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2023 Abu Dhabi T10
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2023 Abu Dhabi T10 will be the seventh season of the Abu Dhabi T10. The matches will have a 10-over-a-side format with a time duration of 90 minutes. The tournament will be played from 28 November to 9 December 2023 at the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium.
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Kirkintilloch Athletic F.C.
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Kirkintilloch Athletic Football Club was a 19th-century association football club based in Kirkintilloch in Dumbartonshire.
History.
The club was formed in 1885, at the start of the cricket season; it was the second club with the name. It quickly joined the Scottish Football Association for the 1885–86 season, and its first match was a 3–1 win over the Livingstone club of Glasgow.
It was, unfortunately, poor preparation for its first Scottish Cup tie, at home to Renton, the Scottish Cup holders and arguably the best team in the world; the visitors duly won 15–0. The local newspaper, perhaps miscounting, or out of kindness, gave the score as 14–0, and stated that the Kirkintilloch side "acquitted themselves fairly well".
The Athletic's problem was starting up as a football team in an area already saturated with clubs, and suffered some heavy beatings in the Cup by more established, and better-backed, sides; 9–0 by Vale of Leven in 1886–87, without even the consolation of the club receiving any gate receipts, as expenses took up the whole of the small gate; 7–1 by Jamestown in 1887–88; 5–0 by Methlan Park in 1888–89, who scored three goals in seven minutes, and 5–2 by Dumbarton Union in 1889–90.
The only win the club had in the Scottish Cup in this period was in 1887–88, beating town rivals Kirkintilloch Central 5–1; a friendly between the two in 1886 had to be abandoned, with the Athletics 3–0 up, after some of the 500 in attendance invaded the pitch in protest at a Central goal being disallowed.
Outside Dumbartonshire, the club looked a little better, only going down to Clydebank by the odd goal in seven in a replay in 1890–91. The Athletics had been handicapped at the start of the season, with regular goalkeeper Buchanan moving to Glasgow Thistle and having to rely on a "good, young" successor in Robert Reid. The club entered the Cup for the next three seasons, after the introduction of qualifying rounds, but never won through to the first round.
The club could find little respite in the local Dumbartonshire Cup. With the bigger teams generally entering, the Athletic could pick off the smaller sides, but struggled against the bigger. The club's best run in the competition came in 1890–91, reaching the semi-final, and to general surprise holding Vale of Leven to a 0–0 draw; however in the replay the Vale scored 12 without reply.
One of the club's best results was a 4–2 win in a friendly with Dumbarton F.C. at the start of the 1889–90 season; it was the first match for Dumbarton after the takeover of Dumbarton Athletic, albeit only one Athletic player had carried over, and he was playing out of position.
A combination of factors in the early 1890s, chiefly the arrival of professionalism and the creation of the Scottish League, drove a number of clubs out of business; the Dumbarton Cup was reduced to 6 entrants by 1894–95. The Athletics' last game in the competition had been in the previous season, and the last reported match a defeat by Dumbarton Rangers in 1893.
Colours.
The club originally wore royal blue shirts and white shorts. In 1887 it changed the royal blue to navy blue, and in 1889 the shorts to match the shirt.
Grounds.
The club played at Townhead Park.
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Sachin Sen
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Sachin Sen (1 June 1917 – 18 March 1992) was an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Ballygunge constituency (1977–1992), and served as Chief Government Whip from 1989 to 1991.
Early life and education.
Sachin Sen was born on 1 June 1917 in Galla, Sylhet District, Bangladesh. He attended school at Maulavi Bazar Govt.High School in Sylhet, which is now in Bangladesh. He graduated from the Murari Chand College under the University of Calcutta. He was a first division football player.
He joined the Communist Party of India before India's independence and sided with the CPI(M) after the split. He was also a member of All India Students' Federation.
Political career.
He was a very promising member of CPIM. He worked tirelessly at the grassroots level in refugee settlements in Calutta. He was also elected to the Calcutta Municipal Corporation.
He unsuccessfully contested from the Rashbehari Avenue Assembly constituency in the 1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election and 1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, but lost both times.
He was a member of the CPI(M) Kolkata District Committee and District Secretariat. He was elected to a member of CPI(M) West Bengal State Committee in 1980s.
He was elected from Ballygunge Assembly Constituency, part of South Kolkata Lok Sabha constituency. He was nominated to contest from Ballygunge in 1977 and won the support and confidence of the people. He was re-elected in 1982, 1987, 1991.
Sen also served as the Government Chief Whip in West Bengal Legislative Assembly between 1989 and 1991.
He was a senior leader of All India Chemical and Pharmaceutical Employees Federation, too. He was also a member of the general council of Centre of Indian Trade Unions.
He has also contributed a lot in pharma industry's field workers movement.
Sports Administration.
Being a football player he was active in sports administration in the state. He was a member of the Cricket Association of Bengal since 1971.
Sen was also elected to the governing Body of Indian Football Association since 1989 and was also the General Secretary of East Bengal Club,Calcutta,1990.
Controversy.
He was one of the accused in the Bijon Setu massacre, where 16 Hindu sadhus and a sadhvi belonging to Ananda Marga, were burned to death at Bijon Setu, near Ballygunge, Kolkata, in West Bengal, India, on 30 April 1982.
Although the attacks were carried out in broad daylight, no arrests were ever made. After repeated calls for a formal judicial investigation, a single-member judicial commission was set up to investigate the killings in 2012.
Personal life.
He was married to Sadhana Sen. The couple had two sons. He passed away in 1992, while serving as a member of the assembly.
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Seabright Invitational Tournament
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The Seabright Invitational Tournament also known as the Seabright Invitation was a men's and women's grass court tennis tournament staged annually at the Seabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket Club, Rumson, New Jersey, United States from 1884 to 1950.
History.
The Seabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket Club is a historic private sports club in Rumson, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. It was founded in 1877 and incorporated officially in 1886. In 1884, the club held its first Seabright Invitational Tournament, the men's singles was won Joseph Sill Clark Sr. The tournament continued to be staged annually until 1889 when it was discontinued.
In 1894 the tournament was reestablished, and in 1920 a women's event was finally added to the schedule. The event was suspended from 1943 to 1945 because of World War II. It resumed in 1946 and continued to be held until 1949. In 1950, the organizing committee of Seabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket Club voted to discontinue the event, due to ongoing cost of the maintenance of the grass courts, and the budget needed to build new permanent spectator seating made it untenable. Contrary to official sources the other reason the tournament was ended was not because of funding, but because the members grew tired of the fuss of organizing the event.
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Rohan Luthra
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Rohan Vir Luthra (born 6 May 2002) is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Slough Town on loan from club Cardiff City.
Career.
Luthra joined the youth academy of Crystal Palace in 2010, and debuted with their U18s at the age of 15. On 2 June 2020, he signed his first professional contract with Crystal Palace. On 20 October 2020, he joined non-league club South Park on loan. On 22 June 2021, he moved to the youth academy of Cardiff City. On May June 2022, he extended the contract with Cardiff City. On 11 March 2023, he made his professional debut with Cardiff City as a late substitute in a 2–0 EFL Championship loss to Preston North End. In doing so he became the first goalkeeper of South Asian descent to play in the Championship. On 24 August 2023, Luthra joined National League South side Slough Town on loan until the end of the season.
International career.
Born in England, Luthra is of Punjabi Indian descent. He was called up to represent the England U15s.
Personal life.
Outside of football, Luthra played cricket with the Sunbury Cricket Club since the age of 6. Starting as a wicket-keeper, he developed into an aggressive left-handed batsman. He left the club to focus on football after he was offered a scholarship by Crystal Palace.
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Harry Hutton
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Harry Hutton (30 December 1907 – 23 December 1981) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
Rugby Union career.
Amateur career.
He played for Dunfermline. He was injured for the most part of the 1933–34 season but he was made captain of the club for the 1934–35 season.
Provincial career.
He played for Midlands District in their match against North of Scotland District on 8 November 1930.
The Aberdeen Press and Journal of 10 November 1930 reported:
A. H. M Hutton at fullback not only made no mistakes, but in kicking five consecutive goals showed how valuable he would be in any side.
Hutton was then picked for the composite North of Scotland District side to play against the South of Scotland District on 22 November 1930. The match was played in miserable rain and wind, and resulted in a draw. He played in the same fixture for North on 18 November 1933.
International career.
He was capped just the once for Scotland in 1932. Injury was said to have robbed him of future caps.
Cricket career.
He was a wicket-keeper for Fifeshire. In 1933 he had to get an operation on his hand which stopped him playing both cricket and rugby, though he returned to both sports.
Family.
His father was a county councillor for Carnock and Saline, and a Secretary of Oakley United.
Harry Hutton married Winifred Macdonald in 1939. Macdonald was a gymnastics teacher in Dundee.
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Dujuan Richards
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Dujuan Odile Richards (born 11 October 2005) is a Jamaican footballer who plays as a forward for Phoenix Academy and the Jamaica national team. He will join Chelsea on 11 October 2023, on his 18th birthday.
Club career.
Richards was born in Port Royal. He started his career with the Phoenix Football Academy at the age of eleven where he remained right up to his signing with Chelsea. He also represented the Kingston College during the high schools competition Manning Cup in Jamaica, and spent time with the Brooke House College’s football academy in Leicestershire, England.
Following impressive performances on several tours of Europe, he went on trial in Premier League side Newcastle United in February 2023. Richards was quoted as saying he was "expecting to hear positively” from "the Magpies".
In March 2023, it was reported that Richards signed a pre-contract deal with Chelsea. On 24 June 2023, it was announced that Richards would join the club after his 18th birthday.
International career.
Richards' grandmother is English, and was eligible to represent England at international level.
In March 2023, Richards was called up to the Jamaican senior team for a friendly game against Trinidad and Tobago, with manager Heimir Hallgrímsson stating that he was "ready" to represent the nation, despite his young age. He went on to make his debut in the match on 12 March.
In June 2023, Richards was named to the final squad for the 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup. In Jamaica's second match of the tournament against Trinidad and Tobago on June 28, he scored his first goal, netting the final tally in a 4-1 victory. He became the youngest goalscorer for Jamaica in CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Personal life.
Richards hails from a sporting family, with uncle Nick playing basketball professionally in the NBA for the Charlotte Hornets, while another uncle, O'Neil, represented the nation in cricket.
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1888 men's tennis season
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The 1888 Men's tennis season was composed of the thirteenth annual pre-open era tennis circuit incorporating 78 tournaments.
The season began in April in London, England, and ended in December in Napier, New Zealand.
Season summary.
In 1888 the twelfth edition of the 1888 Wimbledon Championships was held, this saw the victory of Ernest Renshaw who defeated the Briton Ernest Wool Lewis in the final of the preliminary tournament by 7–9, 6–1, 8–6, 6–4 . Renshaw then defeated defending champion Herbert Lawford in the challenge round to claim the title for the first time. In the fourth edition of the men's doubles the brothers William Renshaw and Ernest Renshaw regained the title they had not been able to defend the previous year by beating the title holders Herbert Wilberforce and Patrick Bowes-Lyon in the challenge round per 2–6, 1–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–3.
In 1888 the eighth edition of the Irish Championships was also played where the Briton Ernest Renshaw prevailed who defeated James Willoughby Hamilton 6-4 5-7 6-4 3-6 6–2 in the final. In the U.S. National Championships, (today known as the US Open) held on the grass courts of the Newport Casino in Newport in the United States, the American Henry Slocum prevailed in the men's singles, defeating his compatriot Howard Augustus Taylor in 3 sets in the final of the preliminary tournament with the score of 6-4 6-1 6–0. Richard Sears after his seventh consecutive victory at the US National Championships he no longer participated in the tournament so the victory was awarded to Taylor without playing the challenge round. In addition to the men's singles tournament at the Staten Island Cricket Club in New York, the doubles tournament was also held where Oliver Campbell and Valentine Gill Hall prevailed, beating Edward MacMullen and Clarence Hobart in the final.
In the New South Wales Championships in Sydney, the Australian Dudley Webb prevailed in the men's singles, beating his compatriot Charles W. Cropper in the final. In the British Covered Court Championships in London, one of the earliest tournaments in tennis history to be played on indoor courts, Ernest Lewis prevailed in the men's singles defeating Ernest George Meers.
Calendar.
Included:
Notes 1: Challenge Round: the final round of a tournament, in which the winner of a single-elimination phase faces the previous year's champion, who plays only that one match. The challenge round was used in the early history of tennis (from 1877 through 1921), in some tournaments not all.* Indicates challenger
Notes 2:'This is an incomplete roll of tournaments staged this year"
Key
January.
"No events"
February.
"Nessun evento"
November.
"No events"
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Jafer Chohan
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Jafer Ali Chohan (born 11 July 2002) is an English professional cricketer who plays for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm leg break bowler.
Early life.
He was inspired to bowl leg-spin by seeing Shane Warne play for Rajasthan Royals at Lord's in 2009. He received a cricket scholarship to attend Harrow School. He played in the age groups at Middlesex County Cricket Club from nine years-old to the Academy. In 2021 he started a degree in International Relations at Loughborough University.
Career.
He played for Berkshire County Cricket Club as they won the National Counties 50-over competition in 2022. Impressing at Berkshire he was recommended to the South Asian Cricket Academy, where performances against county 2nd XIs and as a net bowler for the England Test squad ahead of their 2022-2023 tour of Pakistan earned Chohan a trial with Yorkshire CCC where he was offered a rookie contract in January 2023. Bowling at the England test team he dismissed both Joe Root and Ben Duckett, with Root recommending him a trial at Yorkshire. Chohan impressed in Cape Town on Yorkshire’s pre-season tour of South Africa in March 2023.
In May 2023, Chohan was named in the Yorkshire side for their opening T20 Blast match of the 2023 season, against Birmingham Bears at Edgbaston Cricket Ground.
In July 2023, he was drafted into The Hundred by the Southern Brave.
In July 2023, it was announced he had signed a new two-year contract with Yorkshire.
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2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup
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The 2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2023 Vitality Women's County T20, is the ongoing 14th edition of the Women's Twenty20 Cup, an English women's cricket Twenty20 domestic competition. It was scheduled to take place in April and May 2023, although some matches will be played later due to rain, with 35 teams taking part, organised into eight regional groups.
There was no overall winner, with Lancashire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Sussex, Northamptonshire and Somerset winning their individual groups. Middlesex and Kent shared their group title due to rain on their group Finals Day. One group winner is yet to be determined, with the Group 4 Finals Day postponed due to rain.
Format.
Teams play matches within a series of regional divisions, playing three matchdays, with most matchdays consisting of two matches between the same teams. Matches are played using a Twenty20 format. The group stages will be followed by a group Finals Day, to be played on 14 May, with all teams from the group stage qualifying, with first playing fourth and second playing third in the semi-finals.
The groups work on a points system with positions being based on total points. Points are awarded as follows:
Win: 4 points.
Tie: 2 points.
Loss: 0 points.
Abandoned/Cancelled: 1 point.
Teams.
Teams are divided into eight regional groups. Group 1 consists of 7 teams, whilst Groups 2 to 7 consist of 4 teams apiece. Scotland replace North Representative XI in the only change from the 2022 season.
Standings.
Group 1.
advanced to 1A Finals Day. Teams equal in the standings were chosen by lot to advance to 1A Finals Day.
Fixtures.
Source:
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List of Matara Sports Club cricketers
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This is a list of cricketers who played first-class or List A cricket for Matara Sports Club. The side played at the top-level of Sri Lankan cricket between the 1997–98 season and 2001, although one match from 1990 is also classed as an official List A match.
The players listed are all those who are known to have played for the side in either first-class or List A cricket.
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Young America Cricket Club Invitation
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The Young America Cricket Club Invitation was a late 19th-century men's grass court tennis tournament held at the Young America Cricket Club (YACC), Stanton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States from 1885 to 1895.
History.
In 1855 the Young America Cricket Club (YACC) was founded. In 1885 the club inugurated an inviational men's tennis tournament known as the Young America Cricket Club Invitation. This important event was only held for three editions. The tournament was discontinued as following the merger of the Young America Cricket Club with another famous venue the Germantown Cricket Club in 1889.
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New England Championships
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The New England Championships or New England Sectional Championships was a men's and women's open tennis tournament staged annually at various locations from 1886 until 1978.
History.
On 7 June 1886, the first Championships of New England were inaugurated at the New Haven Lawn Tennis Club in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, and the first men's champion was Henry Warner Slocum Jr..
In 1968 the final ladies championship was held that was won by the American player Shirley Fry-Irvin. The mens tournament continued to played until 1978 which was won by the American player Ned Weld. The championships were played in New Haven from 1886 until 1903. In 1904 they moved to the Hartford Cricket Club Hartford, Connecticut almost exclusively for the rest of its annual run.
The championships were part of the USNLTA Circuit from 1886 until 1924. It became of part of the ILTF Circuit following the United States joining the International Lawn Tennis Federation in 1925 until 1978.
Locations.
The championships have been played in the following cities; Chestnut Hill, Hartford and New Haven and Newtown, Connecticut.
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Guildford Crown Court
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Guildford Crown Court is a Crown Court venue which deals with criminal cases in Bedford Road, Guildford, England.
History.
King Henry III designated Guildford as a location for the Surrey County Court and assizes in August 1257. A corn exchange and assizes hall, which became known as Tunsgate, was erected in the High Street in 1818. However, by 1860, it was found to be "grossly inadequate".
The assizes then moved to the County Hall in North Street: that building, which had been commissioned as a mechanics' institute in 1845, was considerably altered and extended for public and judicial use to a design by Thomas Goodchild in 1862. It was badly damaged in a fire in 1963 and was subsequently demolished. As the number of court cases in Guildford grew, it became necessary to commission a modern courthouse. This issue was temporarily resolved when a new law courts building (now referred to as Guildford Magistrates' and County Court) was opened in Mary Road in May 1976.
However, what the borough still needed was a courthouse with dedicated facilities for Crown Court hearings, which require courtrooms suitable for trial by jury. The site selected by the Lord Chancellor's Department, on the west side of Bedford Road, had been occupied by a cricket ground and a gas works.
The new building was designed by the Property Services Agency in the Modernist style, built in red brick at a cost of £4.7 million, and was completed in 1986. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of 23 bays facing onto Bedford Road. The central section of three bays featured a short flight of steps leading up to an opening with two glass doors. Above the opening, there was a pitched roof surmounted by a triangular pediment bearing a Royal coat of arms. The whole structure, including the wings of ten bays each, was single storey and fronted by a prominent colonnade, formed by square columns supporting an entablature. Internally, the building was laid out to accommodate six courtrooms.
Notable cases have included the trial and conviction of Sally Challen, in June 2011, for the murder of her husband, Richard Challen; her plea to have the conviction reduced to manslaughter was accepted by a judge at the Old Bailey in June 2019.
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Nicoli Brathwaite
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Nicoli Davion Malyk Brathwaite (born 24 December 2000) is a Barbadian footballer who plays as a midfielder for ACS Progresul Ezeriș of Romania's Liga III, and the Barbados national team.
Club career.
Originally a cricketer, Brathwaite began playing football for Kickstart FC at the under-11 level and remained with the club through under-17. In 2016 he traveled to England on a one-year deal with Leyton Orient. After the one year, he was offered a professional contract but it did not materialize because of visa issues. He was originally spotted by the club in Barbados during a showcase jointly organized by the Barbados Football Association and Crystal Palace.
He returned to Barbados and applied for a student visa before returning to England for a two-year sports science programme the following year. While studying, he returned to Leyton Orient, practicing with the under-18 and reserve sides. After his visa was denied again, Brathwaite had a stint with the under-18 and under-23 sides of Charlton Athletic of League One. Again visa issues prevented him from signing a professional contract. Following his exit from Charlton Athletic, he went on trial with Southend United. However, his age and ongoing visa issues prevented his signing for a third time.
In July 2019 Brathwaite was selected to travel to Argentina for a residency with Club Atlético Lanús of the Primera División. Ultimately, the trial was unsuccessful because of his age. He was the first player to participate in the program which resulted from a memorandum of understanding between the University of the West Indies and the governments of Argentina and Barbados. Upon returning to Barbados, Brathwaite joined Paradise FC of the Barbados Premier League. He remained with the club through the 2022 season.
Brathwaite signed for ACS Progresul Ezeriș of Romania's Liga III in February 2023. He was one of a number of additions to the club as it tried to avoid relegation. Another player signed at the time was Loïck Piquionne, son of former French international Frédéric Piquionne. His deal in Romania was Brathwaite's first professional contract.
International career.
Brathwaite made his senior international debut on 29 August 2019 in a friendly against Cuba.
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Louis de Villiers
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Louis Ewald de Villiers (27 September 1908 – 10 February 1970) was a South African cricketer. He played in 23 first-class matches for Orange Free State between 1924 and 1934.
De Villiers was an off-spin bowler. After playing six matches in his first five seasons with moderate results, he had a successful season in 1929–30, taking 24 wickets at an average of 15.57. In the Currie Cup, he took 6 for 28 and 5 for 47 in Orange Free State's innings victory over Eastern Province, and a week later he took 7 for 65 in Western Province's first innings. In nine days he took 19 wickets, with overall figures of 82.3–31–168–19.
In the 1931–32 Currie Cup, de Villiers and the Test player Buster Nupen were the outstanding bowlers, Nupen with 43 wickets at an average of 10.09, de Villiers with 42 wickets at 11.30. In Orange Free State's opening match de Villiers took six wickets in each innings against Rhodesia, who nevertheless won by a large margin. In the final match he took 7 for 30 and 5 for 55 to bowl Orange Free State to victory over Border.
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Allied Blenders & Distillers
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Allied Blenders & Distillers (commonly referred to as ABD) is the third-largest Indian-made foreign liquor company and the largest Indian-owned alcoholic beverage company, with its headquarters in Mumbai, India. They export to 22 countries around the world. It is a major distributor of whiskey, rum, vodka, brandy and other spirits.
History.
Allied Blenders & Distillers was founded by Kishore Rajaram Chhabria in 1988 in Kolkata. Prior to establish ABD Kishore was the managing director of the Shaw Wallace, an Indian liquor manufacturer based in Kolkata. Kishore Chhabria observed that the frontline brands had received all of the attention. He established a separate part of the business in Delhi and produced a new whisky with the goal of reviving underappreciated names.
The first brand of the company brand was Officer's Choice.
In 2010, ABD added Jolly Roger to its offerings creating its own space in the rum category. In 2011, ABD entered the deluxe whisky segment with the launch of Officer's Choice Blue.
In 2012, the company launched Officer's Choice Blue in Delhi. In 2013, ABD launched Kyron in the premium brandy sector.
In 2014, Allied Blenders & Distillers acquired 50% ownership rights in Dutch liquor major Herman Jansen's Mansion House brandy and Savoy Club whiskey.
In 2015, ABD acquired Shasta Biofuels, a Telangana-based integrated grain spirit distillery for Rs. 200 crore.
In May 2017, Officer's Choice Blue was launched in Nepal.
In July 2021, Shekhar Ramamurthy was appointed as the executive deputy chairman of ABD.
In 2022 the company launched its rum brand Jolly Roger in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh.
ABD has filed draft papers to raise Rs. 2000 crore in IPO in June 2022 and in December 2022, SEBI approved the application.
ABD currently has 9 owned bottling units, 1 distilling unit and 22 non owned manufacturing units with sales across 30 States and Union Territories.
Sterling Reserve Cup.
In 2022, Allied Blenders & Distillers presented Sterling Reserve Cup for Indian v/s New Zealand Cricket tournament 2022.
Notable brands.
Allied Blenders & Distillers manufactures brandy, whisky, rum, blended liquors, spirits, and vodka.
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2023 Pakistani protests
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The 2023 Pakistani protests, or the Imran Khan Arrest protests were a series of protests and riots across Pakistan. The first of these protests erupted on Tuesday 14 March 2023 after the Pakistani Punjab Police force attempted to arrest Imran Khan—but called off their operation due to the Pakistan Super League Cricket match.
Little over one month later, on Tuesday 9 May 2023 Khan was arrested—triggering violent protests and demonstrations. Internet was blocked indefinitely and social media websites were blocked in Pakistan when the protests began, with YouTube, Twitter and Facebook blocked indefinitely as of mid-May. Nearly 125 million people have been affected by the government's decision to suspend mobile broadband and block access to social media apps. The events of this day and its aftermaths has been marked as the death of democracy and human rights by many journalists.
Background.
These protests are part of wider ongoing political unrest in Pakistan that triggered with the ouster of former Prime Minister Imran Khan from his office through a vote of No-Confidence Motion (NCM). As a result of successful NCM, Imran Khan became first Pakistani PM ever to be removed by the NCM. After ouster from office Khan alleged that he was ousted by the PDM-an alliance of 13 political parties, with the patronage of connivance between United States and Pakistan's military establishment. Leading up to these protests was the 2022 Toshakhana reference case, a Pakistani government inquiry registered against Imran Khan by the Election Commission of Pakistan.
Khan was believed to have been evading mandatory hearings appearances. As a result, the District and Sessions court of capital Islamabad issued an arrest warrant for Khan and ordered the police to arrest him so as to present him for the next hearing.
Khan, however, maintains the arrest is truly aimed at removing him from the upcoming national election.
Series of incidents.
Protests first broke out in Islamabad on Tuesday 14 March when police first decided to delay Khan's arrest. Police and party workers clashed outside of his Zaman Park residence in Lahore, and also used gas and a water cannon on supporters nearby. Police also arrested party workers.
The following day, Khan's lawyers approached the Islamabad High Court (IHC) and requested it to suspend Khan's non-bailable arrest warrants in the Toshakhana case. In a contrary decision, the high court directed the deposed prime minister's counsel to move the trial court instead, as the order for his arrest was "in line with the law".
At around the same time, the Pakistani political party PTI also filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) to suspend the warrant orders. However, on 15 March 2023, the LHC ordered the police to halt their operations in Lahore's Zaman Park until March 16, despite their failure to apprehend Khan. They reasoned that an arrest would interfere with the nearby Pakistan Super League playoff match.
On 16 March, Khan—as the chairman of the PTI—requested again the suspension of the non-bailable arrest warrants issued in the Toshakhana case, but this request was denied again by the Islamabad District Court on March 16, 2023. Additional District and Sessions judge Zafar Iqbal announced the verdict and ordered the authorities concerned to arrest the former prime minister and present him before the court on March 18. The Lahore High Court then duplicated its order the police postpone their attempt to detain Khan until March 17.
Second Phase (9–12 May).
The second phase of the protests was brief but marked violence and death of dozens of civilians. It was not until 7 May during a rally that Khan accused a senior ISI intelligence officer, Faisal Naseer, of orchestrating plans to murder him. The next day, ISPR said "irresponsible and baseless allegations" by Khan against a serving senior military officer without evidence were "extremely unfortunate, deplorable and unacceptable".
Two days later, on 9 May, Khan was arrested by the military in Al Qadir University Case and mass protests were held nationwide in Pakistan.
After the arrest of Khan protestors alleged that Khan was arrested on the orders of Pakistan Army for his anti-military stance. Protesters started to attack various military installations across the country. The General Headquarters (GHQ) of Pakistan Army and the official residence of Corps Commander Lahore were attacked by the violent mob. In Islamabad blocked one of the main highways in and out of the capital, people also lit fires and threw stones during this early event. One person died in the locality of Quetta.
Protesters in Peshawar also set fire to the Radio Pakistan premises in protest. There were many clashes during these protests also. At around this time, the social media shutdown was authorised, impacting YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.
Former ministers who served in the cabinet of ex-PM Imran Khan, namely Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, and Fawad Chaudhry, are among those that have been arrested during the nationwide protests. The Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan, Khalid Khurshid, was placed under house arrest in Islamabad.
Authorities imposed Section 144 in all provinces of Pakistan, and the Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah requested the deployment of soldiers from the Pakistan Army in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the police force was deemed incapable of handling the situation. As a result, 10 companies of the Army were dispatched to Punjab after the announcement was made.
However, according to reports, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has since deemed the arrest of Imran Khan as unlawful, ordering the Pakistani authorities to release him.
The army was deployed across the country as the death toll was rising in clashes between protestors and the army.
On 12 May, Khan was released on bail and made his way to his personal residence on Lahore. Once out of prison he stated that "I am 100% sure I will be arrested again." and also noted that arrest warrants will be issued for his wife, Bushra Bibi, and that she too will likely be arrested. In an attempt to quell the situation, the Pakistani government shut down the rest of the internet, which failed to stifle the discontent and further fueled the protests across the country.
Pakistani police surrounded Khan's house in Lahore on 17 May. Authorities issued a 24-hour deadline to Khan to surrender suspects, linked to the previous weeks violence, allegedly sheltered inside his home but the deadline expired without his arrest. He said he asked journalists to come to his home, which led to a de-escalation with police. "So that defused the situation because clearly there were no terrorists. So that's when the police could not take action," the former prime minister added.
Conflicting views regarding the motive of the protests.
As indicated by renowned journalist Dr. Moeed Pirzada, that all that happened on May 9, 2023, and onwards, the protests and burning of few government/military buildings, was all planned by military establishment and a large group of public seems to be inline with this thought. This was also being stated by Imran Khan as well. According to Dr. Moeed Pirzada and many other journalists, it was a strategy to label PTI as an extremist party, start a crackdown over its political leaders and workers by detaining over 10 thousand workers where the female prisoners were being humiliated & raped and eventually pave the way to ban the political party.
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Cricket at the 2023 SEA Games
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Cricket at the 2023 SEA Games was held at AZ Group Cricket Oval in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from 29 April to 16 May 2023. Despite cricket in Cambodia being relatively unknown, the sport was included in the games following lobbying from the Cricket Federation of Cambodia and the Asian Cricket Council.
Four different formats of cricket were contested: 50 overs, 20 overs, 10 overs, and six-a-side. National teams were eligible to compete in up to three of the four formats (except for hosts Cambodia who entered all formats). Matches played in the T20 tournaments had full men's Twenty20 International or women's Twenty20 International status with ranking points on offer.
During the games, the Malaysia Cricket Association complained about the organisation of the events, particularly the unseeded group stages and the lack of semi-finals, and questioned the eligibility of 13 members of Cambodia's men's squad.
Participants.
The Vietnam national cricket team withdrew after failing to secure government funding for its participation.
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Alexandria F.C.
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Alexandria Cricket and Football Club was an association football club based in the town of Alexandria, in Dunbartonshire.
History.
The club was founded in 1877, as a winter activity for members of the Alexandria Cricket Club, and was registered with the Scottish Football Association as the Alexandria Cricket club.
The club entered the Scottish Cup for the first time in 1877–78, and lost at home to Milngavie, who scored twice in the second half after Alexandria dominated the first.
Alexandria entered again the following year, and progressed through to the second round, after two draws with Renton Thistle, the first a 2–2 draw at home with goals from Abraham and Docherty either side of a brace for the Thistle, the second 1–1 at Renton; under the rules of the competition at the time, both clubs went through in those circumstances. In the second round, the club surrendered home advantage to Helensburgh, and lost 4–1. There is no further record for the club.
Colours.
The club's colours were blue and white "stripes" (in the context of the time, this refers to hoops) and white knickerbockers.
Ground.
The club played at the cricket ground on Balloch Road.
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Dohrniphora cornuta
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Dohrniphora cornuta is a cosmopolitan species of scuttle fly (Phoridae).
Description.
This species can be distinguished from others of its genus by its dark brown scutum and the mid tibia having a dorsal hair palisade along roughly one-third of its length. In males, the hind coxa has a round lobe that protrudes posteriorly, while the inner face of the hind femur has 4–6 peg-like setae on a basal sensory area and 10–20 hairs near the dorsobasal margin.
Males are 2.26–2.86 mm long, while females are slightly larger at 2.87–3.70 mm.
Ecology.
"Dohrniphora cornuta" has been spread worldwide by human activities and is common in urban areas (synanthropic). It is a polyphagous scavenger. Adults have been found in habitats such as garbage, beetle rearing cages and the decaying bodies of crickets. Larvae live in various kinds of decaying plant and animal matter. It is a secondary invader of carrion, appearing after other flies.
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Kilmarnock Portland F.C.
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Kilmarnock Portland Football Club was an association football club from Ayrshire in Scotland.
History.
The club was founded in 1873, out of a cricket club, and quickly became the leading club in Kilmarnock. The club's name - often given simply as Portland - was taken from Portland Street in the town centre.
The first time the club undertook competitive play was in the Scottish Cup in 1876–77. The club won its first tie 2–1 at Cumnock In the second it beat fellow Kilmarnock side St Andrew's 2–0, in a "one-sided game". The third round consisted of 21 clubs, and was still drawn on a regional basis; Portland lost 7–0 at the strong Mauchline side, to the surprise of those attending who were expecting a close game - at the time, with 130 members, Portland was the biggest club outside Glasgow, except for Vale of Leven, and had 60 more members than Mauchline. Portland conceded within 90 seconds of the start and the second goal came from a Portland attack, when Harrison "selfishly" failed to pass the ball, and Mauchline broke back.
Portland was runner-up to Mauchline in the first Ayrshire Cup in 1877–78, losing 4–2 in the final, played at Holm Quarry, the home ground for a number of other Kilmarnock sides. The match proved to be a test between the Portland's wider wing play and Mauchline's more compact forward line; Portland's opening goal was a Goldie header from a Sinclair corner, and the club went 2–1 up after Mauchline's back Wilson impeded his goalkeeper, but two goals in the last 20 minutes won the trophy for Mauchline.
The club reached the final again in 1878–79, beating Ayr Academicals in the club's penultimate tie by defending a one-goal lead through time-wasting tactics, continually sending the ball "into 'touch'". The club had also survived an apparent elimination by Beith, in a tie which included 500 spectators from Kilmarnock travelling by a special train; the only goal of the game came from a free-kick after an appeal for hands, which the referee had not actually given, but for which the Beith umpire had flagged. Despite Portland protesting the goal, which under the rules at the time would be considered later, Beith refused to play extra-time. The Ayrshire Football Association ordered a replay at Hamilton Park, which Portland won following "a fine piece of cross-play" between Harrison, Gallocher, and Goldie. Again however the club was runner-up in the final, losing to Kilmarnock Athletic in a replay, in extra-time; in that period Portland's captain Vallance sent the ball into the goalmouth from a free-kick, and the ball went through the goal without touching anyone. At the time, all free-kicks were indirect, so no goal was given. Worse for Vallance was that it was his slip near the end that presented Johnston with the winning goal.
Portland had some consolation in 1878–79 by winning the Burns Cup, an invitational tournament to raise funds for a statue to Robert Burns, coming from behind to beat Mauchline 2–1 in the final - the first time the Portland had beaten the Mauchline. The club placed the cup in the Burns Museum in order to raise more funds for the monument.
The season also saw the club gain its longest run in the Scottish Cup, reaching the fourth round, made up of 18 clubs; the first round saw Portland gain its biggest Cup win with a 9–0 score against Dean. In the fourth round, the club was drawn at home to the quasi-professional Dumbarton side, and earned a 1–1 draw (Vallance this time placing a free-kick "beautifully" for Campbell to equalize), but in the replay was 5–0 down at half-time, albeit some honour was gained with a (disputed) goal in the second-half.
Portland finally won the Ayrshire Cup in 1881–82, beating Kilmarnock 4–0 in the final thanks to goals from Richmond (2), Connell, and Harrison, and completed a double with a win in the invitational Merchants' Charity Cup final, over Lugar Boswell. The club's defence of both trophies ended with defeats to Kilmarnock Athletic, which had reached the Scottish Cup semi-final for the previous two years, and which would go on to match Portland's double.
With Kilmarnock Athletic losing players to English clubs, Portland looked as if it could take over the mantle as the leading side in Kilmarnock. However, in July 1883, despite having already entered the Scottish and Ayrshire Cups for 1883–84, the club disbanded, "in consequence of losing its ground". One problem was that the Athletic had been getting bigger crowds during the season. Portland's assets were put up for sale in September 1883.
Colours.
The club's colours were originally navy and white one-inch hoops. From 1877 onwards they were white jerseys with a badge, white knickers, and blue stockings.
Ground.
The club originally played on Mr Blair's field at Holehouse Road. In 1875, the club moved to Nursery Park, off West Netherton Street. In 1877 the club moved to its most famous ground, Hamilton Park, next door to Rugby Park.
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Girvan F.C. (1874)
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Girvan Football Club was a Scottish football club based in the town of Girvan, South Ayrshire.
History.
The club was formed in 1874, with matches being reported in the 1875–76 season.
Girvan entered the Scottish Cup from 1876 to 1880, but scratched from its last three entries. Its first run in the competition, in 1876–77, was its best. In the first round, the club beat Dean of Kilmarnock, at the ground of Ayr Eglinton, 3–2; Dean disputed one of the goals for offside, but Dean's own nominated umpire could not give a decision either way, and the referee allowed the goal. In the second round Girvan beat Queen of the South Wanderers, at Newton Stewart, 4–0 in a "one-sided game". The run came to an end in the third round of fixtures, which involved 21 clubs, with a 3–0 defeat against Lancefield of Glasgow played in Ayr.
The club played in the first round in 1877–78, but lost 6–0 at home to a strong Mauchline side.
The club subsequently had a low-key existence, often playing reserve sides, until the 1885–86 season. It entered the Ayrshire Cup intermittently from the first competition in 1877–78 until 1886–87, but scratched from most of its entries, and only ever won one match (4–0 at home to Ochiltree in 1879). The club's final match in the competition was at Ayr F.C.'s Beresford Park in 1885–86, and Girvan, "to the surprise of all", took the lead after 2 minutes, but turned around at half-time 6–1 down, and only just kept the score out of double figures.
Colours.
The club played in blue jerseys with white knickerbockers.
Ground.
The club originally played on public parks, before moving to Shore Field by 1879. The club's final ground was the Stair Park cricket ground.
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Bangladeshi cricket team against Ireland in England in 2023
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The Bangladesh cricket team toured England in May 2023 to play three One Day International (ODI) matches against the Ireland cricket team. The ODI matches formed part of the inaugural 2020–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League.
In March 2023, Cricket Ireland (CI) confirmed that all three ODIs would be played at Chelmsford in England. This was due to better weather in England than in Ireland, leading to a better chance of full matches being played to a result.
Going into the series, Ireland needed to win all three matches to claim the eighth and final automatic place in the 2023 Cricket World Cup at the expense of South Africa. South Africa's qualification for the World Cup was confirmed when the first ODI ended with no result due to rain. The result meant that Ireland had to go through the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier to qualify for the 2023 Cricket World Cup.
The first ODI ended in a no result due to rain. Bangladesh won the series 2–0.
Background.
The Bangladesh team were scheduled to tour Ireland and England in May 2020 to play three ODIs and four Twenty20 International (T20I) matches, with the T20I matches scheduled to take place in England. It would have been the first time that Ireland hosted a series at a neutral venue.
Originally, the tour was scheduled to include a one-off Test match and three T20I matches. However, the Test match was cancelled, with another T20I match added to the tour itinerary. Cricket Ireland made the decision based on the lack of context for the one-off match, and the costs associated of hosting it. A planned home T20I series against Afghanistan was also cancelled by Cricket Ireland. Cricket Ireland confirmed the fixtures for ODI series in December 2019. In December 2019, Cricket Ireland looked at the possibility of hosting the T20I matches in England. In February 2020, the T20Is were confirmed to be taking place in England, along with the dates for the four matches. The venues in England were confirmed the following month. However, on 21 March 2020, the matches were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In November 2021, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced that they would play the three ODI matches in Ireland in May 2022, with the aim to play the T20I matches at some point during 2023. In March 2022, as a result of the impact from the pandemic, the International Cricket Council (ICC) agreed to extend the cut-off date for the Cricket World Cup Super League from March 2023 to May 2023, allowing this series to take place.
Tour match.
Ahead of the series, Bangladesh were scheduled to play a 50-over warm up match against the Ireland Wolves side, with the match being played behind closed doors. However, the match was abandoned due to rain.
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List of cricketers with five-wicket hauls in all international formats
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In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") occurs when a bowler takes five or more wickets in a single innings. This is regarded by critics as a notable achievement, equivalent to a century from a batsman.
Pakistan's Umar Gul became the first bowler to achieve this feat after he took his first five-wicket haul in T20I in June 2009 since he took his first five-wicket haul in ODI in September 2003 and in Test in April 2004.
In 2018, India's Kuldeep Yadav became the only player who has taken a five-wicket haul in all three formats in the same year, receiving his T20I and ODI five-wicket haul in July against England and in October he took the five-wicket haul in Test against West Indies.
Men's international cricket.
As of March 2023, only 12 male players have taken five-wicket hauls in all three international formats.
A player name in bold text indicates that the player is still an active international cricketer.
Women's international cricket.
As of July 2023 only two women have achieved a five-wicket-haul in all three international formats.
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Monty Desai
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Monty Desai is an Indian professional cricket coach who is currently the head coach of Nepal national team.
He began his coaching career with Andhra cricket team, where he led the team in 2018–19 season of Ranji Trophy. Later, he joined Afghanistan national team in 2018 and United Arab Emirates national team as a batting coach in 2019. He was appointed head coach of Canada national team for 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two.
In 2019, he then joined West Indies national team as a batting coach, and served until 2021. He was also part of the Indian Premier League franchise Rajasthan Royals and Gujarat Lions as a performance coach and talent scout. In 2023, he was appointed head coach of Nepal national team by Cricket Association of Nepal, and led the team to qualify for the 2023 Asia Cup and 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier as well as to successfully retain the ODI status.
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2023 Geelong Football Club season
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The 2023 Geelong Football Club season is the club's 159th season playing Australian rules football, with the club competing in their 124th season in the Australian Football League (AFL). Geelong will also field a women's team in the 2023 AFL Women's season, and a men's and women's reserves team in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the VFL Women's (VFLW) respectively.
AFL team.
Season summary.
It was the club's thirteenth AFL season under senior coach Chris Scott, with Patrick Dangerfield appointed as club captain, replacing the retired Joel Selwood.
After a poor start to the season, Geelong would become the first reigning premiers to lose their opening three matches since 1976.
With the debut of Oisín Mullin in just his fourth game of Australian football, Geelong fielded three Irish players against in round 11, becoming the first club in VFL/AFL history to field three in the same team.
After losing to in the penultimate round of the season, Geelong were eliminated from finals contention, missing the finals for just the second time in Chris Scott's 13-year tenure. Geelong joining (2021), (2017) and (2009) as premiers in the last 20 years to miss finals the following season. A number of injuries to key players one of the reasons behind the club's slide down the ladder.
Three consecutive losses to end the season saw the club equal its lowest ever finish, ending up in 12th place on the ladder.
Forward Jeremy Cameron would be the club's leading votegetter at the 2023 Brownlow Medal count, polling 13 votes including two best-on-ground matches.
Pre-season.
Geelong defeated in a pre-season scratch match at GMHBA Stadium played over eight periods with both senior and reserves players. The final score was Geelong 31.34 (220) versus Hawthorn 18.25 (133). Geelong also played an official AFL practice match against on 2 March, and were defeated 13.13 (91) versus Geelong's 6.9 (45). Geelong's home-and-away season began on 17 March against at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
Coaching staff.
Chris Scott continued as the club's men's senior coach for a thirteenth season, having signed a two-year contract extension until the end of the 2024 season. Scott would coach his 300th AFL game in round 15 against , with Geelong winning by 15 points.
Scott would break Reg Hickey's long-standing record of 304 matches as coach of the club, coaching his 305th match in round 20 against .
Playing list.
Statistics.
"Updated as at round 24"
VFL team.
Season summary.
2022 VFL premiers coach Mark Corrigan was appointed as coach of Geelong's VFL team in October 2022, replacing Shane O'Bree who had been promoted to the club's AFL program. Corrigan had previously played with the club from 2011 to 2014 and was a member of the club's 2012 VFL premiership team. Angus Byrne was appointed as captain, with Tom Feely and Daniel Capiron as vice-captains.
Jye Chalcraft would win his second successive Geelong VFL best and fairest award, polling 163 votes after appearing in all 18 matches. Vice-captain Daniel Capiron would finish in second place, with Ted Clohesy rounding out the top three placegetters.
AFL Women's team.
Season summary.
Meg McDonald was reappointed captain ahead of the season, as part of a five-woman leadership group. Nina Morrison was re-elected as vice-captain, with Chantel Emonson, Becky Webster and Mikayla Bowen the other members of the leadership group.
Pre season.
In the club's first official action before the start of the new season, Geelong defeated by 13 points in a four-quarter match simulation at Victoria Park on 12 August. The Cats then played in their only official practice match, losing a tight contest 7.8 (50) to 8.8 (56) at the Adelaide Oval. Kate Darby kicked two goals in the match, with Irish recruit Aishling Moloney impressing.
Coaching staff.
Daniel Lowther continued as head coach of the AFLW program for a third season. Former Geelong VFL Women's coach Andrew Bruce (forwards), Josh Finch (midfield), and 2023 Geelong VFL Women's coach Elise Coventry (defence) were appointed as assistant coaches. Current men's team player Gary Rohan, and former Geelong VFL player Will Sexton, joined the coaching staff as development coaches.
Playing list.
Statistics.
"Updated as at round 1"
VFLW team.
Season summary.
Former Geelong player Elise Coventry was appointed as the club's VFL Women's coach in December 2022, replacing Andrew Bruce. Coventry was joined by assistant coaches Anna Teague, Alf Della Monica and Aiden Yelland.
Chloe Leonard was appointed captain, after serving as vice-captain in 2022. Poppy Schaap, Abby Favell, Sachi DeGiacomi, and former captain Bree Beckley were the rest of the team's leadership group.
After losing to in round 1, Geelong went on a five game winning streak, including turning the tables on North Melbourne in round 6, with a last second goal to Olivia Cicolini to secure a 28–22 win.
Analea McKee and Charlotte Simpson were both selected in an invitational Under-23 All-Stars squad for a match against the AFLW Academy at Marvel Stadium during round 12 of the season.
The team would sit a game clear atop the competition ladder after round 9, but would endure a five-match winless streak to eventually miss the finals, finishing eighth.
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Gribblehirst Park
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Gribblehirst Park is a park in central Auckland, New Zealand, close to the suburbs of Sandringham and Morningside. Originally the park was known as Cabbage Tree Swamp.
Description.
Gribblehirst Park is a 5.9-hectare park in Sandringham. The park has a mix of playgrounds, sports fields, a half-basketball court, and forested areas. It is accessible by Sandringham Road, Aroha Avenue, and Kenneth Avenue, and is bisected by a pathway named Cabbage Tree Swamp Drive. The park contains a large rose garden near Aroha Avenue and a small section of remnant lava rock forest.
The park is home to Gribblehirst Community Hub, a community centre for the area, the Auckland Central Community Shed, the former site of the Edendale Bowling Club and Eden RFC, a rugby union club.
History.
The area was originally swampland and known to Tāmaki Māori as Ngā Anawai, referring to the water-filled lava-flow caves that formed in the area. The lava caves were created by Maungawhau / Mount Eden and Mount Albert over 30,000 years ago. Tāmaki Māori used the swamp to collect food and materials. The area was known to early European residents as Cabbage Tree Swamp, due to the number of tī kōuka (cabbage trees) that lined the swampland.
The Sandringham area was used primarily for dairy farming during the early colonial era. Sandringham, especially the area near Cabbage Tree Swamp, was known to regularly flood. A stone bridge named Gribble's Bridge was constructed near the modern-day park, for traffic to safely bypass areas that regularly flooded. In 1880, the New Zealand native weevil "Peristoreus viridipennis" was first described in the swamp.
The Auckland City Council acquired fourteen acres of Cabbage Tree Swamp in 1927, donated by the families of early Auckland residents S. L. Hirst and James Gribble. After the swamp was drained and the ground levelled, Gribblehirst Park opened on 28 March 1931. The park quickly became a venue used regularly by Kowhai Junior High School, the Auckland Rugby Football Union, Eden RFC, and Mt. Albert Amateur Athletic Club. In 1931, a playground was established at the park, and in 1937 two cricket wickets were formed. In 1938, the Edendale Bowling Club began leasing land at the park.
In 1942 during World War II, a station to clean residents in the event of a gas attack was constructed. This building was later converted into a sports pavilion.
The playground was upgraded in 1974, and again between 1998 and 2007, when a flying fox was added to the park.
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2023 Major League Cricket players' draft
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The 2023 Major League Cricket players' draft took place on March 19, 2023, at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
The draft was conducted over 9 rounds via a "snake" format, where the team order is reversed every round. Out of the 9 rounds, 8 were general draft picks, with the final round being exclusively for U-23 players.
Out of the total of over 100 players who entered, a total of 54 players were drafted, with another 6 overseas players announced during the draft.
Rules.
Each team had to mandatorily pick a U-23 player in the ninth round, irrespective of whether or not they selected one in rounds before. Each team also had only three minutes to select a player in rounds 1–5, with the time shortened to 2 minutes for rounds 6–9. Additionally, there were no trading of picks allowed during the draft.
Salary cap.
The draft had fixed salary caps for each round, with the highest being $75,000 in the first round and the lowest being $2,500 in the ninth round.
Draft order.
Following a randomized order drew held at the Westin Oaks Houston on March 13, the Seattle Orcas had the first pick followed by the Washington Freedom, the MI New York, the San Francisco Unicorns, the Los Angeles Knight Riders, and the Texas Super Kings. As the draft was held in a "snake" format, the Super Kings then had the first pick in the second round, with the Orcas having the first pick again in the third.
Overseas signings.
During the draft, a total of 6 overseas players were announced. Among these were Aaron Finch and Marcus Stoinis, who are set to play for the San Francisco Unicorns, Mitchell Marsh and Quinton de Kock, who are set to play for the Seattle Orcas, and Wanindu Hasaranga and Anrich Nortje who are set to play for the Washington Freedom.
Squads.
These were the squads for each team following the draft.
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2022–23 Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League
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The 2022–23 Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League, also known as Walton Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League (for sponsorship reasons) is the ninth edition of the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League, a List A cricket competition that is being held in Bangladesh. It is being played by the 12 club teams. The tournament started on 15 March 2023. All the matches are being played at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, BKSP grounds and Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium. The group phase of the tournament will continue until Eid al-Fitr, while the Super League will begin after the Eid break. In February 2023, the CCDM introduced three new awards for this edition: Player of the Tournament, Highest Run-Scorer and Highest Wicket-Taker, with a prize money of ৳2 lakh for each. They also decided to give ৳10,000 as the prize money for the Player of the Match.
Teams and format.
In March 2023, the 12 teams and the fixtures for the first three rounds of the competition were announced. Agrani Bank returned to the league, while a new team, Dhaka Leopards, joined the league for the first time. The competition is played in round-robin format, followed by play-offs among the top six teams for the championship and among the lowest three teams to determine relegation. The competing teams are as follows:
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Texas Super Kings
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The Texas Super Kings is an American professional Twenty20 cricket team that competes in Major League Cricket (MLC). The team is based in Dallas, Texas and was announced in 2023 as one of six inaugural teams to play in Major League Cricket. The team has two minor league affiliates – the Dallas Mustangs and the Dallas Xforia Giants, which both compete in Minor League Cricket alongside 24 other teams. The franchise is co-owned by the Chennai Super Kings, Ross Perot Jr., and Anurag Jain.
The team's home ground is Grand Prairie Stadium, located in Grand Prairie, Texas. The stadium has a capacity of 7,200 – but it can expanded to seat 15,000 for major events. The team is coached by Stephen Fleming, who also serves as head coach for the Chennai Super Kings and the Joburg Super Kings, and is captained by former South African skipper Faf du Plessis.
Franchise history.
Background.
In November 2020, USA Cricket announced that ACE had acquired a 15-year lease for a former Minor League Baseball stadium to be renovated into a fully-fledged cricket stadium, which would host the Dallas franchise Major League Cricket team. Plans were reaffirmed two years later in December 2022, where MLC officially announced its 2023 season and the name of the Texas franchise home ground, Grand Prairie Stadium.
In May 2022, it was formally announced during a Series A and A1 fundraising round for Major League Cricket that Anurag Jain and Ross Perot Jr. – who were among many big-name investors such as Satya Nadella and Sanjay Parthasarathy – would co-own the Texas franchise cricket team.
In the buildup to the 2023 draft – which was held on March 19, the Texas franchise announced its partnership with the Chennai Super Kings. Following the draft, the team held a press conference wherein co-owner Anurag Jain, amongst Stephen Fleming and K.S. Viswanathan, publicly announced their team name – the Texas Super Kings, logo and coach for the first time. However, it was announced in late April that they had revamped their logo for it to look similar to the logos of the Chennai and Joburg Super Kings.
2023 season.
Prior to the launch of the official season, it was announced the MLC's inaugural domestic draft would take place on March 19, 2023. The Super Kings had the final pick of the first round draft and selected Rusty Theron, before adding Sami Aslam, Calvin Savage, and Milind Kumar with later selections. In June 2023, the Super Kings announced seven of their nine overseas signings, including Ambati Rayudu, Devon Conway, and Dwayne Bravo. In addition, they announced their full support staff lineup, including Albie Morkel and Eric Simons, among others. They subsequently announced that former South African skipper, Faf du Plessis, would captain the side and on July 5, selected Mohammad Mohsin as their Domestic Wildcard Pick.
Rayudu withdrew from the tournament following the Board of Control of Cricket in India's proposal of a year-long "cooling-off period" for recently retired players and his place taken by Imran Tahir.
In the opening match of the tournament on July 13, the Super Kings recorded a 69-run win over the Los Angeles Knight Riders. This was followed by a 6-run defeat to the Washington Freedom in their second match, a 17-run victory over MI New York and an 8-wicket defeat to the Seattle Orcas.
A three-wicket win over the San Francisco Unicorns ensured a top-two finish going into the playoffs, but losses to both Seattle and New York saw the team eliminated.
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Washington Freedom (cricket)
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The Washington Freedom are an American professional Twenty20 cricket team that competes in Major League Cricket (MLC). The team is based in Washington, D.C. and was announced in 2023 as one of six inaugural franchises to play in Major League Cricket. The Freedom is owned by Indian American entrepreneur Sanjay Govil.
The team plans to have their home ground at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. The stadium is planned to host both cricket and baseball games and support up to 12,000 spectators upon its completion in summer 2025. The team is coached by Greg Shipperd, who currently coaches the Sydney Sixers, and is captained by Sixers captain Moises Henriques.
Franchise history.
Background.
In May 2022, Major League Cricket announced that it had secured $120 million from various investors across the United States. One of these investors was Sanjay Govil, who was later announced to be the lead investor and owner of the Washington DC-based franchise team. Alongside MLC, Govil partnered up with George Mason University to launch a feasibility study into a 12,000-seat hybrid cricket/baseball stadium later that year in December. The stadium would be on track to finish its completion around summer of 2025 and play host to the DC franchise.
In February 2023, Major League Cricket announced that Govil had entered a partnership with Cricket New South Wales to help accelerate the growth of the DC-based franchise. The agreement included initiatives to further player development opportunities, as well as cricket content, within the U.S., an exchange program of coaches and support staff, and opportunities for NSW-based players to play in MLC. Cricket NSW chief executive Lee Germon stated that "... he [Govil] was very keen to not have an IPL partner... [and wanted to] partner with someone outside who could really bring what we wanted to the table."
In March 2023, the team's name, the Washington Freedom, and logo were officially revealed to the public. Upon the unveiling of the team name and logo, Govil said that, "the team's mark and colors are a perfect for a team from the nation's capital to compete on the global stage."
2023 season.
The Freedom had the second overall pick of the MLC's inaugural domestic draft and selected Thunderbolts vice-captain Andries Gous as their first draft pick. Dane Piedt, Mukhtar Ahmed, and Saad Ali were also all picked up by the team, with Sri Lanka international Wanindu Hasaranga (who later pulled out of the competition) and South African quick Anrich Nortje both being announced as direct signings during the draft. Marco Jansen, Glenn Phillips, and Adam Milne were all also announced as direct signings in May. The team then later announced it would be led by Sixers captain Moises Henriques. Shortly after, they announced that they had appointed Greg Shipperd as their head coach and Dale Steyn as their bowling coach. Later the following month, they announced Josh Philippe, Ben Dwarshuis, and Akeal Hosein all as additional direct signings. Tanveer Sangha was signed in the days leading up to the tournament as a replacement for Hasaranga, while Matthew Short was added to the squad as an injury replacement for Josh Philippe.
Freedom's season started with a narrow defeat against Seattle Orcas, before they bounced back in the second fixture against Texas Super Kings, winning by six runs thanks to a fantastic all-round bowling display that backed up 80 off 50 balls from Matt Short.
Two more wins would follow against LA Knight Riders and San Francisco Unicorns, before a defeat at the hands of MI New York would see Freedom forced to settle for a place in the third v fourth Eliminator fixture in Finals week. The highlight of Freedom's group stage campaign came against the Unicorns, where Saurabh Netravalkar starred with an outstanding bowling performance, claiming 6-9 as Freedom successfully defended 133.
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Seattle Orcas
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The Seattle Orcas are an American professional Twenty20 cricket team that competes in Major League Cricket (MLC). The team is based in Seattle, Washington and was announced in 2023 as one of six inaugural franchises to play in Major League Cricket. The Seattle Orcas are owned by an investor group including Satya Nadella, Soma Somasegar, Samir Bodas, Ashok Krishnamurthi, and Sanjay Parthasarathy – and the GMR Group. The Orcas have a minor league affiliate called the Seattle Thunderbolts, who play in Minor League Cricket and were the 2022 champions.
The team plans to have their home ground at Marymoor Park in Redmond, Washington. The park's cricket ground is set to have a capacity of up to 6,000 people once it is completed around 2025. The team is coached by former Indian cricketer Pravin Amre.
History.
Background.
In November 2021, the Bellevue City Council passed a resolution to support further research into the cost and feasibility for a cricket facility in Seattle. This was followed by a similar resolution that the Redmond City Council adopted in January 2022. A motion of support to develop a cricket facility in Marymoor Park was then passed by King County in February 2022. In May 2022, Major League Cricket announced that Somasegar and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella were among some of the lead investors launching Major League Cricket in the U.S.
In March 2023, MLC unveiled the team ownership, name, and logo prior to the inaugural MLC domestic draft. It was also announced that the team would partner with the GMR Group, who co-owns the Delhi Capitals of the Indian Premier League. Co-owner Somasegar stated that the Orcas name and colors "pay tribute to our local community [of Seattle] that has helped build that spirit of support". On May 27, 2023, it was revealed that the Orcas had revamped their logo to emphasize its focus on cricket.
2023 season.
Prior to the launch of the official season, it was announced the MLC's inaugural domestic draft would take place on March 19, 2023. The Orcas' had the first pick of the draft and selected Thunderbolts captain Harmeet Singh as their first overall draft pick, before adding the likes of Shehan Jayasuriya, Angelo Perera, and Shubham Ranjane in later draft selections. In addition, Mitchell Marsh and Quinton de Kock were announced as some of the team's overseas signings during the draft. Over the following months, several more overseas signings occurred, including the signings of Wayne Parnell, Dasun Shanaka, and Heinrich Klaasen – amongst others.
The team also announced their lineup of support staff, with Johan Botha coming onboard as the team's bowling coach, Ross Taylor as the team's batting coach, Pravin Amre as the team's head coach, and Jarrod Harkness as the team analyst.
Prior to the start of the season, Mitchell Marsh and Sikandar Raza – who were both included in the Orcas squad – withdrew from MLC due to it clashing with other tournaments such as the Ashes and the Zim Afro T10.
In the start to their inaugural campaign, the Orcas' went top of the table by recording a 5-wicket win over the Washington Freedom, a 35-run win over the San Francisco Unicorns, and an 8-wicket win over the Texas Super Kings. The Orcas' winning streak was snapped, however, during a 2-wicket defeat to the Los Angeles Knight Riders. A 2-wicket win over MI New York assured the Orcas' a first-place finish going into the finals nevertheless.
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MI New York
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The MI New York are a franchise Twenty20 cricket team based in New York, New York State that plays in the Major League Cricket (MLC). It was founded in 2023 by Indiawin Sports, which also owns the Mumbai Indians (MI). MINY has a minor league affiliate – Manhattan Yorkers, which competes in the Minor League Cricket (MiLC).
The team plans to build their homeground in the Marine Park with an expected capacity of 10,000. Until then, the team will be playing all of their matches of the in the Grand Prairie stadium in Texas.
History.
Background.
In March 2023, it was confirmed that the Indiawin Sports, which also owns teams like Mumbai Indians, MI Cape Town and MI Emirates, will be venturing into developing cricket in America, as they introduced MI New York. MI are one of the four IPL teams that have bought a team in MLC.
Speaking about expanding the MI family, Mrs. Nita Ambani said “I am thrilled to welcome our New York franchise to the growing MI Family! With our entry into the first T20 franchise cricket league in the US, I hope we are able to establish Mumbai Indians as a global brand of fearless and entertaining cricket! This is another new beginning for MI and I look forward to the exciting journey ahead.”
2023 season.
The first MLC draft was held on March 19, 2023 in NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston. MINY picked American Batter Steven Taylor as their first draft pick. They haven't signed any overseas player yet, all of their 9 picks were from the domestic circuit. They also picked the United States national team captain, Monank Patel.
The MI New York announced their full squad on June 14 , with Afghanistan's Rashid Khan, New Zealand's Trent Boult, South Africa's Kagiso Rabada and appointed West Indies' Kieron Pollard as their team's captain.
MINY progressed into the playoffs, after finishing the league stage with 2 wins from 5 matches. They face Washington Freedom in the Eliminator on 27 July 2023, Nicholas Pooran took over the captaincy, as Pollard was rested due to an arm injury. They defeated Washington by 16 runs. They moved on to face Texas Super Kings in the Challenger, MINY defeated Super Kings by 6 wickets to enter the Championship Final of the Inaugural season.
In the Final, New York were set a target of 184. Courtesy to captain Nicholas Pooran's century, they defeated Seattle Orcas to clinch their first MLC title.
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Los Angeles Knight Riders
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The Los Angeles Knight Riders, sometimes shortened to the LA Knight Riders, are an American professional Twenty20 cricket team that competes in Major League Cricket (MLC). The team is based in Los Angeles, California and was originally announced in 2020 as a team to play in Major League Cricket. The Knight Riders are owned by the Knight Riders Group.
The team plans to have their home ground at Great Park in Irvine, California. The stadium is expected to cost $30 million and seat upwards of 10,000 spectators once its completion around 2024 and 2025. The Knight Riders' minor league affiliate – the Hollywood Master Blasters also separately play in MLC's developmental league, Minor League Cricket.
Franchise history.
Background.
On December 2020, it was announced by Major League Cricket that the Knight Riders Group had bought a stake in their league, and as a result, was given ownership rights to the LA Knight Riders. Plans for the team were reaffirmed in April 2021 with CEO Venky Mysore stating that the team would even have their own stadium. More plans on this stadium would be revealed nearly a year later in April 2022, with plans for a 10,000-seat cricket stadium costing $30 million.
On July 2022, Mysore reaffirmed once again his intent of starting a brand in L.A. stating that, "we [the Knight Riders Group] also made a big investment in... MLC where we were involved from the inception of the idea. We’ll be setting up [the] LA Knight Riders and we’re also building a stadium [there]...". In November later that year, the 2023 season of MLC was officially announced. Shortly thereafter, in March 2023, more information about the LA Knight Riders was revealed, including the unveiling of its team logo.
2023 season.
Prior to the launch of the official season, it was announced the MLC's inaugural domestic draft would take place on March 19, 2023. The Knight Riders had the final pick of the draft and selected the Hurricanes' Ali Khan as their first draft pick. Over the course of the draft, the Knight Riders picked up various players including the likes of Unmukt Chand, Corné Dry, and Saif Badar. The Knight Riders announced their full squad on June 13, with England's Jason Roy, Australia's Adam Zampa, West Indies' Sunil Narine and New Zealand's Lockie Ferguson all in the mix. Mysore, upon the squad's unveiling, stated that, "we have assembled a strong and talented team for the debut season of MLC, who can compete at the highest level and bring joy to cricket fans around the world". On July 10, team management announced that Narine would lead the team as the captain and that Phil Simmons would be the team's head coach. Alongside Simmons, Bharat Arun and Ryan ten Doeschate were subsequently announced as the team's bowling and batting coaches, respectively.
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Hugh Fletcher (rugby union)
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Hugh Fletcher (27 April 1877 – 29 January 1962) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
Rugby Union career.
Amateur career.
He played rugby union for Edinburgh University.
He later played for Norwich RFC.
Provincial career.
He played for Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the 1904 inter-city match at Hamilton Crescent.
He played for Cities District against Provinces District in their match on 14 January 1905.
International career.
He was capped for Scotland 2 times in the period 1904 to 1905.
Football career.
He played for Norwich CEYMS F.C. and then captained Norwich City. He played at centre-half. He played in Norwich rugby club against Norwich Union Fire Office in an association football match in 1905.
Cricket career.
He played cricket for the British Medical Association.
Medical career.
He became a surgeon at Sussex County Hospital.
Family.
He was the second son of Benjamin Edgington Fletcher (1836-1911) of Marlingford Hall, Norfolk.
He married Dorothy Alice Sanderson in 1912.
Death.
He died on 29 January 1962. He is buried in St. Mary's Churchyard in Marlingford, Norfolk. He left £82,924 and 14 shillings in probate.
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The Tale of the Little Dog
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The Tale of the Little Dog (Russian: "Собачья сказка") is a fairy tale from the Sami people collected by ethnographer . It is related to the international cycle of the "Animal as Bridegroom" or "The Search for the Lost Husband", wherein a human maiden marries a man under an animal curse, loses him and has to search for him.
Source.
According to Vladimir V. Charnolusky, the tale was collected in 1927 from a female teller named Kuropteva Varvara Ivanovna.
Summary.
An old woman laments the fact that she does not have any sons, so prays to have a son, even if he is a little dog. So she gives birth to a dog. The little dog helps his old parents with daily chores. One day, he wants to marry, so his parents arrange for his marriage with a human girl. The bride goes to live with the dog in the barn, but, on the wedding night, she becomes so afraid the dog becomes enraged and kills her. The dog's parents arrange another bride for him, who treats him kindly and shares her food with him. They move out to the barn and live like husband and wife. The girl discovers her husband takes off the dogskin at night and becomes a handsome man, and keeps the secret to herself.
One day, the old woman inquires her daughter-in-law about their life together, and the girl tells her about the dogskin. The old woman promises to burn the dogskin to keep him human. The next morning, the dog husband (now human) cannot find the skin, and escapes from home. His wife wakes up after him and does not see him in bed. She hears his voice, telling her to wear out three iron canes in search for him.
The girl fashions the three iron canes and walks about for three years, until she reaches the house of an old sorceress. The sorceress welcomes her in and says the husband lives with a rich "shalyutka" named Ulitta in their city, gives the girl a copper comb, and tells her to take out the comb and use it on her hair when her husband is playing a ball game. The girl follows her instructions and goes to the nearby city and waits for her husband. He throws the ball, which lands at her feet. She takes the ball and withholds it, and tells the player she wishes to give Ulitta a message: she will return the ball if Ulitta allows the girl to sleep by their doorstep at night. It happens thus.
The next day, the old sorceress gives the girl a silver comb, with the same piece of advice. The girl withholds the ball again and announces she will return it if Ulitta allows her to sleep by her husband's feet. On the third day, she is given a golden comb, and withholds the ball until Ulitta allows the girl to sleep in their bed at night. On each night, the girl cries for her husband, and, on the third night, her tears stain her husband's shirt. He turns to her, recognizing his wife and embracing her. Ulitta sees the sleeping pair, takes her box of golden treasures and jumps into the sea, never to be seen again. The girl and her dog husband (now human) return to his parents.
Analysis.
Tale type.
The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 425A, "The Animal as Bridegroom". in this tale type, the heroine is a human maiden who marries a prince that is cursed to become an animal of some sort. She betrays his trust and he disappears, prompting a quest for him.
Motifs.
According to Hans-Jörg Uther, the main feature of tale type ATU 425A is "bribing the false bride for three nights with the husband". In fact, when he developed his revision of Aarne-Thompson's system, Uther remarked that an "essential" trait of the tale type ATU 425A was the "wife's quest and gifts" and "nights bought".
In other stories (from Europe, mostly), the heroine's helpers may be three old crones, or her husband's relatives.
According to A. Ermolov, the dog holds an important place in Sami folklore, and this is reflected in Sami tales about the dog as bridegroom, such as "Человек-собака" ("Youth-Dog").
Variants.
Hunter in Dog Skin.
In a Saami tale collected by A. Ermolov with the title "Охотник в собачьей шкуре" ("Hunter in Dog Skin"), a poor old couple have no children. The wife wishes to have a son with dog snout, and one is born to them, also in dog skin. Some time later, the dog asks his father to find him a bride while he goes hunting. The old man brings home a girl ad they sit to eat. The potential bride eats her dish of meat and throws the bones to the dog bridegroom, who takes her to the barn and kills her, demanding another bride from his parents. The same events happen to a second girl. Finally, the couple find him a third bride, and they sit to eat: the girl shares her meal with the dog, which greatly pleases him, so much so he takes her to the barn and takes off the canine skin to become a handsome youth. They spend the night together. The next day, the old wife finds her son without the dogskin, and tells her daughter-in-law to steal the dogskin while he is asleep and give it to her so she can burn it. The girl follows her mother-in-law's suggestion, and the skin is burnt. The now human dog son wakes up, admonishes his bride and tells her she can only find him by wearing down three pairs of iron shoes, three walking iron canes, and have three iron discs melt in her mouth, then vanishes. A smith forges her the requested objects and she begins her journey: she passes by three huts that spin on chicken legs, and gains three combs, one copper, the second silver and the third golden. At the third hut, she is advised by its dweller to go to the churchyard where her husband is playing ball with another woman named Katerina, take out the combs and use them on her hair; they will throw the ball which she must catch, and make a promise to return it if Katerina allows the girl to spend a night with her husband. It happens thus: Katerina allows the girl to spend the night near the threshold, then near the husband's bed, and lastly near him. Katerina listens to the girl's woes and gets out of bed. She takes a box with sewing material from her room, goes to the seashore and throws its contents in the water, ordering them to become seashells, starfishes and coral. Katerina then goes away, and the now human dog son lives with his bride.
Dog Skin (Kert).
Russian Finno-Ugricist Georgy Martynovitch Kert collected a Sami tale from Lovozero titled "p'ennɛ tor̩r̩k", which he translated to Russian with the title "Собачья шкура" ("Dog Skin"). In this tale, an old couple long to have a son, and the old woman wishes they could have a son with human face and dogskin, thus one is born to them. Time passes, and the dog son asks his parents to find him a bride, from one of three sisters of a neighbour. The first daughter is welcomed by the old couple, and she hears a dog barking, which the old couple explain is her bridegroom. They sit to eat, and the girl gives only bones to the dog son. In retaliation, he kills the elder girl, and requests another wife: the girl's middle sister, who suffers the same fate after she gives bones to the dog. Finally, the third sister goes to the old couple's house and is told of the dog son. They sit to eat, and she shares meat and bread with him. In return, the dog son takes his bride to the barn and removes the dogskin, becoming a handsome youth to sleep beside her. They live like this for a while, until the bride decides to take the dogskin and burn it. The dog son smells the burning and laments that his bride destroyed it, since he would have become human in three years time. He then says she will only find him after she wears down three pairs of iron shoes, three walking canes made of iron, and melting three pewter discs in her mouth, then vanishes. After wearing down the iron garments, she reaches a big city and finds him among some ball players. They kick the ball so hard it falls next to the bride. She takes the ball and promises to return it if he allows her to sleep in his bedroom for one night. It happens again the next day, when she offers to sleep by the foot of his bed, and the day after, when she offers to sleep behind him, and pours out her woes to make him remember her. She does on the third night, and he recognizes her. Now reunited, they have a child together, and return to the dog son's parents.
Beautiful Katerina (Kert).
Kert collected another Sami tale, sourced from Teriberka with the title "mod'žes' Katrenˈ" which he translated to Russian as "Прекрасная Катерина" ("Prekrasnaya Katerina" or "Beautiful Katerina"). In this tale, an old couple wishes for a son with a dog nose. They have one who slowly becomes a dog as the years pass, until he assumes a full canine shape. Some time later, the dog asks for his father to find him a bride, and the man brings home a girl. The girl and the dog go into the barn, and the dog takes off the canine skin to become a handsome youth with a red shirt, black hair and white face. They spend the night together, and the man puts on the dog skin in the morning. The old woman asks her daughter-in-law about the nature of the dog son, and the girl answers that he is human, and places the doskin by the door. The following night, the old woman steals the dogskin while her son is asleep, and burns it. The human dog son smells the burning, laments the fact, and runs away to parts unknown. The girl rushes after him and passes by three houses where an old lady lives: in each of them, she is told her husband is living with a woman named Beautiful Katerina, is given a pole and a comb (copper, silver, and gold), and is advised to go to the city where her husband is playing a ball game, withhold the ball and only promise to return it if Katerina allows her to spend a night with her husband. It happens thus: the girl stays near the game and combs her hair with the metallic utensil, then asks Katerina to stay with her husband in exchange for the ball. On the third night, the girl pours out her woes next to her husband, and Katerina listens to it, gets out of bed, takes a box of sewing with her and jumps into the sea: she becomes a stingray and some needles become grains of sand. The girl and the now human dog husband live together and have a son, then return to his parents' house. At the end of the tale, the old couple die and become ashes and peat.
Tale about a Dog (Itkonen).
In a tale from the Ter Sámi collected by T. I. Itkonen with the title "ṕi̯e̯ańna̯i màinɐ̃s", and translated into Finnish as "Koiran satu" ("A Dog's Tale") and into Hungarian as "Mese a kutyáról" ("The Tale about a Dog"), an old man and an old woman have no children, and pray to God for a daughter, a kitten, or a puppy as their child. So God gives them a puppy. The little dog brings them food from the forest, and, one day, wishes their parents to find him a wife. The old woman meets a neighbour woman and asks for her elder daughter as wife for her dog son. The old woman brings the girl in and advises her to call the dog a human. The elder girl sees the dog bridegroom and gives him bones, then goes with him to bed. When she utters the word dog, the dog son feels insulted and kills the girl. This repeats again with the middle daughter. When it is the younger daughter's turn, the girl calls the dog a person, and sleeps in their joint bed. Some time later, the dog's mother asks the girl about their marital life, and the girl says the dog takes off the canine skin to become a youth at night. The dog's mother, then, says she will prepare a small fire near their bed, and her daughter-in-law must throw the dogskin in the fire to burn it. It happens thus. The human dog husband smells the burning and sees the burnt dogskin, then tells his wife she will not find him, unless she has three branches in hand and hold three burning skeins until she reaches him. He vanishes. The girl then buys the three branches and three skeins, and walks until she finds her husband, already married to another woman who is the daughter of the Áhceks. The girl goes to bed with the human dog husband and the Áhceks's daughter together, and to whom the youth turns to in his sleep, he shall consider his wife. The girl hides an iron comb in her vests, and her husband turns to her. As for the Ácehks's daughter, she sees that the youth turned to the other girl, shrieks and turns into a cricket. The human dog husband and his wife return to his parents' house. In a review of Swedish scholar 's work of "Cupid and Psyche" and related "animal bridegroom" tales, folklorist Walter Anderson followed Swahn's classification and indexed the tale as subtype B of type AaTh 425.
A Dog's Tale.
Itkonen collected another tale from the Ter Sámi with the title "pi̯e̯nna̯i̯ māinas", and translated into Finnish as "Koiran satu" ("A Dog's Tale"). In this tale, an old woman and an old man bemoan their lack of a child, and wish to have a son with a dog's snout, so one is born to them in the shape of a dog. One day, the dog rushes to the woods, and the couple think the animal left, but he returns with meat for their meal. Later, the dog asks his mother to find him a wife. The old woman goes to a male neighbour who has three daughters, and brings the elder daughter with her as a prospective daughter-in-law. As she approaches the house, the girl complains about the smell of dog manure near the couple's house. The couple prepare dinner for themselves and their dog son, and they refer to him as a person when he knocks on the door. The elder girl opens the door and states that a dog is at the door. Also, during dinner, the girl gives bones to the dog. When the dog and the elder girl go to the barn to sleep, she treats him like a dog and he kills her, insulted by her actions. The dog son then asks for another bride, and the middle daughter is brought to him. She does the same things as her elder sister and is killed for it. Finally, the younger sister goes to the couple's house and treats the dog with kindness: refers to him as a person, shares her meal with whim and goes to sleep in the barn with him. That same night, the dog takes off the canine skin and becomes a handsome youth. He complains his feet are cold, and the girl covers them with his dogskin. His mother, however, takes the skin and burns it. The human dog smells the burning and notices the missing dogskin. He then tells his wife he will disappear, and his wife can only find him after she wears down three pairs of iron shoes, three iron canes and following three yarns, after three years. The girl prepares the iron garments and goes after him, passing by the houses of three witches that spin on legs: the elder two do not know, and direct her to their younger sister. The third witch says her husband is living with a woman named Syöjätär and has children. As a last help, the witch gives the girl a brush, which she must use to bribe Syöjätär for a night with her husband. The girl follows her advice and trades the brush for a night in her husband's bed, but he does not move. On the second night, the witch gives her a golden loom she uses to trade for another chance to be near him, but he does not nudge. Lastly, the witch gives the girl a golden ring which she uses to bribe for a last night with the human dog husband. On the third night, the human dog husband turns to his true wife and notices her. Syöjätär shrieks in despair and bursts in two. They kill Syöjätär's children and leave on a flying chest back to the dog son's parents' house. In a review of Swedish scholar 's work of "Cupid and Psyche" and related "animal bridegroom" tales, folklorist Walter Anderson followed Swahn's classification and indexed the tale as subtype B of type AaTh 425.
Penyy Alke.
In a Saami tale titled "Пеный Альке" ("Penyy Alke"), an elderly couple lament the fact that, in their old age, they have no son, so they pray to God to give one, even if he is a little dog. So a little dog is born to them. They raise him as their son and, one day, the little dog asks his parents to find him a wife. His parents bring him a girl, and they go to bed. The next morning, the couple see the dog killed his bride during the night, and he demands another one. They find another girl, whom the dog also kills. The third time, his prospective third bride is advised by her neighbours that she should clean the floor of her parents-in-law's house, prepare the bed for them, share her food with the dog and caress him. The girl obeys and cleans the old couple's house, and treats the dog with kindness. Then they go to bed. The next day, the old couple find the girl alive and calmly sleeping with the dog bridegroom. This goes on for a year. One day, the old woman asks her daughter-in-law about her son, and the girl tells her about the handsome husband he is without the dogskin. The old woman then tells the girl to leave the dogskin near the bed. It happens thus, and the old woman takes her son's dogskin to burn it. The dog son (in human form) senses his skin is burning, wakes up and says "an evil spirit rushed things", then runs away from home. The youth is still running, and the tale ends. The tale was later republished as "Собачий сын" ("Dog Son").
Beautiful Katerina (Patsya).
In a tale compiled by E. Ya. Patsya with the title "Красивая Катерина" ("Krasivaya Katerina" or "Beautiful Katerina"), an old couple is sad they have no child, neither a son, nor a daughter. One day, they wish for a child with a dog snout and a sheep's coat, and one is born to them. The animal son hunts for his parents and, one day, asks his father to bring him a bride. The old man finds him a girl and brings her home. The animal son comes home and eats with his prospective bride, who gives him bones to feed on. They later retire to the barn to sleep and the dog son kills his bride. The next day, he demands another bride, who also gives him bones to eat and is killed just like the first. The third time, the old man brings home a third girl, who shares her meat with him. They later retire to the barn to sleep. The girl survives the night, and lives with the animal son. Some time later, the old woman questions her daughter-in-law about the nature of her own son, and the girl answers he takes off the animal skin to become a handsome man wearing a bright red shirt. The old woman then thinks about making her son human forever and advises her daughter-in-law to take his animal skin and leave it near the foot of the bed, for she will take it and burn it. That same night, their plan works, and, the next morning, the man asks about his animal skin. His wife tells him his mother burnt it, and he tells the girl she will not find him until she wears down three pairs of iron shoes and three iron walking canes, and melt three tin discs on her mouth. She prepares the iron garments and goes after him, passing by three spinning huts. When she reaches each one, she commands the door to turn to her and its windows to forest to allow her entrance. In each house she meets a woman who says her husband passed nearby, and gains a hanger and a comb, the first of copper, the second of silver and the third of gold. The third woman reveals to the girl her husband is living with another woman named Katerina in a city, and the girl must comb her hair over the hanger. The girl reaches the city and sees Katerina and her husband playing a ball game; she follows the helpful woman's advice. Her husband is playing a ball game and the ball lands near the girl, who withholds the it and promises to return it to Katerina if the latter allows her to sleep near her husband's threshold for one night. It happens thus, but the girl's husband does not react at all. The next day, the girl returns the ball in exchange for one night near his bed. She fails again. On the third and last night, she gives the ball and asks to sleep by her husband's side. During the night, the girl cries, her tears staining her husband's shirt. He wakes up and recognizes her as his true wife. As for Katerina, she sees the spouses' reunion, takes a box of needles and sewing utensils and rushes to the sea: she throws its contents in the sea and commands them to become shells and coral, then runs away. The girl and her husband return to the old couple's house and live together.
Dog Son (Patsya).
In a tale translated by E. Ya. Patsya with the title "Собачий сын" ("Dog Son"), a poor widow lives in the churchyard of Pazretsky, and bemoans the fact she is old and has no one to help her in her old age. One day, she goes to the forest and sees an abandoned sieidi nearby. She decides to clean it up and prays to it to grant her a son, even if he has animal skin. Her prayer is answered and a boy is born to her, with animal skin and a human face. The boy hunts deer for her and brings game home. One day, he asks his mother for a bride, and the old widow wanders far and wide to another place, where she finds an old couple with three daughters. The elder daughter goes with the widow to her prospective bridegroom. They enter the hut and the widow tells her not to follow her. The girl looks around and sees some food being prepared in a leather bag. She goes to check on the food and the widow appears. She chastises the girl, saying her son needs an obedient wife and drives her out of her hut, where she turns into stone. The animal son returns home and asks about his bride, and his mother says she turned her to stone. The widow goes to fetch the middle daughter to her son, and the girl also fails her test, turning into stone. Lastly, the widow goes for the youngest daughter, and the girls' father asks her how many sons the widow has. Ignoring the question, the old widow brings the girl home with her, and she sees two human statues she recognizes as her sisters. The girl enters the house and pretends to fall asleep, passing the widow's test and meeting her dog bridegroom, whom she pets. The widow approves of her daughter-in-law and directs them to the barn to sleep. The next morning, the dog goes hunting, and both women are at home. The girl asks the widow to release her sisters, but the latter refuses. Time passes, and they settle into a routine. One day, however, the widow suspects something about her son and questions her daughter-in-law about it. The girl avoids answering it, and the widow makes a deal: she will free the girl's sisters, if she says anything about her husband. Torn at the offer - since she promised her husband to keep his secret -, the girl says he takes off the animal skin at night and becomes a handsome youth. As promised, the widow restores the two girls back to life, and both girls flee back home. As for her son, the widow wants to keep him human at all times, and asks her daughter-in-law about his dogskin. At night, the widow takes the dogskin and tosses it in the fire. The man wakes up and laments that he lost his skin before the appointed time set by the sieidi, and tells his wife she will only find him after she wears down three pairs of nutukas (, in the Russian text), and melt three tin buttons in her mouth. He vanishes. The old widow sews the nutukas for her daughter-in-law and the girl goes after her husband. The girl wears down the three pairs of nutukas and meets three , who each give her a bone comb, a silver comb, and a golden comb. She also learns that her husband has forgotten about her and found another wife. The girl finally reaches the city at the shore of the White Sea, and finds work there. One day, she sees her husband and his new wife playing ball, which lands at her feet. She returns the ball and takes out the bone comb to comb her hair. The second wife sees the comb and wishes to have it, and the girl trades for a night with her husband in the barn. The second wife gives the (now human) dog husband a sleeping potion, so his true wife cannot wake him up. The girl trades the other combs for more nights with her husband: she fails on the second night, but manages to wake him up on the third. The man remembers everything and takes his true wife back to his mother's house. As for the second wife, she throws the combs she gained into the White Sea.
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List of Jersey ODI cricketers
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This is a list of Jersey One-day International cricketers.
Jersey finished in first position in Group B of the 2019–2022 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League which earned them a place in the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier Play-off. The International Cricket Council announced that all the matches in the play-off would have ODI status. Jersey therefore made their ODI debut against Canada on 27 March 2023.
This list comprises all members of the Jersey cricket team who have played at least one ODI match. It is initially arranged in the order in which each player won his first ODI cap. Where more than one player won his first ODI cap in the same match, those players are listed alphabetically by surname.
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2023 Legends Cricket Trophy
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The 2023 Legends Cricket Trophy, also known as KhiladiX Legends Cricket Trophy for sponsorship reasons, was the inaugural edition of the Legends Cricket Trophy, a Twenty20 cricket tournament featuring retired cricketers, many of them former internationals. The tournament took place in India from 22 March to 30 March 2023, The entire competition was played at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Ghaziabad. was organised by the Board for Veteran Cricket in India (BVCI) and was broadcast in over 30 countries.
The final between Indore Knights and Guwahati Avengers was washed out.
Teams.
Six teams took part in the competition:
Squads.
In March 2023, the BCVI confirmed the squads for the tournament.
Points table.
Advanced to the Knockout stage
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Judd McVee
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Judd McVee (born 7 August 2003) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). McVee played High School Football at Geraldton Senior High School at Western Australia. He was drafted by Melbourne with their first selection and eighteenth overall in the 2022 rookie draft. He made his debut in the fifty point win to at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the opening round of the 2023 season.
Statistics.
"Updated to the end of round 13, 2023".
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Vraj Patel
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Vraj Patel is a Kenyan cricketer. He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for Kenya on 11 September 2021 against Nigeria in a tri-nation tournament. In November 2021, he was included in Kenya's squad for the Africa qualifier of the 2022 Men's T20 World Cup in Rwanda. In that tournament, he took a five-wicket haul in Kenya's match against Nigeria. Kenya won the match by 60 runs, and Patel was adjudged player of the match.
In August 2022, Patel was included in Kenya's squad for their home bilateral series against Nepal. In November 2022, he was included in Kenya's squad for the Africa A qualifier tournament of the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
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Ripon Mondol
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Ripon Mondol (born 21 March 2003) is a Bangladeshi cricketer, who is right arm medium bowler. He plays for Dhaka Division cricket team in domestic cricket.
Career.
In December 2021, he was named in Bangladesh's squad for the 2022 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He took 14 wickets in that tournament, and was named in the ICC's Most Valuable Team of the Tournament.
He made his List A debut on 15 March 2022, for Shinepukur Cricket Club in the 2021–22 Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League. He was named as the player of the match in the match against Rupganj Tigers Cricket Club on 2 April 2022. He made his first-class debut on 10 October 2022, for Dhaka Division in the 2022–23 National Cricket League.
In November 2022, he was selected to play for Rangpur Riders following the players' draft in the 2022–23 Bangladesh Premier League. He made his Twenty20 debut on 8 February 2023, for Rangpur Riders in that tournament.
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Anger Foot
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Anger Foot is an action arcade first-person shooter video game developed by Free Lives, an independent video game studio and published by Devolver Digital. The game is tentatively scheduled to release in 2024 for Windows. Players take on the role of a rogue vigilante who kicks and shoots their way through 'Shit City', clearing out slums, sewers, and skyscrapers of merciless gangsters.
Gameplay.
"Anger Foot" is a fast-paced action packed game where the player navigates through various levels, kicking down doors to surprise and eliminate enemies while attempting to complete each level as quickly as possible. The primary weapon in the game is the protagonist's foot, a powerful kick that is used to break down doors, destroy obstacles, and eradicate enemies. Additional weapons and power-ups can be picked up while progressing through the levels, allowing players to take a different approach to each situation. Player's are able to unlock and upgrade their sneakers at the end of each level with each pair possessing a unique attribute. There are multiple environments to traverse through such as slums, sewers, and skyscrapers each with diverse enemy types that have different behavior patterns and attacks. The game emphasizes quick reflexes, situational awareness, and fast decision-making to navigate through the different rooms and enemies. Speed and efficiency are rewarded, with players encouraged to complete levels in the shortest time possible. The gameplay is accompanied by a bass-thumping soundtrack created to immerse the player in the action packed environment.
Plot.
"Anger Foot" follows a green-skinned rogue vigilante who is determined to eradicate the menacing criminals of Shit City after they steal his favorite pair of sneakers. The vigilante is forced to lace up his formidable footwear and fight through Shit City's diverse and deranged districts, as he takes on the criminal underworld to retrieve his sneakers.
Development.
"Anger Foot" is developed by Free Lives, an indie game development studio based in Cape Town, South Africa. Free Lives created "Anger Foot" during a 7-day game development challenge on Itch.io called 7dfps (7 day first person shooter) in 2020. The game was officially announced in collaboration with publisher Devolver Digital at the Devolver Digital Showcase during the Summer Game Fest in June 2022, with an initial release window sometime in 2023. However, in August of the same year, it was announced by Devolver that the game has been delayed to 2024. Free Lives and Devolver Digital have partnered before to release various titles such as "Broforce, Genital Jousting, Gorn, Terra Nil, Stick it to the Stickman," and "Cricket Through the Ages."
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Rifle shooting at Cambridge University
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The sport of rifle shooting at Cambridge University has been practised since at least the early 19th century. Beginning as part of the military training of the Cambridge University Rifle Volunteers, it has since been conducted by a number of student clubs, and is currently carried out predominantly by the Cambridge University Rifle Association and Cambridge University Small Bore Club, with some participation by the Cambridge University Revolver and Pistol Club for the discipline of gallery rifle.
Cambridge shooters compete in a number of Varsity matches against the University of Oxford, which constitute one of the longest-running Oxbridge sporting rivalries. The oldest of these is the Chancellors', currently contested in the discipline of target rifle, which dates to 1862. In 1869, an inter-university long range fixture was set up, which later became the match-rifle Varsity match known as the Humphry. Other Varsity matches include several smallbore fixtures and a gallery rifle match, which replaced the former revolver match in 1997.
Shooting is generally a Half Blue sport at Cambridge, though shooters can be awarded Full Blues for exceptional shooting success. Several Cambridge shooters have become notable in the sport during and after their time at the university, including several winners of the Sovereign's Prize, the most prestigious contest in British target shooting.
Disciplines and clubs.
Target rifle shooting in the United Kingdom is traditionally divided into smallbore and fullbore shooting. Smallbore shooting is conducted at shorter ranges, generally between , with .22 calibre rifles. As smallbore ranges are often indoors, the competition season runs throughout the year. Fullbore shooting is carried out with larger-calibre rifles (in the modern era, usually .308 calibre) at ranges in the hundreds of yards. The fullbore season runs from March until October, which corresponds approximately to the Easter term of Cambridge University. The discipline of fullbore shooting includes target rifle, shot at shorter ranges — in the modern era — with open sights and strict rules on the positions and equipment permitted, and match rifle, shot at longer ranges — — with fewer restrictions on equipment and positions, which include allowing the use of telescopic sights.
Smallbore shooting at Cambridge is conducted by Cambridge University Small-Bore Club, which predominantly operates in the Michaelmas and Lent terms. Fullbore shooting is conducted by the Cambridge University Rifle Association, which largely trains and competes during the Easter term and the 'long vacation' between July and October.
The discipline of gallery rifle, which historically evolved from pistol shooting, is conducted by Cambridge University Revolver and Pistol Club.
Cambridge fullbore shooting, particularly match rifle, maintains close links with the English Eight Club, which administers the England national match rifle team. In 1954, Cambridge undergraduates (along with those of other shooting universities) were granted honorary membership of the English Eight; since 1960, both Oxford and Cambridge Universities have maintained a gun room in the English Eight's clubhouse at Bisley, and have used it as their base on the camp.
History.
The first formal shooting club at Cambridge University was formed in 1859, shortly before the 1860 raising of the Cambridge University Rifle Volunteers, a militia unit recruited from the student body. According to a Cambridge rumour, Horatio Ross, one of the great rifle shooters of the nineteenth century, whose son Edward was a member of CURV, once fired from the top of the tower of the Cambridge University Press building at a target 2000 yards away, thereby setting the record for the longest range at which shooting had been conducted in Cambridge.
The CURV, initially part of the Cambridge Rifle Club (which included units from the town's non-student population), first shot on a range on Mill Road, but became an independent organisation on 7 February 1861 and acquired its own range on Grange Road (immediately north of where Leckhampton House was constructed in the 1880s, and opposite what would become Selwyn College) on 30 October. The new range allowed firing at up to . It is unclear precisely when the range fell out of use: it was noted on an Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1950, by which part of the range had been built upon, but is absent from maps from the 1960s.
Prominent Cambridge shots of the nineteenth century included Edward Ross, the winner of the inaugural Queen's Prize in 1860. In 1871, A.P. Humphry equalled Ross's feat of winning the Queen's, and subsequently won the Grand Aggregate in 1878 – successes which made him one of the most famous rifle shooters of his time. The Cambridge University Long Range Rifle Club was founded in 1864, to conduct the two-day 'Cambridge Cup' match rifle meeting. The Long Range Rifle Club is no longer formally associated with the university, but continues to administer the Cambridge Cup competition, now held at Barton Road, to which members of the club and recent alumni of the Oxford and Cambridge rifle teams are invited.
Cambridge University Revolver and Pistol Club was founded in 1907, and competed in its first Varsity match the following year. In 1909, the Cambridge University Rifle Association broke off from the CURV as an independent club. The commanding officer of Cambridge University Officers' Training Corps, the descendant of the CURV, remains president of CURA.In a 1913 survey of sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the English public schools, the cricketer and writer Robert Lyttelton noted the nineteenth-century history of shooting at Cambridge, but judged that the sport had "not made much headway" until the foundation of the Officers' Training Corps in 1908. In 1910, A.M. Humphry, a lieutenant in the OTC and son of the Queen's Prize winner, won the St. George's Prize with a record score of 139. Philip Richardson, a Cambridge graduate who made the top 100 shooters of the Sovereign's Final seven times between 1886 and 1907, went on to shoot in the 1908 and 1912 Olympic Games, winning a silver medal in 1908. He later served as chairman of the National Rifle Association's council between 1939 and 1945, and gives his name to a competition shot during the NRA's Imperial Meeting. By 1913, most Cambridge colleges had their own rifle clubs affiliated to CURA, which had a total membership of around 300.
Cambridge University Small-Bore Club existed as a separate club by the 1920s. On 7 March 1952, CUSBC competed by telegram against Harvard University, each team shooting on their own range and sending the results to the other. Harvard won the match by 1581–1554, despite handicapping themselves by firing in the less stable standing and kneeling positions as well as Cambridge's prone.
Varsity and other matches.
There are currently several annual Varsity matches in rifle shooting contested between Cambridge University and Oxford University. The Oxford–Cambridge shooting rivalry is believed to be one of the longest-running Varsity competitions between the two university.
Other than the Heslop and Bentata, the Varsity matches are normally contested during the Imperial Meeting, a series of shooting competitions administered by the British National Rifle Association at Bisley each July.
Both CURA and CUSBC compete in British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS). They also compete in matches against clubs, universities and schools throughout the year.
In 1903, a 'Universities' Snap-Shooting Match' was inaugurated in response to the view of Frederick Roberts, then Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, that potential soldiers should be trained in accurate, rapid short-range fire. Each team, consisting of a 'commander' and eight firers, fired from behind cover at head-and-shoulders targets away, exposed ten times for three seconds each at irregular intervals of between five and ten seconds. The match was contested until at least the 1920s, but no longer takes place.
In addition to the formal Varsity matches, Cambridge compete in three additional annual smallbore fixtures against Oxford. These are the Kensington (2nd VIII), the Ex-Captains' Challenge (3rd VIII) and the Lerman (three-position). An informal black-powder shooting match, known as the Roads Cup, is sometimes contested during the Imperial Meeting. This match is named after Christopher Roads, an ex-Cambridge shooter who donated the trophy in the late 20th century. Within the university, an annual inter-college competition, known as 'Cuppers', is held annually in smallbore shooting.
The Chancellors' Challenge Plate.
In 1862, the chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge universities — William Cavendish and Edward Smith-Stanley — agreed to award a trophy for a shooting match between the two universities: a silver plate set into a large silver stein. The inaugural match was won by Cambridge.
Originally, the match was shot at , and seven shots were fired by each shooter. The first matches were shot with muzzle-loading Pattern 1853 Enfield rifles, though breech-loading Snider–Enfield rifles were used from 1871. In 1883, Martini–Henry rifles were introduced, followed by magazine-fed Lee–Enfield rifles in 1897, which remained the standard until the modern era of target shooting in the mid-20th century.
In modern times, it has been contested at , with each shooter firing one sighter and ten scoring shots. Any rifle that meets the criteria of the target rifle discipline may be used.
The Humphry Challenge Cup.
The Humphry is the long-range Varsity shooting match, in the discipline originally known as 'any rifle' (to distinguish it from shorter-range shooting, in which all competitors were required to use the same model of rifle) and currently known as match rifle. Its lineage can be traced to the Inter-University Long-Range Match, first contested in 1869, but it takes its name from A.P. Humphry, who donated the challenge cup awarded to its winner in 1881. From 1897, the match changed from 'any rifle' to match rifle.
The distance shot for the Humphry, in common with other match rifle competitions, has increased over time as rifles, ammunition and optics have improved. The first matches took place at , which increased to from 1910 and to from 1963.
The match is currently shot on Stickledown Range at Bisley. Until 1874, the venue alternated between Cambridge and Oxford; after a lapse in which no match took place between 1875 and 1877, it was shot at Welwyn in 1878 before being added to the programme of the NRA competitions in 1879, first at Wimbledon, and then at Bisley from 1890.
The Humphry is shot between teams of four, with fifteen scoring shots fired at each range by each shooter. Unusually for a modern shooting match, coaches who are not otherwise eligible to shoot in the match may be part of the team, though firers must be current students of the university they represent.
The Oxford and Cambridge Match.
The Oxford and Cambridge Match is contested in gallery rifle. It was first shot informally in 1908, with formal matches beginning at Bisley in 1909.
The match was originally shot with revolvers, and so named the 'Universities Revolver Match'. In this format, each shooter fired twelve shots at each of .
The trophy for the match was presented by Ian Heslop in 1929. The match was officially known as the Heslop Cup between 1929 and 1948, and continues to be informally known as 'the Heslop' among CURPC shooters. In 1949, the official name was changed to the 'Oxford and Cambridge Revolver Match', followed by the 'Oxford and Cambridge Pistol Match' in 1962.
Following the UK ban on fullbore pistol shooting in 1997, the match moved to lever-action .357 centre-fire gallery rifles. Each university enters a team of four.
The Heslop Cup.
The annual smallbore Varsity match is held in February. Since the 1920s, it has been named for Ian Heslop, a British naturalist and conservationist who helped Cambridge to a period of dominance in the match between 1923 and 1926.
The Heslop is contested between teams of eight shooters, each shooting two ten-spot cards at , with a total highest possible score of 200. It is traditionally held on a neutral range: in the 21st century, venues have included the National Smallbore Rifle Association at Bisley, The Perse School in Cambridge and Sevenoaks School in Kent.
The Bentata Cup.
The Bentata is the newest of the Varsity matches, contested since around 1990. It is named for David Bentata, an Oxford University alumnus who established the match and donated its trophy.
The match is contested between women's teams of four shooters. It is shot to the same conditions and at the same time as the Heslop, and shooters may shoot the two concurrently, counting their score in the Heslop for both.
Varsity match results.
Revolver and gallery rifle.
Revolver match (1909–1997).
In 2017, an informal revolver Varsity match was conducted in Switzerland, fired with a revolver used during one of the early 20th-century matches. Cambridge won by 626 to 568.
Blues and club colours.
Rifle shooting is a Discretionary Full Blue sport, meaning that shooters who compete in Varsity matches are usually awarded Half Blues, but can be awarded Full Blues if they meet certain additional criteria. To be awarded a Half Blue for smallbore shooting, a shooter must score at least 190 out of 200 in the Heslop or Bentata match; in fullbore, those shooting in the Chancellors' or Humphry are automatically awarded one.
The breast pocket of the Half Blue jacket displays a lion, one of the traditional symbols of Cambridge University. A shooter who has won the Half Blue for competing in the Chancellors' will have the Roman numerals 'VIII' stitched beneath the lion; a shooter who has competed in the Humphry will alternatively or additionally stitch 'IV' above the lion. Those who have won the Half Blue in small-bore shooting stitch the initials 'CUSBC' lowermost upon the pocket.
Shooters who represent the university against Oxford, whether in 1st-team competition or at a lower level, may wear the club colours. These consist of a jacket and matching tie, sometimes with a cap, in maroon and Cambridge blue.
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2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier
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The 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier is an international women's cricket tournament that is scheduled to be held in early 2024. It will be the sixth edition of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier and serves as the qualification tournament for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup tournament.
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Sally Quinnell
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Sally Anne Quinnell is an Australian politician. She was elected a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Camden for the Labor Party since 2023.
Career.
Quinnell worked for fifteen years as a music teacher in the Camden area in both public and private schools. She is a union representative and secretary of the South West Sydney Independent Education Union sub-branch. She started 'Bandemonium', a business providing private music lessons to students across the region, and was a founding member of the Camden Musical Society. She was a singer and played both the piano and the bassoon. She has performed music at local events and churches.
Quinnell was the endorsed as the NSW Labor candidate for the seat of Camden at the 2019 state election at which she was defeated by Peter Sidgreaves. She was endorsed as the Labor candidate again in 2023 and defeated Sidgreaves.
Personal life.
Quinnell and her husband Damien moved to Camden in the late 2000s and raised their three children there. She has been involved in schools and clubs such as St Paul's Camden, St Gregory's College Gregory Hills, Cobbitty Scouts and Oran Park Cricket Club. She has volunteered at Cowpastures Park Run, South Camden Tennis Club and St Vinnies homeless night visits.
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Abdul Rehman (Pakistani cricketer)
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Abdul Rehman (; born 1970) is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer, currently serving as the head coach of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cricket team. He served as the interim coach of the Pakistan cricket team for a series against Afghanistan.
Early life and education.
Abdul Rehman was born in 1970 in Quetta, Baluchistan. He holds a master's degree in international relations.
Career.
As a cricketer, Abdul Rehman represented Pakistan in a cricket match against Sri Lanka A in 1989 and against Australian Academy in 1995–96.
Abdul Rehman started his coaching career in 2010-2011 cricket season.
In 2017-2018 cricket season, Abdul Rehman briefly coached Pakistan A cricket team.
In March 2023, Abdul Rehman was named as the head coach of the Pakistan national cricket team for the T20I series against Afghanistan. Previously, he has worked as a coach for Peshawar Panthers and under his tenure the team won National T20 Cup in 2015 and 2016. In 2017, he was the assistant coach for Peshawar Zalmi when they won the 2017 Pakistan Super League title. He has also coached Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cricket team as a head coach and Multan Sultans as an assistant coach.
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Brunswick F.C.
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Brunswick Football Club was an association football club from the city of Edinburgh.
History.
The club was founded in 1877 by George Howell, a professional cricketer, out of the Brunswick Cricket Club, and who started the football section by recruiting a number of rugby union players. Brunswick entered the Edinburgh Cup in its first season of existence, losing 3–1 to Heart of Midlothian in its first tie, played on neutral territory at Newington.
The 1878–79 season saw the club's first Scottish Cup entry and its best run in the Edinburgh Cup, albeit by only winning one tie in the latter. In the national tournament, Brunswick lost 3–1 at the 3rd Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers, In the Edinburgh Cup, the club lost in the semi-final to Hibernian at Powderhall by 6 goals to 0, and a week later lost to the same club 6–1 in a friendly.
Brunswick's biggest competitive win came in the first round of the 1879–80 Scottish Cup, 5–0 over the declining Edinburgh Swifts. In the second round, the club lost 4–2 to Hearts at the Powderhall, Brunswick complaining that the third Hearts goal should not have been allowed, and the fourth - an own goal - was scored in darkness due to Hearts being late in providing a match ball. The club lost in the Edinburgh Cup in the quarter-finals at Hibernian, 4–3, having lost a three-goal lead.
With the growth of association football in Edinburgh, Brunswick was firmly in the shadow of Hearts and Hibs, and was overtaken by St Bernard's and Leith Athletic in short order. In 1878, Brunswick had 45 members, the same as Hearts and just five fewer than Hibs; in 1883 the club had dropped to 39 members, while Hearts, Hibs, and St Bernards all had over 150, the newly-senior Edina had 50, and even the Hanover club had attracted more members in its brief existence. The club's last win in the Scottish Cup was against Hanover in 1881–82 and in 1883–84 the club did not even enter the Edinburgh Cup, instead concentrating on the national cup, where it lost 8–0 to Hearts in the first round, six of the goals being scored by Wood; the Brunswick players were described as "out of condition" and only the goalkeeping of William Braidwood kept the score down. The match was the club's last competitive match and, although the cricket club continued, the football side seems to have been abandoned before the next season.
Colours.
The club played in black and white hoops, with white knickerbockers.
Ground.
The club played at Brunswick Park, on Easter Road.
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Nahid Rana
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Nahid Rana (born 2 October 2002) is a Bangladeshi cricketer, who is a right-arm fast bowler. He plays for the Rajshahi Division cricket team in domestic cricket.
Early life.
Nahid grew up in Chapai Nawabganj district, and started playing cricket in 2020. After passing his Higher Secondary School Certificate in 2020, he started training at a cricket academy in Rajshahi. Initially, he used to be a net bowler for the Rajshahi Division batters and then impressed the selectors by his high-speed bowling.
Career.
Nahid made his first-class debut on 31 October 2021, for Rajshahi Division in the 2021–22 National Cricket League. On 31 October 2022, he claimed his maiden five-wicket haul in first-class cricket, against Barishal Division in the 2022–23 National Cricket League. He was the second highest-wicket taker in the tournament, picking up 32 wickets.
In January 2023, he was selected to play for Khulna Tigers in the 2022–23 Bangladesh Premier League. He made his Twenty20 debut on 24 January 2023, for Khulna Tigers in that tournament. In his debut match, he took 1 wicket conceding 20 runs from 4 overs, and grabbed everyone's attention by constantly bowling around 140-148 km/h. He made his List A debut on 21 March 2023, for Shinepukur Cricket Club in the 2022–23 Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League.
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English cricket team in the West Indies in 2023–24
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The England cricket team are scheduled to tour the West Indies in December 2023. The tour will consist of three One Day International (ODI) and five Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The International Cricket Council (ICC) finalized the bilateral series in a press release. In May 2023, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced the schedule for the series.
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Sonam Yadav
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Sonam Mukesh Yadav is an Indian female cricketer. Who was part of the 2023 World Cup winning Indian Under-19 T20 team. She mainly plays for the Under-19 team as a bowler.
Introduction.
Sonam Yadav is an Indian cricketer who hails from Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh. Sonam Yadav's father's name is Mukesh Yadav. Sonam Yadav's mother's name is Guddi Devi. Sonam's house is near Raja's Tal of Thana Tundla area. Sonam's father Mukesh Kumar works in a glass factory from a middle-class family.
Sonam's performance in the U19 World Cup.
Sonam took one wicket against South Africa. Sonam was not included in the playing-11 against UAE. After this, he returned to the playing-11 against Scotland and took two wickets for just one run. Sonam took one wicket for 22 runs in three overs against Australia. Sonam did not get any wickets in the match against Sri Lanka, but she was quite economical. He gave only seven runs in three overs. Sonam did not get any wicket in the semi-final against New Zealand. In the final against England, Sonam took one wicket for just three runs.
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Clare Hall Secondary School
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Clare Hall Secondary School is a public government secondary school in Clare Hall, Saint John.
There are currently 762 students enrolled at the institution, and there are 91 teachers and other staff members to support them. The start of the school day is at 7:55 in the morning, morning prayers are held at the school every day between the hours of 8:00 and 8:15., the eighth and final period, which is also the last class, is over at 1:30. A total of 835 students were enrolled at the institution during the 2017–2018 academic year. The school accommodates students in forms 1 through 5.
History.
There have been a number of occurrences of burglaries and acts of violence at Clare Hall Secondary School. One such incident occurred on October 11, 2022, when vandals struck Clare Hall Secondary School somewhere over the course of that weekend. On that particular Monday, which marked the beginning of a fresh new week, the finding was discovered. According to the reports, the criminals targeted the school with the purpose of stealing, but their plot was foiled when they were unable to enter the administrative building due to the burglar bars that had been installed on the windows of the building. On the other hand, all of the glass windows in the office building were shattered by them. The event took place "at a period in which officials from the government and the leadership of the teacher's union are working together to strengthen security at schools." The new development came about after the teachers threatened to go on strike if the government and education officials did not get the issue under control. Pupils at Clare Hall Secondary School were sent home early after two armed intruders entered the school's compound on February 1, 2023. The attackers were seen entering the school's parking lot. Two guys wearing ski masks to hide their faces and wielding cutlasses and golf clubs are said to have climbed the south eastern fence before threatening the security guard who was stationed there, according to eyewitness claims that were published in the Antigua Observer. After this, they allegedly went on to try to frighten students and security by dragging their weapons over the ground in an attempt to make them feel unsafe. On the other hand, such action grabbed the attention of huge groups of students, which led to those students retreating in the direction that they had initially come from. This event took place not long after another apparent argument involving two male students who got into a fight that resulted in one student seeking medical attention. The fight took place just before this occurrence. This followed a spike in school violence and occurrences involving adolescent gangs within the past few months across Antigua, as well as a rise in the number of gangs operating within schools. The government had already committed to taking measures to reduce the level of violence, one of which was to ask civil officials to submit a document outlining potential remedies. It is not clear whether or not the two occurrences that occurred at Clare Hall Secondary School are connected to one another. The school has declined to comment on the recent acts of violence that have occurred on campus. After the incident, the police were also contacted for comment, although they did not immediately provide one. Although there were no reports of injuries, a team of counselors will be available today to give support to children and staff who may have been traumatized by the event. Irate teachers at the Clare Hall Secondary School (CHSS) staged an industrial action on February 6, 2023, to protest the lack of an appropriate police presence at the school compound. At the same time, several parents relocated their children out of fear for their safety. The CHSS Principal, Ashworth Azille, explained to the Antigua Observer yesterday afternoon that they were forced to end sessions earlier than usual because there was only one police officer stationed at the school, which is one less than the two officers that the teachers had requested to be present. "Teachers would have determined that the presence of two police officers on campus was the prerequisite for returning to the classroom," and that prerequisite would have been met. Because of the failure to do so today, some of the teaching staff decided to stage a sit-in. As a direct result of this, we had no choice but to end the school day earlier than usual, he explained. On that Friday, teachers at CHSS asked for two police officers to be present on the grounds of the school. When teachers arrived at the school at around 7:30 in the morning on February 6, they expected their request to have been met, but there was only one police officer there. In the period of only one week, CHSS has been the scene of many disturbing events, despite having a student body of 700 and a staff of almost 100. A few days previously, video surveillance captured two young males in masks breaking into the building while armed with a machete and a golf club. They appeared to be looking for someone. The following day, numerous specialized classrooms, such as the music room, the book room, and the business lab, were broken into during the course of the weekend. According to what Azille reported to the Observer, a meeting took place on Monday afternoon involving a union representative, a delegation of staff members, officials from the Ministry of Education, and Clare Browne, the Director of Education. He said it was a productive meeting and that the conversation centered on the steps that had previously been made to improve security at CHSS as well as the additional activities that were required. He further disclosed that he was assured that two police officers would be stationed on the school compound on Tuesday, and that he anticipated teachers would return to work today. He said he was given these promises by the school administration. Paulette Hurst, staff representative for the Antigua and Barbuda Union of Teachers (ABUT), was interviewed earlier in the day by the Antigua Observer. She stated, "The situation is that we have been lacking security officers on the compound for quite some time now; it was just week before last we had to take action to get the two requested police officers." Yesterday, several parents were observed standing in solidarity with the teachers who were within the school compound having discussions with the school administration about the next measures at the time. These negotiations were taking place outside the school compound. In light of the circumstances, Hurst, who instructs students in grades five and upwards at the institution, expressed her gratitude for the support of the parents. She said, "As teachers, we feel we always have to fight for the rights of everyone here, not just for ourselves but also for our students, and to have the support of the parents, it feels good that they realize the safety and security is the utmost importance." "As teachers, we feel that we always have to fight for the rights of everyone here, not just for ourselves but also for our students." One parent who spoke to the media stated that she could not feel safe at her job unless she knew that her only child would be safe at the school. As a result, this parent inquired about the possibility of having a soldier stationed at the school in addition to the police officer who is already there. In the meantime, the police officer who was stationed at the school yesterday advised the parents that they should make a report to the authorities if they witnessed any odd activities, as this would be of more service to the law enforcement officials. In addition to that, he mentioned that an additional police officer will be sent over in a short while. Another officer, who arrived on the scene after apparently receiving a call from Attorney General Steadroy Benjamin, confirmed this information for the witnesses. The principal of CHSS also talked to the parents, who at the time were debating whether or not they should voice their discontent with the officials at the Ministry of Education. Azille informed the parents that it was perfectly OK for them to voice their concerns on the situation, but she begged for patience while discussions between the instructors and other school officials were taking place. "I understand the position of the staff having experienced what they did on Tuesday, coupled with a number of security threats," he said, while also expressing his frustration at the break-in incident that occurred over the weekend. "I understand the position of the staff having experienced what they did on Tuesday," he said. "We are appealing to the soul and conscience of a community and a nation to be on the lookout... because every time there is an incursion like this, it disrupts the flow of school; classes must now be suspended while we are waiting for the [Criminal Investigation Department] to do their procedural investigations," he mentioned. "We are appealing to the soul and conscience of a community and a nation to be on the lookout." While school authorities look to strengthen safety precautions, they have expressed alarm about the possibility of violence both between and against pupils. In the year 2022, it was discovered that multiple attacks on kids were carried out by a young gang whose primary weapon of choice was a machete. A few days before, it was reported that a group of adolescents had attempted to attack students at the YMCA sports complex, which at the time was conducting a sports tournament. The officials of the government had earlier pledged that they would introduce a series of steps, one of which would be a review of the legislation pertaining to the treatment of children, and another would be the installation of surveillance cameras. On the other hand, legislative changes did not take place prior to February 17, which marked the first day of sitting for the 16th Parliament.
Gerard DeFreitas, age 19, from Clare Hall was taken into custody and charged by the police on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, in connection with the incident that occurred on January 31 at the Clare Hall Secondary school. The school filed charges against him for Trespassing on School Property, Being Armed with an Offensive Weapon, and Assaulting a School Official. On the previously mentioned day, he was brought before the judge. He entered a plea of not guilty to all of the counts against him. He has been remanded to His Majesty's Prison, where he will remain until the date of his trial, which has been scheduled for the 20th of April in 2023.
A pupil at Clare Hall Secondary School was filmed being assaulted by a male classmate in a video that is currently making the rounds online. Now, there is widespread belief that the recent invasions could have been a form of retaliation for the incident that occurred earlier. On the video, a male student is seen pulling a chair out from under a female student, which results in the female student falling to the ground. The girl strikes out at the boy in self-defense, but the male responds with a barrage of blows, during which the female hits her head on a nearby desk. He then looms over the girl, who is thirteen at the time, while she struggles to get to her feet in an obviously confused state. Even though there are many students in the room, no one steps in to help the girl who is being bullied. Instead, the other students stand by and film the conflict. It is said that both pupils were given suspensions, with the female student receiving a suspension for two days and the male student receiving a suspension for three days. According to the allegations, both the parents and the authorities were made aware of the incident.
Following these violent episodes that occurred over the course of a few days, the daily routine at Clare Hall Secondary School (CHSS) has gradually begun to restore to a sense of normalcy. Two adolescents armed with machetes and wearing masks broke into the school on January 31, 2023, in search of a specific person. One of the perpetrators was recently apprehended and charged in connection with the incident. A school employee managed to scare off the intruders, but not before she was injured in the process. Counselors were called to the school to assist in comforting the pupils and staff, and some of the teachers have demanded that the government take additional steps to address the issue of school safety. Yesterday, three weeks after the event in question, Observer media had a conversation with the Principal of CHSS, Richard Azille. "It was quite a painful experience for both students and teachers, and in the immediate aftermath, kids had the option to speak with some counselors in order to offload and unpack what they had encountered. At least, those students who felt obliged to do so had this opportunity. "There are still individuals who speak occasionally about the residual effects of the occurrence, and as a result, they are somewhat more cautious when they go to their classes, so there is a heightened sense of awareness." "But I think, for the most part, even as work continues to beef up the internal security measures, people are getting back to a relative level of calm and a higher degree of normalcy. This is despite the fact that we are continuing to work on increasing the internal security measures. "It will be the same for the students," emphasized Azille. Also, a few days after the incident that occurred on January 31, 2023, several classrooms at the secondary school were broken into, which further elevated the tensions. Teachers, with the support of their union, participated in industrial action, which resulted in multiple meetings with officials from the Ministry of Education. The sides were able to settle their differences and come to certain agreements, which were kept secret from the press. One of the measures that was previously mentioned was the installation of CCTV cameras at several schools in Antigua. Azille announced that these cameras would be put at Clare Hall Secondary School.
Following a brawl at the school shortly after 11 on the morning of March 31, 2023, five students, four of them girls, were brought into police custody. The fight allegedly involved the use of a mop stick and a piece of 24-inch board. Authorities claimed that the altercation began inside the theater before moving outside the grounds. The students, whose ages vary from 13 to 15, got into an argument, although it's unclear what started it.
Sports.
The Clare Hall Secondary School athletic teams have been successful in a number of tournaments, including the 2022 Inter-school Cricket competition, in which they triumphed over the Sir Novelle Richards Academy by a score of 176 runs. In the year 2022, CHSS also won the volleyball match against All Saints Secondary School (ASSS) with scores of 18–25, 25–15, and 15–11.
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2023 West Coast Eagles season
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The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football based in Perth, Western Australia. Their 2023 season is their 37th season in the Australian Football League (AFL), their tenth season with Adam Simpson as coach, and their fourth season with Luke Shuey as captain. As of round nine, they have one win and eight losses.
Background.
The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football team based in Perth, Western Australia, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). They ended the 2022 home-and-away season seventeenth, or second last, on the ladder, with only two wins and twenty losses, their worst result ever. They only narrowly avoided winning the wooden spoon because 's percentage was worse.
Prior to the start of the 2023 season, West Coast were widely expected to fare similarly to 2022. Out of a group of ten "AFL.com.au" journalists, all predicted that West Coast would finish the season 13th on the ladder or worse, with four predicting they would finish 16th. None of the journalists predicted that West Coast would finish last however. "Fox Sports" used a Pythagorean expectation formula to predict that West Coast would finish the season 17th. A group of Western Australia-based people from Nine Entertainment was more optimistic though, predicting West Coast would finish 12th, saying that they were unlucky with injuries in 2022, and that an influx of young players would help them be more competitive.
Luke Shuey was voted in as captain for the fourth consecutive season. Jeremy McGovern remained a vice-captain and was joined by Tom Barrass, who replaced Nic Naitanui who declined to continue as part of the leadership group. Adam Simpson remained as coach for his tenth season. The assistant coaches are Matthew Knights (midfield), Jarrad Schofield (strategy and stoppages), Daniel Pratt (backs) and Luke Webster (forwards). The development coaches are Jacob Brennan (development coordinator), Mark Nicoski (forwards) and Kyal Horsley (midfield).
Jayden Hunt joined West Coast as an unrestricted free agent on the first day of the 2022 trade period. He had previously played 114 games for .
Playing list.
Changes.
Josh Kennedy retired at the end of the 2022 season, as was widely expected. Jack Redden also retired at the end of the season, albeit unexpectedly.
Season summary.
In the 2023 AFL season, each team will play 22 games and have a mid-season bye. West Coast will play , , , , , and twice, and all the other teams once. Only one game will be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the venue of the grand final, against Richmond. There will be three games at Adelaide Oval as a result of the Gather Round, where West Coast will play in Adelaide. Other venues include four games at Docklands Stadium in Melbourne, one game at The Gabba in Brisbane, one game at the Sydney Cricket Ground, and one game against at University of Tasmania Stadium in Launceston, Tasmania. Out of the opening 15 rounds, eight will be played on Saturdays, five will be played on Sundays, and one will be played on a Friday. The days for the remaining eight rounds will be revealed later in the season.
WAFL team.
Robert Wiley was West Coast's WAFL coach.
Awards.
Reuben Ginbey was nominated for the Rising Star award in round three, making him the first Rising Star nomination from West Coast since Oscar Allen in round 21, 2019. Jai Culley was nominated for the Rising Star award in round six.
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Aaron Johnson (cricketer)
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Aaron Orlando Johnson is a Jamaican cricketer who represents the Canada national cricket team. He made his international debut for Canada in 2022. He is a right-handed batsman.
Personal life.
Johnson was born in Jamaica. He attended St. Catherine High School in Spanish Town. After moving to Canada he settled in Fort McMurray, Alberta, where he attended Keyano College.
Domestic and franchise career.
Johnson represented British Columbia at the 2022 national twenty20 championships. For the 2023 Global T20 Canada tournament he was selected to play for the Brampton Wolves.
International career.
Johnson made his international debut for Canada in a 50-over series against Nepal in July 2022. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Bahrain in the 2022 Desert Cup T20I Series in Oman. Two matches later he recorded his maiden T20I century, scoring 109 not out from 69 balls against Oman. This also set a new record for the highest score by a Canadian batsman in T20I cricket.
On 27 March 2023, Johnson made his One Day International (ODI) debut for Canada against Jersey at the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe women's cricket team in Thailand in 2022–23
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The Zimbabwe women's cricket team toured Thailand in April 2023 to play three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. This was Zimbabwe's first tour to Thailand for a bilateral series. Originally the tour was to consist of just three T20Is, before being expanded to a series of 3 ODIs and 4 T20Is. However, after the completion of the first match of the T20I series, it was announced that the series would be reduced to three matches due to scheduling conflicts with the Southeast Asian Games cricket tournament.
Thailand won all three matches of the ODI series. It was the first ever instance of an associate nation clean-sweeping an ODI series against a full member. Thailand also won the T20I series 2–1.
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Aryansh Sharma
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Aryansh Sharma (born 3 December 2004) is a cricketer who plays for the United Arab Emirates national cricket team. He is a wicket-keeper.
Personal life.
Sharma was born on 3 December 2004 in Ghaziabad, India. He moved to the UAE with his family at the age of two. He attended the Manipal Academy of Higher Education in Dubai.
Cricket career.
Sharma represented the UAE at the 2022 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in the West Indies. He also represented the team at the 2023 Asia Division One Qualifier for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
In March 2023, Sharma was called up to the senior national squad for the 2023 Nepal Tri-Nation Series which saw the UAE qualify for the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier Play-off. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut against Jersey in the final match of the World Cup Qualifier Play-off.
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Shaun Fouché
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Shaun Fouché (born 14 February 2000) is a Namibian cricketer, who is a right-handed batter. He finished his secondary education at Paarl Boys' High School. He played for the Namibia national under-19 cricket team at the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
Career.
In March 2021, Fouché earned his maiden call up to the Namibia cricket team for their series against Uganda. He was selected to play for the Richelieu Eagles in the 2022 Namibia Global T20 League. In August 2022, he was sent to Lahore for a training camp at Lahore Qalandars High-Performance Center (HPC) ahead of the competition. He made his Twenty20 debut on 21 March 2022, for Namibia A against Ireland Wolves in Windhoek. He made his List A debut on 29 March 2022, for Namibia A against Ireland Wolves.
In February 2023, he was selected to play for Namibia in the 2023 Nepal Tri-Nation Series. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut on 20 February 2023, for Namibia against Scotland in that tournament. In March 2023, he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier Play-off tournament. On 26 March 2023, he made his maiden half-century in ODI cricket, scoring 53 runs off 96 balls against the United States. On 4 April 2023, he claimed another half-century scoring 83 runs, and was named the player of the match.
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Dirae (poem)
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The poem Dirae is one of the poems that make up the "Appendix Vergiliana". It is a pastoral poem, told from the perspective of a Sicilian herdsman forced to give up his land to Lycurgus, who is receiving this land as a reward for his participation in the Roman civil wars. The herdsman spends the entire poem cursing the land so Lycurgus cannot benefit from it.
The scholarly history of the "Appendix Vergiliana" and therefore of "Dirae" has been one of authenticating the poems as works of Vergil. Modern consensus is that they are not by Vergil, and the focus has shifted to situating the poem in time and literary context.
Synopsis.
"Dirae" is a series of curses. It is told from the perspective of a Sicilian herdsman, who is evicted from his lands by Lycurgus, a veteran of Rome’s civil wars. The herdsman exhorts his friend, Battarus, to join him in his cursing of the land that they leave behind, swearing that the natural order of the world would be overturned—that prey should chase after predator—sooner than he stops his baleful song.
The series of curses follow a narrative. The unnamed singer asks the land to become infertile, even the hills bereft of water, so that Lycurgus is not able to experience the beauty of Sicily. Then, the breezes that used to blow sweetly on the land, he asks to turn to unmanageable heat. He mourns the felling of the woods he loves so much, and he asks Jupiter to strike the land with lightning so that first the woods, and then all the farmland, might burn up. Once the land has burned, he turns to the sea, calling on the waves to flood the land and on Neptune to drive sea monsters over the land with the waves. If Neptune does not heed his call, the herdsman asks that at least the streams would flood and, when the streams retreat, that they might leave behind marshes.
In the end, the singer takes a final look from a hill upon his land and vows that, again, the natural order of the world would sooner be overturned—that white would appear to be black and left appear to be right—before he ceases to mourn the loss of his land, disappearing afterwards into the woods.
Characters.
The characters of the poem are the singer, his friend Battarus to whom this song is addressed, and Lycurgus who has been given the singer’s land. The singer’s girlfriend, Lydia, is mentioned twice. In addition to the humans mentioned in the poem, the speaker refers to several well-known entities from Roman mythology and culture.
Style.
Pastoral.
"Dirae" is a pastoral poem, composed of 103 lines of hexameter, arranged into irregular verses divided by a kind of refrain. Given that other extant examples of pastoral are dated around Nero’s reign, this poem is possibly the first example of post-Vergilian pastoral poetry, and it is structured in a very similar manner to Vergil’s pastorals. Classical pastoral poetry is a form of poetry that is centred around the landscape of the rural herdsman, structured as a song. Other elements of a pastoral poem include a pathetic fallacy motif, in which the landscape responds in some way to the song, and a construction of an idyllic landscape, including both the aspects of the land, such as mountains, forests, and streams, and its inhabitants, such as chirping birds, buzzing bees, and flocks of sheep and goats. While rural activities such as making cheese or ploughing fields are featured in pastoral poems, the true activity of the poem is the singing and piping of the song, generally sung between two participants, perhaps as part of a competition. The traditional location of these songs is Sicily. A particular aspect of Vergilian pastoral is a lack of grounding in a dramatic context.
"Dirae" complies with these parameters but also manages to subvert them. The singer is a herdsman, and the herdsman is located in Sicily. He explicitly mentions his song in the very first line and does so another ten times, and references to his pipe appear three times in the song (line 7, line 19, and line 97). The exhortations to Battarus to join the song, thus sustaining the curses, function as a kind of refrain. However, despite naming Battarus several times, Battarus never joins the song, leaving it vague whether he is encouraging of the song, disapproving, or even present at all. There is no exchange of verses. The song does describe a pastoral landscape. There are references to mountains and fields, to forests and streams, recalling particularly a place where the singer and Battarus gathered thorns and listened to chirping crickets (lines 72-74). While pastoral poetry calls forth the pastoral landscape so that the listener might appreciate its enduring sameness, the singer of "Dirae" describes the ways in which he wants the land to be destroyed. It is the inverse of golden-age imagery: instead of the song shaping a beautiful landscape, it attempts to shape a beautiful landscape into ruin. "Dirae" can be, for these reasons, considered to be an anti-pastoral poem.
Style inspiration.
The poem takes precedence from Vergil’s "Eclogues". "Eclogues" 1 and 9 match "Dirae" in the sense that they all record the threat of eviction and land seizure to the peaceful eternity of the pastoral landscape. Moeris, in "Eclogue" 9, curses his land, though in a single line rather than 103. There is a possible link, too, between "Dirae" and Hellenistic curse-poetry. "Eclogue" 8 explores the potential for changing the landscape through song. Several characters in the "Eclogues" are quasi-magical singers, such as Orpheus, Silenus, Hesiod, Damon, and Alphesiboeus. Indeed, Orpheus’s myths describe him as capable of making the rocks and trees themselves weep. Damon’s farewell to his land in the "Eclogues" matches the farewell of "Dirae"’s singer. Another link between "Dirae" and the "Eclogues" is the repeated mentioning of swans. In "Eclogue" 8, there is a competition between swans and owls. The poet refers to himself as a goose among swans in and swans sing in order to save Mantua in "Eclogue" 9. The very first line of "Dirae" is “Battare, cycneas repetamus carmine voces,” — “Battarus, let us renew our swan-like voices in song.”
The herdsmen of the "Eclogues" are also farmers, so, though the herdsman of "Dirae" only mentions his flocks in the last lines of the poem and is principally taken up with the loss of land, he is still a reflection of Vergilian herdsmen.
In the act of separation, "Dirae" also takes precedence from the "Georgics", in which the relationship could also be either destroyed or nourished through song. However, the landscape is not created by song, as in ordinary pastoral poetry, but comes about by itself. "Georgics" also contains advice on how to care for the land, which is echoed in "Dirae", though in an inverse manner—as "Dirae" is concerned with how to destroy the land.
Ovid’s "Ibis", which explores the powerlessness of the speaker, no matter the feeling and forcefulness of the words, matches the ultimate futility of "Dirae"’s speaker, as he must, in the end, leave his beloved countryside. The "Appendix Vergiliana" in general has an Ovidian tone. Scholars have also found stylistic similarities between "Dirae" and poets such as Catullus, Lucretius, and Ennius.
Analysis.
Vocabulary.
At 103 lines, "Dirae" is quite short, so hard statistics are less applicable than for a longer poem, such as the "Eclogues", but it is still helpful. Of all the words in "Dirae", 16.3% are unknown in the rest of Vergil’s poetry. These words are cyaneus (dark blue, line 40), cycneus (pertaining to swans, line 1), emano (to flow out, line 72), emergo (to come forth, line 57), emigro (to depart from somewhere, line 101), erro (to wander, line 70), gryllus (cricket, line 74), indemnatus (uncondemned, line 84), libellus (little book, lines 26, 34), pertica (pole, line 45), piscor (to fish, line 80), praetor (leader, line 82), repentinus (sudden, line 56), spica (head of grain, line 73), sterilesco (to grow unfruitful, line 9), transvolo (to fly over, line 44), vernus (pertaining to spring, line 21). “Verna,” in line 21, is not always “verna”: in the edition edited by R. Ellis (1907) the word is “lena” (meaning “bawdy”), and in the edition by Armandus Salvatore (1960) it is “avena” (meaning “oaten”).
Date.
The poems of the "Appendix Vergiliana" were written in the Julio-Claudian era (12 - 68 BCE); however, scholars have many different ideas as to the date of "Dirae". Their arguments have ranged from vocabulary, metre, grammatical construction, historical context, and subjective stylistic differences. Naturally these arguments have also been used to determine Vergilian authorship: if the date of the poem was definitively established to a date after Vergil’s death, it could not have been written by Vergil.
8.15% of the vocabulary is unusual for Vergil—which is to say, the vocabulary is not found in Vergil’s "Aeneid", "Eclogues", or "Georgics"—but is found in Ovid’s poetry. Thus, H. Fairclough has pushed the poem to the time of Ovid instead.
Professor Tenney Frank believed the poem to be from 41 BCE, as it mimics the “bitterness” that can be found in "Eclogue" 1.
W. R. Hardie wrote an article dissecting the metre of various Augustan poems, including "Dirae", and concluded that the poem was written in either 42 or 41 BCE. He admits that "Dirae" is rather short, but nevertheless analyses it for different types of metrical lines. He believes, based on his analysis of the vital caesura in Vergilian poetry, that Vergil developed poetry towards varied cadence (more varied than Catullus), thus trochaic caesuras are found in greater frequency in Homeric poetry and less so in poetry of the Julio-Claudian period. Participle endings occur less and less in later periods, and the examples of poetry around Vergil’s time generally do not place the participial phrases that they do have after the main verb of the sentence—likewise, Vergil prefers to have his participial phrases in front of his main verbs.
"Dirae" has one occurrence of a participle that takes up a full hexameter.
It has no occurrence of a participle at the end of the line or a participle that is preceded by a main verb and takes up a whole line.
20.4% of the lines have a vital caesura occurring hepthemimerally.
3.88% of the lines have a vital caesura occurring trochaically.
20% of the lines have a pure trochee.
7.76% of the lines have a bucolic diaeresis.
17.47% of the lines for which the adjective occurs before the participle and the substantive adjective occurs at the end.
It has no lines in which the substantive adjective occurs before the participle.
Possible sequel.
In 1792, it was proposed that "Lydia", a 80 line hexameter poem, is a sequel to "Dirae", given that the singer of the latter poem mentions the name “Lydia” twice (line 89 and line 95). The former poem is of a man mourning the loss of his beloved Lydia, who is frolicking in fields he no longer occupies. There are stylistic similarities between the two: they share a similar type of symmetry in that a word occurring three lines away from the beginning of the poem will also occur three lines away from the end of the poem. The words are not always exactly the same: it may be a different form of the same word or simply a word that shares similar sounds. Nor do they always occur precisely the same distance away from the beginning and ending, but the difference between the distances is never more than a line.
Comparison of different editions.
There are numerous words in "Dirae" that are daggered, meaning that the word is not reasonably readable in the manuscript. Each edition will provide other editor's rendition of the obscured letters. Separate editions of the poem, edited and annotated by different scholars, have daggered different words.
There are several lines in "Dirae" that differ from edition to edition. This table compares three different editions of the poem; but this list is not comprehensive. Words that differ are bolded.
Authenticity.
"Dirae" is one of the poems that make up the "Appendix Vergiliana".The term “Appendix,” refers to works that are considered solely within the background of authentic texts (i.e. works that are authentically attributed to Vergil), and are of interest because of the question of their authenticity. This is contrasted against the term “opuscula” (meaning “little works”), for which the main question is of significance. Thus, the vast majority of scholarly work around the "Appendix" is concerned with the authenticity of the poems.
None of these poems are mentioned by Vergil’s literary editors, L. Varius or Plotius Tucca, nor are they mentioned in Valerius Probus’s "Vita" of Vergil written in the first century CE. The first attribution of "Dirae" to Vergil occurred in Aelius Donatus’s biography of Vergil in the 4th century CE, in which Donatus claimed that Vergil wrote the poems "Catalepton", "Priapea", "Epigrammata", "Dirae", "Ciris", and "Culex" when he was 26. Servius’s biography, also of the fourth century, adds "Copa" to Donatus’s list.
There is a catalogue from the ninth century CE, found in Murbach, listing several poems from the "Appendix"—and among them, "Dirae"—but the manuscript itself is lost. In general, manuscripts that include poems from the "Appendix" only have a few.
Doubts regarding the authenticity of at least some of the poems occur as early as the sixteenth century CE. Jodocus Badius Ascensius, in 1501 CE, asserts that "Priapea" must be Ovidian on account of obscenity and that "In Maecenatem" is also not by Vergil, and mentions that there are doubts as to the authenticity of "Aetna" as well.
The first recorded doubt regarding the authenticity of "Dirae" specifically is in Josephus Justus Scaliger’s work, "Appendix Vergiliana". Scaliger was the first to name this collection of poems in such a manner, and the first to have formally decided the poems that constitute the "Appendix". In it, he attributes "Dirae" to Valerius Cato. He only considers three of the poems to be genuinely Vergilian: "Catalepton", "Ciris", "Culex". By the seventeenth century, all poems were attributed away from Vergil, though in the early twentieth, scholars began to reconsider the possibility.
Scaliger’s assumption that "Dirae" was written by Cato is based on an event recorded by Suetonius. Under the reforms of Sulla, Cato lost his land. In indignation, Cato wrote a little book, a "libellus", in which he complained about his eviction. Scaliger connected the authorship of Cato’s book and "Dirae" based on the spirit of complaint and lament found in both works.
Modern consensus is that the poems of the "Appendix" are not written by Vergil, but the focus has switched from the possible authenticity of the poems to engagement with the poems themselves. Scholars are attempting to receive the poems the way they would have been in their original context. Given that comparatively few Latin poems from the first century BCE survive, it is impossible to say whether these poems were deliberately faked or simply representative of their genre and time. Scholastic tendency is towards assigning extant poems to known poets: it is tempting to flesh out the character and life of historical figures. Likewise, scholars have tended towards proving or disproving the authorship assigned by previous scholars, so the majority of scholastic analysis has been used to support arguments towards dating or authorship. For example, one of the poems of the "Appendix", "Catalepton", was brushed off as unlikely to be by Vergil because, “the assumption that Virgil could have ever written laudatory verses on such an occasion will need more proof than is here produced before it can be accepted,” a statement that seems to imply a personal knowledge of Vergil’s character. However, significantly less time has been used in analysing the poems for their artistic merit—an aspect of the poetry in which the Ancient Romans were far more interested.
It is unlikely that the Romans considered the issue of imitation in the same manner that scholars have approached the "Appendix"—the manner of sorting the authentic from the inauthentic. Imitation was a big part of Roman culture, extending down even to the school curriculum. Vergil is considered to be among the most important poets of the Roman Republic, so it was fashionable to imitate him, and it is probably due to his name labelling the "Appendix" that these poems have been preserved until the first recorded scholarly analysis.
The education of Roman boys included "paraphrasis", an exercise that asked the students to convert poetry into prose and vice versa, teaching them how to express the same thoughts in several ways. Imitation was also an important part of the education system, schoolboys first analysing and even memorising sections of literary texts before using their knowledge to create new pieces in old styles.
Roleplay, a more comprehensive form of imitation, was the next step. After composing in the style of a particular poet, the students had to also perform in that style. So the poems, written in a style similar to that of Vergil, were not considered by the Romans to be deliberate forgeries, but as imitations to be judged as to how accurate the imitation was.
Additionally, the term used to denote works labelled with an author’s name but not truly authored by that person—pseudepigrapha—referred both to works deliberately faked and works that were merely written in the style of said author. Roman book-publishing was not very precise: titles changed over time and authors did not always claim their own work. Books would be assigned authors and titles by the publishers according to their own standards, misattribution thus becoming very easy. The concept of intellectual property was not based on individual contributors, but on the school to which the work belonged—it is in this way that works on medicine were often assigned to Hippocrates and works on mathematics to Pythagoras. The construction of public figures was less concerned with “what actually happened,” but in the creation of anecdotes to fill in the blank spots between the publicly-known events of their life and to form a story suited to their persona. It was not about what was true, but about what was possible. So the attribution of the "Appendix" to Vergil was not necessarily due to deliberate forgery, but perhaps to denote a specific style or to help form a picture of Vergil as a young man.
Given the context, scholars believe that it is unlikely these poems were deliberately faked.
Another area of scholarly research around the "Appendix" is how expansive the "Appendix" should be. Some scholars argue that the couplet on Vergil’s tomb should be included in the "Appendix", especially because the couplet is too short to be considered in any way but against the context of Vergil’s other works.
Commentary.
There are no known commentaries on the "Appendix Vergiliana" from antiquity. Post-antiquity opinions about the "Appendix" surface around the Renaissance. Jodocus Badius Ascensius wrote the first known commentary in 1500 CE. Badius believed that these works were written by a young Vergil, based on the "Vita" written by Donatus, but it is unlikely that he read the poems himself. He used these poems as a way to teach morality to children, and for that reason, published "Silvae Morales", which is a series of five moral poems taken from the works of Vergil. In the Renaissance, the general conception of Vergil as a moral poet was used to judge whether certain poems could be written by him or not. For example, "Priapea" and "Catalepton" were disqualified due to their obscenity. This, however, may be due to the fact that poetry in the sixteenth century was classified under moral philosophy.
By the middle of the sixteenth century, commentary shifted away from moral application and towards style, craft, and literary development. Julius Caesar Scaliger considered Vergil’s poetry—and by extension, the "Appendix"—to be the standard from which budding poets take their inspiration. He valued the authority, clarity, and logic of Vergil’s work, and taught that Vergil’s method of working (or what he perceived to be Vergil’s method, based on Donatus’s biography), which entailed writing in the morning and severely editing in the afternoon, to be an example of "iudicium" (judgement), in which anything that could be considered less than beautiful is removed.
Julius Caesar Scaliger did attribute "Dirae" to Vergil, but as he also believed the poems of the "Appendix Vergiliana" were written by a young Vergil, he does not take them as perfect models. Pastoral poetry in particular required time to develop, as it was among the first genres that Vergil wrote. He considers "Dirae" to be the first draft of Damon in "Eclogue" 8.
His son, Josephus Justus Scaliger, was the first scholar to call the collection of poems an Appendix (previously, these poems were known as "Opuscula" or as "Iuvenalia"). In this collection, he deems only "Culex", "Catalepton", and "Ciris" genuine Vergilian poems and considers them to in fact be mature works.
A. E. Housman is known to have called the authors of the poems of the "Appendix" “mediocre poets and worse; and the gods and men and booksellers whom they affronted by existing allotted them for transcription to worse than mediocre scribes.”
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2023 Victoria Series
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The 2023 Victoria Series was a women's Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that took place in Uganda in April 2023, the second edition of the Victoria Series. Zimbabwe had won the first edition in 2019, but they did not defend the title in this edition due to other commitments. The venue for all of the matches was the Lugogo Stadium in Kampala. The five-team tournament was contested by hosts Uganda, as well as Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and United Arab Emirates. The tournament provided all teams with preparation for the 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier.
After Kenya's last match in the round-robin stage, the team's captain Sharon Juma announced her retirement from international cricket.
Uganda's 3-run win over Tanzania confirmed their place in the final with a game to spare. After the final was abandoned due to rain, Uganda were declared the champions due to having finished top of the round-robin stage. Henriette Ishimwe of Rwanda was named player of the tournament.
Round-robin.
Points table.
Advanced to the final
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Black Prince (musician, born 1880)
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Black Prince (born c. 1880) was a Trinidadian calypsonian. He was one of only three of the first-generation calypso pioneers to record, the others being Iron Duke, who made the first (vocal) calypso record in 1914, and Lord Executor, who recorded extensively from 1937 to 1940.
Career.
Like other early calypsonians such as Richard Coeur de Leon (Norman Le Blanc) and Iron Duke (Julian Whiterose), Christopher Howell took his calypso name from a famous English military commander, namely Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376). The first mention of Black Prince’s career is in a recollection from Lord Executor about the time when calypso started to be performed more widely in dedicated calypso tents, which was around 1900. This led to “the competition becoming quite fierce in Port of Spain”, so the leading calypsonians began to “scatter” from the capital, says Executor, with Black Prince moving to Tunapuna, the town where Marxist historian C.L.R. James was born in 1901. Some insight into Black Prince’s performance style in these early years may be gleaned from Executor’s 1938 calypso, “They Say I Reign too Long”, in which Executor recounts his various victories in calypso picong dual contests, Black Prince being among the Executor’s victims: “Then came Black Prince, with his armour on; Boastful, antagonistic and full of scorn; And in chains of bondage the villain was bound; And cast in a dungeon far underground.”
In 1933, the Trinidad newspaper "Daily Mirror" published Black Prince’s suggestions on how the Carnival calypso competitions should be organised, referring to him as a “singer of Belmont”, the suburb of Port of Spain where Executor lived. Black Prince “strongly advises the authorities to stop ... the half nude Jab Malisa”, referring to a carnival costume of a devil covered in grease or molasses. During that carnival season, Black Prince sang in a calypso tent on Henry Street alongside fellow calypsonians Executor, King Radio, Lord Beginner, Railway Douglas (aka. Chieftain Douglas), Inveigler and The Owl. In 1934, he performed a calypso about a recent news story concerning a man who murdered his sweetheart and then killed himself with dynamite, which included the lines, "Was it love, envy or jealousy; That caused the dynamite tragedy?" In 1935 Black Prince competed in a calypso competition against Roaring Lion, Growling Tiger, Atilla the Hun, Railway Douglas, Lord Executor and Lord Beginner, in which the competitors had to write and perform a calypso about the recent death of Mikey Cipriani, an aviation pioneer and cricketer who had died in a plane crash.
Black Prince recorded 4 calypsos between 1938 and 1939 which are available on Bear Records’ "West Indian Rhythm" box-set (2006): “The Bamboo Band”, “School Boys’ Adventure”, “I Want a Radio at Home” and “You Pelt Me Bundle Before the Door”; only the first 2 of these were originally issued. “You Pelt Me Bundle Before the Door” (i.e. you throw a bag containing my possessions onto the doorstep), a song about his lover abandoning him and taking his valuables, was recorded at a 1939 session for Decca, in which Black Prince and Lord Ziegfield recorded 12 calypsos between them; only “You Pelt Me Bundle” was mastered and none were originally issued. “School Boys’ Adventure” is the best known Black Prince performance nowadays, due to its being included on various calypso compilations. It tells the story of 7 reckless but lucky Trinidadian schoolboys who rowed a fishing boat out to sea to look at the French cruise ship "Normandie" as it sailed past the island of Trinidad – the tide carried the boys to Venezuela where they were rescued. "The Stars", recorded in 1939, lists 58 female stars, including Mae West and Joan Crawford, that Black Prince claims to have met in New York. "At Any Moment War May Declare" calls for an immediate end to appeasement: "Should the powers fail to stop Germany right now; The Balkan states like the others will have to bow; Italy is also out seeking expansion; Undoubtedly Japan has the said ambition". Black Prince is last heard of when he wrote a letter to the calypso censorship authorities, dated February 10 1940, while living on Eastern Main Road in the town of Saint Joseph, Trinidad.
There is another calypsonian who uses the name Black Prince, Kenroy Smith (1944-); he recalls being given his calypso name by Lord Commander, but makes no mention of this being a reference to the earlier Black Prince.
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2023 Lanka Premier League
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The 2023 Lanka Premier League was the fourth edition of the Lanka Premier League (LPL), a Twenty20 franchise cricket tournament in Sri Lanka. It began on 30 July and the final was held on 20 August 2023. The tournament was played by five teams in three international venues. The league was organized by the Sri Lanka Cricket. Jaffna Kings were the defending champions. This was the first Lanka Premier League season to feature an auction as the previous editions used to have the draft to choose players.
On 20 August 2023, B-Love Kandy defeated Dambulla Aura by 5 wickets in the final, to win their maiden LPL title.
Competition format.
Each team can include a maximum of six international players in their squad. The five teams will play each other twice in the round-robin stage. Among them, the top four teams will advance to the playoffs.
Squads.
The players' auction was held on 14 June 2023. Prior to the auction, some big-name players signed contracts with the five teams. These players include Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Shakib Al Hasan and David Miller.
Player auction.
The auction was held on 14 June 2023, where the five franchises were allowed to spend a maximum of US$500,000 each. The auction was held at Shangri-La Colombo and the likes of Wasim Akram and Angelo Mathews were available during the player auction. Popular Indian cricket commentator Charu Sharma was invited as the chief auctioneer for the auction.
Each team was allowed to have a squad of 20-24 players, inclusive of a mandatory six overseas players and 14-19 domestic players. Any money not spent from the pre-signing kitty cannot be carried over to the auction. The teams also had a right-to-match option for their players, and the money for that had to come from within the auction kitty.
Bidding took place between two teams at any given time, with a third team allowed to join the bidding only once one of the first two teams had withdrawn from the process. An "accelerated" auction process occurred after the first 70 names were presented for bidding. This process saw franchises nominate 15-20 players, including unsold players, who will go under the hammer.
Players were categorised into two groups, capped and uncapped. Each capped player will be able to register themselves under base prices ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 in $10,000 increments. Uncapped players will be classed with a base price of $20,000 - those having played a minimum of 50 first-class matches; $10,000 - a minimum of 25 first-class matches, or a minimum of 18 matches in the LPL or any other equivalent T20 franchise league; and $5000 - those who do not meet any of the criteria mentioned above.
Dilshan Madushanka became the auction's most expensive player to be picked when Jaffna Kings bought him for a record price of $92,000. New Zealand's Chad Bowes became the auction's most expensive overseas player to be picked at $58,000 and it raised eyebrows given Bowes is yet to establish and prove himself at international level.
It was reported that some prominent overseas players including the likes of Rassie van der Dussen were not picked by any of the franchise owners due to the said players being signed up by rival franchise T20 leagues such as Global T20 Canada which are also set to clash with LPL during the same time period.
Venues.
R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo and Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Kandy were selected as the venues.
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Free Hit Danka
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Free Hit Danka is a 2021 Indian Marathi-language comedy drama film directed by Sunil Magare. It stars Somnath Awghade, Tanaji Galgunde, Arbaz Shaikh and Suresh Vishwakarma. It was theatrically released on 17 December 2021.
Plot.
A man and a woman fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the fact that they come from two villages that have been feuding for years over a cricket tournament.
Release.
Theatrical.
The film was theatrically released on 17 December 2021.
Soundtrack.
Music is given by Baban Adagle and Ashok Kamble.
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Aristodicus of Rhodes
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Aristodicus () of Rhodes was the author of one or possibly two epigrams in the Greek Anthology, but little further is known about him. Most scholars believe these originally came from "The Garland" of Meleager of Gadara.
The first epigram, about a cricket, the author "Aristodicus" is described as "a Rhodian", but in the second epigram, about arithmetic, the author is called just "Aristodicus" and there is no further descriptor given, so it is impossible to know if these were intended to denote the same person.
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Society and culture of the Victorian era
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Society and culture of the Victorian era refers to society and culture in the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria.
The era saw a rapidly growing middle class who became an important cultural influence; to a significant extent replacing the aristocracy as the dominant class in British society. A distinctive middle class lifestyle developed which influenced what was valued by society as a whole. Increased importance was placed on the value of the family and a private home. Women had limited legal rights in most areas of life and were expected to focus on domestic matters relying on men as breadwinners. Whilst parental authority was seen as important, children were given legal protections against abuse and neglect for the first time. The growing middle class and strong evangelical movement placed great emphasis on a respectable and moral code of behaviour. As well as personal improvement, importance was given to social reform. Utilitarianism was another philosophy which saw itself as based on science rather than on morality, but also emphasised social progress. An alliance formed between these two ideological strands.
A growing number of Christians in England and Wales were not Anglicans and nonconformists pushed for the disestablishment of the Church of England. Legal discrimination against nonconformists and Catholics was reduced. Secularism and doubts about the accuracy of the Old Testament grew among people with higher levels of education. Northern English and Scottish academics tended to be more religiously conservative, whilst agnosticism and even atheism (though its promotion was illegal) gained appeal among academics in the south. Historians refer to a "Victorian Crisis of Faith" as a period when religious views had to readjust to suit new scientific knowledge and criticism of the Bible.
Access to education increased rapidly during the 19th century. State funded schools were established in England and Wales for the first time. Education became compulsory for pre-teenaged children in England, Scotland and Wales. Literacy rates increased rapidly, and had become nearly universal by the end of the century. Private education for wealthier children, both boys and more gradually girls, became more formalised over the course of the century. A variety of reading materials grew in popularity during the period. Other popular forms of entertainment included brass bands, circuses, "spectacles" (alleged paranormal activities), amateur nature collecting, gentlemen's clubs for wealthier men and seaside holidays for the middle class. Many sports were introduced or popularised during the Victorian era. They became important to male identity. Popular sports of the period included cricket, cycling, croquet, horse-riding, and many water activities. Opportunities for leisure increased as restrictions were placed on maximum working hours, wages increased and routine annual leave became increasingly common.
Common culture.
The rise of the middle class during the era had a formative effect on its character; the historian Walter E. Houghton reflects that "once the middle class attained political as well as financial eminence, their social influence became decisive. The Victorian frame of mind is largely composed of their characteristic modes of thought and feeling".
Industrialisation brought with it a rapidly growing middle class whose increase in numbers had a significant effect on the social strata itself: cultural norms, lifestyle, values and morality. Identifiable characteristics came to define the middle-class home and lifestyle. Previously, in town and city, residential space was adjacent to or incorporated into the work site, virtually occupying the same geographical space. The difference between private life and commerce was a fluid one distinguished by an informal demarcation of function. In the Victorian era, English family life increasingly became compartmentalised, the home a self-contained structure housing a nuclear family extended according to need and circumstance to include blood relations. The concept of "privacy" became a hallmark of the middle-class life.
Evangelicals, utilitarians, and reform.
The central feature of Victorian-era politics is the search for reform and improvement, including both the individual personality and society. Three powerful forces were at work. First was the rapid rise of the middle class, in large part displacing the complete control long exercised by the aristocracy. Respectability was their code—a businessman had to be trusted and must avoid reckless gambling and heavy drinking. Second, the spiritual reform closely linked to evangelical Christianity, including both the Nonconformist sects, such as the Methodists, and especially the evangelical or Low Church element in the established Church of England, typified by Lord Shaftesbury (1801–1885). It imposed fresh moralistic values on society, such as Sabbath observance, responsibility, widespread charity, discipline in the home, and self-examination for the smallest faults and needs of improvement. Starting with the anti-slavery movement of the 1790s, the evangelical moralizers developed highly effective techniques of enhancing the moral sensibilities of all family members and reaching the public at large through intense, very well organized agitation and propaganda. They focused on exciting a personal revulsion against social evils and personal misbehaviour. Asa Briggs points out, "There were as many treatises on 'domestic economy' in mid-Victorian England as on political economy"
The third effect came from the liberalism of philosophical utilitarians, led by intellectuals Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), James Mill (1773–1836) and his son John Stuart Mill (1806–1873). They were not moralistic but scientific. Their movement, often called "Philosophic Radicalism," fashioned a formula for promoting the goal of "progress" using scientific rationality, and business-like efficiency, to identify, measure, and discover solutions to social problems. The formula was an inquiry, legislation, execution, inspection, and report. In public affairs, their leading exponent was Edwin Chadwick (1800–1890). Evangelicals and utilitarians shared a basic middle-class ethic of responsibility and formed a political alliance. The result was an irresistible force for reform.
Social reforms focused on ending slavery, removing the slavery-like burdens on women and children, and reforming the police to prevent crime, rather than emphasizing the very harsh punishment of criminals. Even more important were political reforms, especially the lifting of disabilities on nonconformists and Roman Catholics, and above all, the reform of Parliament and elections to introduce democracy and replace the old system whereby senior aristocrats controlled dozens of seats in parliament.
The long-term effect of the reform movements was to tightly link the nonconformist element with the Liberal party. The dissenters gave significant support to moralistic issues, such as temperance and sabbath enforcement. The nonconformist conscience, as it was called, was repeatedly called upon by Gladstone for support for his moralistic foreign policy. In election after election, Protestant ministers rallied their congregations to the Liberal ticket. In Scotland, the Presbyterians played a similar role to the Nonconformist Methodists, Baptists and other groups in England and Wales. The political strength of Dissent faded sharply after 1920 with the secularization of British society in the 20th century.
Religion.
Religion was a battleground during this era, with the Nonconformists fighting bitterly against the established status of the Church of England, especially regarding education and access to universities and public office. Penalties on Roman Catholics were mostly removed. The Vatican restored the English Catholic bishoprics in 1850 and numbers grew through conversions and immigration from Ireland. The Oxford Movement was also occurring around this time, which would draw in new converts to the Catholic Church; among these was John Henry Newman. Secularism and doubts about the accuracy of the Old Testament grew as the scientific outlook rapidly gained ground among the better educated. This doubt made them receptive to German idealism, which was imported to England principally by Thomas Carlyle and, before him though less successfully, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Coleridge resisted the empirical legacy of the Age of Enlightenment, while Carlyle, a Scotsman, critiqued utilitarianism from within the tradition of Scottish metaphysics. Walter E. Houghton argues, "Perhaps the most important development in 19th-century intellectual history was the extension of scientific assumptions and methods from the physical world to the whole life of man."
During the mid-nineteenth century, there were two distinct religious mentalities among British academics. The North British school was religiously conservative and commercially engaged thanks to the influence of Presbyterianism and Calvinism. Northern English and Scottish researchers played a key role in the development of thermodynamics, which was motivated by the desire to design ever more efficient engines. By contrast, in the South, mentalities of Anglicanism, agnosticism, and even atheism were more common. Academics such as the biologist Thomas Huxley promoted "scientific naturalism."
Status of Nonconformist churches.
Nonconformist conscience describes the moral sensibility of the Nonconformist churches—those which dissent from the established Church of England—that influenced British politics in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the 1851 census of church attendance, non-conformists who went to chapel comprised half the attendance of Sunday services. Nonconformists were focused in the fast-growing urban middle class. The two categories of this group were in addition to the evangelicals or "Low Church" element in the Church of England: "Old Dissenters," dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, included Baptists, Congregationalists, Quakers, Unitarians, and Presbyterians outside Scotland; "New Dissenters" emerged in the 18th century and were mainly Methodists. The "Nonconformist conscience" of the Old group emphasized religious freedom and equality, the pursuit of justice, and opposition to discrimination, compulsion, and coercion. The New Dissenters (and also the Anglican evangelicals) stressed personal morality issues, including sexuality, temperance, family values, and Sabbath-keeping. Both factions were politically active, but until the mid-19th century, the Old group supported mostly Whigs and Liberals in politics, while the New—like most Anglicans—generally supported Conservatives. In the late 19th century, the New Dissenters mostly switched to the Liberal Party. The result was a merging of the two groups, strengthening their great weight as a political pressure group. They joined on new issues especially regarding schools and temperance, with the latter of special interest to Methodists. By 1914 the linkage was weakening and by the 1920s it was virtually dead.
Parliament had long imposed a series of political disabilities on Nonconformists outside Scotland. They could not hold most public offices, they had to pay local taxes to the Anglican church, be married by Anglican ministers, and be denied attendance at Oxford or degrees at Cambridge. Dissenters demanded the removal of political and civil disabilities that applied to them (especially those in the Test and Corporation Acts). The Anglican establishment strongly resisted until 1828. Dissenters organized into a political pressure group and succeeded in 1828 in the repeal of some restrictions. It was a major achievement for an outside group, but the Dissenters were not finished and the early Victorian period saw them even more active and successful in eliminating their grievances. Next on the agenda was the matter of church rates, which were local taxes at the parish level for the support of the parish church building in England and Wales. Only buildings of the established church received the tax money. Civil disobedience was attempted but was met with the seizure of personal property and even imprisonment. The compulsory factor was finally abolished in 1868 by William Ewart Gladstone, and payment was made voluntary. While Gladstone was a moralistic evangelical inside the Church of England, he had strong support in the Nonconformist community. The Marriage Act 1836 allowed local government registrars to handle marriages. Nonconformist ministers in their chapels were allowed to marry couples if a registrar was present. Also in 1836, civil registration of births, deaths, and marriages was taken from the hands of local parish officials and given to local government registrars. Burial of the dead was a more troubling problem, for urban chapels had no graveyards, and Nonconformists sought to use the traditional graveyards controlled by the established church. The Burial Laws Amendment Act 1880 finally allowed that.
Oxford University required students seeking admission to subscribe to the 39 Articles of the Church of England. Cambridge required that for a diploma. The two ancient universities opposed giving a charter to the new University of London in the 1830s because it had no such restriction. The university, nevertheless, was established in 1837, and by the 1850s Oxford dropped its restrictions. In 1871 Gladstone sponsored the Universities Tests Act 1871 that provided full access to degrees and fellowships. Nonconformists (especially Unitarians and Presbyterians) played major roles in founding new universities in the late 19th century at Manchester, as well as Birmingham, Liverpool and Leeds.
Agnostics and freethinkers.
The abstract theological or philosophical doctrine of agnosticism, whereby it is theoretically impossible to prove whether or not God exists, suddenly became a popular issue around 1869, when T. H. Huxley coined the term. It was much discussed for several decades, and had its journal edited by William Stewart Ross (1844–1906) the "Agnostic Journal and Eclectic Review". Interest petered out by the 1890s, and when Ross died the Journal soon closed. Ross championed agnosticism in opposition not so much to Christianity, but to atheism, as expounded by Charles Bradlaugh. The term "atheism" never became popular. Blasphemy laws meant that promoting atheism could be a crime and was vigorously prosecuted. Charles Southwell was among the editors of an explicitly atheistic periodical, "Oracle of Reason, or Philosophy Vindicated", who were imprisoned for blasphemy in the 1840s.
Disbelievers called themselves "freethinkers" or "secularists". They included John Stuart Mill, George Eliot and Matthew Arnold. They were not necessarily hostile to Christianity, as Huxley repeatedly emphasized. The literary figures were caught in something of a trap – their business was writing and their theology said there was nothing for certain to write. They instead concentrated on the argument that it was not necessary to believe in God to behave in moral fashion. The scientists, on the other hand, paid less attention to theology and more attention to the exciting issues raised by Charles Darwin in terms of evolution. The proof of God's existence that said he had to exist to have a marvellously complex world was no longer satisfactory when biology demonstrated that complexity could arise through evolution.
Because of these developments in science, the emergence of higher criticism of the Bible, and the appeal of freethinkers, historians refer to a "Victorian Crisis of Faith" — a period of painful adjustment in family relationships and public morality resulting from shifting religious views.
Marriage and family.
The centrality of the family was a dominant feature for all classes. Worriers repeatedly detected threats that had to be dealt with: working wives, overpaid youths, harsh factory conditions, bad housing, poor sanitation, excessive drinking, and religious decline. The licentiousness so characteristic of the upper class of the late 18th and early 19th centuries dissipated. The home became a refuge from the harsh world; middle-class wives sheltered their husbands from the tedium of domestic affairs. The number of children shrank, allowing much more attention to be paid to each child. Extended families were less common, as the nuclear family became both the ideal and the reality.
In Great Britain, elsewhere in Europe, and in the United States, the notion that marriage should be based on romantic love and companionship rather than convenience, money, or other strategic considerations grew in popularity during the Victorian period. Cheaper paper and printing technology made it easier for people to find romantic partners this way, hence the birth of the Valentine card.
Status of women.
The emerging middle-class norm for women was separate spheres, whereby women avoid the public sphere – the domain of politics, paid work, commerce, and public speaking. Instead, they should dominate in the realm of domestic life, focused on the care of the family, the husband, the children, the household, religion, and moral behaviour. Religiosity was in the female sphere, and the Nonconformist churches offered new roles that women eagerly entered. They taught in Sunday schools, visited the poor and sick, distributed tracts, engaged in fundraising, supported missionaries, led Methodist class meetings, prayed with other women, and a few were allowed to preach to mixed audiences.
The long 1854 poem "The Angel in the House" by Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) exemplified the idealized Victorian woman who is angelically pure and devoted to her family and home. The poem was not a pure invention but reflected the emerging legal economic social, cultural, religious and moral values of the Victorian middle-class. Legally women had limited rights to their bodies, the family property, or their children. The recognized identities were those of daughter, wife, mother, and widow. Rapid growth and prosperity meant that fewer women had to find paid employment, and even when the husband owned a shop or small business, the wife's participation was less necessary. Meanwhile, the home sphere grew dramatically in size; women spent the money and decided on the furniture, clothing, food, schooling, and outward appearance the family would make. Patmore's model was widely copied – by Charles Dickens, for example. Literary critics of the time suggested that superior feminine qualities of delicacy, sensitivity, sympathy, and sharp observation gave women novelists a superior insight into stories about home family and love. This made their work highly attractive to the middle-class women who bought the novels and the serialized versions that appeared in many magazines. However, a few early feminists called for aspirations beyond the home. By the end of the century, the "New Woman" was riding a bicycle, wearing bloomers, signing petitions, supporting worldwide mission activities, and talking about the vote.
Status of children.
Throughout much of the 19th century parents and guardians held almost unlimited authority over children. The rights of parents to raise their children as they wished as well as the ability of adult authority figures to establish obedience in their charges through corporal punishment was given priority over concerns about children's safety. As social reformer Whatley Cooke-Taylor wrote:
Attitudes were shifting by the 1880s, beginning in 1883, local societies focused on child welfare began to be established across the country which had developed by the end of the decade into the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The Children's Charter which came into law in 1889 gave the state the ability to intervene in the parent-child relationship in order to prevent mistreatment for the first time. The rights of children were again extended five years later.
Education and literacy.
Mass education.
The Industrial Revolution incentivised people to think more scientifically and to become more educated and informed in order to solve novel problems. As a result, cognitive abilities were pushed to their genetic limits, making people more intelligent and innovative than their predecessors. Formal education thus became vital. According to intelligence researcher James R. Flynn, these changes echoed down to the twentieth century before leveling off in the early twenty-first.
At the start of the 19th century there was not yet a consensus that universal education was beneficial. Some saw schooling for the working classes as unnecessary or even dangerous. However, by the 1830s, the risks of educating the working classes were generally seen as outweighed by the risks of leaving them ignorant or allowing their education to be out of the control of the authorities. Poor law commissioner James Kay-Shuttleworth said in 1838 that the state was responsible for "rearing... children in religion and industry, and of imparting such an amount of secular education as may fit them to discharge the duties of their station."
Enrolment at Sunday schools all of which taught children to read and some of which provided lessons in writing and arithmetic increased sharply during the first half of the 19th century from about 10% of five to eighteen-year-olds in 1800 to approximately 55% in 1851. 3/4 of working-class children were estimated to have attended Sunday school at some point in their childhood. Various religious organisations began to establish "voluntary" fulltime schools and a growing number of private schools developed including ones aimed at the working-classes. However, in the 1850s around half of children in England and Wales were not in school during the working week. The quality of provision varied significantly, and the average length of attendance was only three years.
In England and Wales, the government began to provide state-funding to schools shortly before Victoria came to the throne which increased during the early decades of her reign, the degree of government oversight these schools were under also increased. The 1870 Elementary Education Act was intended to establish universal access to state-funded schools and the state began to run schools directly for the first time through a system of local governance. Education became compulsory for five- to ten-year-olds in 1880 and fees abolished in 1891. Compulsory education was expanded to deaf children, blind children and children up to the age of twelve in the 1890s. Scotland had a longer tradition of state-funded education dating back to the 17th century. The system which made school provision the responsibility of parishes generally led to better outcomes than elsewhere in Great Britain but struggled to cope with the pressures of industrialisation and standards began to slipe. A similar kind of grant system to voluntary schools was used in Scotland as in England. The Education (Scotland) Act 1872 introduced many of the same kinds of reforms as were taking place in England and Wales during the later 19th century. Education was made compulsory for five to thirteen-year-olds, the structure of the system was simplified, and many new schools were built.
As a consequence of various education reforms, literacy rates steadily rose. One way to determine the literacy rate is to count those who could sign their names on their marriage registers. Using this method, it was established that literacy in England and Wales reached roughly 90% by the late nineteenth century. Statistics of literacy from this era are likely underestimates because they were based on the number of people who could write, but throughout most of the nineteenth century, people were typically taught to read before they were taught to write. Literacy rates were higher in urban than rural areas. Rising literacy and urbanization provided an expanding market for printed materials, from cheap books to magazines. Literacy rates were generally higher in Scotland throughout much of the 19th century but the gap between the nations of Great Britain had closed by the century's end. By 1900, only around 3% of people in England and Wales were illiterate with a similar rate in Scotland.
Elite education.
During the first half of the 19th century, formal schooling became the norm for boys from wealthier families seen as necessary for future businessmen and increasingly professionals. Some were tutored at home or sent to endowed grammar schools but the growing number of private schools were increasingly popular with middle-class parents. Expensive public schools which had previously been the preserve of landowning families and associated with poor morality also became popular with social-climbing families. The era saw a reform and renaissance of public schools, inspired by Thomas Arnold at Rugby. The public school became a model for gentlemen and public service. Many of the boys who attended these schools went on to enter senior positions in government and civil society. Most girls from wealthier families were educated by governesses or at private schools. There was a steady trend to a more academic curriculum at private girls' schools. In the 1850s, the North London Collegiate School and Cheltenham Ladies' College were founded. Grammar schools for girls were founded beginning in the 1870s. By the turn of the century, some girls' schools were even aiming to prepare their students for university.
A key component of the curriculum at Cambridge since the mid-eighteenth century had been the "Mathematical Tripos," providing not just intensive training for mathematicians and scientists but also general education for future civil servants, colonial administrators, lawyers, and clergymen. Named after the three-legged stool students had been sitting on since the fifteenth century, the Tripos included extremely challenging and highly prestigious exams whose most successful candidate for a given year was called the "Senior Wrangler." Below the Senior and Second Wranglers were the Optimes. The exams concerned not just pure but also "mixed" or applied mathematics. Starting from the 1830s, under the influence of Master of Trinity College William Whewell, the "mixed" portion included only branches of applied mathematics deemed stable, such as mechanics and optics, rather those amenable to mathematical analysis but remained unfinished at the time, such as electricity and magnetism. Following recommendations from the Royal Commission of 1850–51, science education at Oxford and Cambridge underwent significant reforms. In 1851, a new Tripos was introduced, providing a broader and less mathematical program in "natural philosophy," or what science was still commonly called back then. By 1890, the Tripos had evolved into a rigorous test of not just mathematical ingenuity but also mental stamina. Topics ranged widely, from number theory to mathematical physics. Candidates needed to have a firm grasp of the works of Sir Isaac Newton and Euclid of Alexandria, trigonometric identities, conic sections, compounded interest, eclipses and more. They usually sat for five and a half hours each day for eight days for a total of a dozen papers featuring increasingly difficult questions.
In general, while the first colleges for women opened in the 1870s, it was not until the 1890s that they started to be permitted to study side by side with men and to sit for the same exams as men. The first college for women at the University of Cambridge, Girton, opened in 1873. However, women were only allowed to take exams; it was not until 1948 that they were able to receive degrees. They were marked and scored separately, however, and the results of female candidates were enunciated in comparison to men's, for instance, "between the 20th and 21st Optimes." Exam results from the 1860s onward suggested that women broadly did as well as men, though with the notable exception of mathematics. At that time, it was commonly thought that women were emotional creatures lacking the mental faculty to master mathematics. Thus it was big news when Philippa Fawcett was ranked "above the Senior Wranger" in 1890, scoring thirteen percent higher than the top male that year, Geoffrey Thomas Bennett. She was the first, and last, woman to score the highest on the Tripos.
While women were not welcomed in the world of medicine, this was not the case in nursing. In fact, nursing became even more respected after the brilliant exploits of Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. Her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital became a model for others. Consequently, for many middle-class young women, the prospects of being a nurse, one of the few career options open to them at the time, became much more appealing.
Reading culture.
During the nineteenth century, the publishing industry found itself catching up with the momentous changes to society brought about by the Industrial Revolution. It benefited from the introduction of electrical power, rail transport, and telegraphy. Sales of books and periodicals were fuelled by the seemingly insatiable demand for knowledge, self-improvement, and entertainment from the rapidly growing middle-class.
Initially, while book prices were too high for the average reader, they were sufficient to cover the costs of the publisher and to pay reasonable amounts to the authors. But as free-to-use libraries sprang up all around the country, people started flocking to them. Authors and publishers looked for ways to cut prices and increase sales. Serialisation in periodicals, especially literary magazines though not newspapers, became popular. Quality illustrations were commissioned from the reputable artists of the time as an incentive to purchase. Income from writing increased for some writers, and many became professional novelists.
In the early 1800s, the market for children's literature was dominated by religious groups. Stories from this period often included strong a moral message. But it showed signs of growth and some writers decided to seize the opportunity. By the middle of the century, commercial publishers came to recognise the great potential of this market and signed deals with gifted authors to provide a plethora of reading materials to children. They also took advantage of innovations such as those that enable the printing of coloured illustrations. As the middle class boomed, people had more money to spend on entertaining their children. Moral messaging was de-emphasised in favor of fun. Classics like the tales of the Brothers Grimm and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen made their way to the printing press. But it was "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) by Lewis Carroll that proved to be the most popular, alongside the works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, Jean Ingelow, and George Macdonald. By the 1880s, juvenile fiction packed with action and adventure became commonplace. Fantasy did not have a monopoly on the market for children's literature, however. "Tom Brown's School Days" (1857) by Thomas Hughes was a noteworthy example of realistic writing and school stories while "Black Beauty" (1877) by Anna Sewell was the start of the blooming of animal tales. As a matter of fact, the market grew so large that most of the top writers of the era wrote at least one book for children. Children's magazines and poetry for children (especially the nonsensical variety) blossomed during the Victorian age.
In prose, the novel rose from a position of relative neglect during the 1830s to become the leading literary genre by the end of the era. In the 1830s and 1840s, the social novel (also "Condition-of-England novels") addressed the Condition-of-England question, which was raised by Carlyle in "Chartism" (1839), "Past and Present" (1843) and "Latter-Day Pamphlets" (1850) to address the social, political and economic upheavals associated with industrialisation. Though it remained influential throughout the period, there was a notable resurgence of Gothic fiction in the "fin de siècle", such as in Robert Louis Stevenson's novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886) and Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1891).
Following the bicentenary of William Shakespeare in 1769, the popularity of his works steadily grew, reaching a peak in the nineteenth century. Charles and Mary Lamb appeared to have anticipated this with their "Tales from Shakespeare" (1807). Intended as an introduction for apprentice readers to the works of the great playwright, the book became one of the best-selling titles in literature of the century, being republished multiple times.
As early as 1830, astronomer John Herschel had already recognised the need for the genre of popular science. In a letter to philosopher William Whewell, he wrote that the general public needed "digests of what is actually known in each particular branch of science... to give a connected view of what has been done, and what remains to be accomplished." Indeed, as the British population became not just increasingly literate but also well-educated, there was growing demand for science titles. Mary Somerville became an early and highly successful science writer of the nineteenth century. Her "On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences" (1834), intended for the mass audience, sold quite well. Arguably one of the first books in the genre of popular science, it contained few diagrams and very little mathematics. It had ten editions and was translated to multiple languages. As its name suggests, it offered readers a broad overview of the physical sciences at a time when these studies were becoming increasingly distinct and specialised. It was the most popular science title from the publisher John Murray until Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" (1859). Although Somerville's rendition of Pierre-Simon de Laplace's masterpiece "Mécanique Céleste", "The Mechanism of the Heavens" (1831), was intended to inform the masses of the latest advances in Newtonian mechanics and gravitation, it was also used as a textbook for students at the University of Cambridge till the 1880s.
The abolition of the newspaper stamp duty in 1855 and the advertising tax in 1858 paved the way for not only cheaper magazines but also those catering to a variety of interests. During the final three decades of the Victorian era, women's newspapers and magazines flourished and increasingly covered topics other than domestic issues, reflecting the trend among women at the time.
The professional police force dedicated to not just the prevention but also the investigation of crime took shape during the mid-nineteenth century. This development inspired Charles Dickens to write the crime novel "Bleak House" (1852–3), creating the first fictional detective, Mr. Bucket, based on a real-life character by the name of Charles Field. But it was Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes who proved to be the most popular fictional detective of the Victorian age, and indeed, of all times.
By the 1860s, there was strong demand for adventure, detective, sensational, and science-fiction novels. Indeed, the late nineteenth century saw a tremendous amount of technological progress, which inspired authors to write in the genre of science fiction. H. G. Wells' "The Time Machine" (1895) was a commercial success; in it, he introduced the notion of time travel. In some instances, science fiction inspired new technology and scientific research. Explorer Ernest Shackleton acknowledged that the novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne was an inspiration.
As reading became more pronounced in the 19th century with public notes, broadsides, catchpennies and printed songs becoming common street literature, it informed and entertained the public before newspapers became readily available in the later 19th century. Advertisements and local news, such as offers of rewards for catching criminals or for the return of stolen goods, appeared on public notices and handbills, while cheaply printed sheets – broadsheets and ballads – covered political or criminal news such murders, trials, executions, disasters and rescues. Chapbooks would also be common place, these were simple reading matter that were small, cheap forms of literature for children and adults that were sold on the streets, their subjects included fiction writing to disaster updates. Their readership would have been largely among the poor, and among children of the middle class.
A 2015 study investigated the frequency at which difficult vocabulary from the WORDSUM test were employed in about 5.9 million English-language texts published between 1850 and 2005. The researchers found that the more difficult of words were in declining usage and that there was a negative correlation between the use of such words and completed fertility. On the other hand, simpler words entered increasingly common use, an effect of rising literacy. In another study, from 2017, researchers employed Google's Ngram Viewer, an enormous archive of scanned books, periodicals, and other printed materials dating back to the sixteenth century. They found that the use of difficult vocabulary increased substantially between the mid-1700s and mid-1800s before declining steadily till the present day.
Entertainment.
Popular forms of entertainment varied by social class. Victorian Britain, like the periods before it, was interested in literature, theatre and the arts (see Aesthetic movement and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood), and music, drama, and opera were widely attended. Michael Balfe was the most popular British grand opera composer of the period, while the most popular musical theatre was a series of fourteen comic operas by Gilbert and Sullivan, although there was also musical burlesque and the beginning of Edwardian musical comedy in the 1890s.
Drama ranged from low comedy to Shakespeare (see Henry Irving). Melodrama—literally 'musical drama'—was introduced in Revolutionary France and reached Great Britain from there during the Victorian era. It was a particularly widespread and influential theatrical genre thanks to its appeal to the working-class and artisans. However, its popularity decline in the late nineteenth century. Even so, it continued to influence the novels of the era.
Gentlemen went to dining clubs, like the Beefsteak Club or the Savage Club. Gambling at cards in establishments popularly called casinos was wildly popular during the period: so much so that evangelical and reform movements specifically targeted such establishments in their efforts to stop gambling, drinking, and prostitution.
Brass bands and 'The Bandstand' became popular in the Victorian era. The bandstand was a simple construction that not only created an ornamental focal point but also served acoustic requirements whilst providing shelter from the changeable British weather. It was common to hear the sound of a brass band whilst strolling through parklands. At this time musical recording was still very much a novelty.
The Victorian era marked the golden age of the British circus. Astley's Amphitheatre in Lambeth, London, featuring equestrian acts in a 42-foot wide circus ring, was the center of the 19th-century circus. The permanent structure sustained three fires but as an institution lasted a full century, with Andrew Ducrow and William Batty managing the theatre in the middle part of the century. William Batty would also build his 14,000-person arena, known commonly as Batty's Hippodrome, in Kensington Gardens, and draw crowds from the Crystal Palace Exhibition. Traveling circuses, like Pablo Fanque's, dominated the British provinces, Scotland, and Ireland (Fanque would enjoy fame again in the 20th century when John Lennon would buy an 1843 poster advertising his circus and adapt the lyrics for The Beatles song, "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"). Fanque also stands out as a black man who achieved great success and enjoyed great admiration among the British public only a few decades after Britain had abolished slavery.
Another form of entertainment involved "spectacles" where paranormal events, such as mesmerism, communication with the dead (by way of mediumship or channeling), ghost conjuring and the like, were carried out to the delight of crowds and participants. Such activities were more popular at this time than in other periods of recent Western history.
Natural history became increasingly an "amateur" activity. Particularly in Britain and the United States, this grew into specialist hobbies such as the study of birds, butterflies, seashells (malacology/conchology), beetles and wildflowers. Amateur collectors and natural history entrepreneurs played an important role in building the large natural history collections of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Middle-class Victorians used the train services to visit the seaside, helped by the Bank Holiday Act of 1871, which created many fixed holidays. Large numbers traveling to quiet fishing villages such as Worthing, Morecambe and Scarborough began turning them into major tourist centres, and people like Thomas Cook saw tourism and even overseas travel as viable businesses.
Sports.
The Victorian era saw the introduction and development of many modern sports. Often originating in the public schools, they exemplified new ideals of manliness. Cricket, cycling, croquet, horse-riding, and many water activities are examples of some of the popular sports in the Victorian era.
The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, between 1859 and 1865. The world's oldest tennis tournament, the Wimbledon championships, was first played in London in 1877. Britain was an active competitor in all the Olympic Games starting in 1896.
High culture.
Gothic Revival architecture became increasingly significant during the period, leading to the Battle of the Styles between Gothic and Classical ideals. Charles Barry's architecture for the new Palace of Westminster, which had been badly damaged in an 1834 fire, was built in the medieval style of Westminster Hall, the surviving part of the building. It constructed a narrative of cultural continuity, set in opposition to the violent disjunctions of Revolutionary France, a comparison common to the period, as expressed in Carlyle's "" (1837) and Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" (1859) and "Great Expectations" (1861). Gothic was also supported by critic John Ruskin, who argued that it epitomised communal and inclusive social values, as opposed to Classicism, which he considered to epitomise mechanical standardisation.
The middle of the 19th century saw The Great Exhibition of 1851, the first World's Fair, which showcased the greatest innovations of the century. At its centre was the Crystal Palace, a modular glass and iron structure – the first of its kind. It was condemned by Ruskin as the very model of mechanical dehumanisation in design and later came to be presented as the prototype of Modern architecture. The emergence of photography, showcased at the Great Exhibition, resulted in significant changes in Victorian art with Queen Victoria being the first British monarch to be photographed.
In general, various styles of painting were popular during the Victorian period, Classicism, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Impressionism, and Post-impressionism. In 1848, Dante Rossetti and William Holman Hunt created the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood whose stated aim was to produce paintings of photographic quality, taking inspiration from a variety of sources, from the works of William Shakespeare to Mother Nature herself. The growing popularity of romantic love spilled over into literature and fine arts.
Journalism.
In 1817, Thomas Barnes became general editor of "The Times"; he was a political radical, a sharp critic of parliamentary hypocrisy and a champion of freedom of the press. Under Barnes and his successor in 1841, John Thadeus Delane, the influence of "The Times" rose to great heights, especially in politics and in the financial district (the City of London). It spoke of reform. "The Times" originated the practice of sending war correspondents to cover particular conflicts. W. H. Russell wrote immensely influential dispatches on the Crimean War of 1853–1856; for the first time, the public could read about the reality of warfare. Russell wrote one dispatch that highlighted the surgeons' "inhumane barbarity" and the lack of ambulance care for wounded troops. Shocked and outraged, the public reacted in a backlash that led to major reforms especially in the provision of nursing, led by Florence Nightingale.
The "Manchester Guardian" was founded in Manchester in 1821 by a group of non-conformist businessmen. Its most famous editor, Charles Prestwich Scott, made the "Guardian" into a world-famous newspaper in the 1890s. "The Daily Telegraph" in 1856 became the first penny newspaper in London. It was funded by advertising revenue based on a large audience.
Leisure.
At mid-century, the idea of a large amphitheatre for musical performances and conferences for the learned captured the imagination of not just Henry Cole, Secretary of the Science and Art Department, but also Prince Albert. By 1857, Cole planned to build one with "due regard to the principles of sound." After the Prince's death in 1861, this project had the additional goal of commemorating him. The Royal Albert Hall opened on 29 March 1871. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Scott, R.E., who managed the construction, estimated there was enough space for 7,165 people plus 1,200 performers; the theoretical limit was 10,000. As desired by the Prince, it did not rely on public funds but was purely privately funded.
Opportunities for leisure activities increased dramatically as real wages continued to grow and hours of work continued to decline. In urban areas the nine-hour workday became increasingly the norm; the Factory Act 1874 limited the working week to 56.5 hours, encouraging the movement towards an eventual eight-hour workday. Furthermore, a system of routine annual holidays came into play, starting with white-collar workers and moving into the working-class. Some 200 seaside resorts emerged thanks to cheap hotels and inexpensive railway fares, widespread bank holidays and the fading of many religious prohibitions against secular activities on Sundays.
By the late Victorian era the leisure industry had emerged in all cities. It provided scheduled entertainment of suitable length at convenient locales at inexpensive prices. These included sporting events, music halls, and popular theatre. By 1880 football was no longer the preserve of the social elite, as it attracted large working-class audiences. Average attendance was 5000 in 1905, rising to 23,000 in 1913. That amounted to 6 million paying customers with a weekly turnover of £400,000. Sports by 1900 generated some three percent of the total gross national product. Professional sports were the norm, although some new activities reached an upscale amateur audience, such as lawn tennis and golf. Women were now allowed in some sports, such as archery, tennis, badminton and gymnastics.
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2022–23 Brisbane Heat season
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The 2022–23 Brisbane Heat season was the twelfth in the club's history. Coached by Wade Seccombe and captained by Usman Khawaja, they competed in the 2022–23 season.
The team.
The Brisbane Heat are an Australian men's professional Twenty20 franchise cricket team that competes in the Big Bash League. The Heat wears a teal uniform and are based in Brisbane in the Australian state of Queensland. Their home ground is the Brisbane Cricket Ground, also known as The Gabba.
Current squad.
The team's squad for the 2022–23 Big Bash League season as of 11 December 2022.
Season statistics.
Batting.
Source:
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Bowling.
Source:
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2022 Legends League Cricket Masters
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The 2022 Legends League Cricket Masters or LLC Masters was the first season of Legends League Cricket. It was a T20 cricket tournament featuring recently retired players, many of them former internationals.
For the first edition of the league, LLC Masters, legendary cricketers Virender Sehwag (India Maharajas), Misbah ul Haq (Asia Lions), and Darren Sammy (World Giants) were the captains of their respective teams. The league featured many cricketing legends like Brett Lee, Shoaib Akhtar, Muttiah Muralitharan, Kevin Pietersen, Irfan Pathan, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mohammad Kaif, Sanath Jayasuriya, Mohammad Yousuf amongst others, playing against each other to reignite famous cricketing rivalries of the recent past. Shahid Afridi, Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh were also slated to play in the league but had to withdraw owing to the pandemic or other personal reasons.
Oman Cricket hosted the tournament in Oman Cricket Academy Ground, Oman from 20 January 2022 to 29 January 2022.
The league launched a special initiative towards Women's empowerment in Cricket, with an all-women match officials team officiating over the entirety of first edition, which was a first of its kind initiative in men's cricket.
Venue.
The season was hosted by Oman Cricket at the Oman Cricket Academy Ground.
Broadcasters.
The league broadcast on the leading Sports Television Networks, like Sony Pictures Sports Network and Sony Liv acquiring the rights for the India territory. TV rights were acquired by Geo Sports in Pakistan, and Supreme TV in Sri Lanka. Global Audio & Video streaming rights were acquired by Crictracker.
Squads.
Although, initially named as captain of the India Maharajas, Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh missed all matches of the first edition, after they were tested positive for COVID-19, just before the tournament started in Oman. Mohammed Kaif led the team in Virender Sehwag's absence Daniel Vettori also missed out due to Covid-related travel restrictions. Yuvraj Singh also missed out on the first edition of LLC owing to the birth of his child with his wife.
The League clashed with the PSL, resulting in a lot of cricketers from Pakistan to return after the 1st round of matches. Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Hafeez, Azhar Mahmood, Umar Gul played the first 2 matches for Asia Lions, before returning to 2022 Pakistan Super League.
Imran Tahir was only available for the first two matches, before leaving the World Giants' squad due to prior commitments to the 2022 Pakistan Super League.
Points table.
Each team played the others only twice during the round-robin stage and Top two teams qualified for the final.
Advanced to the final
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Dasara (soundtrack)
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Dasara is the soundtrack album composed by Santhosh Narayanan to the 2023 film of the same name written and directed by debutant Srikanth Odela, and stars Nani and Keerthy Suresh. The soundtrack to the film features 10 songs released under the Saregama record label. It was preceded by six tracks released as singles—"Dhoom Dhaam Dhostham", "Ori Vaari", "Chamkeela Angeelesi", "Oh Ammalaalo Ammalaalo", "Celebration of Vennela" and "Cricket Rap"—followed by the soundtrack released on 14 April 2023. The songs were written by Kasarla Shyam, Sri Mani, Rehman, Gaddam Suresh in Telugu, whereas Vivek, Muthamil, Santhosh Varma, Varadaraj Chikkaballapura, Kausar Munir, Raqueeb Alam, Vinay, Tarun Mathur were credited as the songwriters for the Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi versions.
Development.
The film is scored by Santhosh Narayanan in his third Telugu venture after "Billa Ranga" (2013) and "Guru" (2017). Odela and the team wanted a composer giving time and freedom for expressing director's vision in the story, and also providing rooted musicians for the audience. After zeroing multiple musicians, he finalised on Narayanan. In an interview, Narayanan revealed that he heard over 90 scripts from Telugu, where he picked "Dasara" as he opined it as "one of the best scripts he heard in 10 years". According to Narayanan, the film offered him the space for research and experimentation that went on for more than a year, as being a rooted film with lot of rustic cultural elements, he added:
"It wasn’t superficial research where I just call someone or spend time with them, I never do that. We worked really hard for this film [...] In that one year, I learned a lot about that culture. Since I did not know the language I was very careful not to misrepresent anything. In Tamil, we take care of sounds so well, and we ensure certain ethnic sounds are not drowned out by other elements. I wanted to do the same in Dasara, and I found people I could trust with for delivering such an output. It was an amazing experience and I am proud to be part of that film."
Narayanan also praised Srikanth Odela's vision to bring the rustic tonality as "he is very rooted and had a vast knowledge of the region where he comes from" comparing that of Mari Selvaraj's vision towards nativity and rootedness in "Pariyerum Perumal" (2018). He told Srikanth to do a scratch cut of his song before signing the project, thereby pretending to be a first-time composer for the film.
Narayanan roped in several others musicians from Godavarikhani and neighbouring villages, to reflect the authenticity in the music and sound of rural Telangana. He further recorded the live sounds played by Telangana folk artists, which Nani added in an interview to "The Federal", saying that he rarely seen "composers visiting the shooting spot and recording the music of local musicians and musical instruments. But, Santhosh walked the extra mile and came up with the authentic music of the Godavarikhani village."
Album information.
"Dasara"'s soundtrack featured ten songs as heard in the film, although Nani claimed only five songs are present in the album. The first single for the film, titled "Dhoom Dhaam Dhostham" was released on 3 October 2022. Nani described the song as "the massiest song ever" before it's official release. It was sung by Rahul Sipligunj and Santhosh Narayanan, accompanied by folk artists, Gannora Dasa Laxmi, Gotte Kanakavva, Narsanna and Palamuru Jangireddy, and lyrics for the song were written by Kasarla Shyam. The music video of the song was released at an event in Mumbai on 22 March 2023 with Rana Daggubati as the chief guest.
The second single "Ori Vaari" was released on the eve of Valentine's Day, 13 February 2023, which was touted to be a "heartbreak anthem". It was sung by Narayanan and written by Sri Mani. The song was launched coinciding with a promotional event held in Hyderabad, and a promo lyrical video was also released on YouTube. While the Telugu and Tamil versions were released on the same date, the Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam versions were released the following day. The third single "Chamkeela Angeelesi" sung by Ram Miriyala and Dhee, was released on 8 March 2023, in Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi, except for the Tamil version which was released on 9 March 2023 as "Mainaru Vetti Katti" with Anirudh Ravichander providing the male vocals.
The fourth song "Oh Ammalaalo Ammalaalo" sung by Anurag Kulkarni and written by Rehman was released as a single on 24 March 2023. Few of the tracks were released after the film. The 46-second instrumental track "Celebration of Vennela", that featured Keerthy Suresh's dance performance, was released on 6 April 2023. "Cricket Rap", performed by Narayanan and Canadian musician Shan Vincent de Paul was released on 10 April 2023. The full soundtrack was later released on digital platforms on 14 April 2023 in Telugu, and 22 April in other dubbed versions.
In mid-April 2023, Santhosh Narayanan confirmed on Twitter, that the one-hour long original score for the film would be released soon.
Reception.
Reviewing "Dhoom Dhaam Dhostham", "The Indian Express" called it as "a typical Santhosh Narayanan rural number that also reflects the rustic flavour the film is aiming for" and also reminiscent of his earlier composition, "Paandi Naatu Kodi" from "Jigarthanda" (2014) due to the similarities between the music and visuals. For "Chamkeela Angeelesi", a critic from "The Times of India", called it as "apt for every wedding season" and praised the use instrumentation as it brings authenticity. Vishal Menon of "Film Companion" wrote "Santhosh Narayanan seems to be at home driving home points when the frames struggle to convey the same. A poorly framed cricket match sequence leading up to a “hero shot” is saved once the rap music kicks in. Similarly, a melodramatic sequence right at the end is saved by a simple background score that reduces the general pitch of the scene." "123Telugu" commented "Santhosh Narayanan gives the best music that uplifts many scenes in the film." Sangeetha Devi Dundoo of "The Hindu" praised Narayanan's "rustic-meets-jazzy haunting musical score". Venkat Arikatla from "Great Andhra" reviewed "the album has nothing more than one good song. While Dhoom Dhaam is fast-paced, Ori Veri is dull and finally Chamkeela Angeelesi is a catchy melodic number with a rustic flavor." Chirag Sehgal of "News18" felt that the songs are "forced" as "they don’t fit well and divert our attention from the seriousness of the movie". "Mirchi9" wrote "Santhosh Narayanan composes for a direct Telugu film after a very long gap. He infuses life into the proceedings with his songs and background score. His unique sound is refreshing, adding a layer of freshness to the proceedings."
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Australia women's cricket team in Ireland in 2023
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The Australia women's cricket team toured Ireland in July 2023 to play three One Day International (ODI) matches. The series formed a part of the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship. In March 2023, Cricket Ireland (CI) confirmed the dates of this tour. All matches of the series were played at Castle Avenue in Dublin. Australia had last toured Ireland for an ODI series in 2005.
The first match of the series was washed out. Australia won the next two ODIs to win the series 2–0.
Squads.
Heather Graham was ruled out of the series due to a calf strain, with Tess Flintoff being named as her replacement in Australia's squad. Shauna Kavanagh was added to Ireland's squad before the third ODI, replacing Mary Waldron who was ruled out due to injury.
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Ireland women's cricket team in the West Indies in 2023
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The Ireland women's cricket team toured the West Indies in June and July 2023 to play three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The ODI series formed part of the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship. In March 2023, Cricket Ireland (CI) announced their summer schedule, including the dates of this tour. Cricket West Indies (CWI) confirmed the schedule of the tour in June 2023.
West Indies won the ODI series 2–0, after the second match ended in a no result due to rain. West Indies also won the T20I series 3–0, and captain Hayley Matthews was named as the player of the match in all three T20Is.
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Ireland women's cricket team in the Netherlands in 2023
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The Ireland women's cricket team toured the Netherlands in August 2023 to play three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. Cricket Ireland (CI) confirmed their summer schedule in March 2023, including the dates of this tour. All the matches of the series took place at the VRA Cricket Ground in Amstelveen.
Ireland won the series 3–0.
Squads.
Ireland added Sophie MacMahon to their squad after the first T20I, replacing Aimee Maguire who was ruled out due to an injury.
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Beatrice Draffen
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Beatrice Draffen (1865 – 13 July 1962) (nee Beatrice Mary Ann Wood) was a British tennis player from Ackworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England active from 1884 to 1897. She was a two time semi finalist in the women's singles at the 1895 Wimbledon Championships and 1896 Wimbledon Championships. She won 10 career singles titles.
Career.
Beatrice was born in 1865 in Ackworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. She played her first tournament at the Northern Championships held at the Liverpool Cricket Club grounds in June 1884 in Liverpool where she lost to Ann Dod in the first round. In major tournament singles events she played at the 1892 Wimbledon Championships under the name of Mrs G.A. Draffen and reached the quarter-finals before losing to Blanche Hillyard.
At the 1894 Wimbledon Championships she reached the quarter-finals stage of the competition before she was beaten in straight sets by Constance Bryan. At the 1895 Wimbledon Championships she progressed to the semi-finals, but lost to Charlotte Cooper. She played the Championships one more time in 1896, and again reached the semi-finals losing in three sets to Alice Pickering.
Her other career singles highlights include winning the Ilkley Open Tournament three times (1886, 1888, 1890), and the Sheffield and Hallamshire Tournament twice (1890–1891). North of England Championships two times in (1892, 1894). She also won the Badsworth Hunt Tournament at Pontefract (1886), the Yorkshire Open Championships in (1894) and the Tyndale Open Tournament in (1896).
She was also finalist at the prestigious Northern Championships three times (1890, 1891, 1894), the North Yorkshire Tournament two times in (1884, 1885), the Yorkshire Lawn Tennis Tournament two times (1884, 1885), the Ilkley Open (1889), the East Gloucestershire Championships (1890), the Derbyshire Championships (1891), the Hull Westbourne Avenue Open Tournament in (1892) and North of England Championships (1896).
In doubles play she won titles at the Ilkley Open (1886) partnering Miss Tannett. In mixed doubles she won Chapel Allerton LTC Tournament (1886) with Arthur H Meysey-Thompson. She retired from playing singles tennis in 1897, she did occasionally take part in doubles and mixed doubles up to the early 1900s.
Personal life.
She was born in 1865 as Beatrice Mary Ann Wood the daughter of Dr. John Wood of Ackworth, West Riding of Yorkshire. She married Captain George Algernon Draffen on 26 April 1892 at Ackworth, West Riding he was the youngest son of Colonel W. Pitt Draffen, and later had two children .
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List of ICC Men's T20 World Cup five-wicket hauls
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The ICC Men's T20 World Cup is the international championship of Twenty20 (T20) cricket. A Twenty20 International (T20I) is an international cricket match between two teams, each having T20I status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC), the sport's world governing body. In a T20I, each team plays a single innings, which is restricted to a maximum of 20 overs. In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") refers to a bowler taking five or more wickets in a single innings. This is regarded by the critics as a notable achievement. As of the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, the most recent to take place, there have been ten five-wicket hauls taken by ten cricketers.
The first five-wicket haul in an ICC Men's T20 World Cup match, as well as in any T20I match, was taken by Umar Gul of Pakistan, with bowling figures of five wickets for 6 runs. He achieved the feat on 13 June 2009 while playing against New Zealand at The Oval during the 2009 ICC World Twenty20. The second bowler to take a five-for was Sri Lanka's Ajantha Mendis, who picked up six wickets for 8 runs, recording the best bowling figures in the T20 World Cup to date. He set the record while playing against Zimbabwe, on 18 September 2012 during the 2012 ICC World Twenty20. On 27 March 2014, Ahsan Malik of the Netherlands took five wickets conceding 19 runs against South Africa during the 2014 ICC World Twenty20. With this, he became the first player from an associate nation to claim a five-wicket haul in a T20 World Cup match. Rangana Herath's five-for against New Zealand on 31 March 2014 is the most economical five-wicket haul in the T20 World Cup. He picked up five wickets conceding just 3 runs, at an economy rate of 0.85. He averaged 0.60 in that match, which is also the best average for a five-for in the T20 World Cup. On 26 March 2016, at the age of 20, Mustafizur Rahman picked up five wickets for 22 runs against New Zealand during the 2016 edition, becoming the youngest player to claim a five-wicket haul in the championship. Mujeeb Ur Rahman of Afghanistan was the first player to claim a five-wicket haul on his T20 World Cup debut, which he achieved while playing against Scotland on 25 October 2021, during the 2021 edition.
The 2007 and 2010 editions were the only tournaments where no five-wicket hauls were taken. Every other season except 2009 and 2022 saw two five-wicket hauls. There have been three instances when players from Sri Lanka have taken a five-for in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, the most for any team in the competition.
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Derby F.C. (Glasgow)
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Derby Football Club was a 19th-century football club based in Glasgow.
History.
The club was founded in 1876 out of the Shawfield Cricket Club, and played its first season under the name Shawfield. Despite being one of the smaller clubs in Glasgow, with only 25 members in its first season, it had a positive record from its first season's play, with 9 wins, 9 draws, and 2 defeats.
Shawfield entered the Scottish Cup for the first time in 1877–78; the club was drawn to face Dumbreck in the first round, but the latter scratched. In September 1877 the club changed its name to the Derby Cricket and Football Club. Its first match in the competition therefore was under its new name, but was an 11–0 defeat at 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers.
The following season, the club drew twice against the Glaswegian club Oxford, which under the competition rules at the time meant both clubs progressed into the second round. In the second Derby beat Whiteinch 3–1, but in the third was drawn to visit Govan, who had beaten Oxford in the second round, and the Govanites duly beat Derby 4–0.
Derby had regular fixtures until the end of 1878, but no football fixtures are mentioned from 1879 onwards; indeed only one cricket fixture is reported and the club gained more attention for being a victim of theft, when equipment was lifted from the pavilion. The club did enter the Scottish Cup for 1879–80, and was drawn to play the John Elder works side, but John Elder took a walkover.
Colours.
The club's colours were red and black striped jerseys and hose, which in the 1870s referred to hoops, with white knickerbockers.
Ground.
The club played at a private ground at Craigbank Park, near Springburn.
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Dawn Thewlis
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Dawn Thewlis is a broadcaster and journalist who is best known for presenting the north eastern version of the BBC regional news programme "Look North" and ITV Tyne Tees.
Life and career.
Thewlis joined ITV Tyne Tees in 1987 as a presenter and producer, until 2008. She joined the BBC in 2009, in which she has been a sports reporter alongside presenting the regional news programme BBC Look North (North East and Cumbria) ever since.
Thewlis has also presented various other programmes such as 'North East Tonight Election Special', 'Summer Sunday', 'A Current Affair', and 'The Football Show'.
In 2011, Thewlis hosted a gala dinner to celebrate rugby player Micky Ward's 13-year career.
In 2015, Thewlis was part of the judging panel for students at Northumbria University's Business School.
In 2020, Thewlis presented an award at the North East Royal Television Society Awards.
In 2023, Thewlis took part in a national journalists strike outside BBC Newcastle as cuts were set to take place across local services.
Charity work.
In 2008, Thewlis, alongside television colleague Pam Royle took part in the Butterwick Midnight Walk around Sedgefield Racecourse to raise funds for Butterwick Hospice.
Personal life.
Thewlis was born in and raised in Tyneside. She is married and has two sons. Her father was former Newcastle United football player and cricketer Joe Thewlis.
Awards.
In 2022, Thewlis won 'Best Presenter' at the North East Royal Television Society Awards.
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Winton F.C. (Kilmarnock)
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Winton Football Club was an association football club from Kilmarnock in Ayrshire.
History.
The club was founded in 1875, out of a cricket club. Its first recorded fixture was at Kilmarnock Dean on 2 October 1875, which the Dean won 3–0.
Winton entered the 1876–77 Scottish Cup, and was drawn away to Mauchline. The home side had the advantage of the wind in the first half, and were 2–0 up at the change of ends. The key moment in the match was soon after half-time when Winton had a free-kick for handball right in front of the Mauchline goal, but put the ball straight through, as the Mauchline defence "drew back to give it a clear passage"; under the laws at the time, all free-kicks were indirect. Mauchline's better combination play saw it score a further three goals afterwards.
The final fixture noted for Winton was also against Mauchline, in April 1877, the club gaining a measure of rehabilitation with a goalless draw in "one of the fastest and most exciting games played this season in Kilmarnock", with Winton having a goal disputed because of "hands"; the performance was all the more promising because Winton played the game one man short.
The climax of the 1876–77 season in Ayrshire was a charity match on 5 May between an Ayrshire select and a Glasgow select, in order to raise funds for a statue in honour of Robert Burns, held at the Kilmarnock Cricket Club's Holm Quarry ground. The Ayrshire side contained two Winton players (J. Whyte and W. Smith). The Ayrshire Football Association was formed the following week, of which Winton was a founder member.
The final match involving Winton was a friendly between Rangers and a combination side made up of Winton and Portland players, on the latter's ground, to raise money for unemployed weavers in Newmilns.
Possibly because of the success of the Ayrshire v Glasgow match, the Kilmarnock Cricket Club decided to add a football section, and, instead of forming a new side, the K.C.C. merged with Winton, to form a new club, the Kilmarnock Football And Cricket Club, including a number of the Winton players, such as Whyte, Cunningham, Smith, and captain Kennedy. The new club was granted membership of the Scottish Football Association in time for the 1877–78 Scottish Cup. The new club swiftly changed its name to Kilmarnock Athletic, under which it had considerable success.
Colours.
The club's colours were blue and white.
Ground.
The club played at Southdean, on Dundonald Road, near the New Cemetery.
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2023–2027 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2
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The 2023–2027 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 is the second edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup League 2, a cricket tournament which forms part of the 2027 Cricket World Cup qualification process. As a result of the scrapping of Super League this cycle of League 2 saw an increase in the size of the competition to 8 teams.
Teams and qualification.
The previous World Cup qualification cycle allowed for promotion of the League 2 champion to the Super League. However, the scrapping of that tournament meant that the previous League 2 champion, Scotland, remained in this competition with Netherlands relegated from the Super League.
They were joined by the 4 remaining top 5 finishers from the previous League 2 and two teams from the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier Play-off.
That tournament resulted in Canada being promoted, with Papua New Guinea relegated to the Challenge League.
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2023–2026 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League
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The 2023–2026 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League is the second edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League and a cricket tournament which formed part of the 2027 Cricket World Cup Qualification process.
Teams and qualification.
The league features twelve teams: those finishing 2nd-4th in their respective league in the 2019–2022 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League, the top four finishers from 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge Play-off and two teams from the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier Play-off.
That tournament saw Canada, winner of League A in the previous Challenge League promoted to League 2 status, while Papua New Guinea was relegated. The other Challenge League winner, Jersey, was not successful in obtaining promotion.
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Dhaka Leopards
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Dhaka Leopards are a Bangladeshi cricket team that has played List A cricket in the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League.
Dhaka Leopards competed for the first time in the 2022–23 Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League. Captained by Junaid Siddique, they played their first match against the previous season's premiers, Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club, on 15 March 2023, losing by eight wickets. They did not achieve their first victory until the ninth round, when they beat Shinepukur Cricket Club by 76 runs, Raihan Uddin taking 6 for 30, the first time any of their bowlers had taken more than three wickets in an innings. In their next match two days later, which they lost by one run to Legends of Rupganj, Umar Amin scored their first century, scoring 128 not out. They won only one of their 13 matches and finished at the bottom of the league table, and were thus relegated for the 2023–24 season.
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John Goodfellow
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John Goodfellow (24 August 1906 - 2 April 1951) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
Rugby Union career.
Amateur career.
Goodfellow played for – and was internationally capped whilst at – Langholm.
About 1930 he moved to play for Kelso, but he moved back to play for Langholm in 1932.
Provincial career.
He played for the South whilst with Kelso in 1930.
International career.
He was capped for Scotland three times, all in 1928.
Cricket career.
Langholm Cricket Club held a contest between local teams for a silver cup in 1933, restricted to 25 overs. The teams in the final were the Artisans and Ford Mills. The Artisans won the cup by 2 runs. Their team included John Goodfellow. He won a special award for the highest individual score in the competition: 64.
Banking career.
He was manager of the Newton St. Boswells branch of the British Linen Bank, however in 1932 he got a move to the branch in his hometown of Langholm. It was noted that Goodfellow had been in poor health and it was hoped that a move to his hometown would bring about a change in his health.
He was manager of the Port William branch of the British Linen Bank at his death.
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Australia A cricket team in New Zealand in 2022–23
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The Australia A cricket team toured New Zealand in April 2023 to play the New Zealand A cricket team. The tour consisted of two unofficial Test matches (with first-class status). Both of the matches were played at Bert Sutcliffe Oval in Lincoln. This was Australia A's first tour to New Zealand. The tour was confirmed by New Zealand Cricket in March 2023, with Australia A having arrived in New Zealand on 29 March 2023.
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Stewarton Cunninghame F.C.
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Stewarton Cunninghame Football Club was a football club from the town of Stewarton, Ayrshire, Scotland.
History.
The club was formed in 1877 and took its name from the district of Cunninghame. The club's name was often given as Stewarton Cunningham or simply Stewarton. It first played competitive football in the 1879–80 season when it entered the Ayrshire Cup, reaching the third round. Its best run in the competition came in 1881–82, when it reached the fourth round.
The club made its debut in the Scottish Cup in 1879–80, losing 6–1 to Maybole Ladywell in the seond round, a protest against encroachment getting short shrift. After a withdrawal, the club returned in 1881–82 by losing 9–0 at Portland, and the next year suffered a 5–3 home defeat to Ayr.
After losing Scottish Cup ties in 1883–84 and 1884–85 to Kilmarnock Athletic by 9–1 and 14–0 respectively, and 9–1 in the Ayrshire Cup to Mauchline in the latter year, the club left Senior football to become a member of the Scottish Junior Football Association, which made it ineligible to play in the Scottish Cup or the Ayrshire Cup.
The club reverted to Senior status in 1887, and seemingly reached the semi-final of the Ayrshire Cup with a 2–0 win over Annbank in 1887–88; however, after a protest "on account of the ground not being in good order", Annbank won the replayed tie 3–1, to the "great dissatisfaction" of the "little town". On its first entry back into the Scottish Cup in 1888–89, Cunninghame registered its only win in the main competition, 4–3 against the new Rosebank club of Kilmarnock, the match marking Rosebank's "first bow to a football crowd of any size"; Stewarton had been drawn away, but Rosebank's Holm Quarry ground had already been booked for a cricket match.
The rise of professionalism left the Bonnet Makers behind, and after two disastrous defeats in 1891–92 - 14–0 at home to Kilmarnock in the Ayrshire Cup, and 9–0 at Dalry in the qualifying rounds of the Scottish Cup - it returned to the Junior game. The club's greatest success in the Junior ranks was winning the Ayrshire Junior League in 1900–01, after a 5–1 play-off victory over the Afton Lads club. However the club left the competition before the 1904–05 season.
Colours.
The club's colours were originally navy shirts with white shorts; in 1888, the club changed to yellow and black, which remained the club's colours for the rest of its existence, other than a one-season flirtation with red and white stripes in 1899–1900.
Grounds.
The club originally played at High Cross Farm, moving to Standalone Park in 1880. Rosebank protested in 1888 that the ground had a tree and hedge growing on the touch line; the Scottish Football Association representatives at the meeting literally laughed at the protest. In 1892 the club moved to Rigghead Park.
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Jacob van Rooyen
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Jacob van Rooyen (born 16 April 2003) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for Claremont in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He was drafted by Melbourne with their first selection and nineteenth overall in the 2021 national draft. After spending the entire 2022 season playing for Casey in the Victorian Football League, he made his debut in the 50-point win against at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the third round of the 2023 season, kicking three goals and making six tackles.
During the Round 8 game against Gold Coast, van Rooyen was charged with striking and suspended for two weeks when an attempted spoil on Charlie Ballard resulted in his arm hitting his opponent's head. The suspension was overturned upon appeal, and van Rooyen was able to play the following week.
In Round 12, he was awarded the weekly Rising Star nomination after his tenth consecutive game, having scored at least one goal in each game.
Van Rooyen's 2023 season is known for its accuracy, having the highest goal-to-behind percentage of any player in the league to have 30 or more scoring shots, scoring 28 goals and 9 behinds and resulting in an accuracy percentage of 75.7%.
After ’s Qualifying Final in 2023 van Rooyen received a one match ban due to a high bump on player Daniel McStay. This caused van Rooyen to miss the semi final match against which Melbourne lost in the dying seconds, therefore ending ’s season.
Statistics.
"Updated to the end of round 13, 2023".
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South Coast Sapphires
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South Coast Sapphires are a women's cricket team that compete in the FairBreak Invitational T20. The team is geographically based in South Coast, Australia. The team was founded in 2022. They are currently being captained by Sana Mir of Pakistan and coached by Shane Deitz.
History.
Sapphires were formed in January 2022 to compete in the inaugural edition of the FairBreak Invitational T20, a multi-national women's Twenty20 cricket tournament. This was the first time that the team participated in any cricket competition at professional level. In May 2022, the tournament was sanctioned by the ICC. The team represents the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The franchise is made up of some of the best women players as well as emerging players from different countries of the world.
South Coast Sapphires were captained by Pakistani cricketer Sana Mir, and coached by Mohtashim Rasheed in the 2022 edition. The side had a disappointing campaign, as they finished fifth in the league with just two wins from five matches. They played their first ever match on 5 May 2022, against the Tornadoes, which they lost by 17 runs.
Sapphires took part in the 2023 season under the leadership of Sana Mir, with Shane Deitz being named as the coach of the team. They again had a disappointing season, winning only one out of their five matches in the league stage. They acquired the last position in the tournament, by losing the fifth-place play-off against Tornadoes by 55 runs.
Current squad.
Based on squad announced for the 2023 season.
Coaching staff.
The following coaching panel was formed ahead of the 2023 season.
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Island SPACE Caribbean Museum
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Island SPACE Caribbean Museum is the first and only brick and mortar pan-Caribbean heritage museum in the United States. Currently located at the Broward Mall in Plantation, Florida, the facility opened its doors in November 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is operated by the Florida-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Island Society for the Promotion of Artistic and Cultural Education or "Island SPACE".
The facility.
The museum has operated from two locations, both at the Broward Mall, since its founding. Its layout is based on three main zones of functionality: a historical archive, a fine art gallery, and event and activity spaces.
The archive features information, artifacts and relics from Jamaica, The Bahamas, Haiti, Barbados, Cuba, Trinidad, Honduras, Guyana, Suriname, the U.S. Virgin Islands and other Caribbean countries. It is organized into four areas which showcase the history of the region, from pre-colonial times through slavery and emancipation. It then explores features of Caribbean life including economies, politics, religion, music and sports through the post-emancipation decades. Information about the connections between the Caribbean and America is also on display. Items on show include a costume worn by Jamaican dancehall artist Spice, an outfit worn by Jamaican reggae drummer Sly Dunbar, running shoes worn by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, Over-the-Top Oakley glasses worn by Trinidadian sprinter Ato Boldon, and cricket bats signed by members of the West Indies cricket team.
The fine art gallery shows the work of Caribbean artists, established and emerging, and has featured names including Phillipe Doddard, JanJak Alexis, David I. Muir, Michelle Drummond, Sonya Sanchez Arias and Krystle Sadbul.
Events hosted have included workshops, panel discussions and cultural presentations on themes such as women’s rights, emancipation, marijuana and reggae music. In May 2022, the organization became the first Caribbean facility in South Florida to host an exhibition and event series in solidarity with the LGBTQ community, the Queer Caribbeans series of 2022.
The nonprofit organization.
South Florida is home to more than 1.5 million people who are Caribbean or of Caribbean descent. Island SPACE claims to be an organization dedicated to capturing and telling a comprehensive history of the Caribbean region, highlighting both common and unique themes and cultural practices. According to its stated mission: Island SPACE facilitates the creation of artistic, cultural and socially conscious initiatives that educate the public about the valuable contributions and positive significance of the Caribbean community. Its stated vision is to elevate the profile of Caribbean art, history and culture in every form throughout South Florida and the broader diaspora.
History.
After staging a number of small, temporary Caribbean culinary history exhibits at museums, libraries and cultural facilities throughout Broward County, Florida, co-founders Calibe Thompson and David Muir established the Island SPACE nonprofit organization in 2019, and in 2020, with a board of directors in place, they brought Island SPACE Caribbean Museum to the Broward Mall for a longer term installation. The facility remained in its first location, on the exterior of the mall, from November 2020 to December 2022. It moved to an interior location in January 2023.
Its funding has been provided by grantors including the National Endowment for the Arts, Florida Cultural Division, Broward County Cultural Division and the Community Foundation of Broward, as well as private donors such as Florida Power & Light Company and GraceKennedy USA.
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Alwyn Davey Jr.
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Alwyn Davey Jr. (born 26 February 2004) is a professional Australian rules footballer with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Davey is the son of former Essendon player Alwyn Davey, and twin brother of fellow Essendon player Jayden Davey, having both joined their father's former club under the father-son rule in the 2022 AFL draft.
AFL Career.
Davey was drafted with pick 45 in the 2022 AFL draft, as Essendon matched a bid from Hawthorn for their father-son prospect. Davey's twin brother, Jayden, joined him at the Bombers 9 picks later at selection number 54.
Davey made his AFL debut for Essendon in round 1 of his first season, just as his father had done, debuting against Hawthorn at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 19 March 2023. Davey kicked a goal on debut.
Statistics.
"Updated to the end of 2023."
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Johann Jeremiah
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Johann Jeremiah (born 02 December 1999) is an Grenadian cricketer, who is a left-handed batsman. He plays for the Windward Islands cricket team in domestic cricket. He was the leading run-scorer in the 2019 Windward Islands Cricket Tournament, scoring 198 runs in 4 matches. In October 2022, he was named in Windward Islands' squad for the 2022–23 Super50 Cup. He made his List A debut for Windward Islands on 12 November 2022, against Trinidad and Tobago. In March 2023, he was also selected to play in the 2022–23 West Indies Championship. He made his first-class for Windward Islands on 15 March 2023, against Jamaica.
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63rd Battle of the Babes
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63rd Battle of the Babes is the 2023 edition of Battle of the Babes a School Cricket Match Series played between St. Sylvester's College and Vidyartha College as part of the 2023 edition of Big Matches. It includes a Test Match and a One-Day Match. The One-Day Match is also known as 34th One-Day Encounter.
History.
This Traditional Big Match has been played between the two schools since 1958 annually, except for 3 years due to unavoidable circumstances. Out of the 62 games played St. Sylvester's College has won 15 games and their last win was in 2022 while, Vidyartha College has won 3 games and their last win was in 1967.
Background.
As usual Test match was scheduled to be held in Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy and One-Day match is scheduled to be held in Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy. The Test Match was organized by Vidyartha College while the One-Day Match is organized by St. Sylvester's College. The Test Match was held on 31 March and 1 April 2023. The One-Day Match was held on 9 April 2023.
Results.
Series concluded with the "Test Match" being drawn and the "One-Day Match" won by St. Sylvester's College.
Media.
Home media for the "Big Match" was covered by Vidyartha College while, home media for the "One-Day Encounter" was covered by St. Sylvester's College. The matches were live telecasted islandwide on Dialog TV and Peo TV while, the matches were live-streamed on "ThePapare.com" Website.
Future.
64th Battle of the Babes will be held in 2024 with St. Sylvester's College organizing the Test match and Vidyartha College organizing the One-Day match.
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2023 Big Matches
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2023 Big Matches is the 2023 edition of Big Matches; A set of Annual School Cricket Match Series played between pairs of schools across the country.
Venues.
Following is a list of venues Big Matches are held in 2023.
Fixtures.
Following is the list of Cricket Match Series taking place in the 2023 edition of Big Matches. Starting with the 144th Battle of the Blues and ending with the 3rd Rev. James Cartman Cup & 2nd Rev. Bro. Luke Gregory Shield
144th Battle of the Blues (Colombo).
Played between Royal College and St. Thomas' College in Singhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground. The Test Match was held on 16th, 17 and 18 March 2023 for the D.S.Senanayake Shield. 46th One-Day match was held on 24 March 2023 for the Mustangs Trophy.
123rd Battle of the Blues Ruhuna.
Played between St. Thomas' College and St. Servatius College. It was held on 24th, 25 and 26 March 2023 in Uyanwatte Stadium.
118th Lovers' Quarrel.
Test match played between Richmond College and Mahinda College in Galle International Stadium. It was held on 17 and 18 March 2023.
115th Hill Capital Battle of the Maroons.
Played between Dharmaraja College and Kingswood College in Pallekelle International Cricket Stadium. Test match was held on 17 and 18 March 2023. 33rd One-Day match was held on 9 April 2023.
106th Battle of the Golds (Jaffna).
Played between St. Patrick's College and Jaffna College. Match was held on 24th and 25 February 2023 in Jaffna College Grounds.
104th Hill Country Battle of the Blues.
Played between Trinity College and St. Anthony's College. Test match was held on 24 and 25 March 2023 in Katugasthota. 41st One-Day match was held on 1 April 2023 in Asgiriya.
93rd Battle of the Maroons (Colombo).
Played between Ananda College and Nalanda College in Singhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground. Test match was held on 4 and 5 March 2023 played for Dr N. M. Perera Memorial Shield. One-Day match was held on 12 March 2023 played for P. de S Kularatne Memorial trophy.
89th Battle of the Saints (Colombo).
Played between St. Joseph's College and St. Peter's College in Singhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground. Test match was held on 28 and 29 April 2023. 49th One-Day match was held on 30 April 2023.
73rd Battle of the Golds (Moratuwa).
Played between St. Sebastian's College and Prince of Wales' College. Test match was held on 21 and 22 April 2023 in Tyronne Fernando Stadium. 37th One-Day match was held on 23 April 2023 in Singhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground.
71st Battle of the Golds (Panadura and Moratuwa).
Played between Moratu Maha Vidyalaya and Sri Sumangala College in Tyronne Fernando Stadium. Test match was held on 28 and 29 April 2023. One-Day match was held on 30 April 2023.
63rd Battle of the Babes.
Played between St. Sylvester's College and Vidyartha College. "Test match" was held on 31 March and 1 April 2023 in Pallekelle International Cricket Stadium. "One-Day match" was held on 9 April 2023 in Asgiriya Stadium.
60th Battle of the Brothers (Colombo).
Played between Thurstan College and Isipathana College. Test match was held on 24 and 25 February 2023 in Singhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground. One-Day match was held on 5 March 2023 in R. Premadasa Stadium. 16th Twenty20 match was held on 25 March 2023 in Thurstan Grounds.
39th Battle of the Rocks.
Played between Maliyadeva College and St. Anne's College in Welagedara. Test Match was held on 24 and 25 March 2023. 25th One-Day match was held on 26 March 2023.
21st Battle of Salpiti Raigam Korala.
Played between Piliyandala Central College and Taxila Central College, Horana in Tyronne Fernando Stadium. Test match was held on 31 March and 1 April 2023. One-Day match was held on 2 April 2023.
17th Battle of the Golds (Colombo).
Played between DS Senanayake College and Mahanama College. Test match was held on 24 and 25 March 2023 in P. Sara Oval. 17th One-Day match was held on 8 April 2023 in R. Premadasa Stadium.
7th Battle of the Golden Lions.
Played between Rahula College and Dharmapala College in Uyanwatte Stadium. Test match was held on 31 March and 1 April 2023. 7th One-Day match was held on 2 April 2023.
3rd Rev. James Cartman Cup & 2nd Rev. Bro. Luke Gregory Shield.
Played between Wesley College and St. Benedicts College Test match was held on 17 and 18 March 2023 in P. Sara Oval. One-Day match was held on 25 March 2023 in Singhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground.
Media.
Home media was given by the organizing schools. The matches were live telecasted islandwide on Dialog TV and Peo TV while, the matches were live-streamed on "ThePapare.com" Website.
Future.
2024 Big Matches will be held in February - April 2024.
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Stenhousemuir F.C. (1881)
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Stenhousemuir Football Club was a Scottish football club located in Stenhousemuir, Falkirk.
History.
The club was founded in 1881, out of a cricket club.
Stenhousemuir was a founder member of the Stirlingshire Football Association and played in the first Stirlingshire Cup in 1883–84. The club lost to Tayavalla 5–2 in the first round.
The same season the club entered the Scottish Cup for the first time. Stenhousemuir beat Strathblane 3–2 in the first round, but lost 9–1 to Falkirk in the second.
In the first round of the 1884–85 Scottish Cup, the club lost again to Tayavalla, this time at home. Stenhousemuir did at least win a tie in the Stirlingshire Cup, 3–2 at the unheralded Falkirk Harp, but lost 4–1 at Camelon in the second round. The club appears to have given up football after this defeat, and the Scottish Football Association struck the club from membership before the 1885–86 season.
Colours.
The club played in black and white hooped jerseys and hose, with blue knickers.
Grounds.
The club originally played at Burnhead, 5 minutes' walk from Larbert station. From 1884 the club played at South Broomage.
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Khawaja Nafay
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Khawaja Nafay (born 13 February 2002) is a Pakistani cricketer, who is a right-handed batter. He was part of the Overseas Warriors in the 2022 Kashmir Premier League. In January 2023, he was signed by Chattogram Challengers to play for the franchise in the 2022–23 Bangladesh Premier League. He made his Twenty20 debut for Chattogram Challengers on 20 January 2023, against Khulna Tigers. This was the first time that he participated in a major cricket tournament at professional level.
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Jye Menzie
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Jye Menzie (born 28 October 2002) is a professional Australian rules footballer with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
AFL career.
Menzie was drafted by Essendon with pick 15 in the 2022 mid-season rookie draft. Menzie was Essendon's second selection in the mid-season rookie draft, having earlier taken Massimo D'Ambrosio as well.
Menzie made his AFL debut for Essendon in round 20 of his first season, starting at the medical sub against North Melbourne at Marvel Stadium. Menzie's only other game in game for the season came in round 23 against Richmond at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, where Menzie was once again the medical sub. He was substituted on and went on to kick his first career goal. After initially being drafted on a 6-month contract, Menzie secured a one-year contract extension to remain at Essendon for the 2023 season.
Menzie impressed throughout the 2023 pre-season, including a 3-goal performance in a scratch match against Gold Coast, enough to win selection in Essendon's round 1 team.
Statistics.
"Updated to the end of 2023"
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2023 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup
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2023 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup will be the tenth edition of the ACC Under-19 Cup, a limited overs cricket tournament featuring eight under-19 teams. It is scheduled to be played in December 2023. The five full members of the Asian Cricket Council will take part in the tournament: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. They will be joined by the top three ranked teams of the qualification tournament. In January 2023, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) announced the pathway structure and calendar for 2023 and 2024, where they confirmed the dates and teams of the tournament.
Group stage.
Group A.
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Group B.
Advances to Super Four </onlyinclude>
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2024 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup
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2024 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup will be the ninth edition of the Women's Asia Cup, with the matches to played as Women's Twenty20 International (WT20Is). It is scheduled to be played by six teams in September 2024. The four full members of the Asian Cricket Council will take part in the tournament: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. They will be joined by the champions and runners-up of the qualification tournament. In January 2023, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) announced the pathway structure and calendar for 2023 and 2024, where they confirmed the dates and teams of the tournament.
Group stage.
Group A.
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Glamorgan County Cricket Club in 2023
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The 2023 season was Glamorgan County Cricket Club's 136th year in existence and their 102nd as a first-class cricket county. They competed in the Second Division of the County Championship, as well as Group B of the One-Day Cup and the South Group of the T20 Blast. Just two of their fourteen County Championship matches produced results (one win and one loss), meaning they finished in fifth place in the eight-team division; meanwhile, they failed to capitalise on a good start in the T20 Blast, winning four of their first five matches before losing eight of their next nine to finish eighth out of the nine teams in the South Group. In the One-Day Cup, they failed to put together any consistent form; they won four of their eight matches, finishing in fourth place, three points behind Gloucestershire and Worcestershire in quarter-final places. Glamorgan played two 50-over matches at The Gnoll in Neath for the second year in a row, while also not returning to Penrhyn Avenue in Rhos-on-Sea for the fourth year in a row.
It was the team's fourth season with Matthew Maynard as their red-ball head coach and their second with David Lloyd as captain; both left at the end of the season, with Maynard stepping down and Lloyd moving to Derbyshire. Former Gloucestershire and England all-rounder Mark Alleyne joined the club as white-ball head coach, but his appointment as an assistant coach for the Welsh Fire in The Hundred meant Glamorgan turned to David Harrison to coach the side in the One-Day Cup. The team's overseas players were Australians Marnus Labuschagne and Michael Neser, and South African Colin Ingram; Australian Peter Hatzoglou and New Zealander Cam Fletcher also joined for the T20 Blast, while Australian Mitchell Swepson was brought in while Neser was on international duty with Australia for the 2023 Ashes series.
Pre-season and friendlies.
Glamorgan's pre-season campaign took place in Zimbabwe, where they played a three-day match and a one-day match against Northerns, and three one-day matches against Southerns. On returning, they played a three-day game against Somerset at Taunton, before hosting Cardiff MCCU in another three-day match. They also played a one-day match against Herefordshire before the start of the One-Day Cup season, but it was rained off midway through the first innings.
County Championship.
Matches.
20–23 April: Glamorgan v Durham.
After a week off, Glamorgan returned to action at home to Durham buoyed by the return of their overseas players, Australians Michael Neser and Marnus Labuschagne.
T20 Blast.
Standings.
Advanced to the Quarter-finals
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Jake Selby
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Jake Selby (28 July 1900 – 15 February 1951) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
Rugby Union career.
Amateur career.
Selby played for Watsonians.
This is from the Dundee Evening Telegraph of Wednesday 16 January 1929:
The Watsonians have splendid pack this season, and they did some great work, as also did the 'Sonians old international scrum half, Jake Selby.
He also played for Kelso from 1920 to 1925.
He played for Edinburgh University the 1921–22 season.
He played for Bradford RFC from 1926 to 1927.
Provincial career.
Selby played for Edinburgh District.
He played for Scotland Probables in the trial match of January 1920.
While playing for Bradford, he was also capped for Yorkshire.
International career.
Selby was capped for Scotland 2 times, all in 1920.
Medical career.
He became a doctor. He obtained his medical degree from Edinburgh University in 1925. From the Berwickshire News and General Advertiser of Tuesday 22 December 1925:
Jake Selby is now a fully fledged doctor, and it may be that his infrequent appearances on the Rugby this season foreshadows his retirement from the game. Selby who is a Scottish Rugby Internationalist, is well known in Berwickshire, and has frequently turned out for Kelso Rugby team.
This from Edinburgh Evening News of Tuesday 7 October 1930:
A WATSONIAN'S NEW POST. DR J. A. R. SELBY FOR HONG-KONG. J. A. R. Selby, the wcii-known Edinburgh rugby player and internationalist, has received an appointment as Specialist Medical Officer at Hong-Kong under the Colonial Medical Service, and will sail at an early date.. Dr Selby graduated at Edinburgh University five years ago, and has since been engaged in hospital work in Bradford, in the Venereal Diseases Department. and the Bacteriological Department of the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and as Resident Medical Officer at East Paoli Hospital, Edinburgh. During the past six months he has been Resident Surgical Officer at St Paul's Hospital for Genito-Urinary Diseases, London. _ . Educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh,‘ Dr Selby played for his . school at cricket and Rugby, and was a member of the Watsonians XV. from 1919 to 1926, and again from 1928 till the end of last season. He also played Rugby for Bradford and Yorkshire in 1926-27. Ile was " capped " against Wales in 1920, his first year of senior football.
Family.
His father was Dr. William McDowall Selby (1873-1933), and his mother was Catherine Purves Logan Robertson.
Death.
His death was reported in the Edinburgh Evening News of Saturday 17 February 1951:
DEATH OF FORMER RUGBY `CAP' The death has occurred at Cheadle-Hulme, Cheshire, of Dr J. A. R. Selby. the former Scottish internationalist, who played at scrum half against Wales and Ireland in 1920. Dr Selby, who was about 50 years of age, was a native of Portpatrick, and was the son of a doctor. He was educated at George Watson's College. and after he left school, played for the Watsonians at scrum half. The regular occupant of the position, Dr C. S. Nimmo, who was the captain at that time, sportingly chose to play stand-off to accommodate Dr Selby. In addition to his two "caps," Dr Selby was also chosen to play against England in 1920, but withdrew from the side because of injury, and Dr Nimmo took his place. Dr Selby had held an executive post for several years in the Queen Mary Hospital, Hong-Kong, and in the late war he was a prisoner of the Japanese. On his release he returned to Hong-Kong, but retired last year and returned to Scotland. Dr Selby accepted a medical post in Cheshire after a holiday.
The Berwickshire News and General Advertiser of Tuesday 27 February 1951 also had this:
Selby in his day was the youngest member of the Scottish team playing the year after he left Watson's College. It will be remembered in addition to playing for Watsonians, he played for Kelso during the season 1920-1921 when captain was J. S. Roberton, well known Border farmer, and other members of the team were J. H. Lindsay (Prenderguest, Ayton), R. F. Thomson, W. McKenzie, B. Turner (Coldstream), A. Sanderson, Alex. C. A. Steven (Berwick), T. Laing (Harrietfield, Kelso), J. Hume, W. S. Black, R. Laidlaw, R. Lyall. J. T. Laing (Harrietfield) and C. W. Calder (West Gordon, Gordon). Dr Selby spent several years in an executive position in the Queen Mary Hospital. Hong Kong. In the late war he was a prisoner in Jap hands and after the war he returned to his post. He was home on leave in Scotland three years ago. Last year he retired and returned to this country but after a holiday he accepted a medical position in Cheshire.
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Battle of the Babes
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Battle of the Babes (Also known as Vidyartha College - St. Sylvester's College Cricket Encounter) is an annual Big Match played between Vidyartha College and St. Sylvester's College since 1958 Annually; except for 3 years due to unavoidable circumstances. Otherwise, it has been now played for 63 years.
History.
This traditional Big Match has been played Annually since 1958; except for 3 years due to unavoidable circumstances. As of 2023, 63 Big Matches and 34 One-Day Matches have been played between Vidyartha College and St. Sylvester's College. Out of the 63 Big Matches St. Sylvester's College has won 15 matches and Vidyartha College has won 3 matches while, 45 matches were drawn.
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Josh Hull (cricketer)
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Joshua Owen Hull (born 20 August 2004) is an English cricketer, who is a left-arm fast medium bowler. He plays for Leicestershire County Cricket Club in domestic cricket. In October 2022, he signed a two-year deal with Leicestershire, after taking 28 wickets for the academy team during the 2022 season. He made his first-class debut for Leicestershire on 6 April 2023, against Yorkshire in the 2023 County Championship. He impressed with four wickets on his debut, helping his team to win the match by three wickets.
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Charlie Tector
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Charlie Tector (born 28 March 2002) is an Irish rugby union player, currently playing for United Rugby Championship and European Rugby Champions Cup side Leinster. His preferred position is Fly-half.
Leinster.
Tector was named in the Leinster Rugby academy for the 2022–23 season.<ref name="Meet the Academy – Year One 2022/23"></ref> He made his debut in Round 7 of the 2022–23 United Rugby Championship against the .
Personal life.
He is the cousin of cricketer Harry Tector.
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Megha Wijewardane
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Megha Mahima Wijewardane (born 29 March 2010) is the youngest and Australia's only ambassador for NASA. He was able to become an ambassador for NASA at the age of 9. He is an Australian who was born to Sri Lankan parents.
At a very young age, Megha had a high passion for Physics. In 2017, when he was 7 years old, he participated in the 2017 NASA Space Apps challenge and did a presentation on the atmosphere of Earth. There he won the Northrop Grumman Prize by competing with university students and aerospace engineers. Back in 2018, Megha participated in NASA's Space Apps challenge. He worked on a solution for the Bennu asteroid which is at risk of colliding with Earth in the future. For that, he had the opportunity to do some research on Bennu and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.
After that, in 2018, he participated in the ActInSpace challenge. In that challenge, he became the youngest team leader and youngest entrepreneur in Australia to start a business plan solution for science and technology. With Airbus, He did a project to find a solution to prevent Ghost ships. They presented a solution to identify ghost ships even though they have turned off their transponders.
Due to these things, He caught the attention of NASA and got an opportunity to go for a NASA ambassadorship. NASA, after checking his health conditions and social relations, offered him the position of NASA ambassador for the OSIRIS-REx mission. As he was an ambassador, the University of Arizona – LPL (Luna and Planetary Laboratory) offered him training. He was able to complete their training intelligently by scoring 100% marks on some of their tests.
Early life.
Megha Wijewardhane was born on 29 March 2010 in Adelaide, Australia. He is an Australian of Sri Lankan origin. He is the son of creative designer Charith Wijewardane and the CEO of Chakra FM Doshanthri Ranatunge. His grandfather is a famous Sri Lankan newspaper comic artist Anura Wijewardane. There is an interesting story behind how Megha got his name. "Megha" is one of Anura Wijewardane's famous comic storybooks.
His early life was quite different from that of a regular kid. He read his first letter when he was 6 months old. Since then, he has read many books. But he did not like to read non-fictional books therefore most of the books that he referred to are related to Science, Physics, and Mathematics. He said books are his best friends. His curiosity about the sky, world, and the universe began after reading Genesis from the bible. So, he thought to explore the universe. Because of his immense curiosity, Megha continuously asked so many questions about astronomy from his parents, but they did not have a profound knowledge of science and they were unable to answer some of his questions. So, they referred Megha to his grandfather (his mother's father) because he had learned science in his school. There, he got the answers to his curiosities.
When he was 1.5 years old, he read Einstein's theory of relativity. Likewise, as he was reading more books and searching the information about the world he found that NASA is doing many types of research on astronomical objects and creating many spaceships. So, he wanted to join NASA and work there when he was just 2 years old. Then he was encouraged by his parents who conveyed an imaginary message from NASA, "We will recruit you if you study and read more books". At the age of 4 years old, he started doing an Astronomy course at South Australian University. After school, he attended NASA public mini-lectures and got the opportunity to meet NASA scientists and NASA astronauts. The doctor's opinion about this extraordinary boy is his brain has grown 5 years older than his age.
Once he mentioned that in his first school, it was very hard to find someone with whom he could talk. He said that other children would run away fearing he would start talking about quantum physics or classical physics or Mathematics. They discriminated against him and called him an alien from Jupiter. But he did not let the bullies get him down and his parents made him stronger. To make sure that he was not lonely his mother included a letter with his lunch box which contained some interesting questions about physics. Even though he was excluded by school students as they underestimated his sports abilities, he was the 100 meters champion for his age and he was the chess champion.
Later, he was admitted to Westminster College, Australia. This opened an effective path for his development. As he was an excellent student, he had different needs so the school masters attempted to introduce a different education pattern for him. When he was 10 years old, he was not only a school student but also a university student. He was selected to study at the University of Flinders to study physics with 18 and 19 years old students in the science and Mathematics division sector.
After winning the 2017 NASA Space Apps Challenge and participating 2018 NASA Space Apps Challenge and ActInSpace Challenge he gained the NASA ambassadorship for the OSIRIS-REx mission of NASA at the age of 9. Again in 2019, he participated NASA Space Apps challenge as the leader of 7 members. They built an innovative platform to save people who are highly exposed to natural disasters using NASA live satellite data. There they introduced an app called "Megha Naada" which can early warn before floods.
He has earned many awards and collected great knowledge in his life and his ambition is to be a rocket scientist for NASA. He said, "I will explore the universe staying on Earth, I can’t leave it."
Working as an ambassador.
He is Australia's only junior NASA ambassador for NASA's mission OSIRIS-REx. Mission OSIRIS-REx is to save Earth from the potential hazard asteroid, Bennu which is at risk of colliding with Earth in the future. So, this "little" boy is planning to save the earth in the future.
He got the opportunity to be in the team mapping and conveying an area to execute the mission of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
As the ambassador for Australia, he is involved in communications for Australia with the mission OSIRIS-REx. He has the opportunity to access any news about the mission first-hand before it goes public and he shares the updated information with the public. Therefore, he participates in space summits, and visits schools, universities, astronomical clubs and events to share information about the mission OSIRIS-REx.
Abilities and social services.
Even though, at an early age Megha studied physics and mathematics he has many other abilities. From a very young, he did engage in many creative activities such as singing songs, creating handicrafts , and drawing with his parents and his grandmother Pushpa Ranathunga. Therefore, he has not only scientific knowledge but also aesthetic skills.
He is clever at music. At the age of 3, he started learning to play drums and piano. Besides that, he can play flute, violin, guitar, and accordion. He is a member of his school choir. He is good at sports too. He was 100 meters champion in his age level and the chess champion of his school. He is the opening batsman of the school cricket team. He has played karate and he can swim in breaststroke and backstroke.
He is a member of the future problems solving club in his school and he is a good programmer as he can write programs using C++ and Python. But he asserted that he does not play video games and he does not overuse digital devices.
He had been learning to fly planes with Airbus at a very young age. So, he can fly small planes. The Adelaide flight training school has given him access to computer-based learning. He aims to get a pilot license aged 15 and a commercial pilot license aged 19.
With these abilities, he has won many medals in Science and Mathematics and gained some badges representing NASA space missions.
He has been conducting many lectures in physics, science, mathematics, and astronomy for university students, scientists, and school students. He has a YouTube channel to share his knowledge. In 2020, He had been developing apps to learn physics, chemistry, and Mathematics. As he has a Sri Lankan origin, he loves Sri Lanka. So, he created Megha Force to help Sri Lankan students and impart knowledge on astrophysics and physics.
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Falcons (women's cricket)
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Falcons are a women's franchise cricket team that compete in the FairBreak Invitational T20. The team has no geographical base. The team was founded in 2022. They are currently being captained by Suzie Bates and coached by Joanne Broadbent. The rights and sponsorship of the franchise is currently acquired by K-Man Ventures.
History.
Falcons were formed in April 2022 to compete in the inaugural edition of the FairBreak Invitational T20, a multi-national women's Twenty20 cricket tournament, with Saba Nasim as the team manager. This was the first time that the team participated in any cricket competition at professional level. In May 2022, the all the tournament matches including the matches played by Falcons were sanctioned by the ICC. The team is made up of some of the best women players as well as emerging players from different countries of the world.
Falcons were captained by New Zealand cricketer Suzie Bates, and coached by Joanne Broadbent in the 2022 edition. They played their first ever WT20 match on 4 May 2022 against Warriors. They had a good start to their campaign by winning the opening match by 8 wickets, with Chamari Athapaththu hitting a century. They finished fourth in the league stage, winning two out of five matches. Although they lost all of their last three matches, they gained enough points to qualify for the knockout stage. They became the first team to qualify for the final by defeating Spirit by 25 runs. However, they finished as the runners-up of the tournament, losing the final match against Tornadoes by 8 wickets. Chamari Athapaththu was the leading run-scorer in the tournament with 313 runs.
In March 2023, K-Man Ventures bought the rights to the franchise and became the sponsor of the team ahead of the 2023 season. Falcons took part in the 2023 season again under the leadership of Suzie Bates, with Joanne Broadbent remaining as the coach. They won three out of their five league matches, and advanced to the knockout stage by beating Falcons by 9 wickets in the last league match. Falcons won the semi-final match against Barmy Army by 6 wickets and thus qualified for the final of the tournament. However, they again became the runners-up by losing the final by 94 runs in reply to Warriors' target of 204 runs.
Coaching staff.
The following coaching panel was formed ahead of the 2023 season.
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