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Devon Conway and Tom Latham shatter 95-year-old record and more with mammoth opening stand vs West Indies | Cricket News

Devon Conway and Tom Latham shatter 95-year-old record and more with mammoth opening stand vs West Indies | Cricket News

New Zealand openers Devon Conway and captain Tom Latham have all but set the hosts up for a win the their third and final Test against the West Indies on Day 1 with a mammoth opening partnership. Latham won the toss and chose to bat. He and Conway ended up playing out almost the entire day, piling on an opening partnership of 323 runs. It is the highest ever opening stand for a New Zealand pair in a home Test, going past the 276 between Charles Dempster and John Mills against England in Wellington all the way back in 1930. The stand ended in the 87th over when Latham fell on 137 off 246 balls. Conway, on the other hand, finished the day unbeaten on 178 off 279 balls, with New Zealand’s score reading 334/1. The partnership between Conway and Latham was the second highest opening stand of all time for New Zealand in Test cricket. The highest was also against the West Indies, which was 387 between Glenn Turner and Terry Jarvis in 1972. …

Missing for over 10 days, 95-year-old woman found dead inside water tank at Vadodara home | Ahmedabad News

Missing for over 10 days, 95-year-old woman found dead inside water tank at Vadodara home | Ahmedabad News

The decomposed body of a 95-year-old woman, who has been missing for 10 days, was discovered in the underground water tank of her residential home in Vadodara on Wednesday. The woman has been missing since December 21, 2024. Makarpura police station has registered a case of accidental death in the incident that has left the neighbourhood of Tarsali area of the city in shock. The woman has been identified as Ujjam Parmar. Makarpura Police Inspector (PI) VS Patel said, “The family had lodged a missing persons’ complaint on December 22 and we scanned CCTV footage of the entire area but could not locate the senior citizen. It came as a shock to the family when the underground tank began emitting foul odour and they called the tank cleaners, who discovered the body.” The fire officials were then called in to retrieve the body and the Makarpura police station sent it for autopsy on Wednesday. PI Patel added, “The opening of the underground water tank is located in a corner of the backyard of the tenement. …