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GALLE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) - Wet weather and the potential for a more seamer friendly wicket means England are in no rush to name their bowling attack for the first test against Sri Lanka starting in Galle today, captain Joe Root said.
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Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka next week will open its international borders for limited air travel for the first time since the island nation went into lockdown in March. Further openings are under consideration for January [...]
LONDON, (Reuters) A slimmed down Dom Sibley will open the batting for England in the first test against West Indies this week after admitting he needed to go on a diet during the lockdown.
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The Afro–Asian Writers’ Conferences were a series of gatherings of literary figures from Asia and Africa that took place over two decades to denounce imperialism and to establish cultural contacts among their countries. The first conference (and by far the best known) was held in October 1958 in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan (at that time the Uzbek SSR, part of the Soviet Union). That conference featured 140 writers from 36 countries. Subsequent conferences convened in Cairo, Egypt, in February 1962, in Beirut, Lebanon, in March 1967, in New Delhi, India, in November 1970, in Almaty, Kazakhstan (at that time the Kazakh SSR, part of the Soviet Union), in September 1973, and in Luanda, Angola, in June 1979.
The Afro–Asian Writers’ Conferences were inspired by the 1955 Asian–African Conference, that met in April 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia. Although the Bandung Conference did not establish any permanent body, it did lead to subsequent gatherings, generally with lower-ranking representatives. The meeting in Cairo in December 1957–January 1958 established the Afro–Asian People’s Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) with a permanent secretariat in the Egyptian capital. The AAPSO organized the first Afro–Asian Writers’ Conference, which in turn formed a permanent Afro–Asian Writers’ Bureau in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The Bureau published one journal in English under the title The Call in the early 1960s and another in English, French, and Arabic under the title Lotus from the late 1960s into the 1990s.
The Afro–Asian Writers’ Conferences promoted translation to help Asian and African authors reach larger audiences and planned speaking tours for writers to travel throughout the region. In addition to providing a forum for sharing literary works, the conferences also served as a venue for political discussion. Some authors were able to use these platforms to raise their own political profiles. For example, the Chinese poet Guo Moruo, who held several important positions within the Chinese Communist Party, used
(Reuters) England all-rounder Sam Curran is self isolating in his room at the Ageas Bowl after undergoing a COVID-19 test, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said yesterday.
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WELLINGTON, (Reuters) - New Zealand coach Gary Stead has accepted he might lose Kane Williamson for matches later this month with the imminent birth of his first child but the team had no concerns about him taking some time away.
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Taking the knee before football matches is not going to change attitudes to racism only actions will, Les Ferdinand, director of football at ...
MUMBAI — More than 580 people in the southern city of Eluru in the state of Andhra Pradesh have been hospitalized with a mystery illness. Blood samples of 50 patients showed high levels of lead [...]
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the South Africa Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) will be handing over a memorandum of demands to SAA
West Indies skipper, Jason Holder is anticipating a keenly contested first Test against England and reckons it will be an uphill battle when the first ball bowls at 06.00
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(Reuters) – India will not travel to Zimbabwe for a one-day international series in August due to the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah said yesterday.
The move follows the BCCI’s decision on Thursday to postpone India’s limited-overs tour to Sri Lanka, which was originally scheduled for later this month.
India, who last visited Zimbabwe for a bilateral series in 2016, were due to play a three-match ODI series.
“The BCCI is determined to take steps towards the resumption of international and domestic cricket,” Shah said in a statement.
England are scheduled to host the first international series since the novel coronavirus outbreak, when they face West Indies in a three-test series without fans in attendance starting on July 8 at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton.
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The rate of human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka has increased exponentially in recent years., with environmental experts blaming human encroachment on pachyderm habitats. Deforestation of protected areas for agriculture and commercial development is rampant. As a result, elephants deprived of their natural habitat venture into human settlements.. 'The highest number of human-elephant conflicts since 1948 was recorded in 2019, with […]
HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, CMC – Johnson Charles’s poor start to the Sri Lanka Premier League continued yesterday after his Jaffna Stallions went down by six wickets to Kandy Tuskers.
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It may be a few days behind schedule, but South Africa has made a vital payment to the COVAX initiative - gaining vital access to millions of vaccines.
The NEC has called on members and leaders to refrain from actions such as burning ANC regalia because it is 'unbecoming to denigrate and desecrate ANC regalia.'
SOUTHAMPTON, England, (Reuters) - England should look beyond Joe Denly but retain Zak Crawley when regular skipper Joe Root returns for the second test against the West Indies, former captain Michael Vaughan has said.
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies’ slump in the world Twenty20 rankings is of little concern to head coach Phil Simmons, but believes it can work to his side’s advantage if the T20 World Cup comes off in Australia this October.
Since winning the T20 World Cup under Simmons four years ago in India, the Caribbean side have slid down the rankings and now lie ninth only above minnows Afghanistan, Zimbabwe and Ireland.
“I think the only disadvantage it (lockdown) places on West Indies is how much work the guys are able to do before we go there (World Cup) – if it’s happening,” the Trinidadian explained.
The South Africa is of special significance to West Indies’ T20 World Cup preparation, with five T20 Internationals scheduled at the back end of the series in August.
“It (CPL) is an important part of selection for the West Indies squad and if a safe environment for it can be found and it can be played, it would be massive help for the players who would then be selected in the squad to go to the World Cup if it’s on,” Simmons noted.
