England win 1st Test and take 1-0 lead

International Test Match Series: First Test England vs Sri Lanka at Galle, Sri Lanka won the toss. Sri Lanka 135ao off 46.1ov    Mathew 27 off 54, 1 four, 1 six, Chandimal 28 off 71, 1 four, Bess 5-30, Broad 3-20, Leach 1-55. Sri Lanka 2nd Innings 359ao off 136.5   ov,  K Perera 62 off 109, 5…

India needs 324 runs to win on final day

Gabba, Brisbane Australia 369 ao (Labushagne 108, Paine 50, & 294 ao off  75.5ov Smith 55 off 74, 7 fours, Warner 48 off 75, 6 fours, Harris 38 off 82, 8 fours, Siraj 5-73, Thakur 4-61 India 336ao off 111.4ov  (Takur 67 off 115,9 fours, 2 sixes, Sundar 62 off 144, 7 fours, 1 six,…

Navalny arrested on return to Moscow

Alexei Navalny (44), a Putin critic who returned to Moscow from Germany months after a nerve agent attack nearly killing him, was immediately arrested. President Vladimir Putin’s government denies poisoning Mr. Navalny. The US and EU including France, Italy, and the President of the European Council Charles Michel, led calls for Mr. Navalny to be…

India fightback at Brisbane

Australia vs India, the Gabba, Brisbane Australia 369 ao (Labushagne 108, Paine 50, & 21-0 India 336ao (Takur 67, Sundar 62, Hazelwood 5-57 Australia lead by 54 runs When India were in deep trouble at 186-6 in reply Australia’s first innings formidable total of 369, but Shardul Takur and Washington Sundar put on 123 for…

England needs 36 runs to win despite Thirimanne scoring 111

International Test Match Series: First Test England vs Sri Lanka at Galle, Sri Lanka won the toss. Sri Lanka 135ao off 46.1ov    Mathew 27 off 54, 1 four, 1 six, Chandimal 28 off 71, 1 four, Bess 5-30, Broad 3-20, Leach 1-55. Sri Lanka 2nd Innings 359ao off 136.5   ov,  K Perera 62 off 109, 5…

Inpsirational mission

Capitalism was stuck as it had no answers to a host of problems, including inequality, the digital divide, disease, poverty, dementia, the environmental crisis even before the 2020 pandemic. Mariana Mazzucato, a high profile economist noted for her advocacy of a more active state calls for rethinking our capabilities and role of government within the…

Verifying, Identifying and Amplifying new evidence  as history  is filmed by losers on their smartphones

Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, the most innovative practitioners of open-source intelligence and online journalism, self-taught internet sleuths end up solving several mega crimes of our time. Their founder, a high school dropout on a kitchen laptop tells the story of how they created a whole new category of information-gathering galvanising citizen journalists across the…

Root’s 228 takes England lead to 286

International Test Match Series: First Test England vs Sri Lanka at Galle, Sri Lanka won the toss. Sri Lanka 135ao off 46.1ov    Mathew 27 off 54, 1 four, 1 six, Chandimal 28 off 71, 1 four, Bess 5-30, Broad 3-20, Leach 1-55. Sri Lanka 2nd Innings 156-2 off 61 ov,  K Perera 62 off 109,…

More than 2m people around the world have died due to coronavirus

Total New Total New Total Active Serious, Tot Cases/ Deaths/ Total Tests/ Population Country, Cases Cases Deaths Deaths Recovered Cases Critical 1M pop 1M pop Tests 1M pop Other World 93,861,080 340,756 2,009,441 7,850 67,029,564 24,822,075 111,792 12,042 258 1 USA 23,900,639 48,263 398,948 881 14,118,252 9,383,439 29,224 71,979 1,201 279,812,217 842,680 332,050,357 2 India 10,541,760…

Small firms have been thrown a lifeline by Supreme Court ruling

  Lord Hamblem the Supreme Court judge said the court accepted the arguments from representatives of policyholders and dismissed appeals from insurers against an earlier judgement finding in policyholder’s favour, covering issues such as disease clauses, whether business was denied access to the properties and the timing of lost earnings. Following a Supreme Court ruling…