Till the end of the season, Yorkshire has signed former Indian star Mayank Agarwal.
The 34-year-old opener started 21 Test matches for India and recorded 4 centuries on average of 41.33.
He will join the squad for the County Championship game against Somerset on Monday at Taunton, and he will play there the rest of the 2025 season.
Mayank will be a big hit in Yorkshire, according to Gavin Hamilton, the club’s general manager of cricket.
Late singer David Bowie ‘s secret final project has been revealed and will be made available to the public in a museum display.
Even his closest friends weren’t aware of the musical until after he passed away because he had begun producing it months before his death.
The Spectator features music from London in the 18th century. Bowie’s notes, which will be on display at V&, A East Storehouse in Hackney Wick, demonstrate his deep interest in both the development of the medium and the existence of criminal gangs.
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Bowie kept all of his notes locked away in his study while he was writing the musical in the months prior to his passing. The legendary musician lost his battle with cancer in 2016 at the age of 81.
The notes from his final, final, and secret project were discovered in his deathbed, which Bowie and his assistant had previously only been able to access. Up until archivists began cataloguing the contents of the handwritten notes, all of which remained undisturbed.
They have already been given to the V&, A museum, and will be accessible when the David Bowie Center debuts at the Hackney Wick location on September 13th.
The album will be accompanied by 90,000 other singer-related items. The exhibition seeks to follow Bowie’s “creative processes as an advocate for self-expression and reinvention” as well as his musical innovations and cultural icons.
Bowie is not the only musical that performs this. Shortly before he passed away, he and Enda Walsh wrote the musical Lazarus in honor of Walter Tevis’ 1963 novel The Man Who Fell To Earth. Bowie starred in the book’s 1976 film adaptation.
Bowie’s musical was filmed for six weeks in New York before being moved to London from November 2016 through January 2017.
The musical’s songs were later recorded for a posthumous album and made accessible via virtual reality. It followed Bowie’s most recent album, Blackstar, which was only days before his passing. His thoughts on his own mortality and how they changed as his cancer progressed are explored in the album.
A new box set will be available for purchase the day before the V&, A exhibition opens. The final years of Bowie’s career are documented and celebrated in I Can’t Give Everything Away (2022-2016).
Lulu has bravely laid bare the extent of her alcohol addiction for the first time as she opened up on her secret shame she hid for years. The singer, 76, admitted she spent years in “dark” moments after trying to “suppress feelings”.
She heartbreakingly described how she was “terrified” of turning up like her father, who was once “dragged away by the police.” Lulu, who is best known for her hit Shout, admitted to drinking in secret.
The pop star emphasized that her constant desire to be “the best Lulu” was heightened as her fame became more mainstream. She and her band The Luvvers performed at number seven on the UK singles chart before releasing 10 UK top 10 singles and albums.
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Lulu has now admitted to struggling for years but wanted to keep her addiction private “until I had the language to understand it.” Behind her success, Lulu has now said she has been. In an effort to understand her battle, Lulu turned to memoirs and self-help books.
She described how Jordan Frieda, 48, her son, and other factors, made her drinking worse as she grew older. Lulu told The Times, “It had been manageable up until I reached my 60s.”
With both of my parents gone, the empty nest, looking around, and seeing all the young musicians in the music industry, I became more and more dependent on it, and it just got worse.
She continued, “For many years, and I can’t tell how many, I had not been happy with my feelings, had not been at all happy, and [yet] unable to ask for assistance.” Lulu evocatively recalls her parents’ domestic violence experiences from her early years.
It is a “family illness.” She claimed that there is a gene. Due to the fear that her parents would be labeled as “bad people,” Lulu decided to keep quiet about what she saw at home.
She continues to feel shame about her actions despite the fact that she now thinks they were “damaged.” According to Lulu, her drinking was “the culmination of a life spent trying to suppress feelings” and continued to have a bad reputation.
Thankfully, after seeking assistance, Lulu claims she has never been happier in life. She said, “I finally realized it’s an illness that messes with everything.”
“I’m sorry I’m an alcoholic and I’m recovering from this,” I’m aware of how it sounds. Since marrying John Frieda from 1977 to 1977, Lulu has wed Maurice Gibb twice.
She says she is now in a “brighter” world with her cockapoo in central London. In May, Lulu opened up to the Mirror about mental health as she launched her own charity, Lulu’s Mental Health Trust.
She told the Mirror, “My memoir opened my eyes to the significance that mental health has had on my life. whether it’s my own mental health, those of my loved ones, my coworkers, or anything else.
“We didn’t talk about it when I was first entering the industry!” However, I want to help because it is so crucial. When I read the book I think is coming soon, people will understand what I mean.
If you are struggling with alcohol abuse or addiction, advice and support can be found at alcoholchange.org.uk
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After leaving the T20s squad in Ireland to play in the County Championship, pace bowler Matthew Potts may return for England’s Ashes tour.
Ben Duckett, the opener against South Africa, and Sam Curran, the all-rounder, have been called back for the first time under head coach Brendon McCullum, making the other three changes to England’s white-ball squad.
In Hamilton in December, Potts, 26, won his final game of his ten starts against New Zealand.
Potts dropped to the left of Jamie Overton, who played in India’s final test in July.
Overton, however, decided to withdraw from red-ball cricket on Monday, opting to miss the Ashes series this winter.
There is one pace bowling slot in an England squad that will be announced at the end of this month because Chris Woakes is trying to recover from a dislocated shoulder and possibly unlikely to travel to Australia anyway given his previous struggles there.
Potts has been exempt from the party for the three T20s against Ireland in Dublin, starting on September 17th, so he won’t play for South Africa in ODIs or T20s.
Given that he is now back in contention for the Ashes, England felt he would be better served if Durham offered him the opportunity to play in Durham’s final three games of the County Championship season.
The Ashes squad’s members are likely to be the quicks, with Potts and Jofra Archer taking the sixth spot.
In the second one-day international at Lord’s on Thursday, Opener Duckett looked visibly jaded in the defeat by South Africa.
The 30-year-old left the grueling five Tests against India, progressing straight to the series against the Proteas, and then The Hundred.
He was far from his best at Lord’s, taking 33 balls over a sloppy 14 with little help. Duckett will take a break before playing in the final ODI against England in Southampton on Sunday, despite the series’ already 2-0 defeat.
In preparation for the Ashes opener in Perth on November 21 and the white ball series in October in New Zealand, he is most likely to be included in the squad.
Curran has a chance to impress McCullum because of his excellent form in The Hundred.
The 27-year-old, who was once a regular for England white ball, hasn’t played since McCullum took over the limited-overs teams at the start of the year.
Curran joins the South African T20 squad immediately, and he will continue to do so in Ireland.
He gives England a seam-bowling all-round option that they were utterly unable to get to at Lord’s on Thursday because he last played for England in the West Indies ten months ago.
In August, Canada’s economy lost thousands of jobs, and its unemployment rate, excluding the pandemic years, reached its highest level in almost 1.6 million.
Statistics Canada released data on Friday, showing a rise in its unemployment rate of 0.2 percentage points in August to 7.1 percent, the highest level since May 2016 if COVID-19 years of 2020 and 2021 were excluded.
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According to the report, the economy lost 65,500 jobs in August, primarily through part-time employment. The company claimed that this was also caused by some layoffs, with the layoff rate rising to 1 percent in August from the previous month’s figure of 0.9 percent.
Despite US tariffs on steel, aluminum, and cars, Canada’s economy has shown resilience in recent months, but Statistics Canada’s labor data revealed that import taxes are robbing up other industries.
Analysts polled by Reuters had predicted a 10% increase in net job growth and an increase in the unemployment rate from the previous month’s 6.9% increase.
The number of job losses in August was at their worst since January 2022.
After the employment data, which had been predicted for almost 72 percent, the odds of a rate cut on September 17 were almost 92 percent.
According to Doug Porter, chief economist at BMO Capital Markets, “I think it just reinforces the fact that the economy is struggling with the uncertainty on the trade front.”
Due to extensive US dollar declines, the Canadian dollar was trading strongly after the data.
Since the pandemic, the employment rate, or the percentage of people working overall, dropped to 60.5 percent in August, which is the lowest level ever. The participation rate, a crucial indicator that measures how many people are economically active, whether they are seeking jobs or actively looking for them, was 65.1 percent, which is the lowest level since the pandemic.
Canadian businesses have been hampered by ongoing uncertainty surrounding US trade policy, which has had a negative impact on job growth and job growth, along with significant job losses in the steel and automotive industries.
The transportation and manufacturing sectors have been the main beneficiaries of this phenomenon. According to StatsCan, manufacturing lost 19 200 jobs in August while transportation and warehousing lost 22,700.
However, the loss of 26, 100 jobs in the field of professional, scientific, and technical services, which make up almost 80% of the economy’s workforce, was surpassed by this. Net 67,200 jobs were lost in the services sector.
The manufacturing industry’s decline was described as “a pretty significant hit.”
David Bowie was working on a secret final project when he died – a musical about the 18th century.
Called The Spectator, its entire existence was unknown to even his closest friends. But notes were discovered locked in his study in 2016 including dozens of sticky post-it notes with ideas for his musical, which could be moved around to create a structure. They have now been donated to the V&A Museum, with the rest of David Bowie’s archive.
Shared with the BBC, the notes and an accompanying notebook shows Bowie’s fascination with the development of art and satire in 18th Century London, as well as stories of criminal gangs including the notorious thief “Honest” Jack Sheppard.
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Unfortunately, the musical didn’t come to fruition until Bowie passed away in January 2016 because it had missed one of Bowie’s long-achieved goals. In 2002, he told BBC Radio 4’s John Wilson, “I really wanted to write for theatre.” And I suppose I could have just written for a theater in my living room, but I believe the goal was always to have a sizable audience.
Bowie had already pinned his notes to the walls of his New York office just as he had left them.
Bowie and his personal assistant were the only ones who had a key in the locked room until archivists began cataloguing his belongings, but they remained there for months.
When the David Bowie Centre opens at the V&, A East Storehouse in Hackney Wick on September 13th, fans and academics can view the notes.
More than 90,000 items from Bowie’s life will be displayed at the exhibition’s opening, including a note from the singer revealing his thoughts on Oasis and why the band struggled to survive in America.
A letter from his father, a rejection letter from Apple Records, and more than 400 clothing items are also included in the Bowie exhibition. Freddie Burretti wore an ice-blue suit for the Life on Mars video in 1972, among other things. and a Kansai Yamamoto bodysuit with a rabbit-print on it that was worn during his 1972 performance at the London Rainbow Theatre as Ziggy Stardust.
A framed black-and-white photograph of Little Richard in full performance frenzy and a large number of fan letters he kept are present. Bowie, who passed away in January 2016, described the photo as one of his most prized possessions.
* V&, A East Storehouse will host The David Bowie Center on September 13. Access is provided by a free ticket that must be pre-purchased.