Bangladesh beats England for first time in T20s
Chattogram, Mar 9: Najmul Hossain's 30-ball 51 led Bangladesh's defeat of world champion England by six wickets with two overs to spare in their first Twenty20 on Thursday.
Najmul batted from the fourth over to the 13th, and captain Shakib Al Hasan completed the victory with the winning boundary through deep backward point in an unbeaten 34 off 24.
Bangladesh reached 158-4 after England was restricted to 156-6 in the first of three T20s.
The hosts made a brisk start to the chase. Rony Talukdar returned after eight years to play only his second game and made 21 off 14.
That brought in Najmul and he responded with four straight boundaries against fast bowler Mark Wood. Najmul brought up his third T20 fifty with a single off offspinner Moeen Ali and Wood returned to rattle his stumps.
Shakib took over steering the side on a slow pitch and managed it serenely in Bangladesh's first T20 win over England.
Made to bat first, skipper Jos Buttler and Phil Salt gave England an ominous start. Buttler struck 67 off 42 with four fours and as many sixes while Salt hit 38.
They formed an 80-run partnership before left-arm spinner Nasum Ahmed made the breakthrough by removing Salt.
Buttler survived on 19 and was dismissed amid a collapse of four wickets for 12 runs. England took just 26 runs from the last powerplay.
Hasan Mahmud led with 2-26 from his four overs.
The second T20 is on Sunday in Dhaka.
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Affront to non-Hindi speaking people: Chidambaram slams use of Hindi words in bills' names
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader P Chidambaram has slammed the "increasing practice" of the government using Hindi words in the titles of the bills and said the change is an "affront" to the non-Hindi-speaking people.
Chidambaram said the non-Hindi-speaking people cannot identify a Bill/Act with titles that are in Hindi words written in English letters, and they cannot pronounce them.
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"I am opposed to the increasing practice of the government using Hindi words written in English letters in the title of the Bills to be introduced in Parliament," the former Union minister said late Monday night.
Hitherto, the practice was to write the title of the Bill in English words in the English version and in Hindi words in the Hindi version of the Bill, Chidambaram said.
"When no one pointed out any difficulty in the 75 year practice, why should government make a change?" he said.
"This change is an affront to non-Hindi speaking people and to States that have an official language other than Hindi," the Congress leader said.
Successive governments have reiterated the promise that English will remain an Associate Official Language, Chidambaram said.
"I fear that promise is in danger of being broken," the Congress MP said.
