THE HIMALAYAN MAIL JAMMU Q WEDNESDAY Q OCTOBER 21, 2020 11 Kohli leads wishes as Boosted by Ferguson's entry, KKR Virender Sehwag turns 42 look to make amends vs RCB NEW DELHI, OCT 20: longest format. NEW DELHI, OCT 20: jasthan Royals. Former India opener Viren- He smashed the fastest Kolkata Knight Riders have De Villiers has been in der Sehwag turned 42 on Test triple-century off just finally found their mojo ominous form for them and Tuesday and wishes poured 278 deliveries to join Don with the late inclusion of single-handedly won the in for the former India bats- Bradman and Brian Lara in tearaway pacer Lockie Fer- game with an unbeaten 55 man from the cricket frater- the list of players to score two guson and they would look from 22 balls in their 178- nity. triples. to avenge their first leg rout run chase against the Roy- India captain Virat Kohli He made 319 off 304 balls by the star-studded Royal als. took to Twitter and wrote: against South Africa at Chen- Challengers Bangalore Skipper Virat Kohli will "Happy birthday @virender- nai in 2008 with 42 fours when the two sides clash in also look to convert his sehwag bhai. Have a great and five sixes. the IPL, in ABu Dhabi, on starts as they look to day." Sehwag's previous triple Wednesday. brighten their playoff hopes "Many more happy re- ton was against Pakistan at It needed KKR nine with a double against KKR. turns of the day to a man Multan in 2004. games, and a change of cap- Teams: whose positivity and self-be- Also, he is the only Indian taincy, to realise the true Kolkata Knight Riders: lief is always a reminder of ways inspired me & guided raho.. #legand #Happy- with two Test triple tons. potential of the World Cup fourth with five matches left edition, Russell has just 92 Eoin Morgan (c), Shubman how to keep things simple in through various paths of life. BirthdayVirenderSehwag," Sehwag also played 251 star pacer for runners-up and Ferguson will be their runs from nine matches at Gill, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tri- life. #HappyBirthdayViru!," Wishing you nothing but the Harbhajan Singh tweeted. ODIs and amassed 8273 New Zealand, and when the key man to take them to the an average of 11.50. The op- pathi, Dinesh Karthik (wk), former cricketer VVS Lax- best always. Have an amaz- In a 104-match long Test runs with 15 tons and 38 Eoin Morgan-led side fi- playoffs at a time when their position bowlers seem to Andre Russell, Kuldeep Ya- man tweeted. ing day paji." career, Sehwag scored 8586 fifties. nally brought him in, he star Aussie recruit Pat Cum- have found out his weakness dav, Lockie Ferguson, Pat Former cricketer Suresh "Le hatho mai hath chal runs at an impressive aver- He announced his retire- blew away Sunrisers Hy- mins (three wickets from for short deliveries. Cummins, Varun Raina wrote: "Happy birth- tuu oh sathi chal... Happy age of 49.34. He scored 23 ment from all forms of inter- derabad with his relentless nine matches) is not making If his abysmal form was Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, day viru bhai @virenderse- birthday brother @virender- centuries and 32 fifties in a national cricket in October pace and variations. much of an impact of late. not enough, the Jamaican Tom Banton, Siddhesh Lad, hwag. My big brother, al- sehwag Kush raho tandrust 12-year long stint in the 2015. Ferguson made all the dif- AB de Villiers' incredible has also picked up some nig- Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Prasidh ference to KKR's yet another assault of 73 not out from 33 gles on the field and it would Krishna, Sandeep Warrior, ordinary show, returning balls, which had led to an not be a bad ploy to give him Shivam Mavi, Rinku Singh, with sensational figures of 82-run defeat not many a breather. Chris Green, M Siddharth Japan will take steps to guard 3/15 (four overs) and 2/2 days ago, will be still fresh in In spin, it remains to be and Nikhil Naik. from three balls in Super- their minds. seen whether they bring in Royal Challengers Banga- Over. It will be interesting to see Sunil Narine, whose action lore: Virat Kohli (c), AB de The imposing bowler, how Morgan uses Ferguson has been cleared. Villiers, Parthiv Patel (wk), against Olympics cyberattacks who returned with just two against the likes of De Vil- Kuldeep Yadav, who too Aaron Finch, Josh Philippe, NEW DELHI, OCT 20: tack." wickets from five games for liers, RCB skipper Virat was included against SRH Chris Morris, Moeen Ali, Japan said on Tuesday it A representative for fel- KKR last season, was on the Kohli and opener Aaron after being benched for eight Mohammed Siraj, Shahbaz would take countermea- low sponsor Toyota Motor go from his first ball when Finch. matches, looked decent Ahmed, Devdutt Padikkal, sures to ensure next year's Corp declined to comment. he claimed his Kiwi skipper Ferguson's inclusion gave along with their regular Yuzvendra Chahal, Tokyo Olympics are not de- A string of hacking at- Kane Williamson, brilliantly the much-needed impetus spinner Varun Navdeep Saini, Dale Steyn, railed by cyberattacks after tempts have been con- mixing up his raw pace with to the side, but KKR are still Chakravarthy. Pawan Negi, Isuru Udana, Britain and the United ducted against interna- slow deliveries to nail the struggling with their star all- RCB, on the other hand, Shivam Dube, Umesh Ya- States accused Russia of or- tional sporting opposition. rounder Andre Russell who are ahead of KKR by two dav, Gurkeerat Singh chestrating efforts to dis- organisations which West- It's a welcome inclusion capped yet another flop points and occupy the third Mann, Washington Sundar, rupt the Games. ern officials and cybersecu- for the Morgan-led KKR (10 show with the bat. place in the table after their Pavan Deshpande, Adam Olympics organisers re- rity experts say were orches- points) who are placed Their go-to man in the last seven-wicket win over Ra- Zampa. ported no significant impact trated by Russia since its on their operations for the doping scandal erupted five 2020 Games, which were years ago.Moscow has re- Players may withdraw from tours postponed until next year peatedly denied the allega- due to the COVID-19 pan- tions. demic. was gathering and ers and sponsors. Russia was banned from Britain and the United the world's top sporting due to bubble burnout: Morgan analysing information and The organising commit- States on Monday con- in close contact with Britain tee said in a statement they events for four years in De- NEW DELHI, OCT 20: Morgan said it was im- demned what they said and the United States. had already made extensive cember over widespread England's players can with- portant to create an envi- were a series of malicious "The Olympics are a ma- cybersecurity preparations doping offences, including draw from tours if they feel ronment for players to be cyberattacks orchestrated jor international event that and that there had been little the Tokyo Games.An Inter- playing in bio-secure bub- comfortable with making by Russian military intelli- attract attention, and cyber- disruption to its platforms. national Olympic Commit- bles during the COVID-19 that decision. gence, including attempts to security measures are ex- "While we have con- tee (IOC) spokesman said pandemic will take a toll on "I don't think people disrupt the Tokyo Olympics tremely important." stantly monitored various cybersecurity was one of their mental health, limited should look down on it and and Paralympics. British officials said on types of cyberattack on the their priorities."The IOC overs captain Eoin Morgan they shouldn't feel like peo- Japanese chief cabinet and the Organising Com- Monday the hackers from digital platforms owned by has said. ple aren't doing their job or secretary Katsunobu Kato mittees of the Olympic Russia's GRU military intel- Tokyo 2020, no significant England hosted West In- not committing to their declined to give details but Games have identified cy- ligence agency had also con- impact has been observed dies, Pakistan and Aus- country," the 34-year-old said Japan would make ber security as a priority ducted "cyber reconnais- in our operations," tralia after cricket's restart added. every effort to protect the area and invest a lot to offer in July, with the teams re- sance" operations against spokesman Masa Takaya "That's a reactive way of Games from possible hack- the Olympic Games the best stricted to playing in Man- Tokyo Games organisers. said. dealing with things and we ing attempts. cyber security environment chester and Southampton They declined to give spe- Olympic sponsor Pana- want to be at the forefront "We cannot turn a blind possible," the spokesman where the ECB had set up cific details about the latest sonic Corp said in a state- pected to tour South Africa mental health," Morgan eye to malicious cyberat- told Reuters in an email. bubbles. of making it acceptable for attacks or say whether they ment they were strengthen- next month. said during an online char- tacks that threaten democ- "Given the nature of the The Indian Premier people to say 'I need to were successful but said ing their global monitoring "We've spoken about this ity event. racy," Kato told a news con- topic, we do not divulge League has set up a bubble spend time with my family they had targeted Games efforts, adding, "We did not as a team and we've ac- "I do think we will see ference, adding that Japan those measures." for players in the United now and I'm taking this organisers, logistics suppli- detect any evidence of an at- cepted that guys will come people pull out of tours.