Vijay Hazare: Mumbai's second successive game abandoned
Bengaluru, Sep 25: Defending champions Mumbai have had a wet start to their Vijay Hazare trophy campaign, after their second game against Jharkhand was also abandoned due to inclement weather here on Wednesday.
Mumbai's first game against Saurashtra in the Elite Group A of the national ODI championship was abandoned due to rains without a single ball being bowled.
And their game against Jharkhand, which was scheduled to be played at Just Cricket facility here, also witnessed a similar fate, a source from the team said.
The four points were thus equally split among the two teams.
Likewise, the two other Group A games Kerala versus Chhattisgarh and Hyderabad versus Goa were also abandoned due to inclement weather. Both these games were to be played in Alur on the outskirts of the city.
The points were split equally between the teams.
Mumbai is scheduled to play Karnataka next on Sunday, September 29 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium here.
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Three of family killed as car overturns in Mandya
Mandya (PTI): Three members of a family, two of them women, were killed when the car they were travelling in overturned and fell into a ditch on Sunday, police said.
The driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a bridge on the Bengaluru-Mangaluru National Highway at Nagamangala in Mandya district, police added.
The deceased were identified as Chandregowda (62) and Sarojamma (57), both residents of Chikkamagaluru. They were returning to their hometown when the accident occurred, police sources said.
In another incident near Agaralinganna Doddi in Maddur taluk, a private bus overturned on a service road, injuring more than 30 people. Locals helped rescue the passengers after the accident.
The passengers were travelling to Bengaluru after visiting the Shimsha Maramma temple in Malavalli. The injured were taken to hospitals in Mandya and Maddur for treatment.
