Cargo Vessel Sinks in Irish Sea -- Two Rescued, Six Still Missing and Search is On

Cargo Vessel Sinks in Irish Sea 

DUBLIN, Ireland (Nov. 27) – Six crew members of a cargo vessel, which has not been named, are still being searched after the ship sank after being damaged due to bad weather. Two of the crew members have been rescued, BBC News reported.

The coastguard in Holyhead, north Wales, received an emergency call around 0200 GMT on Sunday. It was reported that the ship was cracked due to bad weather in the sea and already started sinking.

Many other vessels in the sea responded promptly to help the sinking ship as the coastguards sent out mayday relay soon after they got the emergency call from ship.

A helicopter from RAF Valley in north Wales and another from Dublin Coastguard reached to the sinking vessel. Lifeguard boats from Pwllheli and Porthdinllaen also responded quickly and arrived on the scene.

High winds, rough sea condition in the dark is making the searching operation more difficult, coastguards reported. The vessel reportedly has already sunk completely.

Ireland Hoping Another Upset to Get Through to the Quarterfinals

KOLKATA – South Africa will take on Ireland tomorrow (March 15) in Kolkata. Ireland will try to cause another cricketing tsunami by defeating South Africa to ease up their way to quarterfinals. 

 The match will start on 14:00 PST (14:30 IST, 09:00 GMT) and will be officiated by Kumar Dharmasena and Billy Doctrove, Simon Taufel (third), Ian Gould (fourth), Ranjan Madugalle (referee).

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South Africa to take on Giant-killers Ireland Tomorrow at Kolkata - Live Score Updates

Kieron Pollard and Darren sammy Led West Indies to Second Position on the Group B Table

MOHALI, India - - West Indies brutally sunk the quarterfinal hopes of giant-killers Ireland here at Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali. After been invited to bat first West Indies had a slow but steady in response to some accurate and good bowling by Irish bowlers. 

Wes Indies openers, Chanderpaul (35) and Devon Smith (107), provided a solid opening stand of 89 runs. But the real cameo played by Kieron Pollard by scoring 94 runs off 55 balls. West Indies lower-order collapsed once again and just managed to take the score to 275. Kevin O’Brien showed some skill with the bat and picked up 4 wickets; while John Mooney took 2 wickets. Boyd Rankin, Andre Botha and George Dockrell claimed one wicket each.

Chasing 276, Ireland had a shaky start too losing successive wickets with regular intervals. Only once they seemed comfortable and looking to get the target when Ed Joyace (84) and Gary Wilson (61) were partnering against the West Indies bowling in the middle of their innings. But Darren Sammy struck twice to pick up the wickets of Kevin O’Brien (10) and Gary Wilson.

 

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India and England Won Their Important Matches of the World Cup

BANGALORE - - India and England won their respective matches today against Ireland and South Africa at Bangalore and Chennai respectively.

 

India won the match against Ireland by five wickets; but the performance of the Irish team is commendable, the way they tried to defend the small total of 207. They bowled according to their limits and forced Indian batsmen to make errors. 

Ireland almost turned the tables when they picked up fourth wicket of Virat Kohli on the total score of 100; but then skipper played a responsible knock in the company of Yuvraj Singh, who himself played sensibly after dragging Ireland batsmen with his swinging deliveries. 

Ultimately, Yusuf Pathan came out in the ground after captain and led the match to its end with his 24-ball knock of 30 runs. On the other hand Yuvraj Singh became the first player to pick 5 wickets and scored half century in the World Cups.   

Earlier, India won the toss and invited Ireland to bat first. Zaheer Khan began the damage early in the innings, actually in the very first over. Ireland sskipper William Porterfield (72) and Niall O’Brien (46) played sensibly to rescue Ireland and took the score to 122. Both of them added 113 in the fourth wicket partnership. No other batsman posed any threat to Indian bowlers and the hero of the last match, Kevin O’Brien, fell cheaply on just 9 to Yuvraj Singh.  

 

 

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Cricket World Cup 2011 - Match Schedule for Feb. 25 With Probable Squads

New Delhi – Pakistan-born Imran Tahir and AB de Villiers starred in the today’s encounter against South Africa. Imran Tahir took four wickets while de Villers smashed blazing hundred to lead South Africa to a 7-wickets victory.

Tomorrow (Friday, Feb. 25) two matches are scheduled; 1^st between Australia and New Zealand at Nagpur. Australia and New Zealand have won their first group matches against Zimbawe and Kenya respectively. This is a day match and will start on 9:00 am PST. 

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