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Injured Dhawan Ruled Out Of India apos;s ODI T20 Squad For NZ Tour

2020-06-28T02:14:30Z

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Jan 21 (Reuters) - Shikhar Dhawan has been ruled out of India's tour of New Zealand with a shoulder injury, the country's cricket board (BCCI) said on Tuesday. Dhawan, a regular opening batsman for India's limited overs teams, hurt his left shoulder while diving on the field in the series-clinching one-day international win over Australia in Bengaluru on Sunday. "An MRI of his shoulder was conducted, and the results have confirmed a grade II injury of his acromio-clavicular joint," the BCCI said in a statement website "His hand will be in a sling and he has been advised rest for some time. He will start his active rehab management in the first week of February at the National Cricket Academy." Wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson has been named the replacement for the Twenty20 internationals against New Zealand, while Prithvi Shaw has earned his maiden ODI call-up. Shaw, who made a test century on debut in 2018, is already in New Zealand with the India A team and impressed with a blistering 150 in a warm-up match on Sunday. India will play five T20Is, three ODIs and two tests during the New Zealand tour starting with the shortest format on Jan. 24. India's T20I squad: Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Sharma, Sanju Samson, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dube, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Navdeep Saini, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur India's ODI squad: Virat Kohli (captain), [https://footballncrickethub.blogspot.com/2020/06/rohit-sharma-emotional.html https://footballncrickethub.blogspot.com/2020/06/rohit-sharma-emotional.html] Rohit Sharma, Prithvi Shaw, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dube, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur, Kedar Jadhav. (Reporting by Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru Editing by Toby Davis)

India Were Below-par Kohli Says After Drubbing By New Zealand

2020-06-26T21:27:29Z

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CHRISTCHURCH, March 2 (Reuters) - The whitewash in New Zealand ended India's flawless World Test Championship campaign but captain Virat Kohli is not offering excuses and accepts they were just not good enough in the two-test cricket series. Kohli, [https://footballncrickethub.blogspot.com/2020/06/rohit-sharma-emotional.html footballncrickethub.blogspot.com] arguably the best batsman of his era, himself endured a rare failure in the series, managing only 38 runs in four innings typifying his team's lacklustre batting. India's vaunted batting line-up looked at sea against the swinging ball or whenever it was pitched short, while their bowlers shone only in patches. "We were not at par with New Zealand as far as competing every day of the test match goes," Kohli said after India were defeated by seven wickets with half of the second test to spare. "It can happen to a side when the other side plays better and you can go in a downward spiral." "If we shy away from it, we're not going to improve. So we need to accept we were not good enough in this series, we've got take it on the chin and improve those things." India, missing opener Rohit Sharma due to injury, fell short of the 200-mark in both innings in Wellington and were bowled out for 124 in the second innings at Christchurch. "There was just not enough done by the batsmen in this series for the bowlers to try and attack," Kohli said. "I think to win a series away from home, you need to have a balanced performance with both bat and ball and in the field as well. It was something we were not able to do in this series." Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri have made it their mission to make India a team capable of winning matches regardless of toss and nature of the surface but the drubbing suggested they are still short of that target. India lost the toss in both the tests and home captain Kane Williamson unsurprisingly elected to field, unleashing his pace attack on green tracks where the ball swung at a lively place. Kohli, however, said that was not an excuse for India's performance. "It gave an extra advantage to the bowlers in the first two hours," he said. "But look, as an international side playing so well over the last two or three seasons, you are expected to go out there and try and understand those conditions and execute things accordingly. This time around we were not able to." (Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; Editing by Himani Sarkar)

Egypt Twitter And The Rise Of The Watchdog Crowd

2020-06-26T18:45:55Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> A screenshot from one of the many livestreams of victorious protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square after Egypt's president announced his resignation. Reuters TV There were two critical masses that led to the resignation of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on Friday: One was the horde of protesters who flooded Tahrir Square in the country's capital of Cairo for two weeks. The second was the fusion of millions of observers, pundits, and supporters around the world into a sort of leaderless digital watchdog, an unwavering force that ensured the international eye would not stray from Egypt. It's the latter where we can credit social media. [/news/theres-no-such-thing-as-social-media-revolution/ We shouldn't go so far as to call this a social media revolution], but it nevertheless is arguably the first time in history that we've seen Facebook and Twitter, a crucial part of the way we now communicate, speedily and successfully conveying the ideas and beliefs that do lead to a revolution. More importantly, social media makes this all happen in a public forum with the rest of the world watching, [https://footballncrickethub.blogspot.com/2020/06/rohit-sharma-emotional.html https://footballncrickethub.blogspot.com/2020/06/rohit-sharma-emotional.html] something that made it possible for Egypt to be in the middle of a massive international spotlight, emotionally empowering those on the ground and strengthening the pressure on Mubarak's regime with a force that came not from world leaders but from the sheer size of the crowd. "Social media didn't cause this revolution. It amplified it; it accelerated it," said Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a producer for news network Al-Jazeera English, in a panel about Egypt and social media that was held Friday afternoon at Google's New York office as part of the [ Social Media Week] conference series. "It's important to notice that in a very short period of time there have been two revolutions, so to speak." Egypt was the second of those two. The first one, an uprising in nearby Tunisia that saw its government ousted, was crucial to Egypt's for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it permitted the world to watch what was unfolding in Egypt from its beginnings. That early attention was what let the "global watchdog" get as powerful as it was. "I think it's been incredibly condescending to diminish, if you will, what was an incredibly popular revolution the likes of which the Arab world has not seen, perhaps the whole world has not seen, and just to say that it was a Facebook event or a Twitter event." --Parvez Sharma, filmmaker and writer Here's why: All too often, political turmoil is only highlighted in the mainstream when it's well under way rather than in its infancy, and to use an analogy that's slightly inappropriate in its levity, the level of popular interest outside the region is often akin to that of an audience member who walks into a movie theater halfway through the film. No real emotional connection is made to the subject matter, interest peters out quickly, and the political situation disappears from the mainstream media. But in Egypt, which was in the spotlight from the start because news outlets had already begun covering the situation in Tunisia, the audience outside Egypt was treated to the full story from the revolution's earliest hours. The Twittering masses were captivated and would not be satisfied until there was some kind of conclusion to the story. This is a story with a beginning, a plot, a cast of characters (witness the rise in prominence of then-detained Google executive Wael Ghonim over the past two weeks), and the global desire to produce a satisfying end. That amplified audience would not have been able to grow so powerful without social media's unprecedented reach and ability to fuel a more or less infinite amount (server power willing) of real-time news. This is particularly important to note because it was among those outside Egypt that social media may have had the most profound impact. In the same panel discussion today, filmmaker and writer Parvez Sharma emphasized that while millions of people were tuning into Twitter for Egypt updates, few of them were actually on location even before the Mubarak regime began [/news/amid-unrest-egypt-went-offline-roundup/ cracking down on Internet access]. "There's 80 million people in Egypt, and almost 40 percent are below the poverty line," Sharma said. "Cell phone penetration is incredibly high, but the majority of the cell phones are not smartphones. A lot of the information that was getting out was from a very small critical mass of people that were able to tweet out of Egypt. Friends of mine in Cairo estimate that it's less than 200 people who were tweeting from Cairo." Sharma continued: "I think it's been incredibly condescending to diminish, if you will, what was an incredibly popular revolution the likes of which the Arab world has not seen, perhaps the whole world has not seen, and just to say that it was a Facebook event or a Twitter event." Social media did not make the revolution in Egypt happen. But, with every step chronicled in real time and broadcast to anyone with an Internet connection, it hastened its pace and transferred the voice of international scrutiny from sovereign leaders to a community of millions. When it comes to pressuring an authoritarian leader to step down, the heat has never been turned up so quickly. As entrepreneur [ Habib Haddad] tweeted about the whole thing, "Social media has lowered the cost of revolution." [#comments Comments] [/tags/facebook/ Facebook] [/google/ Google] [/tags/twitter/ Twitter] [/topics/culture/ Notification on Notification off Culture]

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2020-06-23T22:05:48Z

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