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Cricket World Cup Begins Mar 8 Schedule on Page-3
www.Asia Times.US NRI Global Edition Email: [email protected] March 2016 Vol 7, Issue 3 Cricket World Cup begins Mar 8 Schedule on page-3 Indian Team: Pakistan Team: Shahid Afridi (c), Anwar Ali, Ahmed Shehzad MS Dhoni (capt, wk), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Mohammad Hafeez Bangladesh Team: Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Yuvraj Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Irfan Squad: Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Moham- Singh, Suresh Raina, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Sharjeel Khan, Wahab Riaz mad Mithun, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Ra- Mohammed Shami, Harbhajan Singh, Jasprit Mohammad Nawaz, Muhammad Sami him, Sabbir Rahman, Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), Bumrah, Pawan Negi, Ashish Nehra, Hardik Khalid Latif, Mohammad Amir Mahmudullah Riyad, Nasir Hossain, Nurul Pandya. Umar Akmal, Sarfraz Ahmed, Imad Wasim Hasan, Arafat Sunny, Mustafizur Rahman, Al- Amin Hossain, Taskin Ahmed and Abu Hider. Australia Team: Steven Smith (c), David Warner (vc), Ashton Agar, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, John Hastings, Josh Hazlewood, Usman Khawaja, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Max- well, Peter Nevill (wk), Andrew Tye, Shane Watson, Adam Zampa England: Eoin Morgan (c), Alex Hales, Ja- Asia Times is Globalizing son Roy, Joe Root, Jos Buttler, James Vince, Ben Now appointing Stokes, Moeen Ali, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, David Willey, Steven Finn, Reece Topley, Sam Bureau Chiefs to represent Billings, Liam Dawson New Zealand Team: Asia Times in ALL cities Kane Williamson (c), Corey Anderson, Trent Worldwide Boult, Grant Elliott, Martin Guptill, Mitchell McClenaghan, -
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The Corrosive Impact of Transgender Ideology
The Corrosive Impact of Transgender Ideology Joanna Williams The Corrosive Impact of Transgender Ideology The Corrosive Impact of Transgender Ideology Joanna Williams First published June 2020 © Civitas 2020 55 Tufton Street London SW1P 3QL email: [email protected] All rights reserved ISBN 978-1-912581-08-5 Independence: Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society is a registered educational charity (No. 1085494) and a company limited by guarantee (No. 04023541). Civitas is financed from a variety of private sources to avoid over-reliance on any single or small group of donors. All the Institute’s publications seek to further its objective of promoting the advancement of learning. The views expressed are those of the authors, not of the Institute. Typeset by Typetechnique Printed in Great Britain by 4edge Limited, Essex iv Contents Author vi Summary vii Introduction 1 1. Changing attitudes towards sex and gender 3 2. The impact of transgender ideology 17 3. Ideological capture 64 Conclusions 86 Recommendations 88 Bibliography 89 Notes 97 v Author Joanna Williams is director of the Freedom, Democracy and Victimhood Project at Civitas. Previously she taught at the University of Kent where she was Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education. Joanna is the author of Women vs Feminism (2017), Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity (2016) and Consuming Higher Education, Why Learning Can’t Be Bought (2012). She co-edited Why Academic Freedom Matters (2017) and has written numerous academic journal articles and book chapters exploring the marketization of higher education, the student as consumer and education as a public good. -
Ex-Captain Dhoni out of India's List of Contracted Cricketers
44 Friday Sports Friday, January 17, 2020 Ex-captain Dhoni out of India’s list of contracted cricketers NEW DELHI: MS Dhoni was absent from the Virat Kohli in 2017. list of centrally contracted players published by However Dhoni may be eyeing a last hurrah the Indian cricket board yesterday, raising fresh at the Twenty20 World Cup in October and speculation about the 38-year-old warhorse’s November in Australia. future. He is expected to lead the Chennai Super Dhoni has not appeared for club or country Kings in the Indian Premier League (IPL) this since the World Cup in July and the wicket- April-May. keeper-batsman has been expected to an- The Indian selectors have been grooming nounce his retirement for some time. young stumper Rishabh Pant, 22, to fill Dhoni’s The former captain of the national side, who gloves. Previously Dhoni was in the A-grade serves as an honorary lieutenant colonel in the category of the Board of Control for Cricket in army reserves, spent part of last year with his India (BCCI) central list, earning a guaranteed unit in strife-torn Kashmir — missing an ODI $715,000. tour of the West Indies. Pant is among 11 players listed in the A- He has not featured in any series since and grade contract with batsman KL Rahul taking was not named as part of the squad to tour Dhoni’s place. Kohli, senior batsman Rohit New Zealand later this month. Sharma and paceman Jasprit Bumrah are guar- He quit Test cricket in 2014 but continued to anteed at least $1 million each in the A-plus be India’s batting mainstay in limited-overs category for the period October 2019 to Sep- MS Dhoni cricket despite passing on the captaincy to tember 2020. -
SPORT 18 I Think Australia Pumped Us in 2015 in New Zealand’S the final, So It Would Be Nice to (Play Trent Boult TENNIS MOTORSPORT Them) Again
THURSDAY 11 JULY 2019 SPORT 18 I think Australia pumped us in 2015 in New Zealand’s the final, so it would be nice to (play Trent Boult TENNIS MOTORSPORT them) again. We’ll be on today’s World Cup Wimbledon Championship 2019 Silk Way Rally watching with interest and just more semi-final between The All England Lawn Tennis Stage 5 excited about being on the stage. England and Australia. ACTION Club in Wimbledon, London Ulaanbaatar, Eastern Siberia TODAY’S Al Attiyah maintains Silk Way Rally lead with stage win Qatar’s Cherif, Tijan going great guns in Gstaad Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan celebrate after defeating their Chilean counterparts during the 20th Swatch Gstaad Major, another stop in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, in Gstaad, Overdrive Racing’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah and French navigator Matthieu Baumel in action in Switzerland, yesterday. They clinched their second their Toyota Hilux during the fifth stage of the 2019 Silk Way Rally in Ulaanbaatar in Eastern win of the day in Group C when they outplayed Siberia, yesterday. Yesterday’s win also extended their overall advantage to 13min 17 secs. Russia’s Ilya Leshukov and Konstantin Semenov Over yesterday’s Ulaanbaatar – Ulaanbaatar loop, they swallowed up the 470 kilometres of 2-1. RIGHT: Cherif blocks a shot during the match steppe at an almost unbelievable 120 kph as their Toyota Hilux team-mates, Eric Van Loon and against Chile. Sébastien Delaunay finished second. Federer, Nadal set semi-final date; Djokovic to meet Bautista Agut AFP Eight-time champion baseline,” 32-year-old Djokovic said LONDON Federer racks up his of Goffin. -
Oshane Thomas, and Wales
SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2019 16 Windies fire out warning day of the competition in England three wickets for paceman Moham- Amir had Shai Hope (11), Darren Oshane Thomas, and Wales. mad Amir on his World Cup Bravo (0) and Gayle caught in an in- • West Indies cruised to victo - debut after he missed the cisive six-over spell, but the batsmen Chris Gayle lead West ry in just 13.4 overs, Chris Gayle 2011 and 2015 tournaments had not put enough runs on the board Indies World Cup top-scoring with 50. He reached due to a spot-fixing ban of to give the bowlers a chance. rout of Pakistan his half-century off 33 balls with 2010. Pakistan’s sloppy and vulnerable three sixes and six fours before batting was cruelly exposed by some Oshane Thomas he was dismissed off the next short-pitched bowling by the West • ball he faced. Indies pacemen on a Trent Bridge took four wickets as During his innings Gayle, Oshane Thomas pitch famous for big totals. West Indies bowled who calls himself the “Uni- celebrates Opener Fakhar Zaman and Babar verse Boss”, broke the re - Babar Azam’s Azam were the joint top-scorers with Chris Gayle plays a shot Pakistan out for wicket 105 in their World cord for the most sixes hit in 22 each in an abysmal display of bat- World Cup history. ting. Cup match at He now has 40 maximums, The only other batsmen to reach Trent Bridge three more than retired South double figures were Riaz, who scored Pakistan African batsman A B de Villiers. -
HCA Annual Report 2019-20
Year End April 2020 Hamilton Cricket Association Annual Report 2019/20 Season 01 May 2019 – 30 April 2020 “Provide enjoyable cricketing experiences for people of all ages and abilities” Office Bearers Chair Paula Baker Board Nathan Daley Amy Marfell Mark Donnelly Fabian Pathirana Prakash Gosai Mark Sturm – retired May 2020 Fraser Hill Patron Bruce Pairaudeau Auditor Jefferies Nock & Associates Limited Life Members Richard Dodunski Norm Austin Staff General Manager Rupert Hodgson (finished December 2019) Pathway Manager – Waikato Janice Fraser (finished December 2019) Development Manager - Hamilton Nikki Howlett (finished July 2019) Minutes Secretary- Emily McCarvill Supported By: Competition & Communications Administrator Kalyan Jeram (finished April 2020) Development Manager - Waikato Keith Vincent (from 16 December 2019) Pathway Manager - Waikato Janice Fraser (from 16 December 2019) Development Officer - Hamilton & Raglan Lachie Holt (from 05 January 2020) Development Activator – Waikato Mereana Hyde (from 11 November 2019) General Manager – Community Eimear Richardson General Manager – Pathways Peter Zanzottera Finance Manager Chelsea Fleetwood Finance Assistant Kailing Li (from 16 December 2019) Hamilton Cricket Association Partners participant experiences for males and females across all Chair Report levels including junior, youth/college and senior. Within pathways, five teams (boys and girls) represented HCA Paula Baker within NDCA underage tournaments as well as teams in The 2019/20 season was a year in which HCA ventured the Fergus Hickey, Basil McBurney and Brian Dunning into new partnerships while continuing to successfully tournaments. As the proud holders of the Hawke Cup, deliver and improve local and regional cricket HCA successfully defended two challenges before losing experiences. to Canterbury Country in Round 3. -
List of Office Bearers 2004
Parnell Cricket Club Incorporated - Established 1858 ANNUAL REPORT, ACCOUNTS and BALANCE SHEET Lockie Ferguson Catching Eoin Morgan – Final, New Zealand vs England, ICC CWC, Lord’s, 14 July 2019 21 wickets in the ICC CWC19 Tournament and selected for the CWC World XI Photo - Associated Press 2018 – 2019 : 161st Season 1. NEW ZEALAND – BLACK CAPS – 2018/19 & ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2019 The Club was honoured to have two members selected to represent New Zealand in the past 12 months. WER (WILL) SOMERVILLE and LH (LOCKIE) FERGUSON Will and Lockie – both bowling for Parnell Will, a dream Test debut 7/127 (4/75 & 3/52) and Test won Lockie, 21 wickets at 19.47 in the ICC CWC And Lockie selected for the WORLD XI, ICC CWC 2019 WILL SOMERVILLE Born in 1984, Will, an off spinner, made his 1st Class debut for Otago in 2004/05 for whom he represented till 2007/08. Then, whilst in Sydney, for NSW from 2014 to 2018. Will returned to NZ later last year, accepted a contract with ACA and joined Parnell. Selected for the Black Caps’ series vs Pakistan in the UAE in December, he took, in the 3rd Test on debut, 7/127 (4/75 and 3/52). This enabled NZ to win the Test by 123 runs and so take out the series. Will’s apparences for Parnell were limited but he did well for Auckland and was awarded Cricketer of the Year – the John Bentham Morris Memorial Trophy, the first Parnell player to be so honoured since Ross Morgan in 1978/79. -
Match Report
Match Report Northern Districts, ND vs Wellington, WGTN Match in progress Date: Wed 25 Mar 2015 Location: New Zealand, Wellington Match Type: Two Innings Match Scorer: Krishnadas Menon Toss: Wellington, WGTN won the toss and elected to Bowl URL: http://www.crichq.com/matches/240056 Northern Districts, ND Wellington, WGTN Score 240-10 Score 130-3 Overs 68.2 Overs 50.0 DG Brownlie BJ Arnel DR Flynn* TA Blundell† BS Wilson MHW Papps DJ Mitchell D Joon AP Devcich SJ Murdoch BJ Watling† MA Pollard MJ Santner JEC Franklin* SC Kuggeleijn BJ Barnett IS Sodhi JS Patel GW Aldridge MB McEwan JD Baker AJ McKay page 1 of 37 Scorecards 1st Innings | Batting: Northern Districts, ND R B 4's 6's SR DG Brownlie 2 . // c TA Blundell† b BJ Arnel 2 3 0 0 66.67 DR Flynn* . // c MA Pollard b MB McEwan 0 4 0 0 0.0 BS Wilson . 1 1 1 . // c TA Blundell† b AJ McKay 3 21 0 0 14.29 DJ Mitchell 1 . 4 . 2 2 . 3 4 . // b AJ McKay 16 37 2 0 43.24 AP Devcich . 1 . 4 . 1 1 . 4 . 1 . 1 2 . 1 . b BJ Arnel 132 172 17 2 76.74 1 . 2 4 . 1 . 4 . 6 . 2 . 4 3 . 1 2 4 . 4 2 6 . 1 4 4 4 . 1 . 1 2 1 . 4 . 4 1 . 1 . 1 1 . 1 2 . 4 . 1 1 . 4 . 1 2 4 . 1 1 4 2 . 1 2 . 2 . 1 . 2 . 4 . // BJ Watling† 1 . // c MA Pollard b MB McEwan 1 3 0 0 33.33 MJ Santner . -
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42 Friday Sports Friday, January 18, 2019 Pakistan seeking a change of fortune against South Africa PORT ELIZABETH: Pakistan will seek a change South Africa have based their World Cup of fortune when they play South Africa in the plans on picking four specialist bowlers but have first of five one-day internationals at St George’s yet to settle on a batting all-rounder to fill the Park tomorrow. The tourists were mauled in a re- crucial number seven position. They announced cent Test series, with none of the three matches a squad for the first two matches only. Since the going beyond lunch on the fourth day, but have squad was announced, it was decided to rest reason to be optimistic in the 50-overs game wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock and where fast short-pitched bowling will likely not fast bowler Dale Steyn. be a decisive factor. The changes provide opening batsman Aiden For both teams, the series is an important Markram with another opportunity to shine in a step towards the Cricket World Cup in England format in which he has yet to assert himself, and Wales later this year. “We’re certainly a far while fast bowler Duanne Olivier was rewarded better white-ball team than we are a Test unit at for his man of the series performances in the the minute,” said Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur Tests with a first one-day call-up. Port Elizabeth after the third Test on Monday. That seems a usually has one of the slowest pitches in South reasonable assessment as Pakistan have shown Africa, which should suit the tourists. -
List of Office Bearers 2004
Parnell Cricket Club Incorporated - Established 1858 ANNUAL REPORT, ACCOUNTS and BALANCE SHEET End of an Era Farewell to • David Goddard Premier XI from 2008/9, Captain from 2014/15. He scored 2363 runs, took 232 wickets and held 85 catches • Ian Trott Head Coach, including Coach of Mens’ Premier XI, from 2007/8. ACA’s Coach of the Year 2007/8 and 2014/15. • Michael Ravlic Premier player from 2011/12 taking 315 wickets, including 85 in the 2012/13 Season - a Club all time record In this Era – from 2007/8, Parnell CC’s Mens’ Premier Grade XI won the: • 2007/8 and 2010/11 Tom Hellaby Cup, Minor Tier Championship and promotion to Major Tier for 2008/9 and 2011/12 • 2009/10 and 2012/13 Jeff Crowe Cup, Limited Overs Championship – also Finalist 2010/11 and 2013/14 • 2013/14, 2015/16 and 2016/17 Allan Thompson Memorial Trophy – Runner-up in the Major 2 Day Championship • 2014/15 Hedley Howarth Trophy - Two Day Major Championship And, on the recommendation of the Auckland Umpires, was awarded Auckland Cricket’s • 2009/10, 2012/13, 2014/15 and 2017/18 Spirit of Cricket Award – (inaugural winner in 2009/10) • 2015/16 and 2017/18 Grosvenor Cup – the “best all round Premier Grade team”. Thank you David, Ian and Michael for your outstanding contributions to Parnell CC - all at the Club wish you well for the future. 2017 – 2018 : 160th Season 1. 160 Years From 1857/58 to 2017/18 and to ……….. Mid March the Club celebrated it’s 160th Jubilee. -
Shakib Leads Bangladesh's Domination Over Australia to Clinch
Sports Tuesday, August 10, 2021 15 Shakib leads Bangladesh’s domination over Australia to clinch T20I series 4-1 in Dhaka ICC DHAKA SHAKIB Al Hasan’s 4/9 and Mohammad Saifuddin’s 3/12 paved the way for a 60-run win in the fifth and final T20I that ensured a 4-1 series win for Bangladesh at the Shere Bangla National Stadium on Monday. Bangladesh presented an unwavering spirit to success- fully defend 123 runs against Australia in the final T20I in Dhaka. The hosts bowled them out for 62 in the 14th over with the help of Shakib who snared four wickets alongside Saifud- din, who chipped in with three. The opening stand of 42 runs between Mahedi Hasan and Mohammad Naim was able to provide impetus to the Bangladesh innings with a run-rate of over 10 for the first four overs but the middle-or- der couldn’t capitalise on the quick start. After the fall of Mahedi’s wicket to Ashton Turner for 13, the hosts’ run rate nose- Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan receives the ‘Alesha Card’ Player of the dived. Then, Daniel Chris- Match after winning the fifth and final Twenty20 International against tian claimed his first wicket Bangladesh at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka in T20Is since 2014 with the on Monday. (AFP) wicket of Naim who went back Bangladesh’s cricketers celebrate after winning the fifth and final Twenty20 International against Australia at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket with a run-a-ball 23. Stadium in Dhaka on Monday.