Members of the media community of Kolkata arranged a function on Sunday to honor cricketer Sourav Ganguly. Sourav has decided to take retirement from the international cricket after the conclusion of the India-Australia Test series, completing his 13-year cricket career.

Journalists across the city gathered here and honoured his contribution to the Indian cricket. They asked him to lead young cricketers from the state to glorify the name of West Bengal.

Sourav's wife Dona and daughter Sana were also present at the function.

Former players and the Australian media have criticized Ricky Ponting for 'baffling' captaincy in the recent match. Australian media alleged that Ponting used part-timers to try to improve over rate to save his captaincy.

It is to be noted that Ricky has employed part timers instead of his regular pacers after the tea interval during the fifth day of the Nagpur Test. He actually wanted to step up the slow over-rate to avoid a ban in the next Test match.

Indian bowler, S Sreesanth ruled out any quarrel at his birthday party held at an apartment in Bangalore. He said that media reports are baseless and nothing wrong happened in his presence.

He said that it was, infact, a small gathering of close friends who were dancing and enjoying in his apartment on music beats. He criticized his neighbors for spreading baseless rumors for cheap publicity. Regarding the charges of bleeding, Sreesanth said it was due to the injury, caused by fall of a brick on the head of one of his friend.

In an interview to a news channel, Yousuf said, “I was compelled to join the ICL because of the behaviour of the board officials, the selectors and captain Shoaib Malik.”

Yousuf said that he had been under enormous mental strain and stress since the World Cup in 2007.

The 34 year old batsman made it clear that he had not joined the League for the sake of money.

"Money was never an issue for joining the ICL. I was getting paid by the board for not playing in the private leagues," he said.

Scorching knocks of 88 and 51 by Nicky Boje and Stuart Binny helped Hyderabad Heroes to defeat Mumbai Champs by 79-runs in the ICL 20s Indian Championship match at Tau Devi Lal Stadium.

Batting first, Heroes piled 214 runs, the highest score in the tournament. Chasing this imposing total, Champs could manage only 135 runs losing six wickets in their allotted 20 overs.

, 18, a New England Patriots cheerleader has been kicked off the squad after online pictures of her and another person covering a drunken person in profane words, pictures, anti-semitic verbiage, including swastikas surfaced. One wonders what she could have been thinking as the social circle of Bob and Myra Kraft who own the Patriots, also includes fellow leaders of the Anti-Defamation League.

According to the Boston Herald, the pictures posted on Facebook showing Davis and another person writing on a passed out person, have also appeared on a number of other sites like TMZ. com