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Super Simmons stars for T&T

October 3, 2013

Super_SimmonsNew Delhi, Oct 3: Trinidad and Tobago rained on Chennai Super Kings’s parade with a commanding eight-wicket victory to waltz into the semifinals of Champions League Twenty20 with flair at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium on Wednesday.

The Caribbean side needed a win or had to keep the margin of loss within five runs to pip the Titans for a place in the last four. They executed it to perfection, in presence of legendary Brian Lara, by first restricting the Super Kings to 118 in 19.4 overs and then handing the two-time IPL champions their first loss in the tournament by pursuing the target with 29 balls remaining.

With the victory, they also replaced Super Kings at the top of Group A. As a result, T&T?will now play Mumbai Indians here on Saturday while Super Kings will fly to Jaipur to take on Rajathan Royals for the first semifinals.

The superb 79-run opening stand between Lendl Simmons (63, 41b, 4x5, 4x6) and Evin Lewis (38, 35b, 4x6) laid the basis of T&T chase. Lewis thwacked Albie Morkel for three boundaries in the fourth over before meting out a similar treatment to a jaded Ravindra Jadeja, dispatching him through the cover for two consecutive boundaries in his first over. Simmons further spoiled Jadeja’s return in 10th over with couple of lusty hits over mid-wicket and long on and followed it with another four.

It was then Suresh Raina, who broke the opening stand, by trapping Lewis leg before but Simmons continued undeterred. R Ashwin sent him back when T&T needed three runs to victory, leaving Dwayne Bravo to finish the formalities.

Earlier, it was a below-par performance by the Super Kings. Ravi Rampaul set the ball rolling by sending the off stump of in-form Michael Hussey cartwheeling in his very first over. Raina (29b, 3x4, 1x6) and Murali Vijay provided brief reprieve but Simmons ended their 55-run stand by bowling Vijay, an inside edge rocking his off-stump. It sparked a collapse with Super Kings losing their top five wickets, under the score of 100.

Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni tried accelerate the innings but ended up mistiming Rayad Emrits to a running Simmons at the long on, leaving Super Kings struggling at 102 for six. The Super Kings’s lower order too put up a clumsy show, paving way for a T&T victory.

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Agencies
August 1,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 1: Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Chennai Super Kings (CSK) are aiming to set up their preparatory camp for the 13th edition of the tournament from early August.

This year's IPL was slated to commence from March 29 but the tournament was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Recently, the IPL Governing Council chairman Brijesh Patel had confirmed that the 13th edition of the mega event will commence on September 19 in the UAE.

As per a report in ESPNcricinfo, CSK players have been asked to report to Chennai first, following which they will leave for Dubai via a charter flight only after approval from the Indian government.

The IPL Governing Council will meet on August 2 to finalise the schedule and other key arrangements for the tournament. Also, the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) around securing eight teams for 51 days across three venues will be formally established in that meeting.

CSK, who has the oldest squad in the IPL, are looking for a month's preparation before ahead of the tournament.

Before the coronavirus pandemic, the side was the first team to start their training camp in March. Senior players like Suresh Raina and Ambati Rayudu had begun training their training in December 2019.

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News Network
April 5,2020

New Delhi, April 5: England batsman James Vince lashed out at people for not taking proper measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and said people are going out as if "everything is normal".

"Just seen the pictures of people out and about today as if everything is normal. What selfish people, surely by now they've realised this is serious. Well done to everyone who's doing their bit and staying in," Vince tweeted.

On March 13, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that Europe was now the 'epicentre' of the disease.

The death toll due to the novel coronavirus in the UK has exceeded 4,313 with at least 708 new deaths in the last 24 hours, the largest one-day rise since the start of the outbreak as confirmed by the Department of Health and Social Care.

The total number of cases in the UK as on Saturday is 41,903, a rise of 3,735 cases in the last 24 hours.

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January 16,2020

New Delhi, Jan 16: Veteran cricketer Mithali Raj was on Thursday demoted to Grade B from A in the BCCI central contracts while Radha Yadav and Taniya Bhatia were elevated to the middle bracket.

Mithali not being kept in the Rs 50 lakh category was expected as the 37-year-old retired from T20s in September last year. However, she remains the ODI captain and plans to carry on till the 2021 World Cup.

T20 skipper Harmanpreet Kaur retained his A category contract alongside Smriti Mandhana and Poonam Yadav.

Radha and Taniya, who both had a Grade C contract worth Rs 10 lakh last year, have now entered Grade B (Rs 30 lakh).

Players getting a central contract for the first time are 15-year-old opener Shafali Verma and Harleen Deol, who like the teenager is an attacking batter.

Shafali has attracted a lot of attention ever since making her India debut last year. She recently made 124 against Australia A in Brisbane. The opener will be expected to deliver in the upcoming T20 World Cup Down Under.

Dropped from the list is Mona Meshram, who was in Grade C last year and hasn't played a single game in recent times.

The latest contracts run from October 2019 to September 2020.

Grade A (Rs 50 lakh): Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Poonam Yadav.

Grade B (Rs 30 lakh): Mithali Raj, Jhulan Goswami, Ekta Bisht, Radha Yadav, Taniya Bhatia, Shikha Pandey, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma.

Grade C (Rs 10 lakh): Veda Krishnamurthy, Punam Raut, Anuja Patil, Mansi Joshi, D Hemlatha, Arundhati Reddy, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Pooja Vastrakar, Harleen Deol, Priya Punia, Shafali Verma.

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