishman of any era. This great man was died on September 7, 1956 at the age of 84. The nation will remember his with great respect.

India Made a Great mistake to Withdraw the World Cup-1950.

Cricket is favorite game in India but foot ball is also enjoyable game to them. So, When World Cup foot ball is started, and then the whole India becomes fulfill with the pleasure of the World Cup. The roofs of buildings of most capital cities in India is covered or fulfilled with the flags of many countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Germany, France, Spain and America etc. The most people of India think that when will play India in the World Cup? But India was once qualified for the World Cup-1950. Then, India was in the Qualification Group-10 consist of Burma, the Philippines and Indonesia. But other three countries all withdrew the tournament. So India qualified for the World Cup spontaneously. In the final round of World Cup-1950, India was involved in the Group-3 with Sweden, Italy and Paraguay. But unfortunately, FIFA did not permit them to perform in the tournament barefoot as FIFA made it obligatory in 1950 to wear foot ball boots. That time India used to play barefoot. So, AIFF thought that such a change would have obstructed the team’s present performance. As a result, India withdrew from the World Cup tournament. Association of Indian Football federation (AIFF) also presented many causes for withdrawing the tournament. AIFF said that we have no sufficient practice time for selection the team. Besides, AIFF also faced a large amount of travel cost for a long sea journey. The world football leading body was decided to provide a key part for the flights & that flight would have been Delhi through Amsterdam toward Rio de Janeiro. In spite of such a bountifulness of FIFA, India withdrew the World Cup-1950 from playing because they were not permitted to play barefoot. The captain of Indian of that time; Sailen Manna said, "We had no good idea about World Cup at that time. Then Olympic game was bigger than the World Cup to us.” India withdrew the World Cup-1950 to play as they were not acceptable to play barefoot. But hey completed Olympics-1952 barefoot. The 1950s to 1960s was a golden age of India. In that time, India won gold medals in the Asian Games twice times. Even, India became one of the founder members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in 1954. They also qualified for the Olympics till 1960. After then; the Indian football team has never been able to qualify for the Olympics and the World Cup. So, don’t understand the value of World Cup, India made a great mistake to withdraw the world cup at that time.

Iker Casillas finished the World Cup-2010 Successfully.

The 29 years old Iker Casillas Fernández has become the best goalkeeper of the World Cup-2010.The FIFA Technical Study Group also announced Iker Casillas the winner of Golden Glove. Although Iker Casillas start the world Cup by making fault against Switzerland and consequent Spanish defeat in the Group H introduction, many charged gorgeous sports reporter Sara Carbonero s pitch side attendance for disturbing Casillas. The Spanish Goal keeper and captain was liable for his team's upset first-round defeat in the World Cup at the hands of poor Switzerland But Casillas finished the world Cup by overwhelming performance and leading the team successfully. He won the World Cup not only as a captain but also a Goal keeper. Iker Casillas wrote his name in the history who won the World Cup as a Goalkeeper and Captain. The first goalkeeper as a captain, Italian Gianpiero Combi won trophy of the World Cup in 1934 when Italy was the host country of the World Cup. After 48 years another Italian goalkeeper, Dino Zoff won the World Cup-1982 as a Captain. After that 48 years later Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas won the World Cup as a Captain, who also triumphed the Golden Glove award as the best goalkeeper of the World Cup. Iker Casillas has carried out an important role as a Goalkeeper and Captain in the World Cup. Even if Casillas didn’t save the penalty against Paraguay in the quarter-final match, Spain could not have reached the semi-final. Real Madrid goalkeeper also saved several world-class shot. In the final match, Casillas denied two dangerous shot of Dutch striker Arjen Robben. After beating the Netherlands in extra time in the final match, Carbonero discussed Casillas, but the exchange quickly turned into a festivity as the couple start to kiss one another in front of the camera. Scroll down to see the smooch. As a result, Spain won the glorious World Cup under Iker Casillas’s brilliant captaincy. Although Spain arranged the World Cup in 1982 gorgeously. But they are rejected by playing the Group Matches. The greatest success of Spain was the gainer of 4th place in the World Cup-1950 before winning the World Cup-2010. Even, they didn’t raise semifinal after 1950.But they have overcome all failures in the World Cup-2010. Moreover, it has been possible because of brilliant captaincy of Iker Casillas. Spain not only won the World Cup but also won the Fair Play Trophy in this World Cup. They won the Fair Play Trophy twice time endlessly. Spain also won the Fair Play Trophy in the World Cup-2006 in Germany. So, Spain also wrote his name beside Brazil and England. Brazil and England also won the Fair Play Trophy twice time. Actually, Fair Play Trophy is awarded for gifting beautiful play. Beautiful play means going less fowl, getting less yellow card etc. In a word, don’t injustices attack the opposite teams. Without final match, the yellow card of Spain was only 3. They have gotten 5 yellow cards in the final match. The whole World Cup was fulfilled in the tone of Spain’s victory. So, Spain won the World Cup with the Fair Play Trophy under the excellent captaincy of Iker Casillas. So, Iker Casillas finished the World Cup-2010 successfully.

Thomas Mueller Wrote His Name Beside Gerd Mueller.

The 20-year-old German rising forward Thomas Mueller terminated his successful World Cup-2010 after winning the Golden Boot and Young Player of the Tournament awards. That’s name was Adidas Golden Boot for last 30 years. The World Cup of Mexico in 1970, the another German foot ball player, Gerd Muller won the Golden Shoes. Gerd Muller was the highest scorer in the World Cup for 30 years. Gerd Muller scored 14 goals in the two World Cups. Brazilian Rolando broke his record after playing 3 World Cups. Thomas Mueller has written his name beside that icon, Gerd Mueller as a winner of Golden Shoes winner. Thomas Mueller won the Golden Shoes as a third Germany foot baller. Present foot ball fan generation either have forgotten the name of Gerd Mueller but having the similarity of the name with Thomas Mueller, present generation can be familiar with Gard Mueller. The younger player, Thomas Mueller started his international first appearance on March 3 in current year in a 1-0 home defeat by Argentina. Thomas Mueller made his domestic debut for Bayern against Hamburg SV in the Bundesliga on August 15, 2008. It is the first World Cup of his career that he has started lucratively. Thomas Mueller scored 5 goals in this World cup. His first goal came in their opening game against Australia. Thomas Mueller scored two goals against England in an unbelievable display of offensive football. His 4th goal came against Argentina after a few minute from starting play. Thomas Mueller made his fifth goal against Uruguay in the 3^rd place play match. The naturally given to the top goal scorer of this year’s World Cup. But the four contenders’ scores were equal in this World Cup.-2010. They are Thomas Mueller (Germany), David Villa (Spain), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands) and Diego Forlan (Uruguay). But, Thomas Mueller,lofty passing, short & attacking play has taken his this glorious Golden Shoes and Best Young Player award.