Aus vs SL: Sri Lanka Aims For 300 Run Score

Aus vs SL: 2 March, 2012 - The last league match of the tri-series between Australia and Sri Lanka is in progress at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne. Though Sri Lanka started on a shaky ground, soon regained composure and is steadily moving towards giving Aussies a 300 runs to chase.

Sri Lanka got off to a bad start as David Hussey ran out captain Mahela Jayawardene with a direct hit. Jayawardene played a Ben Hilfenhaus delivery towards slip and Tillakaratne Dilshan called him for a quick single and Jayawardene took a moment to respond. Hussey from second slip pounced on the ball with one hand and threw it at the bowler's end where his direct hit found Jayawardene so short of the crease that the third umpire wasn't needed.

James Pattinson took his second wicket when he had Kumar Sangakkara caught by Peter Forrest at deep square leg. Sangakkara hit three fours in his 64-run knock and put up a 123-run stand with Dinesh Chandimal for the third wicket to lead the Sri Lankan fightback. Chandimal reached his 7th fifty off 47 balls while Sangakkara reached his 68th half-century off 79 deliveries. At the end of 38th over Sri Lanka score is 183/3. Indian cricketers and millions of their fans would be unified in praying for an Australian victory because if the Aussies beat the Sri Lankans, India will be through to the best-of-three finals.
 

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.