He charged that the community members could not even breathe freely here and were treated just as "voting machines".
Shahrukh Khan becomes "hero" in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, hits last ball six to help TN defend title
Karnataka loses first-ever white ball final
Vartha Bharati | 22-11-2021 | 16:09:00 IST
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu on Monday defeated Karnataka to defend its Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy title with a last-ball-six win against their traditional rivals.
Chasing 153, Tamil Nadu needed 16 off 6 balls and Shahrukh Khan who was hitting the ball cleanly today, came to the team’s rescue and finished the match. With five runs needed on the last delivery of the over, Shahrukh Khan hit a six over deep square leg and pulled the special victory for his team.
With this, Karnataka lost its first-ever white-ball final.
“This inning was due from SRK, he was hitting it well in the nets. We believed in SRK, Mohammed, and Sanjay, these three are capable of the big ones. In the middle, Cariappa bowled well, so we couldn't accelerate. Karnataka and TN always have a rivalry and we are happy to end up on the winning side,” Tamil Nadu captain Vijay Shankar said while collecting the trophy.
“There were a lot of things in my mind, but I tried to keep it simple. The ball was rough and the wicket was slow, so I wanted to connect it off the middle. I was waiting to hit it over long-on, and I got the room to get it over square leg. We played a bit slow in the middle, but that's the trend of our team - the roles are well-defined, and the top order had trust in me and Mohammed. He (Mohammed) has been a special talent so thanks to him. It has been a special thing to hit a last-ball six. I'll remember this for a long time,” Shahrukh Khan said.
“It is a bittersweet feeling. The boys have put up their hands every time we have needed someone. We deserved to come to the final. We can't take it away from them, they were better at the crunch moment. We were expecting more from our top order, but someone had to put up their hands, and the middle order and spinners did just that. We'd love to bounce back strongly,” Karnataka captain Manish Pandey said.
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Kerala Ezhava leader makes controversial remarks, terms Malappuram 'separate nation'
05-04-2025 ¦
05-04-2025 IST
MALAPPURAM (KERALA), Apr 5 (PTI): Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan has made controversial remarks against Muslim-dominated Malappuram district in the state, describing it as a "separate nation" or an exclusive "state of certain people".
SNDP is an organisation that represents the numerically strong Ezhava community in Kerala.
While addressing a convention of community members at Chungathara here on Friday, Natesan said that people belonging to the backward community are living under constant fear in Malappuram.
"I think, you (community members) cannot live here speaking your independent opinion. Malappuram is a separate nation...or a separate state of certain people." He further said that was the reason for the continuing backwardness of Ezhava people in Malappuram.
He sought to know whether the community members in Malappuram have received any benefits from the country's independence decades ago.
Barring the MGNREGA, in which field does the backward community members have significant representations, he asked during the address.
He also claimed that the Ezhava community members are suffering due to vote bank politics.
