Sad to see
people still loitering on roads – some off them not wearing a mask, some around
their necks ! – why do not these people understand, don’t they read, don’t they
see around – Covid 19 is deeeeply impacting humanity.
Tamil Nadu
recorded 18,692 positive cases this day, bringing the state tally to 11,66,756.
Among these, Chennai reported 5473 positive cases, bringing the city’s total to
333804. Karnataka has reported a record
high of 48296 new cases on April 29, out
of which 26756 cases are from Bengaluru alone. Please – please be at home, stay home, stay
safe !!
At Ahmedabad - Harpreet Brar smacked Harshal Patel over midwicket for a 6 off the final ball – KL Rahul’s 4-6-4 – totalled 22 runs in that over – a good one after what Chris Gayle smacked Jamieson for 5 fours in the 6th over off the match. Kyle Jamieson is tall – at 6'8", he is one of the tallest fast bowlers in the circuit. He was born in Auckland, played for Canterbury and rose high. He made his international debut in Feb 2020 against India. Today Universal Boss Gayle tore into him, nonchalantly pulling and hitting him all over for 5 fours.
Today Nicholas
Pooran was out for a duck and now has a
duck this season off 0, 1, 2 and 3 balls. It was
a Test match-like ball Jamieson served him a short one, that rose uncomfortably
took the bat and went to backward point – and this duck made me sad. Shahrukh Khan too made a duck – KL Rahul’s
unbeaten 91 ensured a fighting total of 179/5.
Remember in
Nov 11,2018 at Chepauk – T20I – India
Vs once mighty West Indies – I could not
recognize most players in the line-up that read : Hope, Hetmeyer, Darren Bravo,
Dinesh Ramdin, Pooran (who !); KA
Pollard, CR Brathwaite (c), FA Allen, KMA Paul, K Pierre, O Thomas .. .. on that day, was impressed to see Nicholas
Pooran play some audacious shots – he
scored 50 off 25 balls – later read that
he is a wicket-keeper from Trinidad & Tobago.
In Jan 2014, Pooran was involved in a road accident, a
very nasty one at that. That accident left him with a torn patella tendon,
fractured tibia and fractured ankle. He
underwent two surgeries; the first was less than 24 hours after the
accident, to repair the left patellar tendon. The second, on his right leg to
repair the ankle fracture, had to wait another week, till after the swelling
from the injury subsided. The surgeries, though, were a minor detail in the
process to figure out the answer to the question Pooran had put to his doctors.
It took Pooran until July, six months after the accident, before he could walk
without assistance.
Great
resilience – he was back, up and running and scoring runs but this season had
found runs too difficult to come by. On
12.4 against Royals at Mumbai he was out for a duck; on 16.4 another duck
against CSK and on 18.4 against Delhi Capitals scored 9 ! .. .. on 21.4 against Sunrisers he was run
out for a duck without even facing a ball.
On 23.4 against Mumbai Indians he was not required to bat and on 26.4
against KKR he scored 19 with a four and a six ! – and another duck today !!
.. .. let us
read something good that Cricketers are doing too.
India and Delhi Capitals
batsman Shikhar Dhawan will donate Rs 20 lakh and "money from all
post-match individual performance awards" that he receives during Indian
Premier League (IPL) 2021 towards "Mission Oxygen." Dhawan
follows former India captain Sachin Tendulkar, who had donated Rs 1 crore to
the group on Thursday.
India
cricketer Jaydev Unadkat said in a tweet that he will be contributing 10 per cent of
his salary from the Indian Premier League (IPL) towards "providing
essential medical resources for those in need" at a time India battles a
deady second wave of Covid-19 infections. Unadkat, who plays for Rajasthan
Royals in the IPL, was bought by Rajasthan for Rs 3 crore at the IPL 2020
auction.
West Indies batsman Nicholas Pooran, also took to
social media to announce that he will be donating a portion of his IPL salary
to support India's fight against the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Pooran, who
has played in all the matches for PBKS
so far in IPL 2021, posted a video message on his social media accounts in
which he made the announcement of his donation and also urged everyone to help
in whatever way they can to help the country fight against the coronavirus
crisis. "To all my fans and supporters around the world and back home, I
realise I am in a safe and privileged position here in India at the IPL. "But
it's also heartbreaking to be so close to such tragedy that's unfolding around
us. For a country that has shown us so much love and support over the years,
all I can do is join hands with my fellow players to help bring some awareness
to this situation in India. "If you can get vaccinated please do, I will
also do my part which is continue to pray for India but not only that, I would
also like to donate a portion of my IPL salary towards this crisis,"
Pooran said in the video.
While Cummins pledged
$50,000 to PM Cares Fund, Unadkat and Pooran donated part of their IPL salaries
through other channels. Former Australia cricketer Brett Lee, IPL teams
Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Capitals among others have also made donations.
With Covid peaking .. .. please do not loiter, stay at home, stay safe !
30.4.2021
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