Over the weekend, violence broke out in France, with more than 280,000 protesters fanning out across the country in what is known as the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) movement. What started as a reaction against a hike in the country’s gasoline tax has metastasized into something uglier. More than 400 people have been injured across some 2,000 rallies, and one person was killed after being run over by a car. In CityLab, Feargus O’Sullivan attempts to describe a rather amorphous protest:
Unusually, the Yellow Vests is a grassroots mass protest movement with no explicit wider political agenda or links to existing groups. Having organized themselves via social media since May (when the movement was sparked by an online petition), the Yellow...
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A look back at the finest performances by Indian players versus Australia in Tests at the Adelaide Oval.
"I never had that match practice at three. The openers opened in the practice games, Joe Root batted four, I batted five or six and that can be quite frustrating because you haven't been that three in the first two practice games and then you're in the Test match and batting at three."
Indian tours to Australia have mostly been one-way traffic — the late Jaywant Lele’s (no, not McGrath’s) famous prediction of a 3-0 drubbing just before the 1999-00 tour comes to mind. In addition to India traditionally being poor travellers, Australian teams have been the toughest opposition for most teams. However, as teams around the world got crushed by the Aussie might, India were the one team that competed — often, in the most trying circumstances — against the Aussies during their period of dominance.
A day after T20 captain Harmanpreet Kaur and vice-captain Smriti Mandhana urged Ramesh Powar should continue as the coach of the national women’s team, officials in the BCCI are voicing concerns over the handling of the entire saga by the Chairman of Committee of Administrators (CoA) Vinod Rai.
The Englishman was also part of the Kolkata Knight Riders squad for the 2018 IPL season but has been released by the side for the upcoming edition.
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