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”.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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