Tag: South Africa

Virender Sehwag quits as Delhi Daredevils captain

Virender Sehwag 150x150 Virender Sehwag quits as Delhi Daredevils captainThe pitch hitter Virender Sehwag on Friday announced that he will no longer lead the Delhi Daredevils cricket team and therefore Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene will be the new captain of the team for the upcoming Champions League Twenty20 starting from October 9 in South Africa.

Talking to media, Delhi Daredevils owner TA Sekar said that Virender Sehwag requested the management to leave the captaincy for the Champions League Twenty20. Read more

Hashim Amla fastest to complete 3000 runs in ODIs

The superb cricketer from South Africa, Hashim Amla, is now the fastest cricketer to complete 3000 runs in One-Day Internationals [ODIs].

He achieved this landmark during the course of his 150 that made the Proteas’ 80-run win over England at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton.

Hashim Amla’s brilliant 150 runs knock came from 124 balls hitting 16 fours. Read more

Call to revive Mahatma Gandhi’s Tolstoy Farm in South Africa

The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation comes in front with a call to revive Gandhi’s Tolstoy Farm in South Africa as a legacy project.

The Tolstoy Farm had set up by Mahatma Gandhi as a prosperous commune during his tenure in Johannesburg at the turn of the last century.

During the 27-year-old annual Gandhi Walk event in Indian suburb south of Lenasia, the organizers announced to renew the Tolstoy Farm.

After the destruction of original Gandhi Hall as selling in the 1970’s white minority government, the annual Gandhi Walk event was began as a fundraiser for building a new Gandhi Hall in Lenasia. Read more

BRICS summit: Member countries condemns the West for financial mismanagement

BRICS Summit1 300x208 BRICS summit: Member countries condemns the West for financial mismanagementGlobal multilateral institutions as developing the next World Bank was the top agenda of BRICS summit, but top member nations on Thursday criticized the West for financial mismanagement.

They declared dialogue of BRICS was based only on current events like a peace plan in Syria and Iran, a complete lack of objective statements that they contracted to push trade and credits in local currencies under the BRICS Interbank Cooperation Mechanism in reforms of International Monitory funds. Read more

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