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Among the many India-Pakistan World Cup moments that stand as fresh as the present in the fan memory is the Venkatesh Prasad-Aamer Sohail confrontation in the 1996 World Cup quarter-final at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.

The Pakistan batter provoking the Indian bowler after he had hit the latter for a boundary past the cover region, and cut to the next delivery, Prasad uprooting Aamers off-stump and giving him the perfect send-off.

It is a moment that is always revisited while talking about one of the greatest cricket rivalries.

As recently as Sunday, Venkatesh Prasad also took a trip down the memory lane to add to his point of view on the incident.

When asked by a Twitter user, the former India bowler responded to the incident by writing that it was his arrogance that cost Sohail his wicket in the World Cup knockout game.

He was arrogant in this image you posted, you need to see the next ball to know what arrogance can do-Uproot which in Hindi means Ukhaad, he wrote via his Twitter account.

Last year, Sohail had shared his half of the story during a YouTube chat.

There was nothing said, Aamer told Cricket Life Stories.

People interpret it differently. They have to say something to prove that they understand the game well. There was no word exchanged. Javed Miandad told us how to rile up the bowler when you think that he is going to take charge. It was reverse psychology.

The dismissal of Sohail by Prasad is seen as the turning point of the 1996 World Cup quarter-final between India and Pakistan. Chasing 288, the defending champions were 114/1 after 14.5 overs with nine wickets in hand. Pakistan were unable to forge a big partnership post Sohails wicket and eventually lost the game by 39 runs.

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'He was arrogant': Venkatesh Prasad on Aamer Sohail during the 1996 World Cup incident - The Indian Express

THE inequitable phase of the Football Championship is nigh. Those handicapped by superiority in their own province take up the obligatory brace position for whatever hurtles out of the Qualifier tunnel toward them.

In the case of Connacht champions Galway, the sight of Kieran McGeeneys Armagh coming down the tracks may resemble more an oncoming train than something light and bendable. It might be twenty years since they upended Kerry in an All-Ireland final for a maiden Sam Maguire, but McGeeneys squad have a critical pre-requisite heading to the big smoke in a fortnight battle-hardened momentum.

The Orchard have undressed Tyrone and Donegal on successive weekends and carries the sort of beneficial freight to Croke Park in a fortnight that Cork, Clare or even Mayo have not magicked up. The 3-17 to 0-16 defeat of Donegal in Clones on Sunday was every bit as resounding as it reads.

Theyve also kicked over the traces of Ulster tradition and shaped a new order. Derry and Armagh look like theyre future-proofing while Donegal, Monaghan and even Tyrone look jaded and samey.

Monday's quarter-final draw has delivered the sort of lop-sided draw that will have Galway, Armagh, Derry and Clare salivating at the very real chance of a road to the All-Ireland final.

On the other side, the winners of Kerry and Mayo will expect to walk into Dublin in the All-Ireland semi-final. For Jack O'Connor's charges, Mayo is precisely the game they need to jumpstart their competitive batteries - but it is laced with trouble. Unquestionably, Mayo will bring the heat and lean on their gut checks against Monaghan and Kildare while also planning to test the pulse of the Kerry keeper and full-back line. Neither has been properly scrutinised this season. Whoever emerges should, at least, be better braced for whatever Dublin or Cork have coming down the line.

Munster, the weakest province for many, provided more quarter-finalists than any other and though Cork and Clare must deny it, they are both in a place now where the last eight ensures an upbeat appraisal of their season. Whereas Cork have landed the draw from hell in Dublin - given Derry and Galway were the other possibilities - the Banner will have learned from their League undressing by Derry and will be all the better for it this time around. If Armaghs dismantling of Declan Bonners side was the standout statement of the qualifiers, Clares win over Roscommon on Saturday at Croke Park was the head-turner, and it also worked 70-odd valuable Jones Road minutes into their legs and minds.

The manager Colm Collins carries the gait of a man utterly unfussed by the constant facility to sidestep what used be termed conventional wisdom. As Paul Keane details elsewhere on these pages, Collins has won 50% of his championship games since 2014 and made a pair of All-Ireland quarter-finals.

Is it unrealistic to think that Cork can live with Dublin for over seventy minutes in Croke Park? Probably. Captain Brian Hurley wasnt having any mention of bonus territory after their unconvincing 2-18 to 1-16 win over Limerick at Pirc Ui Chaoimh on Sunday, even if the five-point victory did suggest that footballs upheaval in the county is eventually starting to subside. But Dublin are in another orbit to Limerick.

Manager John Cleary belongs to a time when Cork trips to Croke Park were an every-year occurrence but right now they should be chewed to the marrow. The great deficit of their 2020 Munster final defeat to Tipperary after catching Kerry was losing the experience and value of an All-Ireland semi-final against Mayo. Not since the same opposition pipped them by a point in 2014, have they played a knockout game at Croke Park.

Billy Lees Limerick kept them honest, and then some, for the greatest part on Sundays Round 2 Qualifier, and only when the visitors lost Gordon Brown to a black card did Cork add 1-3 in a hurry to put daylight between the sides. A Brian Donovan goal on the hour had made it a three-point game, 1-15 to 1-12, before Corks Kevin ODonovan was felled for a penalty converted by Hurley.

We played Derry and Galway in the League, beaten seven or eight points, but we were not totally outclassed, reflected Cleary. We think we are after improving a good bit in the meantime, we have players back that we didn't have then, and not alone would we be having a shot at it, we would hope to be very competitive and with a chance of winning it.

For a county like Cork, with the players we have at our disposal, that should be a minimum. We are there now and we want to play in an All-Ireland semi-final after a quarter-final. We'll leave no stone unturned in the next two weeks to try and get there.

By their league ranking, Cork are around 14th best in the country, one behind Clare. But after the upheaval of a torrid League, as Cleary described it, and the loss of manager Keith Ricken, not to mention a swathe of squad departures, there is a welcome quietness around the camp now.

Weve been stuttering away, for want of a better word, and now what we are looking at is trying to beat whats in front of us. We wanted to back up Louth and put back-to-back wins together but were under no illusions, were really in the frying pan now.

Though he had a quiet afternoon generally, Cathail OMahonys 45th-minute run and goal underlined the potency of an inside line completed by Hurley and Stephen Sherlock that again chipped in with 2-10.

Billy Lee wore the hangdog look of a man afterwards whod seen a glorious window of opportunity snap shut on his forefinger. Reminding him that Limerick are top 12 in the country and preparing for Division 2 in 2023 could be interpreted as patronising, however relevant for context. Hell only have to look out the Ennis Road to see what might have been.

That ten minutes with the black card, we suffered badly, thats our own fault, but it slipped away from us there, he acknowledged. Weve work to do for Division 2 next year but we are bitterly disappointed now. Four, five-point losses wont be any good to us in 2023. We have to find a way to get over the line in matches.

I backed these lads after the Munster final on live television when we didnt do ourselves justice, but I didnt have any doubt that theyd step up and compete against Cork. Where these lads have come from, ranked 31st or 32nd in the country, to where they are now, you have to have serious courage to do that. We might never win All-Irelands but there isnt a team in the country would have done what those lads have. It would have been easier to walk away.

A version of Lees Limerick met Galways second string the Thursday after the Munster and Connacht finals, but in terms of foreign prep, its been slim pickings for the four provincial winners ahead of their quarter-finals. How they have managed the interregnum will make or break their summers and in that respect, Jack O'Connor has priceless experience. Kerry have eschewed the possibility of a game since May 28, instead opting for their favoured quiet camp at Fota Island in Cork last weekend. Similarly, Dublin and Derry have been keeping it in house though all made trips to Croke Park and Clones this weekend to study the form.

The qualifier system is headed for the dirt nap if administrators have their way and not many provincial winners will weep its demise. Ditto provincial final losers. Statistics indicate that three out of four beaten finalists lose next time this weekend it was a full house of all four for the first time in 12 years Roscommon, Donegal, Kildare and Limerick. Is it the difficulty of recharging batteries? Or overcoming disappointment? Or an issue with drained confidence?

It won't bother Armagh or Mayo, nor Cork or Clare, who all have back-to-back wins. With two weeks to refuel and refocus, the quartet of football championship qualifiers have no drag to be bothering them - and the win that momentum delivers in their sails.

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The Last Eight: Kerry have the All-Ireland quarter-final they need - even if it's mined with trouble - Irish Examiner

Entrance to the DCI Headquarters. [File, Standard]

Applicants for the Police Clearance Certificate (Certificate of Good Conduct) that were scheduled to have their fingerprints taken at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, DCI Headquarters Monday, June 13, will not be served.

DCI Boss George Kinoti says the premises will remain out of bounds to pave way for the launch of a National Forensic Laboratory that will be launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta marking another milestone in efforts to solve pending criminal cases.

The premises shall remain out of bounds due to a significant national event. Consequently, arrangements have been made to have the applicants visit any Huduma Centre within Nairobi City and have their fingerprints taken. Any inconvenience caused is deeply regretted. He said in a statement.

He termed the launch of the forensic lab as a game-changer in investigations carried out by DCI adding that it will outwit criminals who have proven to be smart by carefully planning and executing crimes and managing to evade detection and the criminal justice processes.

Sources privy to the launch say that the laboratory holds equipment work Sh2 billion with an aim to boost the war on crime.

It will now be possible for the sleuths to conduct toxicological tests that were previously done in either Europe or Johannesburg. Expect all police stations to have digitized Occurrence Books that will pave way for cases to be followed and monitored by supervisors at different levels from anywhere. The source who spoke on condition of anonymity said considering protocol issues.

Early 2021, the German government donated Sh27 million worth of equipment including; laptops, photography and videography cameras, and specialised crime scene investigation kits to the DCI to enhance its operations.

It is during the same period that the government allocated Sh335 million for equipping the lab that now has various departments that deal with; ballistics, malware analysis, economic crimes, computer forensics, mobile device forensics, and network forensics and bio-chemistry sections.

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Why you won't be served at DCI Headquarters today - The Standard

Not long after celebrating his first 100 days as mayor this spring, Eric Adams was poolside in Beverly Hills, Calif., already thinking about the future.

Wearing a crisp blue suit and fuchsia tie, Mr. Adams spoke to a crowd of vegan enthusiasts about his allegiance to a plant-based diet in an event at the midcentury home of Naren Shankar, a Hollywood showrunner and producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

The underlying motivation, however, was about another passion: raising money for his re-election campaign in 2025.

Even as Mr. Adams has struggled to address a series of pressing challenges in New York, he has launched an unusually early fund-raising blitz to secure a second term, a feat that no Black mayor of New York City has achieved.

The fund-raisers coincide with Mr. Adamss efforts to establish a national profile. In March, the mayor held an event in Chicago at the home of Desire Rogers, the former White House social secretary for President Barack Obama, which was attended by Robert Blackwell Jr., an entrepreneur and Obama ally.

Sometime this summer, Charles Phillips, the managing partner of Recognize, a technology investment firm, is planning to hold a fund-raiser for Mr. Adams probably out east, in the Hamptons, he said in an interview.

The mayors team is hoping he will max out his fund-raising by the end of the summer, according to a Democratic consultant who was briefed on the campaigns plans. A $2 million haul, coupled with the citys generous matching funds program, could enable him to hit the $7.9 million spending cap for the 2025 mayoral primary. Collecting a huge war chest now could fend off potential competitors and capitalize on what remains of the mayors honeymoon period, when he is still relatively popular and donors are eager to get his attention.

You want to raise money as a show of strength, said Chris Coffey, the chief executive of Tusk Strategies and a manager of Andrew Yangs campaign for mayor. You dont want to spend your last year running around doing fund-raisers.

There is little precedent for such an early push. Bill de Blasio, in his first year as mayor, focused on raising money for candidates for the State Senate and for the Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit group that supported his agenda both of which became part of federal and state investigations into his fund-raising. Michael R. Bloomberg did not have to bother with fund-raising; he used his own fortune to run for a second term, then wielded his personal philanthropy to gain support to overturn term limits in 2008, spending a record $102 million on a third term.

There are also political risks to Mr. Adamss fund-raising strategy, which could potentially cast him as an absentee leader unduly focused on politics.

When the mayor was in Beverly Hills, the risk level for coronavirus cases had just increased in New York City, raising fresh concerns about the citys economic recovery. Federal officials were weighing a takeover of the troubled Rikers Island jail in response to rising violence and inmate deaths there. A police officer was slashed in Brooklyn by a man carrying a 16-inch knife.

And when his return flight from California was abruptly canceled, Mr. Adams had to scrap most of his events for the day, including a rally at City Hall to put pressure on the State Legislature to extend mayoral control of city schools.

Mr. Adams has already seen his approval rating drop as he faces growing pressure to address rising crime and an affordable housing crisis. Only 29 percent of New Yorkers said his performance was good or excellent, and 56 percent said the city was headed in the wrong direction, according to a recent poll by NY1 and Siena College.

Mr. Adams defended his polling numbers, arguing that New Yorkers were tough graders and that many had given him a fair rating, which he considered a C grade.

Listen, a C is not an A, but a C is not an F, Mr. Adams told reporters.

The mayor has proved to be a prolific fund-raiser. He raised more than $9 million for the Democratic primary and the general election last year and another $10 million in matching funds. Mr. Adams spent much of last summer traveling to the Hamptons and Marthas Vineyard to court wealthy donors who favored his brand of centrism, attending as many as five fund-raisers a day.

Mr. Adams, a former state senator and Brooklyn borough president, has at times tested the boundaries of campaign-finance and ethics laws. He was investigated for his role in backing a video lottery terminal bidder for the Aqueduct Racetrack and has been criticized for taking money from developers who were lobbying him to support crucial zoning changes.

As a mayoral candidate, Mr. Adams raised money from a wide array of donors, including real estate developers, billionaires, cannabis investors, hedge fund executives, Republicans and working-class New Yorkers. He raised more than $2.8 million from donors outside New York City, and a super PAC supporting his campaign raised about $7 million.

Now as mayor, Mr. Adams has again embraced fund-raising with vigor. On June 3, after delivering a commencement speech in Queens, Mr. Adams attended a fund-raiser at a construction companys offices in Midtown Manhattan, hosted by the Bravo Group chief executive, Ehab Shehata. At the middle-of-the-workday event, Mr. Adams told the crowd that the city could only rebound if crime levels dropped and that he was the man for the job, according to a person who attended the event.

Mr. Shehata did not respond to requests for comment. But he is hardly the only local executive eager to curry favor with the mayor.

Marc Holliday, chief executive of SL Green Realty Corp., which co-owns the new One Vanderbilt skyscraper near Grand Central Terminal, reached out to fellow real estate executives in April on behalf of Mr. Adamss 2025 campaign. The tower has been home to at least two mayoral appearances, including the Wells Fargo product launch in April where the mayor partied with the model and actress Cara Delevingne, earning himself a spread in the gossip pages.

At a time when NYC needed it the most, Eric has stepped into the mayoralty and has quickly become the face and driving force behind New Yorks recovery, Mr. Holliday wrote in an email. Anything you can do would be very much appreciated.

The first public disclosures for the 2025 mayors race are due next month and will provide a clearer picture of the donors Mr. Adams is relying on.

Barry Gosin, the chief executive officer of Newmark Group, a commercial real estate firm, is hosting a fund-raiser for Mr. Adams on Wednesday on the fifth floor of a skyscraper near Grand Central Terminal. Attendees are requested to donate between $400 and $2,000 apiece.

This is an opportunity to support a great, authentic mayor, Mr. Gosin said. Hes working his butt off, and I think the things hes doing are the things that should be done. But thats my opinion.

The Chicago fund-raiser was attended by Mr. Blackwell, the leader of a table tennis company who donated $400 to Mr. Adamss mayoral campaign last year. It was co-hosted by Ms. Rogers and Carol Adams, the former president of the DuSable Museum of African American History.

To run for office, it takes money expensive city, expensive ad market, Mr. Phillips said. And you have to tell your story before someone else does.

Another fund-raiser in May at the Kimberly Hotel in Midtown Manhattan was attended by Taj Gibson, the New York Knicks forward, and Jean Shafiroff, a fixture on the charity circuit who attended a soiree for Mr. Adams in the Hamptons last summer.

We have to give him a chance, she said. I like what he stands for. Its really not fair to judge anyone after three months.

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Just 5 Months Into His Term, Adams Is Busy Raising Money to Win Another - The New York Times

You can tell how obnoxious this is from the fact that Mitch McConnell felt obliged to side with Chuck Schumer against Paul in the dispute.

Time is obviously of the essence in Ukraines war. If you want to maximize their chances of winning, you want to get this aid package on the books as soon as possible. Equally obvious is the fact that the bill will pass the Senate easily. It passed overwhelmingly in the House a few days ago and will likely draw 80+ votes in the upper chamber, Id guess. Thats the key fact here. Paul cant stop this bill.

But he can slow it down a little and hurt the Ukrainian effort by doing so.

Schumer asked for unanimous consent to advance the bill this afternoon, which would have allowed the Senate to skip a bunch of procedural argle-bargle and move to a vote quickly. Unusually, McConnell joined Schumers request, a sign that he knew trouble was brewing on his side of the aisle and wanted to signal his opposition to it. No one objected except Paul.

Paul wanted the $40 billion aid bill rewritten to include a requirement that a U.S. inspector general supervise disbursement of the aid to Ukraine. Schumer said no but tried to compromise by offering to hold a vote on an amendment to that effect submitted by Paul. He could get his IG demand attached if he could persuade a majority of the Senate to adopt it. Fair enough?

No, said Paul. The request for unanimous consent failed.

Rarely is Chuck Schumer right about anything but hes right here:

Ukraine is not asking us to fight this war. Theyre only asking for the resources they need to defend themselves against this deranged invasion. And they need this help right now, McConnell said in his own remarks. Again, theres no question that the bill will pass and the money will be spent. The question for Paul was simply whether he wanted to spite Ukraines supporters by doing what he could to hobble the Ukrainian effort with unnecessary delay.

Itll now take upwards of a week for the Senate to jump through its procedural hoops and pass the bill under regular order.

Im showing my cards here: I dont believe that much of the MAGA or MAGA-adjacent caterwauling about the cost of the Ukraine aid bill is on the level. Nationalists have never been sticklers about federal spending, after all. I posted these Mark Levin tweets earlier but let me post them again here.

The ulterior motives are more complicated than wanting to kiss Putins ass but Levins right to discern that there are ulterior motives. I wrote about that the last time Paul happened to stumble across a Kremlin-friendly talking point in public. The populist right and left resent that Ukraine is demonstrating the strength of the prevailing western liberal order on the battlefield at the expense of one of the great enemies of that order. After all, the more effective the American establishment and the EU look in backing the Ukrainians, the less interest American and European voters will have in replacing either with populist regimes of the right or left.

The aid bill has become a cause for populist grumbling because it channels that dubious ambivalence or even hostility towards a Ukrainian victory into a more politically congenial grievance, exorbitant federal spending and the governments misplaced priorities:

I want Russian illiberalism to prevail in Ukraine because itll help mainstream authoritarianism in the U.S. is a hard sell. Why arent we building more baby-formula factories? is an easier one. Levin knows the game being played, though.

Paul is a little different from the nationalists since hes a libertarian and comes by his worries about the deficit more honestly. But hes also a guy who voted for Trumps tax cuts in 2017 without any guarantee of spending cuts to offset the loss in revenue. And as youre about to see, he cant resist lapsing into libertarian boilerplate about America not being the worlds policeman even though no American police are in the field in Ukraine. The Ukrainians are policing their own territory. All were doing is helping them defend themselves, a concept that libertarians normally support ardently in the context of the Second Amendment and gun rights.

Once more for emphasis: This bill will pass. And because it will, Paul knows that holding it up wont achieve any of his stated goals but might hurt the Ukrainians at the margins. The fact that he chose to hold it up anyway speaks volumes about his intentions. I hope McConnell exacts some revenge the next time Paul needs something from him.

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