Dhoni is the best captain I played under: Tendulkar

Extra than 24 hours have passed seeing as Team India lifted the 2011 cricket World Cup but for batting genius Sachin Tendulkar the emotion is still to sink in. The 37-year-old, who stayed absent from media interactions all through the period of the World Cup, was on Monday demonstrative in praising the team for its devotion and determination and called captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni the best skipper he had played below.

"In the years I have been in performance he is the best captain I have played under. He is much developed and situational alertness is his biggest power,” Tendulkar told reporters at the Mumbai Cricket Association’s Bandra Kurla Complex talent. “He doesn’t show any annoyance and knows the likes and dislikes of every personage.”

Though, Tendulkar be adamant that the title victory was not a sum total of a few personage brilliances but a result of a team that stuck jointly to achieve its goal. “Within the team we played for each other and the nation. It was each ones dream to win the World Cup,” he said in response to a question about all the members in the team wanted to win the contest for him.

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US says China's Baidu, Taobao markets for piracy

The U.S. government has labeled China's top search engine, Baidu, and a accepted e-commerce platform "notorious markets" connected to sales of plagiarized and fake goods.

The two companies were amongst 33 websites or public markets in China, Russia, India and additional countries that the U.S. Trade legislative body office said Monday make easy trade in music, clothing and other goods that are false or unauthorized copies.

China is a leading basis of fake and counterfeit goods in spite of repeated government crackdowns. Beijing launched its latest enforcement attempt in October and says it hopes to attain lasting results.

The USTR statement said Baidu links to websites that sell pirated or imitation goods while external merchants use Taobao, an e-commerce platform operated by Alibaba Group Ltd., to sell infringing items. It said the list was not a legal judgment but an effort to call concentration to abuses and encourage governments to end them.

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