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If you have a Xbox 360 you don’t know how good you have it. Playstation 3 online features are atrocious.

Most of the time their network is down. When its working its dog slow at downloading demos and updates.

Most of the demos are full games which you can unlock by paying a fee. But the problem with that is you have to download a 4 Gb file to try out a game.

The online interface is also bad when you compare it with xbox.

Xbox 360 has big game title images where are as ps3 titles are just small thumbnails. Which become full screen movies when you select them not a idea ui.

Even though you have to pay 3500 Rs annual fee for xbox 360 its worth it compared to the free service offered by the ps3. PS3 also has a payed service which costs 3500 Rs per year. It offers free games and other content.

But after seeing how bad their free service is i am not willing to pay the playstation plus membership.

Xbox 360 offers a 1 month trial which lets you to see what you get with xbox live account.

Normally a system update will update all the features but not with ps3. even after a update you will have to do individual updates for many features.

At the moment xbox online ui and features are at least 5 years ahead of Playstation.

If i buy a next console it will be an xbox not playstation because next consoles will be using online heavily

Just read the comments to these stories We also won 2-0 in India & No need for anyone to retire – Sehwag

Here are my views

Sachin had the better average of the series of all Indian batsmen. So dropping him is out of the question.

He should be exempt from dropping.

As someone from cricinfo comments said

“I feel that the decision to pick players should be purely based on form. I agree that laxman and dravid haven’t performed that well this series, but has everyone forgotten dravids heroics in England? Yes, I believe that lax should be dropped, but not dravid. I wont even mention sachin being dropped, thats not possible. He has looked the best this series, and has averaged higher than most batsmen this series. The day Sachin retires from cricket, that’s the day i’m done watching Indian cricket.”

The day Sachin is done, that is when i am done with Indian cricket but not cricket in general.

I think many are paid more than they are worth, when you look at other cricketing nations some times it gets to their head.

Sachin should retire but not for this series, but for a more sentimental reason. I want him to stay at 99 centuries. Like Bradman batting average 99.94, Sachin should leave it at 99 as a tribute to Bradman.

But now everyone might say he did it because he couldn’t score, so not sure about that now.

As Gangully was recommending during the match let India youth go and play English county for a season. My suggestion is 11 young players should be selected and sent to play in english county and pick the best who perform there. It would also be helpful to send Kohili and other players.

Give them a break from home series and send them overseas.

Don’t just remove players do something practical that will last.

Sunil Gavaskar has lashed out against India team for their lack of practice after their 2-0 loss against Australia.

“Christmas is big in Australia and it’s understandable for Australian players taking off after the first Test. But what were our players doing? Why were not they doing practice? Have they gone there for sightseeing or play cricket?” asked a furious Gavaskar.

Good to see someone finally make a fuss about this.

In 2003 when i went to see a one day match in Bangalore, it was Australia v/s India.

I was in the stadium 2 hours early.

As soon as the teams arrived Australian team came on to the ground systematically started warming up and some fielding as a unit.

Then batsmen and bowlers divided into groups and started practicing their disciplines.

On the other hand Indian team came on the ground just few minites before the match and  their practice was not as structured or as intense as Australians.

No wonder Australians routed India in that match

Would just more practice help their cause, i don’t think so more attitude change is necessary to improve the situation.

Even in the recently concluded test match, when Zaheer was batting in the second innings, Win for Australia was almost guaranteed.

But even then Ben Hilfenhaus dived to save a four which wouldn’t have mattered that much, mind you he just finished his 3 over spell.

I can remember many Indian players who didn’t dive or even put in an effort to stop the ball in Australian first innings. Laxman and Ashwin to name a few that didn’t put any kind of real effort in fielding when Australia where scoring every other ball.

Some big decision have to be made by the BCCI to improve the situation, i don’t think they are capable of those.

This is the official song Wavin’ Flag by K’naan for 2010 Fifa World Cup. This is once of the best theme songs for any games in recent times after La copa de la vida by Ricky Martin.This is a song by Shakira, sounds good and come on people its time for Africa.via YouTube – Shakira This time for Africa.

After a long time we see some innovation on cricket pitch. Is it for the good or bad, only coming days will tell.Its a bat called Mangoose, its is being sold for 20000 Rs. Manufactures say its being made special for T20 game.It looks funny, how effective will it be, we have to wait and see. Mathew Hayden will be using this bat in this years IPL.Its good to see some innovation finally make it on to the pitch. What’s next, can’t wait to see in this every changing game.Hayden unveils new bats for T20 cricket: Rediff Sports.

All the recent super stars of sports are having bad exits to their careers.

Last night during the real madrid match saw Zidane.

Zidane his bad exit from the football during the world cup because of head butting.

Now

Tiger Woods with his sex scandals.

He had everything going for him, why did do this.

I guess its easy to judge others, but if you were in his position wouldn’t you do these things too.

This only proves that, they are also humans.

Real Madrid went on a big spending spree this season.

They bought Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United . Kaka from Milan and Benzema from Lyon. They say they made their last signing with Xabi Alonso.

They will be selling some players to get some money back.

All the three Dutch players are expted to be gone. I hope Huntelaar doesn’t go to other clubs.

This is how the team look now.

This makes for a exciting team for the coming season which will begin on Aug 30 with a match against Deportivo.

Read more about real madrid transfers.