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Maaz Sadaqat

Maaz Sadaqat (born 15 May 2005) is a Pakistani cricketer, who is a left-handed batsman and an occasional slow left-arm orthodox spinner. He plays for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cricket team in domestic cricket. He also previously played for the Pakistan national under-19 cricket team. Early career. He also represented the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under-19 team in age level cricket. He made his under-19 debut for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 12 October 2019, against Central Punjab under-19 in the 2019–20 PCB National Under-19s One Day Tournament. He picked up a five-wicket haul in that match. He was the highest run-scorer for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the 2020–21 PCB National Under-19s One Day Tournament, hitting 363 runs including a century. In December 2020, he was selected to play for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the Second XI Pakistan Cup One-Day Tournament. On 14 November 2021, he scored 63 runs against Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Under-19s Whites in the final match of the 2021–22 PCB National Under-19 Cup, helping his team to win the match by 43 runs and become the champions. He was the second highest run-scorer overall in that competition hitting 308 runs. In December 2021, he was named in Pakistan's under-19 squad for the 2021 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup and 2022 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He also played for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Second XI team in the 2022–23 Cricket Associations T20 Cup, where he remained as the leading run-scorer for his team hitting 350 runs from ten matches. On 16 December 2022, he scored 64 runs and took 4 wickets, helping his team to defeat Northern by 39 runs in the Cricket Associations Challenge. He also became the team's leading run-scorer hitting 423 runs from ten matches. Domestic career. In September 2022, Sadaqat was named in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's squad for the 2022–23 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy. He made his first-class debut for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 27 October 2022, against Balochistan. On 22 November 2022, he claimed his maiden half-century in first-class cricket, scoring 91 runs and leading his team to an innings victory over Northern. He was selected to play for City Club in the 2022–23 Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League. He made his List A debut for City Club on 28 March 2023, against Dhaka Leopards. On 5 April 2023, he scored 65 runs alongside taking 1 wicket for 45 runs against Shinepukur Cricket Club, helping City Club to win the match by 23 runs. It was his maiden List A fifty, and also the first time he had won the player of the match award in domestic cricket.

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Lies of P

Lies of P is a soulslike video game developed by Neowiz Games and Round8 Studio, and published by Neowiz Games. The game was released on September 19, 2023, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, MacOS, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. The game is loosely based on the 1883 Italian novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi. "Lies of P" received generally positive reviews from critics. Gameplay. "Lies of P" is played from a third-person perspective. The player controls the humanoid Pinocchio and travels on foot through the city of Krat, exploring the environment and fighting various biomechanical enemies. Pinocchio uses an arsenal of weapons such as swords and axes against his enemies and can dodge and block their blows. Pinocchio has a mechanical arm that can be equipped with gadgets, such as a grappling hook to lure enemies or a flamethrower. The weapon and crafting system offers 30 different weapon types with 100 combinations. The game features a "Lying System", where the decisions the player makes during certain passages affect the course of events, leading to three different endings. The gameplay of "Lies of P" has been called "soulslike" and compared to that of "Dark Souls", "Bloodborne", and "Sekiro". Plot. Setting. Inspired by Carlo Collodi's novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio", "Lies of P" tells the story of Pinocchio, a robotic puppet who differs from other puppets in his ability to lie, which plays a role during important story decisions. Puppets were invented in the city of Krat thanks to the discovery of a revolutionary power source called Ergo underneath it. Puppets soon became ubiquitous throughout the city, performing menial labour for the populace. Foremost among puppet inventors is the legendary Geppetto, who created Pinocchio. In order to ensure that puppets would not be a threat, they were bound to the Grand Covenant, which forbids them from lying or attacking humans. However, despite this, one day they revolt and slaughter most of Krat's human population. Puppets have their own language, which consists of blurred English text that becomes visible during boss fights against enemy puppets. Krat also suffers from the mysterious and incurable Petrification Disease, which blinds its victims before petrifying and killing them. It can also mutate them into hideous monsters. Synopsis. Pinocchio awakens in an abandoned train and finds himself in the city of Krat, where its population of puppets has rebelled against the Grand Covenant and slaughtered most of the human population. Pinocchio eventually makes his way to Hotel Krat, where some survivors have taken shelter, including a mysterious woman named Sophia. Sophia informs Pinocchio that he must find and rescue his creator, Geppetto, who is the only person who knows how to stop the puppet revolt. She then gives Pinocchio a lantern containing a cricket named Gemini to guide him on his quest. As Pinocchio explores Krat, he battles both the puppets and a group known as Stalkers: animal masked humans who went insane and will kill any puppet on sight. Two of their members are the Red Fox and the Black Cat, who watch over Pinocchio. He also fights citizens who were mutated by the Petrification Disease into inhuman monsters. Eventually, he manages to find Geppetto, who informs him that the puppets are being driven mad by the Puppet King, who is controlling them through the Ergo powering them. Pinocchio hunts down the Puppet King and destroys it, greatly weakening the rogue puppets since they no longer have a leadership. Geppetto then instructs Pinocchio to find the Alchemists, who have allegedly created a cure for the Petrification Disease. However, when Pinocchio heads out to meet the Alchemists, he is instead attacked by more mutated humans who became cyborgs. The Alchemists' leader, Simon Manus, then arrives and boasts that the Alchemists have managed to exploit the Petrification Disease for their own ends, using it to accelerate human evolution and create the monsters spreading throughout Krat. He also reveals that Ergo is created from humans and is the physical embodiment of their memories and life force. Pinocchio makes his way back to Hotel Krat, only to find that Simon attacked the hotel with the Black Rabbit Brotherhood and kidnapped Geppetto. He commandeers a submarine to reach Simon's base on the Isle of Alchemists. He fights his way into Simon's castle, where he finds Sophia's real body heavily mutated from exposure to Ergo, with the Sophia he encountered before being an illusion created by her disembodied soul. Sophia pleads for Pinocchio to end her suffering, and he has a choice of whether to kill her or spare her life. Pinocchio continues to fight his way through the castle and against Simon's minions before confronting Simon himself, who has infused himself with Ergo and become a godlike being. Pinocchio defeats Simon and reunites with Geppetto, who promises to use the Ergo Simon collected to turn Pinocchio into a human. However, he must hand over his heart to complete the process. In a post credits scene, a man named Philippus Paracelsus, posing as a merchant called Giangio, reports the results of the "Krat experiment" to his superior. He explains that Pinocchio may hold one of the keys to eternal life, and that he will continue the search for another key, Dorothy. Back in Krat, a girl wearing red shoes is seen on the rooftops, and clicks her heels three times. Development and release. "Lies of P" was announced on May 19, 2021, by South Korean publisher NeoWiz. During Gamescom 2022, a gameplay trailer was shown and it was announced it would be released on Xbox Game Pass on release day. 11 minutes of 4K gameplay footage premiered at the Game Developers Conference in March 2023. Director Choi Ji-Won states the game has been in development for about three years. The studio chose to theme the game around Pinocchio to appeal to a wider fanbase. Choi Ji-Won notes that the original story has a "dark" tone and "diverse backgrounds" that the staff could use. They chose to set the game in a Belle Époque-like environment to "encapsulate a city's transformation from opulence to ruin" and convey "a period of unparalleled cultural and artistic prosperity, yet severe darkness and negativity". On June 19, 2023, a collaboration with Team Ninja's "" was announced, which will allow "Wo Long" players to use "Lies of P" weapons as part of a DLC package on September 27, 2023. Reception. "Lies of P" received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. The game won the "Best Action Adventure Game", "Most Wanted Sony PlayStation", and "Best Role Playing Game" at the Gamescom 2022 Awards. "Famitsu" reviewers praised the game, noting its difficulty. Ashida from "Famitsu" commented that the game is similar to the original "Dark Souls". He also noted his frustration with how short the player character's attacks are compared to those of the enemies. Meanwhile, Honma and Uchisawa mentioned that the game pays homage to "Bloodborne". They praised the humorous enemy puppets and the customizability of the player's weapons.

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Rural Development Trust Stadium

Rural Development Trust Stadium is a cricket ground in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. The stadium comes with all necessary modern facilities, having been built and maintained by the Rural Development Trust. It was used as the home ground for Andhra cricket team. The first recorded match on this ground was played between Andhra and Railways, on 22 December 2004 in the 2004–05 Ranji Trophy. It hosted Ranji Trophy matches between 2004 and 2018. It had also hosted Women's List A matches in the Women's Senior One Day Trophy in 2007 and 2008. Annual school competitions are also held at this ground.

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Freddie White (field hockey)

Fredrick White also more commonly and popularly known as Freddie White (1930 – 13 August 2022) was a Ceylonese field hockey player and footballer who also served as the former captain of the Sri Lanka men's national field hockey team. He was known for his exploits in the sport of field hockey. He was regarded as Asia's best field hockey goalkeeper at one time despite the fact that India and Pakistan had ruled world hockey at that time coinciding with his playing career. He was also easily the best player during arguably Sri Lanka's best ever field hockey team and he is also considered as the greatest ever field hockey player to have donned the national jersey of Ceylon. He cemented the reputation as Ceylon's best ever goalkeeper for nearly two decades. His elder brother Duncan White was an Olympic silver medalist in athletics. He permanently resided in Australia after his retirement from field hockey. Career. He made his field hockey debut at the tender age of 18 as a schoolboy against an Indian Olympic hockey team in 1948 and coincidentally his elder brother Duncan White secured Ceylon's first ever Olympic medal in the same year at the London Olympics in men's 400m hurdles. He began playing for the Burgher Recreation Club from 1948 up until 1950. He represented Defence Services in the first National Hockey Championships way back in 1957. He was appointed as the vice-captain of the Ceylon team during their tour of Madras in 1957. He also captained the Colombo HA team at the 1959 National Championships. He later switched to Havelock SC and won Andriesz Shield as well as Pioneer Cup with the club. During his playing career, he received spotlight from the Indian field hockey fraternity for his notable work as a goalkeeper. He impressed as a goalkeeper during Ceylon's two match home test series against defending Olympic field hockey champions India in 1960 whereas the Indian national field hockey team manager BL Gupta and Indian national captain Leslie Claudius applauded White for his exceptional glovework. Both Gupta and Claudius heaped praise on White and both indicated their firm desire to have Freddie White in their national team as India's first-choice goalkeeper for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome had White originally been an Indian national. Sri Lanka's best years in field hockey coincided with the playing career of White which was even highlighted by former Indian veteran hockey player Dhyan Chand who insisted that Ceylon was the world's sixth best team in global field hockey as he made such a critical statement during Ceylon's 1959/60 tour to the Northern part of India. He also joined the Sri Lanka Army in the inter club tournaments in the Annual Hockey Nationals. He also captained Sri Lankan hockey team during the 1966 Asian Games. Sri Lanka endured a tough run at the 1966 Asian Games as they secured a fifth-place finish out of eight teams in the men's field hockey competition where they defeated South Korea 1–0 in the consolation play-off. He retired from the sport in 1967 with last of his assignments as captain of the national side was a two test series against a strong Indian side. During the first test of the two test series, Sri Lanka lost by a margin of 1-0 which is still regarded as the best ever performance by Ceylonese hockey side against India. Personal life. He pursued his primary and secondary education at the Kingswood College, Kandy and at the school he played field hockey, cricket, football and athletics. He emigrated to Australia with his spouse Lavender in 1972 after bidding adieu to sporting career. His close cousin Penny White was the daughter-in-law of former Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayewardene. He died on 13 August 2022 in Perth, Australia due to illness.

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Sally Morrison (philanthropist)

Sally Christine Morrison is a New Zealand businesswoman and philanthropist. Starting in the late 1990s, she volunteered at, and co-ordinated support for, a leprosy hospital in Vietnam. Biography. Morrison trained as a nurse and moved to Tauranga in 1977. In 1980 she established a private hospital and rest home there, Oakland Health. In the late 1990s she visited Vietnam with her daughter and met the aunt of an acquaintance, Sister Sheila O'Toole, who ran a centre for leprosy patients. On returning to New Zealand, Morrison began to collect donations of goods and funds to support the work of the centre. She underwent training in order to teach the centre staff how to care for the leprosy patients, and went back to Vietnam seven times over the next 14 years to run training programmes. Morrison has held positions as the chair of charity Acorn Foundation, a trustee of Bay of Plenty Cricket and on the board of the Private Hospitals Association. In 2007 she sold Oakland Health. In the 2013 New Year Honours, Morrison was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to health and the community. In 2016 Morrison sold her large waterside property in Tauranga and moved into a penthouse apartment. She sold more than 40 pieces of excess furniture at auction with all proceeds going to a global polio immunisation campaign run by Rotary International.

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List of IPL Trailblazers cricketers

IPL Trailblazers were an Indian cricket team, that used to play Women's Twenty20 cricket in the Women's T20 Challenge. The team played seven Women's Twenty20 matches between 2019 and 2022, having previously played a one-off match without WT20 status. This is presenting a complete list in alphabetical order of cricketers who have played for IPL Trailblazers. Seasons given are first and last seasons; the player did not necessarily play in all the intervening seasons.

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List of Mumbai Indians cricketers

This is a list of cricketers who have represented Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League since the 2008 Indian Premier League. Players are listed in alphabetical order followed by the year(s) that they have been active as a Mumbai Indians player. For a list of current players, see the current squad.

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William O'Rourke (cricketer)

William Peter O'Rourke (born 6 August 2001) is an English-born New Zealand cricketer, who is a right-arm fast medium bowler. He plays for the Canterbury cricket team in domestic cricket. He also previously played for the New Zealand national under-19 cricket team. Personal life. O'Rourke was born at Kingston upon Thames, a town in London, England. When he was five years old, he along with his family moved back home to Auckland. He started playing cricket with his brother from a very young age. He moved to Canterbury in 2019 to play club cricket. He studied at the University of Canterbury. Early career. In December 2019, he was named in New Zealand's under-19 squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He used to play for Canterbury A in the national provincial matches. He was one of the leading performers for Canterbury A, picking up 10 wickets in the 2020–21 National Provincial A Tournament. In January 2021, he also played two twenty-over matches for New Zealand XI, as a part of the tour matches against Pakistan Shaheens. Domestic career. In July 2021, after making impressive performance in provincial matches, O'Rourke was awarded domestic contract for the first time by the Canterbury Cricket ahead of the 2021–22 New Zealand cricket season. He made his List A debut for Canterbury on 3 January 2022, against Otago in the 2021–22 Ford Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut for Canterbury Kings on 7 January 2022, against Auckland in the 2021–22 Men's Super Smash. He made his first-class debut on 20 March 2022, against Central Districts in the 2021–22 Plunket Shield season. He was the joint highest wicket-taker for Canterbury Kings in the 2022–23 Men's Super Smash with 12 wickets from ten matches leading his team to the grand final. He also remained as the leading wicket-taker for Canterbury in the 2022–23 Ford Trophy with 13 wickets from nine matches, including figures of 3 for 47 against Otago, helping Canterbury to qualify for the final. International career. In March 2023, O'Rourke earned his maiden call-up to the New Zealand A cricket team for their first-class series against Australia A.

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2023 Capricorn Women's Quadrangular Series

The 2023 Capricorn Women's Quadrangular Series was a women's Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that took place in Namibia from 24 April to 2 May 2023. The tournament was played at the United Ground in Windhoek. The participating teams were the women's national sides of Namibia, Hong Kong, Uganda and United Arab Emirates. Uganda replaced United States who withdrew from the tournament. Uganda defeated the hosts in a low-scoring last game of the round-robin to join them in the final. Uganda went on to defeat Namibia again in the final by 3 runs to win the tournament. The victory secured Uganda's second title in two weeks after also having won the 2023 Victoria Series in April. Round-robin. Points table. Advanced to the final Advanced to the third-place play-off

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Pakistan women's cricket team in Bangladesh in 2023–24

The Pakistan women's cricket team are scheduled to tour Bangladesh in October 2023 to play the Bangladesh women's cricket team. The tour will consist of three Women's One Day International (WODI) and three Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) matches. The WODI series will form part of the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship.

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India women's cricket team in Bangladesh in 2023

The India women's cricket team toured Bangladesh in July 2023 to play three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The ODI series formed part of the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship. India won the T20I series 2–1. Bangladesh won the first match of the ODI series, which was their first win over India in the format. India leveled the series by beating Bangladesh in the second ODI by 108 runs. The third and last ODI ended in a tie, leading to the series being drawn 1–1. On 25 July 2023, Harmanpreet Kaur, the Indian captain, was fined 75% of her match fee, received four demerit points and suspended for two matches by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for breaching the code of conduct for her outbursts during the final ODI of the series. She pleaded guilty to two separate charges pressed by Akhtar Ahmed - the match referee. Kaur received three demerit points and fined 50% of her match fee relating to "showing dissent at an umpire's decision". Thus, she became the first women's player to be given a Level 2 sanction since the ICC began listing code of conduct breaches publicly in 2016. She was also awarded one demerit point for a separate Level 1 penalty along with a fine of 25% of her match fee for "public criticism" of match officials. Kaur found herself in the controversy after hitting the stumps with her bat when she was declared out. In the post-match presentation, she publicly criticised the umpires and disrespected the opponent team during the photo session, leading the Bangladeshi players to walkout. Squads. Bangladesh named Sharmin Akhter, Fargana Hoque, Lata Mondal and Fariha Trisna as standby players in their T20I squad.

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Alison Hall

Alison Margaret Hall (15 October 1910 – 2004) was a New Zealand cricket player and scorer. She was the first woman in the world to score an international cricket Test match. Biography. Hall attended Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland, and started playing cricket for the school in 1924; in her later years at the school she captained the First XI. From 1927, Hall was the scorer for senior men's cricket games at the Parnell Cricket Club in Auckland; she also scored for the Auckland provincial team. In February 1930 she sat alongside the English team's scorer Bill Ferguson to score the New Zealand vs England Test match at Eden Park. She was the first woman in the world to score a Test match, and at the age of 19, one of the youngest. Personal life. Hall married the Parnell, Auckland and New Zealand cricketer Paul Whitelaw in July 1948.

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Tunbridge Wells Open

The Tunbridge Wells Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament founded in 1908 as the Tunbridge Wells Open Lawn Tennis Tournament. It was played at the Tunbridge Wells Lawn Tennis Club, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. The tournament ran until 1981 when it was discontinued as part of the ILTF Circuit. History. In 1892 Tunbridge Wells Lawn Tennis Club was founded, but did not at this time have a permanent venue of its own. In 1899 the club was formally incorporated. In August 1908 it established an open tennis event called the Tunbridge Wells Open Lawn Tennis Tournament, The first edition of the men's tournament had a draw of 32 players. The tournament ran annually except for 1915 to 1919 when it was suspended because of World War I and again from 1940 to 1945 due to World War II. The event resumed after the second world war and was staged until 1981 when it was discontinued as part of the worldwide ILTF Circuit. Former notable winners of the men's singles event included; George Alan Thomas, Bill Sidwell, Choy Wai-Chuen, Constantin Tănăsescu, Jiro Sato, and Vernon Kirby. Previous winners of the women's singles tournament included; Agnes Morton, Dorothy Holman, Ermyntrude Harvey, Jadwiga Jędrzejowska, Ruia Morrison, Virginia Wade, and Dianne Evers. Venue. In 1898 William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny was invited to open the new Nevill Ground sports venue. It then consisted of a cricket pitch, athletic track, football ground, six tennis courts, and some croquet pitches. In 1899 a new club was created for tennis and croquet. By 1906 the whole area had been taken over for tennis and croquet. The club initially had grass courts, then in 1931 it constructed four hard courts (clay) were laid where the croquet lawn had been, these were red shale courts. Today the club maintains 21 tennis courts that are made up of natural grass courts, artificial clay clays, and hard tarmac courts.

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21st Battle of Centralians

21st Battle of Centralians is the 2023 edition of Battle of Salpiti Raigam Koralaya a School Cricket Match Series played between Piliyandala Central College and Taxila Central College, Horana as part of the 2023 edition of Big Matches. It includes a Test Match and a One-Day Match. The One-Day Match is also known as 8th One-Day Encounter. History. This Traditional Big Match has been played between the two schools since 2001 annually, except 2021 due to unavoidable circumstances. Background. The Test match and the One-Day match was scheduled to be held in Tyronne Fernando Stadium, Moratuwa. The Test Match was organized by Piliyandala Central College while the One-Day Match is organized by Taxila Central College, Horana. The Test Match was held on 31 March and 1 April 2023. The One-Day Match was held on 2 April 2023.

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South Africa women's cricket team in India in 2023

The South Africa women's cricket team are scheduled to tour India in September 2023 to play the India women's cricket team. The tour will consist of three Women's One Day International (WODI) and Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) matches. The WODI series will form part of the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship.

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New Zealand women's cricket team in India in 2023–24

The New Zealand women's cricket team are scheduled to tour India in September 2023 to play the India women's cricket team. The tour will consist of three Women's One Day International (WODI) and Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) matches. The WODI series will form part of the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship.

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Bangladesh women's cricket team in South Africa in 2023–24

The Bangladesh women's cricket team are scheduled to tour South Africa in December 2023 to play the South Africa women's cricket team. The tour will consist of three Women's One Day International (WODI) and three Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) matches. The WODI series will form part of the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship.

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Heimchen

The Heimchen (sg., pl.) is a being from German folklore with several related meanings. In the first place, "Heimchen" (diminutive of "Heim" = home) is the German term for house cricket. The house cricket is one of the animal appearances taken by dwarves, as is also attested by the dialectal names such as "Herdschmiedl" (hearth smith) and "Heunemänken" ("Mänken" = manikin). In North Palatinate and Western Palatinate, the house cricket, there known as "Krikelmaus" ("Maus" = mouse), is a nursery bogey used to scare children. In Pomerania, the "Heimchen" feed lost children with bread rolls and milk instead. In Silesia, the stridulating house cricket indicates the presence of a deceased soul. The mountain folk. In the Vogtland, the "Heimchen" are little beings, nary two feet tall, that are dwelling on a big meadow inside a mountain cave lit as bright as day by a big carbuncle gem. There, flowers made from gems are blooming and a melodic humming, not unlike harp music, can be heard. The entrance is not always open, and the "Heimchen" or "Bergvolk" (mountain folk), as they call themselves, are not always visible to human eyes. Those "Heimchen" keep golden sheep no bigger than lambs whose shepherdess, Ilsa, is an enchanted girl dressed in white with a golden shepherd's staff who is waiting for her redemption. The retinue of "Perchta". The best-known "Heimchen" are the companions of "Perchta", though. "Perchta" is the leader of the host of "Heimchen", the wailing souls of unbaptized children. She is sometimes called "Heimchenkönigin", i.e. "Heimchen"-Queen. There is also a belief that a stridulating "Heimchen" or house cricket sits on the nose of "Percht". In the Orlagau in Thuringia, the "Heimchen", who are also called "Heimele", "Butzelmännchen" (little bogeymen), and "Erdmännele" (earth manikins), are thought of as tiny earth spirits, as tall as a finger is long, who dwell in the mouse holes of houses. They regularly appear in the evening, dressed in white, of cheerful disposition, with hundreds of them dancing some round dance. They indicate beforehand whether the house dwellers will meet good or bad luck and, if well taken care of, at times might also place gifts in front of their mouse hole in the morning. Those gifts are said to be delectable and very dainty, being found in small golden boxes. The friendly, childishly gay, playful little dwarves love to help humans unseen, be it that they tend to fields and cattle or keep watch on children whose parents are absent. In the Orlagau, the "Heimchen" once diligently helped the farmers with their work in the abovementioned way which made the area exceptionally wealthy. One day, though, a serious man came from afar who told the people that "Perchta" isn't to be trusted as the "Heimchen" are the souls of unbaptized children. When the people then avoided the "Heimchen", "Perchta" decided that it was time to leave, and she and the "Heimchen" crossed the stream never to return again.

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2023 Duleep Trophy

The 2023 Duleep Trophy was the sixtieth edition of the Duleep Trophy, a domestic first-class cricket competition that was played in India. It took place from 28 June to 16 July 2023. The tournament was played across six zones, forming part of the 2023 Indian domestic cricket season, announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in April 2023. West Zone were the defending champions. In the final, South Zone defeated West Zone by 75 runs to win their 14th title. Squads. The squads for all the teams was announced by BCCI on 20 June 2023.

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2023 Deodhar Trophy

The 2023 Deodhar Trophy was the 48th edition of the Deodhar Trophy, a domestic List A cricket competition that was played in India. It took place from 24 July to 3 August 2023. The tournament was played across six zones, forming part of the 2023 Indian domestic cricket season, announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in April 2023. Deodhar Trophy was last held in 2019, and this was also the first time it was played in zonal format since 2014. In the final, South Zone defeated East Zone by 45 runs to win their ninth title. Teams. The following teams took part in the tournament: Squads. Source:

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2023–24 Irani Cup

The 2023–24 Irani Cup also known as IDFC First Bank Irani Cup due to sponsorship reason, is the ongoing sixtieth edition of the Irani Cup, a first-class cricket tournament in India, organised by Board of Control for Cricket in India. It is scheduled to take place from 1 to 5 October 2023. It is played as a one-off match between Saurashtra, the winners of the 2022–23 Ranji Trophy, and a Rest of India cricket team. Its part of the 2023 Indian domestic cricket season, announced by the BCCI in April 2023. Rest of India are the defending champions, who won it by defeating Madhya Pradesh in the final. JioCinema and Sports18 Khel airing it live on internet and television in India. Broadcasting. JioCinema platform is airing it on internet and Sports18 Khel on TV live in India.

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2023–24 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy

The 2023–24 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy will be the sixteenth edition of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, a Twenty20 cricket competition that will be held in India. It is scheduled to take place from 16 October to 6 November 2023. It will be played by 38 teams, being divided into five groups, with eight teams in three groups, and other seven teams in two groups. The tournament will form part of the 2023–24 Indian domestic cricket season, announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in April 2023. Mumbai are the defending champions.

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2023–24 Women's Senior T20 Trophy

The 2023–24 Women's Senior T20 Trophy will be the fifteenth edition of the Women's Senior T20 Trophy, the domestic women's T20 competition that will be held in India. It is scheduled to take place from 19 October to 9 November 2023, with 37 teams divided into five groups. The tournament will form part of the 2023–24 Indian domestic cricket season, announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in April 2023. Railways are the defending champions. Competition format. 37 teams will compete in the tournament, divided into two groups of eight and three groups of seven. They will play each other side in their group once in a round-robin format. The top two teams from each group will qualify for the knockouts. the teams ranked one to six will progress straight to the quarter-finals, whilst the teams ranked seven to ten will play pre-quarter-finals. Matches will be played in WT20 format.

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North East Zone cricket team

North East Zone cricket team is a cricket team that plays first-class and List A cricket in the Duleep Trophy and Deodhar Trophy. The team is geographically based in Northeast India. They are currently being captained by Hokaito Zhimomi. It is a composite team of players from six teams from north east India: Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim. History. Before the 2022–23 season, inter zonal cricket in India had consisted of five teams, representing the Central, East, North, South and West zones. With the addition of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) ahead of the 2018–19 season, a new zone was required when zonal cricket returned in 2022–23. Therefore, North East Zone cricket was formed in August 2022 for both men's and women's cricket. In August 2022, BCCI announced that North East Zone would be one of the six zones to compete in the 2022–23 Duleep Trophy. This was the first time that North East Zone participated in any competitive cricket tournament in India, with Hokaito Zhimomi being named as the captain. They played their inaugural first-class match on 8 September 2022 and drew the match against West Zone. However, they could not qualify for the semi-final because of West Zone's first innings lead. They took in the 2023 Deodhar Trophy, a List A cricket competition for the first time. Squad. "Updated as on 26 Jul 2023"

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Kelvinside Athletic F.C.

Kelvinside Athletic Football Club was a 19th-century athletics club from Kelvinside in Glasgow, originally the footballing branch of the Glasgow United YMCA Athletic Club. History. The Glasgow branches of the YMCA had been involved in sports since the 1860s and in 1883 members formed an athletics club, the Glasgow United YMCA Athletic Club, which included a football side, as well as cricket, tennis, and gymnastics sections. Football side. In the summer of 1883, the University of Glasgow football club, which had existed since 1877, and which had been a regular entrant of the Scottish Cup from 1878 to 1882, allowed its subscription to the Scottish Football Association to lapse. The YMCA football club - to which the media habitually referred as G.U.Y.M.C.A.A.C. - effectively took its place; it played 12 matches in the 1883–84 season and remained unbeaten, with 8 wins. The club therefore joined the Scottish FA for the 1884–85 season, which entitled it to enter the Scottish Cup, and it did so for the competition that season. The club went down 6–4 to Northern at the latter's Hyde Park ground, having ceded the home advantage the draw had given the club. By the end of the season, the club was attracting friendlies against sides such as Alpha, which later became Motherwell. For 1885–86, the club had expanded enough (with membership doubling to 120, making it one of the biggest clubs in Glasgow in terms of membership, with only Queen's Park, Rangers, and the 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers boasting larger memberships) to join the Scottish Second XI Football Association. It also entered the Scottish Cup a second time, gaining a walkover victory against Eastern Athletics, but being drawn in the second round at home to the 3rd L.R.V., who, as well as being one of the few bigger sides, also had significantly more Cup experience. The Hi-Hi duly won 8–1. Change to Kelvinside. Although the club still boasted 120 members in 1886, it did not enter the Scottish Cup under the G.U.Y.M.C.A.A.C. name; it continued playing other sports under that name, but for football and cricket changed its name to Kelvinside Athletic, which retained the Scottish FA membership. Under the Kelvinside name, the club finally won a Scottish Cup tie for the first time in 1887–88, beating St Andrew's 6–3 in the first round. The club however never got past the second round; as professionalism increased, Kelvinside's amateurism was left behind. Although it was one of the better amateur clubs - it beat Govan Athletic 16–0 in the first round in 1888–89, two of the Govan players walking off the pitch after Stewart ran the length of the pitch from the start of the second half to score the club's seventh - it similarly fell well short of the more established sides in the area. The season after its record win, Kelvinside suffered its record defeat, 13–0 at Rangers. It also never got past the first round of the Glasgow Cup, although it did have some wins in competitions in Govan, losing the final of the 1887–88 Govan Jubilee Cup to Whitefield in front of 1,500 at Argyll Park. The club appears to have given up the ghost after one final entry to the Scottish Cup in 1893–94, being drawn to face Hamilton Academical but was not able to play the tie after being removed from the Scottish FA register in August 1893. Colours. The club originally wore black and white one-inch striped jerseys with white knickers; in a throwback to earlier times, the club also specified a black and white cricket cap. As Kelvinside, the club wore white shirts and blue knickers. In 1891 it changed its shirts to black and white, probably in hoops as other designs were normally specified in returns to the SFA. Ground. The club played at the Glasgow University YMCA Park, on Kelburne Street, in Kelvinside, taking over from the Glasgow Academical club. The ground was known as Kelburn Park from 1891.

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Lucille C. Gunning

Lucille Constance Gunning (February 2, 1921 – April 26, 2018), also known as Lucille Blackwood, was an African American pediatrician and medical services administrator who became a specialist in the treatment of children's cancer, the director of pediatric rehabilitation at Harlem Hospital and, later, deputy director of medical services of the Westchester Developmental Disabilities Service. Known for her diagnosis and treatment of children with Sickle cell disease, she was described by the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, Inc. as "a true visionary and catalyst for progression for African American doctors and in rehabilitative medicine for children." Formative years and family. Born in New York City, New York on February 2, 1921, Lucille C. Gunning was the daughter of Roland E. Gunning and Susan C. Gunning (1891-1978). Educated in Jamaica, West Indies during her youth, Lucille Gunning graduated from high school there, and then earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at New York University and her doctor of medicine degree in 1949 at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she was the chief pediatric resident. She subsequently pursued post-graduate training as a pediatric cardiology fellow at Yale University and Yale's Grace New Haven Hospital and in pediatric oncology at the Cancer Memorial Hospital in New York City. She was married to fellow physician, Carlton Earle Blackwood, M.D., a native of Jamaica who was a biochemist and cancer researcher at Columbia University Medical Center before he joined the faculty of the University of the City of New York. She and her husband resided in New Rochelle, New York for many years, and were the parents of four children, Alexander, Constance/Elaina, Isabelle, and Maryanne/Anne. Her husband died on November 29, 1974. Earlier that same year, in August 1974, her son, Alexander, was awarded the Cornelius H. Teaega Student Fellowship from the New York Arthritis Foundation, and went on to study with Dr. Ines Mandl at Columbia University. Medical career. Following her completion of her medical studies, Gunning opened a private medical practice with offices in The Bronx, a neighborhood of New York City where she saw patients for a decade, and in New Rochelle, and often provided free care to patients who were struggling financially. After closing her Bronx office in 1964, she earned her sub-specialty qualifications in pediatric psychiatry at Montefiore Hospital. On October 15, 1964, Gunning and her husband presented a free lecture entitled, "Cancer and the Layman," for a general audience at St. Simon's Episcopal Church in New Rochelle. Their presentation was sponsored by the New Rochelle Cricket Club, an organization with which her husband had been active for a number of years. Her topic was "Clinical Aspects of Cancer in Children"; his was "Trends in Cancer Research." During the late 1960s and early 1970s, she was a member of the faculty at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and was also a staff physician and director of pediatric rehabilitation at Montefiore Hospital. In 1977, she served as a member of the editorial advisory board for the "Journal of the National Medical Association". By 1980, she was director of pediatric rehabilitation at Harlem Hospital. In June of that year, she delivered the keynote address, "Social Perspectives on Violence," for a conference focused on community, family and school violence that was sponsored by the Hudson Valley Regional Organization of the New York State Association of Human Services. During this phase of her career, she also became known for her diagnosis and treatment of children with sickle cell anemia, served as the chair of Harlem Hospital's Child Abuse Committee, and also served on the New York City Mayor's Task Force on Child Abuse." Before that decade was out, she had been appointed as deputy director of medical services of the Westchester Developmental Disabilities Service. When she retired from private practice in the 1990s, she concluded a patient diagnostic and treatment career that had spanned forty-five years. Community service. A member of the Zonta Club, Gunning was elected as first vice president of its New Rochelle chapter in 1998. Honors. In 2002, Gunning was honored for her healthcare leadership and community service by Sister-to-Sister, an advocacy organization providing economic development, education, health, and self-esteem training and services for African American women and youth. In 2009, she was among the first group of African American women inducted into the Spirit of Women Archive at Westchester Community College’s Harold Drimmer Library. In October 2012, Gunning and New York State Senator Suzi Oppenheimer were two of the three women honored as Champions of Change by the Westchester Black Women’s Political Caucus, Inc. Death and funeral. Gunning died in New York on April 26, 2018. Her memorial service was held at the Arigonni Chapel in New Rochelle on June 9.

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2023 Islamabad United season

Islamabad United is a franchise cricket team that represents Islamabad in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). They were one of the six teams that competed in the 2023 Pakistan Super League. The team was coached by Azhar Mahmood, and captained by Shadab Khan. Kit manufacturers and sponsors. Source: Sports Mint Media Season standings. Points table. Notes:

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2023 Kwibuka Women's T20 Tournament

The 2023 Kwibuka Women's T20 Tournament was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that took place in Rwanda from 10 to 17 June 2023. It was the ninth edition of the annual Kwibuka T20 Tournament, which was first played in 2014 in remembrance of the victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Tanzania had won the 2022 tournament, but they did not enter the 2023 tournament, which featured Rwanda, Botswana, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda. Nigeria made a good start, winning their first three games to take a surprise lead in the tournament standings. The closely contested round-robin stage ultimately saw the hosts and Nigeria in a race to claim the second spot in the final behind Uganda. Uganda topped the table, winning their first seven round-robin games, before losing a dead-rubber against Nigeria. Rwanda claimed a surprise 6-wicket victory over Uganda in the final. This was Rwanda's first win against Uganda and the first time that they had won the Kwibuka tournament. Round-robin. Points table. Advanced to the final Advanced to the 3rd place play-off

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Troglophilus

Troglophilus is a genus of European cave crickets in the monotypic subfamily Troglophilinae; both taxa were erected by Hermann August Krauss in 1879. Species are distributed especially in the Mediterranean area, with records from Germany through to Turkey. Species. The "Orthoptera Species File" lists:

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Neil Pratt

Neil Pratt (born 8 June 1972) is an English cricket umpire who has stood in first-class cricket matches as well as in Twenty20 matches. He has also officiated a number of games in The Hundred men's and women's competition.

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2021 Islamabad United season

Islamabad United is a franchise cricket team that represents Islamabad in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). They were one of the six teams that competed in the 2021 Pakistan Super League. The team was coached by Johan Botha, and captained by Shadab Khan.

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2023 Karachi Kings season

Karachi Kings is a franchise cricket team that represents Karachi in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). They were one of the six teams that competed in the 2023 Pakistan Super League. The team was coached by Johan Botha, and captained by Imad Wasim. Wasim Akram was the president of Karachi Kings. Season standings. Points table. Notes:

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Francis Augustus Hare

Francis Augustus ("Frank") Hare (1830–1892) was a British pioneer settler and police superintendent in the colony of Victoria, best known for his role in the capture of the notorious bushrangers known as the Kelly gang at the town of Glenrowan in north-west Victoria. Born in the Cape Colony in 1830 and educated there, after a stint working on his older brother's sheep farm at Paarl, he left the Cape to try his luck on the Victorian gold fields, sailing to Australia in 1852. After a series of adventures and some success prospecting, an opportunity arose to secure a position in the newly reformed Victorian Mounted police. He was at the outset sent to Beechworth to oversee the gold escorts. During the next fifteen years he worked throughout the north-west and central goldfields and was instrumental in the capture of the bushranger Harry Power. By the end of the 1860s he reached the rank of Superintendent and was later promoted to the Richmond Barracks, (Melbourne) overseeing the Bourke District. He led the hunt for the Kelly gang (Ned Kelly, Dan Kelly, Joe Byrne and Steve Hart) on two occasions in the late 1870s. He was to prove unsuccessful on his first attempt and had to return from the chase following a fall from his horse. On his second attempt when he had been specifically requested by the colony's legislature to return, he met with the gang at Glenrowan in July 1880. During the ensuing shootout, he was severely wounded. The troopers went on to capture Ned Kelly and bring him to trial, whilst the other three members of the gang were killed. After a Royal Commission into the Kelly affair, Hare resigned and was appointed a police magistrate, a position he held until his death. He was allocated the largest share of the reward for the capture of the Kelly gang. Origins. Francis Augustus Hare was born at the Cape of Good Hope, in a little village called Wynberg, eight miles (12.9 km) from Capetown, on 4 October 1830, and was the youngest son of a family of sixteen or seventeen. His father, Joseph Hare (1772–1856), a captain in the 21st Dragoons, had settled in the Cape when the regiment was disbanded there. His mother was Sally Wilberforce Bird (1793–1862). His early days were spent on the family farm at Wynberg, situated below the shadow of Table Mountain. He was among the first pupils at a school his father helped to set up, which remains one of South Africa's oldest schools still in existence, Wynberg Boys High. Prospecting. After leaving high school he was for a time sheepfarming and with his brother, but the life was not congenial and he decided to go to Australia. He arrived in Melbourne on 10 April 1852, a few months after the gold discoveries. He paid a brief visit to Sydney, having a runaway convict from Norfolk Island as a mate, but returned at once to Melbourne, where there was much talk of gold and the diggings. Hare joined a party of visitors, and an eight days' tramp brought them to Bendigo, passing en route through the Black Forest, then a noted haunt of bushrangers. They pitched their tents at Golden Gully, and had a fair amount of luck as gold seekers. Alluring news came across from the Ovens and Hare and his party decided to go there, although on the day before he left Hare had himself washed out 10 ounces (283 grams) of gold in a little gully not far from their tents. By Christmas Day, 1852, Hare was on celebrated Read's Creek "paddocking" for gold, and afterwards on Spring Creek, where his share of the proceeds of one claim was £800. He worked there for a time digging, or evading the digger's license, which afterwards on this same gold-field it was his duty as a police officer to enforce. But a serious illness sent him to Sydney, with very little prospect of ever reaching it, and in his book, "The Last of the Bushrangers", which contains the record of his life and adventures in Australia, Hare tells a story of his lying on top of a loaded dray beneath a gum-tree, with a crow perched just above him waiting for the end. The fear that his eyes would be torn out while he was yet alive seemed to give a stimulus, and from that point his illness turned and he recovered. He afterwards went to the Waranga diggings with G. D. McCormick, who was born on the same day and year as Hare, and many years afterwards both were made police magistrates in the same year. Policing. Hare was desirous of joining the Victorian Mounted Police, and on 1 June 1854 he was appointed a lieutenant in the force by (afterwards Sir) W. F. H. Mitchell. His first duty was in connection with gold escorts from Beechworth to the Buckland, the country traversed being often so rough that on one occasion when a pack-mule laden with 2,000 oz (56.6 kg) of gold broke away they were obliged to shoot it in order to recover the gold. One of Hare's earliest achievements was the capture single-handed after a double personal encounter of the bushranger Meakin at Dr. Mackay's station on the Ovens River in 1854. Meakin had come to stick up the station, and in search of a sum of £700 in cash paid to Dr. Mackay the day before for horses, and was unaware that Hare was sleeping on the station that night. Meakin was taken to Beechworth, tied with the same saddle straps he had brought to bind Dr. Mackay. Meakin made several attempts to regain his liberty, and escaping soon afterwards from the gaol at Kilmore was never again heard of. Hare also made an attempt to capture single-handed a bushranger known as "Billy the Puntman", who was afterwards taken near Albury, but on the way to Melbourne hanged himself with a shred of his blanket at Donnybrook, the last stage of the journey. For several years Hare was on duty at the new rushes, such as Back Creek, Chinaman's Flat, and the notorious White Hill, near Maryborough, where murder was then common, and he enjoyed immunity from attack or injury, though he once had a narrow escape from being shot at Back Creek by one of his own troopers. In his later years in the police force the more important episodes in Hare's experiences were the capture of Power, the bushranger, who, after surviving many vicissitudes and a long term of imprisonment, is supposed to have been accidentally drowned in the Lower Murray not long before 1892. Hare was one of the party led by Charles Nicolson, afterwards a police magistrate, which captured Power, the other members of the party being Inspector Montford and Donald, a black tracker. With a promise of a reward of £500 they were able to secure the help of an associate of Power's, who led them to what was thought to be the safest of Power's retreats in the ranges. The only road to it was past the house of the Quinns, a known family and active friends of Power's. As the bushranger afterwards stated, one of his best sentinels was a peacock at Quinn's house, but on the night of the capture the police party got past without the peacock giving the alarm. At daybreak they came on Power's hut, which was at once rushed, the bushranger being asleep inside, and Nicolson had hold of him before he could lay hands on his firearms. The hunt for the Kelly gang. Hare is most known in connection with the Kelly gang of bushrangers, Hare having command of the district police at the time the gang were finally subdued. They had been criminals, chiefly horse and cattle stealers, from childhood, but their outlawry commenced with the shooting of three mounted troopers on the Wombat Ranges in October 1878. From that time the pick of the Victorian police, aided by six Queensland trackers, were in pursuit of them; but aided by a system of bush telegraphing, the help of friends and relations almost and a thorough knowledge—gained in horse-stealing—of some of the wild mountain country in Victoria, they managed to evade capture for two years, and to provide themselves with funds by two bank robberies. Hare was given the command in the Kelly country after the successful raid upon the Euroa Bank. One of his first acts was to seek an interview with Aaron Sherritt, who, like Ned Kelly and Joe Byrne, was an able bushman, a known sympathiser with the outlaws, and a participator in some of their earlier and less serious horse-stealing raids. By a promise of the whole reward of £8,000 offered for the gang dead or alive, Sherritt's co-operation was secured, and Hare had always a belief in the genuineness of his assistance though other officers doubted him. Hare in his book tells how Mrs. Byrne, the mother of one of the bushrangers, found her way one day into a police camp and recognised Aaron Sherritt as he lay asleep. Sheritt learning this when he awoke turned deadly pale and said "Now, I am a dead man". Sherritt's connection with Hare was so little known that he was once fired on by the police, and on another occasion arrested for horse stealing. On 26 June, some considerable time afterwards, and just after Hare had a second time been given the command of the police in the Kelly country, Aaron Sheritt was called out of his hut one night by a German neighbour, who was then in the hands of the bushrangers, and the moment he crossed the threshold was shot dead by his former schoolfellow, Joe Byrne. Knowing that upon news of this further murder a special train would be sent to Beechworth with police and trackers, Ned Kelly and Hart had ridden to Glenrowan and, taking possession of the town, tore up the line in order to wreck the special police train. The story of the stopping of the special and the final struggle with the outlaws at Glenrowan is well known: Hare led the rush of policemen on Jones's Hotel at Glenrowan, but was shot through the wrist and disabled on the first volley. He directed the attack for some time, but being finally faint from loss of blood, had to leave for Benalla. Aftermath. Kelly was hanged at Melbourne gaol on 11 November. Hare later recalled, "The coroner who held the inquest on Ned Kelly told me he seldom saw a man show so little pluck, and if it had not been for his priest, who kept him up, he would not have been able to walk to the gallows." Hare received the congratulations both the Governor and the Chief Secretary for his work on the Kelly case. However, a great deal of dissension amongst the police force followed, and after a Royal Commission into the Kelly affair, Hare retired from office and was made a police magistrate in 1882, which position he held till death. Melbourne life. A keen follower of Melbourne’s sporting events,—in particular cricket,—Hare was present at the party where the stumps were burned following a friendly match between the English and Australian teams. The Ashes were presented to the captain of the winning team, Ivor Bligh and returned with him to England. They are now permanently held in the MCC museum at Lords Cricket Ground. As a confident of the Police Commissioner Fredrick Standish, the man who instigated the Melbourne Cup, Hare was a keen supporter of horse racing and also owned his own coursing dogs. Death. Francis Augustus Hare died on 9 July 1892, aged sixty-one years, from complications of diabetes. He had been discharged earlier from a Melbourne hospital and died at Rupertswood, the country home of Sir William Clarke. Hare is buried at Melbourne cemetery, Carlton. According to press reports of the time, a large number of people gathered along the route of the funeral procession and a great many friends, family and senior officials were at the graveside. His obituary in the "Argus" noted, "While his discretion in connection with the pursuit of the Kelly gang was matter for comment, his personal courage was never once doubted." Personal life. He married Janet Snodgrass, the sister of the Peter Snodgrass MLC, an early reformer of the police force in the newly established colony of Victoria; and aunt to Lady Janet Clarke (), who was married to the well known philanthropist and entrepreneur Sir William Clarke. Hare had no children. Works. Hare published his own autobiography, first as a series of articles in the "Leader" newspapers, then in book form: The "Last of the Bushrangers: An Account of the Capture of the Kelly Gang" (1892). Sources. Attribution:

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2023 ACA Africa T20 Cup Qualification

The 2023 ACA Africa T20 Cup Qualification process consists of a series of two cricket tournaments, organised by the Africa Cricket Association, that will determine the eight teams that will advance to the 2023 ACA Africa T20 Cup. The first tournament was the Southern Africa Cup (covering the south and central region), which was played at Willowmoore Park in Benoni, South Africa, in May 2023. The Northern Africa Cup (covering the northwest region) was originally scheduled to be played in June 2023 in Abuja, Nigeria, and the East Africa Cup was originally to be hosted in Kampala, Uganda, in July 2023. The later two events were eventually combined into a single event (North-West/East Qualifier), and scheduled to be played in September 2023. However, the qualifier and the finals were postponed again. Uganda won the inaugural ACA Africa T20 Cup, where they defeated Tanzania in the final in September 2022. Defending champions Uganda, plus the top three sides from the Southern Africa Cup and the top four sides from the North-West/East Qualifier will qualify for the 2023 ACA Africa T20 Cup. Southern Africa Cup. Points table. Qualified for the 2023 ACA Africa T20 Cup finals

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Nhlanhla Mashigo

Nhlanhla Mashigo (born 6 January 2002) is a South African cricketer, who is a right-handed batsman. He plays for Easterns in domestic cricket. Early years. He completed his primary education from Theo Twala Primary School. He played five matches for the Eastern under-19 cricket team in the 2015–16 CSA Under-13 Week. He also made one appearance in school level cricket for Jeppe High School for Boys in October 2019. Domestic career. He made his List A debut for Easterns on 3 April 2022, against KwaZulu-Natal Inland in the 2021–22 CSA One-Day Cup. He made his Twenty20 debut for Easterns on 30 September 2022, against South Africa Under-19s in the 2022–23 CSA Provincial T20 Cup. He made his first-class debut on 9 March 2023, for Easterns against Limpopo in the 2022–23 CSA 4-Day Series.

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Annie Dorothea Caroline Owen

Annie Dorothea Caroline Owen (née Earnshaw; 1857 — 28 January 1927) was the first female motorist in British Malaya and a founder of the Ladies' Lawn Tennis Club in Singapore. Life. Owen married George Mildmay Dare in 1877. In 1884, she co-founded the Ladies Lawn Tennis Club in Singapore. She was also a singer and a dancer and frequently took part in musical and theatrical performances. In 1905, she imported a motorcar from England, becoming the fourth person in Singapore to own a car, after B. Frost, Charles Burton Buckley and William Kennedy. Kennedy gifted Owen his license plate, and she became the first woman in British Malaya to drive a car. She then taught Hassan Mohamed to drive. He then became the first chauffeur in Singapore. On 15 April 1907, she, her friend and her gardener embarked on a 686-mile road trip across the Malay Peninsula. Several years after Dare's death in 1907, she married George P. Owen, the secretary of the Singapore Cricket Club. She contributed to "One Hundred Years of Singapore". She died on 28 January 1927.

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Police Parade Ground (Anantapur)

Police Parade Ground formerly known as Police Training College Ground is a cricket ground in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was used as the home ground for Andhra cricket team. The ground was first used on 28 December 1962 to host a first-class match between Andhra and Hyderabad in the 1962–63 Ranji Trophy. It hosted four Women's first-class matches in the 2008–09 Inter State Women's Competition. Eight Women's List A matches of the 2008–09 Senior Women's One Day League were also played on this ground.

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2023 Lahore Qalandars season

Lahore Qalandars is a franchise cricket team that represents Lahore in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). They were one of the six teams that competed in the 2023 Pakistan Super League. The team was coached by Aaqib Javed, and captained by Shaheen Afridi. Season standings. Points table. Notes:

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2023 Multan Sultans season

Multan Sultans is a franchise cricket team that represents Multan in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). They were one of the six teams that competed in the 2023 Pakistan Super League. The team was coached by Andy Flower, and captained by Mohammad Rizwan. Season standings. Points table. Notes:

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Actions near Alexandria

The Actions near Alexandria (April 24 – May 13, 1864) saw a Confederate States Army force commanded by Major General Richard Taylor surround a greatly superior Union Army led by Major General Nathaniel P. Banks and a United States Navy flotilla commanded by Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter at Alexandria, Louisiana. Porter's gunboats were trapped above the double falls in the Red River by low water. Banks' army was compelled to halt its retreat to keep Porter's vessels from being scuttled or from falling into Confederate hands. Meanwhile, Taylor positioned his scanty forces to blockade the Union forces within Alexandria. For several days, the Confederate force was able to block all traffic in the Red River. Porter's fleet was saved when an innovative Union engineer built Bailey's Dam which raised the water level enough to float Porter's gunboats over the falls and into deeper water. On May 13, Banks' army brushed aside Taylor's troops and marched downstream. Though Banks ordered Alexandria to be spared, Union soldiers burned down most of the city when they left. Background. Red River campaign. Because his administration felt threatened by the French-backed regime of Emperor Maximilian in Mexico, President Abraham Lincoln wanted the United States flag raised over part of Texas. Major General Henry Halleck ordered Banks, over his objections, to mount an invasion of Texas using the Red River corridor. Banks was to ascend Bayou Teche with 17,000 troops while Major General Andrew Jackson Smith with 10,000 men (three divisions of XVI Corps and XVII Corps) would move up the Red River accompanied by the 13 ironclads and 7 light-draft gunboats of Porter's river fleet. Major General Frederick Steele and 15,000 men were ordered to march south from Little Rock, Arkansas, and join the first two columns, but they started too late and never connected with Banks. On March 18, 1864, A. J. Smith's column occupied Alexandria and was joined by Banks' main body a few days later. Despite low water in the Red River, Banks ordered an advance on Shreveport, Louisiana, and his army occupied Natchitoches on April 2. At the Battle of Mansfield on April 8, Taylor defeated Banks and forced the Union army back. Though Taylor's attack was repelled at the Battle of Pleasant Hill on April 9, Banks elected to withdraw to Grand Ecore near Natchitoches. Meanwhile, Taylor's superior, General Edmund Kirby Smith took most of the Confederate infantry to fight Steele's column, leaving Taylor with only 5,200 troops. On April 21, Banks decided to abandon the campaign and retreat from Grand Ecore. This decision was influenced by an order to return A. J. Smith's troops to Major General William T. Sherman by April 10. At the Battle of Monett's Ferry on April 23, the Union army forced its way through a blocking force sent by Taylor. Actions. Arrival at Alexandria. The different elements of Banks' army reached Alexandria between April 24 and 26. The rearguard was composed of A. J. Smith's troops who fought off Confederate pursuit and burned any buildings they found along their route. Meanwhile, Porter sent reports to his superiors in Washington, D.C. complaining of Banks' failures, leading Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and Halleck to consider replacing Banks. Meanwhile, the last few vessels of the river flotilla fought through a Confederate ambush in the Action of 26–27 April 1864 where the Cane River emptied into the Red River. The ironclad had to be scuttled and two pump boats were lost, but Porter himself in the tinclad and two other badly damaged gunboats escaped. These were escorted to Alexandria by two more warships. On April 26, Major General John Alexander McClernand arrived at Alexandria to assume command of the XIII Corps. McClernand brought the 2,600 troops of Brigadier General Michael Kelly Lawler's brigade and 1,000 replacements destined for the XVI Corps. This brought Banks' army to a total of 33,500 men. Banks deployed the XIX Corps on the right flank, XIII Corps in the center, and XVI Corps on the left flank. The Union soldiers fortified Alexandria with a double line of breastworks hardened by artillery redoubts. Taylor posted his small forces to blockade the much larger Union army within Alexandria. He hoped to either capture the Union fleet or force his opponents to destroy it. According to historian William Riley Brooksher, Taylor sent Brigadier General James Patrick Major with 1,000 soldiers to David's Ferry, downstream from Alexandria. He placed Brigadier General William Steele with 1,000 men north and west of Alexandria, and Brigadier General Arthur P. Bagby Jr. and 1,000 soldiers south of the city. Brigadier General Camille de Polignac and 1,200 infantry were positioned to support Major or Bagby. Brigadier General St. John Richardson Liddell with 700 men covered the east bank of the Red River. However, Taylor reported that Polignac's division numbered 2,000 troops and estimated his total strength as 6,000. Porter's gunboats trapped. At Alexandria, the water depth at the double falls was only , while the gunboats needed a depth of to get through. Between the falls, the river channel was only wide in some places. The "Cricket" proved able to pass the falls into deeper water, but the , , , , , , , , , and were trapped above the upper falls. On April 27, Major General David Hunter reached Alexandria with orders from Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant to terminate the campaign immediately and start operations against Mobile, Alabama. However, at this time it was impossible for Banks to move his army without abandoning Porter's fleet. Hunter believed that the ships could not be saved and ought to be scuttled. He reported to Grant that there was an alarming amount of illicit trading in cotton, and that Banks should be replaced. Hunter also convinced Grant that A. J. Smith's troops should be left at Alexandria until Porter's gunboats could escape. Bailey's Dam. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Bailey, an acting engineer on Major General William B. Franklin's staff submitted a plan to raise the water level to by damming the river and Franklin approved it. The plan was placed before Porter, who accepted it, as did Banks and Hunter. On April 29, Banks issued the orders and Bailey began the work the following day. Bailey's dam was located at the lower falls. Over 3,000 soldiers were employed on the project. On the Alexandria side of the river, the two Black regiments from Colonel George D. Robinson's engineer brigade and a 400-man detachment from Colonel William H. Dickey's African-American brigade were set to work building a crib dam. The cribs were built by tearing down buildings for their lumber and then filled with quarried stone, bricks, or machinery. On the Pineville side, opposite Alexandria, details from New York, Maine, and XIII Corps regiments felled trees for a tree dam. The trees were sunk and held in place with sand, brush, and bricks. When the space between the tree dam and the crib dam narrowed to , four large coal barges loaded with stone were sunk in the gap. Porter, who loathed Banks, had to admit, "To General Banks personally I am indebted for the happy manner in which he forwarded this enterprise, giving it his whole attention, night and day, scarcely sleeping while the work was going on." Clashes. On April 30, a Union cavalry brigade advancing from Pineville was counterattacked by Liddell's force and defeated with the loss of 30 men at Hudnot's Plantation. On May 1, Steele pushed back the Union outposts on the Rapides road to within of Alexandria. On May 2, a foraging party from the 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry and the 83rd Ohio Infantry suffered 12 casualties near Governor Moore's mansion. On May 3, the Confederates made a drive along the Bayou Robert road. During this period, the 64th U.S. Colored Infantry sustained 7 casualties at Ashwood Landing. Taylor believed that Banks' troops were demoralized, hungry, and sick, and hoped to achieve a major victory. On May 1, George Wythe Baylor's brigade and Captain J. A. A. West's Louisiana Battery took position at Wilson's Landing, downstream from Alexandria. When the Union river transport "Emma" appeared, Colonel Isham Chisum's 2nd Texas Partisan Rangers galloped after it, forced it to surrender, and burned the vessel. On May 3, Baylor's men ambushed the transport "City Belle" with 700 men of the 120th Ohio Infantry as it came upstream. A shot from West's battery struck the vessel's boiler, forcing the Union soldiers to abandon it. Half of the soldiers were captured while others escaped to the opposite bank. After this debacle, Lieutenant Commander Kidder Breese prohibited transports from using the Red River unless escorted. On May 4, the river transport "John Warner" headed downstream from Alexandria with the 56th Ohio Infantry and escorted by the tinclad and gunboat . The soldiers were finally getting to enjoy their veteran's furlough. The next morning, the three vessels reached Dunn's Bayou where Baylor's men waited in ambush. West's battery disabled the "John Warner" and it drifted into the bank where it endured a terrific blast of rifle fire which caused 125 casualties. The transport ran up the white flag as the survivors of the regiment scrambled up the opposite riverbank. When the two gunboats turned to flee upriver, the engine of the "Signal" was knocked out. The "Covington" tried to tow the tinclad away but its own steering was disabled and it drove into the opposite bank where the Confederate guns pounded it. Finally, the "Covington's" commander ordered the gunboat to be set on fire as the crew fled into the woods. The Confederate riflemen then concentrated on the helpless "Signal" and forced it to surrender. In five days, Baylor's 1,000 men and 4 guns inflicted 500 casualties while suffering fewer than 10 men wounded. On May 6, seven Federal river transports headed upriver, three with reinforcements and four with supplies. These were Brigadier General Fitz Henry Warren's XIII Corps troops, coming from Texas. They encountered Confederate artillery and turned back. Instead, they occupied Fort DeRussy. Banks' army and Porter's fleet were now completely isolated. Porter's gunboats escape. On the afternoon of May 8, Bailey's Dam was completed and the "Fort Hindman", "Neosho", and "Osage" passed the upper falls and moved into the pool above the dam. However, for some reason, the other gunboats failed to budge. At 2:00 am, an anxious Banks sent Porter a note pointing out that the dam was about to burst, but Porter failed to respond. At 5:00 am on May 9, two of the coal barges were swept away by the current and the pent-up water began surging through the opening. This finally roused Porter, who galloped upstream to order the gunboats to move. Only the "Lexington" was ready; it steamed into the gap in the dam and safely made it through. After seeing this, the "Fort Hindman", "Neosho", and "Osage" all dashed through the gap successfully, with only the "Neosho" suffering minor damage. The failure to move the gunboats over the falls frustrated Banks' hopes to quickly abandon Alexandria. He urged Porter to get his gunboats ready, and this time the admiral made sure his vessels were prepared. Guns and anchors were removed and 11 obsolete 32-pounder guns were destroyed in order to decrease the gunboats' draft. Iron plates were sunk in the river and replaced by a coat of coal tar to simulate armor. Seeing that the original dam was irreparable, Bailey tried building a wing dam, but it did not raise the water level high enough. Lieutenant Colonel Uri B. Piersall of the 99th U.S. Colored Infantry presented a plan to build a bracket dam, "to put a foot of water under those boats", and Bailey authorized the work to proceed. A diagonal bracket dam was built below the upper falls to confine the river to a narrow channel. On May 11, "Carondelet", "Mound City", and "Pittsburgh" safely crossed the upper falls. The following day, the "Chillicothe", "Louisville", and "Ozark" passed the upper falls. By May 13, all the vessels ran through the gap in the dam. Porter's crews rearmed and reloaded their gunboats. The Confederates blundered in not attempting to interfere with the Federal dam-building, though they were too weak to stop Banks' troops for very long. The Union troops also wondered why their opponents had not tried to obstruct their efforts. Taylor demanded that Liddell blockade the river and harass the Union dam builders, but Liddell's force was too weak to do either. When Taylor then issued a contradictory order to move his command downstream to support Major, a frustrated Liddell complied, but he then submitted his resignation; Taylor accepted it. Aftermath. Banks ordered the army's retreat to begin at once. When the Federal soldiers began to reload the river transports, they were angry to find the vessels were filled with bales of cotton. Brigadier General James W. McMillan ordered the men to throw the cotton overboard, which was done. Pro-Union Louisianans queued up to get aboard the transports, but they were refused admittance. Wanting to hide his intentions, Banks issued orders to prevent Union soldiers from committing acts of arson and pillage, but failed to assign enough troops to ensure his orders were carried out. A. J. Smith and his high-ranking officers talked openly about putting Alexandria to the torch. Soon, Union soldiers and escaped Black slaves set plantations and farms around the town on fire. In one case, Confederate soldiers sacked and burned down the plantation of James Madison Wells, whom they regarded as a traitor. Brigadier General Michael Kelly Lawler's XIII Corps troops led the march out of Alexandria, followed by Brigadier General William H. Emory's XIX Corps, with A. J. Smith's troops bringing up the rear. The Union army followed a road along the west bank of the river in order to protect the gunboats and river transports. The Confederates of Polignac, Major, and Bagby only skirmished with the Union cavalry, as it led Banks' march. Steele followed behind the withdrawing Federals, while the forces of Colonels Isaac F. Harrison and James B. Likens (3rd Louisiana Cavalry and 35th Texas Cavalry) moved along the east bank. As the last formations of Banks' army pulled out, parties of Federals went about town looting and setting fires. In all likelihood, the men of XVI and XVII Corps were mostly responsible for the orgy of destruction that followed. A. J. Smith galloped through Alexandria shouting, "Hurrah, boys, this looks like war!" Some men of the XIX Corps tried to put out the flames but were only able to save a few buildings. The next action was the Battle of Mansura on May 16.

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Thomas Jordan (mayor)

Thomas Jordan (30 April 1880 – 7 June 1945) was the mayor of Masterton from 1925 to 1944, and was a teacher and then lawyer. Jordan was born in Christchurch in 1880, to Michael and Mary Jordan. They moved to Tawa (then called Tawa Flat) near Wellington where they lived on James Taylor's farm, then to a house near the Porirua Lunatic Asylum. Jordan attended Tawa Flat School from 1886 to 1890, then Porirua School where he won a scholarship to Wellington College where he was dux in 1896. He secured a University Junior Scholarship to Victoria University of Wellington, graduating M.A., and taught at Wellington College from 1902 to 1907. He graduated Ll.B in 1907, and then practiced law at Masterton. He became mayor of Masterton in 1925, and was mayor until shortly before his death. In World War II he was chairman of the National Patriotic Fund Council and then was a member of the National Patriotic Fund Board. He was also on the Town Planning appeal board and the Transport Appeal board and on the local Power Board etc. In his younger days, he was a prominent cricketer and rugby footballer, being on the Wellington Ranfurly Shield team about 1905. He died in 1945. He was survived by his widow and a daughter, but details are not known. See photo of Tom Jordan.

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Staten Island Invitation

The Staten Island Invitation was a men's grass court tennis tournament founded in 1886. It was first played at Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club, Livingston, Staten Island, New York City, United States. The tournament was staged until 1922 when it was abolished. History. In 1886 the Staten Island Invitation tennis tournament was established. The tournament was held first at the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club (f.1872) until the 1910s when the singles event was discontinued. In 1920 the event was revived and moved location to the Staten Island Athletic Club until 1922 when it was discontinued.

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Ireland women's cricket team record by opponent

The Ireland women's cricket team represents Ireland in international women's cricket. Cricket in Ireland is organised on an All-Ireland basis, meaning the Irish women's team represents both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. They are full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), being governed by the Cricket Ireland. The Irish women's team entered the international arena well before their male counterparts, playing their first-ever Women's One Day International (WODI) match on 28 June 1987, against Australia in a bilateral series. They participated in Women's Cricket World Cup for the first time in the 1988 edition. Ireland got their first WODI win on 30 November 1988, beating the Netherlands by 86 runs. As of April 2023, they have played 162 WODIs against fourteen different opponents, resulting 45 victories and 111 defeats for an overall winning percentage of 28.84. They have the fifth most defeats for any team in this format. They have played the most number of matches (25) against the Netherlands. They also have been most successful against the same team, winning 23 WODI matches against them. They have also recorded the highest number of wins (4) against the Netherlands in Women's Cricket World Cup. Ireland have lost 18 out of their 20 WODI matches against South Africa, the highest number of defeats for Ireland against any team in the format. Ireland made their debut in Women's Test cricket on 30 July 2001 against Pakistan, winning the match by an innings and 54 runs. Although in April 2021, the ICC awarded permanent Test status to all full member women's teams, it was the only Women's Test match played by Ireland. Ireland competed in the shorter version of international cricket for the first time in 2008, when they played against the West Indies in a one-off WT20I at home. They have played a total of 102 WT20I matches, recording 36 wins and 65 defeats for an overall winning percentage of 35.64. They have been the second most unsuccessful team in the format, both in terms of matches won as well as winning percentage, among the full member teams. Ireland have met with Pakistan for the most number of occasions, playing 19 times against them. They have recorded the highest number of wins (10) against the Netherlands in the format. Among the full member countries, they have defeated Pakistan for the most number of times (4). Pakistan is also the team against whom Ireland have suffered the most number of defeats, losing 15 times against them. Ireland have taken part in four editions of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup, losing all of their 17 matches they played against nine different opponents, to become the most unsuccessful team in the championship.

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George P. Owen

George P. Owen (1856 — 23 May 1928) was the secretary of the Singapore Cricket Club and the Singapore Turf Club and a big-game hunter. Career. Owen came to Singapore in 1879. In the following year, he was employed at Adamson, Gilfillan & Co. as an assistant, and became a member of the committee of the Singapore Cricket Club. In 1886, he became the club's secretary, a position he held until 1920. He was also the secretary of the Singapore Turf Club. He won the singles tennis championship in Singapore nine times from 1884 to 1893. From 1901 to 1904, he served as the superintendent of the Singapore Fire Brigade. He was also a founding member of the Singapore Polo Club and the Singapore Golf Club. He contributed to "One Hundred Years of Singapore". He left Singapore and retired to England in December 1920. Personal life and death. Owen married Annie Dorothea Caroline Dare. They resided in a house along MacRitchie Reservoir, then known as Thomson Road Reservoir. He and his wife frequently participated in local musical and theatrical performances. Owen was a prominent big-game hunter and frequently accompanied Ibrahim of Johor, the Sultan of Johor, on shooting trips. He received many hunting trophies, which he put on display in his house. In 1887, he shot and killed a crocodile in Serangoon, which he donated to the Raffles Museum. He also frequently went tiger hunting, which was a popular sport in Singapore at the time. He died on 23 May 1928.

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2023 Peshawar Zalmi season

Peshawar Zalmi is a franchise cricket team that represents Peshawar in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). They were one of the six teams that competed in the 2023 Pakistan Super League. The team was coached by Daren Sammy, and captained by Babar Azam. Season standings. Points table. Notes:

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Jannie Momberg

Jan Hendrik "Jannie" Momberg (27 July 1938 – 7 January 2011) was a South African politician, businessman, and sports administrator who served in the South African Parliament from 1989 to 2001. A former member of the National Party (NP), Momberg's opposition to apartheid led him to become a founding member of the Democratic Party in 1989, and he joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1992. Born in Stellenbosch to a conservative Afrikaans family, Momberg inherited half of Middelvlei wine estate and subsequently purchased Neethlingshof Estate. Alongside his business career, he was a sports administrator in the Cape Province and later nationally as a member of the board of the South African Athletics Association. He joined the National Party in 1957 and remained a member until 1987, though by the mid-1960s he was openly critical of aspects of the party's policy of apartheid. By the mid-1980s, Momberg had publicly called for the abolition of apartheid. In the 1989 general election, he was elected to the House of Assembly, representing the Democratic Party in Simonstown. From 1992, he sat as an independent after defecting to join the recently unbanned ANC. The next general election in 1994 was held under universal suffrage with the ANC's participation and Momberg was elected to an ANC seat in the post-apartheid National Assembly. He served as the party's programming whip until June 2001, when President Thabo Mbeki appointed him to a diplomatic posting. He served as South African Ambassador to Greece from 2001 to 2006. Early life and career. Momberg was born on 27 July 1938 in Stellenbosch in the former Cape Province. He was a member of a prominent Afrikaans family: his father and uncle owned Middelvlei, a successful wine estate in Stellenbosch, and were connected to politicians of the National Party (NP), which came to power in 1948. He was raised alongside his cousin, also named Jan; his cousin was known as Stil Jan (Afrikaans for "quiet Jan") and he, for his volubility, as Jan Bek ("loudmouth Jan"). According to News24, rugby player Jannie Engelbrecht devised the nicknames. After matriculating at Paul Roos Gymnasium, Momberg joined the NP in 1957 through its youth wing at Stellenbosch University. Two years later, after his father died, he suspended his studies to help run Middelvlei, of which he inherited half. He sold his share of Middelvlei to his cousin in 1963 and bought the nearby Neethlingshof Estate, another successful vineyard; he also ultimately completed his bachelor's degree in history and economics. Alongside his business career, Momberg, though not himself an athlete, became involved in sports administration from 1969; he served in leadership positions in the South African Athletics Association and became the manager and mentor of runner Zola Budd in the 1980s. National Party member: 1957–1987. At the same time, Momberg remained a member of the NP and was secretary of his local party branch by 1963, although he increasingly questioned the party's policy of apartheid. In 1963, after Coloureds were barred from attending a symphony at Cape Town City Hall, he wrote to "Die Burger", the NP's mouthpiece, to say that "he had never heard of 'skollies' [Coloured criminals] in dress suits attending symphonic performances", concluding with a condemnation of the Group Areas Act as "immoral". Momberg wrote in his memoirs that, from then onwards, he was "continuously engaged in fights with the NP over certain policies with which I could not associate myself". By 1982, he was publicly labelling apartheid as "ugly" and unsustainable. In 1985, still a full-time businessman, he called for its abolition, arguing that it had led the international community to view Afrikaners as racist and South African society as nearing extinction. Earlier that year he had told "Time" magazine that he thought the NP should "scrap the bloody three-Way Parliament", saying:It may sound crazy, but what we need for the next ten years is enlightened dictatorship. Not for the black population, but for the whites. I think we're going to have to force through certain things against the whites for the sake of the country. Political career: 1989–2001. Democratic Party: 1989–1992. Increasingly concerned about the South African political situation – partly as a result of trips to the United Kingdom, where he could read uncensored media reports – Momberg resigned from the NP in 1987 and became a founding member of the liberal Democratic Party (DP) the following year. In the 1989 general election, he was elected to the House of Assembly, representing the DP in the constituency of Simonstown in Cape Town. Momberg was a member of a wing of the DP which advocated for closer ties to the anti-apartheid African National Congress (ANC), a majority-black movement then banned inside South Africa. In 1990, around the time that the ANC was unbanned, he was part of a DP delegation to the movement's headquarters in exile in Lusaka, Zambia; in his memoirs, he recounted the significance of meeting personally the ANC leaders whom he had been led to believe were terrorists. Independent: 1992–1994. In April 1992, Momberg and four other parliamentarians – David Dalling, Pierre Cronjé, Jan van Eck, and Robert Haswell – were suspended from the DP after the party's leadership learned that they had recently held a private meeting with ANC President Nelson Mandela. The following week, the group announced that they were defecting from the DP to join the ANC. In a joint statement, the group said that they were responding to a call made by Mandela shortly after his release from prison in 1990, for "all our white compatriots to join us in the shaping of a new South Africa". Momberg said that they had concluded that "working toward a democratic transition cannot be done from the comfortable sidelines of minority politics". They said that they regarded their constituencies as consisting of all the residents of their areas, not only the enfranchised white citizens. Momberg and the others remained in Parliament as independents for the rest of the legislative term. At the same time, later in 1992, Momberg was elected to the executive committee of the ANC's new Western Cape branch. Explaining his defection to the ANC, Momberg's colleague in the DP, Dene Smuts, later said:He had traversed the entire political terrain from the old establishment to the incoming new and he did so from the personal conviction that it was, for him, the right thing to do. It is not that he didn't work through the ideological considerations that normally drive defection... He did take the ANC's nonracist, nonsexist ethos under review. He said he understood the nonracism, but he could not understand what you had against sex. [Laughter.] However, the reason that it was for him the right thing to do to join the ANC was that he felt that he had a historic debt.According to his wife:He just felt that it was the only way to atone for the fact that he had supported the National Party in the past. Although he had to endure abuse [from white conservatives], he did not for one moment, till the day he died, doubt that he had done the right thing and he received huge support from the real majority of the people of South Africa. African National Congress: 1994–2001. In the 1994 general election, South Africa's first under universal suffrage, Momberg was elected to represent the ANC in the new National Assembly. He served in his seat until 2001, gaining re-election in the 1999 general election, and he served as the ANC's programming whip, initially under Chief Whip Arnold Stofile. After his death, his colleagues recollected the lengths to which he had gone to facilitate meetings among influential people of different political and socioeconomic backgrounds, with ANC representative Mosiuoa Lekota saying, "if there is a little equanimity in this House, it has quite a bit to do with the work that he did". He resigned from his seat with effect from 26 June 2001 and his seat was filled by Joyce Moloi. Diplomatic career and retirement. Upon his departure from Parliament, Momberg was appointed by President Thabo Mbeki as South African Ambassador to Greece, with non-resident accreditation to Bulgaria, Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Cyprus. The Mayor of Athens awarded him the Medal of the City of Athens for his role in promoting good diplomatic relations between South Africa and Greece. In 2006, he retired to Muizenberg in Cape Town, where he remained involved in philanthropy and business. Personal life and death. Momberg married Trienie Steyn in 1964; they had four sons and several grandchildren. Politician Marius Swart was the father-in-law of one of his sons. He died on 7 January 2011 of heart failure, having collapsed at Longbeach Mall in Noordhoek after spending the day at a cricket test match at Newlands Stadium. At Momberg's request, his funeral service, held in Stellenbosch, was conducted in English by Reverend Braam Hanekom. His memoirs were published posthumously.

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2023 Quetta Gladiators season

Quetta Gladiators is a franchise cricket team that represents Quetta in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). They were one of the six teams that competed in the 2023 Pakistan Super League. The team was coached by Moin Khan, and captained by Sarfaraz Ahmed. Season standings. Points table. Notes:

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Canariola

Canariola is a genus of European bush crickets belonging to the tribe Meconematini (no subtribe assigned) erected by Boris Uvarov in 1940. Species have been found in the Canary Islands and the Iberian Peninsula. Species. The "Orthoptera Species File" lists the following:

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Frank Elworthy

Frank William Elworthy (11 June 1893 – 15 March 1978) was a South African cricketer who played first-class cricket for Transvaal between 1913 and 1930. A right-arm leg-spin bowler noted for his googlies, Elworthy made his first-class debut in March 1913 aged 19 against Griqualand West, taking 5 for 87 in the first innings. Elworthy's best first-class figures were 6 for 60 in Transvaal's victory over Border in the 1920–21 Currie Cup. He played for South Africa in the first of the two matches against the Australian Imperial Force Touring XI in November 1919, but with little success.

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Jamila Razzaq

Jamila Razzaq (born 1937) is a Pakistani actress. She acted in Urdu films in Pakistani cinema and she is known for her roles in films "Neya Dour" (1958), "Faisala" (1959), "Aur Bhi Gham Hayn" (1960), "Gul Bakavli" (1961), "Inqilab" (1962) and "Ishq Par Zor Nahin" (1963). Early life. Razzaq was born on 1937 in Bombay at Maharashtra, British India. Her grandmother Fatma Begum was India's first female film director and her grandfather Nawab Sidi Ibrahim Muhammad Yakut Khan III was the prince ruler of Sachin State. Her aunts Zubeida and Shahzadi were popular leading actresses during the silent films era, and the former one was the leading lady in India's first talkie film "Alam Ara" (1931). Razzaq's mother Sultana was a popular actress and one of the earliest film actresses from India, and acted both in silent films and later in the talkies. Sultana then moved to Pakistan after Partition while her family stayed in India. She remained little active in the Pakistani cinema and produced a film only, "Ham Ek Hayn" (1961), and later married Seth Razzaq, owner of Adamjee Group of Companies from Karachi. Career. Razzaq used to perform classical dance and was performing it one day in a private function on her friends' request. At that function, she was spotted by film director Humayun Mirza who offered her a role in her next film, "Intekhab" (1955). She appeared in the film alongside Masood and Nayyar Sultana. In 1956, she was cast in lead role in "Fankar" alongside Khursheed Bano. The same year, film journalist and director Attaullah Hashmi was looking for a new actress for his film "Neya Daur". He was impressed by her talent after seeing her performance in "Intekhab", and approached her for the film. She appeared in the film with Aslam Pervaiz, Neelo and Yousuf Khan. The film became a box office hit and Razzaq rose to prominence with this film. In 1959, she played a lead role in "Faisala" alongside opposite Shamim Ara, Lehri, Deeba and Yousuf Khan. The film was directed by Jafar Bukhari and was hit film at the box office. In 1960, she worked in "Yeh Dunya" with Agha Talish and Lehri which was directed by Nazir Sufi. The same year, she appeared in "Aur Bhi Gham Hayn" with Talish, Nirala and Lehri which was directed by A.H. Siddiqui. The same year, she was cast in "Gul Bakaoli", directed by Munshi Dil and starring Sudhir. It was the first film of Pakistani cinema with some scenes in colored. The film was a hit at the box office and it further boasted her career. In 1961, Razzaq appeared in mother's production "Ham Ek Hayn", which was directed by the famous scriptwriter and lyricist Fayyaz Hashmi with A. Hameed as music composer. She starred in the film with Aslam Pervaiz. The following year in 1962, she was played the lead role in "Inqilab" along with Shamim Ara and Habib in leads roles. In 1963, she was cast by Ilyas Kashmiri in his home production "Ishq Par Zor Nahin" with Aslam Pervaiz, Neelo, Lehri and Bibbo. The film was directed by Sharif Nayyar and was a super hit at the box office. Personal life. Jamila married cricketer Waqar Hasan in 1963 and she has three children including one son and two daughters with him.

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Adam Korsak

Adam Korsak (born 31 October 1997) is an Australian gridiron football punter for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at Rutgers. The all-time NCAA record-holder for career punts, punting yards and single-season net average, he was named the 2022 winner of the Ray Guy Award. Early life. Korsak was born on 31 October 1997 in Melbourne, Victoria. He grew up in the Melbourne suburb Maribyrnong and played cricket, Australian rules football and golf. He was a member of the Victorian under 15s cricket team and was teammates with Will Pucovski. Korsak attended Maribyrnong College and graduated as part of the class of 2015, after which he studied at the University of Melbourne for a year. In 2016, Korsak attended the Prokick Australia camp held by Nathan Chapman, and his performance there led to an athletic scholarship offer to play American football at Rutgers University in the U.S., which he accepted. Korsak had played "Madden NFL 06", watched several Cleveland Browns games and the film "Any Given Sunday" to learn the rules of the sport. College career. Korsak was given a two-star rating and placed as the seventh-best punter recruit in 247Sports' rankings. During his first year at Rutgers, he set the school record for longest punt with a kick of 79 yards. He started all 12 games that year, being named honorable mention all-conference while posting a team-record with a 40.1 net punt average. Korsak totaled 78 punts on the year for 3,333 yards, with a gross average of 42.7 yards-per-punt. In 2019, Korsak thrice was named winner of the weekly Ray Guy Award for best punter nationally, additionally being a semifinalist for the Ray Guy Award given to the best punter overall on the year. He appeared in every game and posted a total of 76 punts for 3,327 yards, having a long of 69 with only two touchbacks and 31 kicks inside the 20, while ranking first in the Big Ten Conference with a net average of 41.5. After the season, Korsak was named second-team all-conference by both the league's coaches and Associated Press (AP). Korsak appeared in all nine games during the 2020 season (which was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic), posting 48 punts for 2,062 yards (a gross average of 43.0), including a long of 66 with no touchbacks and 21 inside the 20-yard line. He had a net average of 42.3, placing ninth nationally in that category. He was named co-team captain with Isiah Pacheco starting in 2020, a rare achievement for a player at his position and a role he would serve in for the rest of his Rutgers tenure, and earned third-team All-Big Ten honors from the league's coaches as well as second-team honors from the media and Phil Steele. In 2021, Korsak started all 13 games and set college football's all-time record with a 45.3 net average. He was named second-team All-American, first-team all-conference, a finalist for the Ray Guy Award and Rutgers' most valuable player after posting 72 kicks for 3,299 yards. He was named Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week twice and Ray Guy Player of the Week twice, with 38 of his punts going inside the 20-yard line. After the season, he opted to return for a final year. Korsak started all 12 games in 2022, recording 75 punts for 3,297 yards (for a gross average of 44.0), including 32 kicks landing inside the 20. He twice earned punter of the week honors, was named first-team All-American by "The Sporting News", and despite being named only third-team All-Big Ten, was named the Ray Guy Award winner as the best punter nationally. He was the first first-team All-American at Rutgers since 2006, and by being Ray Guy Award winner became the only player at the school to ever win a national on-field award. His kicks were returned for -11 yards on the year, and in all but one game no positive returns were recorded against him. Against Penn State, he set the NCAA all-time record for career punting yards, and also finished his career as the all-time leader in punts, with 15,318 yards and 349 punts. Korsak ended his stint at Rutgers having not a single punt blocked and a streak of 150 consecutive kicks without a touchback. Professional career. Korsak was selected in the eighth round (61st overall) of the 2023 USFL Draft by the New Jersey Generals. He was also drafted in the first round (3rd overall) in the 2023 CFL Global Draft by the Saskatchewan Roughriders. After going unselected in the 2023 NFL Draft, he was invited to rookie minicamps with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs. He signed with the Roughriders on 21 May.

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Norton Open

The Norton Open was a men's and women's grass court tennis tournament founded in 1883 as Norton Lawn Tennis Tournament. The tournament was organised annually by the Norton Lawn Tennis Club and Norton Lawn Tennis Association, and was played on the Norton Cricket Club grounds at Norton, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England. The tournament ran until 1933 when it was discontinued. History. In 1883 the Norton Lawn Tennis Tournament was established as a men's tennis event. In 1885 a women's event was added to the schedule and the tournament was renamed as the Norton Lawn Tennis Open Tournament. The Norton Tennis Tournament was staged at Norton, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England. This annual tournament staged two events per year the Norton Open for men and women, and Northern Counties Challenge Cup for men. The tournament was organised by the Norton Lawn Tennis Association and ran annually until 1933 when it was discontinued due to the event being dropped by the County Durham Lawn Tennis Association (today called the Durham & Cleveland LTA) along with events the Royton Open and Darlington Open.

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Crystal Palace Open

The Crystal Palace Open was a men's and women's grass court tennis tournament founded in 1881. The tournament was organised annually by the Crystal Palace Lawn Tennis Club, and was played on the Crystal Palace Park Cricket Ground at Crystal Palace, London, England. The tournament ran until 1909 when it was discontinued. History. In 1881 the Crystal Palace Open was established. The event was orgnaised by Crystal Palace Lawn Tennis Club, and was played on the Crystal Palace Park Cricket Ground at Crystal Palace, London, England. The tournament ran until 1909 when it was discontinued. Previous winners of the men's singles title included; Harold Segerson Mahony, Major Ritchie, Arthur Gore and Reginald Speke Barnes. Former winners of the women's singles included; Aurea Farrington, Dora Boothby, Helen Aitchison, and Elsie Lane.

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Manisha Tailor

Manisha Tailor MBE (born 1980/1981) is an English football manager who is the youth manager of QPR. Early life and career. Tailor grew up in Finchley, London. She has a twin brother, Mayur; Tailor has spoken frequently of caring for Mayur alongside her family after he was diagnosed with a mental illness in adolescence. As a child Tailor had a trial with Barnet F.C. Ladies but her family could not take her to training while her brother was also playing sport, as a cricketer for Middlesex. She began her career working as a primary school teacher and deputy headteacher, qualifying as a headteacher, but took time away after her mum after underwent a heart bypass operation. Football career. Tailor was approached by Rachel Yankey to work part-time on her grassroots football programme. After meeting with Chris Ramsey, she began volunteering at the Queens Park Rangers Academy, working as Head Coach of the club's Under-9s team. Whilst in this role, Tailor has stated that she was frequently mistaken for the team's physio, due to assumptions about women in football. She started working full-time with QPR after applying for the Premier League's Elite Coach Apprenticeship Scheme, as Assistant Head of Academy Coaching, becoming the first woman of South Asian heritage in such a position in English football. Aside from her work at QPR, Tailor has also worked as a scout for Brentford and has run coaching sessions with Wingate & Finchley. As part of The Football Association's anti-discrimination plan, she set up a Community Development Centre close to Wembley Stadium, at The Swaminarayan School, before its closure in 2021. Tailor's first book, "Dream Like Me: South Asian Football Trailblazers", was published in 2022. She also runs a company called Swaggarlicious, which carries out various initiatives in the fields of mental health, diversity and equality. Honours and awards. Tailor won the Women In Football Award at the 2013 Asian Football Awards. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to football and diversity in sport, acknowledging her work with organisations such as Kick It Out and Show Racism The Red Card. In 2017, she was shortlisted for a British Ethnic Diversity Sports Award.

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Kiriwina Island clashes

On October 25, 2022, violence broke out between the Kuboma and Kulumata on Kiriwina Island, part of the Trobriand Islands chain of Papua New Guinea. The violence was the deadliest in Kiriwina history, and saw over thirty people killed. Prelude. Under Australian rule, Papua New Guinea banned inter-tribal conflict, in an attempt to ease tensions in an area with thousands of unique tribes and cultures. To resolve disputes between tribes and towns, Papua New Guineans turned to resolving disputes with games of cricket. The concept stuck after Papuan independence in 1975, and generally continues to this day. In September 2022, tensions arose whenever a Kuboma manwas killed in a fight over a soccer game. The situation escalated on October 19, after Kuboma youthallegedly destroyed the yam harvests of Kulumata villages. Yams are considered an important part of Kiriwina culture, and the crops destroyed would cause food supply issues. Clashes. Kulumata men painted themselves in tribal war colors, and marched down to the district development authority. When attempting to seek out for answers, Kuboma youth waiting at the station attacked the Kulumata. Clashes broke out, and woman and children on both sides ran away. The men fighting used spears and bush knives. Provincial police chief Peter Barkie claimed that the fighting got so out of hand that local elders couldn't contain it, and that a peace ritual held also did not help matters. The end toll saw twenty-six Kuboma men die and six Kulumata men killed. Aftermath. Ten police officers were sent from Alotau, the capital of Milne Bay Province, where Kiriwina is located. However, locals claimed the police were outnumbered. PNG Internal Security Minister Peter Tsiamalili claimed that over thirty people were killed in the violence. Local MP Douglas Tomuriesa, who represents the Trobriand Islands, declined to comment to several news agencies.

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Australia–Uruguay football rivalry

The Australia–Uruguay association football rivalry is a historical rivalry between the Australian and Uruguayan national teams that dates back to 1974 when Uruguay travelled to Australia for a 2-game series before Australia departed for the 1974 FIFA World Cup. Despite Australia winning both matches, they were marred with foul play by the Uruguayans, which left Australian forward Ray Baartz suffering a stroke after having his carotid artery damaged following an incident with Luis Garisto. The incident cause Baartz to miss the World Cup and retire from the game for health concerns. Between 2001 and 2005 the rivalry would come to the forefront of Australian and Uruguayan relations as both nations played each other in consecutive FIFA World Cup play-off matches. Uruguay would win the 2001 play-offs for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, whilst Australia would win the 2005 play offs for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, which has been called the best moment in Australian sporting history as Australia qualified for the World Cup finals for the first time in 32 years. To date, the two nations women's national teams are yet to play each other. History. Men's. Both Australia and Uruguay had qualified for the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany. For Australia, it would be their first ever qualification. Uruguay travelled to Australia for a pre-tournament 2-game series at Olympic Park in Melbourne and the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney. The match in Melbourne ended in a 0–0 draw which was noted for the aggressively physical play by the Uruguayans with Australian manager Rale Rasic referring to the Uruguayans antics as 'dirty' The following match in Sydney in front of a crowd of 27,500 would be marred with physicality not experienced by Australian footballers to this point. During the first half of the game with the scores locked at 0–0 Uruguayan player Luis Garisto felled Australian striker Ray Baartz with what was described as a karate chop to Barrtz's neck which Garisto went unpunished for. Following a few minutes of treatment Baartz resumed play. After scoring the first and providing the assist for Australia's second goal, Uruguays play would become more violent and spiteful, culminating in Garisto punching Baartz in the jaw following some banter. To make it look like Baartz had attacked Garisto, a fellow Uruguayan player punched Garisto in the face which drew blood. The referee threatened to abandon the game, however Australia held on for a 2–0 victory. Following the match, Baartz started showing signs of a stroke following the attack to his neck and was rushed to Royal North Shore Hospital where doctors placed in him in intensive care having lost consciousness for two days. Whilst Baartz would survive the stroke and return to full health, due to the severe extend of his injuries he would retire from all forms of the game at just 27 years old following doctors advice that another severe blow to his neck may kill him. It would be 18 years before the two nations would meet again when Australia played a 3-game 'goodwill tour' of South America. Uruguay would win 2–1 in front of 18,000 strong crowd in Montevideo Australia and Uruguay would meet for a fourth time during the semi finals of the 1997 Confederations Cup in Saudi Arabia. With the scores locked at 0–0 at full time, the match went to golden goal. Two minutes into the golden goal period, young Australian striker Harry Kewell scored the winning goal with a shot from 25 meters, propelling Australia into the final against Brazil. 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC–CONMEBOL play-off). The 2002 FIFA World Cup OFC–CONMEBOL qualification play-off was a two-legged home-and-away tie between the winners of the Oceania qualifying tournament, Australia, and the fifth-placed team from the South American qualifying tournament, Uruguay. The games were played on 20 November and 25 November 2001 in Melbourne and Montevideo respectively. Australia was hoping to play in the FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1974 and Uruguay since 1990. The first leg was held at the MCG in Melbourne and finished with Australia defeating Uruguay 1–0, courtesy of a second half penalty converted by Kevin Muscat. The return leg in Uruguay was marred with controversy from the moment Australia landed in the country. A lynch mob which had been organized by a private citizens, confronted the Australian national team as they made their way from the airport terminal to their bus. The mob spat, assaulted, and abused the players and coaching staff with death threats resulting in the Australians being kept in their hotel rooms for the 3-days prior to the match. The antics which were believed to have unsettled Australia ahead of the game worked, as Australia crashed to a 3–0 defeat. Goals from Darío Silva, and a brace from Richard Morales sealed a 3–1 aggregate victory and ultimately qualification for the 2002 FIFA World Cup for the South Americans. 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL–OFC play-off). The two nations would meet again in consecutive World Cup Qualification play-offs in 2005 for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The first leg was held in Montevideo with security bolstered for the Australian team following the incidents during the 2002 playoff. Uruguay won the first leg 1–0, courtesy of a goal from Darío Rodríguez in the 37th minute Australia, led by Dutch coach Guus Hiddink had learned their lesson from the previous World Cup cycle, not being baited even when Uruguayan legend Álvaro Recoba claimed Uruguay had a "divine right" to play in the World Cup. Following the loss, the Australian team flew to the second leg in Sydney on a chartered Qantas flight which had been modified so that the Australian players could recover from the first leg in-flight, whereas the Uruguay team were forced to endure a multi-leg commercial fliights. The second leg match at Stadium Australia in Sydney was a tight affair, with Mark Bresciano scoring the games only goal after 90 minutes, sending the match into Extra Time with the scores locked a 1–1 on aggregate. The match would go to penalties, with Australian goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer saving two penalties. John Aloisi scored the winning penalty to send Australia through to the World Cup for the first time in 32 years. Men' Matches. Australia and Uruguay have played 9 official matches. Both nations have won 4 matches a piece, with one draw. Uruguay holds the record of the biggest win, during their 3–0 victory in 2001. Australia has scored 5 goals, whilst Uruguay have score 8 goals. Top scorers. "Players in bold are still available for selection."

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Northumberland Cricket Club Open

The Northumberland Cricket Club Open was a Victorian era men's and women's grass court tennis tournament founded in 1884. The tournament was first held at the South Northumberland Cricket Club grounds, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, The event was staged annually until 1893 when it was discontinued. History. In 1864 the first South Northumberland Cricket Club was founded at Gosforth, Northumberland. In 1882 the first Northumberland County Championships were held at the club grounds. In 1884 the club decided to establish its own lawn tennis tournament called the Northumberland Cricket Club Open. In 1893 the cricket club held its final edition of the open tournament and was discontinued.

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2023 FairBreak Invitational T20 USA

The 2023 FairBreak Invitational T20 USA is a women's Twenty20 cricket competition due to be held between 15 and 30 September 2023 in Houston, Texas, USA. The tournament, sanctioned by the ICC, will be privately run in collaboration with USA Cricket by FairBreak Global, a company that aims to promote gender equality.

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2023 Caribbean Premier League

The 2023 Caribbean Premier League (CPLT20) or for sponsorship reasons, Republic Bank CPL 2023 was the eleventh season of the Caribbean Premier League, the domestic Twenty20 cricket league that was played in the West Indies. The tournament was played from 16 August with final on 24 September 2023. The matches were played across five countries in the Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Guyana, Barbados, and Saint Lucia. The fixtures for the tournament were confirmed in April 2023. Jamaica Tallawahs were the defending champions. In the final, Guyana Amazon Warriors defeated Trinbago Knight Riders by 9 wickets to win their first title. Squads. The following players were retained or signed by their respective teams for the tournament. Playoffs. Eliminator. <section begin="match31" /><section end="match31" /> Qualifier 1. <section begin="match32" /><section end="match32" /> Qualifier 2. <section begin="match33" /><section end="match33" /> Final. <section begin="match34" /><section end="match34" />

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Longwood Bowl

The Longwood Bowl was a men's and women's tennis tournament first played at the Longwood Cricket Club courts at Brookline, Massachusetts, United States from 1882 to 1949. The men's tournament was also known as the Longwood Challenge Bowl. The first women's event was the Longwood Tennis Cup it later became known as the Longwood Bowl Invitational. History. In 1877 the Longwood Cricket Club was founded. In 1881 the club held its first tennis tournament. In 1882 the club held its first important tennis event the Longwood Cricket Club Tournament it was the precursor event to the Longwood Bowl also known as the Longwood Challenge Bowl tournament founded in 1891. The men's event was held through till 1942 when it was discontinued, and the women's event continued on till 1949 before it was also abolished. The tournament was played for the entire time at Brookline, Massachusetts where Longwood Cricket Club's tennis courts are located. In 1922 the club house and administrative center was moved to Newton, Massachusetts. The winners of the men's tournament retain a permanent replica of the Longwood Bowl Trophy if they win it three times. Finals. Men's singles. Incomplete roll included: Women's singles. "Incomplete roll"

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Ramon Simmonds

Ramon Romario Simmonds (born 16 October 2001) is a Barbadian cricketer, who is a left-arm fast medium bowler. He plays for Barbados cricket team in West Indian domestic cricket, having previously represented the West Indies under-19 cricket team. Early career. Simmonds played for Barbados under-17 team in the 2018 West Indies Cricket Board Under-17 Tournament, which was held in July 2018. In November 2019, he was named in West Indies' squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He made his under-19 debut on 10 December 2019, against Sri Lanka in the 2019–20 West Indies Under-19 Tri-Nation Series. In December 2020, he was selected to play for Everton Weekes Centre Of Excellence A Team in the 2020–21 BCA Super Cup 50 Over. In July 2022, he was named in the inaugural batch of the CWI Emerging Players Academy for high-performance training and development sessions. Domestic career. Local cricket. Simmonds was part of the Barbados' squad that won the 2021–22 West Indies Championship. He made his first-class debut for Barbados on 9 February 2022, against the Leeward Islands. He took a wicket in the first innings and a four-wicket haul in the second innings on his debut match, helping Barbados to win the match by six wickets. He impressed in his debut first-class season picking up 12 wickets from 4 matches, and finished as the second highest wicket-taker for Barbados. In October 2022, he was selected to play for Barbados in the 2022–23 Super50 Cup. He made his List A debut on 1 November 2022, against West Indies Academy, and took four wickets conceding 39 runs. In April 2023, he was named in West Indies Academy's squad for the inaugural 2023 Headley Weekes Tri-Series. Franchise career. In July 2022, Simmonds was named in Barbados Royals' squad for the 2022 season of The 6ixty, a T10 cricket tournament. In August 2022, Simmonds was signed by the Barbados Royals to play for them in the 2022 Caribbean Premier League. He made his Twenty20 debut for Barbados Royals on 1 September 2022, against St Kitts and Nevis Patriots. On 27 September 2022, he grabbed three wickets for 17 runs leading Barbados Royals to win the Qualifier 1 by 87 runs and progress to the final. He claimed seven wickets from eight matches, and won the Emerging Player of the Tournament award. He impressed the management with his bowling variations including execution of slower balls and yorkers and courage to bowl the difficult overs. He was named in the 2022 Hero CPL Team of the Tournament, as a result of his performances throughout the tournament. In September 2022, he was bought by Paarl Royals at a price of US$ 9,862 to play for them in the inaugural season of the SA20.

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Nehal Wadhera

Nehal Wadhera (born 4 September 2000) is an Indian cricketer, who is a left-handed batsman and an occasional legbreak bowler. He plays for Punjab cricket team in domestic cricket, having previously represented the India under-19 cricket team. Biography. Wadhera was born at Ludhiana, a city in the Indian state of Punjab. He first started playing cricket at the age of nine. Initially, he used to play as a specialist batsman and put in long hours to work on his fitness. He is often referred to by his nickname "new-age Yuvraj Singh" for his middle-order performances and similarity in batting style with Yuvraj Singh. He started playing cricket under the guidance of his childhood coach Charanjit Bhangu. He was coached by Harjinder Singh in age level cricket, who saw "glimpses of Yuvraj" on him. He received his coaching at the Ludhiana District Cricket Association, and was graduated from Satish Chander Dhawan Government College. Early career. He played for Punjab under-16 and under-19 cricket teams in Vijay Merchant Trophy and Cooch Behar Trophy from 2015 to 2018, with 529 runs in the 2017–18 season. He was then selected to play for different tiers of India under-19 cricket team. He made his under-19 debut for India on 17 July 2018, against Sri Lanka in a four-day match and scored 82 runs. He also became the third cricketer from Ludhiana to play for India at any level. In August 2018, he was named in India's squad for the 2016 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup. In April 2022, during the semi-final of Inter-District U-23 Cricket Championship, he smashed 578 runs in an innings, surpassing Brian Lara's record of highest score in an innings in a four-day match. He also became the fastest player to reach 200, 300, 400 and 500 runs in any level of recognized cricket, and was honoured by Junior Chamber International for his record. Domestic career. In December 2020, Wadhera was named in Punjab's squad for the 2020–21 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. In December 2022, he was bought by the Mumbai Indians at a price of ₹20 lakh, to play for them in the Indian Premier League. He became the third player from Ludhiana district to get IPL call-up. In January 2023, he was selected to play for Punjab in the 2022–23 Ranji Trophy. He made his first-class debut for Punjab on 3 January 2023, against Gujarat. He made a match-winning century in his debut match, scoring 123 runs guiding Punjab to a 380-run victory. He struck his maiden double hundred in his just third first-class game, scoring 214 runs against Madhya Pradesh on 18 January 2023. He won the player of the match award, and finished his maiden first-class season with 376 runs from seven innings. He made his Twenty20 debut for Mumbai Indians on 2 April 2023, against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2023 Indian Premier League. He impressed in his debut match, scoring a quick fire 21 runs off 13 balls including two sixes.

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Bandit Heeler

Bandit Heeler is a fictional character who is one of the main protagonists of the Australian preschool animated television series "Bluey", created by Joe Brumm. Employed as an archeologist, he enjoys playing with his daughters, Bluey and Bingo, and takes any role he plays in a game they devise seriously despite often being seen as reluctant and unwilling to partake in their games. He often teaches life lessons to his daughters while he plays with them, but this strains his public relationship with them in some episodes. Bandit has received acclaim from many parents and critics, and is viewed by both as a positive father figure. Character biography. Bandit, who grew up in the 1980s, is the younger brother of Radley "Rad" Heeler and the older brother of Stripe Heeler, all of whom are sons of Bob and Chris Heeler. In his youth, Bandit made frequent visits to a creek and frequently bullied Stripe. One day, at a holiday park, he was jinxed by Radley, which rendered him silent until someone spoke his name. The curse was broken by Chilli or someone with a similar appearance; although she and her family vacationed at the same park multiple times, Chilli has no memory of this meeting. Chilli believes that she and Bandit first met in England. Although there is "some dispute" as to the particular circumstances, she says the meeting took place at a London party, during which she recalls that he was picking his nose. After their meeting, the two of them began dating, and went on a backpacking trip to Italy, during which she accepted a marriage proposal from Bandit. The guests in the wedding included Frisky and Rad, the latter of whom "probably" fell into a pool during the event. Bandit and Chilli's first child, Bluey, was born sometime later; he claims to have "wrecked [his] back changing [her] nappies". Their second child, Bingo, was born two years later. Bandit and Chilli had a miscarriage afterward, and she then passed down her method of coping with it to Bingo. He has contemplated getting neutered and disposing of the family crib in light of this event. Character highlights. Much of the series' humour revolves around his relationship with his daughters, who he continually implores to come up with new games for him to play with him. Bandit enjoyed playing touch football as a kid. He has expressed an interest in playing the game again, but has been too distracted by his parenting and his job to do so. He also enjoyed drawing cars at age 6, but stopped doing so after being bullied over that. Among his favorite pastimes are watching cricket and playing squash. He gets cranky when he is hungry. He loves bananas but hates rockmelon. He alternatively burped and sneezed after eating sauerkraut, which the girls say is one of three foods, along with baked beans and nut roast, that make him fart. He has a habit of making "dad jokes" in front of his children. He is left-handed. He can still ride a skateboard. He has an interest in, and made references to, Greek and Celtic mythology. He and his wife are fluent in French. He often is seen reading the newspaper and has a habit of using child-friendly expletives, most of which relate to food. He charges his tablet, which he sometimes drops, on a bedside table. He has had a series of inappropriate habits, which include urinating on his foot, having stinky armpits, eating his own gravy stains, having a hairy nose that he picks at, and doing fluffies. Some of his habits, which involve his buttocks, have alarmed his neighbour, Wendy. He is frequently seen doing housework and has a doctorate in archaeology. Development. Bandit was based on Brumm's own life; he modeled the character after a Blue Heeler owned by a friend of his father, and, as with the character, was the middle child in his family tree. The character's occupation was partly influenced by one of his brothers, Adam, who was an archeologist in his own right, and had been involved in the discovery of the fossilised remains of the homo floresiensis, which he nicknamed "The Hobbit" at a Queensland university. The Heelers, including Bandit, are presented as a nuclear family, with him serving as one of the show's two working parents (his wife Chilli is employed as an airport security guard). Voice. In all English dubs of the series, Bandit is voiced by alternative rock musician David McCormack, who was initially approached to read what he assumed would be merely "a couple of lines", only to voice the character for the entirety of pilot. McCormack performs his voice work for the series remotely in Sydney, and his voice recordings are then sent to the production company in Brisbane. He does not hear any other voice actors or view footage while recording, and does not alter his own voice to produce Bandit's dialogue. Appearances. Bandit has appeared in most of the episodes of "Bluey" that have aired during its run, and has appeared in most merchandise related to the series. He was the subject of three books, "My Dad is Awesome", "The Big Blue Guy's Book of Dad Goals", and an entry in the "Bluey: Little Library" series. He also appears in the stage show "Bluey's Big Play" and the upcoming video game "Bluey: The Videogame". Reception. Bandit has been praised as a positive father figure and commended for his patient nature, willingness to do housework and play with his children. Jennifer McClellan of "USA Today" described Bandit as "sarcastic, sympathetic and silly". Philippa Chandler of "The Guardian" described the character as "laconic, playful and certainly more emotionally intelligent than, say, "Peppa Pig"’s hapless dad". Doug Hendrie of "The Sydney Morning Herald" claimed that Bandit was designed to improve Australian dads. Kate Cantrell of "The Conversation" criticized the character for occasionally bullying the children and acting like a larrikin. He is considered one of the greatest cartoon fathers of all time.

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Vedi Nowadina Lamai

Vedi Nowadina Lamai (; ) is a 2023 Sri Lankan Sinhala black comedy, musical thriller film directed by Indika Ferdinando and produced by Deepa Edirisinghe for Deep Motion Pictures as an EAP Film. It has ensemble cast of Kalana Gunasekara, Anasuya Subasinghe, Jayalath Manoratne, Hemasiri Liyanage, Dayadewa Edirisinghe, Mahendra Perera, Anula Bulathsinhala and Ashan Dias It is the last film acted by late dramatist Jayalath Manoratne. The film received mixed reviews from critics. Plot. The film revolves at the backdrop on 17 March 1996, when Sri Lanka cricket team won the 1996 ICC Cricket World Cup by defeating Australia. During this triumph. a series of events take place on a bus traveling from Colombo to Anuradhapura on the night. Production. The film "Bulletproof Children" made the second cinema direction of Indika Ferdinando after award-winning blockbuster "Ho Gaana Pokuna". However, according to director, the screenplay of "Wedi Nowadina Lamayi" was written even before "Ho Gana Pokuna". Ferdinando also made the screenplay along with Piyal Kariyawasam. The film is produced by Deepa Edirisinghe as her maiden cinema production with line producing by Malith Hegoda. Cinematography of the film done by Dimuthu Kalinga, editing by Tissa Surendra and art direction by Kasun Mahawaduge. Costumes designed by Wasanthi Alwis, and makeup by Buwaneka Ranawaka. Anjana Ashubodha is the assistant production manager, and Maduranga Jagoda is the production manager. Tharindu Ranepura is the assistant director whereas sound department handled by Sasika Ruwan Marasinghe. Christopher Fernando did visual effects of the film and Dinindu Jagoda is the colorist. Music was co-composed by Thilanka Gamage and Nadika Weligodapola. The filming took place for about 60 days in 2018. Most of the scenes have been shot during night time with 80% of them within a bus. Release. The trailer was launched at the Wellawatta Savoy Premiere Cinemas on 16 January 2023. The film was released on 16 February 2023 in EAP circuit cinemas island wide. The film generally received positive reviews from critics. The world premier was held at 12th Bangalore International Film Festival 2020 in India. The film was also screened in Bangladesh in January 2022 at the Dhaka International Film Festival. Then the film was screened on November 24 in Xiamen, China. Awards and accolades. The film won the awards for Best International Debut Movie at the International Film Festival of Thrissur (2023) <https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/russian-sl-films-jointly-win-fipresci-india-award/articleshow/98575789.cms?from=mdr> and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Rooster Film Festival, China.

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Cambridge Recreation Ground

Cambridge Recreation Ground is a cricket ground in Border, a region of Eastern Cape province in East London, South Africa. It was used as the home ground for Border cricket team. The ground hosted three first-class matches in the 1947–48 Currie Cup. The first recorded match on the ground was on 16 December 1947, between Border and KwaZulu-Natal.

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Petaloptila

Petaloptila is a genus of European crickets in the subfamily Gryllomorphinae and is typical of the tribe Petaloptilini; it was erected by Pantel in 1890. Species are mostly recorded from the European mainland (not Scandinavia or the British Isles). Species. The "Orthoptera Species File" lists:

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2023 Headley Weekes Tri-Series

2023 Headley Weekes Tri-Series is the inaugural season of the Headley Weekes Tri-Series, a domestic first-class cricket competition organized by Cricket West Indies (CWI) and named in honour of West Indian cricketers George Headley and Everton Weekes. It took place from 19 April to 6 May 2023. It is a tri-series between Team Headley, Team Weekes and West Indies Academy, with the matches being played as first-class fixtures. All three matches were played at Coolidge Cricket Ground, Antigua. The tournament was used as preparation ahead of West Indies A's tour to Bangladesh and Test series against India at home. The West Indies Academy team were the winners of the tournament on net run rate. Squads. The following squads were named for the tri-series: On 18 April 2023, Rivaldo Clarke was replaced in the squad by Tevin Imlach.

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Bill Lucas (rugby league)

Bill Lucas nicknamed "Wakka" was an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s. He played for Annandale, Western Suburbs, Balmain and Glebe in the NSWRL competition. Playing career. Lucas made his first grade debut for Annandale in round 9 of the 1917 NSWRFL season against South Sydney at Wentworth Park scoring a try in a 19–11 loss. In 1918, he played 14 games as the club finished with the Wooden Spoon. In 1919, Lucas joined Western Suburbs but only played two games before returning to Annandale. Lucas played in Annandale's final season in 1920 as the club went winless and finished with another wooden spoon. Lucas played in their final game in the competition against Eastern Suburbs which ended in a 15–0 loss. The game was played at the Sydney Cricket Ground No. 2 Oval. In 1921, Lucas joined defending premiers Balmain and stayed with the club for two years. In 1923, Lucas signed on to play with Glebe who had finished as runners up the year before to North Sydney. On the 22 September 1923, Lucas played in Glebe's City Cup loss to Balmain. Lucas retired at the end of the 1925 season.

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Mogoplistes

Mogoplistes is a genus of African and European crickets which is typical of the family Mogoplistidae and tribe Mogoplistini, erected by Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville in 1838. This genus is distributed around the Mediterranean in mainland Europe and North Africa. In 1984, the scaly cricket was moved from here to the new genus "Pseudomogoplistes". Species. The "Orthoptera Species File" lists:

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Arachnocephalus

Arachnocephalus is a genus of crickets in the family Mogoplistidae and typical of the tribe Arachnocephalini, erected by O.G. Costa in 1855. Widespread records of distribution are discontinuous (and probably incomplete), they include: Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. Species. The "Orthoptera Species File" lists:

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Ornebius

Ornebius is a genus of crickets in the family Mogoplistidae and the tribe Arachnocephalini, erected by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1844. Species may be called "common scaled crickets" and have widespread records of distribution, which are discontinuous (and probably incomplete); they include: Africa, Asia, Australia, islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and South America. Description. "Ornebius" (at least the Australian species) are >7.5 mm in length. The tegmen posterior margin has either a continuous black or brown band or three darkened areas. The tibiae of the fore and mid legs are banded. The genital processes are brown to pale brown or whitish. In males, the last abdominal segment is not black between the cerci, and the front of the mirror is not hidden beneath the pronotum. This genus can be divided into at least seven species groups, with other genera currently (2023) "incertae sedis". The Australian fauna comprise three of these groups: Species. The "Orthoptera Species File" lists:

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Paramogoplistes

Paramogoplistes is a genus of European crickets in the family Mogoplistidae and tribe Mogoplistini, erected by A.V. Gorochov in 1984 as part of the revision of genus "Mogoplistes". This genus is recorded from the Iberian Peninsula, Sardinia and South-eastern Europe (to western Turkey). Species. The "Orthoptera Species File" lists:

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West Indies A cricket team in Bangladesh in 2023

The West Indies A cricket team toured Bangladesh in May and June 2023 and played against the Bangladesh A cricket team. The tour consisted of three first-class matches. All the matches were played at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium in Sylhet. The series was used by Bangladesh as preparation ahead of their Test series against Afghanistan at home. West Indies A arrived in Bangladesh on 11 May 2023. In April 2023, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) confirmed the tour itinerary. Squads. Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced changes to the West Indies “A” Team squad for the ongoing “A” Team Series in Bangladesh, left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul will travel to Sylhet as cover for fellow left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie, who has been ruled out of the remainder of the three-match series with a lower back injury.

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Pakistan A cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2023

The Pakistan A cricket team toured Zimbabwe in May 2023 to play two first-class matches against the Zimbabwe A cricket team and six List A matches against the Zimbabwe national cricket team. In April 2023, Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) confirmed the fixtures for the tour, with the matches taking place at Kwekwe, Mutare and Harare. The limited overs matches were used by Zimbabwe as preparation ahead of the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. The first-class series was won by the Pakistan A side 2-0, while the unofficial one-day series was won by Zimbabwe Select 4-2. In a historic milestone for Zimbabwe Cricket, this series marked the first instance where a non-international cricket series was televised. The rights to broadcast the games were successfully sold in Pakistan and India, providing viewers in those regions the opportunity to watch the matches. Meanwhile, the rest of the world had free live coverage of the games on Facebook. Squads. On 13 April 2023, Muhammad Umar was ruled out of Pakistan A's squad due to a knee injury and was replaced by Mohammad Ali. On 27 April 2023, Sahibzada Farhan was ruled out of the tour due to a right thumb injury and was replaced by Saim Ayub. List A series. 1st Unofficial ODI. In preparation for the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, the Zimbabwe Select deployed almost everyone from their full roster. However, a strong start by the Shaheens' bowlers led to the dismissal of half the top order, leaving Zimbabwe Select at 64-5. Aamer Jamal emerged as a standout performer in the bowling attack, making a significant impact by capturing three crucial wickets, effectively disrupting the hosts' innings. Ryan Burl, and Clive Madande then stepped in at number 6 and 7, forming a resilient partnership that added 90 runs to the scoreboard. As a result, the Zimbabwe Select team managed to set a more defendable target of 234 runs. Despite the Shaheens' stronger position going into the second innings, their top order encountered a similar fate and succumbed to the bowling of Tendai Chatara during the powerplay. This restricted the Shaheens' score to 105-5. Haseebullah Khan and Mubasir Khan displayed stability as they batted at positions 6 and 7, bringing the Shaheens closer to victory. However, neither batsman was able to achieve a half-century milestone. Chatara, continuing his exceptional bowling spell, claimed two more wickets from the lower order, ultimately ending the Shaheens' innings at 210. His outstanding performance earned him a five-wicket haul and the well-deserved title of Player of the Match. 2nd Unofficial ODI. Both teams maintained the same roster as the first game, with one change for the Zimbabwe Select team, substituting Brad Evans with Victor Nyauchi. The Zimbabwe side batted first once again, and they encountered a similar start to their previous game as the top order crumbled within the first 13 overs, leaving the team at 57-5. Ryan Burl and Clive Madande once again formed a resilient partnership, contributing 47 and 43 runs respectively, elevating the team's total to 145. Notably, the highest-scoring batsman for the Zimbabwe Select team was Blessing Muzarabani, who remarkably achieved his first List-A half-century in just 24 deliveries while batting at number 11. The Zimbabwe innings concluded when Tendai Chatara was caught out, but the bowling duo managed to surpass their previous game's total by 2 runs. In a repeat of his stellar performance, Aamer Jamal once again shone for the Shaheens, claiming a five-wicket haul and solidifying his status as the star performer of the match. Although the Shaheens had a stronger start, they too experienced a setback by losing five wickets consecutively, resulting in the team's score at 5-71. However, opening batsman and captain Imran Butt showcased resilience against the Zimbabwe Select bowling attack, contributing 45 runs before being dismissed through an lbw decision. Following the captain's departure, the Shaheens' lower order struggled, eventually being bowled out for 156. Undoubtedly, Blessing Muzarabani's outstanding performance, featuring a half-century with the bat and a four-wicket haul with the ball, played a pivotal role in guiding the team to victory. His exceptional contributions earned him the well-deserved title of Player of the Match. 3rd Unofficial ODI. Both teams made changes to their squads for the match. Zimbabwe Select brought in Joylord Gumbie, Faraz Akram, and Chivanga Tanaka to replace Innocent Kaia, Blessing Muzarabani, and Victor Nyauchi. On the other hand, the Shaheens had Mir Hamza and Imran Butt sit out, while Omair Yousuf and Qasim Akram replaced them. Additionally, Hussain Talat assumed the captaincy from Imran Butt. Although Joylord Gumbie of Zimbabwe Select fell early, the top order performed well, particularly Sean Williams, who scored 78 runs off 59 balls, helping the team reach a total of 278. This was the highest score achieved by Zimbabwe Select in the series. The Shaheens displayed consistent performance throughout the game, even as they lost wickets at regular intervals. Despite this, they managed to maintain the required run rate. Charata continued to impress with his bowling, and at 169-6, the Shaheens showed resilience. Qasim Akram, batting at number eight, provided much-needed stability and turned the tables on Zimbabwe's bowlers. He played a crucial role in leading the team to victory and also achieved the first half-century for their side. While the Shaheens seemed poised for a comfortable win within the required overs, the game was cut short due to bad light. The par score was 258, and the Shaheens were declared the winners based on the DLS (Duckworth-Lewis-Stern) method. 4th Unofficial ODI. The Zimbabwe Select team continued their squad experimentation, ensuring that everyone got a chance to play. Notably, Milton Shumba substituted for Sean Williams, who potentially injured his finger in the previous game. On the Shaheens side, the only change from the last game was Abdul Bangalzai replacing Saim Ayub. During the toss, the Zimbabwe Select won and elected to bat second for the first time in the series. The Shaheens' batting lineup encountered difficulties, but Omair Yousuf's remarkable 159 and Kamran Ghulam's 55 helped them achieve their highest total so far, reaching 295. Despite missing Chatara in the bowling department, the Zimbabwe Select struggled to make progress due to several misfields and dropped catches by the fielding side. Despite this they bowling attack took 9 wickets and Brad Evans, who had been rested for the last two games, managed to claim a five-wicket haul. The Shaheens began the match on a high note, quickly dismissing Tadiwanashe Marumani in the early overs. However, after the first wicket fell, they struggled to maintain their momentum. Joylord Gumbie and Craig Ervine, though starting slowly, managed to steady the innings and eventually surpassed the century mark. Their partnership was broken when the Zimbabwe side had reached 285 runs, but by then, the damage had been done. Craig Ervine's exceptional knock of 161 off 144 deliveries earned him the well-deserved player of the match award. 5th Unofficial ODI. The Zimbabwe select side opted to rest several key players ahead of the game, while Sikander Raza made a return to the squad following a successful stint in the IPL. Sean Williams, who had recovered from a finger injury, assumed the captaincy of the new team. On the Shaheens side, Imran Butt returned to open the innings, while Hussein Talat retained his role as captain.In the match, the Select won the toss and elected to field first. The Shaheens top order displayed resilience and kept the scoreboard ticking. Imran Butt, Haseebullah Khan, and the in-form Pakistani batsman Omair Yousuf all contributed with scores surpassing 50 runs, propelling the team to a total of 314 runs at the end of their 50 overs. On the other hand, the Zimbabwe batting lineup encountered difficulties right from the beginning. Apart from Clive Madande, all the other batsmen struggled to surpass 20 runs, resulting in their team being dismissed for a mere 137 runs in just 32 overs. Shahnawaz Dahani continued his impressive form and claimed early wickets, providing the Shaheens with a breakthrough in the opposition's batting order. With this victory, the Pakistan Shaheens triumphed over the Zimbabwe Select side in the fifth one-day match, keeping their hopes alive in the series. 6th Unofficial ODI. In the final game of the series, Kamran Ghulam led the Shaheens and won the toss, electing to send the Zimbabwe Select team to bat first. The Shaheens got an early breakthrough when Joylord Gumbie, who had scored a century in the previous game, was dismissed for a duck. However, Innocent Kaia and Craig Ervine formed a strong partnership, accumulating 187 runs in just 27 overs. Craig Ervine showcased his brilliance with a score of 195, while Innocent Kaia contributed 92 runs off 79 deliveries, allowing the lower batting order some leeway. In the last over, Craig Ervine fell short of a double century as he was run out by a direct hit from Haseebullah Khan while attempting to regain strike. The innings ended with the Select side scoring 385, the highest total in series. During the innings, there was a controversy on the field as the Pakistan Shaheens were penalized for ball tampering by umpire Iknow Chaabi. As a result of the infraction, the Select side was awarded 5 runs. Despite losing some early wickets from the top order, the Shaheens persisted in maintaining a steady run rate while chasing a massive target. Impressive performances by Rohail Nazir, who scored 87 off 91 deliveries, Kamran Ghulam with 56 off 47, and Mubasir Khan's blistering 115 off 77 propelled the Shaheens to a total of 256. However, as the game progressed, the Shaheens found themselves running out of time, and the mounting pressure of an increasing run rate led to errors and poor shot selections. Eventually, the team was bowled out for 353. The Select side emerged victorious by 32 runs, sealing the series with a 4-2 win.

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Gryllopsis

Gryllopsis is a genus of crickets in the tribe Modicogryllini, erected by Lucien Chopard in 1928. Species appear to be widely distributed (records are probably incomplete): mostly in tropical Africa and Asia, with "Gryllopsis caspicus" the only European record (from the Caspian Sea area). Species. Yin and Liu give a key to some of the Asian species. The "Orthoptera Species File" lists:

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Melanogryllus

Melanogryllus is a genus of crickets in the family Gryllidae and tribe Gryllini, erected by Lucien Chopard in 1961. Species appear to be widely distributed (but records are probably incomplete) including: North Africa, mainland Europe (not Scandinavia or the British Isles) and Asia (India, Monogolia and Taiwan). Species. The "Orthoptera Species File" lists:

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Isla Thomson

Isla Sarah Thomson (born 27 July 2004) is an English cricketer who currently captains Wiltshire, as well as playing for Western Storm. She plays as a right-handed batter and right-arm medium bowler. Domestic career. Thomson made her county debut in 2018, for Wiltshire against Buckinghamshire. She became captain of Wiltshire ahead of the 2021 season. She was Wiltshire's joint-leading wicket-taker in the 2021 Women's Twenty20 Cup, with four wickets at an average of 21.75. In the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup, she was Wiltshire's leading run-scorer, with 132 runs at an average of 26.40, including scoring 62* against Dorset. In 2022, Thomson was included in the Western Storm Academy. Ahead of the 2023 season, she was promoted to the senior squad. She made her debut for the side on 22 April 2023, against Northern Diamonds in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, in which she bowled one over and scored 16*.

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Vidwath Kaverappa

Vidwath Kaverappa is an Indian cricketer. He plays for Karnataka in domestic cricket, and Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League. He is a fast bowler who bowls fast-medium and also bats right-handed. Career. He made his professional, and first-class debut for Karnataka, against Puducherry, on March 3, 2022. He made his Twenty20 debut for Karnataka, against Maharashtra, on October 11, 2022. He made his List A debut for Karnataka, against Meghalaya, on November 12, 2022. In February 2023, he was bought by Punjab Kings for the 2023 Indian Premier League season for Rs. 20 Lakh.

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Mohit Rathee

Mohit Rathee (born 13 January 1999) is an Indian cricketer. He is an all-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls leg spin. He plays for Services in domestic cricket, and for Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League. Early life and style of play. Rathi was born on 13 January 1999, in Rohtak, Haryana. He is known for his consistency in line and length and his handy tail-end contributions with the bat. Career. He made his professional and first-class debut for Services against Jharkhand in 2022–23 Ranji Trophy, on 27 December 2022. He claimed a half century in his debut match, and scored 138 runs along with taking nine wickets in his debut first-class season. In February 2023, he was bought by Punjab Kings for the 2023 Indian Premier League, for Rs. 20 Lakh. The franchise named him among the five uncapped players to watch out for in IPL 2023. He made his Twenty20 debut for Punjab Kings on 9 April 2022, against Sunrisers Hyderabad. In his debut match, he was involved in an unbeaten 55-run partnership with Shikhar Dhawan, the highest stand for the 10th wicket in IPL history.

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West Indies Academy

The West Indies Academy, formerly known as West Indies Emerging Team is a cricket team, that plays first-class and List A cricket in the West Indian domestic circuit. The team has no geographical base, rather is made up of the emerging players and top youth performers in the Caribbean. They are currently captained by Nyeem Young, and coached by Andre Coley. The team was formed in October 2019 to compete in the Super50 Cup for the first time. The first recorded match by the team was played on 7 November 2019, against Guyana in the 2019–20 Regional Super50. In December 2022, the Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that the West Indies Academy would be one of the three teams to take part in the inaugural 2023 Headley Weekes Tri-Series. The team made their first-class debut on 19 April 2023, which they won by seven wickets against Team Headley. Current squad. Based on the squad announced for the 2022–23 season.

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2023 T20I Nordic Cup

The 2023 T20I Nordic Cup was a men's Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that was played in Denmark in May 2023. The quadrangular tournament was contested by Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Denmark's last two fixtures were played as non-T20I matches.

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Oakland Athletics proposed relocation to Las Vegas

The Oakland Athletics proposed relocation to Las Vegas is an ongoing effort by ownership of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB) to relocate the franchise from its long time home of Oakland, California to Las Vegas, Nevada. The team has been based in Oakland since 1968, where it has won four World Series titles. The relocation effort follows years of failed attempts to replace Oakland Coliseum with a more modern stadium in the Bay Area. In 2023, the team announced it was planning to build a new ballpark in the Las Vegas Valley, causing negotiations over the proposed Oakland Ballpark at Howard Terminal to collapse. Initially, the team's agreement to build a new ballpark in Las Vegas started at the Wild Wild West Gambling Hall & Hotel but later shifted to the Tropicana Las Vegas with a 1,500 room hotel and casino. On June 15, Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo signed an MLB stadium funding bill worth $380 million, known as SB1, into law. Not long afterward, the Athletics officially announced they would begin the relocation process to Las Vegas when the bill was signed. By June 21, the Athletics had officially begun the relocation process with MLB by drafting a relocation application before it is filed and submitted. The application was officially submitted to MLB by August 23. The proposed relocation needs to be approved by the other 29 MLB team owners. The Athletics have applied to relocate to Las Vegas after their lease with the Coliseum expires at the end of the 2024 season. This would be the third city relocation in the franchise's history, as the team had previously played in Philadelphia and Kansas City prior to their move to Oakland in 1968. It would mark the first relocation of an American League team since 1972 when the Washington Senators relocated from Washington, D.C. to the Dallas–Fort Worth suburban city of Arlington, becoming the Texas Rangers, and first relocation for Major League Baseball overall since 2005 when the Montreal Expos departed from Montreal to Washington, D.C. to become the Washington Nationals. Background. The Oakland Athletics were founded as a charter member of the American League (AL) in 1901 as the Philadelphia Athletics and shared the same city with the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League (NL). From 1901 until 1954, the Athletics played their home games at Columbia Park and Shibe Park in Philadelphia under the ownership of Connie Mack. In 1955, Mack sold the Athletics to Chicago businessman Arnold Johnson who moved the team from Philadelphia to Kansas City to become the Kansas City Athletics and played at Municipal Stadium until 1967. However, Johnson died from cerebral hemorrhage while watching the Athletics' spring training in Florida and the team was sold once more to another Chicago businessman Charles O. Finley who sought to move them out of Kansas City as early as 1961 when he courted Dallas-Fort Worth to American League owners, but nothing came out of it. Four years later, he would sign an agreement to move the team to Louisville, where they would rebrand themselves as the "Kentucky Athletics," but this never came to fruition as the AL blocked the move. Other cities considered by the Athletics included Atlanta, Milwaukee (the previous home of the Atlanta Braves from 1953 to 1965), New Orleans, San Diego and Seattle. In 1968, Finley chose to relocate the Athletics to Oakland and share the Oakland Coliseum with the American Football League (AFL)'s Oakland Raiders, which gave the city its second professional sports team. The Athletics' streak of success in the city in the early 1970s, known as the "Swingin' A's" era, saw the team win three straight World Series titles in 1972, 1973 and 1974. By the end of the decade, the team was in a full-fledged rebuild as Finley had considerably reduced investments into the team and many star players left to other teams via trades and the newly-implement free agency process. To save money, Finley even severed the team's local television and radio broadcasting contracts, making it very difficult for fans to follow the team. Attendance plummeted at the Coliseum, reaching a low point on April 17, 1979, when only 653 fans attended a game against the Seattle Mariners. Finley, by this point, had begun to explore selling the team to another buyer who would move the team from Oakland with Denver and the aforementioned New Orleans as options. Louisiana Superdome officials pursued negotiations with Athletics officials during the 1978–79 baseball offseason about moving the Athletics to their facility in New Orleans but Finley was unable to break the team's lease at the Coliseum, and the A's remained in Oakland. In 1980, Finley agreed to sell the team to a Denver interest in industrialist Marvin Davis but when the Raiders announced their move to Los Angeles shortly after that same year, the city of Oakland and Alameda County refused to allow the Athletics to break their lease at the Coliseum and Finley instead was forced to sell the team in August 1980 to Levi Strauss & Co. CEO Walter A. Haas Jr. who was committed to keeping the team in Oakland. Spending on the club resulted in the team making three consecutive trips to the World Series, winning the title in 1989 over the cross-bay Giants in the notorious 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake-interrupted series. When the Raiders returned to Oakland in 1995, the Coliseum would be renovated to increase its capacity for football with a structure known as Mount Davis, which made the facility less than ideal for baseball as the large section of seats above forced them to add tarpaulin and obscured the view of the hills of Oakland. Also in 1995, Haas died and the team was sold to Stephen Schott and Ken Hofmann, who were not willing or able to spend as much on the club as Haas had. In 2001, the team began looking at sites in Oakland for a new ballpark starting with sites in Uptown and the Estuary but neither of those sites or a site at 66th Avenue gained any traction. After the club was sold to Lew Wolff and John Fisher in 2005, a plan for a ballpark in Fremont known as Cisco Field materialized to replace the aging and outdated Coliseum before that plan failed to come to fruition and Wolff and Fisher turned their attention to a possible relocation to San Jose with the same proposal, which was blocked by the San Francisco Giants as the team already had territorial rights to the city. Around this time, the Raiders announced their impending relocation to Las Vegas and the Golden State Warriors moved across the bay to Chase Center in San Francisco, leaving the Athletics as Oakland's only major professional team. The Athletics would then put their focus in a new stadium solely on Oakland itself with the Coliseum, Peralta's Laney College and Howard Terminal considered but the lack of progress derailed these proposals. It was this lack of progress that led the franchise to pursue Las Vegas as their new home. Planning relocation. Early stages and negotiations. On May 11, 2021, MLB permitted the A's to explore relocation possibilities should the team fail to get a replacement stadium for the aging Coliseum from the city of Oakland by 2024. Among the cities and regions in consideration by the team was the Las Vegas area, the home of the National Hockey League's Vegas Golden Knights and National Football League's Las Vegas Raiders (who previously relocated from Oakland to Las Vegas in 2020). The A's started exploring the possibility of relocating to the Las Vegas area and would later organize meetings with local government officials and tour potential sites led by team owner John Fisher in the next week. After a presentation at a June MLB owners meeting in New York City, team president Dave Kaval said that the A's were considering the Resort Corridor, the Cashman Field site and the Valley cities of Henderson or Summerlin, Nevada as possible locations for a ballpark. Kaval also said that the team was still continuing to explore "parallel paths" in not just Las Vegas but the team's long time home Oakland. In September 2021, Kaval said that the Athletics would finalize the list of possible ballpark sites in Las Vegas by November. In November, the A's launched a survey for fans of the Las Vegas Aviators, the team's Triple-A affiliate, to determine potential interest for an MLB team in Las Vegas and a new ballpark. The final results of the survey released a month later indicated that most Aviators fans and Las Vegas residents were interested in having an MLB team in the city. In the same month, the A's made an offer for an undisclosed plot of land in the Valley for a $1 billion ballpark to be built there. The Howard Hughes Corp, the owners of the Aviators, offered free land for the Athletics to build a new ballpark. Previously, team representatives had met with the Hughes Corp. in Summerlin. In April 2022, the A's narrowed down the list to two possible sites in the Las Vegas Strip: The Tropicana Las Vegas hotel and resort and the Las Vegas Festival Grounds. Around the same time, the Tropicana resort's non-land assets were sold to Bally's Corporation and approved by Nevada state regulators later that year. Earlier in December 2021, the A's had submitted a bid to acquire the Tropicana site and redevelop it into a ballpark prior to the Bally's acquisition. MLB, in reaction to the A's interest in Southern Nevada, decided to remove a relocation fee for the team in the event that they move to the Las Vegas area. In August, A's officials organized two meetings with casino owner and financier Paul Ruffin for a hypothetical new Las Vegas area ballpark on the Festival Grounds. In October 2022, Oakland missed a deadline to reach an agreement on a ballpark in the Howard Terminal with negotiations pushed back to another year. Kaval said that the delay in negotiations would "all but doom our efforts" in keeping the team in Oakland. On October 29, Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred said in a SiriusXM interview with host Chris "Mad Dog" Russo that he was "not positive" the A's could remain in Oakland and that the team has made progress in exploring Las Vegas as a viable relocation site. In November 2022, a source familiar with the Athletics' negotiations with Las Vegas said that even if the team were to move to the city, the Triple-A Aviators would stay put and temporarily share Las Vegas Ballpark with their MLB affiliate while a new ballpark was under construction. On November 3, Bally's CEO Lee Fenton said that the Tropicana site was "very much in the cards" for the Athletics to build a ballpark should the team relocate from Oakland to Las Vegas and revealed that Bally's held talks with the team. On November 7, then-Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak and other officials said that the state would not use a hotel room tax to fund a Las Vegas area ballpark for the A's like they did with Allegiant Stadium for the Raiders though he did not rule out other ways of publicly financing the ballpark such as infrastructure improvements or tax increment financing. In January 2023, the Athletics continued talks with Bally's Corporation over the possibility of converting the Tropicana hotel and resort into a new ballpark while talks with Ruffin over the Festival Grounds had stalled. The news came out around this time when the Department of Transportation (DOT) refused to grant $182 million in federal funding for the Howard Terminal project and that the city of Oakland was considering obligation bonds as an alternative. On January 26, newly elected Governor Joe Lombardo met with team officials to discuss the possibility of a public-private economic partnership to finance a new ballpark in the Las Vegas area with Lombardo ruling out an increase in state taxes to pay for a ballpark. Lombardo's spokesperson Elizabeth Ray clarified that the Athletics or another MLB team looking to relocate to Nevada "may or may not be eligible for a variety of existing economic development programs in the state." In February, it was revealed that Resorts World Las Vegas President Scott Sibella and other hotel owners from the Strip and downtown Las Vegas met with Athletics officials for a ballpark at the Festival Grounds site with Sibella noting "We reinforced our support that we believe the best site is on the Sahara/L[as] V[egas] Blvd. Having the A's in Las Vegas will be great for the Strip communities and the LV community" and that the team "will have our full support". Derek Stevens, the co-owner of the Circa, Golden Gate and The D properties downtown, confirmed that he attended the meeting and said "I talked to with ownership in John Fisher and their President Dave [Kaval] for a while yesterday. This will be very good for Las Vegas, very good for jobs, very good for hotel rooms. The key thing is getting the location nailed down and moving forward." Stevens also made a case for luring the A's to southern Nevada over an expansion team claiming, "If Vegas doesn't land the A's, it could impact whether Vegas gets a team anytime in the near future. Having the [MLB] Commissioner [Rob Manfred] waive the relocation fee is huge. When people say they want an expansion team that is a 'Vegas Team,' people forget the expansion fee will be between $1 billion to $2 billion. Who in Vegas has that kind of money for an expansion fee and THEN have to deal with all the other elements like stadium costs and operating cash?" On February 17, it was revealed that the Athletics were exploring the Rio hotel and casino as an option for a new ballpark and spoke with their owner Dreamscape properties. The team also hired 11 lobbyists to represent them in the Nevada Legislature to form a public-private partnership with the state. After the Athletics' two-day games at Las Vegas Ballpark as part of Big League Weekend, Clark County Commission Chairman Jim Gibson elaborated on Lombardo's statement ruling out new taxes for an MLB-caliber ballpark but noted, "The governor has said no new taxes, but that doesn't mean there aren't public revenues available. We'll look to the governor and legislature to see what kind of appetite they have for whatever's required." Agreement and switching focus to Tropicana. In April 2023, it was revealed that negotiations between the City of Oakland and the Athletics organization had ended with the team moving forward with a new $1.5 billion 30,000-seat retractable stadium at the site of the Wild Wild West Gambling Hall & Hotel across Interstate 15 from the Golden Knights' T-Mobile Arena, financed through a public-private partnership including a special tax district after reaching an agreement with Red Rock Resorts to purchase it and develop the land with the backing of many within the state of Nevada and MLB. The deal would have also required $500 million in public funding from the special tax district to finance the ballpark and would need approval from the Nevada Legislature with June 5, the end of the regular legislative session, as the deadline to agree on a funding package and could call a special session in this case. Prior to selecting the Wild Wild casino, the Athletics were offered the resort corridor of the Rio hotel and casino for $1 by the Dreamscope Cos but turned it down in favor of Wild Wild West after a previous deal on the Festival Grounds had collapsed. Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao upon learning of the deal commented, "it is clear to me that the A's have no intention of staying in Oakland and have simply been using this process to try to extract a better deal out of Las Vegas. I am not interested in continuing to play that game, the fans and our residents deserve better."<ref name="SF Gate/AP New Stadium"></ref> Within the legislature, lawmakers said that a funding bill would arrive and that there was no timeline for immediate action yet; there was some skepticism or opposition to handing out $500 million for the ballpark. Shortly after announcing the stadium deal, team president Dave Kaval was interviewed by CBS affiliate KLAS-TV. He revealed that the Athletics had an agreement with the Aviators to play at the Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin temporarily until their new home on the Strip was complete. Conversely, Aviators president Don Logan said that the natural grass field of Las Vegas Ballpark would not accommodate the team and the Athletics with a proposal to implement artificial turf on the stadium based on the Texas Rangers' Globe Life Field floated which was toured by the Athletics as a model for the new Strip ballpark while Rob Manfred has said that it was a feasible option for the A's to share Las Vegas Ballpark with the Aviators. By April 22, the Athletics would reach a deal with the Southern Nevada Building Trades Union to use workers and contractors from the area to build the new Strip ballpark which is expected to begin construction in mid to late 2024 and was contingent on the state of Nevada approving a financing package. On April 26, Kaval met with Nevada Democratic legislators, including Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager, to discuss the new ballpark for half an hour. By April 28, the Athletics' ballpark would earn the support of several southern Nevada Chambers of Commerce. Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman when asked about the $500 million needed for the ballpark responded "To make this work the owners need to make a bold statement upfront. What you want to see is the private ownership come in and be invested in our community and not just look to each of us who calls this home for more taxes. No thank you!" However, Goodman's Clark County was negotiating with the Athletics to reach a deal on the ballpark with an option to extend the negotiations. In response to the team's planned relocation to Las Vegas, Athletics fans would hold a protest during the team's April 28 home game against the Reds, holding up signs that read "Sell", "Stay", "#FisherOut", "Kaval=Liar" and "Sell the Team" with the latter chanted in the stands along with "Stay in Oakland" (the same phrase used by Oakland Raiders fans urging the team to remain in Oakland prior to the team's move to Las Vegas). Controversially, the official MLB broadcast of the game cropped out these signs leading the league to apologize, "We were unaware of the edit. When it came to our attention, we corrected it as it isn't consistent with our policy" said a spokesperson. On May 4, Lombardo announced that a legislative package for the Athletics' proposed ballpark on the Las Vegas Strip is being created with an initial deadline of May 26 with other options, such as a special session if it can't be passed in time. However, the Athletics are considering alternative options in the Las Vegas area if they fail to secure legislative support for $500 million in the new Strip ballpark. Additionally, language for a potential funding bill would likely be available at the end of the week. Despite it, the Athletics struck a deal with Bally's to build a new ballpark on the previously explored Tropicana Las Vegas site and reduce the share of public funding from $500 million to $395 million while Bally's would build a casino-hotel adjacent to the ballpark; the tax package for the revised proposal was similar to the original one at Wild Wild West Gambling Hall & Hotel but the legislative language still needed to be finalized. The deal was officially announced by the Athletics and Bally's on May 15. In response to the Bally's deal, Nevada Department of Transportation spokesman Justin Hopkins told the website LVSportsBiz.org, "Our project team would like to know more about the Athletics' construction plans, including their anticipated start date and how their access needs will be affected by the construction. We want to ensure that we coordinate with their needs and any other ongoing work in the area, as we strive to be good partners with our community and stakeholders. If there are any adjustments we can make to our schedule or prioritize certain tasks to facilitate potential stadium work, we would like to know so that we can act quickly," though he added "NDOT has not yet heard from the Athletics about the ballpark proposal at Tropicana." Aside from the deal with Bally's, the Athletics pitched a tax district to pay for the new Strip ballpark. The reason the Athletics switched the site of the proposed ballpark from Wild Wild West Casino to the Tropicana Las Vegas was due to Culinary Union 226's not supporting the site change. By May 12, Culinary Union 226 eventually reached an agreement with the Athletics to provide union contracts for their workers on the new Strip ballpark. However, the project initially had an issue with Nevada lawmakers who were willing to provide only $195 million in tax credits instead of $395 million for the Athletics. Moreover, Clark County officials were concerned that taxpayers would be on the hook to cover debt payments and that property taxes would be increased to pay them. In spite of this, the Athletics reached a "loose agreement" for a financing package less than $500 million with state officials after weeks of discussion with a reduction of contributions from Clark County. The proposal involved $180 million from the state of Nevada of which $90 million would be repaid from the ballpark's revenues while $150 million would come from Clark County which would be repaid from a tax district set up on the site and the public total would be between $350 million and $380 million. Additionally, a credit enhancement would be used for the ballpark to improve the chances of repayment along with a two-year debt reserve account and the ballpark itself would be owned by the Las Vegas Stadium Authority, similar to Allegiant Stadium upon completion while Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc. contributed to the project free of charge. On May 24, Governor Joe Lombardo officially announced the agreement with the Athletics, Treasurer Zach Conine, and Clark County officials in a press release for the bill's sending to legislature. In the press release, Lombardo said, "This agreement follows months of negotiations between the state, the county and the A's, and I believe it gives us a tremendous opportunity to continue building on the professional sports infrastructure of southern Nevada. Las Vegas is clearly a sports town, and Major League Baseball should be a part of it." By May 26, the Athletics released the first official renderings of the new $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat ballpark on the site of the Tropicana. While the Athletics released the renderings of the new ballpark, Darrell Steinberg has said that the city of Sacramento could temporarily host the team for three seasons at Sutter Health Park, the home of the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats (the team's previous affiliate), until they move to Las Vegas. Legislative sessions and approval. With the unveiling of the first renderings of the ballpark, the Athletics also saw the language for the stadium bill revealed publicly, which contained many of the confirmed details of the tentative agreement, such as public funding capped at $380 million and the Las Vegas Stadium Authority (LVSA) as its owner with the bill itself officially named the Southern Nevada Tourism Innovation Act introduced into the Nevada Legislature for a vote. By Memorial Day 2023, the legislature held its first and only regular session hearing on the Southern Nevada Tourism Innovation Act with officials, residents and some out of state people speaking for or against the bill which lasted for six hours. New details of the ballpark were also revealed, such as 2028 as the projected opening date instead of 2027 and the potential to host other events apart from Major League Baseball, which included the World Baseball Classic (WBC), WWE Royal Rumble and SummerSlam, XFL games, MLS matches, rugby sevens, NCAA games, the Monster Jam World Finals, the Davis Cup, Monster Energy Supercross, and cricket. On June 7, Lombardo called for a special session for the legislature to vote on the Southern Nevada Tourism Innovation Act at 10 am, with the Senate Committee of the Whole convening by 12 noon to discuss the bill with support and opposition from both state senators and citizens. On June 8, the legislature adjourned and the Senate would not reconvene on the bill until June 12 as there were amendments proposed for the bill. The reconvening ended in recess without a vote in the Senate although behind the scenes negotiations with lawmakers continued and the Assembly would announce a morning meeting on the bill through a Committee of the Whole which became the first time they would review it alongside the Senate. During the hearing, the stadium bill received amendments such as a community benefits agreement and more money repaid to Nevada state tax credits. The amended bill would eventually be approved by the Senate Committee of the Whole (COW) in a 12–7 vote and sent to the Senate floor for another vote where it was approved 13–8 with the bill in the Assembly. The Assembly would then vote to approve the bill 25–15 with amendments and the Senate would concur ensuring it would end up with Governor Lombardo on June 14. Shortly after SB1's approval in the legislature, the team released a statement thanking legislators for passing the bill during the special session. With SB1 approved, Bally's fully turned its attention to demolishing the Tropicana to make way for the Athletics' ballpark. During the special session on the bill, Las Vegas Convention and Assembly President Steve Hill said the Athletics could play some games in Reno at the Reno Aces' Greater Nevada Field while their new home on the Las Vegas Strip was under construction. Around the same time as the bill's hearing in the Nevada Legislature and subsequent passage in the Senate, Oakland Athletics fans organized a large "Reverse Boycott" for a home game at the Coliseum against the Tampa Bay Rays. The intent of the protest was to encourage as many fans to attend the game as possible to demonstrate that there is still a sizable market for Major League Baseball in Oakland. Additionally, US House Representatives Barbara Lee and Mark DeSaulnier introduced the Moneyball Act in the House named after the 2003 memoir of the same name by Michael Lewis which required the Athletics or any MLB team moving 25 miles from its former home city to compensate them or the league would lose its antitrust exemption. On June 15, Manfred addressed reporters during the three-day MLB owners' meeting in New York after the Legislature approved SB1. He said that the Athletics would file an application for relocation and establish a committee to define the operating and broadcast territories surrounding the Las Vegas Valley, headed by Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio, before making a recommendation that would go to the executive council and full ownership. During the meeting, Lombardo would sign SB1 into law allowing Nevada to begin work on a new ballpark, and the Athletics to start the relocation process. Post-agreement and approval. The Athletics finalized their plans to play at the Coliseum for the 2024 season possibly for the team's final year in Oakland and cooperate with MLB to look at options for a temporary home in 2025 with Las Vegas, Reno, Sacramento, and San Francisco's Oracle Park under consideration due to the MLB schedule already being set. These plans were later confirmed by an Athletics spokesperson in an interview with "The Mercury News" while the options in Las Vegas and Reno were contingent on approval from the MLB Players Association (MLBPA). In the case of Reno and Sacramento, both cities had Triple-A facilities that could be used to accommodate the Athletics for three seasons similar to Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin. On June 20, the city of Oakland and Alameda County explored the options of forcing the Athletics to pay $30 million in purchase payments for the Coliseum due to its joint ownership of the facility and impending relocation to Las Vegas. On June 19, Bally's chairman Soo Kim told KTNV-TV that the Tropicana might not be razed until two years later into construction and that there was a scenario where part of the resort-casino could remain after the ballpark is complete. He also noted that the ballpark would include a new casino-resort and a separate, adjacent sports-themed attraction. On June 21, the Athletics officially began the process of relocation to Las Vegas through a relocation application to MLB being written up before being filed, submitted, and put to an owners' vote. Later, several ballpark designers, economics experts and architects discussed the small size of the Athletics' proposed ballpark in the "San Francisco Chronicle" with some even expressing doubt that it could fit. Two weeks after the bill's approval, the Athletics revealed that Bally's would provide 3 to 4 more acres of land on the Tropicana for the ballpark with plans to hire a design architect, a construction firm and a project manager amidst concerns about its size and a statement from Clark County spokeswoman Jennifer Cooper saying her county can't issue $120 million yet until other agreements are finalized and the Athletics deposit $100 million in private money for the project. On June 29, the Nevada State Education Association (NSEA) created a new political action committee known as Schools Over Stadiums for the purpose of exploring "every possible path" of reversing the legislature's and Governor Lombardo's approval of SB1, including litigation or a ballot measure on the bill in 2024, with over 102,586 signatures required for the latter option. In response, a spokesperson for the Athletics said the team was aware of Schools Over Stadiums and the NSEA's prior opposition to the bill. The NSEA's opposition to SB1 and proposal to get the bill on the ballot for Nevada voters was also supported by the group We Want a Voice which had a similar proposal and would work with the NSEA. Otherwise both were opposed by Nevada's largest teachers union, the Clark County Education Association (CCEA), which considered the matter of SB1 to be settled, and Clark County Commission Chair Jim Gibson echoed similar such sentiments even claiming the bill's additional revenue would be used to help with students, teachers, and other aspects of education. In July, owners John S. Middleton of the Philadelphia Phillies and John Sherman of the Kansas City Royals joined the newly formed MLB relocation committee on Las Vegas alongside the Brewers' Attanasio. In the same month, MLBPA executive director Tony Clark said the organization was ready to negotiate with the MLB over the effects and working conditions of the Athletics' relocation to Las Vegas including a temporary home in Las Vegas, Reno, Sacramento, or San Francisco. The conditions outlined by Clark were focused on the field, travel, amenities, housing, support, and the area for the players and the players' families. When asked about the playing field, Clark said, "We would have to make sure that the quality of that turf, if that’s what happens, or the quality of the grass and the support for it, if that’s what happens, is up to snuff." Clark also noted that if the Athletics were to play at Las Vegas Ballpark temporarily for three seasons, it would be a challenge due to not having a roof to protect players from the sun and brought up the issues of playing field, health, safety, accommodations, travel, and schedules, and that the MLBPA will have conversations on these issues pertaining to the Athletics possibly sharing it with the Aviators. On Oracle Park, Clark mentioned that the MLBPA could be involved in discussions about having the Athletics play in the same venue with the cross-bay Giants but noted they would engage in a different conversation by the time the votes are cast. When reports of Reno being considered an option were published, the city's mayor Hillary Schieve has said they have not had any conversations with the Athletics organization about sharing Greater Nevada Field with the Aces but were open to discussing the possibility of the proposal. During the 2023 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Seattle, Manfred confirmed the Athletics had started the relocation process to Las Vegas by submitting information for the application. However, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao met with Manfred during the All-Star Game to share documents to him and 29 other MLB owners outlining the city's plans to build a new ballpark at the Coliseum or Howard Terminal from years prior in a bid to keep the Athletics from relocating to Las Vegas. After Thao met with Manfred, the Athletics announced their sponsorship for the softball charity game Battle for Vegas in Summerlin's Las Vegas Ballpark and a fan fest held alongside this event with the Golden Knights and Raiders, making this first time the team supported an officially-sanctioned event in the Las Vegas area. On July 13, Hill revealed that the Athletics would not fully use $380 million in public funding to finance the new ballpark at the Tropicana. Instead, the team would use around $340 million for the ballpark. Two days later, Hill said that the Las Vegas Stadium Authority would meet on August 24 to detail the process of the Athletics relocation. On July 20, Kim said that Bally's was waiting for the Athletics to go through the stadium planning process before the Tropicana could be demolished. He also noted that the Tropicana could be torn down in segments while allowing some of it to remain or brought down all at once via implosion. On July 25, fans of the Athletics and Giants, during the local Bay Bridge Series between their respective teams at Oracle Park, chanted "Sell the team!" and wore "Sell!" t-shirts as part of Unite the Bay, an event held to protest the Athletics move to Las Vegas similar to the Reverse Boycott. After the Unite the Bay rally, the Athletics organization announced they would select Gensler or the joint bid by HNTB (which participated in the construction of Allegiant Stadium) and Bjarke Ingels Group as the design team for the ballpark by November for new renderings with the latter having previously participated in the scrapped Howard Terminal plans. Brad Schrock, the head director of the ballpark design, said that the project could have up to 33,000 seats. Schrock also revealed on July 27 that the ballpark would turn four acres of its site into a plaza similar to T-Mobile Arena. In August, Kaval revealed that the new stadium in Las Vegas would have 33,000 seats instead of 30,000 in the initial plans. On August 21, the Athletics announced that the Minneapolis-based Mortenson | McCarthy would serve as the construction manager for the ballpark. On August 23, Fisher published a commentary editorial for the "Las Vegas Review-Journal" announcing that the Athletics had fully submitted their relocation application to the MLB. On the same day, Fisher conducted an interview with the "Review-Journal" regarding the team's impending relocation to the Las Vegas Valley. By August 25, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority (LVSA) held another meeting on the ballpark, two days after the Athletics submitted their relocation application. When asked about a temporary home for 2025–2027, Kaval said a three-year lease extension at the Oakland Coliseum, Las Vegas Ballpark, or Oracle Park were strongly under consideration for the Athletics until their permanent one is finished. He also noted that the Las Vegas Ballpark would need upgrades to host the Athletics temporarily alongside the Aviators. However, Thao included a provision to keep the Athletics name and history in Oakland if the team were to play at the Coliseum for three more years alongside another for a potential expansion team after speaking with Manfred again. In September, Schools Over Stadiums officially filed a referendum petition with the office of the Nevada Secretary of State to put the Athletics' stadium proposal for a vote in the 2024 elections by gathering around or more than 100,000 signatures from voting-eligible Nevada residents to do so. By September 7, the Athletics officially hired the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) sub-division CAA ICON as the official consulting firm for the ballpark in overseeing management of the project such as the architect and managers. On September 13, Kaval revealed the new ballpark would be climate-controlled and contain a retractable roof to allow for an open-air atmosphere whilst protecting spectators from the heat. On September 15, the MLB reportedly set the vote on the Athletics relocation to Las Vegas for November. On September 27, Manfred said he hoped for a potential vote on the move during the owners meeting in Arlington between November 14-16. Reception. The A's plan to relocate to Las Vegas has garnered an overwhelmingly negative reception from fans, baseball writers, former executives, and even some current players, including Las Vegas natives Bryce Harper and Bryson Stott. Many have argued that Fisher's lack of spending on the team was a deliberate effort to sink the club and keep fans away from the Coliseum in order to sabotage negotiations in Oakland. Others have opined that by many measures, such as public money available and market size, Oakland is actually offering the better stadium deal, and that the relocation is purely an effort for the A's to remain on revenue sharing with no other factors considered, as some commentators have speculated that Fisher may no longer be able to afford his part of the Howard Terminal project. Outside of Oakland, fan protests against the move have taken place at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Coors Field in Denver, Nationals Park in Washington D.C., and the 2023 MLB All-Star Game at T-Mobile Park in Seattle. Many of Manfred's comments and actions during the process have received backlash as well, with several commentators feeling that he is being disrespectful towards Oakland and ignoring the reality of the situation in order to support an owner who cannot afford to keep the team in Oakland. Economist J. C. Bradbury, an economics professor at Kennesaw State University and a staunch critic of publicly funded sports stadiums, has cited the A's proposed Las Vegas ballpark as a prime example of a stadium that will have no positive impact on the local economy despite the promises of those involved. Other economists and economics professors have generally agreed with Bradbury's claims. Former Miami Marlins and Montreal Expos executive David Samson has been heavily critical of Fisher and Kaval, arguing that the A's and Las Vegas are moving ahead with relocation despite having no clear plan on many aspects of the deal. Former A's executive Steve Pastorino, who now lives in Las Vegas, called Kaval "a walking, talking bobblehead" during public comment on SB1, telling Nevada legislators that they should be distrustful of Kaval and saying "There are so many holes in what the A's are trying to sell us, I can't cover it in two minutes (the maximum amount of time for which individuals were allowed to speak during the public comment session)." Among people who do not work directly for the A's or MLB, those who have written or spoken positively about the proposed relocation include Lindsey Adler of "The Wall Street Journal" and sports media personality Chris "Mad Dog" Russo.

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Kevlon Anderson

Kevlon Alston Anderson (born 28 September 2000) is a West Indian cricketer, who is a right-handed top order batsman. He plays for Guyana national cricket team, having previously represented the West Indies under-19 cricket team. Early career. In July 2013, Anderson was named as the top cricketer at the 16th Annual Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club Academy. He played for Guyana in age level local cricket competitions like West Indies Cricket Board Under-15 and Under-19 Tournament from 2015 to 2017. In November 2019, he was named in West Indies' squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He made his under-19 international debut for the West Indies Under-19s on 6 December 2019, against England Under-19s in the 2019–20 West Indies Under-19 Tri-Nation Series. He was one of the top performers for the West Indies in the 2020 Under-19 CWC. In February 2021, he was awarded academy contract by the Guyana Cricket Board ahead of the 2020–21 domestic season. In July 2022, he was named in the inaugural batch of the CWI Emerging Players Academy for high-performance training and development sessions. Domestic career. In October 2022, Anderson was named in West Indies Academy's squad for the 2022–23 Super50 Cup. He made his List A debut for West Indies Academy on 29 October 2022, against the Leeward Islands. In February 2023, he moved to Trinidad and Tobago to play club cricket for Preysal Cricket Club. In March 2023, he earned his maiden call-up to Guyana to play for them in the third round of the 2022–23 West Indies Championship, after he had made impressive performance in the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board Three-Day Championship. He made his first-class debut for Guyana on 15 March 2023, against Trinidad and Tobago. In April 2023, he was selected to play for West Indies Academy in the inaugural 2023 Headley Weekes Tri-Series. On 20 April 2023, he claimed his maiden century in first-class cricket, against Team Headley. His score of 153 runs helped West Indies Academy to win the match by seven wickets.

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Action of 26–27 April 1864

The Action of April 26–27, 1864 saw a Confederate States Army force led by Lieutenant Colonel John H. Caudle and Captain Florian Cornay ambush several Union Navy warships and auxiliary vessels commanded by Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter as they made their way downstream on the Red River of the South. Eleven days earlier, a Confederate naval mine sank a Union ironclad warship. The vessel was refloated and escorted downstream by Porter with five Union vessels, but on April 26 the ironclad had to be scuttled. The clash occurred as a Union Army under Major General Nathaniel P. Banks and naval forces under Porter were retreating from Grand Ecore near Natchitoches to Alexandria, Louisiana. In the ambush on April 26, Confederate artillery and foot soldiers seriously damaged three Union gunboats and two pump boats. The gunboats eventually escaped downstream, but both pump boats were captured, with serious loss of life. This action occurred at the place where the Cane River flowed into the Red River and was part of the Red River campaign in the American Civil War. Background. Red River campaign. President Abraham Lincoln wanted the United States flag raised over part of Texas to discourage the French-backed regime of Emperor Maximilian in Mexico. To further this goal, Major General Henry Halleck ordered Banks to invade Texas using the Red River corridor. The final plan called for Banks was to move up Bayou Teche with 17,000 troops to join with Major General Andrew Jackson Smith with 10,000 men and Porter's gunboats advancing up the Red River. Major General Frederick Steele was instructed to move south from Little Rock, Arkansas, and join Banks and Porter, but Steele started late and never reached Banks. On March 18, 1864 A. J. Smith's column occupied Alexandria and was joined by Banks' column a few days later. Despite unseasonably low water in the Red River, Banks ordered an advance on Shreveport, Louisiana, and on April 2 his army captured Natchitoches. On April 8 at the Battle of Mansfield, Taylor routed Banks and compelled the Union army to fall back. On April 9 Taylor's assault was repulsed at the Battle of Pleasant Hill, but Banks chose to withdraw to Grand Ecore near Natchitoches. At this time, Taylor's superior officer, General Edmund Kirby Smith ordered away most of the Confederate infantry to fight against Steele. This left Taylor with only 5,200 troops. On April 21, Banks abandoned the campaign and retreated from Grand Ecore. This decision was influenced by an order to return A. J. Smith's troops to Major General William T. Sherman by April 10. At the Battle of Monett's Ferry on April 23, the Union army broke through a trap set by Taylor and reached Alexandria. Loss of "Eastport". At the end of March 1864, river pilot Wellington W. Withenbury advised Porter not to take the largest ironclad warship, the above the falls at Alexandria. Porter ignored this wise counsel and the Union Navy later paid a serious price for it. Porter's gunboats and a Union infantry division under Brigadier General Thomas Kilby Smith reached upstream as far as Loggy Bayou on April 10. On that day, Porter and T. K. Smith received news of the Mansfield fiasco and began withdrawing downstream. At the Battle of Blair's Landing on April 12, the expedition fought its way through a Confederate ambush with losses of 2 killed and 19 wounded, plus many gunboats damaged. By April 15, Porter's and T. K. Smith's expedition rejoined Banks' army at Grand Ecore. On April 14 Porter, worried about the falling water level in the Red River, ordered the "Eastport" to head downstream from Grand Ecore. The vessel almost immediately went aground. The next day, the ironclad freed itself, proceeded , struck a Confederate mine, and sank in shallow water. Porter sent two pump boats, the "Champion No. 3" and the "Champion No. 5" to assist. The "Eastport" was refloated and on April 21, it headed downstream again accompanied by Porter in the tinclad gunboat , which towed the ironclad's guns in a flatboat. Towed by the "Champion No. 5", the "Eastport" grounded again that evening and it took a full day to free her. The ironclad made glacial progress over the next four days. On April 26, the "Eastport" became irreversibly grounded on a log jam near Montgomery, downstream from Grand Ecore. The ironclad was blown up, and debris from the premature explosion narrowly missed Porter and the vessel's master, Lieutenant Commander Seth Ledyard Phelps. During the scuttling operation, Confederates tried to attack the "Cricket" but were driven off. Taylor reported that casualties were inflicted on the Union working parties, while the Confederates lost 2 killed and 4 wounded. The attackers belonged to units led by Colonels James B. Likens and Isaac F. Harrison. These were 35th (Likens') Texas Cavalry Regiment and the 3rd Louisiana Cavalry Regiment, respectively. Ambush. Meanwhile Banks' army trailed into Alexandria between April 24 and 26. With Banks' army and most of the river fleet ahead of him at Alexandria, it was imperative for Porter to get his last few vessels to safety. Leaving the wreck of the "Eastport" behind them, the "Cricket", the tinclad , the gunboat , and the two pump boats proceeded downstream without incident. However, on April 26 at the confluence of the Red and Cane Rivers, Porter's gunboats ran into a Confederate ambush consisting of 200 men from Lieutenant Colonel John H. Caudle's 34th Texas Cavalry Regiment, dismounted as infantry, and Captain Florian Cornay's Louisiana Battery (two 12-pounder Napoleons and two 12-pounder howitzers). The "Cricket" was hit 38 times by artillery rounds and lost 12 killed and 19 wounded. After the "Cricket" lost headway, the Confederate gunners shifted fire to other targets. Porter was able to get the vessel moving again and it managed to limp downstream. The 190 men aboard the "Champion No. 3", mostly African-American refugees, suffered a ghastly fate. A Confederate shot penetrated the boiler, engulfing the vessel in scalding steam; by the next day, all but 3 men died from their injuries. The vessel drifted into the riverbank to be seized by the Confederates. Next, the "Juliet" was disabled, but it managed to escape upstream, towed by the "Champion No. 5", while the "Fort Hindman" provided covering fire. Taylor reported only 1 wounded and Captain Cornay killed. On April 27, the "Juliet" and "Fort Hindman", lashed together, tried to run past the battery. They were both hit repeatedly, disabled, and separated, but by good luck, the current carried them downstream past the battery without grounding. Meanwhile, the "Champion No. 5" was badly damaged and captured. The crew of the "Juliet" lost 15 killed and wounded while the "Fort Hindman" sustained 7 casualties. Also on April 27, Porter in the "Cricket" found the gunboat and the monitor downstream near Deloach's Bluff. The two vessels had engaged sections of Captain T. D. Nettles' Val Verde Texas Battery and Captain Thomas O. Benton's Louisiana Battery. The "Osage" escorted the crippled "Juliet" and "Fort Hindman" while the "Lexington" escorted the "Cricket" safely to Alexandria. Aftermath. At Alexandria there was only water depth at the double falls, while the gunboats required a depth of . The river channel between the falls was only wide in some places. The "Cricket" managed to get over the falls into deeper water, but the , , , , , , , and , as well as the "Fort Hindman" and "Lexington" were trapped. The subsequent actions near Alexandria would determine the fate of Porter's gunboats.

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Van der Stel Cricket Club Ground

Van der Stel Cricket Club Ground is a cricket ground at Boland, a region in the Stellenbosch, South Africa. It was used as the home ground for the Western Province cricket team in both men's and women's cricket. The first recorded match played on this ground was a Women's List A match between Boland and Eastern Province on 19 October 2003, in the 2003–04 CSA Women's Provincial Programme. It hosted five matches of the 2008 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier. One first-class match was also played on this ground on 14 January 2010, between Boland and Northerns in the 2009–10 CSA 3-Day Provincial Cup. Van der Stel Cricket Club also uses the ground for playing minor club matches.

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Richmond vs Adelaide (2006 AFL season)

In round 8, 2006, an Australian Football League home-and-away match was played between and at Telstra Dome in Melbourne on 20 May 2006. The match is famous for its tactical battle, in which the out-of-form Richmond implemented a strategy of extreme possession retention through short kicks and uncontested marks to record an upset victory against the top-of-the-ladder Adelaide by three points. Background. From 2005 to 2006, (the Crows) under coach Neil Craig was one of the AFL's best teams, as minor premiers in 2005 and preliminary finalists both years. (the Tigers), under coach Terry Wallace, was middle-of-the-road over the same period, finishing 12th in 2005 and 9th in 2006. Entering their round 8, 2006 encounter, Adelaide was atop the ladder with a 6–1 record and the league's best percentage; Richmond was badly out of form, its flattering 3–4 record including three narrow wins against eventual bottom four teams, two losses by more than 100 points, and the league's worst percentage. Adelaide's team was much more experienced than Richmond's, with an average age of 26.6 years against Richmond's 23.6 years, and only one player under 22 years old compared with Richmond's nine. Richmond hadn't beaten Adelaide since 1999, an eight-game losing-streak. Consequently, Adelaide was an overwhelming favourite, attracting odds of $1.11 for the win against Richmond's $5.75. Adelaide's success was built on a defense-and-counterattack gameplan, which was novel at the time: it would drop its wingmen and half-forwards back into a strong zone through its defensive half and flood its backline, then focus on advancing and scoring quickly after winning defensive half turnovers. To counteract this, Wallace directed his team to adopt an extreme low-risk gameplan: to make short and uncontested kicks, as a means of advancing the ball but also backwards if necessary, to avoid making long kicks into Adelaide's zone. This was designed to minimise Adelaide's rebound opportunities, then encourage Adelaide to drop out of its defensive zone to play man-on-man, thereby opening up more long passing options – Wallace described it as "fishing", to lure the Adelaide players back to the ball. This was a drastic change for Richmond, which typically played free-flowing run-and-carry football. The plan also included elements of tempo football a tactic of retaining possession without intent to score as a means of slowing down the game to stifle a stronger opponent's momentum; Wallace had in particular planned to do this in the third quarter to set up a fourth quarter arm wrestle, noting that his less experienced team would be more likely to win over three quarters than four. The tactics weren't new ideas – indeed, Adelaide had famously pioneered them at times in its round 1, 2006 win against – but Wallace planned a more extreme implementation than had previously been seen. Match summary. The match was played at Telstra Dome with the retractable roof open. It was one of three Richmond home games at the venue for the season, its usual home ground being the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The attendance was 24,461, Richmond's lowest home attendance for the year. Richmond was captained by Matthew Richardson for the 15th and final time of his career, in the absence of appointed captain Kane Johnson. Adelaide wore its red clash guernsey. First quarter. Richmond kicked the first goal from the opening centre clearance, Richard Tambling converting a 35m set shot from the left boundary line. Adelaide had the best of the chances over the next ten minutes, but managed only two behinds. In the 10th minute, an errant Adelaide rebound was intercepted by Richmond's Shane Tuck, who converted a 30m set shot goal. The ensuing centre clearance was won by Richmond to Troy Simmonds, who kicked a goal with a 60m bomb and gave Richmond a 16-point lead after 12 minutes. Richmond had already begun implementing its short passing gameplan, with 21 marks in the first ten minutes. Adelaide began to find success with its typical zone-and-rebound gameplan in the second half of the quarter, managing behinds from fast rebounds in the 14th and 17th minutes. Adelaide's first goal came in the 18th minute, after Simmonds conceded a free kick when defending a kick-in; Martin Mattner kicked the goal from a 45m set shot. Three minutes later, Tyson Edwards kicked Adelaide's second goal on the run from 50m, to narrow the margin to two points. Adelaide had several more chances, but Richmond prevented further score, including: a snap by Graeme Johncock which was marked by Simmonds in the goal square; three dangerous turnovers on the wing which were all nullified by strong Richmond tackles and holding the ball free kicks; and a 30m set shot after the siren by Kris Massie which went out of bounds on the full. At quarter time, Richmond led 3.0 (18) to 2.4 (16) by two points. Richmond ruckman Troy Simmonds was particularly influential in the first quarter with 11 disposals, but Adelaide's zone and swarming rebound was dangerous. Veteran Adelaide defender Ben Hart left the game with a fractured wrist in the 23rd minute. Communications between Richmond's coaches' box and bench had failed during the quarter, and were restored during the quarter time break. Second quarter. Richmond kicked two behinds in the first three minutes – Troy Simmonds from the opening centre clearance, whose shot was touched on the line, and Matthew Richardson who hit the post from 45m – before Johncock kicked a goal on the run after two bounces in the 4th minute to give Adelaide its first lead. Adelaide had the best of play during the next ten minutes, earning several repeat inside-50 entries but scoring only one behind, while Richmond's Andrew Krakouer missed an easy 15m set shot against the run of play in the 8th minute. In the 14th minute, Greg Tivendale appeared to take a mark 35m from goal for Richmond, but a miscommunication between the umpires – one had paid the mark, and one had called touched play on – meant the result was a ball-up; Richmond won the clearance from that ball-up, and Chris Newman kicked the goal to put Richmond back in front. In the 16th minute, Trent Hentschel scored a behind for Adelaide. From the ensuing kick-in, Richmond first put the tempo element of its tactics into effect, chipping the ball short around its back half for two full minutes to the boos of the crowd; Richmond eventually advanced the ball, turning it over with its inside-50 kick. Richmond advanced quickly from its next rebound, and Andrew Krakouer finished with a 35m set shot goal in the 21st minute. Richmond won two free kicks from ensuing centre clearance and Kayne Pettifer's 45m goal put Richmond ahead by 15 points. Adelaide had two more failed scoring chances for the quarter, Mattner tackled by Newman 50m from goal before he could take his shot, and Johncock failing to score from a wide angle shot after the siren. With three goals to one in the quarter, Richmond 6.3 (39) held a 15-point lead against Adelaide 3.6 (24). Richmond led short kicks in the second quarter 44–18, and had been effective at starving Adelaide of the rebound opportunities it generally thrived upon. Third quarter. There were two goals in the first four minutes of the third quarter: Richmond won a turnover and, after seven short passes around half-forward, finished with a 40m set shot goal to Simmonds; from the ensuing centre clearance, Adelaide passed the ball to Hentschel who kicked a wide angle set shot goal from 20m. Thereafter, the third quarter became the game's most notorious, as Richmond put its tempo gameplan into effect. After winning possession in the 7th minute, Richmond passed the ball around its backline for more than 2½ minutes before crossing the centre-line; when Richmond eventually went forward, its inside-50 kick was a turnover and Adelaide rebounded quickly, but its inside-50 ended in a spectacular intercept mark with the flight of the ball by Pettifer, which won Mark of the Round. Richmond then again short passed around the backline, before eventually picking a handball chain through the Adelaide zone to Tuck, who missed a 35m set shot. Chris Hyde missed another chance for Richmond in the 16th minute. Another two-minute period of patient possession by Richmond soon followed, ending with a wide set shot by Richardson which hit the post. In the 23rd minute, Adelaide thought it had scored its fifth goal when Brett Burton snapped the ball through from a forward 50 stoppage, but it was touched off the boot by Pettifer for a behind. Richmond advanced from the kick-in to Trent Knobel, whose shot after the three-quarter time siren hit the post. After one goal apiece for the quarter, Richmond 7.7 (49) led Adelaide 4.8 (32). The third quarter saw both teams remain disciplined to their own gameplans – Adelaide hanging back in its zone and waiting to create turnovers, and Richmond refusing to kick into that zone – resulting in a stalemate, one which Richmond was happy to allow given it was defending a three-goal lead. Richmond led the short kicks 57–20 for the quarter, and the quarter lasted only 23:54 due to the lack of scoring and stoppages. Joel Bowden, who was consistently left unmanned at full back as Adelaide settled into its zone defense, directed much of Richmond's play and was frequently used as a safe option by Richmond for easy retention of possession. Final quarter. Entering the final quarter, Adelaide made defensive adjustments by manning up Richmond's loose defenders and making its tempo game more difficult to execute; but both teams continued to flood men behind the ball, and Richmond maintained a short-passing game with fewer backwards kicks as its primary means of ball movement. The first centre clearance was won by Richmond, ending with Tivendale whose running shot after only 17 seconds hit the post. Adelaide attacked, and Mark Ricciuto missed a 15m wide angle set shot from a free kick in the 3rd minute. Richmond then again held possession and advanced the ball slowly for 2½ minutes, finishing with a set shot goal to Mark Coughlan which extended the margin to a game-high 23 points in the 7th minute. Adelaide's defensive adjustments then began to deliver rewards. Richmond's next short rebound attempt was intercepted, ultimately resulting in a behind to Mattner from a 25m set shot. Following the subsequent kick-in, Richmond's Brett Deledio's attempted a backwards pass to a doubly-manned Patrick Bowden at full back, which was easily turned over and resulted in a walk-in goal to Andrew McLeod in the 10th minute, narrowing the margin to 15 points. Thereafter followed a relatively rapid sequence of scores, mostly from centre clearances. Adelaide won the first centre clearance by a holding-the-ball free kick, and Hentschel kicked a 20m set shot goal. Richmond responded immediately from the next centre clearance, Adam Pattison kicking the goal from a 35m set shot. Richmond dropped Matthew Richardson into defense to further flood the backline; he soon committed a turnover trying to clear the defensive 50m arc, resulting in a goal to Burton in the 16th minute. From the following centre clearance, Deledio kicked a goal from a 60m bomb, restoring Richmond's 15 point lead in the 18th minute. The next centre clearance went to Adelaide and ended in a behind, and Richmond's attempt to go coast-to-coast from the kick-in ended when Andrew McLeod caught Richmond's Danny Meyer holding the ball 25m from Richmond's goal. In the 23rd minute, a fast rebound by Adelaide ended with a mark to Mark Ricciuto 50m from goal, who wheeled around and kicked a goal to narrow the margin to eight points. Pattison managed to run down Burton for a holding the ball free kick to prevent Adelaide attacking from the subsequent centre clearance; this possession allowed Richmond to take another two minutes off the clock by passing around its forward half, ending with a behind from a set shot by Deledio in the 26th minute. One minute later, after rebounding from centre half-back, Burton kicked a goal on the run from 40m to narrow the margin to three points with about 1:20 remaining on the game clock. Richmond won the ensuing centre clearance and, after securing a mark in its forward-line, ran out the rest of the clock. With five goals in final quarter after its change of tactics, Adelaide scored more goals in the last twenty minutes of the match than in the first eighty minutes. But Richmond's lead and critical goals from final quarter centre clearances were enough for it to hold on for the win. Richmond 10.9 (69) defeated Adelaide 9.12 (66). Overall. The effectiveness of Richmond's short passing and tempo tactics dominated post-match analysis. Richmond recorded a VFL/AFL record of 181 marks, surpassing the previous record of 170; the record still stands as of 2022. 13 of Richmond's marks were contested. Richmond finished with 159 short kicks compared with its average of 80, highlighting the drastic shift in tactics which Richmond had implemented in the upset win. Neil Craig commented he had never seen a team retain possession for such long periods. Richmond's defenders, who executed the gameplan diligently despite the boos of the crowd and were effective at nullifying the Adelaide forwards, figured prominently among the best on ground. Full back Joel Bowden, who was playing his 200th game, had 34 disposals, 20 marks and led the organisation of the backline, and was considered best on ground by sportswriters in "the Age" and "Herald Sun". Andrew Kellaway (23 disposals, 15 marks), was second-best in both newspapers and received the three Brownlow Medal votes. Andrew Raines, who had 20 disposals, 10 marks and kept Adelaide midfielder-forward Mark Ricciuto to only four disposals, was also among both newspapers' votes; and Patrick Bowden (28 disposals, 15 marks) and Dean Polo (effective on Brett Burton) also drew praise. In a low stoppage game which saw only 40 total clearances compared with the league average of 63, Richmond unexpectedly dominated those clearances 26–14, which was both Richmond's best clearance differential and Adelaide's worst clearance differential for the season. Five of Richmond's ten goals came from centre clearances. This drew little attention at the time of the game, and Terry Wallace believed that his midfielders' performances had been underrated and that the uncontested strategy could not have worked without being supported by midfield success and strong tackling. Ruckman Troy Simmonds, with 9 hitouts, 24 disposals, two goals and often dropping back to aid the defence, received two Brownlow Medal votes and was the only Richmond midfielder rated among the best by sportswriters at the time; but later assessments gave strong credit to Richmond's young midfielders including Andrew Krakouer (24 disposals, 5 clearances), Nathan Foley (3 clearances), Chris Hyde (17 disposals) and Brett Deledio (20 disposals, 4 inside-50s) for their work against the more fancied opposition. Adelaide's game was widely seen as poor by its standards. Craig lamenting its execution was below its usual standards and that it had lacked the patience to handle Richmond's unusual tactics. Midfielder Tyson Edwards (30 disposals) was Adelaide's best player, earning one Brownlow Medal vote and figuring among both newspapers' votes. Adelaide's forward opportunities were stifled and squandered: Mark Ricciuto had only four disposals, Ken McGregor scored 0.2 with most of his shots coming from long range and falling short, and Trent Hentschel was inaccurate with 2.3 from the best close-range shots of any forward. Reception. Richmond's tactics drew polarising reactions. Wallace received a lot of credit for developing a gameplan which worked, but there were many negative views on the spectacle. Journalist Rohan Connolly commented "the third term in particular was as close to unwatchable a spectacle as the modern game has ever come,". coach Kevin Sheedy described it as 'basketball crap' and questioned its value as a tactic for developing the team with the comment "if [Wallace] wants to play a game of billiards up the back, then good luck to him. You win four points but you will never go anywhere." In broader context, the game was played during a time when defensive tactics, flooding and tempo football were first achieving prevalence and success, in particular through Adelaide and Sydney as the 2005 minor and major premiers. There was already a view that such tactics would negatively impact the attractiveness of the game and drive away fans; indeed, Richmond's play drew boos from the crowd, and Wallace commented that he knew "those concerned about the aesthetics of the game would be calling for blood". There was even a rule change already undergoing serious trials in the Victorian Football League premiership season, under which marks would not be paid for backwards kicks in a team's defensive half, something which would have made Richmond's gameplan impossible to implement (it was ultimately rejected for national implementation). However, the lasting view was that Richmond's extreme tactics were successful primarily due to their surprise factor and Adelaide's unpreparedness and inflexibility to counter them, rather than their inherent effectiveness, and few considered it likely that such tactics could succeed against a team which had prepared for them. The win consolidated Terry Wallace's reputation as a master tactician. Wallace had already orchestrated one of the decade's most famous tactical upset victories as coach of the in 2000, when he employed a 14-man defensive "Super-Flood" to inflict 's sole loss for the entire calendar year; these tactics were not dissimilar to Adelaide's standard tactics in 2006, but were unheard of in 2000. The Richmond vs Adelaide match was quickly compared with the Super-Flood by journalists, and the two victories are often considered the defining moments of Wallace's coaching career. It has also been ranked one of Richmond's greatest modern home-and-away victories.

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List of cricketers who have scored a double century and a century in the same Test match

In cricket, a century is a score of 100 or more runs in a single innings by a batsman. Scores of more than 200 runs are still statistically counted as a century, although these scores are referred to as double century (200–299 runs). A century or a double century is regarded as a landmark score for batsmen and a player's number of centuries or double centuries are generally recorded in their career statistics. Test cricket, the longest version of the game, involves two innings per side in a match and scheduled to last for up to five days. An individual scoring a double century and a century in the two innings of a single Test match is considered a notable achievement by critics. The first player to score a double hundred and a hundred in the same Test match was Doug Walters from Australia, who scored 242 runs in the first innings and 103 runs in the third innings. He achieved the feat on 17 February 1969 at Sydney Cricket Ground, while playing against the West Indies during the fifth Test of the bilateral series.`The second player to reach the milestone was India's Sunil Gavaskar, who did it in April 1971 at Queen's Park Oval, against the West Indies . At the age of 21, he made scores of 124 and 220 in the first and third innings respectively, becoming the youngest player to set the record. With this, he also became the first player to have double centuries in all four innings in Tests. Lawrence Rowe was the first player to score a double century and a century in a single Test on his debut match, which he did against New Zealand in February 1972. His scores of 214 and 100* was also the first time that a player scored a double ton and a ton in the same match and remained not out in any one of the two innings. Graham Gooch has the highest aggregate in a match while scoring a double century and a century in both the innings; his combined tally of 456 runs in the match333 in the first and 123 in the second inningswas entered into "The Guinness Book of Records" as "Most runs scored by a player in a Test match". He also became the first batter to score a triple century and a century in the same Test match, while playing against India in July 1990. Brian Lara’s scores of 221 and 130 against Sri Lanka in November 2001, is the first and only instance of a player achieving the landmark on a losing cause. The feat has been accomplished by 8 players on 8 occasions as of April 2023. Players from Australia have accomplished the feat thrice, the most for any team in the history. No batter has been able to score a double hundred and hundred in a Test match on more than one occasions in his career so far.

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C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award

The Colonel C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award is an award presented by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to individuals who provided unparalleled contribution to Indian cricket. It is the highest honour bestowed by BCCI on a former player and is considered as one of the most prestigious awards in cricket. The award includes a trophy, citation, and cash prize of 25 lakh. The award is named after named after Colonel C. K. Nayudu (1895–1967), India's first Test cricket captain widely regarded as 'India's first cricket superstar' with a first-class career spanning over 47 years from 1916 to 1963 a world record. Nayudu's teammate and India's first test centurion, Lala Amarnath was the first recipient of the award in 1994. K. N. Prabhu is the only sports journalist to have won the award. Rajinder Goel, Padmakar Shivalkar, and B. B. Nimbalkar are the only non-Test cricketers to have been honoured. Lala Amarnath and Mohinder Amarnath are the only father-son duo to have received the honour. Krishnamachari Srikkanth is the most recent recipient of the award in 2019.

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South Africa A cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2023

The South Africa A cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June 2023 to play the Sri Lanka A cricket team. The tour consisted of three List A and two first-class matches. In April 2023, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) confirmed the full itinerary for the tour, with South Africa A arriving in Sri Lanka on 1 June 2023. The first-class series was used by South Africa as preparation ahead of their Test series against India.

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Suyash Sharma

Suyash Sharma (born 15 May 2003) is an Indian cricketer, who is a leg spin bowler. Sharma hails from Bhajanpura in North East Delhi. He developed his bowling action under the guidance of his childhood coach Suresh Batra. He initially used to play cricket at Madras Club and DDCA club-cricket competitions. In December 2022, Sharma was bought by the Kolkata Knight Riders at a price of ₹20 lakhs to play for them in the Indian Premier League. He made his Twenty20 debut on 6 April 2023, against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2023 Indian Premier League. The leg spinner impressed on his debut match, picking up three wickets guiding his team to a 81-run victory. His bowling figures of 3 for 30 were also the second best for a spinner on IPL debut.

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Kalinga Indatissa

Kalinga Nandaka Indatissa PC is a Sri Lankan lawyer and former President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka. He is also a legal academic. He has also held public office on several occasions and has represented clients in foreign jurisdictions. Indatissa is a prolific writer. In 2018, Indatissa was awarded for his leadership in promoting sustainable development goals, by Sri Lanka United Nations Friendship Organisation. As an act of recognition for the role has actively played, being a role model and model leader, and for his efforts in the field of law. Early life and education. Born on September 12, 1965, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He received his early education at St. Mary's College Kegalle and Royal College Colombo. In 1982, at the age of 17, he enrolled at Sri Lanka Law College, where he excelled in his studies. Indatissa received a 1st Class pass at the 1st Year Examination and at the 3rd Year Examination. Indatissa entered the Bar in 1986.. Legal career. After taking oaths, Indatissa worked as a junior lawyer in various chambers, such as the chambers of Eardley Perera President’s Counsel, Tivanka Wickramasinghe President’s Counsel and D. S. Wijesinghe President’s Counsel. Following which he joined as State Counsel, at the Attorney General’s Department 1987. He entered the unofficial in 1991, and developed a practice mainly in criminal law. He was the Junior Bar Committee - Convenor in 1988 & 1989, and was its Chairman in 1989, 1997, 1998, 2001, and 2006. He was also the Editor of the Colombo Law Society in 1991 and served as a committee member from 1990 to 1993. In 1993 Indatissa was elected the Chairman of the Law Asia Young Lawyers Group and was a member of the Law Asia Council from 2002-2003. He was also an Executive Committee member of the Bar Association, and has held the position of Secretary. Indatissa has also represented various clients in foreign jurisdictions. Such as Susanthika Jayasinghe in 1991 at an arbitration held by the International Athletics Association in Monaco (Regarding the Sydney Olympics), Arjuna Ranatunga (regarding a ICC match-fixing inquiry), here Indatissa acted as junior counsel to S. L. Gunasekara, Manju Wanniarachchi in both Delhi and Malaysia, and Sanath Jayasuriya for a ongoing ICC investigation by the ICC. He also was appointed to commissions looking into the deaths of Lalith Athulathmudali, and General Denzil Kobbekaduwa. Public office. Indatissa has held numerous positions in public office. Such as being a member of Central Environmental Authority, a trustee of the Mahapola Higher Educational Trust Fund. He also served as an Advisor for the Mahapola Professionals Organization. A senior consultant to the Ministry of Constitutional Affairs and as an Advisor to the Ministry of Interior. He was served as a Secretary of the Mahabodhi Society of Sri Lanka from 2004-2006. In May 2010, he was appointed as a member of Sri Lanka Cricket Interim Committee. Writing career. Indatissa is known for his extensive writing on legal topics in Sri Lanka. He has authored numerous articles, and has published 46 books on a wide range of legal topics. His publications are highly regarded and widely used in the legal community.

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Amusurgus

Amusurgus is a genus of Asian "sword-tail crickets", in the subfamily Trigonidiinae and the tribe Trigonidiini, erected by Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl in 1893. Species records exist for Pakistan through to Japan, South-East Asia through to Australia (distribution is probably incomplete). Species. The "Orthoptera Species File" lists:

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Broughty F.C.

Broughty Football Club was an association football club from Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland. History. Broughty was founded in 1882 and its earliest recorded match was that December, a 1–1 draw at home to East End Wanderers. The media sometimes referred to the club as Broughty Ferry but its registered name was simply Broughty. It was immediately active in local football, being one of the 17 clubs which founded the Forfarshire Football Association in February 1883, and the club's Mr Scott becoming the organization's first secretary. The club was therefore one of the first competitors in the first Forfarshire Cup in 1883–84, but its debut was as disastrous as could be, losing 22–0 to Dundee Harp, a world record at the time. Chastened by this, Broughty did not enter the following season, but in August 1885 the club joined the Scottish Football Association, and entered the Scottish Cup for the first time, as well as trying the Forfarshire again. In the 1885–86 Scottish Cup, Broughty was drawn away to West End of Dundee. Playing into the wind, Broughty went 2–0 down after five minutes; turning around at half-time three goals down, Broughty brought it back to 3–3 but could not force a winner. The replay at Forthill also ended 3–3, the final goal of the game being an own goal in West End's favour, and under the competition rules both sides progressed to the second round. In the second round, the club went to the nearer side of Dundee to play East End, and lost in a thrice-played tie; the original game ended 2–2, the East End not having its strongest team out and having two players injured for most of the match, and Broughty protesting an 8–3 defeat in the replay as East End fielded an unregistered player (Douglas Galbraith). Broughty did win its first round tie in the Forfarshire that season, 6–0 against Monifieth, but lost to the Harp in the second round. A measure of the difference in sides is that the Harp only scoring four goals "created much surprise amongst the spectators, and no little gratification to the friends of the Broughty." In the 1886–87 Scottish Cup first round, Broughty beat Dundee Wanderers 7–2 away from home, in a match notable for the referee walking off with ten minutes to go in protest at the crowd; East End beat the club again in the second, 5–4, two late Broughty goals making the tie tighter than it seemed. Those two ties would be the only competitive matches Broughty ever won. Broughty continued entering both competitions until 1891–92, drawing 3–3 at home to Montrose in the first preliminary round of the Scottish, a match marred by a fight between Broughty left-winger Paterson and Montrose half-back Burgess; Paterson was laid out and Burgess sent off. Montrose won the replay 5–1, the Ferry goal being a "very doubtful" late consolation. In the first round of the Forfarshire, at East End, Broughty won the toss and made East End kick into a strong wind and rain; however, despite this, Broughty was 3–0 down at half-time, and with the conditions due to be against them, Broughty did not turn out for the second half. A sign of the desperation of the club was that it had turned up for a friendly at Brechin with only two players plus the trainer, the rest of the team "having tarried by the way at Friockheim, for what purpose and why it was not stated". Unsurprisingly there is no more heard from the club after the season. Colours. The club played in pink jerseys, unique in Scotland for the time, although more popular in England. Grounds. Broughty's ground was Forthill Park, half a mile from the station. It had previously been the ground of the Abertay rugby union club and was also one of the Forfarshire cricket grounds.

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John Bradman

John Bradman (born 1939) is an Australian academic who taught at the law school of the University of Adelaide, lecturing in constitutional and environmental law. He is the son of Australian cricketer Sir Donald Bradman, and has been the spokesperson for the Bradman family on a number of public issues—particularly in relation to the "exploitation" of his father's name. Life and family. John Bradman was previously known as John Bradsen, having changed his last name in his early 30s to avoid the pressures associated with the name's celebrity. He stated that the change was not "to pretend I was somebody other than who I was but simply to say...please give me a break". John Bradman featured in an episode of the Australian TV show Australian Story, "Being Bradman", which aired in 2015. John Bradman also appeared in the documentary "Bradman and Tendulkar", which aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2023. He has been the regular presenter of the Don Award for the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. He has three children: Greta Bradman, Tom Bradman, and Nick Bradman. Greta Bradman is an operatic soprano, psychologist, and radio broadcaster. She has released multiple albums and performed at numerous national events in Australia, including the State Memorial Service of Shane Warne. Tom Bradman worked at the Australian Department of Agriculture before taking up farming, appearing on the Australian TV show "Landline", in which he discussed his approach to regenerative agriculture. In 2017, Nick Bradman appeared on the front cover of the South Australian newspaper "The Advertiser", after attaining a university entrance score of 99.95 (eclipsing his grandfather's batting average of 99.94). He subsequently received the University Medal in law from the Australian National University.

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Bangladesh women's cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2023

The Bangladesh women's cricket team toured Sri Lanka in April and May 2023 to play three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The ODI series formed part of the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship. On 10 April 2023, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) announced the schedule of the tour. After the second ODI of the originally scheduled three-match ODI series was abandoned due to rain, the schedule for the series was adjusted to allow the game to be rearranged. However, the lack of approval from International Cricket Council regarding staging an extra ODI to make up for the abandoned match meant that the ODI series ended according to the original schedule, which Sri Lanka won 1–0. Sri Lanka also won the ensuing T20I series 2–1. Squads. Rubya Haider replaced the injured Shorna Akter in Bangladesh's squad before the start of the T20I series. Tour match. At the start of the tour, Bangladesh played a 50-over warm-up match against a Sri Lanka Cricket President's XI.

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Southern Athletic F.C.

Southern Athletic Football Club was a 19th-century football club based in Strathbungo, in Glasgow. History. Southern Athletic F.C. was founded in 1884 out of a cricket club and had 35 members by the end of its first season, when it joined the Scottish Football Association. Its first Scottish Cup entry was in 1885–86, and it lost to Cambridge, but protested about the non-registration of several Cambridge players, and the Scottish FA ordered a replay to take place at Moray Park. It was to no avail as Cambridge won the second tie as well. It set the scene for the club's record in competitive football. In 9 Scottish Cup entries, until its final entry in 1893–94, Southern Athletic never won a tie. Its one appearance in the second round, in 1887–88, was down to the luck of the draw, and getting a bye in the first round; in the second, the Athletic lost 9–1 at Cowlairs, despite the "excellent goalkeeper [Fotheringham, also a star batsman], who saved many a well-directed shot". Indeed, the club scratched from 4 of its final 5 entries. The club did however win one match in the Glasgow Cup, a competition the club only entered from 1887–88 to 1889–90; in 1888–89 it won 3–2 at Temperance Athletic in the first round. In the second it lost 8–0 at Clyde. Its last appearance in the competition was its heaviest competitive defeat, 12–0 at Cambuslang. The club also entered the Govan Jubilee Cup from 1887–88 to 1890–91, again losing in the first round in each. The Athletics' last Scottish Cup tie was a 6–1 defeat at home to Royal Albert in the first qualifying round in 1891–92. The last recorded matches for the club are from the 1892–93 season; it did enter the Cup for the following year but scratched to the Black Watch. Colours. The club originally ore one-inch hooped navy blue and white jerseys with blue knickers. In 1890 it changed the colour of the hoops and shorts from navy to black. Grounds. The club's ground was at Moray Park, 3 minutes' walk from Strathbungo railway station.

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Montana (bush cricket)

Montana is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini, erected by F.E. Zeuner in 1941. The type species, "M. montana" has been called the "Steppe Bush-Cricket". Some authorities previously placed this as a subgenus of "Platycleis", but it is now considered a separate genus, as part of the genus group "Platycleis". Species can be found in the northern Palaearctic realm from mainland western Europe (not the British Isles) through to Siberia. Species. The "Orthoptera Species File" lists the following accepted species:

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Parnassiana

Parnassiana is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini and genus group "Platycleis", erected by F. E. Zeuner in 1941. Species have been called "Greek bush-crickets" and members of this genus have been recorded mostly from that country. Habitat and life cycle. Grecian species such as "P. chelmos" and "P. fusca" often live in upland (1200-2300 m.) pastures and with thorny, low-growing shrubs such as "Astragalus" spp., often perched in these, rather than near the ground. Adults can typically be found between July and October. Several species are locally endemic: for example, "P. fusca" is only found on Mount Taygetos in the southern Peloponnese. Species. The "Orthoptera Species File" lists the following:

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Incertana

Incertana is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini, erected by erected by F. E. Zeuner in 1941. Species have been recorded (probably an incomplete distribution) from: North Africa, southern Europe (the Iberian peninsula, Sicily, the Balkans through to Turkey), the Middle East and the Himalayas. Placed in genus group "Platycleis", literature on the type species and others often refers to that genus. Species. The "Orthoptera Species File" lists the following:

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Redgra

Redgra, sometimes styled as RedGra, Red-Gra, or generically as redgra, is the brand name of an all-weather surfacing material primarily composed of red clay and fine limestone gravel. It is used on baseball diamonds, running tracks and long jump run-ups, and hard-surface association football, netball, cricket, and field hockey pitches in the United Kingdom. History. Outdoor field hockey in the United Kingdom during the 1910s and 1920s often relied on heavy clay surfaces that were unplayable after heavy rain or under frost. Teams would fall back to more durable, but harsher, tarmac surfaces. To address this, tennis court contractors Grimshaw Sports developed Redgra in 1959 by adapting the company's existing mix used for tennis courts. The limestone and clay were sourced from the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. The material was designed for the United Kingdom's first all-weather outdoor field hockey pitches. One of the first academic applications was opened on 4 March 1961 at Dean Close School under the recommendation of Olympic field hockey bronze medalist Denys Carnill for the school's field hockey team. A Redgra area was opened in October 1961 at the site of Harlow Sportcentre, which was completed in 1964. In 1964, the Crystal Palace National Recreation Centre included a Redgra training area and separate football practice pitch. Redgra also saw use in other pavement applications, such as garden paths and car parks. Properties. Redgra can be applied similarly to sand, binds itself when wet and compacted, and solidifies after 24 hours. As a sports surface, Redgra allowed for year-round use with minimal maintenance in academic and practice settings, and allowed for multi-sport use as tennis courts. Its natural components were inexpensive and simple to install. A Redgra field hockey pitch installed at Cranleigh School and opened on 1 February 1968 cost £4,500 for materials and lasted until 2005. The resulting surface was porous, allowing for easy drainage, and frost-resistant. Pat Ward-Thomas, a writer for "The Guardian", noted that contemporary surfaces often failed to provide smooth, precise, and predictable ball movement but praised the Redgra pitch's performance. While competitive teams still often favored playing on well-maintained grass surfaces, Redgra surfaces sometimes substituted when rain or poor maintenance made grass unsuitable. Redgra also saw use in playground football, youth clubs, and some women's and lower-tier men's football clubs into the 1990s. The first training pitch for Chelsea Ladies F.C. in 1992, then comprised mostly of under-18 players, was a Redgra surface at a community college near Feltham. Drawbacks. Even upon its unveiling, Redgra was considered adequate for training surfaces but questionable as a full-time competitive surface. Redgra has a reputation for causing abrasions and splinters when sliding on it compared to grass, and its hardness contributed to injuries when falling on it. When dry, the surface generated considerable amounts of red dust. The surface could become alternately sticky and slippery in frosty conditions, and if improperly drained could become muddy. Replacement. Since the 1990s, many Redgra installations for field hockey and association football have been supplanted by newer all-weather surfaces, such as artificial turf, that are more similar to natural grass or have impact-cushioning layers. However, it remains in use for public recreation tracks. While an artificial surface, Redgra's natural components don't present the same concerns to landfills upon disposal as rubber or other synthetic surfaces.