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Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has withdrawn from the third Test match against England in Rajkot due to a family emergency.Ashwin on Friday became the ninth bowler in history and the second after Anil Kumble to take a Test wicket when he dismissed Zak Crawley in the final match of day two Reaching 500 Indians.However, a few hours after the match, the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced Ashwin’s immediate withdrawal from the team and his availability for the past three days is unknown.”The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the team fully support Ashwin during…

Prince: SymbolPrince was both a dream and a nightmare for a luthier – astonishingly talented, he would also fling guitars around for some poor stage hand to catch (as at his peerlessly casual yet brilliant 2004 performance honouring George Harrison). The “Cloud” model used in Purple Rain, and built by Dave Rusan, is every bit as insouciantly sexy as the man who played it, with a gorgeous spiral detail around the jack and an actual horn jutting out of the body, ending in its own spiral. But nothing is more iconic than the guitar made by Andy Beech in the…

French connection?Following the news that Kylian Mbappe intends to leave Paris Saint-Germain when his contract expires this summer, Football Daily immediately speculated that the talk at today’s top flight managers’ press conference will turn to the French superstar forward potential destination. “Are you eating a sandwich? I,A super league Director?” we imagine Chris Wilder angrily asking as a local reporter smeared what looked like Greggs chicken baguette sauce from around his lips and then asked Mbappe where Possibility of free pitching at Bramall Lane.While all roads to the World Cup title seem to lead to Real Madrid, which we’d have…

I am in my 30s and married with two young children. Since adolescence I have had periods of depression and of feeling suicidal.Throughout these times I’ve remained relatively functional – studied, worked in a very stressful job, and looked after myself. However, I always have this sense of just not knowing how to be happy. I’ve been on antidepressants several times and I see a therapist.I always loved children but was unsure about having my own because of my issues. We did decide to have children, in a period when I felt good. I found having my first child amazing…

History tells us that India have never lost a Test match at home scoring as many as 445 runs, as they have done here. But history tells us that India have never lost at home when leading by three digits in the first innings, something England popped up in a blender in Hyderabad before pressing the button labeled Smoothie.Because here’s the thing: while onlookers are ticking off various filters on Cricinfo’s statistical experts looking for precedent to serve as a guide, this group, led by Ben Stokes, just doesn’t care. In the minds of impressionable teams, these cluttered thoughts have…

A firm of funeral directors sent Valentine’s Day cards to residents of a care home, in what has been described as an “appalling stunt” that the undertakers have admitted was “misjudged”.The cards sent to Whitegates Care Centre in Surrey were decorated with a red heart and a pink bow, the Sun reported, and bore the words: “Sent with love from TH Sanders & Sons.”One relative, who was not named, told the paper: “Luckily, we managed to hide it away before mum could see it as it would have been devastating. It’s appalling for a funeral directors to be trying to…

Impotence is a challenge in any relationship. I’m not talking about the inability to swell your organs here but about the feeling of powerlessness when your partner is suffering from stress, anxiety and even burnout at work – when they’re having a bad time and you don’t know how to help.Many of us, I’m sure, will have stood by a coat rack, trying to put our face into the correct shape as the person we love rants, groans or collapses under the weight of pressure from their job. What’s more, many of us will have been in the position of…

Western leaders hope a round of meetings at the Munich Security Conference will put overwhelming pressure on Israel not to launch a ground attack in Rafah.In addition to Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdullahian, almost all key figures will be in Munich on Friday, including the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar and Jordan. Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Foreign Minister Israel Katz will also attend, along with the three hostages Raz Ben-Ami, Adi Shoham and Aviva Siegel. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will also fly in.Pressure on Israel to avoid a ground attack comes from almost all parties,…

Labour has scored its largest swing in a byelection since 1994 after overturning a majority of more than 18,000 in Wellingborough, bolstering predictions that the party is on course for a landslide victory at the next general election.Labour’s candidate, Gen Kitchen, won with 13,844 votes, beating the Conservatives’ Helen Harrison who received 7,408 votes in the largest swing from the Tories to Labour since 1994 and second largest since the second world war. It was Labour’s fifth byelection gain from the Conservatives overall in this parliament. The party also gained a Tory seat in Kingswood, dealing a double blow to…

oxygenOn the first day of a heated hearing, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her deputy, special prosecutor Nathan Wade, took the stand in hopes of ending threats to their past relationship against Donald Trump. charges in the criminal case against Trump and his presidency. Allies are trying to overturn the 2020 election.Mike Roman, a defendant in the Trump case, is seeking to have Willis and Wade disqualified, claiming their relationship constituted a conflict of interest. His attorneys are trying to prove that Willis benefited financially from her relationship with Wade.If Roman succeeds in getting Willis exempt from pursuing…