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2023 World Cup : SWOT analysis of Australian team

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The five-time ICC ODI World Cup champions, at least on paper, can’t be rated ahead of India and England during this edition of the tournament.

Published Date – 08:19 PM, Sun – 1 October 23


2023 World Cup : SWOT analysis of Australian team



New Delhi: Never judge a book by its cover and rule out an Australian cricket team from title contention at your own peril, are the two old concrete jungle sayings.

The five-time ICC ODI World Cup champions, at least on paper, can’t be rated ahead of India and England during this edition of the tournament.

But the quality of this team is such that one won’t be surprised if it pulls a rabbit out of the hat at some point in time during the tournament.

Australia begin their campaign against India in Chennai on October 8.

Here’s the SWOT Analysis

Strength

The strength of this Australian team is certainly its batting, which does have a lot of depth with capable hitters right down till No. 9 in the line-up. David Warner is no doubt playing his last ODI tournament and has been in ominous form during the pre-cursor against India.

The maverick southpaw would like one final hurrah and a second 50-over silverware in his cabinet before calling time on his illustrious career. Travis Head’s injury has given Mitchell Marsh a chance to open and the big all-rounder has taken to the role like fish to water. Steve Smith, Cameron Green, Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis are all big hitters and good players of spin bowling, which is an advantage.

Weakness

The real weakness of this side is the spin bowling department which only has one specialist spinner Adam Zampa. Missing Ashton Agar’s restrictive wicket to wicket bowling in sub-continental conditions is going to affect them on tracks where there would be some turn on offer and the odd ball will be gripping off the surface.

Maxwell’s part-time off-spin is likely to come in handy as it was evident in Rajkot during the third ODI last week. But expecting 10 overs on most days from Maxwell will be a bit too much and Zampa’s form since the tour of South Africa has tapered off a bit. He has been pretty expensive in the past few games.

Opportunities

The number of all-rounders in the Aussie ranks gives them the chance to create opportunities like no other team. Green, Stoinis, Maxwell, Marsh (if he bowls) give the team a multi-dimensional look and there remains a lot of cover in case one of them has an off-day. Not to forget when Travis Head gets fit, he can also bowl some part-time spin. Also the experienced skipper Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood is possibly on par with Pakistan and India if not better. Left-armer Starc could be inconsistent but the day he gets deliveries to dart in, most top batters find him unplayable.

Threat

The Australian batting line-up is an ageing one and there are times, it has shown tendencies to implode. They have lost wickets in clutches and neither of their two wicketkeepers — Alex Carey or Jos Inglis have the flamboyance of an Adam Gilchrist. Even the pace bowlers, despite their prolific qualities, could go for runs on flat decks and chasing scores in excess of 330 could be a challenge for this team.

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Asian Games: Sreeshankar Secures Silver, Double Delight In Men's 1500m

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Murali Sreeshankar in action during Asian Games 2023© AFP

India’s Murali Sreeshankar on Sunday won a silver medal in the Men’s Long Jump Final with a best finish of 8.19 meters at the ongoing 19th Asian Games.  Meanwhile, Jeswin Aldrin finished in 8th position in the same event with a best jump of 7.76m.  China’s long jumpers took home gold and bronze as Wang Jianan finished at the top of the podium with best jump of 8.22m, while Shi Yuhao bagged third spot with 8.10m.  Sreeshankar started his event with a failed attempt however he recovered well and in his second attempt, with a jump of 7.97 metres.  Sreeshankar with a fantastic jump crossed the 8-metre mark and landed a jump of 8.01m. With this leap, he jumped up to the second position.

However, the jump’s legality was checked. He has a brief discussion with the umpires, explaining his side of the story.

(Asian Games 2023 Medals Tally | Asian Games 2023 Full Schedule)

Later the jump was given as a legal jump and he scored 8.19. He was just 0.03 behind China’s Wang.

Sreeshankar did not get the finish that he wanted as he concluded the event with a score of 8.19 start. Sreeshankar gave it his all but just by a margin of 3cm, he finished second.

It is raining medals for India in the track and field event on Sunday as Avinash Sable won the gold medal in the men’s 3000m steeplechase by creating a new Asian Games record.

Double delight in 1500m race

Indian runners displayed outstanding performances in the Men’s 1500m Athletics Event as Ajoy Kumar Saroj bagged silver while Jinson Johnson took home a bronze medal at the ongoing 19th Asian Games.

They finished just behind Qatar’s Algarni and a last-minute boost by Jinson helped him go past the third position runner to finish third. Saroj finished with a score of 3:38.94 and Johnson clocked 3:39.74.

For the first time ever since 1962 Asiad, India won 2 medals in the Men’s 1500m as Ajay Saroj and reigning Champion Jinson Johnson finished second and third respectively in the Men’s 1500m race.

This was the third Asian Games medal for Jinson.

In the women’s 1500m race, Harmilan Bains bagged a silver medal. It was a close race throughout and Bains added a silver medal to India’s tally. Bains finishes with a time of 4:12.74 minutes.

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BRS criticises PM Modi’s empty promises

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Finance Minister T Harish Rao, Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy, and Panchayat Raj Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao minced no words in expressing their discontent.

Published Date – 08:48 PM, Sun – 1 October 23


BRS criticises PM Modi’s empty promises



Hyderabad: Senior Ministers from Telangana launched a scathing critique of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s  promises made during his visit to the State on Sunday. Finance Minister T Harish Rao, Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy, and Panchayat Raj Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao minced no words in expressing their discontent.

Finance Minister T Harish Rao was particularly vocal, terming the Prime Minister’s speech as empty rhetoric. “Modi has come, made promises, and left. BJP’s promises never translated into actions. It never made efforts to address issues pertaining to the State,” he said. He questioned the BJP’s inability to fulfill promises made over the last nine years and their role in obstructing crucial projects like the irrigation projects in Palamuru region and failure to settle the Krishna water dispute and water allocations.

He pointed out that the Central Tribal University was promised under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act which the BJP government failed to deliver in the last nine years. He termed the Prime Minister’s announcements as mere attempts to deceive the people of Telangana once again.

Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy criticised the failure to declare national status for the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation project and the lack of attention to Telangana’s share of Krishna water. He lambasted the Prime Minister for making claims to be spending crores of rupees for road development, but imposing huge toll collections from road users. He said Modi made promises worth Rs 1.5 lakh crore during the Bihar Assembly elections, but implemented none.

Panchayat Raj Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao said the Prime Minister had insulted the formation of Telangana and criticised the BJP government’s response to purchase paddy from Telangana. He said people of Telangana would not forget the BJP’s false promises, humiliation and cheap tactics to win elections. He questioned the sincerity in Modi’s promises, such as the tribal university and turmeric board, and pointed out that despite the State government allocating land for the tribal university, the Centre had not responded all these years.

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Loyola Degree and PG College thrash Anwar-ul-Uloom College 4-1 at RFYS football tournament

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Aman scored four goals as his side Loyola Degree and PG College thrashed Anwar-ul-Uloom College 4-1 in the Telangana Football Association and RFYS football tournament

Published Date – 08:22 PM, Sun – 1 October 23


Loyola Degree and PG College thrash Anwar-ul-Uloom College 4-1 at RFYS football tournament

Aman scored four goals as his side Loyola Degree and PG College thrashed Anwar-ul-Uloom College 4-1 in the Telangana Football Association and RFYS football tournament

Hyderabad: Aman scored four goals as his side Loyola Degree and PG College thrashed Anwar-ul-Uloom College 4-1 in the Telangana Football Association and Reliance Foundation Youth Sports football tournament at the Loyola Degree and PG College football ground in Hyderabad on Sunday. For the losing outfit, Abdul Raheem scored a goal.

In another match, St Mary’s Junior College downed Loyola Junior College 3-1.

Results:
Loyola Degree & PG College (Aman 4, Shreyas) 5 bt Anwar-ul-uloom College 1 (Abdul Raheem); St Mary”s Junior College, Basheerbagh ( Afeef 2, Maazuddin) bt Loyola Junior College 1.

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Royal Family Website Faces Cyber Attack By Russian Hackers: Report

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Royal Family Website Faces Cyber Attack By Russian Hackers: Report

The Royal family’s website was up and running again by midday

The Royal Family’s official website went down for about an hour and a half in the early hours of Sunday morning after being targeted by a cyber attack, The Telegraph reported. As per the report, no access to the website, its systems, or its content was gained. Upon visiting the URL, royal. uk, the page displayed an error message, ”Gateway time-out Error code 504.” 

”We’ve just received breaking news that the Royal Family website has crashed after allegedly being targeted by Russian hackers who have reportedly taken responsibility for the attack on social media. “If you try to access the website, you get an error message,” Sky News host Caroline Di Russo said. 

Russian hacker group Killnet has claimed responsibility for the cyber attack. In a message shared on Telegram, a messaging app, the hacker added a link to the website which provided information about the monarch, the Firm, and the Royal Family’s role in the UK and the Commonwealth.  They added the supposed takedown was an “attack on pedophiles”.

Though these attacks don’t cause major damage, they can lead to outages lasting several hours or even days. However, it has not been confirmed they were behind it.

The Royal family’s website was up and running again by midday.

As per Express.co.uk, KillMilk is the leader of the Russian hacktivist DDoS collective Killnet. KillNet is known for its Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) campaigns and has launched similar attacks against countries supporting Ukraine, especially NATO countries, since the start of the war in February last year.  A DDOS attack involves knocking a website offline by flooding it with traffic.

Killnet has in the past claimed attacks on US government websites and said it has taken action against other countries opposed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

In November last year, the European Parliament website was also hit by a cyber attack claimed by Killnet shortly after lawmakers approved a resolution calling Moscow a “state sponsor of terrorism”.

India

UP: 14 injured as bus crashes into divider in Etawah

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The incident happened in the Usrahar police station area early on Sunday morning as the driver felt sleepy,they said.

Published Date – 08:29 PM, Sun – 1 October 23


UP: 14 injured as bus crashes into divider in Etawah

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Etawah: A bus crashed into the divider of the Agra-Lucknow Expressway and overturned here on Sunday, injuring 14 of its passengers, police said.

The incident happened in the Usrahar police station area early on Sunday morning as the driver felt sleepy,they said.

Police said the sleeper coach bus, which was on its way to Lucknow from Delhi, overturned and fell on the other side of the expressway.

SHO of Usrahar police station, Vivek Kumar, said the injured were sent to the medical college in Saifai.

Normal traffic was restored on the expressway two hours later after the overturned bus was removed by the police and staff of Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority.

Hyderabad

Nalgonda’s 14-year-wait for IT Tower ends

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Now, as Telangana surges forward with its IT push, Nalgonda’s dream is coming true with IT Minister KT Rama Rao to inaugurate the IT Tower at Nalgonda on Monday

Updated On – 08:18 PM, Sun – 1 October 23


Nalgonda’s 14-year-wait for IT Tower ends

IT tower at Nalgonda, which would be inaugurated by IT Minister KT Rama Rao on October 2

Nalgonda: The people of Nalgonda started dreaming for an IT Tower in their town when the Congress government promised one way back in 2009. However, despite the then IT Minister, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, being a son of the soil, neither did he nor the Congress government make any move to keep their promise.

Now, as Telangana surges forward with its IT push, Nalgonda’s dream is coming true with IT Minister KT Rama Rao to inaugurate the IT Tower at Nalgonda on Monday.

The Congress government did not even lay a foundation stone for the promise, with Venkat Reddy, who made the announcement, just making a visit to a site near MG University at Yellareddyguda for setting up of the tower. That was it. Nothing more happened.

After the formation of Telangana, as part of the government’s initiative to extend the IT sector to Tier II cities, the IT tower at Nalgonda was taken up by the Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (TSIIDC) at an estimated cost of Rs.95 crore. Rama Rao laid the foundation stone in December 2021.

The tower has now come up on three acres beside the Government Polytechnic College with a built up area of 75,000 sqft. The plug and play model IT tower is a G plus 5 green building and has a seating capacity for 2,000 employees. In all, 23 companies have come forward to set up their units in the IT tower and to run them in three shifts. About 15 companies have completed recruitment of 600 employees for their units during a recent mega job mela.

The green building has a sewerage plant with capacity of 50,000 litres, internal gardens on the ground and second floors and a rain water harvesting pit apart from solar panels that will soon be set up.

Nalgonda MLA Kancherla Bhupal Reddy said thousands of engineering graduates from Nalgonda were working in IT companies at Hyderabad, Bengaluru and other cities in the country. A local IT tower would provide the opportunity to work in their hometown. IT towers in tier-II locations would offer significant advantages including low cost of living and help employees save 30 percent of their earnings.

World

US bent on creating insecurity for Afghanistan’s neighbors: Iran envoy

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Iran’s ambassador to Afghanistan Hassan Kazemi Qomi

Iran’s ambassador to Afghanistan says the United States’ main policy on Afghanistan is to create insecurity for the country’s neighbors.

Hassan Kazemi Qomi said on Sunday that the US is continuing to make troubles in Afghanistan two years after it was forced to withdraw its troops after the Taliban group took control of the country.

“(The US) is after creating anxiety and disturbance for countries in the region, including for Afghanistan’s neighbors,” Qomi was quoted as saying in an interview with the IRIB News.

The ambassador made the remarks in Kazan, in southwest Russia, where he attended a fifth regional consultation meeting on Afghanistan known as the Moscow Format.

He said the 13 countries attending the meeting were almost unanimous in their position that the security and economic challenges in Afghanistan are mainly the result of 20 years of occupation by the US and allied countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

He accused the US of providing indirect support to the so-called Daesh of Khorasan, which is the regional offshoot of the ISIS terrorist group, to create insecurity in Central Asia and to pave the way for setting up a military base in the region with the pretext of fighting terrorism.

“Neighboring countries (of Afghanistan) reached the conclusion that they should change the conditions in Afghanistan through a collective move and a regional initiative and with cooperation with the rulers in Kabul,” said Kazemi Qomi.

The long-serving Iranian diplomat said countries attending the Moscow Format meeting in Kazan also decided to form a regional contact group to coordinate their actions and policies on Afghanistan.

“With the formation of the contact group we can put into operation (the outcomes of) talks on Kabul and the economic and security cooperation around the borders and inside the Afghan territory,” he said.

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Nandini Agasara wins bronze in women’s heptathlon 800m

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Nandinai Agasara, a U20 world championships finalist, won the 800m race with a personal best time of 2:15.33 and won the bronze medal

Published Date – 08:29 PM, Sun – 1 October 23


Nandini Agasara wins bronze in women’s heptathlon 800m



In the women’s heptathlon, Nandini Agasara, a U20 world championships finalist, won the 800m race with a personal best time of 2:15.33 and won the bronze medal after seven events. She notched personal best scores in the 200m race and javelin throw too. Swapna Barman fell just four points shy of her compatriot to finish fourth at the Asian Games 2023.

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Air Force Chopper On Routine Sortie Makes Precautionary Landing In Bhopal

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Air Force Chopper On Routine Sortie Makes Precautionary Landing In Bhopal

Technicians from Bhopal and Nagpur were involved in the repair work.(Representational)

Bhopal:

An Indian Air Force helicopter on a routine training mission made a safe “precautionary” landing near a dam in Bhopal district of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday, the IAF said.

Earlier in the day, a police officer said the chopper of IAF’s III HU unit made an “emergency” landing in a field near a lake in Dungariya village, nearly 60 km from the Bhopal district headquarters, at around 8:45 am.

The pilot and five crew members on board the chopper are safe, Berasia police station inspector Narendra Kulaste told PTI over the phone from the spot.

He had said the chopper was on its way to Jhansi from Bhopal when it developed a technical fault.

“One ALH MK III helicopter of IAF, on a routine training mission from Bhopal to Chakeri, carried out a safe precautionary landing, near the Dungariya Dam, 50 km from Bhopal Airport. No harm or injuries reported,” a Central Air Command statement said.

The police officer said the helicopter took off to its destination at around 5 pm after its problem was fixed.

He said teams of technicians from Bhopal and Nagpur were involved in the repair work. 

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