Monday, September 19, 2022
Viral video: West Bengal Governor pushes aside Sunil Chhetri during Durand Cup 2022 presentation, watch!
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india: UK police appeal for calm as India-Pak post-match ‘disorder’ spills over
UK police are calling for calm after clashes between fans following an India-Pakistan Asia Cup cricket match late last month, which broke out in “serious disorder” in the eastern England city of Leicester, on Saturday.
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Reports circulating on social media claimed that the spark was a protest march this weekend, with footage showing police trying to stop two sets of mobs as glass bottles were thrown, and some People could be seen with sticks and batons.
“We have received several reports of chaos in parts of the East Leicester area of the city,” Rob Nixon, temporary chief constable of Leicestershire Police, said in a Twitter video.
He said, “We have got officers there, we are controlling the situation, there are additional officers on the way and they have been given the right to disperse, to stop the search. Please don’t get involved.” We are asking for peace.”
The local police force said its officers participated in large numbers and were authorized stop and search powers in an effort to “restore peace” in the area. A large number of people were searched and two people are in custody – one on suspicion of conspiracy to commit violent disorder and the other on suspicion of possession of a bladed object.
“Several incidents of violence and damage have been reported to the police and are under investigation. We are aware of a video showing a man pulling a flag outside a religious building on Melton Road, Leicester. It appears to have happened during police time. Officers were dealing with public disorder in the area. The incident will be investigated,” Leicestershire Police said in a statement.
“We are calling for dialogue and peace with the support of local community leaders. We will not tolerate violence or disorder in our city. A significant police operation will continue in the area in the coming days,” the police said.
Police ordered similar dispersal earlier this month after a few days of unrest involving local Hindu and Muslim groups in the wake of the India vs Pakistan match in Dubai on August 28.
On Friday, Chief Constable Nixon said there had been a total of 27 arrests as part of a “police operation in the East Leicester area” and even thanked the community for working together for peace in the area. message was also issued. ,
Leicester City Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said: “I don’t think anyone saw the confrontation (on Saturday) as a possible outcome and the police were assured that things were going very quiet.”
“It’s mostly young men who are in their teens and early 20s and I’ve heard suggestions that people come from outside (in the city) looking for an opportunity to set up. It’s for people from those areas. Very worrying where this has happened,” he said, as he appealed for calm.
Sanjeev Patel, who represents Hindu and Jain temples in Leicester, told the BBC that all the groups have lived in harmony in the city over the years.
“But in the last few weeks, it is clear that there are things that need to be discussed to find out what people are unhappy about. Recourse to violence is not the way to deal with it,” he said.
“In the Hindu and Jain communities and along with our Muslim brothers and sisters and leaders, we are constantly saying ‘calm mind, calm mind’,” he said.
Leicester Former Member of Parliament Claudia Webb described Leicester as “one of the most diverse cities in the UK” and urged that “our unity is our strength”.
Sunday, September 18, 2022
wodi: 1st WODI: Elegant Smriti wins it for India as Jhulan rolls back time
Sundar Smriti Mandhana once again extended her reputation as one of India’s biggest match winners with a lucrative 91 as they thrashed England by seven wickets in the opening women’s ODI here on Sunday. Harmanpreet Kaur won a fine toss and veteran India pacer Jhulan Goswami identified accuracy with 42 dot balls in one of her last international games as England posted 227 for seven thanks to lower middle-order efforts .
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Mandhana (91 off 99 balls) never got India in trouble during the chase and pulled her way out by nine runs before missing out on a deserved sixth women’s ODI century.
But by the time she was dismissed, Mandhana ensured the 45th over for the Women in Blue, who are now 1-0 up in the three-match series.
Yastika Bhatia (50 off 47 balls), who didn’t do justice to her immense talent, also scored her third half-century and scored more runs than the run-a-ball strike-rate.
Yastika-Mandhana laid the foundation for the second wicket of 96 runs in just 16.1 overs and then Harmanpreet (74 not out off 94 balls) scored another half-century as she added 99 runs with her deputy and then finished it in style. Slog Sweep Six.
Mandhana’s innings included 10 fours and a lovely six off long-on pacer Issie Wong.
While both Yastika and Mandhana performed brilliantly through cover during the powerplay, the Indian vice-captain also played a lot of pull-shots, with the English bowler going down the leg-side.
It must be said that Harmanpreet read the conditions at Hove’s County Ground better than her England counterpart Amy Jones.
While Indian spinners Rajeshwari Gaikwad and Deepti Sharma changed their ball pace to make strokeplay difficult, England seamers Kate Cross (2/43 in 10 overs), Ellis Davidson-Jones (0/48 in 7.2 overs), Wong (0/35 in (5 ov)) along with off-spinner Charlie Dean (1/4 in 10 overs) allowed the visiting batsmen to use the pace of his delivery to score runs behind the square.
India hit 13 fours and a six (by Yastika) in the first 15 overs and it was all over for England.
Earlier, the 39-year-old veteran Goswami had conceded only 20 runs in 10 overs with 42 dot balls.
He didn’t hit a single boundary or six and also bowled a decent off-cutter to get rid of the experienced Tammy Beaumont (7).
On a track where the ball was not always hitting the bat, India captain Harmanpreet Kaur did the right thing by choosing to field.
After the seamer, Meghna Singh (1/42 in 8 overs) hit the second opener Emma Lamb (12) with a short ball, Goswami and two spinners Deepti (2/33 in 10 overs) and Gaikwad (1/4 in 10 overs) out. Run flow suppressed continuously.
However, Meghna along with Sneh Rana (1/45 in 6 overs) and Pooja Vastrakar (0/20 in 2 overs) scored some runs as the home team posted 220-plus in the end.
Danny Wyatt (43 off 50 balls), Ellis Davidson-Richards (50 not out off 61 balls) and Sophie Ecclestone (31) made remarkable contributions for England.
Even Charlie Dean played a nice cameo in the end (24 not out off 21 balls) to complete the target.
Harmanpreet will be a bit disappointed that despite bringing England to the mat at 128 for 6 by the 34th over, the England numbers 7, 8 and 9 gave the total some respect by adding more than 100 runs.
bajrang punia: World Wrestling Championships 2022: Bajrang Punia captures bronze in men’s 65 kg category
Ace Indian wrestler and Olympic medalist Bajrang Punia clinched the bronze medal by defeating Puerto Rico’s Sebastian C Rivera in the men’s 65kg category bronze medal bout at the ongoing World Wrestling Championships 2022.
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He defeated Rivera 11-9 in the match. The wrestler, who recently won a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games, made a remarkable comeback to win the match. He won on the basis of VPO1-points and opponent’s score.
In the opening leg of the match, Punia looked down and out, trailing 0-6. But then he returned to the match scoring 11 points and allowed his opponent to score only three more.
He returned to the medal race after losing 10–0 to John Michael Dicomihalis of the USA in the quarter-finals by Victory by Superiority (VSU).
A tight 7-6 win over Armenia’s Vazhen Tevanyan propelled them into the bronze medal match. He won on the basis of VPO1-points and opponent’s score.
This is Punia’s fourth medal in the championship, starting her journey with a bronze in 2013. He won a silver at the 2018 Championships followed by another bronze medal in 2019. Now, he has four championship medals.
This is India’s second medal in the current edition of the World Wrestling Championships.
Indian wrestler and Commonwealth Games 2022 gold medalist Vinesh Phogat won a bronze medal in the women’s 53kg category by defeating defending European champion Emma Malmgren of Sweden at the ongoing World Wrestling Championships 2022 in Belgrade on Wednesday.
The three-time Commonwealth Games gold medalist defeated her Swedish rival 8-0 to win the match.
The championship started on 10 September and will end on 18 September.
shiva thapa: Shiva Thapa, Lovlina in Indian boxing squad for Asian Championships
Veteran Shiva Thapa and Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain will lead the Indian men’s and women’s challenge respectively at next month’s Asian Boxing Championships.
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The selection tests for the continental showpiece to be held in Amman, Jordan from 30 October to 12 November were held at NIS Patiala from Thursday to Saturday.
Defending world champion Nikhat Zareen, three-time Asian Championship medalist Amit Panghal and Birmingham Commonwealth Games medalists Rohit Tokas and Sagar Ahlawat did not take part in the trials.
A source in the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) told PTI that while Zareen has rested the tournament, Panghal, Tokas and Ahlawat are injured.
Thapa is a five-time Asian medalist. His race includes one gold, two silver and as many bronze medals.
In the previous edition, he bagged a silver, his fifth consecutive medal in the prestigious event, becoming the most successful Indian male boxer in the history of the tournament.
The only other male boxer with five Asian Championships medals is Kazakh legend Vasily Levitt, an Olympic silver medalist and a two-time world bronze medalist.
Two-time Commonwealth bronze medalist Mohammad Hussamuddin (57kg) is the other prominent name in the men’s team.
Borgohain will have a point to prove after finishing two heavy tournaments – the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games.
The 24-year-old, who returned with a bronze medal in the previous edition, will compete in the 75kg category as she begins preparations for the Paris Olympics, which will not have her welterweight 69kg category.
The women’s team also includes world championship bronze medalist Parveen Hooda (63kg) and youth world boxing champion Alfia Pathan.
The Indian contingent is likely to leave for Amman in mid-October for a 15-day training camp ahead of the tournament.
Men: Govind Sahni (48kg), Sparsh Kumar (51kg), Sachin (54kg), Mohammad Husamuddin (57kg), Etash Khan (60kg), Shiv Thapa (63.5kg), Amit Kumar (67kg), Sachin (71kg), Sumit (75kg), Lakshya C (80kg), Kapil P (86kg), Naveen K (92kg), Narendra (+92kg).
Women: Monika (48kg), Savita (50kg), Meenakshi (52kg), Sakshi (54kg), Preeti (57kg), Simranjit (60kg), Parveen (63kg), Ankushita Boro (66kg) , Pooja (70kg), Lovlina Borgohain (75kg), Sweety (81kg), Alfia (+81kg).
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Saturday, September 17, 2022
wrexham: Welcome to Wrexham: It’s the future
First thing, and possibly most importantly, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney seem to be honest. It’s hard to be certain: They’re both actors, after all, and the 45-minute Zoom meeting is on balance, perhaps not the ideal format in which to measure one’s soul. If the down-at-the-heels Welsh football team he bought two years ago – and the community he calls home – his enthusiasm and affection for Wrexham is an act, however, it is a reassuring one. McElhenney watches Wrexham’s games these days while “pacing back and forth, unable to sit still,” he said.
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“There’s no such thing as football-borne anxiety.” At first, Reynolds wondered whether he was resistant to sensation. He only caught half of Wrexham’s first few games after his and McElhenney’s takeover was completed in February 2021.
He was, by his own admission, “quite passive”. It doesn’t last. When he hit her, hit her hard. “It’s a terrifying, cyclical, prophetic hellscape that never stops or recedes,” he said, a sentence that suggests he fully understood the appeal of football. “I love every second, but it is equally suffering. Every second is pure suffering. It’s a new experience for me. I am amazed at the people who have lived in that culture their whole lives.”
Neither McElhenney nor Reynolds anticipated the extent of the emotional impact when, in late 2020, the former approached the latter with a proposal. McElhenney had spent a large part of the lockdown watching sports documentaries: the acclaimed “Beautifulland ‘Til I Die,” for one, and more importantly an HBO series on Diego Maradona. He decided he wanted to add his own production to the canon, and he wanted Reynolds — an acquaintance rather than a friend, at that level — to help bankroll it.
The result, “Welcome to Wrexham,” is heartwarming and funny and engaging, but it’s also difficult to categorize. At one point, Reynolds describes it—perhaps as a slip of the tongue—as a “reality show,” but it sounds reductive. So, too, is the faintly euphemistic term “structured reality,” a genre that recently characterized Netflix’s dazzling “Sailing Sunset.” But neither is it, strictly speaking, a documentary—not in the traditional sense, not in the way that “Sunderland ‘Til I Die” was a documentary.
There is a long-held rule among wildlife photographers and documentarians that they appear to observe rather than intervene. “Welcome T o Wrexham,” in contrast, is inherently interfering. Wrexham, drifting into the fifth tier of English football for more than a decade, was in disrepair and dismay when it was bought by two Hollywood stars.
Reynolds and McElhenney aren’t just telling a story. They are shaping it too. The example of this, most clearly, appears to be a spontaneous jump halfway through the show’s second episode. Suddenly, the spectator is at home with Paul Rutherford, Wrexham’s locally-born veteran midfielder.
Rutherford showed with a hint of pride all the work he and his wife Gemma had done in their house. It turns out that the house is about to get a little busy. The couple already has two boys; A third is on the way. Rutherford is currently making baby crib. Later, he is shown playing football with his eldest son. He carries her home on his shoulders. It is heart touching, heart touching and deeply ominous. Anyone who has seen a nature documentary in which a young giraffe is separated from the herd, or an installment of “Match of the Day” that featured a player picking up a spontaneous starting yellow card, knows Q. Something bad is about to happen.
The bad in this case comes in the last game of Wrexham’s season, a few months after the takeover. The team needs a win to make it to the playoffs. Rutherford, offered as a substitute, is sent off for a reckless challenge. He is shown in the changing room, his chest heavy, urging his teammates to win without him. they do not. Wrexham is held to a draw. Its season is over.
A caption appears. Rutherford’s contract expired the next day. he was released. This is the cold reality of football, of course, a sport that lacks an appetite for emotion and – the level that Wrexham is occupied – no money for. Countless players each season face the same fate as Rutherford, falling victim to the game’s unapologetic ruthlessness.
Reynolds and McElhenney are clear that, while they are ultimately to blame, they did not make that call. Personnel decisions are left to those on the ground at Wrexham, who know the game much better than they do. no one is hired or fired because it plays well; His commitment, Reynolds said, is simply to make the best of Wrexham. “Sports are meaningless to me until I know what is at stake for anyone,” Reynolds said.
“What did a player do to be there. What does a club mean to a community? If I think about the films that made an impact on me; Is “Field Of Dreams” A Movie About Baseball? Not necessary. It is a film about a father and son trying to connect. It’s the context that draws you in.”
At heart, of course, what Reynolds and McElhenney have done with Wrexham is certainly an inherently benign form of ownership by football’s standards. He has not put a debt burden on the club. They are not using it to try to whitewash the image of the oppressive state. They’ve given a club, and a city, reason to believe, and everything for the price of a couple of camera crews. Not owned, he insists, hinges on the success of “Welcome to Wrexham.” They are in it “for the long haul,” Reynolds said, whether spectators are there or not.
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