The Champions Trophy is not the most significant 50-over-a-side cricket tournament—the ODI World Cup is. Perhaps this was one of the reasons it was terminated in the first place.
The fast bowler became the fastest Indian and the second fastest in the world to reach the 200 ODI wicket milestone Thursday during the game against Bangladesh.
Shami is now only the eighth Indian to take 200 wickets in ODIs. He is also the only second Indian bowler after Ravindra Jadeja to take a five-wicket haul in Champions Trophy.
Calling Pakistan’s Champions Trophy performance “disappointing”, former pacer Shoaib Akhtar said the team is playing a “different kind of cricket, not the ones other teams are playing”.
‘The tirade against capitalism is wholly unfounded. Capitalism as it has shaped during the past quarter of a century is a far better method of developing the economic resources of any country,’ wrote DN Hosali in 1956.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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