Dubai Ducati Championship : Nasir Syed from Moodbidri bags 3rd place
Dubai, Nov 18: Nasir Syed from Moodbidri , who is now settled in UAE has bagged third place Ducati championship Superbike race held in Dubai on 17th November. 16 racers from 12 countries participated in the first two races. In both the races, Nasir secured third place. Nasir is the son of Syed Mohidin from Moodbidri in Dakshina Kannada. Nasir is a well known entrepreneur and also a popular international superbike rider settled in UAE.
This championship has total 12 races in next 6 months. Italian Sashka won the first place and Nasser Al Sheba from UAE got second place. Nasir raced in Ducati 959 super bike.
His son Abdul Sami is also making a mark in international super bike racing. Recently he won first place in first and second races of Bahrain Super sports Championship held at Bahrain International Circuit .
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England sticking with Key, McCullum and Stokes despite Ashes humbling
London (AP): England is not sacking anybody following the 4-1 Ashes loss in Australia.
A review of the tour by the England and Wales Cricket Board, announced within hours of the final match in January, was concluded on Monday. Firing people would “be the easy thing to do,” ECB chief executive Richard Gould said but he insisted, "This is not the time to throw everything out."
Managing director Rob Key, coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes kept their jobs after the best England side to go to Australia in 14 years lost the Ashes in 11 days with two games to spare.
“Moving people on can sometimes be the easy thing to do. That's not the route that we're going to take,” Gould said. “I've seen the driving ambition and determination that we're lucky enough to have within our leadership group to take the lessons from the Ashes and move forward.”
Gould previously was the chief executive of Bristol City soccer club and said the ECB would not follow the same route as soccer's hire-and-fire culture.
“Cricket is a very unique sport in that it takes a team of leadership ... it's not like football where there's a single point of failure or success with a manager," he said. He added the ECB would not “select or deselect management based on a popularity campaign.”
The main criticisms of England's tour were poor preparation, player misbehavior, and selection mistakes.
At a press conference at Lord's, Gould and Key said McCullum and Stokes have not had a “bust up,” they did not want McCullum to “completely change” but “to evolve,” the behavior of some players was “unprofessional,” there will be more consequences for underperforming, and a commitment to “better long-term planning” ahead of major test series.
Some changes were already implemented for the Twenty20 World Cup, where England reached the semifinals. Gould implied that performance saved McCullum.
Key acknowledged that England supporters would be disappointed to see the management team go unpunished.
“I know people want punishment and that people then should be sacked for that,” Key said. “That doesn't mean we don't feel like we've gone through some serious pain: Brendon, myself, Ben. It's been as tough a time as I think I've had.”
