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a powerful typhoon has hit the philippines and is projected to sweep across the island of luzon, where the capital manila is located. super typhoon noru made landfall within the last couple of hours and could bring winds of up to 200 km/h. our weather forecaster helen willetts has more. hello. this large mass of cloud is a strong, powerful typhoon called noru, which has been throwing rain across the philippines for at least the last 2a hours, but has been developing intensively into that powerful storm, so a life threatening storm because it has got destructive winds, and it will give extreme amounts of rainfall, potentially catastrophic flooding and a large storm surge. once it moves out into the south china sea s open waters, expected to still be a typhoon, it could well intensify again and head into parts of vietnam, threaten china with some heavy rain and also give rains to thailand, cambodia and laos where it has been very wet already because of low pressure. so some des
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He was very punctual and he still is so he insisted that i tag along with my brother to his academy in the mornings. so i would just carry my homework, open my eyes in the ground and do my math homework and my brother used to play cricket. that is how i was introduced to the sport. and my first impression of that sport was it was only meant for boys because academy was full of boys. i didn t happen to see not even a single girl. my brother s coach, jyoti prasad, he used to watch me every day. he said, like, you know, i used to watch you as a kid. every day 6am, you would come sharp to the academy and i thought, let me see how the girl plays, so one day, he said, pick up the bat. let me throw you a few tennis balls. i happened to probably impress the coach better than my brother and he told my father to invest his energy and time and money into turning his daughter as a cricketer
Train from here to chandor and those days, you know, transport was not up to the mark. we used to rely on a local train because there was no training facilities available in chandor, so i had to come to calcutta those days, it was used to call calcutta, now is kolkata. if it was not for my parents supported me, ithink- i would be where i am today because at that time still, . things in india were not as not as open as they are today. - women s cricket has made a lot of progress and we are getting so many good young women cricketers now and many of the families are supporting their kids to try and pursue cricket as their career, which was not the case in the past. for my grandparents, it was very difficult to process that their granddaughter was getting into sport, and a sport where it s a rough sport and none of my cousins