Deccan beat Bangalore

Hyderabad 184/6 (20.0 overs) RR: 9.2					1st Innings
Batting	Status	R	B	4s	6s	S/R
Adam Gilchrist (C) (W)	c Virat Kohli b Kevin Pietersen	71	45	6	5	157.78
Herschelle Gibbs	lbw b Praveen Kumar	13	7	1	1	185.71
VVS Laxman	c Dale Steyn b Jesse Ryder	5	10	0	0	50.00
Rohit Sharma	c Kevin Pietersen b Dale Steyn	52	30	1	5	173.33
Scott Styris	c Praveen Kumar b Kevin Pietersen	14	8	0	1	175.00
Venugopal Rao	run out (Karan Sharma)	9	13	0	0	69.23
Dwaraka Ravi Teja	not out	8	5	1	0	160.00
Fidel Edwards	not out	3	2	0	0	150.00
Harmeet Singh
RP Singh
Pragyan Ojha
(b: 0, lb: 8, wd: 1, nb: 0, penalty: 0) extras: 9		184
Did not bat: Harmeet Singh, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha Fall of Wickets (Hyderabad) 1-46 Herschelle Gibbs (3.5 ov), 2-66 VVS Laxman (7.1 ov), 3-127 Adam Gilchrist (13.1 ov), 4-147 Scott Styris (15.3 ov), 5-172 Rohit Sharma (18.2 ov), 6-174 Venugopal Rao (19 ov) Bowling (Bangalore) Bowler O M R W NB WD E/R Praveen Kumar 4 0 37 1 0 0 9.25 Dale Steyn 3 0 21 1 0 0 7.00 Jacques Kallis 2 0 19 0 0 0 9.50 Anil Kumble 4 0 39 0 0 0 9.75 Jesse Ryder 3 0 29 1 0 1 9.67 Kevin Pietersen 4 0 31 2 0 0 7.75 Bangalore 160/8 (20.0 overs) RR: 8 2nd Innings Batting Status R B 4s 6s S/R Jesse Ryder b Fidel Edwards 0 1 0 0 Robin Uthappa (W) c Dwaraka Ravi Teja b Scott Styris 12 19 1 0 63.16 Jacques Kallis c Rohit Sharma b RP Singh 15 14 3 0 107.14 Kevin Pietersen (C) st Adam Gilchrist b Pragyan Ojha 11 15 1 0 73.33 Rahul Dravid c Venugopal Rao b Scott Styris 48 27 5 2 177.78 Virat Kohli c Herschelle Gibbs b RP Singh 50 32 7 0 156.25 Rajesh Bishnoi run out (Adam Gilchrist) 1 2 0 0 50.00 Karan Sharma c Adam Gilchrist b Scott Styris 1 3 0 0 33.33 Praveen Kumar not out 14 6 0 2 233.33 Anil Kumble not out 1 1 0 0 100.00 Dale Steyn (b: 0, lb: 1, wd: 6, nb: 0, penalty: 0) extras: 7 160 Did not bat: Dale Steyn Fall of Wickets (Bangalore) 1-0 Jesse Ryder (0.1 ov), 2-19 Jacques Kallis (3.5 ov), 3-38 Robin Uthappa (7.2 ov), 4-62 Kevin Pietersen (10.3 ov), 5-115 Rahul Dravid (15.4 ov), 6-123 Rajesh Bishnoi (16.3 ov), 7-134 Karan Sharma (17.4 ov), 8-158 Virat Kohli (19.4 ov) Bowling (Hyderabad) Bowler O M R W NB WD E/R Fidel Edwards 4 0 39 1 0 1 9.75 RP Singh 4 0 17 2 0 0 4.25 Harmeet Singh 4 0 44 0 0 4 11.00 Pragyan Ojha 4 0 27 1 0 0 6.75 Scott Styris 4 0 32 3 0 1 8.00 Powerplay: 1-6

LTTE Chief Prabhakaran to be caught by today

The top LTTE leaders surrendered on Wednesday but still there’s no trace of Prabhakaran. The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called an emergency meeting in New Delhi on the Sri Lanka situation.

It appears to be final stage of the war against the LTTE, on Wednesday the terror group’s media coordinator surrendered to the Sri Lankan Army.

The Sri Lankan government says they’re closing in on what could be the hiding place of LTTE chief Prabhakaran. They believe Prabhakaran is still hiding in the area and cannot escape.

From all indicators, the military defeat of the LTTE as a consistent fighting force is all but complete. All that is missing is the capture of the LTTE supremo Prabhakaran.

The Lankan army says there are about 500 hardcore LTTE militants left in the no-fire zone, including Prabhakaran and he cannot escape.

On Wednesday, it was the Sri Lankan government’s biggest success in its current offensive – Daya Master, the Tigers’ media spokesperson and George, an interpreter for top leader Thamilselvan have surrendered with their families.

To the world, they were the voice of the LTTE. The government says 3,000 other LTTE militants have also laid down their arms, instead of committing suicide by biting into the cyanide capsule, as the tigers are known to do.

But the LTTE chief, Prabhakaran continues to escape the army. Reports suggest he is still hiding among thousands of civilians in a 12-14 square km pocket where the tigers are cornered.

The army claims over 81,000 civilians have escaped the LTTE zone.

The US claims over a lakh people are still in the war zone and has released satellite pictures of camps consisting of 25,000 tents in a government-designated safe zone. These pictures show the camps before and after people moved in.

The LTTE claims over 1000 civilians have been killed in the last two days, though the government says 30 have died. No foreign media is allowed in the area, but the UN has estimated over 4,500 people have been killed in this offence. With the army going for the kill, the humanitarian crisis can only worsen.

The Sri Lankan army has carried out a large hostage rescue mission, but will only end if it captures Prabhakaran, dead or alive.