Mark Geenty12:50, May 05 2021
SAIKAT DAS/Sportzpics for IPL
Mumbai Indians cricketers Trent Boult, centre, and Jimmy Neesham are among those flying straight to England from India, pending a UK government exemption.
New Zealand Cricket is working frantically behind the scenes to fly nine Black Caps and support staff from India to England, and confirm travel home for the rest of the Kiwi contingent at the suspended Indian Premier League. IPL organisers indefinitely postponed the 2021 edition on Tuesday amid a worsening Covid crisis, as three of the eight teams reported positive cases in their bubbles this week. “The BCCI will do everything in its powers to arrange for the secure and safe passage of all the participants,” IPL chairman Brijesh Patel said in a statement.
A Jos Buttler century propelled Rajasthan Royals to a 55-run win over Kane Williamson s Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Current and former Black Caps are in limbo in India and potentially awaiting safe passage home, or to England, after the Indian Premier League was suspended on Tuesday in a Covid-ravaged nation. IPL chairman Brijesh Patel confirmed the tournament was postponed, but there were no further details on a time frame, after two Kolkata Knight Riders players tested positive on Monday. It leaves 10 Black Caps including captain Kane Williamson, and as many as seven New Zealand support staff, including former skippers Stephen Fleming and Brendon McCullum, awaiting further instruction.
07:58, May 04 2021
VIPIN POWAR/Sportzpics for IPL
Black Caps pace bowler Kyle Jamieson plays for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL.
An Indian Premier League match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore was postponed on Monday after two players tested positive for Covid-19 amid a catastrophic surge of cases in the country. Varun Chakravarthy and Sandeep Warrier, who both play for Kolkata, are self-isolating after becoming the first players to test positive for Covid-19 inside the IPL bubble since the 2021 season started on April 9. Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum coaches Kolkata, while Black Caps T20 opener Tim Seifert is also on their books. Kiwis Kyle Mills (bowling coach) and Chris Donaldson (strength and conditioning coach) are involved with the team too.
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We live in a post-constitutional universe.
We have been reversing course since the American Revolution when George Washington turned aside a crown in favor of a Republic and Thomas Paine preached in
Common Sense: “For so in absolute governments the King is the law, so in free countries the law ought to be king.”
The President of the United States is now crowned with vastly more unchecked power than the tyranny King George III exercised over our forefathers which provoked the American Revolution.
Our urgent task as citizens is to restore the Constitution by deliberative engagement against those who have mauled it by creating an American Empire driven by an extra-constitutional, lawless, imperial presidency.