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NZ Cricket Firebirds' batting sensation Finn Allen blasts equal quickest century in New Zealand List A history. After Finn Allen gave another jolting reminder of his hitting power, his Firebirds opening partner believes the 21-year-old can make a seamless transition to international cricket - potentially later this month. But Devon Conway won’t go so far as to rank the best ball strikers in New Zealand cricket, diplomatically saying Allen, Martin Guptill and Jimmy Neesham could each claim that title on a given day. As Conway, Guptill and Neesham assembled in Wellington on Sunday with their Black Caps team-mates ahead of Wednesday’s Twenty20 game three against Australia at a crowd-free Sky Stadium, Allen was equalling records down the road at the Basin Reserve . Topscorer for the T20 Super Smash champions with 512 runs at a strike rate of 194, Allen matched Peter Fulton’s record for fastest list-A century in New Zealand (off 50 balls). READ MORE: Ford Trophy: … [Read more...] about Who hits the biggest ball of all? Devon Conway ranks the Black Caps, and Finn Allen

MELBOURNE: Passionate crowds at sports events are part of the fabric of life in Australia but stringent measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus will mean few cheers at the nation's stadiums in coming weeks. Prime Minister Scott Morrison urged people to avoid gathering in groups of more than 500 on Friday, just five days after 86,000 packed into the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the Women's Twenty20 World Cup final, a record for a women's sporting event in the country. His advice came hours after Formula One's season-opening Australian Grand Prix was cancelled abruptly at Melbourne's Albert Park circuit after a McLaren team member tested positive to the virus. More than 134,500 people have been infected globally and over 4,900 have died, according to a Reuters tally of government announcements. Australia had recorded more than 200 infections on Friday, with three deaths. Morrison said his government would officially issue the crowd advice from Monday, but a number of … [Read more...] about Cheerless Autumn looms for Australian sport amid coronavirus clampdown

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that the Emergency that was imposed by former prime minister Indira Gandhi a "mistake", adding that what happened during that period was "wrong", but it was fundamentally different from the current scenario as the Congress at no point attempted to capture the country's institutional framework. In a conversation with Kaushik Basu, a professor at the Cornell University in the US and India's former chief economic advisor, Rahul Gandhi said he is all for internal democracy in the Congress, which fought for India's independence, gave the country its Constitution and stood for equality. Asked about his views on the Emergency, he said, "I think that was a mistake. Absolutely, that was a mistake. And my grandmother (Indira Gandhi) said as much." Asked about Indira Gandhi announcing elections at the end of the Emergency and Pranab Mukherjee telling Basu later that she did so as she thought she might lose and wanted to put that to … [Read more...] about Emergency was a mistake, admits Rahul Gandhi, says ‘my grandmother said as much’