The Sri Lanka team is feeling better after coming out of their country to India. They were feeling little pressure while they played their first five group matches at home. The Sri Lanka vice-captain, Mahela Jayawardene stated that the team has now got some time to spend together after being away from their home grounds.

Jayawardene stated that when they were at home as a team there are many things that have happened. They hardly spent time together by just practicing and getting back and everything will be normal. However, the team has spent some quality time in Kandy and Hambantota. Sri Lankan team has travelled to Mumbai in order to play their final group match of ICC World Cup 2011 against New Zealand on Friday, March 18th 2011.

Unfortunately, New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori and the team's fast bowler, Kyle Mills are unable to play the upcoming match. Jayawardene stated that the absence of the two experienced players will not affect them much because they concentrate on the team's effort and not any individual players currently. He added that despite not having Vettori and Mills, the team might have a new game plan against them for the better result.

Keeping in view of the past five matches of Sri Lanka, they have won three games they played but one match being cancelled against Australia due to rain and lost against Pakistan. They had huge wins against Canada won by 210 runs, against Kenya by winning with 9 wickets and against Zimbabwe, won by 139 runs. Sri Lanka has lost the match against Pakistan by 11 runs due to the match winning spell of Shahid Afridi crucial four wickets at right times.

New Zealand has won four matches out of five and lost one game against Australia. The team has huge wins over Kenya, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Canada. Taylor batted well against Pakistan by scoring an unbeaten 131 runs including eight fours and seven sixes. He also scored 74 runs including six fours and five huge sixes against Canada by scoring. Taylor has been in a great form and he adds a positive sign to the batting side of the team.

By the past records of the respective teams, Sri Lanka has a win-loss ratio of 1.80 in the One Day Internationals since last two years. New Zealand is lagging back of Sri Lanka having a win-loss ratio of 0.73 in the past results of ODIs. Hopefully, Jayawardene is spending a quality time since he did not get a chance to bat in the last two games. He was dismissed by a good delivery by Shoaib Akhtar against Pakistan match and was run-out against Australia after getting some good start for the team. Mahela Jayawardene would love to spend much more time in the middle-order before getting into the quarter finals.

Japan has stepped up to cool the nuclear reactors with the help of Military helicopters. On Thursday, the helicopters were dumping the water onto the damaged reactors of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. While doing this, the military emergency crews got closer to begin drenching the reactors with the water cannons.

According to the news reports, the radiation levels remained same since the operations were completed. As the initial step is to defend in preventing a full scale nuclear meltdown so, Tokyo Electric Power Co. has operated the facility for cooling down the nuclear reactors.

Depending upon the situation, China has suspended the approval for the new nuclear power plants in the country. The death toll on Friday's 9.0 magnitude has risen the above five thousand. However, The Policemen confirmed that 5,178 were dead in the earthquake till now and 8,606 people were found missing and still to be found out.

The officials and the TEPCO were disagreeing whether any water left in the spent fuel pools at the plant or not. But, except water nothing can stop the fuel rods from getting hotter and eventually melting down. The NRC Chairman, Gregory Jaczko believes that the radiation levels are extremely high and possibly could impact the ability to take corrective measures.

President Obama telephoned to the Prime Minister of Japan, Naoto Kan and discussed the country's effort in recovering from earthquake and tsunami including the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai-chi plant. Obama made a promise to Kan that the United States will offer stable support for the Japanese people, and showed his extraordinary admiration for the character.

The National Police Agency of Japan reported that the number of people who are reported as missing or dead has reached to twelve thousand and more than 5,300 people are officially listed as dead. The Defense Ministry informed Japan news agency that 25,000 or more have been rescued and more than 23,000 were believed to be trapped in the near by coast. The victims and the aid workers were appealing for more help as nearly 452,000 were taking their shelter in schools and were in need of the medicine including supplies of fuel and basic necessities.

The Ships has arrived to the massive humanitarian mission having 17,000 sailors and Marines afloat on 14 vessels in the waters off Japan. However, several Army and Air Force service members already have been shifted for the relief efforts.