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On IPL’s big day, two-minute silence for an English amateur, salute to cricket’s unpaid loyalists | Cricket News

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Last week The Times, London, carried a heartrending obit of Jonathan Mills, a 55-year-old club cricketer. Written by his brother Daniel, the tribute was for the sales executive of a beauty company for whom cricket wasn’t about playing for his country or county. A passionately committed cricketer, Jonathan’s life and career choices were dictated by season and schedule of his beloved Brookweald Cricket Club. He scored two hundreds as a long-time opener of the club that, as claimed by its website, happens to be in the prettiest part of Essex, serves the best tea in the league, has its own bar and is the perfect place to spend a sunny Saturday afternoon. It’s in this picturesque surrounding that Jonathan got the final hundred of his life, which according to his brother was straight from the “golden age of schoolboy magazine stories”. Why remember an English amateur on a day when the game’s two biggest icons face-off in the world’s biggest and glitziest league? The pull of the quaint village cricket greens is eternal but why …

Bengaluru Blast Likely Carried Out by Amateur Group, Not Large-Scale Terror Outfit: Intel Agency Sources

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Firemen and other officials at Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe after the explosion, on Friday. (Pic/PTI) The planning and execution appear unpolished, and the bomb-making and ingredients too indicate the involvement of a small cadre of individuals with limited experience, sources in central intelligence agencies told News18 The initial assessment by central intelligence agencies of Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe blast on Friday suggests that it was likely orchestrated by a small, amateur group of people rather than a large-scale terror organisation. The planning and execution appear unpolished, and the bomb-making and ingredients too indicate the involvement of a small cadre of individuals with limited experience. Agencies will clear the air about the type of explosives used in the attack after an assessment. At least nine people were injured in a fire caused by the blast reported at Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe on Friday. The explosion occurred around 1pm at the cafe in the city’s Whitefield area. A team of forensic experts was seen collecting evidence from the site. The cafe is one of the most popular food joints in …

Kylian Mbappe Scores Five In PSG French Cup Rout Of Amateur Minnows

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Kylian Mbappe became the first Paris Saint-Germain player to score five times in one match as the Ligue 1 giants crushed sixth-tier amateur minnows Pays de Cassel 7-0 in the French Cup on Monday. Mbappe, who scored a hat-trick in France’s defeat by Argentina in the World Cup final just over a month ago, netted a hat-trick in the first half here as PSG led 4-0 at the break against their regional league opponents. He struck twice more after the restart, with Neymar and Carlos Soler scoring PSG’s other goals in the last-32 tie. The Qatar-owned club, who have won the French Cup 14 times, more than any other team, will now play away to bitter rivals Marseille in the last 16 early next month. That match is scheduled for the week beginning February 6, just a week before PSG host Bayern Munich in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie. “Once we scored the first goal it became harder for our opponents,” PSG boss Christophe Galtier told reporters. “The opponents we’ll face …