Vitaly Ryumshin, journalist and political analyst …. https://www.gazeta.ru/
While Russia closely follows the negotiations over Ukraine and the ongoing saga regarding Telegram, a different drama is unfolding across the Atlantic. It’s one that feels less like geopolitics and more like a real-world science fiction thriller. And this time, it’s not fiction.
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Item in The Island, 26 February 2026, withthis Title: “Samra, Airee headline Associates’ team of the tournament
The 2026 T20 World Cup was one where the Associate teams shone the brightest, often pushing the Full Members to their limits. Who are the players that stood out at the World Cup? Here’s the Associate’s team of the tournament.
Yuvraj Samra recorded a 58-ball century against New Zealand [Cricinfo] Yuvraj Samra recorded a 58-ball century against New Zealand [Cricinfo]
Yuvraj Samra … Canada (144 runs at 36.00; strike rate 156.52) …. The 19-year-old opener became the first Associate batter to score a T20 World Cup century against New Zealand. In his tournament-defining innings, he stepped down to Matt Henry, took apart James Neesham and dispatched Cole McConchie. But beyond the 110, he couldn’t cross 17 in the other three outings.
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in ESPNcricinfo, 00 February 2026,nwhere the title runs thus: “Ravindra, Santner and McConchie eliminate Sri Lanka”
A stunning rearguard from Santner and McConchie with the bat, followed by Ravindra’s four-for, gave New Zealand a massive win … New Zealand 168 for 7 (Santner 47, Ravindra 32, McConchie 31*, Theekshana 3-30, Chameera 3-38) beat Sri Lanka 107 for 8 (Kamindu 31, Ravindra 4-27, Henry 2-3) by 61 runs
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Desert Wanderer
Australia is recalling diplomatic staff from embassies across West Asia, including Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and the UAE.
Australia has also advised all Australian citizens to leave the region immediately, saying the situation in West Asia is unstable and unpredictable. If they don’t leave now, and war breaks out, all commercial airline flights to and from the region will cease and there will be no way out.
This development suggests Australia has either been informed by the US of the date war will break out; or that Trump’s State of the Union address indicates to Australia that the decision to go to war has been made, and that war is imminent.
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Andrew Fidel Fernando in ESPNcricinfo, 25 Feb 2026, where the headline reads “Harry Brook restores order on another rowdy night for England”
Promoted to work the doors from No. 3, England’s captain grabbed this game and chucked it on the pile with the empties. Sometimes you just need a good bouncer in your life. Not the kind that rears up off the pitch and follows you into your personal space. The kind that stands outside a nightclub and maintains a basic level of orderliness in otherwise disorderly environs. Harry Brook would know. He has been smacked by both.
It was in the early days of England‘s winter, way back on October 31, when Brook got into an altercation with a Wellington bouncer hours before going on to captain the third ODI against New Zealand. As with the cricketing variety, being struck by a bouncer can really change a guy. If you’re smart, evasive action tends to be taken. Since arriving in mid-January in South Asia, about a week after this story emerged in the press, Brook has made it a point to stress team curfews, remaining level, and generally just laying off them beers, lad.Filed under Uncategorized
Vijayarajan Subramanium, in Facebook, 26 February 2026
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These historic photographs are in my stock by the grace and initiative of LAM SENEVIRATNE of Colombo, a venerable follower of a venerable game.
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Hardly a week goes by, when someone in this country does not preach to us about the great, long lasting and noble nature of the culture of the Sinhala Buddhist people. Some Sundays, it is a Catholic priest that sings the virtues of Buddhist culture. Some eminent university professor, not necessarily Buddhist, almost weekly in this newspaper, extols the superiority of Buddhist values in our society. Some 70 percent of the population in this society, at Census, claim that they are Buddhist in religion. They are all capped by that loud statement in dhammacakka pavattana sutta, commonly believed to have been spoken by the Buddha to his five colleagues, when all of them were seeking release from unsatisfactory state of being:
‘….jati pi dukkha jara pi dukkha maranam pi dukkham yam pi…. sankittena…. ‘
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Desert Wanderer, whose incisive & startling READINGS have been subject to highlights from the Thuppahi ‘pen’
Israeli Knesset Member Almog Cohen says the month of Ramadan, when Muslims all over the world are fasting, is the ‘best time to kill’ the people of Gaza because they’re weak and tired’….. See middleeastmonitor.com/Filed under Uncategorized
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thuppahi
