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Tired Australians don’t have long to crack ODI code

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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7aMMqjPFVtpbUIkBnph5loaIpIJ0J3HJsZhU3xBqYEzNzQ7dJmGSd0fOo7LS0NOgJ5vQMpiBpXy0JdNmxtjIeCxKkh-UQ_vOIB43GVx-zlvQBe44az2e7QKiWQgR79BnN43dKs_JHMYTa/s1600/2018-01-30_14-26-37.png This article titled “Tired Australians don’t have long to crack ODI code” was written by Geoff Lemon, for theguardian.com on Monday 29th January 2018 23.47 UTC In 2015, it wasn’t just Australians laughing at England’s version of one-day cricket. This was a team knocked out of the World Cup quarters by Bangladesh, having stumbled to that stage with a timid and conservative gameplan 30 years out of date. It was a side that not long beforehand had Alastair Cook and Ian Bell pootling along at the top of each innings, while other sides opened up with baseball sluggers. Its management so relied on spreadsheets that the cricket writer Peter Miller named his book on the subject 28 Days’ Data. Related: Tom Curran stars as England ...

Tourists offered night's stay in Mumbai slum

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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDIatcja68zipSOFivt9SRx8pHqtDahI34KlqVug6Lg6WWHUTzpfeplS295neNNKcZHIDgP6NuOtCiNiFf2WRTQuNXsux_7gAAM60oC6ti5BJ-kGpHrmwPIHeau07knGv8KWoGx6XafHVt/s1600/2018-01-30_12-43-35.png This article titled “Tourists offered night’s stay in Mumbai slum” was written by Amrit Dhillon in Delhi, for theguardian.com on Monday 29th January 2018 14.02 UTC Tourists are being offered a night’s stay in a Mumbai slum to experience the “reality” of life in India’s financial capital, including using a public toilet shared by more than 50 other families. The scheme is being run by David Bijl, 32, a Dutch citizen who works for a Mumbai NGO in conjunction with a local resident, Ravi Sansi . He argues that slums are “part of the reality of Mumbai – not the only part, but a part” and anyone who wishes to understand the inequalities of the city needs to understand slum life. Other tours of Mumbai slum...

'Boats pass over where our land was': Bangladesh's climate refugees – photo essay

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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFwM2e6dYIaRCujMiiytoyDztkAo9rv7onbkcjlmBMrMY26JzXbi_peze0sBXa4AafQxdUHG2JAEwfRP9LnvCKgn9vKA8NqbC9mZeLRxcQTN1Qrs4VibpqjslLAFByCy_bXYkBtS2I6ofL/s1600/2018-01-05_7-37-08.jpg This article titled “‘Boats pass over where our land was’: Bangladesh’s climate refugees – photo essay” was written by John Vidal, for theguardian.com on Thursday 4th January 2018 12.13 UTC Last September, the Bangladeshi government responded to weeks of torrential rain with a slew of statistics. They said 8 million people in 32 districts had been affected by floods, with 307,000 people staying in emergency shelters and 1,945 medical teams deployed. In addition, 103,855 houses had been destroyed, with a further 633,792 partially damaged, and 4,636 schools – and several hundred thousand acres of farm land – had been flooded. A house sinks into the water in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh, where flooding triggered by tor...