Former Yorkshire head coach Gale wins unfair dismissal claim
Yorkshire's former head coach Andrew Gale has won an unfair dismissal claim against the club after he was sacked in the wake of the Azeem Rafiq racism scandal.
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Former Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale wins unfair dismissal claim against club
Yorkshire’s former head coach Andrew Gale has won an unfair dismissal claim against the club after he was sacked in the wake of the Azeem Rafiq scandal.
Watch: Umpire Goes Up In Appeal As Bowler Raps Batter On The Pads
Umpires have a long and difficult job of ensuring cricket matches go smoothly and the right decisions are taken. Often, they are subject to players appealing rather exuberantly for caught or leg before wicket chances. Some appeals are hilarious, while some can be downright annoying, especially when the bowler is absolutely convinced that he or she has got the wicket and the umpire is not. However, in a hilarious incident in a club match in England, an umpire briefly forgot his own role and joined in on the bowling team's appeal after a batter was rapped on the pads in front of the stumps.
Joe Root is 'far ahead' in the list of 'Fab Four', feels Saba Karim
Joe Root, saying the charismatic cricketer could surpass Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar's record for most runs in Test history, closer home, former India selector Saba Karim has said that the former England skipper stands head and shoulders above in the 'Fab Four' list of modern-day batsman, including Virat Kohli, Steve Smith and Kane Williamson. Root, who handed over England's Test captaincy reins to all-rounder Ben Stokes to concentrate on his batting, scored a fine unbeaten century to guide the home team to a five-wicket win against the Williamson-led New Zealand at Lord's to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. In guiding England to a morale-boosting win, Root surpassed the 10,000-run milestone to become just the 14th cricketer to reach the mark.
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The Men in Blue are on a 12-match winning streak and come Thursday, they can create an all-time record of winning 13 T20I games in a row. However, for head coach Rahul Dravid, the primary aim over the next 10 days will be to narrow down on a core group of players going into the World Cup in October. And he couldn't have hoped for a better opposition than a gritty South African side which has seen its stock rise recently. With likes of skipper Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli rested for the series, stand in captain KL Rahul is a certainty at the top but it would be a tough choice between Ruturaj Gaikwad and Ishan Kishan as his opening partner.
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IPL media rights: 'It's not the price at which you win but the price at which you let it go'
Indian Premier League (IPL) media rights auction starting Sunday is not about the price at which you win it. It's about the price at which you let it go. In that lies the answer to who will end up winning the bouquet of cricket's most coveted rights anywhere in the world. Every bidder that logs in for the e-auction process beginning this Sunday will have drawn up an exit strategy. That will mean, every bidder will bear a figure in mind beyond which the company will say 'it is not worth it". This process will keep repeating until all players exit and only one bidder (or two, maybe) will remain. 'So, you see, an e-auction becomes a fascinating process by itself because it's not about the price at which you think you can take it away. It's the price at which you stop and say, 'I can't go any further' that makes all the difference. The higher that limit you set for yourself, the more you move closer to grabbing it," a top industry executive tells TOI. 'Nobody will tell you this now, because nobody will talk and frankly nobody knows what that magical figure might be. But wait for the auction to get over and every single bidder who hasn't won it will remind you that the price at which it eventually went was not worth it. That will be the case because they did not see value in it," he adds. Here's an attempt, after speaking to top select industry executives and number-crunchers, to see what kind of value can this auction process derive.