Devdutt Padikkal’s 3rd fifty in IPL2020 helps RCB reach top of points table
Abu Dhabi: Young Karnataka batsman Devdutt Padikkal scored his third half-century in only his fourth game to help his team Royal Challengers Bengaluru reach the top of the points-table of the league with six points from four games.
Devdutt along with skipper Virat Kohli steered the team’s inning after opener Aaron Finch’s dismissal. Kohli who was off his colors so far in the league scored his first half-century of the season. Devdutt scored 63 runs off 45 balls while Kohli scored 72 from 53 deliveries.
Chasing 155, RCB reached the target in _____ overs with the duos 99 runs partnership for the second wicket.
Earlier, Rajasthan Royals, with help of Lomror’s 47-run knock, helped by Tweatia 12 ball 24 runs had put 154-6 on the scoreboard.
Chahal was the pick of the bowler for RCB as he bagged 3 wickets conceding only 24 runs. Udana and Navdeep Saini bagged 2 and 1 wickets respectively.
For RR’s bowling Jofra Archer and Shreyas Gopal picked one wicket each.
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Surat LS candidate Nilesh Kumbhani whose nomination form was rejected suspended from Congress
Ahmedabad, Apr 25: The Gujarat Congress on Friday suspended from the party for six years its Surat Lok Sabha candidate Nilesh Kumbhani, whose nomination form was rejected over discrepancies leading to the BJP's Mukesh Dalal getting elected unopposed.
A statement from the Congress said the party's disciplinary committee decided to suspend Kumbhani after thorough discussion, adding it had come to the conclusion that the nomination form was rejected due to gross negligence on his part or "in connivance with the BJP".
"To be fair to you we have given time to you to explain your case but instead of coming before the party disciplinary committee you have gone incommunicado. After your form was rejected by the authorities, BJP went ahead and got form of other eight candidates withdrawn. This has deprived people of Surat their voting rights," the Congress disciplinary committee headed by Balu Patel said.
"People of Surat and party workers have become very angry due to your action and are expressing their anger in different ways. The Congress party has decided to suspend you for six years from the party," the press note said.
Kumbhani's nomination form was rejected on April 21 after his three proposers submitted affidavits to the district returning officer claiming the signatures on the document was not theirs.
The nomination form of Suresh Padsala, the Congress' substitute candidate from Surat, was also invalidated on the same grounds.
In his order, Returning Officer Sourabh Pardhi said the three nomination forms submitted by Kumbhani and Padsala were rejected after prima facie discrepancy was found in the signatures of the proposers and they did not appear to be genuine.
Kumbhani, a former corporator from Surat, had unsuccessfully fought the 2022 Assembly polls from Kamrej there.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed from Surat Lok Sabha constituency on April 22 after all other nominees, including one from BSP, withdrew from the fray one by one on the last day of withdrawing papers.
