Day: May 26, 2019

Former England spinner Monty Panesar says he wants to return to cricket having been cured of the ‘paranoia/schizophrenia’ which bedevilled him over the past few years.

Australia, the team which has been dominant over the past decade and a half, winning four out of the last five World Cups, suddenly went into a dark phase between June 2017 to March 2019.

Can eating insects and worms come handy? Well, it has for S Nandhakumar (30), a resident of EB Colony, Adambakkam. This strange talent of his won him a title of “most number of cockroaches eaten by an individual (male)”.

Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation, Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi, and Honorary Consulate of Spain and Head of Mission in Chennai are organising a Spanish film festival at Alliance Francaise of Madras, College Road, from 28 to 30 May.

Tamilnadu Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam said the outcome of Lok Sabha elections and Assembly bypolls proved people wanted continuation of the Narendra Modi and AIADMK governments at the Centre and the State respectively.

Allan Border has handpicked Virat Kohli, Eoin Morgan and Aaron Finch as the three skippers to watch out for in the ICC ODI World Cup, starting 30 May in the United Kingdom.

He said no single State can be ignored by the government at the Centre and asserted India was not Hindi speaking States alone.

All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja is hoping to get better pitches in the World Cup than the one at Kennigton Oval where India’s batsmen were blown away by New Zealand in their first warm-up game.

According to reports, a mini van was proceeding to Kondalampatti village on Salem- Coimbatore National Highway in the wee hours of today.