COVID-19

Shikhar Dhawan ruled out of ICC World Cup 2019, Rishabh Pant to replace him

June 20, 2019, 12:59 AM

Nation Next Newsroom | World

Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan, who fractured his left thumb during India’s match against Australia on June 9 in ICC World Cup 2019, has been ruled out of the tournament because of the injury. Dhawan will be replaced by young wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant.

Official Announcement ???????? – @SDhawan25 ruled out of the World Cup. We wish him a speedy recovery #TeamIndia #CWC19 pic.twitter.com/jdmEvt52qS

? BCCI (@BCCI) June 19, 2019

The announcement was made on Wednesday by Sunil Subramaniam, Team India’s manager, who said, Following several specialist opinions, he’ll be in a cast till mid-July and is ruled out of the World Cup. Dhawan’s fracture is at the base of the first metacarpal on his left hand. We’ve requested for Rishabh Pant as a replacement.

Daily Updates

Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

Published

4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

Daily Updates

Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

Published

4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

Daily Updates

ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

Published

4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.