Cricketer Karun Nair saved as snake boat capsizes

Pathanamathitta (Kerala), July 17 (IANS) Two youth were still missing while upcoming Indian cricketer Karun Nair had a narrow escape as the snake boat in which around 100 persons were travelling, capsized in river Pampa in this Kerala district on Sunday, police said.

Nair along with the others were taking part in a temple festival, "Valla Sadya', a celebration of the Sree Parthasarathy Temple near here.

Speaking to IANS, an official attached to the Aranmula Police station confirmed that Nair was in the snake boat.

"The boat capsized and immediate rescue services was undertaken and managed to rescue all passengers, while two are still missing," said the official.

Nair, who hails from the state, plays for Karnataka and was in the recent Indian team which toured Zimbabwe.

--IANS

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At the point when the Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper got to 37 amid his innings of 52, he turned into the Indian batsman with most keeps running in Twenty20 (International and household) cricket in a date-book year.
Rajneesh Gupta presents the top T20 batsmen

Virat Kohli set up another Indian record in Monday's Indian Premier League match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

At the point when the Royal Challengers commander got to 37 amid his innings of 52, he turned into the Indian batsman with most keeps running in Twenty20 (International and local) cricket in a logbook year.

He went past Suresh Raina's count of 1042 keeps running in 2010.

The accompanying table shows Indian batsmen with most T20 keeps running in a timetable year:

Year

Mts

Runs

Hs

Avg

SR

100s

50s

Virat Kohli

2016

20

1058

100*

96.20

137.83

1

11

Suresh Raina

2010

29

1042

101

47.36

149.71

1

8

Gautam Gambhir

2012

35

950

93

30.64

128.37

0

7

Robin Uthappa

2014

25

949

85*

41.26

135.18

0

7

Virat Kohli

2011

28

941

84*

40.91

128.20

0

7

Murali Vijay

2010

27

860

127

34.40

133.54

1

5

Suresh Raina

2014

28

845

109*

42.25

150.08

1

6

Virat Kohli

2012

30

835

78*

33.40

122.61

0

6

Suresh Raina

2012

37

814

73

29.07

132.78

0

2

With around eight months as yet staying in the year, Kohli has the chance to show up in the rundown of batsmen with most T20 keeps running in a schedule year.

The rundown is ruled by Chris Gayle, who holds the initial four openings.

Most T20 keeps running in a schedule year:

Year

Mts

Runs

Hs

Avg

SR

100s

50s

Chris Gayle

2015

36

1665

151*

59.46

164.52

3

10

Chris Gayle

2012

40

1532

128*

47.87

151.68

3

13

Chris Gayle

2011

31

1497

109*

57.57

174.67

4

10

Chris Gayle

2013

33

1344

175*

49.77

149.66

3

7

David Hussey

2010

49

1275

81*

36.42

133.36

0

7

Ryan ten Doeschate

2013

44

1248

95*

37.81

148.21

0

8

Lendl Simmons

2014

37

1209

100*

37.78

123.61

1

9

Dwayne Smith

2014

44

1203

110*

29.34

129.35

2

7

David Warner

2011

33

1181

135*

42.17

136.84

3

7

Rajneesh Gupta

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The film coordinated by an understood Sydney based Indian-Australian movie producer Anupam Sharma has been an activity upheld by Screen Australia and Screen NSW with significant venture from Australia India Film Fund.

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The makers will offer the film to different regions, especially India, through their worldwide deals specialists, Yellow Affair at Cannes.

Talking from Cannes, Miira Paasillinna and Chris Howard from Yellow Affair said, "We are enchanted to offer this warm and interesting Australian film. There have been numerous questions from India in light of the Bollywood cast in the film furthermore the notoriety of Brett Lee and of cricket there.

"We trust the film merits a crowd of people as it depicts a constructive message about social contrasts and resistance." "unINDIAN" additionally stars Supriya Pathak Kapur, Akash Kurana and Gulshan Grover.

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