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Sydney, July 5 (IANS) Former ICC Elite Panel umpire Simon Taufel has slammed hypocrisy of many people criticising third umpire Marais Erasmus’ decision to give Jonny Bairstow out after wandering out of crease in second Ashes Test at Lord’s, stating that people cite Spirit of Cricket to support their view when they don’t like a dismissal under Laws of Cricket. On day five’s play in the second Ashes Test at Lord’s, Bairstow was on 10 in the 52nd over when he ducked under a bouncer from Cameron Green and inadvertently walked out of his crease.Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey immediately directed…

Leeds, July 5 (IANS) England on Wednesday included Chris Woakes, Mark Wood, and Moeen Ali in their playing eleven for the third Ashes 2023 Test, which will be played at Headingley from Thursday. The trio replace James Anderson, Josh Tongue and an injured Ollie Pope as England look to come up from being 2-0 behind in the five-game Ashes series. As per England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) media release, the fast-bowling duo of Anderson (three wickets in two matches) and Tongue (five wickets in Lord’s Test) are rested while Pope is out of the rest of the series after…

Chennai, July 5 (IANS) India on Wednesday took another step towards its third moon mission by mating the encapsulated assembly holding the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft.“Today (Wednesday) at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, the encapsulated assembly containing Chandrayaan-3 is mated with LVM3,” Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said. The LVM3 is India’s heaviest rocket that will carry the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft with a lander and a rover. It will put the spacecraft or orbiter in a designated orbit, and from there, the spacecraft will start its long journey of about 3.84 lakh km towards the moon. The spacecraft carries a lander called Vikram.…

Hasaranga enjoyed a prolific spell in June, picking 26 wickets at an average of just 10. He found massive success during the ongoing ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe, becoming the first spinner to take three consecutive five-wicket hauls in ODI cricket.The leg-spinner was impressive in his bowling performances against the UAE (6/24), Oman (5/13) and Ireland (5/79), becoming the second player after Pakistan fast bowling great Waqar Younis to take three consecutive five-wicket hauls in history of ODIs, as Sri Lanka managed to qualify for Men’s ODI World Cup, to be held in India from October 5…

“The High Court has applied its mind and exercised its discretion. Sorry, we won’t interfere with the high court judgement,” said a bench of Justices A.S. Bopanna and M.M. Sundresh of the top court. Disposing of the appeal, the court said that the victim can approach the high court for cancellation of the bail granted to the politician, if any of the bail conditions is not complied by him. The complainant moved the apex court seeking cancellation of bail granted to the former legislator by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in January this year. On January 25, the high…

Since his hospitalisation in April, very little is known about the Oscar winning actor’s health as his family has been keeping very quiet. Concerns over the health of the 55-year-old ‘Django Unchained’ actor have been mounting as very little information has been released regarding his condition, as per aceshowbiz.When explaining the reason why, a source told OK!: “Jamie’s family is keeping his condition very quiet. He is still pretty fragile, and his loved ones know Jamie wouldn’t want anyone seeing him like that.”The lack of information has made his friends “worried” about the star. “No one has gotten real answers…

The chief minister reached Gaighat along with Additional Chief Secretary of Road Construction Department Pratyay Amrit and other officials and inspected the construction work.The ‘marine drive’ is one of the dream projects of Nitish.The officials believe that the second phase of the project from Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH) to Gaighat which is 4.8 km is expected to complete by this month.The phase one between Digha to PMCH is already open for public with which the commuters travel from Digha to Gaighat in 20 minutes.As the Ashok Rajpath sees traffic snarls most of the time, the commuters face more than…

A bench of Justice Tara Vitasta Ganju was hearing a bunch of applications filed by the lessors in the main petitions seeking to de-register their aircraft currently on lease with Go First, to avoid any further losses. On May 26, aircraft lessors – Pembroke Aircraft Leasing 11 Ltd, SMBC Aviation Capital Ltd, Accipiter Investments Aircraft 2 Ltd and EOS Aviation 12 (Ireland) Ltd – had moved the high court seeking deregistration of their planes by aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to take them back from the airline. During the hearing, the judge acknowledged how valuable and sophisticated…

The police stopped the women by placing barricades at the Civil Lines gate while the women activists tried to cross the hurdles. There was also a scuffle between the activists and the women police due to which two women workers fainted.The women workers had gathered at the state BJP headquarters at 11 a.m. on Wednesday. A meeting was organized there which was addressed by office bearers of the Mahila Morcha and the state BJP leaders. Soon after, the women workers marched towards the CM’s residence while banging plates.A strong police force was deployed before the Civil Lines gate to stop…

The film stars Nirroze Putcha, Sonam Thendup Barphungpa, Subha Ranjan, Samaira Sandhu, Rajeswari Chakraborty and Mahender Bargas in leading roles.Producer Dr Shankar Naidu Adusumilli, who is an NRI and a well-known Surgeon in USA, is determined to oppose the Censor panel’s objections to the film mentioning China. However, now after 70 cuts, the film will be released.The censor board has also removed a song on ‘Shiv Tandav’ from the film. Producer Shankar Naidu, who is grieved by this tyrannical act of the censor team said: “We have not received any support from the censor board. ‘Shiv Tandav’ is a song…