The ashes of Shubham Dwivedi, a resident of Kanpur who lost his life in the recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, were immersed in the sacred waters of the Sangam here on Saturday.
Did “clashing ideologies,” as was being said until Ricky Ponting and Usman Khwaja spoke up and hit a discordant note, really “script an epic Ashes” series? Was it, as the Australian duo suggested, a bit of jiggery-pokery which may have sensationally fashioned the result of the Oval Test or was it the eternal “sour grapes” story playing out again?
Nitin Menon, a former Indian domestic cricketer, is officiating in the ongoing third 2023 Ashes Test between England and Australia.
econd Ashes Test, which began at Lord's on Wednesday with Australia 1-0 ahead, was of greater significance, considering it was a national, rather than individual, headache.
Protesters who wore Just Stop Oil T-shirts landed at the Lord’s Cricket Ground and disrupted the second Ashes Test match…
In a match in which the momentum see-sawed both ways on a number of occasions, Australia finally managed to consolidate their position on Day 4 thanks to centuries by Steve Smith and Matthew Wade and then went on win the match on Day 5.
The hosts' openers Rory Burns and Jason Roy managed to see out the last half hour of the day which means that Australia will have to take 10 wickets on Day 5 to record their first win at Edgbaston since July 2001.
This was Smith's 10th Ashes century and only Bradman (19) and England great Jack Hobbs (12) have scored more.
While some fans were incited by the joke, others felt that it wasn't just good enough going by Neesham's standards.
The fact that it took Smith a long time, one year and three months to be precise, to climb out of the pressure pit to play a Test match for Australia and score a hundred made the knock even more special.
