Palestinians in Gaza continue to starve on World Hunger Day, one day after a chaotic rush to an Israeli- and US-backed distribution point delivering the first aid since Israel’s March blockade. Even this tidbit of relief is opposed by some Israelis. What they have been saying is as follows.
Hasan Ali, who made his first appearance in a year, won the final over to bat 164 against the visitors.
The hosts’ 201-7 victory over the toss, which Salman Agha, the hosts’ captain, led with 56 points, was unfortunate for the innings.
Hasan, a right-arm seamer who recently impressed in his country’s domestic two competition, the Pakistan Super League, stole the hearts at least on his return to the international scene after suffering from injury issues.
His skipper commented afterwards, “I saw him work hard and put in extra hours, and it has paid off.”
Salman continued, “What mattered is that everyone contributed, and that’s how we want to play – everyone has to bat, bowl, and field well.”
Both Pakistan and Bangladesh are recovering from their group stage exits from the ICC Champions Trophy in February.
The hosts, who also lost seven of their eight games in the most recent white-ball series against New Zealand, were eliminated from the game by 5-2 after eight balls of their innings, couldn’t have had a worse start.
As the pair shared a stand of 51 for the third wicket, Mohammad Haris and his captain Salman began the recovery.
With a stand of 65, Hasan Nawaz hit 44 of his 22 balls, which was the highest strike rate of the innings.
With eighteen fours and one six, Salman finished the match with 56 runs off 24 as the only batter to hit 50.
The fourth-wicket pair were 11 deliveries apart when Shadab Khan smashed 48 off 25 to put pressure back on Bangladesh.
The only Bangladeshi player to have taken more than one scalp, Shoriful Islam, took his second wicket on the final ball of the innings.
The tourists’ top-heavy reply, which included Litton Das and Tawhid Hridoy, who had shared the match’s 63-piece partnership for the third wicket, gave hope to a series-opening victory.
The chase’s end came just before Litton left, with the score being 100-2 before Litton left.
Shadab Khan won Player of the Match after claiming 2-26 and his fiery 2-26 hitting tally.
Despite having recently lost his place in the side, the Pakistan vice captain said, “My comeback to Pakistan colors wasn’t great, but my recent performances in PSL helped me get some confidence.”
The series’ two games will take place on Friday before the series finale on Sunday in Lahore, with the final game taking place in Lahore.
In his comments following the game, Bangladesh captain Litton said, “We didn’t bowl, bat, and field well,” saying that his team needed more consistency in “all areas of the game.”
The Ogun State Government regrets the protests that some state athletes are holding at the upcoming National Sports Festival over delayed allowances.
It stated that protesters made errors because it demonstrated absolute impatience.
The government expressed disappointment in a statement from Kayode Akinmade, the governor’s special adviser to the governor on media and strategy, blaming the protest for being incompatible with the principles and goals the state upholds.
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He noted that the athletes acted out of impatience because Tuesday’s payment of their allowances had been finalized.
“Governor Dapo Abiodun continues to care deeply about the well-being of every festivalgoer. He would not allow Ogun athletes to suffer or be neglected in any way.
“It’s unfortunate and uncalled for” that a few athletes protested earlier today. The state’s incredible success in hosting the festival contrasts stark with the statement that read, “From the grand opening ceremony to Team Ogun’s impressive performance,” the statement read.
He further made it clear that athletes already started receiving bank alerts as soon as allowance payments had been made.
After nearly three months of an Israeli blockade, thousands of desperate Palestinians stormed a UN World Food Programme warehouse in central Gaza on Wednesday. Initial reports from the WFP indicated that two people had died and several others had been hurt during the incident.
Legendary The Who guitarist Pete Townshend, who wrote the 1960s rock anthem I Hope I Die Before I Get Old, has just turned 80 – but says he feels like a new man.
Or at least part of him does. “That song wasn’t a state of mind – it was a threat!” he laughs. “I don’t feel old – I just got a new knee.” And Townshend reveals that although he’s not planning to retire just yet, he admits that The Who’s days of going on the road are numbered.
One of the best and loudest bands in rock history, The Song Is Over, has announced its farewell US tour this summer, appropriately titled, The Song Is Over, after 58 years of being the first to tour America. “Whether it’s the end of The Who…”? Townsend pauses before saying, “It’s undoubtedly the end of our American tour. I inquired to Roger if his tour of Europe was over, and he responded, “No.” We’ll have to wait and see'”.
Townsend, a journalist for Radio 4’s My Cultural Life, discusses the dark years of his life that gave him his wild man of the rock persona, which included playing guitars on stage and destroying hotel rooms, but claims even at the age of 80 has an edge.
“I feel like a diamond with a flaw. He reveals that he is a dangerous f***er. I favored rock and roll as a philosophy. But when I started exploring my inner darkness on stage, my stage persona – smashing guitars and turning it all up – I was very detached and I didn’t enjoy doing it”.
He also acknowledges that Roger Daltry, his 81-year-old bandmate, and he now realize that their relationship has changed. The “need has changed,” he claims, noting that “Roger has previously said that we would continue touring until we drop dead.” “It was always me who said that, ‘ I reserve the right to stop, ‘ and I have stopped twice – once for 11 years when I worked with Faber and Faber as a book editor.
So I always assumed Roger was in charge of the cards, but I believe Roger is now in charge. Townsend wrote the rock group’s massive teenage anthems My Generation, Substitute, and I Can See For Miles despite Daltry founding the band in 1964 when the pair met at Ealing Art College.
He admits his co-founder thinks he’s pretentious when he says The Who was an art project for him as much as a pop band”. The other three members didn’t (feel that way), “says the father-of-three,” which was challenging. He would spend the majority of his time laughing if he and I were sitting together and discussing My Cultural Life at the time.
Townsend intended to pursue an artistic career, but Daltry persuaded him to join The Detours, which later became The Who. Even today, Roger still thinks it was his band. He had been expelled and came back and asked me to be in his band.
“And that’s true, and I’m grateful,” according to the statement made by the composer of the song “I Can’t Explain.” Townsend kept his pastime a secret while the band played weddings and pubs.
“I wasn’t serious about being in a band”, he admits. Roger was the lead guitarist, but he wasn’t a particularly talented player. I strummed and had a big nose while being gawky.
” But we had a good looking lead singer who the girls liked and we became quite successful. Townsend, a young, confused musician, even predicted its demise because he was so sure he didn’t want to play a band.
The Who are a band who are chopping away at their own legs is a manifesto I wrote myself. Then one day I’m driving home in my mum’s yellow van and heard my song, I Can’t Explain, come on the radio, and I thought, “My manifesto! I’m not interested in playing in a rock band. No, I don’t want to spend the rest of my life doing this. But wow – people are listening to this'”.
By the time Daltry was lead vocalist, Keith Moon and John Entwistle had already joined the band, and Townsend and Townsend had just released their 1969 rock opera album Tommy, which received a lot of critical and commercial praise. However, Keith Moon passed away in 1978 at the age of 31 from an accidental overdose of the alcohol medication Hemineverin.
Then in 2002, bass player John Entwistle’s dodgy ticker gave out after the 57-year-old took cocaine in a Las Vegas hotel room. Because we’ve been missing two members for a long time, Townsend calls The Who a “clumsy machine.” “Roger and I depend a lot on one another.” We’re getting old and we have different needs.
I would be honored if Roger wanted to perform MY music, if I could put it this way. We’re just accepting our current circumstances, not that there’s going to be an argument.
And he adds, “We’ve never agreed on very much, but that’s not to suggest there’s a war on, because there isn’t”. Townsend claims that the negative aspects of his personality were brought on by the age that have finally cooled the previous animosity between him and Daltry.
In 1999, he claimed the website contained images of child abuse, which he claimed was his autobiography. He was immediately given a formal warning. Born into a musical family right at the end of the war, Townsend first went out on the road with his musician parents aged just 13 months old.
He recalls that they were very well-known swing dance bands. Beer bottles being distributed among band members on the tour bus is one of my favorite memories.
I had done it so many times with my dad when The Who first started playing in the UK. I knew where I went. However, when his mother went on a tour and sent him to live with his grandmother in Margate, his happy childhood abruptly came to an end.
” Why my mother sent me to my grandmother who had abandoned her when she was seven, I don’t know, but I left my friends and school behind in Acton, “he says sadly.
I kind of remember everything because it was just awful and I didn’t remember a lot of it. She constantly fought with me, and she was cruel, abusive, and surrounded by incredibly wealthy men who constantly hampered me. It was a really shitty time and in the end somebody reported my grandmother for abusive behaviour.
He describes returning to his Acton, West London, home and saying, “My parents saved me; they saved me; they eventually got back together; and I eventually had two brothers. That is when my childhood began, as far as I remember.
Despite his father being a musician, Townsend says he didn’t encourage his son to join a band at school. He admits that “my father didn’t believe I had any musicality.” “My mother was very encouraging,” she said. When our band started, she lugged our kit around, helped us get gigs”.
The rock legend has been sober for 40 years, despite having battled depression and substance abuse his entire life. He ponders whether my parents were aware that I had been damaged because I’ve committed all kinds of wrongdoing and addiction.
And explains how his 1965 hit My Generation was about him pushing back against his dad. He explains, “I drew the line with My Generation.” After the war, Dad’s music was his generation’s love and romance. We didn’t have that reason for being – we needed to reinvent ourselves. Our generation was rock and roll. My dad’s big band generation was being overtaken by me.
The Who created some of the most powerful moments in rock and roll history especially when they performed at Woodstock in 1969 – and the hair-raising refrain of Tommy’s Feel Me See Me Touch Me played out across the half a million festival goers as the sun rose in the sky.
They went on to sell-out stadiums around the world, but Townsend felt that by the late 1970s, they’d begun to lose themselves. “The band had turned into a prog rock outfit. I felt we have to reconnect with our roots – and I wrote Quadrophenia about the Marquee and Shepherd’s Bush – where we’d grown up.”
Townsend’s bandmates were left out when they attempted to explain the story of a young mod Jimmy set in 1965 on the 1979 rock concept album. “The other guys didn’t identify themselves with Jimmy at all. The manifesto that was buried in the middle of it was irrelevant to them.
Although Townsend had complete control over his debut album, tensions between him and Daltry boiled over. “It led to the only incident in which Roger and I have actually had a physical fight”, he admits. I had been working on stage tapes all night, and when we got into a fight, he knocked me out and I had a bad behavior.
But when I finished it, I thought, “Wow, you know, they’ve let me do this.” “Like Tommy, Quadrophenia was adapted for film, and recently has been staged as a mod ballet. According to Townsend, Jimmy’s vulnerability demonstrated how common a spectrum teen boys appear to go through. Therefore, it has fresh relevance.
The 80-year-old has as much creative energy today as he did 60 years ago, but he says it’s time to do new things”. I’m proud that The Who were able to produce music that endured, and I’m not blatantly ashamed of my past, but I’m driven by the need to be creative. It seems like a waste of time for me to retire, sail, and stop writing.
JoJo Siwa was visibly emotional as she broke down in tears during her performance in London on Tuesday evening. The 22 year old Dance Moms star took to the stage at Colours Hoxton for her second show in the capital, and as her set came to a close, she was seen with her head in her hands, overcome by emotion.
She confessed to the crowd that despite once feeling like “one of the most hated people in the world”, she now feels “so special and so loved”. During the same show, JoJo confirmed her romance with fellow Celebrity Big Brother star Chris Hughes, following weeks of intense speculation about their relationship status. Once she regained control of her emotions, she addressed the crowd: “London can I just say, as Joelle a very serious thank you I’m going to take my last two minutes to get a little deep with you all.”
It’s crazy what I’m about to say out loud because I’ve gone through a lot of transitions in my life. I’ve lived through times in my life where I have been one of the most despised people in the world since I was nine.
She continued, “I’ve been hanging onto things that are beyond my control, and that’s okay. When I was 14 years old, things were really bad. But I’m feeling incredibly loved right now, both personally and professionally.”
“And I just feel so grateful because I feel so loved and special in this particular room and at home.” I want to take a moment and remind everyone that if you’re going through a difficult time, you can always count on it. “Just keep pushing the troops,” I say.
Later in the show, JoJo seemed to confirm her budding romance with Chris, 32, despite having been rather elusive about their relationship status in past interviews.
The star once again performed her rendition of Bette Davies’ Eyes, but tweaked the song’s ending to sing ‘Chris Hughes’ Eyes.’
She admitted to changing the song’s ending because it made her feel happy, adding, “I’ll tell you this much, if it’s not obvious, that ending lyric is very much true,” which received a lot of applause from the audience.
Chris had been at JoJo’s first London show the night before, but she revealed he couldn’t make it to Tuesday’s performance.
Instead, the dancer made it known that she had brought the orange beanie she had received from him while she was sleeping and that Christopher had overheard her singing one of her songs.
She explained to the audience that when I woke up this morning, all I could hear was a singing he was doing, so she decided to take a moment to sing along.
As JoJo dedicated her on-stage tribute to him, Chris was caught on camera kissing him and smiling at him the following evening.
The Dance Moms star then unveiled a rhinestone-covered Sunderland football shirt. After his team’s promotion to the Premier League on Saturday, Chris dedicated a message to a ‘special someone’ present at the event.
After the pair were seen leaving the venue together, Chris later shared a cozy photo of him and JoJo snuggling up in bed while watching Dumb and Dumber.