Chennai: Three-wicket hauls by M. Divya and S. Soundarya helped Stella Maris defeat SSS Jain College by 77 runs in the final of the Madras University ‘B' Zone women's cricket tournament held recently.
The scores:
Final: Stella Maris 133 for six in 20 overs (Mythili Madhusudhanan 40 not out, V. Nandhini 26 not out) bt SSS Jain College 56 in 19.4 overs (M. Divya three for 19, S. Soundarya three for 14).
CHENNAI: Ashwin Venkatraman will lead the Tamil Nadu under-22 team in the all-India Coromandel King Moin-ud-Dowla Gold Cup cricket tournament to be played from September 10 in Hyderabad.
The squad:
Ashwin Venkatraman (capt.), M. Kaushik Gandhi (vice-capt.), L. Suryapprakash, Vijay Shankar, I.T. Thabarak Baik, B. Aparajith, B. Indrajith, U. Sushil, L. Vignesh, P.K. Dharma, R.D. Ashwin Kumar, R. Aushik Srinivas, J. Joel Joseph, Garry Anthony Dumenil, and Malolan Rangarajan.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: S. Sreesanth has been included in the Kerala team that will take part in the Moin-ud-Dawlah all-India invitation cricket tournament to be held in Hyderabad from September 12.
Sreesanth, who played in the BCCI Corporate cricket tournament this week, informed the Kerala Cricket Association that he is available and expressed his desire to play in the Moin-ud-Dawlah tournament.
Sreesanth's request came a day after KCA secretary had said that the cricketer was welcome to play for his home state.
The selectors wasted no time in drafting him to the squad.
The team: Raiphy Vincent Gomez, S. Sreesath, Abhishek Hegde, Sambasiva Sarma, Sebastian Antony, Robert Fernandez, Rohan Prem, C.P. Rizwan, P. Prasanth, C.M. Thejas, K.R. Sreejith, C. Ramesh, K.J. Rakesh, Prasanth Parameshwaran and A.U. Anthaf .
Mumbai: Geoff Lawson, the former Australian pacer and coach of Pakistan from 2007 to 2009, feels sad at the plight of left-arm seamer Mohammad Amir following his alleged involvement in the spot-fixing scandal.
Lawson, who is in the city to meet officials of the Kochi franchise, said: “If Amir gets suspended he won't know what to do with himself. He comes from a poor village on the edge of the Swat valley. He comes from nothing.
Poor background
“There are so many cricketers in the subcontinent who are like that; they come from the villages and play a great game of cricket, and he (Amir) is one of those.
“He's 18 and a shining star of Pakistan and world cricket. It's quite sad what's happened. If he gets a five-year or longer ban, what will he be in five years' time? More importantly, how will he exist for five years? What will he do?''
London: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has reportedly asked Pakistan's suspended Test captain Salman Butt and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal to give their mobile phone records for an investigation into possible spot-fixing during the Asia Cup in June.
According to the Daily Mail, Akmal and Butt were contacted by ICC after “suspicions arose during the Asia Cup.”
The ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit have told the duo to release details of their mobile phone records during the tournament in Sri Lanka.
“They expect the full cooperation of both players but have yet to receive a response from the Pakistan camp,” the newspaper reported.
The newspaper also reported that 18-year-old pace sensation Mohammad Amir “will be told he could avoid a life ban if he gives evidence against his teammates” in the ongoing inquiry into the spot-fixing charges against him, Butt and Mohammad Asif. — PTI
Bangalore: The ICC pitch consultant Andy Atkinson checked the pitches at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Tuesday in the lead-up to the World Cup, early next year.
This was Atkinson's third visit to the venue and his views have gradually evolved from scepticism to guarded appreciation.
Atkinson first visited the stadium in December last year, and his subsequent report to the ICC was a scathing indictment about the playing surface that had not yet recovered from the scars of a long season.
Subsequently, Atkinson returned to the venue in June and then filed a positive report to the game's governing body and expressed satisfaction about the quality of the pitches.
In his latest trip along with fellow-consultant Prof. Eugene van Vuuren, Atkinson had a look at the pitches inside the Chinnaswamy Stadium and the ones in the adjacent KSCA (B) ground besides having a long conversation with curator Narayan Raju.
The curator was a relieved man after his discussions with Atkinson.
“He asked me a series of questions about the pitch, its preparation and nature and I answered all of them.
“He also had a look at the KSCA (B) ground where we have re-laid the practice pitches. We have about 20 pitches now,” said Narayan Raju.
VISAKHAPATNAM: Two evenly- balanced teams, India Cements and Indian Oil Corporation, will clash in Airtel Rajsingh Dungarpur Corporate Trophy final at the flood-lit ACA-VDCA stadium here on Wednesday.
Stars missing
The two teams are without their main stars but in the semifinals one witnessed that both have batsmen who could come good and boost the scoring rate, and bowlers who can strike at the right time.
India Cements team had nets on Tuesday while only a few players from IOC stretched themselves after the team played its semifinal on Monday night.
India Cements beat Air India in the first semifinal while IOC scored a comfortable win over Income Tax in the second.
The teams (from):
IOC: Wasim Jaffer (capt.), Pinal Shah, Ravikant Shukla, Cheteshwar Pujara, Harpreet Singh, Amith Dani, Rajesh Pawar, Murtuza Hussain, Anand Rajan, Vikrant Yeligeti, Paresh Patel, Rohan Raje, Javed Khan, Abbas Ali and Mithun Beerala.
India Cements: Dinesh Karthik (capt.), Abhinav Mukund, Arun Karthik, R. Prasanna K. Shri Vasudeva Das, Hemang Badani, Suresh Kumar, Yomahesh, M. Raja, V. Arun Kumar, Sudeep Tyagi, P. Amarnath, Maruthi Ragav and Krishna Varun Kumar.
Umpires: Sanjay Hazare (Baroda) and S. Ravi (Tamil Nadu).
Third Umpire: K. Hariharan (Delhi).
Match Referee: Raju Mukherjee (Bengal) . — Special Correspondent
Mumbai: The BCCI has decided to deal directly with its counterparts in other countries to get the green signals for the participation of foreign cricketers who would be bought at the next Indian Premier League (IPL) auction in November.
“The BCCI will directly deal with the parent boards of foreign players bought at the auction by the various franchises for getting their NOCs (no objection certificates). No players' agents would be allowed to get into the picture,” BCCI sources said on Tuesday.
In the past too the foreign players were allowed to play in the Twenty20 league only after getting the NOCs from their respective home boards, but the BCCI had left it to the players and their agents to undertake this onerous task.
The sources, however, did not confirm the reports that 10 per cent of the player fees would be paid to the foreign boards for allowing them to figure in the IPL.
“It has been decided that the President (Shashank Manohar) and Secretary (N. Srinivasan) would talk to the respective foreign players' boards and get the necessary NOCs,” they said.
It has also been decided that all player contracts will now be managed by the BCCI and will be signed by the Indian board along with the franchisees as well as the players.
A new player registration and contract management process would be detailed soon and no player contracts could be signed until then, BCCI Secretary Srinivasan had said in a release after the IPL Governing Council meeting on Sunday. — PTI
London: Merely disowning the match-fixing allegations he made against his Pakistan teammates would not be enough for Yasir Hameed as the opener could be questioned by the ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) for his statements in a tabloid sting operation.
In the video of the sting operation carried out by a British tabloid, Hameed had alleged that his teammates were “fixing almost every match” but later backtracked claiming that he was tricked into making the statements and blackmailed to stand by them by the undercover reporter who spoke to him.
But just a denial would not be of much help as the ACSU could ask him to explain the comments in the video, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph.
“If Hameed is contacted by the ACSU he may have to face an independent commissioner who the ICC plans to appoint to head what will be the biggest ever probe into corruption in cricket,” the newspaper reported.
But Hameed's reliability as a potential witness in the corruption scandal that has shaken the foundations of the game has been questioned by his own teammates.
Pakistan's ODI and Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi has called him unreliable.
Afridi said: “He (Hameed) is 30-31 but mentally he is 15-16. I don't know who he was sitting with or in what situation he gave this message but we have known him for a long time.
“We know we can expect anything from him and he does this kind of thing. People know what type of character he is,” he added. — PTI
VISAKHAPATNAM: After a smashing unbeaten 123 by Ravikant Shukla helped Indian Oil Corporation to 308, Income Tax made a valiant attempt to chase it down.
But the IOC bowlers came good to help the team to a 67-run victory and into the final of the Airtel Rajsingh Dungarpur Corporate Trophy tournament where it will take on India Cements on Wednesday.
The loss of Hiten Shah in the first over was soon forgotten as Ameya Shrikhande, with a run-a-ball 114 (11x4, 2x6) led the chase dominating the IOC bowling.
Amol Ubarhande and Jay Desai might have got themselves run out unnecessarily, but the 96-run stand for the fourth wicket with Bhavik Thakker (45) gave the team hope.
After Shrikhande was bowled by Rajesh Pawar, IT never recovered.
IOC, after winning the toss, made full use of the batting wicket.
The bearded captain, Wasim Jaffer (38, 4x7, 1x6), began the innings with a stand of 61 with Paresh Patel (34, 3x4).
Ravikant Shukla was at his punishing best smashing the IT bowlers all around. He hit eight fours and three sixes, sending Ankit Sharma over mid-wicket and Ajitesh Argal and Love Abilish over long-on.
He added 52 for the third wicket with Cheteshwar Pujara (21) and 60 with Harpreet Singh (24). But the best part of the innings was the rollicking unbeaten 97-run stand for the fifth wicket with Dani (49, 3x4,4x6, 25 b) which was dominated by the latter.
The scores: IOC 308 for four in 50 overs (Ravikant Shukla 123 n.o., Amith Dani 41 n.o.) bt IT 241 in 46 overs (Ameya Shrikhande 114, Bhavik Thakker 45) .
So, we are just hours away from the umpires calling ‘play' in the second edition of the Airtel Champions League T20. I can't wait to get into action as I love the game and the venue of the event this time — South Africa.
My favourite venue in South Africa is Centurion. I like the laid-back, chilled-out atmosphere with people sitting on the grass banks and the BBQs going all day. We've built a similar stadium in Sri Lanka's hill country called Pallakelle for the World Cup and hopefully we can create a similar atmosphere there too that the entire family can enjoy.
Of course, the other great thing about South Africa is the beauty of the countryside. There is something really special about being in Africa. It's very difficult to explain.
While everyone knows about the huge game parks full of big game, I also love the wild coastline especially along the Garden Route from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth.
Performance is key
As for the game, I just love the unpredictable nature of the T20 format.
Any team can be a winner on their day. Performance is the key no matter how big your reputation or famous your players.
The teams we will face certainly pose a big threat, but we've been practising extremely hard and we even came here a little early to get into the groove as quickly as possible.
Our advantage is that there are not too many first-timers to South Africa. Most of the lads have been here with the national team or with Sri Lanka ‘A'.
Our batsmen are conscious of the challenges and also the opportunities. They are aware that pitches in South Africa are great to play on and sub-continental players can thrive there because they have to do less work to get pace on the ball. The key is getting into a positive mindset that helps you make the necessary minor adjustments.
Even the recent games against India have helped as we, as a team, played a good amount of cricket.
The other day someone suggested that India-Sri Lanka could be the new dog-fight rivalry, given some stray incidents during the tour. I'd say: NO. To be honest there was more spice in the media reports than on the field.
Sri Lankan and Indian players have played so much together that we have excellent relations and that has not changed because of a couple of small incidents.
Anyway, it is time to clean the slate and start afresh, and this time it's gonna be in Africa.
See you there!
Chennai: Four wickets each by I. Murugan and S. Ramesh helped Vigneswara CC to a seven-wicket win over SIAA in a fifth division match recently in the TNCA league.
The scores:
Third div. ‘A': MCC 160 for nine in 50 overs (Ananta Krishnan 36 not out, P. Kumar 34, N. Sridhar 31, V. Krishnan four for 44 , D. Bala Subramani three for 28) lost to CCL 165 for one in 40.5 overs (M. Adithyan 53 not out, K. Nazer 89 not out ).
Fifth div. ‘B':
Prem CC 166 in 45.4 overs (P. Suriya Prakash 46, P. John Elijin 41 not out, M. Poiyamozhi four for 48) lost to MRC ‘A' 167 for four in 36.3 overs ( C.Suresh 66 not out, G. Dinesh 28 not out).
Free Lancers CC 165 in 38 overs (A. Guru Prasad 55, J. Jayashankar four for 51) lost to Grand Prix CC 167 for four in 39.5 overs ( K.S. Abilash 46, R. Hariharan 25, V.B. Murugan 34 not out).
Indian Oil Club 108 for six in 25 overs (T.A. Hemachandran 42 not out) lost to Nungambakkam SC 109 for six in 24.3 overs (V.K. Kumar 47).
SIAA 83 in 29.5 overs ( I. Murugan four for 26, S. Ramesh four for 11) lost to Vigneswara CC 84 for three in 16 overs (G. Venkat Kumar 54 not out).
Anirudh hits century
Anirudh Kasturi's 116 (129 balls, 2x6 and 16x4) helped City I post 354 on day one of its TNCA round-robin under-19 match against City III here on Tuesday. In another match, City II bowled City IV out for 183 thanks to Abhishek Mehra's five for 21.
The scores: Day one: City I 354 in 89.4 overs (R. Ananth 52 not out, I. Shivaram 63, Anirudh Kasthuri 116, M.S. Sharath Kumar 51, M.S. Siddharth five for 121) vs. City III.
City IV 183 in 76.4 overs (S. Raghav Srinivas 25, L.S. Vedanth 33, R. Vishnu 35, Abhishek Mehra five for 21) vs. City II 37 for four in 11 overs.
Kiran sizzles
L. Kiran Akash's unbeaten 150 enabled Don Bosco ‘A' script a 156-run win over Nellai Nadar in the TNCA-Sumeru Soft city schools under-14 cricket tournament on Tuesday. S. Sujay Bethan (five for 11) starred in DAV ‘A's six-wicket win over Santhome ‘B' in another match.
The scores: Don Bosco ‘A' 231 for three in 30 overs (L. Kiran Akash 150 not out, A. Sarath Raj 25) bt Nellai Nadar 75 in 28.4 overs.
Vidya Mandir ‘B' 102 in 30 overs (K. Vetrivel Dinesh four for 21) lost to PSHSS 103 for six in 24.5 overs (P. Moulesh 26).
SBOA School & Jr. College ‘A' 160 for seven in 30 overs (P. Suhaas Rajan 41) bt Union Christian 117 for nine in 30 overs (Issac Prithvi 31).
Santhome ‘B' 67 in 26.3 overs (S. Sujay Bethan five for 11) lost to DAV ‘A' 68 for four in 16.2 overs.
DAV 147 for eight in 30 overs (S. Prasanna Venkatesh 55) bt Sri RKM (Main) 52 in 25.1 overs (Vishal Vijay three for eight, M.S. Shailesh three for 12).
Gill Adarsh 53 in 14.5 overs (D. Sowri three for 21) lost to Chinmaya Vidyalaya 56 for no loss in 5.1 overs (Namay Kediya 30 not out).
St. John's 104 for six in 30 overs (M. Vishal 23, R. Navin Kumar 33, G.R. Sriram three for 16) lost to Jawahar Vidyalaya ‘A' 105 for four in 29.3 overs (Sai Sidharth 45 not out, B. Tharun 29).
St. Patrick's ‘B' 89 for nine in 30 overs (Lakshmi Raj 23, K. Adithya three for 18) lost to PSBB ‘B' 90 for one in 16.2 overs (Koushik 34 not out).
KARACHI: For millions of dirt-poor Pakistani boys, a professional cricket career is an escape route into a world of glamour, celebrity and untold riches.
But it can also be a fast-track on the road to ruin as the corruption scandal that has engulfed the international team has so dramatically highlighted.
Many of the country's best players — like Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, currently under investigation in the ‘spot-fixing' scandal — hail from small villages, from poor and uneducated backgrounds.
Pakistani players' agent Salman Ahmed believes it is a lack of grooming and guidance that leaves players stumped by excessive money and open to manipulation.
“An 18-year-old who bursts into the limelight and the glamour world needs special grooming.
Not only in terms of cricket, but manners and awareness of good and bad,” said Ahmed, whose Portfolio World has had a contract with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) since January 2009.
Managers needed
“Most importantly, wealth managers should be introduced to them, to these boys, who at one time could not buy a Pepsi and today are brand ambassadors for it,” added Ahmed, referring to Amir.
Former PCB Chairman Tauqir Zia managed to establish the National Cricket Academy in Lahore seven years ago, where courses to educate the players were finally introduced.
But many commentators believe that players focus on the remuneration details in a contract and ignore the code of conduct.
Big money came to Pakistan cricket only after Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer hired a dozen of them for his World Series of Cricket in 1978. Before the Packer circus, the only money-earning avenues for Pakistani players were stints in county cricket in England.
Currently, Pakistani players can earn money through central contracts, soft-drink and mobile phone sponsorship and orsements.
Players in the A category of central contracts get Rs. 250,000 ($2,905) a month; B category brings Rs. 175,000 ($2,035) and in C they get Rs. 100,000 ($1,161).
In addition, a top category player gets Rs. 350,000 ($4,066) for playing a Test and Rs. 300,000 ($3,485) for an ODI and Rs. 250,000 ($2,904) for a Twenty20 match.
Players in the corresponding categories get Rs. 50,000 ($581) less in each form of the game.
There are special win bonuses and cash awards on performances, opening up riches largely unseen in a country where 74 per cent of the population survive on less than two dollars a day, according to the World Bank.
“An average player in the national team can make from $100,000 to $1 million a year.”Endorsements for bats can range from $30,000 to $100,000 per annum, while top players like Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Akhtar can easily make $25,000 to $150,000 a year through commercials.
Modest sums
But compared to the superstars of the Indian game, these sums are modest.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni earlier this year signed a three-year endorsement worth Rs. 2.1 billion ($42 million).
It was in India where Pakistani players looked set for life when they featured in the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Four out of 11 Pakistani players were bought at the IPL auction for over $400,000 a season, with Afridi topping the chart with $675,000 followed by Asif with $650,000. —AFP
Bangalore: Sharan Pinto's superlative all-round effort (137 not out and five for 48) guided Dooravani Cricketers to a 113-run victory over Chintamani Sports Association in a KSCA fourth division (group 1) match here on Tuesday.
The scores: Dooravani Cricketers 324 for six in 50 overs (Sharan Pinto 137 n.o., Amith Kumar 120, Kiran three for 88) bt Chintamani SA 211 in 48.2 overs (Yoga 36, Sanjay 29, Kiran 26, Bharath 26, Sharan Pinto five for 48, Suresh Krishnan three for 79).
Crescent CC 78 in 25.3 overs (Kumar three for 23, Chetan three for 25) lost to Vijaya CC 83 for four in 14.3 overs (Parveez 25, Mahendra Gowda three for 25).
Star SC, Nelamangala 163 in 35.3 overs (Srikanth 40, Pradeep 36, Kaushik 25, L. Manju three for 17) lost to Young Boys CC, Kolar 167 for 9 in 33.4 overs (S. Manju 109 n.o., Vishnu three for 15, Hanumantha three for 46).
Jeevanbhimanagar CC 220 in 49.5 overs (Ajay 61, Chetan 50, Raghavendra three for 40) bt Ranji CC 216 for nine in 50 overs (Aravind 70, Raghavendra 31, Srikanth 27, Amith three for 52, Ganapathi three for 66).
Shishir, Ganesh shine
Shishir Bhavane scored 265 as Dharwad Zone gained a first innings lead in the drawn encounter with Combined City XI in a KSCA under-19 inter-zonal cricket tournament match here on Tuesday.
Dharwad first posted a mammoth 484 in its first innings, thanks mainly to Bhavane's knock and Ganesh Kangralkar's 112. Then, despite bundling out Combined City XI for 92, it preferred to bat again and finished on 179 for three.
The scores:
Dharwad 484 in 90 overs (Shishir Bhavane 265, Ganesh Kangralkar 112, S.A. Khan four for 43, Jaggesh Sharma three for 122) and 179 for three in 38 overs (Zeeshan Ali Sayyed 60, Ganesh Kangralkar 51 n.o., Bharath Itagi 48) drew with Combined City XI 92 in 36.3 overs (S.A. Khan 33, Sachin Shinde four for 27, Parappa Mordi three for 10).
Mysore 333 in 86.2 overs (M. Manjunath 65, N. Shreyas 56, J. Suchith 51, G. Pavan 36, M.G. Naveen 32, N. Parikshith 27, Yashraj Sharma four for 79, Md. Rameez three for 47) and 31 for one in 13 overs drew with Mangalore 272 in 64 overs (U. Nihal 131, Suhel Semitha 54, S. Chandrashekar six for 69).
Chetan nets winner
Royals HS registered a solitary goal win over Vijay HC in the only ‘C' division hockey league tie at the KSHA stadium here on Tuesday.
The all important goal for Royals was scored by Chetan in the 25th minute of play.
Thrilling win for SJCC
St. Joseph's College of Commerce (SJCC) boys snatched a thrilling 52-50 win over New Horizon on the second day of the Court Wars 2010, an inter-collegiate basketball tournament conducted by the Bharath Sports Union in memory of Rahul Sebastian and Sowmya Rai at the Bharath courts, Malleswaram, here on Tuesday.
Akash Subbaiah was the architect of SJCC's win. He scored 21 points to turn things around in the second half after his team was down 22-23 at the end of the second quarter.
The results: Boys: Christ 55 (Minhal 14, Shivaji 11) bt Presidency 35 (Hrishikesh 21); MSRIT 45 (Raphael 13) bt CMS Jain 37 (Gopikrishna 11); SJCC 52 (Akash Subbaiah 21) bt New Horizon CE 50 (Arun Mathew 13).
Girls: SJCC 30 (Sushmitha 12) bt New Horizon CE 16.
Monday's results: Boys: SJCC bt CMS Jain 66-47; SBM Jain bt Presidency 48-36; Christ bt RNSIT 45-35; MSRIT bt New Horizon CE 29-27.
The MSI R5870 Lightning is one of the very few Radeon HD 5800 series cards to feature a custom design. It’s not just the cooler; MSI has gone all out and built this card right up from a custom PCB to components of top-notch quality that meet military standards.
Features
The PCB of this card measures 10.1 inches which is just about half an inch less than the length of the reference PCB. But it’s wider by three-fourth of an inch to accommodate the extra components used for the 12-phase power design for the GPU and 3-phase power design for memory. MSI has used Hi-C capacitors instead of solid-state capacitors all over which they claim have 8 times the lifespan, lower operating temperature and are more efficient. The reference design features a pair of 6-pin PCIe power connectors, but this card uses two 8-pin PCIe connectors to feed the additional circuitry and provide extra power to the GPU for better stability while overclocking. If you’re not overclocking, you can use a 6-pin PCIe connector with one of the 8-pin sockets.
There are check points for measuring the core and memory voltages with a multi-meter near the power inputs. The R5870 Lightning comes factory-overclocked to 900 MHz which is 50 MHz faster than the stock speed. But the memory is left running at stock speed (1200 MHz). The package includes a two 6-pin to 8-pin PCIe adapters, two header cables for check points and an HDMI cable. The driver disc has MSI’s benchmarking and stress test tool called Kombustion and an overclocking tool called AfterBurner.
The cooling system installed on this card is brilliant. An aluminium heat spreader with thermal pad underneath dissipates heat evenly from the memory chips and power circuitry. The GPU is cooled by an enormous cooler that MSI calls Twin Frozr II. It comprises four copper heatpipes that dissipate heat from the copper base to the aluminium fins. The pipes running through the ends of the fins are thicker and the ones running through the mid-section are slightly leaner. Two 75 mm variable speed fans keep the heatsink cool. These fans are absolutely silent when the card is idle and aren’t distractingly loud at full load unlike the cooler on the reference design.
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Specifications
GPU: Radeon HD 5870; Core | Memory speed: 900 MHz | 1200 MHz; Video memory: 1 GB GDDR5; Memory bus width: 256-bit; DirectX support: 11; Video outputs: 2x DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort.
Test Rig
Our test rig ran the Intel Core i5-655K on the MSI H57M-ED65 motherboard fitted with 4 GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600 memory and an 80 GB Intel X25-M SSD. We use Windows 7 Ultimate and the ATI Catalyst driver used was version 10.5.
Sony recently launched their new Sony Vaio E-series of laptops which not only look stunning but offer powerful hardware at competitive prices. Infact, During a Q and A session at the launch in Mumbai, Mr Masaru Tamagawa—Managing Director, Sony India, implied that their E-series of laptops are targeted towards the masses, because they are quite affordable.
Click here to see the launch video
There are three variants in the Sony’s E-series of laptops, with specific screen sizes of 14-inch, 15.5-inch and 17.3-inch. Let us see the hardware they offer.
15-inch
Now let’s first discuss the 15-inch models with respect to the different CPUs each model features. It’s really interesting to see a 15-inch Sony Vaio laptop priced at merely Rs 36,990 (that’s what the catalogue said). It’s perhaps because this one (the only model) features an Intel Pentium CPU, nonetheless, we can’t wait to test this one first, only to see what it has to offer at this price. Then there are three models that feature the Core i3 CPUs and are priced between Rs 39,000 to about Rs 52,000. Now, one of these machines (most expensive one), features a full-HD screen and the other two have the standard 1366 x 768 resolution. Amongst these three, you can choose for discrete (ATI Radeon HD5650 and HD5140) and onboard graphics. Surprisingly the most expensive 15-inch model features onboard graphics, which might not be appreciated by many people. In all, there are five 15-inch models you can choose from.
