Dravid made 112 - his 32nd test century - before he was the last man dismissed, as the Indians were bowled out for 252 in their second innings on the third day at Sabina Park, setting the hosts 326 for victory.
Sharma and Kumar then put the brakes on a promising West Indies start, removing the home team's top order, as they reached 131 for three in their second innings at stumps.
Kumar made the breakthrough, when he had Adrian Barath caught at a deliberately-placed third slip for a quick-fire 38, leaving West Indies 62 for one.
Next over, Sharma condemned Ramnaresh Sarwan to another failure, when the stylish right-hander edged a loose, flat-footed drive, and was caught at gully for a second-ball duck.
Sharma continued to plug away, gaining appreciable bounce and movement from the hard, true pitch, and was rewarded when he bowled Lendl Simmons for 27.
The Indian bowlers continued to probe away for the remainder of the day, but Darren Bravo, not out on 30, and fellow left-hander Shivnarine Chanderpaul, not out on 24, resisted firmly, putting on 51 - unbroken - for the fourth wicket.
Earlier, Dravid was a pillar of defiance, batting in typically dogged fashion for close to seven hours, striking 10 fours and one six from 274 balls, and holding the innings together in the face of purposeful bowling from West Indies.
He reached his hundred from 252 balls, dabbing a delivery from Fidel Edwards into point for a single.
Dravid shared in an important ninth-wicket stand of 56 with Amit Mishra, after West Indies captain Darren Sammy removed Harbhajan Singh and Kumar in the space of three balls, as India slipped to 183 for eight in the first 35 minutes after lunch.
Mishra batted confidently, showing great courage against a barrage of short-pitched bowling, particularly from Edwards, armed with the second new ball.
He spent just over an hour and a quarter at the crease making 28 before he was caught at third man off Sammy, trying an upper cut.
Dravid soon followed, caught at long-on, going for the second time in the match to leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo.
The Indians had seemed destined for a much earlier close to their innings, when Sammy had Harbhajan dubiously lbw for five. Television replays suggested the ball would have bounced over the top of the stumps.
Two deliveries later, Kumar was bowled for a duck, playing across a well-pitched yorker from Sammy, but Mishra arrived to play the part of spoiler.
Sammy finished with four for 52 from 27 overs, and Bishoo captured four for 65 from 24.5 overs.
Before lunch, India had lost two wickets - both to Bishoo - in the last half-hour before the interval, sliding to 166 for six.
Left-hander Suresh Raina was caught at leg-slip for 27, gloving a sweep at a delivery from Bishoo into the legs of wicketkeeper Carlton Baugh Jr before the ball lobbed to Sammy.
In typical fashion, Mahendra Singh Dhoni played a few rousing strokes, including a straight six off Bishoo, before he cut the final delivery before lunch from the same bowler straight to the cover fielder, much to his chagrin.
India had been setback early, after they continued from their overnight total of 91 for three, when Edwards had Virat Kohli caught behind down the leg-side for 15, leaving the Indians 100 for four 
Today , fourth one day international cricket match played between India and West Indies at North Sound , West indies.In this match , West Indies played first and scored 249 runs in 50 overs at a loss of 8 wickets.
The highest scorers from West Indies are KA Pollard and LMP Simmons who scored 70 and 67 runs.The indian bowler P Kumar took 3 wickets and he gave only 37 runs in 10 overs.
After that India did batting but they could not score much score and their all team became out at only 146 runs in 39 overs. So that West Indies got tremendous victory against India. The highest scorer of India is RG Sharma who scored 39 runs. The highest wicket taker of West Indies is A Martin who took 4 wickets and gave only 36 runs in 10 overs.
West Indies beat India by 103 runs. But India led the series of 5 matches by 3-1.
Computer companies will need to collaborate to work on addressing security issues to boost confidence in cloud computing, where data and software is stored on servers and accessed via the Internet, especially in the corporate space where the potential market size is much larger than the retail space.
"Many enterprises have reservations about the security of cloud computing because of the multi-tenant architecture and the fact that cloud providers are 'big targets'," said Steve Hodgkinson, IT research director at UK-based research firm Ovum.
"The reality, however, is that the leading cloud providers have a very strong incentive to invest in the latest security technologies and processes - and will arguably be more secure than most enterprises themselves."
Security is a hot issue in the computing world. Hackers broke into Sony's networks and accessed the information of more than 1 million customers, the latest of several security breaches.
The breaches were the latest attacks on high-profile firms, including defense contractor Lockheed Martin and Google, which pointed the blame at China.
Concerns over security could slow the growth of the market for cloud computing, which is expected to reach $3.2 billion this year in Asia alone from $1.87 billion last year, while the global market could reach $55 billion in 2014, according to estimates by technology research firm IDC.
FRAGMENTED MARKET
Analysts and industry experts believe hardware-based security provides a higher level of protection than software with encryption added to data in the servers. Chipmakers are working to build more authentication into the silicon.
"We have to do a combination of mitigating things like building more and more security in the infrastructure," said Boyd Davis, a vice president at chipmaker Intel Corp, speaking at the Computex computer show in Taipei this week.
Intel has been working since the end of last year with software and computer vendors including Fujitsu, Huawei, Cisco, Dell, IBM and Hewlett Packard on a cross-industry initiative aimed at making cloud infrastructure more simplified, secure and efficient.
But one of the problems cloud faces is that it is a fragmented market where many vendors provide different security solutions based on their own standards.
Intel's rival ARM and Advanced Micro Devices are also in the process of embedding higher security in their chips and processors, but working with different partners.
If there was an open standard to follow, it would help the industry to build a much secure cloud system, according to AMD.
"Because if you don't have an open standard, you might do security in a certain way and I might do something that's not compatible, and the applications can't talk to each other," said Manju Hegde, AMD's corporate vice president.
He noted that Apple, set to unveil next week a cloud-based service called iCloud, has its own security because it is a vertical company, but the rest the industry should have an open standard.
Intel's Davis agreed that the lack of an open standard and interoperability are limits to the cloud, but added that the industry would have to strike a balance in an open standard with security or else it would make hackers' work easier.
"Because the definition of secure is tightly held. That's one of the dilemmas we'll face. We'd like to provide more capability to control the workload running on our processors, but the more we do that the more we invite malicious codes in."
Hyderabad, May 9
Languishing at the bottom of the points table, Deccan Chargers and Pune Warriors would be playing for pride when they square off in an Indian Premier League match here tomorrow.
thus having six points. Though Deccan have been able to post competitive scores, their inability to put up a collective show and sloppy fielding has cost them dearly.
Despite making a good 175, the hosts lost to the Delhi Daredevils in their last match as two catches of Virender Sehwag were dropped. Deccan Chargers captain Kumar Sangakkara felt that the two catches dropped by Ankit Sharma and Dwarka Ravi Teja cost them the match against Delhi Daredevils.
"I don't think it is anything to do with luck. We had two opportunities to get Viru (Sehwag), had we held those catches, we would have won. It is getting to a point that is costing us games," a livid Sangakkara had said at the post-match press conference on Thursday last.
"If you miss those catches, a batsman of Sehwag's class will make you pay. If you don't hold on to the chances that you create, especially when that is wicket you need, it is tough to win the games." Sangakkara also rubbished theories that the Uppal Stadium is turning out to be a jinxed ground.
"Jinx is a state of mind. When the crucial times come, it is the responsibility of the team to take the games and turn it around. Pressure is a constant factor in this format. You cannot play any professional sport without pressure. "You have to learn and be mentally strong to try and meet those situations and raise your game," said the skipper Bollywood diva Shilpa Shetty and hubby Raj Kundra are gearing up to throw a grand bash for Elizabeth Hurley and Shane Warne.
Warne is the captain of Shilpa’s team RajasthanRoyals. Shilpa who is very enthusiastic about the IPL (Indian Premiere League) always makes it a point to attend all the matches RajasthanRoyals.
It was only recently that she had to be bedridden as she was suffering from badmuscle spasm. As a result instead of being present at the stands and cheering for her team she had to take rest in her hotel bed.
These days Bollywood actress has a visitor and she is none other than British actressElizabeth Hurley. She is presently in India to cheer for Warne’s Rajasthan Royals and also spend some quality time with her new found love Shane Warne.
She has come to India along with her son Damian. Shilpa is planning to host a party for Hurley as well as for the team Rajasthan Royals.
Due to her bad back pain, she has decided to reschedule the date of her bash to 17th May. The bash will be held in Mumbai. Shilpa and Raj are all set to make Hurley’strip to India a very special one.
After Bangalore, it was the turn of cricket fans in Nagpur to be baton charged by the police. Hundreds of fans had lined up outside the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium here Tuesday to buy tickets for Saturday's World Cup match between India and South Africa but were caned by the police when they became disorderly, officials said.
Nagpur police officers, however, refused to comment on the matter.
When pressed for a reply, a police officer said mild chaos was bound to happen when such a huge number of people jostle for tickets.
Police had Feb 24 lathi charged thousands of fans at Bangalore's Chinnaswamy Stadium when they had gone berserk after being told that all the 7,000 tickets for the public at the 40,000 capacity stadium for the match had been sold out. The remaining tickets were distributed as complimentaries.
None of the West Indies player is injured in this shocking incident but surely they are afraid of what that all happened.The stones hit the bus when it was about three minutes on its way back to the hotel. The Bangladeshi fans were very disappointed due to their team's shocking defeat in the hands of West Indies. The Shere Bangla Stadium, Mirpur has the capacity of 25,000 people and the stadium far from full in this game. The match is over in just 31.1 overs and the fans after the match show their anger, stoned the West Indies players bus.
This kind of thing again raises the question of security. Pakistan was also the co-host with India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh but all the 14 matches played in Pakistan were shifted because of the security reasons. Now the players bus is stoned in Bangladesh, now wait and see what are the actions ICC will take to avoid these kind of incidents in the future.
The West Indies team manager , Richie Richardson already notify the ICC and both boards about the inciden
ICC has not yet taken decision about that but its a real shame tragedy for players as they are always the ambassadors of good will among nations.
Heavy turnout is not expected today for this film-artists’ match, as Two big cricket Gaints Australia and Sri Lanka are playing their crucial real world cup match at Colombo today tha began at 2.30 pm Sri Lanka batting. Therefore most of the real audience would stick on to T.V.sets to watch the live world-cup match. The audience who turn out to this match would enjoy looking at the faces of film-artists and their gestures, but not with a view to enjoy the cricket being played by them. Noted film artists like Salmankhan, Sharukhan Venkatesh, Nagarjuna, Abbas, Sri kanth, Radhika, Priyamani, Trisha Jelinia etc., are coming to entertain the public.
FRESH UPDATE at 8:30 pm : Due to stalling of Australia-Sri Lanka Cricket World Cup match at Colombo due to unexpected rain, heavy crowds have turned up to watch this fun making cricket match at Y.S.R Cricket Statium, as the artists are showing an improved performance in this Celebrities Cricket League match, than that was shown last year at Hyderabad Lalbahadur Stadium. Two groups of cheer-girls are entertaining the crowds whenever a six or four is hit by the batsmen.
Chinnaswamy Stadium, during the practice session he said, team morale is very high and our success against England give us a lot of boost and energy and my team will show the spirit of victory in the match between India. I know the target is taugh but will do our best.
It seems the number of tickets made available for sale to the general public is far too less than the numbers on demand – therefore, those who had been waiting in queue since Wednesday night clashed with the police. Only 8000 tickets are offered for sale in which most is sold in black while the capacity of the stadium is 40,000 – it seems the other tickets are reserved for the major sponsors, advertisers and other interested bodies and commercial partners.
This match had initially been scheduled to be held in the Eden Gardens, Kolkata, but was moved to Bangalore because the Kolkata venue had not been made ready in time.
According to the ICC,the fans complains that Kyazoonga website crashed when about thousands tickets went for sale and according to some fans ,many tickets been already sold online months before which creating outcry and indication of total Mismanagement of the fact.The total fact been brought to the lime light of Sharad Power by a letter from ICC Legal David Becker.
Its been mentioning that just about four thousands tickets are available for the Box Office sale for the final World Cup match in Mumbai.This type of scarcity been created mainly for the Quota tickets in which about 20k been given to the MCA and about 7,900 to the ICC Commercial partners.
It was a sad day for cricket when Rocky Ponting, the Australian captain lost his cool and damaged the property of his host country. He had been run out in his innings against Zimbabwe in the encounter of the 2011 cricket world cup in Motera, Ahmadabad – he was obviously furious and vented his anger on the TV set in the dressing room.
The Australian team had probably underestimated the Zimbabwean team and, when they kept a tight leash on the runs by disciplined bowling, the Australians had to literally grovel for runs. The run out of Ponting was most unexpected. It was but natural that he gets annoyed at himself. But – taking it out on the TV set was most unlike any captain – no matter what the provocation.
He later apologized for his behavior but the unpleasant incident has left a black mark on his reputation.
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