Neymar out of World Cup

The 22-year-old fractured a vertebra in his back when he was kneed in a challenge by Juan Zuniga.

Neymar was in tears when he carried off on a stretcher, before being taken to hospital in Fortaleza.

Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said: "Neymar was going to be hunted. For three matches that has been happening."

Team doctor Rodrigo Lasmar told Brazil's SportTV: "Unfortunately, he's not going to be able to play. He is very, very sad."

"It's not serious in the sense that it doesn't need surgery, but he'll need to immobilise it to recover."

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"Messi does not need World Cup for greatness"-Maradona

“Messi doesn’t need to win the World Cup to be the best player in the world,” Maradona said,“It would be great for Argentina, the fans and for him, but winning a World Cup or not won’t take away any of his achievements up to now to be among the greatest.”

Maradona thinks the Brazil World Cup is the perfect stage for Messi to get his revenge.

“I approached him and told him he’d have many World Cups to get revenge.

“I said it with all my heart. While the rest were thinking about our return home he was there, head bowed, crying.”

As for this year’s tournament, Maradona went on: “There’s Spain, Germany and there’s Brazil with a tremendous defence.

“You think of Brazil’s defence and six or seven names come to mind, you think of their attack and there’s only Neymar.

“For Messi, it will be a test of character, to bring out all that crying he has in his heart. Brazil can be his great revenge.”

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AISHWARYA RAI VOTED 4TH MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has made it to the fourth position in a recent poll of the world's most beautiful women. Conducted by Hollywood Buzz, the survey saw participation from more than four million people, who selected the most intelligent, desirable and successful women of 2013-14. Aishwarya was only beaten by Monica Belluci, Kate Upton and Angelina Jolie.

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Michael Schumacher 'fighting for his life'

Paris: seven times formula one champion Michael Schumacher is 'fighting of his life' after a ski accident in the french alps,BBC reported early Tuesday.
the driver remains in a critical condition in hospital in Grenoble hospital in France with head injuries suffered Sunday morning at the resort of Merible.'we cannot tell you what the outcome will be yet' the doctor treating him told a news conference Monday morning.
Schumacher is the most successful formula one driver of all time with record 91 victories among his achievement won his titles with Benetton and Ferrari.

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Neymar, Pedro score as Barcelona cruise into Copa del Rey pre-quarters

Madrid:  La Liga leaders Barcelona comfortably secured their place in the last 16 of the Copa del Rey with a 3-0 win over third-tier Cartagena on Tuesday, to seal a 7-1 win on aggregate.

Cartagena threatened to embarrass their illustrious hosts when Zurdo struck the post midway through the first-half. However, any hopes the visitors had of a famous victory were quashed when Pedro neatly swept home Martin Montoya's cross for his third goal of the tie.

Without a host of regular starters, Barca struggled to create clear-cut openings all evening but they were gifted a second goal 23 minutes from time when Mariano Martinez turned Cristian Tello's cross into his own net.

And Neymar rounded off the scoring with his sixth goal in his last three games when he headed home Andres Iniesta's cross three minutes from time. Barca will now face Getafe in the last 16 after the Madrid side thrashed Girona 4-1 to secure their place in the next round by the same score on aggregate.

Osasuna, fresh from their 2-2 draw against Real Madrid on Saturday, will face Los Blancos again in January should Madrid overcome Olimpic Xativa on Wednesday as the Navarrans progressed on away goals after a 1-1 draw at home to Malaga on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Levante beat second division Recreativo Huelva 4-0 to also progress 4-1 on aggregate

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Record-master Sachin Tendulkar(ODI)

•  Sachin holds the record of being the 1st person to score a double century in One Day International.
•  He has the 3rd highest individual score (after Sehwag and Rohit Sharma) in the history of One Day Cricket.
•  Record holder for highest number of centuries (49).
•  Record holder for highest number of fifties (96).
•  He also holds the most number of 150+ scores (5).
•  Sachin holds the most number of runs (1,894 runs) and centuries (9) in a calendar year (year 1998).
• Most number of centuries against a single opponent (9 ODI centuries against Australia).
•  Most number of boundaries (4s) scored (2,016 times!).
•  Most number of boundaries scored by an individual in an ODI innings (25 boundary hits) in his 200*.
• Sachin is now the most capped player (463 ODIs) in ODI.
• He is the first player to score 10,000 and to reach 18,000 ODI runs.
• Holds most number of Man of the Match (MoM) awards (62).
• Holds most number of Man of the Match awards in ODI World Cup Matches (9).
• Holds most number of Man of the Series (MoS) awards (15).
• World Record of 1,000+ runs in a calendar year on 7 occasions (1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2007). 
• Highest partnership of 331-run for any wicket with Rahul Dravid (vs. New Zealand in ODIs).
• Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly have scored 26 hundred-plus partnerships in ODIs. Among which 21 century stands were for the opening wicket. Both are World records.
• In ODI cricket Sachin has played on 90 different grounds across the world which is the most number of stadium appearances by any cricketer.
• He is the only batsman who has scored over 2,500 runs against Australia, as well as against Sri Lanka. No one else has even scored that many runs against even a single team.

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Virat kohli no.1

Virat Kohli has become the No. 1 ranked batsman in ODIs after the just concluded India-Australia series, which India won 3-2.

Kohli scored 344 runs in 5 innings, averaging 114.66 with the bat. He also scored the fastest and third-fastest hundred by an Indian batsman. He achieved his career-highest rating of 869 on 30th October, which fell to 857 after he was run-out for a duck in the 7th ODI in Bengaluru.

The Indian batsman has displaced Hashim Amla from the top of the ladder, who with 844 points, is the 2nd ranked batsman in ODIs currently. Amla is missing the currentODI series against Pakistan to attend the birth of his child in South Africa.

George Bailey, who was the 2nd highest scorer with 478 runs in the series, has jumped to No. 3 position, his highest career ranking so far.

MS Dhoni is the only other Indian batsman in top 10 at 6th position in the list.

Shikhar Dhawan also achieved his career-high rating of 688 and has jumped to the No. 11 spot.

Rohit Sharma, who became the third batsman to score a double century in ODIs yesterday, and was the top run-scorer (491) from either side in the series, grabbed the No. 15 place with career-high rating of 655 which he achieved after the 7th ODI.

Here are the latest ICC rankings and ratings:

1. Virat Kohli – 857
2. Hashim Amla – 844
3. George Bailey – 835
4. Kumar Sangakkara – 829
5. AB de Villiers – 826
6. MS Dhoni – 780
7. Jonathan Trott – 754
8. Tillakaratne Dilshan – 746
9. Misbah-ul-Haq – 720
10. Shane Watson – 708

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