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India crush West Indies by an innings and 126 runs in Sachin Tendulkar's last Test

November 16, 2013

New Delhi, Nov 16: Sachin Tendulkar got a fitting farewell in his last Test as India crushed the West Indies by an innings and 126 runs at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday.tendulkar

Mohammed Shami registered victory by shattering the stumps of Shannon Gabriel.

Tendulkar has now won each of his last competitive cricket match be it ODI, T20, Ranji, IPL or CLT20.

The West Indies lost their ninth wicket when R Ashwin trapped Shane Shillingford plumb in front of the wicket.

Pragyan Ojha registered a five-wicket haul by trapping West Indies captain Darren Sammy plumb in front of the wicket by an arm ball.

The West Indies lost their seventh wicket when R Ashwin trapped Shivnarine Chanderpaul plumb in front of the wicket.

Pragyan Ojha dismissed Marlon Samuels, Chris Gayle and Narsingh Deonarine to bring India closer to victory.

Pragyan Ojha struck in the fifth over of the day when he had Marlon Samuels stumped by captain MS Dhoni.

Ojha induced Samuels out of his crease with a flighted delivery but it spun away past the flashing blade and Dhoni had ample time to take off the bails.

The day's play started with Chris Gayle and Samuels resuming the West Indies second innings, facing the prospect of an innings defeat.

Tendulkar may have missed out on a fairytale hundred on Day 2, but there were two young Indian batsmen who managed to notch three-figure scores.

Cheteshwar Pujara and Rohit Sharma showed that the future of India's batting was in good hands. Pujara played a big one for the first time in this series, setting himself up mentally for the tour of South Africa that lies ahead. Sharma took off from where he had left in Kolkata, adding meat to the restored reputation and further cementing his spot at No. 6 in the Indian team.

The two centuries were scored in contrasting styles. In the morning, when Pujara resumed at an unbeaten 33, the West Indies pacers - Tino Best in particular - showed renewed energy running in with the ball. There was pace to counter and Pujara did well, staying around, getting his runs and not let the momentum break with Tendulkar batting at the other end.

Sharma was a little more prolific. He got his 111 not out off 127 balls, with a life when batting on 85. Caught at long on off Shane Shillingford, Sharma was on his way back to the dressing room when umpire Nigel Llong stopped him to check if the ball was legitimate. It wasn't as the off-spinner was guilty of overstepping by quite a distance and his innings resumed from where it had paused.

Laced with 11 fours and three sixes, he took on the West Indies attack and did a VVS Laxman by playing expertly with tailenders, and got to the landmark. He now has a whopping 288 runs in just two Test innings.

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April 25,2020

London, Apr 25: Former Australian cricketer Graeme Watson who was fighting cancer, has died at the age of 75.

Primarily a middle-order batsman and a medium-pace bowler, he featured in five Tests from 1967 to 1972 and two ODIs in 1972, ESPNcricinfo reported.

The all-rounder earned the national call during the 1966-67 tour of Rhodesia and South Africa. Watson slammed a half-century in the first innings of the second Test of the series.

However, the medium-pace bowler was ruled of the next test after suffering an ankle injury. He returned for the fourth Test in Johannesburg where scalped his career-best 2 for 67 but failed to leave a mark with the bat as Kangaroos lost the series.

In 1971-72 he moved to Western Australia and played a major role in their Sheffield-Shield win in 1971-72, 1972-73, and 1974-75 seasons.

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June 30,2020

Malabar, Jun 30: I-League club Gokulam Kerala's former assistant manager Muhammad Alloush on Monday died due to COVID-19. He was 44.

Alloush, who was with the football club in its inaugural season, was working as technical director at Egyptian club Tanta SC at the time of his demise.

Alloush's mother had also succumbed due to the deadly virus earlier.

"We're deeply saddened by the death of our former assistant manager Muhammad Alloush, aged 44, after contracting Covid_19. The thoughts of everybody at Gokulam Kerala Football Club are with Alloush's family and friends at this sad time. Rest in peace, Alloush," Gokulam Kerala FC tweeted.

Meanwhile, with a spike of 18,522 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, India's coronavirus count stands at 5,66,840, said the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Tuesday.

According to the Ministry, 418 deaths due to COVID-19 were reported in the last 24 hours. The number of deaths in the country now stands at 16,893.

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March 7,2020

Melbourne, Mar 7: Ahead of the Women's T20 World Cup against Australia, India spinner Poonam Yadav said that skipper Harmanpreet Kaur has given her a lot of support.

"Harmanpreet has been of immense support. When I got hit for a six in the first over, she came to me and said, 'Poonam, you're one of the most experienced players in the team, and we expect better of you'," Poonam said.

The 28-year-old experienced bowler has played 68 shortest format games for India and taken 94 wickets at an average of 22.66.

She has been in devastating form throughout the tournament and has bagged nine wickets so far.

"So, that kind of stirred something within me. I told myself if my captain has that much faith in me, I should be able to make a comeback," she said.

"I took a wicket in the very next ball, and didn't look back since. Now when I look back at that moment, it means so much in the context of my individual performance and run to the final," she added.

In the opening game against Australia at Sydney Showground, Poonam came within a whisker of the third hat-trick in Women's T20 World Cup history, dismissing Rachael Haynes and Ellyse Perry before Jess Jonassen was dropped.

The final of the tournament will be played at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on March 8 -- International Women's Day.

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