Heartbroken mum says son collapsed playing cricket and never woke up
Tragedy struck at a Merseyside cricket club this week
Josh Downie died at just 24 years old (Image: Helen Downie)
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A heartbroken mum is in complete shock after her 24-year-old son died suddenly in Wirral this week.
Hours before the start of the historic 1971 West Indies tour, Indian team had no kit to play
In ‘1971: The Beginning of India’s Cricketing Greatness’, Boria Majumdar and Gautam Bhattacharya write about the twin tours that made the Indian team a force to reckon with. Text Size:
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One thing, however, was clear from the very start of the tour the Indians weren’t in the best space mentally when they landed at JFK Airport in New York on their way to Jamaica [in 1971]. While on the one hand, they were expected to do well against a relatively young and inexperienced West Indies side, on the other, they were being picked on for reasons that had little to do with their cricket. To compound problems, Sunil Gavaskar had been nursing a painful ‘whitlow’ in his finger as the team boarded the aircraft in Bombay and was in extreme duress by the time the flight touched down in New York. Gavaskar recounted, ‘Soon after we reached the hotel, the manager, Keki Tarapore, took me
NALIS receives copies of Nasser Khan’s Sixty-One Test Matches Played at the Queen’s Park Oval 1930-2020
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Nasser Khan, second from left, presents his latest publication to Charmaine Glasgow of NALIS. Also in the photo are Queen s Park Cricket Club secretary Colin Murray, right, and NALIS employee Debbie Goodman. - Photo courtesy Nasser Khan
THE National Library and Information Systems Authority (NALIS) recently received copies of the recently published book Sixty One Test Matches Played at the Queen’s Park Oval 1930-2020.
The author of the book is the experienced Nasser Khan. The book will also be donated to the National Archives, the University of the West Indies and the University of Trinidad and Tobago.
Minister of National Security Stuart Young. -
NATIONAL Security Minister Stuart Young on Wednesday praised former Police Service Commission (PSC) chairman Bliss Seepersad as an exemplar as the House of Representatives approved a motion to nominate her again to be a member of the PSC.
Similar to a motion passed in the House on April 9 to approve the nomination of McDonald Jacob as a deputy police commissioner, Seepersad s nomination was approved in the absence of Opposition MPs.
Young said, We are here to do the people s business.
He said Seepersad is one of those people in private life, who rose to the call to serve Trinidad and Tobago.
Pop up beer garden and barbecue coming to south Liverpool to celebrate end of lockdown
The event is taking place on the first weekend after the pubs reopen
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A pop up beer garden is coming to south Liverpool to celebrate the end of lockdown.
Sefton Park Cricket Club is hosting the event and it’s proving popular with many of the tickets having already sold.
The venue is holding the ‘All Out Garden Party’ on the weekend of April 17 and 18, which is the first weekend after pubs and restaurants are expected to reopen on April 12.
Last week seven Liverpool city centre pubs with outdoor areas confirmed they are reopening from April 12.