Finally the 1983 World Cup Cricket (Prudential Cup) saw a new and unexpected winner in India which was led by the legendary all rounder Kapil Dev. India lifted the trophy by beating the mighty West Indies in an enthralling final. This defeat deprived the West Indies from winning their 3 back to back Word cup. This also proved to the world that the West Indies were beatable and India just did that in style.
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WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platform and its users are increasing rapidly. This is one of the best and easy to use content management system which helps you to manage your blog effectively and efficiently. Almost everyone loves to have a blog and most of us might have a blog for any reason.

This topic discusses how to upgrade WordPress blog manually, as the WordPress always releases new updates on a regular basis. There is the option for auto up-gradation, but at times due to some errors you may not be able to upgrade it automatically. In this case you need to upgrade you WordPress blog manually. While upgrading your WordPress blog, you need to take some precautions, so that you might not have any difficulty in getting it done.
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South Indian states are generally viewed as culturally and spiritually strong  and is home to  a large number of spiritual and religious places. One of the main attractions of the south Indian states is the presence of some ancient Temples well known for its festivals and its architectural form.  These Temples are from different era with unique architectural styles and different mode of celebrations. Here I would like to list the top 5 temples in south Indian that are worth visiting and which are among the top spiritual destinations of India.
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Database is one of the most essential part of your website and it is your sole responsibility to make sure that you don’t lose records in your database in case of server crash or anything similar. There have been many instances where website owners have lost valuable content due to server hack or crash leading to serious damage to the database. If the database belongs to a huge business organization, then the intensity and impact of the data loss would be huge. Such a data loss may hamper the business in a big way.

So major companies have come with regular database backup plans so that they can easily restore database during time of database crash or similar situation. This article is mainly about how to restore a database with PhpMyAdmin. PhpMyAdmin is largely used by websites and is one of the most popular tool for handling the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. This tool is written in PHP and supports a large number of operations with MySQL such as managing databases, tables, fields, indexes, relations, permissions etc.

Before you restore your database, you need to take the backup on a safe place and that too on a regular basis. You can easily take the backup of your file by simple steps and can save the database file locally on your computer. It would be better if you do it on every weekend, so that you would not lose your valuable database in case of any hack or crash.
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The second edition of the World Cup Cricket was held in England in the year 1979. The event was participated by 8 cricketing nations such as West Indies, Pakistan, Canada, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and England. The event started on June 9th and Ended in June 29th. There were 2 groups consisting of 4 teams each and the top 2 teams from each groups qualified to the semi finals. All the matches were played 60 overs per side.

The defending champions West Indies yet again won this tournament convincingly and West Indies Captain Clive Llyod lifted the cup for the second consecutive time. England, Pakistan, Australia and Canada were placed in Group A and West Indies, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and India formed the group B.
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Munnar is one of the most famous tourist attractions in India and considered to be an ideal honeymoon destination. The beautiful hill station is located in Kerala and has a pleasant climate all over the year and is also known as the “Kashmir of South”. The beautiful hill stations of Munnar is situated at an altitude of 2000 meters to 2,600 meters above the sea level.

Due to its pleasant climate and scenic beauties it is preferred by many as the top honeymoon destination and a lot of couples come here to spend and celebrate their honeymoon vacations. Munnar has almost everything that is required to make a perfect holiday and honeymoon destination and that is the reason why the number of travelers reaching Munnar is one a rapid rise. The sight of the mist falling upon the hills of Munnar in the evening is a sight to behold. The mist covering the tea plantations makes Munnar more beautiful and adorable. During the winter season the temperature dips below zero resulting in minor snow falls.
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The first World Cup cricket was held in 1975 which was won by the mighty West Indies. It was held in England from 7 June to 21 June 1975 and had 8 participating countries. The participating countries of the 1975 World Cup cricket included Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, West Indies, Sri Lanka & East Africa.  All the matches were played 60 overs per side with red ball and the teams wore the traditional white uniforms.

West Indies lifted the first World Cup cricket beating Australia in the final by 17 runs. Batting first West Indies scored 291 for 8 wickets and the Australians were all out for 274. Clive Lloyd was the first captain to lift the world cup and this was the begining of yet another big revolution in the cricket world. In the Semi Finals Australia beat England by  4 wickets and West Indies beat New Zealand by 5 wickets.
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The Indian cricket team for the 2011 World Cup Cricket has been announced and as usual the selection has surprise inclusions and exclusions. Mahendra Singh Dhoni would be captaining the team which comprises of old war horse such as Sachin, Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan. Cricket experts  around the world says that this is one of the best Indian team for a World Cup championship due to the talent and experience the team possess.

The Indian Cricket squad for the 2001 World Cup is as follows.
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India’s Sreesanth recently bowled on of the best ball of his cricketing career, when he dismissed Jacques Kallis in the second test against South Africa. This was one of the best ball by a fast bowler in 2010, which left the great cricketer Jacques Kallis really speechless. Kallis is such an amazing batsman with a great technique, but this amazing ball by Sreesanth was really unplayable as he ended up losing his wicket. Just have a look at that magnificent fast bowling of 2010.

Kerala is one of the most exotique travel destination in India and is know for its green and scenic beauty. Kerala attracts a lot of tourists every year and is also known as “God’s Own Country” for various reasons and one of the reasons is the natural beauty of this land. Kerala also possess a moderate climate which would not create any problems for outside tourists.

The greenish land of Kerala has a large number of hot tourist spots and it is really difficult to say which is better. It is always difficult to say which one is the best tourist destination in Kerala, as each tourist destinations have their own unique value. Even if it is tool difficult to differentiate, I have picked the top 5 tourist destinations in Kerala (even if not in that order) to share with my readers.
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