Karnataka: Fearing checkposts during lockdown, man decides to swim his way through to village, dies
Vijayapura: A man lost his life when he, fearing check post, jumped into the river Krishna to reach his native place. The incident took place on Monday near the Krishna River Bridge in the village of Muddebihal Taluk in Vijayapura.
The deceased has been identified as Mallappa Ningappa Bommanagi, a resident of Hullalli of Hunagund taluk. Mallappa had gone to visit his wife in Saroor village in Muddebihal taluk. While returning, he came to know that as a precautionary measure to contain the spread of coronavirus check posts have been setup.
It was then he decided to swim his way through to his native and jumped into the river, failing to swim his way through, Mallapa died of drowning in the river.
Muddebihal police have registered a case in this regard.
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Rickelton's ton in vain as SRH beat MI by 6 wickets
Mumbai (PTI): Ryan Rickelton's whirlwind unbeaten ton was overshadowed by Heinrich Klaasen's unbeaten 65 as Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Mumbai Indians by six wickets in an IPL match here on Wednesday.
Chasing an imposing 244-run target, Travis Head (76 off 30) and Abhishek Sharma (45 off 24) shared 129 runs for the opening wicket to set the platform for SRH.
Klaasen (65 not out off 30 balls) then displayed his all-round hitting abilities to guide SRH home with the help of Nitish Kumar Reddy (21) and Salil Arora (30 not out off 10) in 18.4 overs.
Earlier, Rickelton's knock powered MI to 243 for five.
MI rode on a 93-run stand between Rickelton (123 not out off 55 balls) and Will Jacks (46 off 22) in 7.1 overs for the opening stand to power the side.
MI skipper Hardik Pandya scored a valuable 31 off 15 balls before being dismissed.
Praful Hinge (2/54), Eshan Malinga (1/29), Sakib Hasan (1/39) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (1/31) were the wicket-takers for SRH.
Brief Scores:
Mumbai Indian: 243 for 5 in 20 overs (Ryan Rickelton 123 not out; Praful Hinge 2/54).
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 249 for 4 in 18.4 overs (Travis Head 76, Heinrich Klaasen 65 not out; AM Ghazanfar 2/51).
