Flower to rest key England players

England international cricket coach Andy Flower may rest some of his key players as they face a hectic schedule over the rest of 2010.

The team are still celebrating after their impressive victory in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, but they are due to play a Test series against Bangladesh in the coming weeks.

England are also scheduled to play Pakistan in a series of ODIs, Tests and Twenty20 matches before their Ashes winter.

Flower has seen England Test captain Andrew Strauss take a break and sit out the Twenty20 matches, but he will return for the Bangladesh Tests, while the likes of Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood and Graeme Swann have all played pretty much non-stop over the last 12 months.

England's cricket odds suggest they should make short work of Bangladesh, and it could be that some fresh faces are brought in for those games.

The coach claims it could be hard to fit "strength and conditioning" training into an already busy schedule, so he may consider rotating his squad and giving some players a bit of a rest.

"We have a very busy 12 months ahead of us and we are going to have to rest players at various times," said Flower.

"In certain situations it is possible that we will have to rest some players either for emotional reasons such as stress and sometimes it will be for strength and conditioning reasons."

Flower has also moved to stop England players getting too carried away about their Twenty20 triumph by warning that the national team is about all forms of cricket and there is still "huge scope for improvement" in some areas of their game.

Meanwhile, the England football team's World Cup 2010 betting odds makes them third favourites for this year's tournament.

They will be looking to emulate their cricket counterpart's trophy winning efforts when they travel to South Africa next month.

South Africa appoint former Test stars

South Africa have announced that former Test player Andrew Hudson is to take the role of convenor of selectors.

The 45-year-old will replace Gerald Majola who had been doing the job on a temporary basis, combining it as his role of chief executive with Cricket South Africa.

Hudson played 35 Tests for South Africa over a six-year period ending in 1998 and he will be joined on the selection panel by another former international star in Shafiek Abrahams, who has been added as a new member.

South Africa are currently bidding for glory in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, and the cricket betting odds suggest they are in with a good chance of winning the tournament.

Hudson is likely to face the first task of his new reign when the Test squad to face the West Indies in June is named.

Speaking about the appointment, Hudson said: "I am looking forward to getting involved with the Proteas again. They have done well recently and I am confident that we also have the emerging talent to take our team forward."

It was recently announced that South Africa is to host the Champions League Twenty20 tournament during September.

Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi confirmed the staging of the competition and said that South Africa was an "ideal host" due to their recent staging of big cricket competitions.

Meanwhile, in football news, South Africa is preparing to host the World Cup.
However, sadly for the Bafana Bafana the World Cup 2010 odds makes them huge outsiders of the tournament.

Soccer World Cup 2010 Theme Song

The officla Soccer World Cup 2010 Theme Song is now released. I'm sure most of the cricket fans will welcome the FIFA Soccer World Cup 2010 in South Africa as an event to celebrate. Here are the lyrics, MP3 Download link for the Soccer World Cup 2010 Official Theme Song.




The official theme song of FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa is sung by K’naan. The song is titled “Wavin Flag”. There is an English version as well as the Spanish version of the song. A link to download the MP3 of official theme song of FIFA World Cup 2010 will follow the lyrics of the official theme song.


The Lyrics

When i get older, they'll call me freedom
Just like a Waving Flag.

[Chorus]
When I get older, I will be stronger,
They'll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag,
And then it goes back, and then it goes back,
And then it goes back

Born to a throne, stronger than Rome
but Violent prone, poor people zone,
But it's my home, all I have known,
Where I got grown, streets we would roam.
But out of the darkness, I came the farthest,
Among the hardest survival.
Learn from these streets, it can be bleak,
Except no defeat, surrender retreat,

So we struggling, fighting to eat and
We wondering when we'll be free,
So we patiently wait, for that fateful day,
It's not far away, so for now we say

[Chorus]

So many wars, settling scores,
Bringing us promises, leaving us poor,
I heard them say, love is the way,
Love is the answer, that's what they say,
But look how they treat us, Make us believers,
We fight their battles, then they deceive us,
Try to control us, they couldn't hold us,
Cause we just move forward like Buffalo Soldiers.

But we struggling, fighting to eat,
And we wondering, when we'll be free
So we patiently wait, for that faithful day,
It's not far away, but for now we say,

[Chorus] 2x

(Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhh)
And everybody will be singing it
(Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhh)
And you and I will be singing it
(Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhh)
And we all will be singing it
(Ohhh Ohh Ohh Ohh)

[Chorus] 2x

When I get older, when I get older
I will be stronger, just like a Waving Flag,
Just like a Waving Flag, just like a Waving flag
Flag, flag, Just like a Waving Flag

Below is the link to Download the MP3 of Official FIFA World Cup 2010 Theme Song.

Click Here to Download MP3 of K’naan’s Waving Flag

If you are looking for the ring tone of Wavin' Flag, you can download it here.