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Sunil Narine smashes fastest IPL fifty against Royal Challengers Bangalore

May 8, 2017, 4:49 AM

Amar Ashok Jajoo | Bengaluru

Kolkata Knight Riders batsman Sunil Narine today made the fastest IPL fifty against Royal Challengers Bangalore at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. — Kolkata Knight Riders opener Sunil Narine during the match with Royal Challengers Bangalore at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. (Image copyright: BCCI)

Kolkata Knight Riders opening batsman Sunil Narine today made the fastest IPL fifty against Royal Challengers Bangalore at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. The 46th match of IPL 2017 was won by KKR by six wickets. By smashing the half century in just 15 balls, which comprised of six fours and four sixes, Narine has joined his teammate Yusuf Pathan in sharing the record for fastest fifty in IPL. Pathan made 50 runs off 15 balls in 2014 against Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and chose to field first. RCB, with a help of a half century by Mandeep Singh could accumulate 158 runs in 20 overs by losing six wickets. KKR won the match as it achieved the target in just 15.1 overs with six wickets in hand. Apart from Narine, Chris Lynn also made a half century for KKR.

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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.