Don't judge Cummins just after one game, says KKR skipper Dinesh Karthik
Abu Dhabi Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Dinesh Karthik finds it extremely "unfair" that his premier pacer Pat Cummins is being criticised after just one bad performance that too when he played straight after completing his quarantine.
All eyes were on Cummins, this edition's highest paid overseas recruit and he was taken apart by Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma as he went for 49 runs in 3 overs during KKR's 49-run IPL defeat on Wednesday.
"It is very unfair to judge him (Cummins) right now. He is just off quarantine, (it is) at 3.30/4.00 PM when he got permission to come and play the match itself. We are just happy to have him and I don't think this is a game where we need to judge him at all," Karthik said at the post-match press conference.
The KKR skipper termed Cummins as a champion bowler who will eventually come good.
"Just the fact that he is a world champion bowler, from whatever I have heard and seen he is one of the best going around in the world. I trust him and I'm sure, he will come good," said Karthik.
Karthik also had a word of praise for young Shivam Mavi, who returned with figures of 2/32, with wickets of Rohit and Quinton de Kock.
"Upfront he (Mavi) was very good. The poor guy missed out due to an injury last year and he is looking forward to this competition and he is shaping up well and that's a good sign for KKR," he added.
While someone like Andre Russell once again batted down the order at No 6, Karthik defended the decision, saying that it was more to do with keeping a left-right combination going.
"I think it is a strategy because it is done universally only simply because it is not easy for a bowler to bowl consistently to left-hander and a right-hander (and) even if they get their line a little wrong, it could go for runs. Because we have the advantage of doing that, sometimes we tend to do that," he said.
Karthik said his side didn't execute the slower deliveries well enough in these conditions.
"Some didn't execute slower balls) that well because it was a little shorter and that is why the square boundaries came into play a lot more."
For Mumbai Indians, Suryakumar Yadav, who came in at No 3 was one of the architects of MI's victory with 47 off 28 balls, said that he won't mind opening the innings if required.
"That is the team management's call. I have loved opening for Mumbai Indians in the last two years and whenever they give me that opportunity, I would love to do that".
While the ground dimensions are different, it didn't change their game plan insisted Surya.
"Yes, the boundaries are big but I don't think there was any drastic change in his batting, he just kept things very-very simple, played his natural game, what he is known for and the result is there in front of you," sais the MI batsman.
"We were actually keeping things pretty simple, we were just backing ourselves and we knew we had played one game here and what strokes are to be executed on this ground, so we just stuck to our plan and it went out really well, he explained.
Jasprit Bumrah had a rare off-day against CSK, but he bounced back in style and Surya termed the India pace-spearhead as the "best bowler in the world."
"His rhythm, his work ethics and his discipline during the training sessions is unbelievable as I have been seeing in the last few days. He came back stronger and he will keep getting stronger as the game progresses," he added.
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SC directs Delhi govt to take care of child with disputed paternity
New Delhi (PTI): Expressing concern about the future of a child with disputed paternity, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Delhi government to determine the well-being of the tween and ensure the availability of basic material goods required to maintain a minimum standard of living.
The top court was hearing a plea filed by a woman challenging an order of the Delhi High Court which held that her daughter was not entitled to maintenance.
In this case, the woman was employed as a domestic help in the residence of the man for a period of three years during which he established sexual relations with her on the pretext of marriage.
The parties eventually got married in March 2016 and a child was born.
Matrimonial relations soured fairly quickly leading to the institution of a complaint under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 on July 14, 2016, seeking interim maintenance to the tune of Rs 25,000 per month, and a protection order for the appellant and her minor child among other reliefs.
In response to the application, the man prayed for a direction to conduct a DNA test to establish the paternity of the child along with denying all allegations of domestic violence as baseless.
The trial court ordered a DNA test which revealed that the man was not the biological father of the woman's child. The court then rejected the application which was upheld by an appellate court.
Later, an appeal was filed before the Delhi High Court which dealt with Section 112 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 and held that the protection of this section would have been available to the woman only if the DNA test had not been conducted since the intent of the section is to grant the presumption of legitimacy to every child.
Since the DNA report was on record, the high court refused to grant maintenance to the child. Regarding maintenance for the woman, the high court held that the trial court erred in denying interim maintenance. It remanded the matter to the trial court for fresh consideration.
A top court bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N Kotiswar Singh said there was no error in the high court's decision denying the grant of maintenance to her daughter.
Expressing concern for the child, the apex court said the high court has correctly remanded the matter of the appellant's maintenance to be decided afresh by the trial court. However, it acknowledged that the difficulties for the child will persist even if a revised amount is awarded according to the law.
"As such, in the interest of wanting to ensure the security and well-being of the child in question, we direct the Secretary, Women and Child Development, Government of the NCT of Delhi, to depute a person of considerable experience to ascertain details of the residence of the appellant and visit the same to determine the wellbeing of the child including in terms of education, nutrition, health, as also the availability of basic material goods required to maintain a minimum standard of living.
"It would be expected that wherever the said child's situation is found to be lacking, the Department would step in to take remedial measures," the bench said.
