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IPL: Salt (87) powers Capitals to seven-wicket win over RCB
Phil Salt‘s 87 off 45 balls, to finish off a chase of 182 against RCB with 20 balls to spare.
After three ducks and only one score over 10 in his last five T20 innings, Salt sent five of his six sixes over the leg-side boundary during at assault that featured a lot of horizontal-bat shots.
The Capitals chase got going with their first half-century opening stand of the season, and Salt kept attacking to bring the asking rate under six in almost no time. They raced to 70 in the Powerplay, 115 at the halfway mark with Salt’s 28-ball fifty, before plundering 24 runs off a Harshal Patel over to reduce the chase to 32 off 42 balls.
Salt was eventually bowled for 87, but his eight fours and six sixes helped Capitals beat RCB for the first time in three years. It was Capitals’ fourth win in their last five games, and lifted them off the bottom of the table.
DC’s best Powerplay
The Capitals chase was unlike any of their batting displays this season. David Warner began with two fours off the first three balls from Mohammed Siraj, before sweeping Wanindu Hasaranga‘s first ball for six in the fourth over. In between, Salt took on Josh Hazlewood for two fours before a feisty fifth over from Siraj.
Salt top-edged the first ball for six over the wicketkeeper, slapped the second one over cover and into the stands, and then flicked one bounce into the square-leg boundary. Siraj responded with a bouncer that was called wide and there followed a heated conversation between the bowler and the batter, and some animated finger-pointing from Siraj towards both Salt and Warner.
Warner skied a catch off Hazlewood for 22 off 14 in the last over of the powerplay but Mitchell Marsh ended the over with a big six over midwicket and an edged four to power Capitals to 70 after six overs. They might not have got so much had Dinesh Karthik held on to a tough chance from Salt – an inside edge off Hasaranga – in the fourth over.
Salt’s boundary bonanza
Salt was on 35 off 17 at the time and he threw his bat at anything wayward: wide balls disappeared over cover, short ones were pulled disdainfully, and a few edges also raced to the boundary.
Marsh holed out off a full toss but the attack on RCB’s bowlers did not abate. Salt began the 13th over, from Harshal, with a six over the leg side and Rilee Rossouw smashed two more down the ground, before a misfield on the long-off boundary from Suyash Prabhudessai made it 24 runs off the over.
Salt belted out two more boundaries before falling to Karn Sharma and Rossouw ended the game in the 17th over with his third six.
Mahipal Lomror raised the tempo of RCB’s innings quickly (Photo: Associated Press)
Kohli and Du Plessis solid but not spectacular
After RCB chose to bat on what was considered to be a slow pitch at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Virat Kohli started by playing nine dot balls in the first three overs, but also found the boundary in each of them.
RCB got a boost when Faf du Plessis struck Mukesh Kumar for three fours in the fifth over before he hit Khaleel Ahmed for a straight six and a four to make it 51 from the powerplay.
Marsh goes bang, bang
Kohli and du Plessis batted into the 11th over of the innings, when Marsh had du Plessis caught slapping a short and wide slower ball to deep point. He then had Glenn Maxwell caught first ball to reduce RCB to 82 for 2. Kohli was on 36 of 31 at the other end, and the run rate dipped slightly.
Mahipal Lomror lifts RCB
Mahipal Lomror raised the tempo of RCB’s innings quickly. He pulled his fifth ball for six off Kuldeep Yadav, and used the reverse-sweep and the loft down the ground to find the boundary, before pulling Marsh for another six to lift the run rate over eight an over.
Kohli, meanwhile, found short fine leg for 55 off 46 and RCB were 137-3 with four overs left. Lomror didn’t get a lot of support and ended up doing most of the hitting himself. His two fours off Ishant Sharma, an edge for four off Khaleel, along with Dinesh Karthik’s six helped RCB collect 29 runs from the 17th and 18th overs.
Mukesh then nailed a few yorkers and Khaleel used his cutters to keep RCB to 15 off the last two. Kohli said he thought 181 was a good score during the innings break, but the Capitals ran down the target with ease. (ESPNcricinfo)
IPL: Pathirana bowls CSK to victory over Mumbai Indians
Matheesha Pathirana, Deepak Chahar and Tushar Deshpande which combined to take seven wickets and restrict Mumbai Indians to 139.
Super Kings never looked in trouble during the chase at Chepauk, where Ruturaj Gaikwad’s rapid cameo in the first four overs set them up for the six-wicket win.
Chahar’s twin strikes had reduced Mumbai to 14-3 in the third over; and although Nehal Wadhera and Suryakumar Yadav added 55 to stage a recovery, Pathirana applied the brakes in the death overs. Mumbai managed only 17 – while losing four wickets – in the last three overs, as Wadhera’s maiden T20 fifty turned out to be a solitary effort.
The win takes Super Kings to the second spot on the points table, even as third-placed Lucknow Super Giants have an extra game in hand. Mumbai on the other hand, remain sixth.
Pathirana, middle and death-overs specialist
Only twice in the seven matches this season has Pathirana been introduced before the 11th over. For anyone to have bowled at least 120 balls in that period, he has the best economy rate and average during that phase.
On Saturday, he was introduced in the 13th over, just after Wadhera and Suryakumar had given Mumbai hope of a respectable total. Pathirana’s first two overs went for only eight off the bat, and MS Dhoni kept his remaining overs for the death. He returned to start the 18th after the two overs before that were taken for 29 and gave only two runs aside from bowling Wadhera. Seeing the batter make room, he fired a yorker which hit middle stump at 145kph.
Pathirana mixed his lengths as much as he varied his pace. That – combined with the two-paced nature of the pitch – might have been why Tristan Stubbs struggled for timing, eventually slicing to cover-point on being foxed by a slower ball. Pathirana ended with 3-15 – all wickets came in the death overs – and further enhanced his reputation of being the season’s best death bowler so far for a minimum of 60 balls bowled in that phase.
Matheesha Pathirana in his delivery stride (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
Wadhera propels Mumbai to 139
With Tilak Varma out injured for this game, Mumbai were missing a solid middle-order batter. And forced to rebuild after the top-order failure, Wadhera opened up after the powerplay when he gently cut Ravindra Jadeja for four to deep backward point, and then drilled Moeen Ali to deep extra cover.
Once Wadhera picked up some momentum, he looked confident enough to keep attacking spin: Jadeja was slog-swept over short fine to start the 11th over, before he beat short fine leg with another sweep off Maheesh Theekshana in the 14th. And with five overs to go, he cracked the innings’ first six by launching Theekshana over long-on.
Wadhera’s fifty took 46 deliveries when it was raised in the 17th over, after which he swept, pulled and scooped Jadeja for fours, although his knock of 64 didn’t prove enough.
Gaikwad starts in a hurry, Dube finishes in style
Super Kings posted 46 in the first four overs, out of which Gaikwad had bashed 30. That included four fours and two sixes, as he got Super Kings’ chase rolling alongside Devon Conway. The first over included a drive and a flick for four off Cameron Green, while he turned the screw in the third over.
Mumbai introduced left-arm seamer Arshad Khan, and Gaikwad went 6, 4, 4, 6: a pull over midwicket, a guide behind point, a punch past the bowler and a swivel-pull over long leg. Gaikwad was dismissed off the first ball of the fifth over by Piyush Chawla, who again turned out to be the standout performer with the ball for Mumbai.
Although Chawla was hit for a four and a six by Ajinkya Rahane, he had the last laugh when he trapped the Super Kings batter with a googly in the ninth over. That came after earlier getting Gaikwad with the leg-spinner. Chawla’s four overs went for only 25, and he was bowled out inside 11 overs.
Soon after, the platform that Gaikwad had laid was further built by Shivam Dube, who provided the finishing kick. Two sixes off debutant left-arm wrist-spinner Raghav Goyal in the 14th over and one swung off Arshad Khan to Mumbai’s dugout two balls before the winning run took Super Kings to a comfortable win after they had lost two and had a game washed out just before. (ESPNcricinfo)
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Land earmarked for flood-prone Kwakwani residents
The government has set aside approximately 25 acres of prime land to facilitate the relocation of residents living in the flood-prone waterfront area in Kwakwani, Region Ten.
This was announced by Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, who said the area which was identified by the Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) is located on high ground, making it a suitable place for the relocation.
“It’s nice prime land, high land. Work on the relocation process has not yet begun, but we are aware of what needs to be done,”he stated at a recent event in Linden.
Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal engaging residents in the community (DPI photo)
Flooding in Kwakwani is a recurring issue that typically arises during the rainy season.
However, in May 2021, the prolonged rainy season resulted in water levels rising above 15 feet, leading to significant damage in flood-prone areas, such as Lamp Island and the waterfront.
In light of this, a number of residents approached President Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali and Vice President, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo expressing their willingness to relocate.
In response, the government made a commitment to work with the residents. The housing and water minister subsequently visited and engaged the residents on the matter. (DPI)
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Yesterday’s Price Is Not Today’s – Jamaican Actor Dale Elliott Performs for Sold-Out Crowd at Comedy Debut
Event promoters interested in booking Jamaican social media personality and screen actor Dale Elliott may have to chalk up more funds. The actor who performed to a sold-out crowd of 1,000 spectators in Toronto on 1 May 2023 for the very first time, tweeted this:
After yesterday I am now officially a stand up comedian! YESTERDAYS PRICE IS NOT TODAYS PRICE! 1000 SEATS SOLD OUT. THANK YOU TORONTO! pic.twitter.com/OtA69cTRK0
— DALE ELLIOTT (@daleelliottjr) May 1, 2023
A thread of congratulatory replies follow Dale’s tweet.
Dale’s Journey to Comedy & Acting Stardom
Dale Elliott began his career on social media and found himself on the way to stardom when he was cast in the lead role in “Sprinter,” a feature film by Storm Saulter. The film tells the story of a talented Jamaican track and field athlete who has dreams of leaving Jamaica to see his migrant mother, a story very similar to Elliot’s personal history. The film has won five international film festival awards to date, and Elliott has found his way to a successful career in stand-up comedy.
Dale Elliott made his first TikTok upload in January 2020 in which he talks about what World War III would be like for Jamaicans. He immediately attracted a strong following to his daleelliottjr TikTok account for his videos based on what it is like to be Jamaican in the 21st century.
His social media offerings was also the channel that brought him the attention of film director Storm Saulter with the video called “Elli,” which focused on the differences between Jamaican and American Olympic athletes and showcased his track and field skills. This resulted in his casting in the lead role in “Sprinter.” His work in “Sprinter” brought him a nomination for Best New Actor at the ABFF Film Festival in Florida and a nomination for a Prime Minister Youth Award in 2019.
Raised by His Grandma
Elliott was raised by his two grandmothers in Pembroke Hall and Harbour View in Jamaica. He attended Kingston College where he participated in track and field athletics and represented the school at the prestigious Issa Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships. He then pursued a degree in international relations, minoring in management studies, at the University of the West Indies and graduated in 2019.
From Vine to Tik Tok & YouTube
He start vlogging at age 16 while still in high school after he watched videos on Vine to reduce his stress relating to final exams. He decided he could make content that people could relate to and rapidly became popular on the video-sharing platform as “Elli the Viner,” ultimately gaining 11 million Vine streams, and was considered one of the most popular Viners in the Caribbean. He easily transitioned to Instagram and became even more popular locally. His popularity resulted in a contract with STUSH Marketing, an influencer management agency. From there, Elliott created brand-centric content for big companies like FLOW, KFC, Jamaica National, and the Jamaica Environmental Association.
Elliott has found success with his unique take on his everyday experiences as a Jamaican. Much of his comedy focuses on his family, his upbringing with his two very different grandmothers – one very strict, the other, not so much – and his formative years in Jamaica. His very relatable comedic talent has brought him a loyal and growing fanbase, with thousands of followers on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
Photo – Official Instagram Page for Dale Elliott Junior
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Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending May 5th, 2023
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories
JAMAICAN PRIME MINISTER ANDREW HOLNESS SAYS GOVERNMENT WILL PURSUE NUCLEAR ENERGY
In remarks made at the opening ceremony at Expo Jamaica 2023 on April 28, 2023, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness disclosed that he had already talked with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about using nuclear energy in Jamaica for the generation of electricity. The action is part of the government’s National Energy Policy, which seeks to generate half of its electric energy by 2030. Holness noted that Jamaica must explore the use of new technology in the form of small nuclear plants that will generate “cheaper, more stable, and more affordable” electricity in the country. Alex Hill, president of the Jamaica Renewable Energy Association (IREA), supports the move, believing that nuclear “cannot be written off” as an energy source for the future, while he acknowledged its pros and cons. Michael Lee-Chin, a Jamaican billionaire and the chair of Portland Holdings, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Canadian Nuclear Laboratory (CNL) to promote nuclear technology via small modular reactors (SMRs) in Jamaica. Jason Robinson, vice president of the IREA, opposes Holness’s action, however, believing that Jamaica is not ready and will never be ready to use nuclear as an energy source because of its location in a hurricane and earthquake zone, which places the country at substantial risk for a nuclear meltdown as occurred in Fukushima, Japan.JAMAICA’S RANKING ON THE WORLD PRESS FREEDOM INDEX FALLS SIGNIFICANTLY
Jamaica’s rank on the World Press Freedom Index has dropped 20 places from a rank of Number 12 in 2022 to a 2023 ranking of 32 among 180 countries included in the index, which is published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on World Press Freedom Day, April 28, 2023. World Press Freedom Day was created by the United Nations in 1993 to mark the importance of journalism in ensuring that people can enjoy their civil rights. The drop in rank was attributed to attacks on Jamaican journalists, including attacks on a videographer for Television Jamaica and a reporter for The Gleaner in 2022 as they covered a protest by teachers in St. Catherine. These were the only acts of violence against the press in Jamaica in a decade, but reporters must consider the threat they face from the island’s high crime rate as they investigate sensitive issues, noted the RSF. In reference to the political context for media workers, the RSF cites Prime Minister Andrew Holness’s suggestions that journalists are not required to stick to facts or truth and that “a free press enables journalists to take whatever stance they want.’ The RSF also noted that Jamaica’s press often criticizes officials openly and that journalists have made reports of intimidation while doing their job, especially prior to elections.THIS WEEK’S TOP CARIBBEAN NEWS
WAVES OF SARGASSUM SEAWEED PLAGUE CARIBBEAN BEACHES
The record-breaking abundance of sargassum seaweed has created a nightmare for beach locations in he Caribbean, and the problem is expected to worsen in the coming weeks, according to the University of South Florida Optical Oceanography Lab, which reviewed satellite images of the region in April 2023. Sargassum, a seaweed characterized by a noxious odor, is drifting to the west across the Atlantic Ocean with the prevailing winds and ocean currents. The weed has reached epic levels ever since 2011. It is estimated that three million tons of sargassum were seen in the Caribbean in April 2023. Sargassum is beneficial when it is in the open ocean as it provides habitat for fish, turtles, and other creatures, but piles of the weed on beaches smell bad and are expensive to remove.THIS WEEK’S TOP JAMAICAN DIASPORA NEWS
DIASPORA GROUP ADOPTS THOMPSON TOWN HEALTH CENTER IN CLARENDON
Clarendon North Western’s Thompson Town Health Center will receive $4 million over four years via the Adopt-a-Clinic Program by the diaspora group, Caribbean Angels Inc. The financial support was announced at the public health facility at an adoption ceremony on April 28, 2023. Jamaica’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, provided a speech delivered by Marsha Coore Lobban, Undersecretary for Diaspora, Protocol, and Consular Affairs, in which she noted the key role of the Jamaican Diaspora in making improvements to health care delivery through the adoption program. Forty-three clinics have been adopted since 2020, with commitments by donors totaling $187 million. The Diaspora has so far adopted 70 percent of 30 health facilities and contributed $91.7 million. The Thompson Town Health Center, which offers a variety of medical services, opened in the 1950s and is about 70 years old.THIS WEEK’S TOP BUSINESS NEWS
FIRST MOËT HENNESSY BOUTIQUE IN THE AMERICAS OPENS AT JAMAICA’S SANGSTER AIRPORT
The very first Hennessy boutique in travel retail in the Americas is open for business at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The boutique provides travelers with the opportunity to purchase their choice of travel retail-exclusive Cognacs, including Hennessy Pure White, which is only distributed in the Caribbean and Mexico. The retail shop, which is located in the Dufry departures store at the airport, also features a tasting bar. According to Moët Hennessy executive Laurent Boidevezi, the company is excited to open its first-ever Hennessy boutique at the Montego Bay airport location, noting that Jamaica represents a unique, one-of-a-kind immersion “the elevates the Hennessy experience.” Customers at the airport location may also customize their purchases with medallions and pendants with a Jamaican theme.THIS WEEK’S TOP ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
“BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE” BIOPIC WILL FEATURE KINGSTON’S MAY PEN CEMETERY
A film focusing on the life story of Jamaican reggae legend Bob Marley and his wife Rita will feature scenes shot in the May Pen Cemetery in West Kingston, according to its executive producer Ziggy Marley, who is also Bob Marley’s son and an award-winning recording artist. Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, and Peter Tosh all had ties to the cemetery, the oldest public burial site in the English-speaking Caribbean. In a 2017 documentary, Wailer recounted the story of how The Wailers’ first manager, Joe Higgs, required the group to rehearse at the 200-acre cemetery, singing to its ghosts, to teach them humility, enable them to handle future fame well, and overcome their stage fright. According to Wailer, Higgs believed that if the trio could play before the “duppy dem” at May Pen Cemetery, they would not be afraid of crowds. “Bob Marley: One Love,” which stars Kingsley Ben-Adir and Lashana Lynch as Bob and Rita Marley, is scheduled for release in on January 12, 2024, by Paramount Pictures.THIS WEEK’S TOP SPORTS NEWS
JAMAICAN BUNNY SHAW MAKES 18TH GOAL OF THE SEASON FOR MANCHESTER CITY
Khadija “Bunny” Shaw, a member of Jamaica’s national Reggae Girlz team, scored her 18th goal of the season for Manchester City in the United Kingdom, helping her team come from behind to win over Reading 4 to 1 in the Women’s Super League. Shaw, 26, scored the second of her team’s goals in the 24th minute. With her goal, Shaw surpasses Rachel Daly of Aston Villa with whom she is competing for the Golden Boot award.The post Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending May 5th, 2023 appeared first on Jamaicans.com.
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Phil Salt‘s 87 off 45 balls, to finish off a chase of 182 against RCB with 20 balls to spare.
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Matheesha Pathirana in his delivery stride (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal engaging residents in the community (DPI photo)
