India begin innings with lowest powerplay total of the tournament; 24-4 after 10 overs
Dinesh Karthik departs
Manchester: In the first semi-final between India and New Zealand, India began their batting innings with the lowest powerplay total of the tournament as the men in blue managed to score only ____ runs with the loss of ___ wickets.
After being posted a target of 240 runs by New Zealand to enter the final of the tournament, India went up to a poor start as it lost its top three batsmen with only 5 runs on board.
Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul and Virat Kohli all managed to score 1 run each before departing to a wonderful bowling spell by New Zealand pace duo of Trent Boult and Matt Henry.
Earlier, New Zealand in the first inning New Zealand had scored the lowest first powerplay total of the tournament as it managed only 27 runs in the first 10 overs.
Youngster Rishab Pant was joined by Hardik Pandya in the middle at the end of over number 10 as Dinesh Karthik perished on the last ball of the powerplay with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja to come next in the batting line up.
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'With or without Budget, we are doing our work': Shivakumar
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Wednesday said that he does not need announcements to be made in the State Budget to carry out developmental works.
He said this highlighting the developmental works in his native district of Bengaluru South.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who also holds the Finance portfolio, is scheduled to present the 2026-27 Budget on March 6. This would be Siddaramaiah's record 17th budget.
"No need to have expectations from the Budget. With or without the Budget, we are doing our work," Shivakumar said in response to a question on what can be expected from the Budget.
Speaking to reporters, he said, "Others need the Budget. We don't. It's not that we need to take up work only if it is announced in the Budget."
Citing the example of flagship Karnataka Public Schools (KPS) in Bengaluru South district, Shivakumar said, "You get a survey done across the country. Bengaluru South district has 25 government schools, each one costing Rs 15 crore. We have ensured it. Has anyone else done it? Was this in the Budget? We created it, it is our concept. Now there is a state level policy for 2,000 such schools."
Further pointing out that during the JD(S)-Congress coalition government under H D Kumaraswamy's Chief Ministership in 2018-19, he had ensured a medical college was announced for the then Ramanagara (now Bengaluru South) district, he said, "But the next BJP government under B S Yediyurappa cancelled it and took the medical college to Chikballapura district. Now, we have given medical colleges to both Ramanagara and Kanakapura (taluks in the Bengaluru South district)."
He also highlighted private medical colleges are coming up in Channapatna taluk and one between Ramanagara and Kanakapura taluks.
