Steve Smith surprised after picked as Australia s best of the year
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Sydney, Feb 6 : Australia batsman Steve Smith beat Pat Cummins by 12 votes to win the Allan Border Medal, the highest honour in Australian men s cricket.
This is the third time he is winning the prestigious medal. He was pipped by David Warner by one vote last year.
The right-handed batsman made the most runs for Australia across all formats in the voting period with 1,098 at an average of 45.75. The effort was built on four half centuries and four centuries. I was a bit surprised. I don t know, I didn t feel like I had the biggest Test summer, which I think holds the most votes. I think my one-day cricket was pretty good last year, so I obviously got a lot of votes there, said Smith after winning the medal.
Upala Sen | | Published 24.01.21, 01:21 AM
The anatomy of abuse is bewilderingly simple and the same, on field and off it. It all boils down to a deep suspicion of any kind of difference, which inevitably erupts when The Different threatens the supremacy of The (Perceived) Regular. The first recorded cricket match in Australia was possibly played in Adelaide in 1854. Aborigines of the Poonindie mission vs Students of the Collegiate School of St. Peter. Poonindie is a small township in south Australia. In the aboriginal settlement at Coranderrk, northeast of Melbourne, they played cricket. In the 1870s, when British naturalist H.N. Moseley paid a visit, he remarked that the aboriginals were “incorrigibly lazy” but he said of the “cricket party” - The men were all dressed as Europeans: they knew all about Mr W.G. Grace and the All-England Eleven.” And in t
There are grounds for renaming stadiums In India, sport is a centrifugal force-generator for political power and its allied industry Sharda Ugra | | Published 15.01.21, 12:01 AM
Ajinkya Rahane has become the first recipient of the Mullagh Medal. From 2020, every Player of the Match from a Boxing Day Test started receiving the Mullagh Medal, established in honour of Johnny Mullagh, a star from the 1868 Aboriginal tour of England. The Aboriginals of 1868 were Australia’s first sporting team to compete overseas. They have only recently been given their due in Australia’s cricketing consciousness.
India, however, is a very long way from celebrating its champions or paying formal tribute to their legacies.
Code-breaker kept her secret for half a century
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Edith Jessie Flanders March 10, 1921-August 14, 2020
Almost 75 years after VP Day (Victory in the Pacific) Edith Jessie Flanders, intelligence decoder, farmer, author, and valued citizen, died peacefully in her sleep at her Casterton home, aged 99.
Jess Flanders receiving the Red Cross 50 years medal from Jan de Kretser, wife of former Victorian governor David de Kretser.
She had played her part in the war and kept it a secret for well over half a century. She and others had sworn to the Official Secrets Act about the work they did at the Albert Park outpost of Bletchley Park, which brought the war to an earlier end and saved countless thousands of lives.
Rahane is brave, smart & has the respect of his team: Chappell
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Ajinkya Rahane. (Photo: Surjeet Yadav/IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Melbourne, Jan 3 : Ajinkya Rahane is brave, smart, calm and has the respect of his team, former Australia skipper Ian Chappell has said while praising India s stand-in Test captain.
India registered an emphatic eight-wicket win over Australia in the second Test of the ongoing four-match series, days after suffering a humiliating loss at the Adelaide when the team got bundled out for mere 36 at the Adelaide Oval.
The win in the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground was also remarkable considering India were without their talismanic batsman Virat Kohli and ace pacers Ishant Sharma and Mohammad Shami.