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T20 cricket, by design, has always been about batters entertaining with fours and sixes. But even accounting for the format’s inherent bias, the balance seems to have been tilted too much in favour of bat in IPL 2023 and 2024. Glance through the highest totals in the tournament’s 17 editions and you will find that six of the top seven have come in these two years. The four biggest totals ever all belong to this season, three of which have been racked up by a Sunrisers Hyderabad batting line-up that operates on fifth gear all through. Yes, batters seem to…

Goemakrponn desk MARGAO: FC Goa head coach Manolo Marquez felt his team is worthy of a place in the semi-finals of the Indian Super League (ISL) after their spirited performance against Chennaiyin FC at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Goa on Saturday. It was a game of fine margins between the two teams, with both having an equal share of chances. The Gaurs dominated ball possession from the outset, creating numerous offensive moves through the flanks, which resulted in Noah Sadaoui’s 36th-minute opener. The hosts doubled their lead within the next 10 minutes when captain Brandon Fernandes scored an absolute…

MUMBAI: Robin Uthappa feels that Shubman Gill will lead the Indian team in the near future after the Indian star helped GT secure a win against PBKS on Sunday, April 21. Gill scored a crucial 35 as GT got over the finishing line in the end in Mullanpur. This was Gill’s 4th win as captain of Gujarat, since taking over as skipper before the start of the season. Speaking to JioCinema after GT’s 3-wicket win, Uthappa hailed Gill as a gift for Indian cricket and claimed that star batter is slowly maturing into an all-time great. The former cricketer also…

New Delhi: After Singapore, now Hong Kong has taken action by banning the sale of popular Indian spice brands MDH Pvt. and Everest Food Products Pvt. after the alleged detection of the carcinogenic pesticide ethylene oxide in several spice mixes. The Centre For Food Safety of The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region announced on April 5 that routine surveillance programs had uncovered the presence of ethylene oxide in three spice mixes from MDH Group – Madras Curry Powder, Sambhar Masala Powder, and Curry Powder. “The CFS collected the above-mentioned samples from three retail outlets in Tsim Sha…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Collem police located the body of Bengaluru-born tourist Abdul Rafique, 62, who had gone missing on Thursday. His wife had reported him missing, so the Collem police and Mollem Foresters worked together over the course of the last four days to locate him. They had stopped at around 1.30 pm while travelling in a jeep to the Dudhsagar waterfall. Rafique was reported missing by the police while his spouse was using the loo. The Collem police ruled out the notion that Rafique had been attacked by a wild animal, stating that there were no signs of such…

Goemkarponn desk TIRACOL: Remanded to five days in police detention is police inspector Vidyesh Pilgaonkar, who was in charge of the Tiracol coastal police station at the time and was arrested by the Directorate of Vigilance’s Anti-Corrupt-tion Branch (ACB) in connection with a bribery case. Pilgaonkar is the third police officer detained in connection with the corruption case, in which a paragliding operator in North Goa was legally required to pay a monthly bribe of Rs 8,000 in order for the business to run successfully. According to sources, Pilgaonkar oversaw the Tiracol coastal police station during the time that the…

MALE: Maldives’ main ruling People’s National Congress (PNC) party has won a clear majority in Parliament, results showed on Sunday. President Mohamed Muizzu’s PNC won 66 of the first 86 seats declared, according to the Elections Commission of Maldives results, which is enough for a super-majority in the 93-member majlis, or parliament. The vote was key for Muizzu’s aim to strengthen economic ties with China. With the PNC and its allies holding just eight seats in the previous parliament, Muizzu’s plans were hampered after his presidential win in September due to the lack of a majority. Muizzu’s election as president…