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England v Pakistan: Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler earn thrilling win

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Highlights: England pull off unimaginable have interaction in opposition to Pakistan

First Check, Emirates Weak Trafford (day four of five) Pakistan 326 & 169: Yasir 33, Stokes 2-11, Woakes 2-11 England 219 & 277-7: Woakes 84*, Buttler 75 England obtained by three wickets Scorecard

England snatched a riveting three-wicket victory over Pakistan in the fundamental Check at Emirates Weak Trafford because of of a plucky partnership between Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler.

Chasing 277 on a snakepit of a pitch, England seemed all but overwhelmed at 117-5, most tantalizing for Woakes and Buttler to counter-assault in a partnership of 139.

Buttler changed into once lbw reverse-sweeping Yasir Shah for 75 with 21 serene required and the second fresh ball due.

The promoted Stuart Mountainous took England to within four, which Woakes got from an commence air edge to total 84 no longer out.

It changed into once Woakes who stated on Friday evening that England would diagram on their trip of serene unlikely victories, and this most up-to-date success follows the drama of the World Cup final and the Headingley Ashes Check.

No longer most tantalizing were they second favourites for lots of of this fourth day, but in addition after conceding a 107-elope first-innings lead after errors in the sphere, wretched tactics and a first-rate-expose crumple.

They progressively battled support over the final two days, but it changed into once most tantalizing when Buttler and Woakes were together that Pakistan’s vitality changed into once changed by trepidation.

England have interaction the opening match for the fundamental time in six series and can manufacture their first success over Pakistan in 10 years in the event that they have interaction the second Check in Southampton, which starts on Thursday.

I owed England runs after wicketkeeping errors – Buttler

2019 heroics gave England belief anything is potential all over most up-to-date thrilling have interaction – Root

Woakes and Buttler ‘particular’ – Azhar

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Buttler smashes an notable six as England terminate in on victory

England pull one out of the hearth

This changed into once a traditional carry out to a though-provoking Check, one which in but once more would hang had an empty Emirates Weak Trafford bouncing in Saturday revelry.

England were rightly criticised for his or her efficiency over the fundamental two days – wicketkeeper Buttler’s pair of reprieves that allowed Shan Masood to invent 156, captain Joe Root’s tactics, some outmoded batting.

Nonetheless the manner they battled in the second half of of their first innings changed into once courageous, their bowling in Pakistan’s second innings changed into once tenacious and the match-winning Buttler-Woakes partnership changed into once nerveless.

They made light of a floor that changed into once turning, spitting and rearing to again England to the second very most real looking elope-dart ever executed to hang interaction a Check on this ground.

Buttler could maybe maybe maybe barely inspect because the third umpire took an age to verify his dismissal, but that virtually all efficient led to the plucky promotion of Mountainous.

Nonetheless, it changed into once fitting that Woakes, so step by step an unsung hero, hit the winning runs, celebrating with a yowl that echoed all the blueprint thru the empty stadium.

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‘Primarily excellent’ – Woakes rankings winning runs as England beat Pakistan

Woakes and Buttler dangle England residence

Buttler famously has an irreverent slogan written on the deal with of his bat. It’s an near that served him effectively in a subject where he could maybe maybe maybe hang been playing for his whisper after the retaining errors and a lean elope with the bat.

What made the sixth-wicket stand the final more excellent is what had long previous before. England had lost 3-20 after Naseem Shah got one to determine at Root, Yasir’s fizzing googly took the glove of Ben Stokes and Ollie Pope had no probability in the face of an unplayable lifter from Shaheen Afridi.

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Behold: England lose 4-31 in notable 50-minute spell

Buttler and Woakes determined that assault changed into once the most tantalizing invent of defence. Buttler went after leg-spinner Yasir with drives, sweeps and reverse-sweeps. Woakes slapped the scamper bowlers thru the covers.

The 50 partnership got right here in 49 balls. Pakistan retreated and the pitch went to sleep. The metronomic Mohammad Abbas changed into once ineffective.

The strokeplay gave technique to staunch accumulation, tension rising because the scoring slowed. Buttler freed the shackles by heaving Shadab Khan for six, but changed into once out in the next over.

Mountainous swiped seven beneficial runs, then Woakes’ edge to third man sealed victory in the fine evening sunshine.

Pakistan fall at the closing

Pakistan had been up to the label for as long because of of their definite first-innings batting, relentless bowling and enthusiasm in the sphere.

The vacationers showed togetherness all over, their reserve avid gamers making noise from the balcony of the resort that overlooks the ground.

They took the initiative in the beginning of the day, extending their lead by 32 runs in 16 chaotic deliveries that also included the fall of the final two wickets.

Nonetheless Pakistan at once seemed intimidated by Buttler. The sphere unfold, tension changed into once released and runs were powerful more straightforward to return by.

Captain Azhar Ali burned his opinions in desperation before Yasir struck slack to dangle away Buttler and Mountainous.

Pakistan buzzed and chatted to the cease, but in the slay lost a match they hang to hang obtained.

‘After closing summer we focus on anything is potential’

England captain Joe Root: “[Where does that win rank?] Up there. It changed into once an even dart. I couldn’t be more satisfied with the lads. The blueprint we approached the day changed into once prominent and that partnership with Woakesy and Jos changed into once pretty. I am overjoyed to bits to be stood right here having obtained the game.

“After closing summer it’s a long way terribly laborious to cease believing. We all know anything is potential.

“One thing it’s likely you’ll maybe maybe maybe maybe also never doubt in our dressing room is the character. I am in actuality proud and contented that has shone thru this present day.”

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‘Fully unplayable’ – Shaheen claims Pope wicket

Man of the match Chris Woakes: “We felt that attacking changed into once easy programs to switch on that floor.

“The match subject made our minds for us. It changed into once correct belief to dangle them on and build them beneath tension.

“I changed into once playing second fiddle at one point. I changed into once devastated Jos got out but it changed into once a truly perfect partnership.

“He is without doubt one of the crucial tantalizing white-ball avid gamers on the earth – one of the crucial tantalizing elope-chasers – and he showed why this present day. He build them beneath tension. I couldn’t hang picked a bigger accomplice at the pretty just a few cease.”

Ex-Pakistan all-rounder Azhar Mahmood: “It changed into once an out of the ordinary game of cricket. I hang to give credit to England.

“It changed into once great when Woakes and Buttler got right here in. It changed into once an even effort from the bowlers however the article that price Pakistan changed into once the captaincy.”

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by Andy Zaltzman, BBC Check Match Particular statistician

160

This changed into once the alternative of runs required when England’s fifth wicket fell.England had previously obtained most tantalizing one Check when, in a fourth-innings dart, their fifth wicket fell with 130 or more wished to hang interaction. That changed into once in 1902 at The Oval when, at 48-5, they required 215 more for victory over Australia. Quantity seven Gilbert Jessop scored a pyrotechnic 104 in 77 minutes, before Yorkshire’s George Hirst and Wilfred Rhodes added 15 for the closing wicket.

139

This changed into once the sum of the sixth-wicket partnership between Buttler and Woakes which is the third very most real looking stand for the sixth wicket or decrease in a successful fourth-innings dart (in the support of Gilchrist and Langer, 238, Australia v Pakistan, November 1999; and de Silva and Ranatunga, 189*, Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe, January 1998).

107

England’s first-innings deficit changed into once 107. This changed into once the third time in the closing two summers England hang obtained a Check after conceding a first-innings deficit of larger than 100 runs (122 v Eire, Lord’s, July 2019; 112 v Australia, Headingley, August 2019). They’d most tantalizing two such victories in the earlier 10 years. In all, this changed into once England’s 20th victory after a 100-elope deficit (out of 282 Assessments in which they’ve trailed by 100 or more).

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The alternative of single figure rankings Woakes had recorded in his closing nine Check innings before this match.In seven of those innings he had been pushed aside within 10 balls. Within the closing 12 balls he had confronted in Assessments before this Check, he had scored one elope and been pushed aside four cases.

2016

The closing time an England wicketkeeper scored bigger than 70 in the second innings of a Check (Jonny Bairstow’s 81 v Pakistan at The Oval). Since the 2016-17 frosty weather, up to the cease of this summer’s West Indies series, England’s keepers had managed honest appropriate five half of-centuries in 39 second innings – Buttler had averaged 19 in seven second innings, Bairstow 26 in 27 and Foakes 52 in five.

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Thinking Inside the Box

GOOD cricket scorers need many qualities. They must possess an intense level of concentration as well as being patient, observant, numerate, neat and organised. In pre-laptop days, the best ones always had the ability to write clearly. In modern parlance, they have to be able to multi-task because there are always a dozen things that have to be done at once.

It’s immediately obvious that I lack such skills, but that didn’t stop me being called upon to score for Hyde Cricket Club over a number of years in the 1980s and 1990s in the Central Lancashire and Cheshire County leagues.

Given that I spent so much time in scoreboxes, I can say with some authority that the best scorers also need social skills. When you’re cooped up with someone for five or six hours in what amounts to little more than a rickety shed, it’s not too different to being stuck in a lift with them. If you can’t get on with them, or if they have a habit that annoys you, it can drive you mad. Fortunately, I encountered few scorers that I didn’t like. On the other hand, I met many who were, well, a little strange.

At a minor cup game in Stockport I suddenly found myself choking on a smell that was so bad I wondered if I was the victim of a poison-gas attack. As I struggled to breathe, or indeed see (I’ll swear there was a green mist), my opposite number asked: “Can you smell that?” without even lifting his eyes from the book but with a clear note of pride in his voice. “Yes,” I coughed. “Thought so,” he replied nodding slowly. “I’ve just farted.” And with a look of achievement on his face he continued to record the dots. I’m sure he believed he’d shared something special with me.

On a visit to Radcliffe, the fair was in town. The home scorer and his friends on the tins were all aged around 11 and at one point my weak powers of concentration were tested to the limit as a fight began. The owner of a goldfish won at one of the sideshows was not too happy when one of the others snatched the little plastic bag it came in, hung it out of a window and threatened to drop it 15ft or so.

I even found the Hyde wicketkeeper accused of causing a death at one club. I always found former skipper Andy Swain to be a very affable man but my co-scorer — who reminded me of an old-school corporation alderman — informed me very definitely that Andy’s “false” claims to have taken a catch the previous season had so upset the batsman’s father that he had suffered a heart attack and died. Later, when Andy was hopping about, the home man harrumphed away my explanations that the ball had hit him on the toes and accused him of having brown underpants disease.

As a scorer, I was from what might be termed the Tippex-school. I made so many mistakes, and had to apply the stuff so liberally to cover them up, that by the end of the season the book was twice as thick as it should have been, and there were lots of little white bits falling off. No matter what the game or where it was played, there was always something that I missed. After one game at Hyde, as the two of us desperately tried to work out a minor discrepancy in our totals, the Werneth Low equivalent of Coronation Street’s Norris Cole — every ground has one — scampered about the outfield, frantically announcing to anyone who passed that “the scorers have messed everything up. They can’t get anything to balance”.

This was the same man who was genuinely surprised by the reaction he received when he loudly criticised a returning Hyde opener for falling victim to a slow bowler, cheerfully ignoring the fact said batsman had previously weathered five fiery overs from Ezra Moseley.

The best scorer I ever met was a man at Milnrow. While I struggled to do the most basic job he completed two books, cartwheel charts of every stroke and even managed to conduct a conversation. What’s more, he could instantly pull career averages and records from a battered briefcase by his side. I could only look on in awesome appreciation.

By this point you’re possibly wondering why someone with as little ability as myself was ever asked to be scorer for Hyde’s first XI. The sad fact is, there was no one else and, as a reporter for the now defunct North Cheshire Herald, it was known that I would be at every game. My error was to let it be known in the bar one night that I had briefly been scorer for the under-15s team at Hyde Grammar School. My fate was sealed and I was led to my domain opposite the pavilion.

Nowadays, Werneth Lowe Road boasts a large electronic scorebox. Back in the 1980s it had a small, brick-built structure. It was the sort of place where it was much easier to stand than sit and whenever you moved the tins above your head — rotating drums bearing the numbers — you and the book would be showered with dead insects and flecks of rust. You’d be removing he stuff from your hair for days.

When I was asked to score, it was one of those offers that you can’t refuse. It’s true that I loved Werneth Low Road, a hilltop ground which commands stunning views.  However, the club also has several characters with whom one does not argue. They are part of its charm.

Take Peter Hardman, who has served in the club in just about every capacity including captain, manager, chairman and groundsman. He is known as hard by name and hard by nature, although I occasionally suspect there is a heart beating somewhere deep beneath his rhino-like exterior. Ten or so years ago, when the microphone wasn’t working before a quiz night, he disappeared into near-by Gee Cross to buy some batteries. And he returned with them. Trouble was he lost the mic en-route. We all thought it hilarious but no one dared say so.

Alongside Peter were others such as Merv Riley, a Desperate Dan lookalike, and Tony Ghilks. Ghilksy is the man who once missed a game because the dog had eaten his false teeth. A fast bowler himself, he had no fear of Ezra Moseley, and would happily face the scourge of the Central Lancashire League without a helmet and using a packet of 20 Park Drive in his hip pocket as a thigh pad.

Bad as I was, I enjoyed my days as club scorer although I wouldn’t have admitted the fact until fairly recently. There were, however, one or two frightening occasions when players were held up by traffic and the skipper would talk about dragooning me in as a reserve, or better still a forlorn hope.

These scenarios always began with that most ridiculous of questions “have you got your kit with you?” Well of course I didn’t — I didn’t own any. The reason I wrote about cricket and bumbled about as a scorer was that I wasn’t good enough to play it, although I did once clip the off-handle of a dustbin being defended by Jeff Hammond’s son Ashley on an Adelaide lawn in 1991 (after he had hit me for 28 off the previous five deliveries). The thought of me facing a Central Lancashire League professional was farcical in the extreme. Fortunately, the missing players always turned up.

My most memorable day occurred at Crompton in 1992, in what I think was Hyde’s last game in the CLL. I found myself sharing the box with a very talkative lady who worked as a nurse in the heart transplant unit at Wythenshawe Hospital in south Manchester. She was very keen to share her experiences.

I learned that the ward staff enjoyed Chinese food and often displayed what appeared to be a rather chilling calmness and detachment in response to emergencies. Looking back, I suppose they were taking refuge in their own brand of macabre humour. What made the conversation even more bizarre, however, was that it took place against the backdrop of a cricket match.  Talk of haemorrhages, blood transfusions and stents was interspersed with questions about whether the ball had crossed the boundary rope or been stopped by a fielder, or whether the umpire had signalled byes or leg byes. Our heads were bobbing up an down continually.

After completing her do-it-yourself crash course in cardiovascular surgery, my colleague finally drew breath and confided in me that despite all her life-saving work, she would have struggled to undergo a heart transplant herself, no matter how ill she was. As I raised my eyebrows in response — there was no time to get a word in edgeways or otherwise — she added: “Oh it would be so creepy, waking up in the middle of the night to hear someone else’s heart beating.”

I hardly had time to ponder this opinion before she went on: “But I certainly could never, ever have a heart-lung transplant.” “Why’s that?” I interjected, recording a four and waving to the umpires to acknowledge their signal. “Would that be because it’s a very dangerous operation with little chance of success?”

“No, no,” she chirped back. “Survival rates are getting better all the time. What I couldn’t bear would be bringing up somebody else’s greb.”

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Serena Williams: ‘ Not everyone’s going to like the practice I seem ‘

The tennis star talks about swearing on courtroom, dancing for Beyonc and why shes criticised for being both extremely masculine and extremely sexy

There are so many line-ups to Serena Williams. Slick and powerful in ends and leotard, she dances, squats and moves beside Beyonc in the video for Sorry. “Shes been” lauded by Claudia Rankine, whose award-winning, book-length song Citizen last year outlined Williams as hemmed in as any other pitch-black person shed against our American background. She is the worlds top-earning female jock. And arguably more than any of her contemporaries, her body has been the focus, the point of intersection, of so many arguments about femininity, ability and hasten that it would nearly be possible to overlook the tennis.

But the tennis, of course, is memorable. Williams has acquired 21 grand slams. One more next week at Wimbledon, tell would bring her level with Steffi Grafs total, and merely two short of Margaret Courts all-time register of 24. Williams has been playing since she was three. In September, she swerves 35. If she stays fit, if the forte views, if she preserves acquiring, if young competitives prosper temperately, perhaps she knows how lunge herself through the constricting spread of time to leave a new digit in the record books. But meanwhile, she is singing karaoke at a pre-tournament party. When a Tv interviewer points out that a strap of her harvest top has passed, she commits her shoulder a brief gleam. Yeah, she responds. I know. Through everything, she is a self-stylist.

How did you get involved with Beyoncs book Lemonade ?

Weve known each other a really long time. Ive known the chairman[ Dikayl Rimmasch] since he was nine. My solicitor its his son. We kind of grew up together. They were like, It would be good for Serena. Beyonc had so many inspirational women in that persona, in her documentary video. She alleges she loves when I dance cos I dance like no ones watching. Im like, Oh, but thats different cos theres no camera, theres no one watching. But, yeah, thats kind of what I was trying to do. It worked out good. She had a lot of parties. She had Trayvon Martins baby, Michael Browns[ father] as well, the victims of that shameful violence we are seeing in the United States, as well as some beautiful ballerinas, body-imaging women who really enjoy themselves and hug themselves, so other beings cuddle them, too. It was really powerful putting African-American ladies together in her floor, because shes certainly a super strong African-American woman.

Did she explain it to you in those expressions ?

She excused it to me in different expressions, but we kind of have a same take over a lot of things. Shes are going through so much and been so positive.

Some beings argue that alone African-American wives can truly be attributed to Lemonade

No! I thoughts women in general can relate to it. I think it was a powerful part for everybody, I think it certainly, 100% traversed colouring boundaries. Absolutely.

Did you and Beyonc examine some of the topics adultery , for example ?

Oh God , no. No, thats not my I dont know about that. It was just getting together with strong women.

Over its first year, your form has been described and criticised repeatedly. Why do you think people have felt so free to statement ?

I guess its a part of being in the public eye. You have to accept that people are going to have a remark, whether its your body, or your look, or your hands. It could be your feet. Nothing is off limits. I think thats why, growing up, my mum not consciously, subconsciously schooled myself and all my sisters to be so strong. It readied me for these moments.

Did she do that particularly with regard to torso figure ?

A little bit. Also my older sister, more. But she ever taught us to cherish ourselves and I think that is a wonderful letter that I spread now to so many girls. Its really important. You are who you are, you cant change it. And youre beautiful.

Do the comments still hurt, or did you stop listening ?

For every negative explain, theres a million good remarks. I ever suppose, Not everyones going to like the room I search. Everyone has different types. If we all liked the same situation, it would reach the world a really boring target! What matters most is that I like myself.

Right. Because youve been described as more muscular , too feminine …

Too muscly and too masculine, and then a few weeks subsequently extremely risque and very sexy. So for me it was just really a big joke.

Have you thought about originating your eyebrows extremely, very long only to show people that you get to decide ?

No, its fine. I find it really funny. Sometimes its true. Im like, Gosh, I need to chassis these countenances! Cant argue with the truth sometimes!

You have prevailed in a white-male-dominated world without compromising whom you. Do “youre feeling” you have fought for pitch-black women everywhere ?

I do, but I feel its for all women everywhere. I have so many different people, hastens and colourings who are in a position associate with my floor, whether theyre poverty-stricken or rich or middle class, it doesnt thing. My objective is to inspire every woman out there. My new articulating for the past few years has been: The success of one dame should be the brainchild for the next. And by the way, very great for your health and it impedes young women and girls out of trouble.

This task of inspiring or representing others does it sometimes feel like a job or additional burdens ?

I dont see it as a responsibility and a imperative, but I cuddle it because I am who I am. I appear I can give that content because Im living that word. Does that make sense? I embrace it and I enjoy that I have an opportunity to do it because a lot of beings dont. And I dont have to be anyone different, cos the committee is me. And it really fits well with me.

Claudia Rankine included a long area about you in her brilliant poem Citizen. Was that a bombshell ?

Totally. She interviewed me, very. Her section[ on pitch-black excellence, for the New York Times] was one of best available acts Ive read. It wasnt about a fib, it was just about the truth. And that lyric, with me in it it was so potent. I adoration her work.

Rankines poem refers to the mistaken decisions by umpire Mariana Alves at the US Open in 2004, which contributed to your early departure from the tournament. It includes the line: Though no one was saying anything explicitly about Serenas black torso, “youre not” the only onlooker who thought it was going in accordance with the rules of Alves sightline Did that resonate with you ?

I precisely felt it was very true. And thats why I liked the narrative[ on black excellence ], very. It was just circumstances that are true. Theres happening there are still actuality, and theres fiction and what she supposed, she just said happenings. Those are simple facts.

Was there anything in particular that stood out, where you detected she nailed it ?

That line you opened is a great example, but theres a lot of material. Besides all that, shes a really inducing writer.

You said that your dad describes you as a good daughter, and the working day you hope to have good juveniles, extremely. Is having children on your sentiment ?

It is, it is. It is something I think about a lot, especially now. But I repute everything will be OK. I have a feeling that everything is going to work out, and I dont ponder I am done with what I am supposed to do now hitherto. I just dont feel better duration, and I thoughts when it is time, everything will work out.

And will you know when its age ?

Yeah, I feel Ill know. I know Ill know. Ive been intuitive my whole life. I just think when everything is done and articulated, Ill have a great feeling, and Ill have a great life, I hope.

Do you have a number of grand slams in your premier that you want to reach before you allow yourself to adjourn ?

No. I never even thought, at 21, I would be here. I dont imagine anyone “ve been thinking about” it. I signify, maybe some people do, but I didnt. I dont have a number. Im precisely relying on a believe. A good old feeling.

The poet Claudia Rankine, whose book-length lyric Citizen includes a segment about Serena Williams. Photograph: Anna Webber/ Getty Images for The New Yorker

Male tennis actors can just go on playing without needing to decide or choice in the same way

Man! Theres a part of it thats exactly not fair! But its OK. I emphatically wouldnt have it any other way.

You formerly told a line magistrate : I swear to God Ill fucking take the pellet and shove it down your fucking throat. Will “youve been” flip out on tribunal again ?

I will always be myself. Yeah. I will always be myself, and if that includes getting furious, thats what that is. I perhaps wouldnt use some of the language. But other than that, I dont want to be anyone else. Im Serena, Im happy to be Serena, and I will always be Serena. And if Im not true to myself, then who am I?

Serena Williams was talking at the Delta Air Route Baseline Sessions, for which she is an official diplomat

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IPL Journey

After forty days of intense battle, the league stage of IPL10 has come to an end with the best 4 teams ready for the play-offs. As we come to the closing stage this season, we take you through the ten year history of the game. From Warne sealing it with a six to Gilchrist taking wicket on the only delivery that he ever bowled, IPL has seen a lot. Read further to know more. It was 19th September 2007, Andrew Flintoff went to Yuvraj Singh and told him something which ignited him and he responded and what a way it was!! What followed was beyond everyone’s dreams but not for the southpaw that day. Stuart Broad was introduced in the attack and Yuvraj hit him six successive sixes and whole India celebrated. The men in blue went on to win the inaugural ICC T20 World Cup.

That was the time when we thought of a T20 league. Lalit Modi, the chairman of BCCI at that time came up with the idea of Indian Premiere league and what an idea that proved out to be. IPL has successfully completes a decade and it has not just completed but has surprised everyone with the quality. Sachin Tendulkar, who was the first Indian to win the orange cap in 2010, recently said- “Ten years back I never thought that it would be such a big event” and when he tells we all listen. In 2008, the first edition of IPL was played, six star players were chosen as the Icon players and rest all the players went under the hammer for the tournament starting from 18th April. Eight teams came up in the form of Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings, Rajasthan Royals, Deccan Chargers, Royal Challenger Bangalore, Kings XI Punjab, Kolkata knight riders and Delhi Daredevils. The then T20 captain of India, who had just won us the tournament, was the costliest player sold. In the very first match, Brendon McCullum showed the fireworks by scoring 158 runs. It was just the trailer of what was to follow in the years to come. Rajasthan Royals, who were the weakest team on papers that year, went on to lift the trophy and Shane Watson was the Man of the series. The tournament ended but it once again proved that Cricket is a game of uncertainty. You have to perform to win the matches. Rajasthan Royals were filled with young new faces as compared to other teams. They had spent the least amount of money in purchasing players. The second edition of tournament coincided with General Election and hence had to be shifted to South Africa but it was equally successful. Deccan Chargers won the tournament and once again the fans had to wait to see Sachin’s complete participation because of injury. The third season in 2010 saw the game return to home and by now the young guns of India had started taking advantage of this tournament. Chennai Super Kings defeated Mumbai to win the title and the cricketing icon of the country, Sachin, was adjudged the player of the tournament. This IPL also saw the emergence of stars like Kieron Pollard and Lasith Malinga. Pollard was bought in silence tie breaker. This edition was also the first season to be telecasted live on Youtube. Yuvraj Singh picked up two hat tricks in the season Then came the fourth edition in the year when the country won the ICC ODI World Cup. Two new teams in the form of Kochi Tuskers Kerala and Pune Warriors were introduced. This saw some changes in format as it would become lengthy, groups were made and the playoff system that we see today was introduced. CSK won the tournament again. This was the season when Rahul Dravid was let off by his team before the auction as the franchises had started looking for more profits. In the years that followed the quality obviously kept improving but the controversies also kept craving and the tenth edition is the cleanliest edition in recent times. In the seventh edition half of the games were again shifted outside India because of the General Elections and UAE were the proud host. KKR won the tournament. IPL 8 saw introduction of fan parks in order to give the fans of cities where the matches were not being played, the feel of live matches. Mumbai won it again and Andre Russell was the player of the tournament. After the tournament CSK and RR were banned for two years over spot-fixing and betting scandals. The 9th season was Virat Kohli’s season. He scored 4 centuries as his team went till the finals. Sunrisers Hyderabad won it. Two new teams Gujarat Lions and Rising Oune Supergiants replaced CSK, which had a huge fan base, and RR. LED stumps were also introduced. What took place in ten years was earlier hard to imagine, Sachin Tendulkar opening with Ricky Ponting, Lasith Malinga and Jasprit Bumrah bowling together, two of the batting greats of current era Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers scoring centuries together; everything has happened. Adam Gilchrist coming to bowl and dismissing Harbhajan Singh in the first ball is one of the best moments of the ‘festival of India’. From scoring 265 in 20 over to getting bowled out at 49, scoring 175 in a single game to 6 wickets in just 4 over and plenty of hat tricks, the game has seen it all in the last ten years. Controversies The tournament has been filled with a number of controversies. The idea of introducing cheerleaders was criticised by most of the communities and this idea saw a tremendous increase in the tenth edition when Cheer girls started giving the balls to Umpires as they came out to start the play. Few even started questioning that it no longer is ‘Gentlemen’s game’. Spot fixing has been a major concern throughout the tournament. Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings were banned for two years. S Sreesanth was banned for life and even the latest edition has seen spot fixing case. Rave Party was another controversy and it had to be finally scraped off. Water problem during the 9th season was a big problem as Maharashtra was facing a drought and ultimately the matches were shifted out of the state. Harbhajan Singh slapping S Sreesanth in the first edition was also a big highlight and ultimately he was banned for the entire season. Positives There have been more positives in the game than the controversies and that’s the reason it has successfully completed ten years. We have seen some tremendous young talents getting the exposure, which was otherwise very difficult. Indian cricket has got players like Suresh Raina, Jasprit Bumrah and many more. Playing with the best players in the world has improved even the bowlers of India. There was a time when it was difficult to find 3 regular pacers to play a match but now we have more than a dozen. Basil Thampi, Avesh Khan, Md Siraj, Siddharth Kaul are all ready to launch themselves. Players from Afghanistan are now facing the best players of the world, which was otherwise very difficult. So ultimately the ten years of IPL has seen some spectacular rise in the quality of game and in the end what matters the most is that the quality of the game has improved and has improved immensely. So as long as Cricket is getting benefited there is no reason why this tournament should be stopped.

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Serena Williams: ‘ Not everyone’s going to like the practice I seem ‘

The tennis star talks about swearing on courtroom, dancing for Beyonc and why shes criticised for being both extremely masculine and extremely sexy

There are so many line-ups to Serena Williams. Slick and powerful in ends and leotard, she dances, squats and moves beside Beyonc in the video for Sorry. “Shes been” lauded by Claudia Rankine, whose award-winning, book-length song Citizen last year outlined Williams as hemmed in as any other pitch-black person shed against our American background. She is the worlds top-earning female jock. And arguably more than any of her contemporaries, her body has been the focus, the point of intersection, of so many arguments about femininity, ability and hasten that it would nearly be possible to overlook the tennis.

But the tennis, of course, is memorable. Williams has acquired 21 grand slams. One more next week at Wimbledon, tell would bring her level with Steffi Grafs total, and merely two short of Margaret Courts all-time register of 24. Williams has been playing since she was three. In September, she swerves 35. If she stays fit, if the forte views, if she preserves acquiring, if young competitives prosper temperately, perhaps she knows how lunge herself through the constricting spread of time to leave a new digit in the record books. But meanwhile, she is singing karaoke at a pre-tournament party. When a Tv interviewer points out that a strap of her harvest top has passed, she commits her shoulder a brief gleam. Yeah, she responds. I know. Through everything, she is a self-stylist.

How did you get involved with Beyoncs book Lemonade ?

Weve known each other a really long time. Ive known the chairman[ Dikayl Rimmasch] since he was nine. My solicitor its his son. We kind of grew up together. They were like, It would be good for Serena. Beyonc had so many inspirational women in that persona, in her documentary video. She alleges she loves when I dance cos I dance like no ones watching. Im like, Oh, but thats different cos theres no camera, theres no one watching. But, yeah, thats kind of what I was trying to do. It worked out good. She had a lot of parties. She had Trayvon Martins baby, Michael Browns[ father] as well, the victims of that shameful violence we are seeing in the United States, as well as some beautiful ballerinas, body-imaging women who really enjoy themselves and hug themselves, so other beings cuddle them, too. It was really powerful putting African-American ladies together in her floor, because shes certainly a super strong African-American woman.

Did she explain it to you in those expressions ?

She excused it to me in different expressions, but we kind of have a same take over a lot of things. Shes are going through so much and been so positive.

Some beings argue that alone African-American wives can truly be attributed to Lemonade

No! I thoughts women in general can relate to it. I think it was a powerful part for everybody, I think it certainly, 100% traversed colouring boundaries. Absolutely.

Did you and Beyonc examine some of the topics adultery , for example ?

Oh God , no. No, thats not my I dont know about that. It was just getting together with strong women.

Over its first year, your form has been described and criticised repeatedly. Why do you think people have felt so free to statement ?

I guess its a part of being in the public eye. You have to accept that people are going to have a remark, whether its your body, or your look, or your hands. It could be your feet. Nothing is off limits. I think thats why, growing up, my mum not consciously, subconsciously schooled myself and all my sisters to be so strong. It readied me for these moments.

Did she do that particularly with regard to torso figure ?

A little bit. Also my older sister, more. But she ever taught us to cherish ourselves and I think that is a wonderful letter that I spread now to so many girls. Its really important. You are who you are, you cant change it. And youre beautiful.

Do the comments still hurt, or did you stop listening ?

For every negative explain, theres a million good remarks. I ever suppose, Not everyones going to like the room I search. Everyone has different types. If we all liked the same situation, it would reach the world a really boring target! What matters most is that I like myself.

Right. Because youve been described as more muscular , too feminine …

Too muscly and too masculine, and then a few weeks subsequently extremely risque and very sexy. So for me it was just really a big joke.

Have you thought about originating your eyebrows extremely, very long only to show people that you get to decide ?

No, its fine. I find it really funny. Sometimes its true. Im like, Gosh, I need to chassis these countenances! Cant argue with the truth sometimes!

You have prevailed in a white-male-dominated world without compromising whom you. Do “youre feeling” you have fought for pitch-black women everywhere ?

I do, but I feel its for all women everywhere. I have so many different people, hastens and colourings who are in a position associate with my floor, whether theyre poverty-stricken or rich or middle class, it doesnt thing. My objective is to inspire every woman out there. My new articulating for the past few years has been: The success of one dame should be the brainchild for the next. And by the way, very great for your health and it impedes young women and girls out of trouble.

This task of inspiring or representing others does it sometimes feel like a job or additional burdens ?

I dont see it as a responsibility and a imperative, but I cuddle it because I am who I am. I appear I can give that content because Im living that word. Does that make sense? I embrace it and I enjoy that I have an opportunity to do it because a lot of beings dont. And I dont have to be anyone different, cos the committee is me. And it really fits well with me.

Claudia Rankine included a long area about you in her brilliant poem Citizen. Was that a bombshell ?

Totally. She interviewed me, very. Her section[ on pitch-black excellence, for the New York Times] was one of best available acts Ive read. It wasnt about a fib, it was just about the truth. And that lyric, with me in it it was so potent. I adoration her work.

Rankines poem refers to the mistaken decisions by umpire Mariana Alves at the US Open in 2004, which contributed to your early departure from the tournament. It includes the line: Though no one was saying anything explicitly about Serenas black torso, “youre not” the only onlooker who thought it was going in accordance with the rules of Alves sightline Did that resonate with you ?

I precisely felt it was very true. And thats why I liked the narrative[ on black excellence ], very. It was just circumstances that are true. Theres happening there are still actuality, and theres fiction and what she supposed, she just said happenings. Those are simple facts.

Was there anything in particular that stood out, where you detected she nailed it ?

That line you opened is a great example, but theres a lot of material. Besides all that, shes a really inducing writer.

You said that your dad describes you as a good daughter, and the working day you hope to have good juveniles, extremely. Is having children on your sentiment ?

It is, it is. It is something I think about a lot, especially now. But I repute everything will be OK. I have a feeling that everything is going to work out, and I dont ponder I am done with what I am supposed to do now hitherto. I just dont feel better duration, and I thoughts when it is time, everything will work out.

And will you know when its age ?

Yeah, I feel Ill know. I know Ill know. Ive been intuitive my whole life. I just think when everything is done and articulated, Ill have a great feeling, and Ill have a great life, I hope.

Do you have a number of grand slams in your premier that you want to reach before you allow yourself to adjourn ?

No. I never even thought, at 21, I would be here. I dont imagine anyone “ve been thinking about” it. I signify, maybe some people do, but I didnt. I dont have a number. Im precisely relying on a believe. A good old feeling.

The poet Claudia Rankine, whose book-length lyric Citizen includes a segment about Serena Williams. Photograph: Anna Webber/ Getty Images for The New Yorker

Male tennis actors can just go on playing without needing to decide or choice in the same way

Man! Theres a part of it thats exactly not fair! But its OK. I emphatically wouldnt have it any other way.

You formerly told a line magistrate : I swear to God Ill fucking take the pellet and shove it down your fucking throat. Will “youve been” flip out on tribunal again ?

I will always be myself. Yeah. I will always be myself, and if that includes getting furious, thats what that is. I perhaps wouldnt use some of the language. But other than that, I dont want to be anyone else. Im Serena, Im happy to be Serena, and I will always be Serena. And if Im not true to myself, then who am I?

Serena Williams was talking at the Delta Air Route Baseline Sessions, for which she is an official diplomat

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Serena Williams: ‘ Not everyone’s going to like the practice I seem ‘

The tennis star talks about swearing on courtroom, dancing for Beyonc and why shes criticised for being both extremely masculine and extremely sexy

There are so many line-ups to Serena Williams. Slick and powerful in ends and leotard, she dances, squats and moves beside Beyonc in the video for Sorry. “Shes been” lauded by Claudia Rankine, whose award-winning, book-length song Citizen last year outlined Williams as hemmed in as any other pitch-black person shed against our American background. She is the worlds top-earning female jock. And arguably more than any of her contemporaries, her body has been the focus, the point of intersection, of so many arguments about femininity, ability and hasten that it would nearly be possible to overlook the tennis.

But the tennis, of course, is memorable. Williams has acquired 21 grand slams. One more next week at Wimbledon, tell would bring her level with Steffi Grafs total, and merely two short of Margaret Courts all-time register of 24. Williams has been playing since she was three. In September, she swerves 35. If she stays fit, if the forte views, if she preserves acquiring, if young competitives prosper temperately, perhaps she knows how lunge herself through the constricting spread of time to leave a new digit in the record books. But meanwhile, she is singing karaoke at a pre-tournament party. When a Tv interviewer points out that a strap of her harvest top has passed, she commits her shoulder a brief gleam. Yeah, she responds. I know. Through everything, she is a self-stylist.

How did you get involved with Beyoncs book Lemonade ?

Weve known each other a really long time. Ive known the chairman[ Dikayl Rimmasch] since he was nine. My solicitor its his son. We kind of grew up together. They were like, It would be good for Serena. Beyonc had so many inspirational women in that persona, in her documentary video. She alleges she loves when I dance cos I dance like no ones watching. Im like, Oh, but thats different cos theres no camera, theres no one watching. But, yeah, thats kind of what I was trying to do. It worked out good. She had a lot of parties. She had Trayvon Martins baby, Michael Browns[ father] as well, the victims of that shameful violence we are seeing in the United States, as well as some beautiful ballerinas, body-imaging women who really enjoy themselves and hug themselves, so other beings cuddle them, too. It was really powerful putting African-American ladies together in her floor, because shes certainly a super strong African-American woman.

Did she explain it to you in those expressions ?

She excused it to me in different expressions, but we kind of have a same take over a lot of things. Shes are going through so much and been so positive.

Some beings argue that alone African-American wives can truly be attributed to Lemonade

No! I thoughts women in general can relate to it. I think it was a powerful part for everybody, I think it certainly, 100% traversed colouring boundaries. Absolutely.

Did you and Beyonc examine some of the topics adultery , for example ?

Oh God , no. No, thats not my I dont know about that. It was just getting together with strong women.

Over its first year, your form has been described and criticised repeatedly. Why do you think people have felt so free to statement ?

I guess its a part of being in the public eye. You have to accept that people are going to have a remark, whether its your body, or your look, or your hands. It could be your feet. Nothing is off limits. I think thats why, growing up, my mum not consciously, subconsciously schooled myself and all my sisters to be so strong. It readied me for these moments.

Did she do that particularly with regard to torso figure ?

A little bit. Also my older sister, more. But she ever taught us to cherish ourselves and I think that is a wonderful letter that I spread now to so many girls. Its really important. You are who you are, you cant change it. And youre beautiful.

Do the comments still hurt, or did you stop listening ?

For every negative explain, theres a million good remarks. I ever suppose, Not everyones going to like the room I search. Everyone has different types. If we all liked the same situation, it would reach the world a really boring target! What matters most is that I like myself.

Right. Because youve been described as more muscular , too feminine …

Too muscly and too masculine, and then a few weeks subsequently extremely risque and very sexy. So for me it was just really a big joke.

Have you thought about originating your eyebrows extremely, very long only to show people that you get to decide ?

No, its fine. I find it really funny. Sometimes its true. Im like, Gosh, I need to chassis these countenances! Cant argue with the truth sometimes!

You have prevailed in a white-male-dominated world without compromising whom you. Do “youre feeling” you have fought for pitch-black women everywhere ?

I do, but I feel its for all women everywhere. I have so many different people, hastens and colourings who are in a position associate with my floor, whether theyre poverty-stricken or rich or middle class, it doesnt thing. My objective is to inspire every woman out there. My new articulating for the past few years has been: The success of one dame should be the brainchild for the next. And by the way, very great for your health and it impedes young women and girls out of trouble.

This task of inspiring or representing others does it sometimes feel like a job or additional burdens ?

I dont see it as a responsibility and a imperative, but I cuddle it because I am who I am. I appear I can give that content because Im living that word. Does that make sense? I embrace it and I enjoy that I have an opportunity to do it because a lot of beings dont. And I dont have to be anyone different, cos the committee is me. And it really fits well with me.

Claudia Rankine included a long area about you in her brilliant poem Citizen. Was that a bombshell ?

Totally. She interviewed me, very. Her section[ on pitch-black excellence, for the New York Times] was one of best available acts Ive read. It wasnt about a fib, it was just about the truth. And that lyric, with me in it it was so potent. I adoration her work.

Rankines poem refers to the mistaken decisions by umpire Mariana Alves at the US Open in 2004, which contributed to your early departure from the tournament. It includes the line: Though no one was saying anything explicitly about Serenas black torso, “youre not” the only onlooker who thought it was going in accordance with the rules of Alves sightline Did that resonate with you ?

I precisely felt it was very true. And thats why I liked the narrative[ on black excellence ], very. It was just circumstances that are true. Theres happening there are still actuality, and theres fiction and what she supposed, she just said happenings. Those are simple facts.

Was there anything in particular that stood out, where you detected she nailed it ?

That line you opened is a great example, but theres a lot of material. Besides all that, shes a really inducing writer.

You said that your dad describes you as a good daughter, and the working day you hope to have good juveniles, extremely. Is having children on your sentiment ?

It is, it is. It is something I think about a lot, especially now. But I repute everything will be OK. I have a feeling that everything is going to work out, and I dont ponder I am done with what I am supposed to do now hitherto. I just dont feel better duration, and I thoughts when it is time, everything will work out.

And will you know when its age ?

Yeah, I feel Ill know. I know Ill know. Ive been intuitive my whole life. I just think when everything is done and articulated, Ill have a great feeling, and Ill have a great life, I hope.

Do you have a number of grand slams in your premier that you want to reach before you allow yourself to adjourn ?

No. I never even thought, at 21, I would be here. I dont imagine anyone “ve been thinking about” it. I signify, maybe some people do, but I didnt. I dont have a number. Im precisely relying on a believe. A good old feeling.

The poet Claudia Rankine, whose book-length lyric Citizen includes a segment about Serena Williams. Photograph: Anna Webber/ Getty Images for The New Yorker

Male tennis actors can just go on playing without needing to decide or choice in the same way

Man! Theres a part of it thats exactly not fair! But its OK. I emphatically wouldnt have it any other way.

You formerly told a line magistrate : I swear to God Ill fucking take the pellet and shove it down your fucking throat. Will “youve been” flip out on tribunal again ?

I will always be myself. Yeah. I will always be myself, and if that includes getting furious, thats what that is. I perhaps wouldnt use some of the language. But other than that, I dont want to be anyone else. Im Serena, Im happy to be Serena, and I will always be Serena. And if Im not true to myself, then who am I?

Serena Williams was talking at the Delta Air Route Baseline Sessions, for which she is an official diplomat

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