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Southern Brave follow successive heartbreaks with title win
Southern Brave Women beat the Northern Superchargers Women in the Final of the Women’s hundred at Lord’s on Sunday, August 27. The win came on the back of two consecutive losses in finals in 2021 and 2022, culminating in a fitting swansong for vetran Anva Shrubsole.
Smriti Mandhana started off the Brave innings with a boundary, but was caught off Grace Ballinger on the very next ball to give the big final a dramatic start. Kate Cross got rid of Maia Bouchier soon after and the Southern Brave found themselves in early trouble. However, Georgia Adams joined Dani Wyatt at the crease as an anchor, scoring 27 off 28 while Wyatt scored swiftly at the other end, finishing with a defining 38-ball 59 before she was run-out by Kate Cross.
A stand of 87 off 63 balls laid the platform before a Freya Kemp cameo of 31 off 17 gave the Brave innings the late impetus, lifting them to 139-6 in a hundred balls. Kate Cross was the runaway star with the ball, picking up three wickets and effecting an important runout.
In response, opener Marie Kelly lost her stumps early for a duck to Lauren Bell, who also got rid of Phoebe Litchfield soon after to set the Superchargers back early. The rest of the middle order continued to get starts, but continued to throw them away without capitalising, which in turn built up the pressure with regular wickets.
Kalea Moore and Lauren Bell picked up six wickets between them, and the final nail in the coffin was hammered in when Jemimah Rodrigues, who had watched six wickets fall at the other end, departed with 62 required off 27. The rest of the batting order toppled over rather quickly after the skipper, giving the Southern Brave women a long-awaited win in a Women’s Hundred final.
Brief Scores:
Southern Brave139/6 in 100 balls (Danielle Wyatt 59, Kate Cross 3-21) beat Northern Superchargers105 in 94 balls (Jemimah Rodrigues 24, Kalea Moore 3-15, Lauren Bell 3-21) by 34 runs.
(Cricbuzz)
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Heavy rainfall of about 100 mm are likely at some places in Central, Sabaragamuwa, Western, Southern and Uva provinces and in Kurunegala and Polonnaruwa districts
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 01 APRIL 2025
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Misty conditions can be expected at some places in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central, North-central and Uva provinces and in Galle, Matara and Kurunegala districts during the morning.
Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places in the most parts of the island during the afternoon or night. Heavy rainfall of about 100 mm are likely at some places in Central, Sabaragamuwa, Western, Southern and Uva provinces and in Kurunegala and Polonnaruwa districts.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nominated a former Navy commander to head the country’s domestic security services, despite the courts having blocked his bid to fire the previous head of Shin Bet.
Netanyahu’s office announced on Monday that he had nominated Vice Admiral Eli Sharvit to lead the agency, which surveils attacks from abroad and at home, including by armed groups based in Palestine and Lebanon. However, a halt to the sacking of Ronen Bar as head of Shin Bet, ordered by the Supreme Court, remains in place.
[Aljazeera]
The Trump administration has deported 17 more alleged gang members to El Salvador, the US state department has said, despite legal battles over removing people to the Central American country’s supermax prison.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the group included members of the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs.
Salvadoran government officials told the BBC they included a mix of Venezuelans and Salvadorans.
Earlier this month a court ordered a halt to deportations carried out under the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law previously used only in wartime. However, US media, citing administration sources, reported that the recent deportations were made under general immigration laws.
In a statement, Rubio said the group included “murderers and rapists”, but did not provide names or details of the alleged crimes or of any convictions.
In a post on X, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele shared a dramatically edited video showing shackled men being loaded off a plane and their heads being shaved before they were put into prison cells.
“All individuals are confirmed murderers and high-profile offenders, including six child rapists,” he wrote. “This operation is another step in the fight against terrorism and organized crime.”
President Trump reposted the message, blamed the administration of his predecessor Joe Biden for allowing the deportees into the US and thanked Bukele for “giving them such a wonderful place to live”.
El Salvador has agreed to take in deportees in exchange for $6m (£4.6m).
Family members of some of those who were previously sent to the maximum security prison have denied they have any gang ties.
After Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to remove more than 100 Venezuelans from the US earlier this month, groups including the American Civil Liberties Union filed a legal challenge alleging the administration had illegally denied the immigrants due process.
In a hearing on 15 March, James Boasberg, the top federal judge in Washington DC, imposed a temporary restraining order on the use of the law and ordered deportation flights that were in the air to be turned around.
But the deportations proceeded. The next hearing in the case will be held on Thursday.
[BBC]
Heavy rainfall of about 100 mm are likely at some places in Central, Sabaragamuwa, Western, Southern and Uva provinces and in Kurunegala and Polonnaruwa districts
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