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Limited-overs cricket has left contemporary batsmen with a weak defence making them particularly susceptible on turning tracks, India captain Virat Kohli said ahead of the final test against England which begins in Ahmedabad on Thursday. India won the third test inside two days after 30 wickets tumbled in five sessions in what was the shortest completed test match since 1935. Debates raged over the suitability of the pitch but Kohli has blamed poor batting by both sides in the low-scoring contest.
Limited-overs cricket has left contemporary batsmen with a weak defence making them particularly susceptible on turning tracks, India captain Virat Kohli said ahead of the final test against England which begins in Ahmedabad on Thursday. India won the third test inside two days after 30 wickets tumbled in five sessions in what was the shortest completed test match since 1935. Debates raged over the suitability of the pitch but Kohli has blamed poor batting by both sides in the low-scoring contest.
Concerns about China using vaccines to sway other countries are "narrow-minded," a top political advisory body said, apparently dismissing a notion among rival powers that Beijing exploits the fight against COVID-19 to boost its global influence. Guo Weimin, spokesman for the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), said some suspect China is using COVID-19 vaccines to "expand our geopolitical influence." "This idea is extremely narrow-minded", Guo said at a news conference on Wednesday ahead of the opening of the annual meeting of CPPCC on Thursday.
Pope Francis said on Wednesday the hopes of the people of Myanmar cannot be "suffocated by violence" and again called for the release of political prisoners. The pope, who visited Myanmar in 2017, made his comments at the end of his general audience in the Vatican.
British economic output stabilised in February after a sharp fall the month before, as many businesses continued to suffer from lockdown restrictions affecting hospitality and other face-to-face services, a closely watched survey showed on Wednesday. Hours before finance minister Rishi Sunak is due to set out his economic plans for the coming year, the IHS Markit/CIPS composite Purchasing Managers' Index gave a reading of 49.6 for February, up from an eight-month low of 41.2 in January. The figure means businesses reported broadly stable activity for last month after a steep deterioration early in the year, and is little changed from an initial flash estimate of 49.8.
Iconic French comic book character Asterix is all set for a new chapter on Netflix along with French director, screenwriter and actor Alain Chabat. The streamer is partnering with leading French publisher Hachette’s Les Editions Albert René to create a 3D animated limited series based on the classic. Chabat will direct and Alain Goldman of […]
This has been dubbed ‘theater through the mailbox slot’Location: Nagoya It's run by Japan's Moonlight Mobile Theatre and lets audiences see performances from behind closed doors Each audience member has their own cubicleto allow cast and viewers to socially distance[Nobuyoshi Asai, artistic director, saying:] "We used small holes and mailbox slots to limit the audience from seeing everything. That way, it makes the audience move their bodies or their eyes to look." The theater began this peephole viewing in December after canceling most of its shows last year
Britain’s treasury chief is expected to extend job support programs and temporary tax cuts to help workers and businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic when he delivers his budget to Parliament on Wednesday. Rishi Sunak said in a tweet he will announce a three-part plan to “protect the jobs and livelihoods of the British people” when he speaks to House of Commons at 12:30 p.m. London time. British media reports indicate Sunak will extend the furlough program, under which the government pays 80% of the wages for private employees unable to work during the pandemic.
Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, defended herself on Wednesday against accusations by her predecessor that she acted illegally in a row that could scupper her campaign to lead Scotland to independence. Describing the feud with former first minister Alex Salmond as "one of the most invidious political and personal situations" she had ever faced, Sturgeon said she had behaved properly in dealing with sexual harassment allegations against him. The feud between Sturgeon and Salmond has reached fever pitch in recent weeks, pitting the former friends against each other in a sparring match that has prompted calls by opposition lawmakers for the Scottish leader to resign.
Turkey has stopped insulting France and the European Union, providing some reassurance, but ties will remain fragile until it takes concrete action, France's foreign minister said. Ankara has repeatedly traded barbs with Paris over its policies on Syria, Libya, the eastern Mediterranean and other issues, but the NATO members said in February they were working on a road map to normalise relations.
Microsoft has said a state-sponsored hacking group operating out of China is exploiting previously unknown security flaws in its Exchange email services to steal data from business users.
Hugh Grant will be getting his cackle on, after being cast as the villain in the long-in-gestation Dungeons & Dragons movie.
Monika Shergill, VP, content, and Srishti Behl Arya, director, international original film, Netflix India, are buzzing. On Wednesday they launched the streaming platform’s largest Indian slate yet, some 40 titles across formats and genres. Also buzzing is the Indian streaming industry, with the news that arch rival Amazon Prime Video has apologized over religious offence […]
Spinner Ashton Agar produced the best bowling performance in Australia's Twenty20 international history as they defeated New Zealand by 64 runs at Wellington Regional Stadium on Wednesday.
Despite closing for more than a month because of COVID-19, Great Smoky Mountains National Park experienced its second busiest year on record last year. Over the last year, park managers have worked with local communities and visitors to try to solve the challenges. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is America's most visited national park.
Slow off the blocks in the race to immunize its citizens against COVID-19, Germany faces an unfamiliar problem: a glut of vaccines and not enough arms to inject them into. Now there are growing calls in this country of 83 million to ditch the rulebook, or at least rewrite it a bit. Germans watched with morbid fascination in January as Britain trained an army of volunteers to deliver coronavirus shots, then marveled at the fact that the U.K. — hit far worse by the pandemic than Germany — managed to vaccinate more than half a million people on some days.
A reading specialist who molested a three-year-old female student attending his class was jailed for 18 months and given three strokes of the cane.
Six years after her diagnosis, the Belgian woman who lives in Turkey discovered the benefits of non-contact boxing by chance while researching the disease. Non-contact boxing does not involve taking any punches, so there is no risk of head trauma. Known affectionately by the locals as "Auntie Naciye", she said when she first stepped into the boxing ring, people watched the grandmother of eight with their mouths agape as they were not used to seeing women of her age in the ring.
Romanian blockchain start-up Elrond is preparing to have its new global payments app support Bitcoin this month as it looks to rival more established rivals PayPal or Revolut, its CEO said, as it taps surging interest in crypto currencies. Led by a sharp rise in Bitcoin, digital asset markets rose above $1 trillion in early 2021, as big money managers and companies begin to take the sector seriously. "This transforms what once looked like a Mexican standoff, where potential investors waited on the sidelines, into an arms race," Elrond founder Beniamin Mincu told Reuters.
Hazel Wilcock, 61, died after the incident at her home on East View in Summerseat, Greater Manchester.