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DWAYNE Bravo's Chennai Super Kings will clash with Shimron Hetmyer's Delhi Capitals in qualifier one of the 2021 Indian Premier League (IPL) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Sunday. The match bowls off at 10 am (TT time). Capitals finished first in the preliminary stage with 20 points after grabbing ten wins and four losses. Super Kings ended second in the standings with 18 points after finishing with nine wins and five losses. The winner of the Capitals-Super Kings match will qualify for the final. The loser will play the winner of the eliminator between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders in qualifier two on Wednesday at 10 am for another chance to advance to the final. The eliminator will be played on Monday, at 10 am. Bravo has reunited with fellow West Indian Dominic Drakes on the Super Kings. Drakes replaces Englishman Sam Curran who picked up an injury.
Drakes and Bravo were team-mates in the 2021 Hero Caribbean Premier League with St Kitts and Nevis Patriots.
Bravo has been among the wickets since the IPL resumed on September 19. Hetmyer has made contributions for the Capitals in recent matches with scores of 29 and 28 not out in his last two innings. Both Bravo and Hetmyer are preparing for the T20 World Cup which runs from October 17-November 14 in United Arab Emirates and Oman.
The IPL final will be played on Friday, at 10 am.
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A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
March 10 (Reuters) - After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team, vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing without any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series.
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(Reuters) - Batsman Shreyas Iyer backed the India’s bowlers to come good in today’s third and final one-day international against Australia in Canberra in the touring side’s bid to avoid a series sweep.
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Former Proteas fast bowler Lonwabo Tsotsobe has recalled some of the racism he was subjected to as black player in the national cricket environment.
When Anthony Davis woke up on Sunday morning, it was the first time in days that his right Achilles tendon felt fine. It stayed that way through midday, through the afternoon, all the way up to the Lakers’ 7 p.m. tip with the Nuggets. But once you return to the court, you can’t control everything. […]
Playing in empty stadiums will be IPL’s last resort: BCCI
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Indian Premier League (IPL) could be played behind closed doors as last resort, if that is the only way to save this year’s Twenty20 tournament from falling victim to the coronavirus epidemic, a senior cricket board official said.
The Indian cricket board (BCCI) stands to lose $525 million in revenue if it cannot stage the 2020 edition of the franchise-based league and BCCI president Sourav Ganguly assured members this week that they were exploring “all possible options”.
The pandemic also jeopardises this year’s Twenty20 World Cup with hosts Cricket Australia conceding the tournament’s October-November schedule was under “very high risk”.
The BCCI has said it would consider slotting IPL in that window should the World Cup be postponed, but the International Cricket Council would not take a call on the fate of the flagship tournament until next month.
“If that tournament is not happening, other boards can decide whether they want to have some bilateral tournament or something else to make up for the loss they have incurred because of the pandemic.”
(Reuters) - India's cricket board chief Sourav Ganguly said their players refused to play the fifth and final test against England due to COVID-19 concerns and denied that the upcoming Indian Premier League had played any part in the decision.
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By Howard Fendrich— Wes Unseld, the workmanlike Hall of Fame center who led Washington to its only NBA championship and was chosen one of the 50 greatest players in league history, died Tuesday after a series of health issues, most recently pneumonia.
Unseld’s family announced his death via a statement released by the Washington Wizards, the franchise he played for throughout his entire 13-season career.
A five-time All-Star and, along with Wilt Chamberlain, one of only two players to win NBA Rookie of the Year and MVP honors in the same season, Unseld instantly made the team then known as the Baltimore Bullets into a winning franchise after it selected him No. 2 overall in the 1968 draft.
In the NBA, Unseld averaged 10.8 points and 14 rebounds for his career.
Unseld initially worked in Washington’s front office, then was head coach for nearly seven seasons from 1987-94, compiling a 202-345 record with one playoff appearance.
[The Herald] ZIMBABWE captain Mary-Anne Musonda scored a match-winning half century to help the Lady Chevrons secure a six-wicket win over Tanzania in their opening match of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2023 Africa Qualifier currently taking place in Botswana.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — An unprecedented NBA walkout over racial injustice postponed a second day of the playoffs Thursday, although players pledged to finish the postseason even as they wrestled with their emotions about wanting to bring change in their communities. For now, the basketball courts in the NBA's virus-free bubble at Disney […]
South Africa's planned tour to the Caribbean has been placed on hold indefinitely, according to CSA chief executive Graeme Smith.
Delhi Capitals (DC) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 59 runs in Match 19 of the Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium yesterday and moved to the top of the points table.
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[New Times] The inaugural Basketball African League opened at the Kigali Arena on Sunday, May 16 and will run for two weeks until May 30.
The Indian government have agreed to the IPL's request to stage the tournament outside of its home country for the third time.
The group stage phase of the controversial Copa America in Brazil has concluded. Eight of the 10 teams advance to the knockout phase as the games roll on at empty…
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[New Times] A plenary sitting of the Chamber of Deputies has approved the relevance of the draft law governing partnerships, which seeks to fill the gap caused by lack of regulatory framework.
(Reuters) - The mental toll that comes with spending long periods in bio-secure bubbles should be taken into account when the length of cricket tours are being decided, India captain Virat Kohli said yesterday.
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Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters return as the crime fighting duo Bishop and Pike in the hit series, \"Bulletproof.\"
(Reuters) - New Zealand players including Trent Boult and Jimmy Neesham were among a first group to return to the country from the Indian Premier League on Saturday after the series was abruptly suspended, the NZ Herald reported.
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SYDNEY, (Reuters) - Australia batting spearhead Steve Smith is hopeful of recovering in time from an elbow injury for this year’s Twenty20 World Cup but says he will skip the tournament if needed to be fully fit for the team’s Ashes defence against England at home.
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Press Release - A UN expert said today authorities in the Central African Republic must ensure the protection of candidates, voters and electoral materials in the country's second round of legislative elections and by-elections on March 14.
(Reuters) - Mumbai Indians have assembled a side that looks even stronger than their back-to-back title-winning teams, with only Delhi Daredevils and Sunrisers Hyderabad appearing capable of denying them a third straight Indian Premier League (IPL) crown.
The article Mumbai go from strength to strength as IPL hat-trick beckons appeared first on Stabroek News.
She is credited for helping to secure the Biden-Harris win.
