India captain Rohit Sharma was hit on his left thigh while taking throwdowns here on Friday, forcing him to leave the net session ahead of Sunday’s T20 International against Bangladesh. Rohit, who will lead India in the three-match series in Virat Kohli’s absence, received the blow early into the net session. After a few throwdowns, one sharp delivery hit Rohit on his left thigh. He immediately left the nets and it was visible that he wasn’t happy with the pace at which the throwdown delivery was hurled at him. The Indian team has a designated a left-arm throwdown expert in…
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India (IND) vs South Africa (SA) Live Cricket Score 3rd Test Day 3: Play was extended in the final session after the fall of Kagiso Rabada’s wicket, which is also R Ashwin’s first in this match, but the Theunis de Bruyn and Anrich Nortje hung on for the last few minutes to take the game into Day 4. Four wickets went down in the final session, 16 in total throughout the day as Indian bowlers wrecked havoc in Ranchi with Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami leading the way. Bad light stops play and that will be Stumps on Day 3…
Redmi 8 is set to launch in India on October 9. India chief Manu Kumar Jain has tweeted that the phone will launch in India next week, and the teaser says that the phone will be a champion in battery. It is also teased to pack a battery more than 4,000mAh capacity, and the teaser also suggests a better camera on the Redmi 8. Separately, the phone has also been spotted on Google Play console revealing key specifications as well. Xiaomi recently launched the Redmi 8A in India, and now it is gearing up to launch the Redmi 8. In…
Xiaomi has launched the Redmi Note 8 series in China, and soon after the company’s India head Manu Kumar Jain confirmed that the Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8 Pro will launch in India in about 8 weeks. The Redmi Note 8 Pro will compete with the Realme 5 Pro that was launched recently. The two phones have quad rear camera setups, run on Android Pie, sport a 3.5mm audio jack, and also come with waterdrop-style notch displays. However, there are some key differences between the two, and we pit the newly launched Redmi Note 8 Pro and the Realme 5 Pro against…
Mahendra Singh Dhoni may have put his international retirement on hold but he is unlikely to be selected for India’s three-match T20I home series against South Africa starting September 15 in Dharamsala. The team for the series is expected to be picked on September 4. The remaining two games will be played at Mohali (September 18) and Bengaluru (September 22). In all likelihood, the squad that blanked West Indies 3-0 is likely to be retained (subject to fitness) and the selection committee wants to continue building towards World T20 in Australia in October 2020. “There are only 22 T20 Internationals before…
Pakistan continued its unilateral actions on Friday to protest Indian Parliament’s removal of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status by announcing to halt the last train service to India, named Thar Express, a day after it had announced suspension of Samjhauta Express service between Lahore and Delhi. “We have decided to shut down the Thar Express as well,” Pakistan’s railways minister Sheikh Rashid told reporters, in reference to the weekly service running between the towns of Khokrapar in Pakistan and Munabao in Barmer, India. “As long as I am railways minister, no train will operate between Pakistan and India.” Rashid added.…
Tributes poured in on Wednesday for Sushma Swaraj from politicians across party lines and the international community. The veteran leader’s house and the BJP headquarters, where her body lay in state, saw a steady stream of visitors who came to pay their last respects.President Ram Nath Kovind, vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, former President Pranab Mukherjee, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, former deputy PM LK Advani and several ministers were among those who visited. Condolences poured in from envoys of Japan, the US, Maldives, Russia and Taiwan, as well as the diplomatic community that had engaged with Sushma…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address the nation on Thursday during which he is expected to explain government’s decisions on abrogating special status to Jammu and Kashmir and splitting the state into two union territories, sources have said. The last time he addressed the nation was on March 27 during the Lok Sabha elections when he announced that India had demonstrated anti-satellite missile (A-Sat) capability by shooting down a live satellite. Parliament on Tuesday approved a resolution abrogating special status accorded to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution. It also cleared a bill to split…
Yuvraj Singh, who recently announced his retirement from international cricket and the IPL, is currently leading the Toronto Nationals in the second edition of Global T20 Canada. A second-round match between Toronto Nationals and Montreal Tigers, led by Australia’s George Bailey, was delayed by almost two hours after players protest. Both sides initially refused to take the bus at the scheduled departure time from the team hotel to the CAA Centre in Brampton. As per a report in ESPNcricinfo, it was a protest over unpaid wages. “The game between Montreal Tigers & Toronto Nationals on Wednesday, August 7th, 2019, was delayed due to procedural…
Vivo S1 price, availability, and launch offers Vivo S1’s 4 GB RAM and 128 storage model will go on sale both online and offline from 8 August. Online, it will be available on both Amazon and Flipkart, and offline you can purchase it from Reliance Digital, Poorvika, Big C, Lot, Sangeetha, Croma, and Vijay Sales. The prices of the different variants are as follows: Vivo S1 4 GB RAM + 128 GB storage for Rs 17,990Vivo S1 6 GB RAM + 64 GB storage for Rs 18,990Vivo S1 6 GB RAM + 128 GB storage for Rs 19,990 It will…