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Vijay Hazare Trophy: How Vidarbha stamped their authority as an all-format domestic force with one over Saurashtra to clinch maiden title | Cricket News

Vijay Hazare Trophy: How Vidarbha stamped their authority as an all-format domestic force with one over Saurashtra to clinch maiden title | Cricket News

Vidarbha aren’t sheepish about wearing the grafting distinction of their First-Class cricket when switching to coloured clothing. Like the often understated New Zealanders, who stunned India with an ODI series win over the past week, Vidarbha too find their ways to defang opponents on the big occasions. On Sunday in Bengaluru, Vidarbha’s authority as an all-format domestic force grew stronger with their maiden Vijay Hazare Trophy title win, beating Saurashtra by 38 runs, exactly a year on since losing the previous edition’s final to Karnataka. Despite his prolonged lull in the white-ball leg and on the senior circuit, it was ultimately an afternoon that would work out for Atharva Taide (128) as he smashed his first List A hundred in five years. Confined to talent from a modest pool of eight districts, Vidarbha and coach Usman Gani have spent a decade and a half honing and perfecting their cartel of hustlers from the Nagpur factory. It is why they can weather last-minute jolts, such as losing senior pro and second-highest run-getter, Dhruv Shorey, on the …

Shabana Azmi says people ‘flung mud’ at her for marrying Javed Akhtar: ‘I stamped over Honey Irani’s rights for my own happiness’ | Bollywood News

Shabana Azmi says people ‘flung mud’ at her for marrying Javed Akhtar: ‘I stamped over Honey Irani’s rights for my own happiness’ | Bollywood News

Javed Akhtar, who was married to Honey Irani for about 13 years, divorced her in 1985 and went on to marry Shabana Azmi. However, Shabana’s fans were quite disappointed in her and in a recent interview, Shabana said that her fans in right in feeling so. Her fans felt that she was “stamping over” Honey Irani’s rights by marrying the veteran lyricist. Back then, Shabana, Javed and Honey stayed silent on the subject but the people “flung mud” at Shabana. In a recent conversation with Filmfare, Shabana shared people’s disappointment in her was fair. She explained, “It was fair because I was this feminist model and I had done something that was inexplicable. It was like everything I had said, I was stamping over another woman’s rights for my own happiness. I think people who followed me as a feminist had every right to feel that.” While her followers were extremely upset with her, Shabana decided staying quiet on this would be a wiser decision than trying to give an explanation. She shared, “What I …

When Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman stamped a record Duleep Trophy partnership, two months before Eden Gardens 2001 | Cricket News

If one turns the clock back to 2001 in Indian cricket circles, two individuals and an iconic venue will almost always prop up for long discussions. When VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid convened mid-pitch on day three of a tumultuous Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test at the Eden Gardens in March 2001, everything was on the line for Sourav Ganguly’s side. After slumping to a defeat against Australia in the first Test of the three-match series in Mumbai, India had allowed the visitors to wrest control within the first two days in Kolkata. Posting 445 in the first innings, Australia skittled India for 171 and enforced the follow-on. To regain the title, India had to tide the odds – only twice before had a team won after being asked to follow-on. India had slipped to 202 for four before tea on Day 3 after Ganguly’s dismissal. In at 6, Dravid joined Laxman to see off the day at 254/4. The middle-order bulwarks soon wiped out Day 4 from Australia’s bowling map as they batted to 589/4 and …