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‘Captain’s dream’: Hyderabad’s Cummins hails fellow quicks after Bengaluru win

‘Captain’s dream’: Hyderabad’s Cummins hails fellow quicks after Bengaluru win

Published by Sam Flores

May 23 : Captain Pat Cummins heaped praise on fast bowlers Eshan Malinga and Sakib Hussain as Sunrisers Hyderabad claimed a 55-run win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Indian Premier League (IPL). On Friday, Hyderabad racked up a total of 255-4 thanks to Ishan Kishan’s knock of 79 (46) before Hussain and Malinga took three key wickets to slow down Bengaluru’s chase. Hussain and Malinga have bagged a combined 34 wickets in the IPL this season, while Cummins, who missed part of the campaign due to a lumbar bone stress injury, has eight wickets in seven matches. “They’ve been fantastic. I’ve actually learned a lot of from those guys as well,” Australia’s Cummins said. “Eshan Malinga has been the form bowler and he’s mixing up different things. And of course, you know, Sakib there as well. So a captain’s dream.” Hyderabad head coach Daniel Vettori said the performance of their bowling unit was a key factor in helping them overcome a poor start to the season. “Those three fast bowlers have been exceptional,” he added, …

French captains chosen in historic first for Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race

French captains chosen in historic first for Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race

Published by Sam Flores

Next month’s edition of the annual men’s Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge universities will feature French captains for the first time in the rowing event’s long history. When the two boats take to the River Thames in London on April 4, three-time defending champion Noam Mouelle will lead the Light Blues of Cambridge against the Dark Blues of Oxford captained by Tobias Bernard, a Londoner born to a French father and a Franco-American mother. “As Noam said, it’s a fun fact, it’s amusing,” 23-year-old Bernard, who studies chemistry at Oxford, said on the sidelines of the team announcements. Mouelle, 24, said the nationality of the two captains meant little in an event that was first run in 1829. “The cool thing is that it shows that no matter where you come from or what you did before, as long as you commit 100 percent to the project, the training programmes and the club’s culture, it doesn’t change anything,” he said. Mouelle, a physics PhD student at Cambridge, took his first strokes aged nine at …