Heather Knight leaves role as England women's cricket captain after 9 years following poor results
London, Mar 22 (AP): Heather Knight is stepping down as captain of the England women's cricket team after nine years as part of an overhaul following poor results.
“Captaining my country for the last nine years has been the biggest honor of my life and I will look back on my tenure with an enormous sense of pride,” Knight said in a statement put out by the England and Wales Cricket Board on Saturday. “I have loved the challenge of leading the team, but all good things come to an end and it's time for me to go back into the ranks and focus on being the best batter and teammate that I can be."
The decision comes a day after head coach Jon Lewis was removed.
The ECB confirmed that Knight will continue to be available for selection, adding that her successor will be appointed shortly.
The 34-year-old Knight has captained England 199 times since 2016 and led the side to a World Cup victory on home soil in 2017 and to two other ICC tournament finals.
She is England's second-most successful women's captain with 134 wins and guided the team to a record-breaking run of eight consecutive one-day international wins.
“Heather has been an outstanding leader as England Women's Captain," said Clare Connor, deputy chief executive of the ECB. “She has led the team by example as a role model off the pitch, and through the runs she has scored on it, often in the toughest conditions.”
Connor also credited her for playing a key part in the growth in popularity of women's and girls' cricket, calling her a powerful role model "to young professional female players and to recreational players alike.”
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Govt school teacher booked for making student slap her classmates for wrong answers in Shimla
Shimla, Mar 25 (PTI): A female teacher of a government girls' school here has been booked on Tuesday for making a student slap her classmates who gave incorrect answers, police said.
Based on the complaint of a 10-year-old student, a case has been registered under Section 115 (2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (voluntarily causing hurt) and Section 75 of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (cruelty to children), police said.
According to the complainant, on Monday afternoon, the teacher quizzed the class about meanings of Sanskrit words she had tasked them to memorise.
The complainant, who was also the class monitor, gave the correct answer, while 10-12 other students could not answer properly. The teacher then told her to slap those who failed to answer the question.
The student said she followed the instructions and slapped her classmates softly. The teacher, however, asked her to slap the girls hard. She even chided the student, saying, "You are the class monitor, you do not even know how to slap."
Two other girls who gave correct answers were also slapped, the student said.
The complainant said the behaviour of the teacher scared her. She added that the teacher often says, "You can say whatever you want to your parents, no one can do anything to me."
