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Steve Smith, David Warner banned for a year by Cricket Australia

March 28, 2018, 7:48 PM

Nation Next Newsroom | World

Cricket Australia, Wednesday, handed 12-month bans to former Australian captain Steve Smith and Vice-captain David Warner. — Steve Smith and David Warner

Cricket Australia (CA), Wednesday, came down heavily on former Australian captain Steve Smith and Vice-captain David Warner as it handed 12-month bans to both the cricketers for their involvement in ball-tampering during the third test match against South Africa at Cape Town. Cameron Bancroft, who was caught on camera applying sand paper on the ball and the hiding the tape in his pants, was banned for nine months.

Following, CAs ban on the cricketers, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) also barred Smith and Warner from participating in Indian Premier League 2018, which will kick start in April. IPL commissioner Rajiv Shukla told the reporters that franchises owing Smith and Warner will get replacements as both the players will not be allowed to play this year in IPL.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

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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.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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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.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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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.