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Nottinghamshire Outlaws continued their relentless run towards the Friends Life t20 quarter-finals with their fifth win in five home matches as Northamptonshire Steelbacks were beaten by 23 runs

18-Jun-2011
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Nottinghamshire Outlaws continued their relentless run towards the Friends Life t20 quarter-finals with their fifth win in five home matches as Northamptonshire Steelbacks were beaten by 23 runs. Overseas batsman Adam Voges was again the star, as the competition’s leading
scorer hit 49 from 32 balls to help the hosts reach 183 for 6. Fellow Australian international David Hussey contributed 33 while David Willey took 3 for 31 for the visitors.In reply, the Steelbacks never got to grips with the Notts bowling attack and although Alex Wakely struck an enterprising 61 from 36 balls with three fours and two sixes, they eventually finished on 160 for 6, with former Notts batsman Bilal Shafayat making 37. Samit Patel kept things tight to claim 2 for 29 with his left-arm spin and fast bowler Darren Pattinson, the tournament’s leading wicket-taker, took 2 for 32.Notts have hit upon a winning formula at Trent Bridge in the past two seasons of batting first and defending a big target, and skipper Hussey had no hesitation in continuing the trend after winning the toss. Opening batsmen Alex Hales and Riki Wessels put on 46 in the first six overs
before Wessels was bowled by Willey for 29, having hit six fours from 19 balls.Willey also removed Hales four balls later for 17 but Voges and Hussey kept up the momentum with a partnership of 50 off 35 balls. Hussey launched James Middlebrook for six and two fours before he was adjudged lbw to Johan Botha, with Willey returning to bowl Patel, while Voges and Steven Mullaney were victims of Andrew Hall in the closing overs.Pattinson has made a habit of picking up a wicket with the new ball and his offcutter was too good for Rob Newton, who lost his off-stump. Shafayat and Niall O’Brien could not find the boundary in the early stages and although Northamptonshire reached the 10th over before losing another wicket, they were well behind the run-rate.The visiting batsmen were forced to hit out but only Wakely managed to reach the boundary, with O’Brien pulling to midwicket for 26, Shafayat caught at deep midwicket off Patel and the middle order subsiding under the pressure.

Steve Waugh, the former Australian captain, has said a victory for England in the final ODI at Lord’s on Saturday will give them a definite advantage leading into the Ashes later this year

Cricinfo staff03-Jul-2010Steve Waugh, the former Australia captain, has said a victory for England in the final ODI at Lord’s on Saturday will give them a definite advantage leading into the Ashes later this year.”Australia would certainly like to be 3-2 rather than 4-1,” Waugh said during a press conference for the MCC World Cricket Committee. “At 3-2 neither side can say they had a big advantage, but 4-1 and England will walk away thinking we have got it over Australia.”They will think: ‘We won the Twenty20, we won the one-day games 4-1,’ and although Test cricket is a different game, momentum plays a big part in sport so this game coming up is important for Australia.”Waugh admitted England had grown more determined over the last year and will not be intimidated when they defend the Ashes this year. “I have noticed a bit of a change in the England side,” he said. “In the last 12 months they have escaped three Test matches. At Cardiff last year they were nine down and then the same happened in two Test matches in South Africa. That tells me they are a tough side to beat and fight all the way. They will go to Australia and will not be intimidated.”England had regained the Ashes in 2005, after a gap of 18 years, before being thrashed 0-5 when they toured Australia next year. However, they beat Australia 2-1 in 2009 under Andrew Strauss. The lessons learnt from the defeat in Australia on their previous visit, Waugh said, will stand England in good stead in their trophy defence.”I think they will learn from the last series, where they prepared poorly and were still thinking about the previous win in England [2005]. They got carried away but they won’t have the same complacency this time around. Eoin Morgan has brought a new element to the English side as well with the way he plays.”He has not lost in Australia, and it is really important whenever a side goes to Australia they have a lot of cricketers in there who have not been there before and experienced defeat. They go with fresh eyes and are not too worried about what has happened in the past and play on the present, so he [Morgan] will be an important part of the team.”

Fifties from Qasim Akram and Sahibzada Farhan led Dolphins’ spirited attempt in the chase but it wasn’t enough

Danyal Rasool14-Sep-2024A century for Usman Khan and five wickets by Mohammad Hasnain inspired Panthers to their first win of the Champions One-Day Cup, beating Dolphins by 50 runs. A team batting effort that also saw quickfire half-centuries from Haider Ali and Shadab Khan helped them to 328, the third consecutive time in this competition the first innings saw a score in excess of 325. Qasim Akram’s 65 and a half-century from Sahibzada Farhan led Dolphins to the most spirited attempt at a chase in this competition, but Hasnain ripping through the middle order meant they always looked a bit shy of the target.Batting conditions have been easier in the first innings in Faisalabad thus far, and after being stung looking to chase in the opening game, Shadab had no hesitation batting first this time. His side wobbled in the early stages when Mir Hamza prised out both openers for single figures, but Usman and Haider’s 103-run fifth-wicket partnership steered the ship back on course towards the huge first-innings total that has become characteristic of this season. Once again, the bowlers were unable to stem the flow of runs in the death overs, and though legspinner Usman Qadir did take three wickets in the final over, much of the damage had already been done.Dolphins started brightly with a 68-run stand between openers Mohammad Hurraira and Farhan, but the legspin of Usama Mir and Shadab found a way of breaking through. Mir coaxed edges out of Farhan and Mohammad Akhlaq, and Shadab removed Hurraira, who had sped along with three fours and as many sixes in a 30-ball 39.It was the Hasnain show thereafter. With his trademark high pace, he kept chipping away at the middle order, a couple of sixes off the final two balls of his spell souring figures that were far more impressive than the 5 for 74 may register on the scorecard. It wasn’t until he cleaned up Qasim and Faheem Ashraf in the 42nd and 44th overs that the game irrevocably swung his side’s way, with the five-for he registered just reward for his efforts.

He got there in 54 balls after Sean Williams cracked 91 off 58 deliveries, as Zimbabwe made it two in a row

Madushka Balasuriya20-Jun-2023Zimbabwe 319 for 4 (Raza 102*, Williams 91, Shariz 2-62) beat Netherlands 315 for 6 (Vikramjit 88, Edwards 83, Raza 4-55) by six wicketsYet another imperious hand from Sean Williams and an all-round masterclass from Sikandar Raza ensured that a potentially tricky chase was handled with relative ease, as Zimbabwe made it two wins from two with a six-wicket victory over Netherlands.Raza’s impact on the game was absolute, having started with a four-wicket haul to help keep the opposition down to what he deemed a “par” total of 315 – such was the nature of the track. That culminated with a truly belligerent display of power-hitting that climaxed incredibly in him reaching the fastest ever ODI century by a Zimbabwe batter, finishing unbeaten on 102 off 54 deliveries.But while Raza will rightly take all the headlines, Williams’ role cannot be understated. His was a knock that was an exhibition in game management. Having come in to bat in the 14th over, he took a few overs to get in before cutting loose and looting 48 runs from overs 17-21. And he kept plugging away at a steady rate before Raza joined him in the 25th over.At that point, Raza immediately made his intentions clear, as Williams took on a more reserved role. While Netherlands would no doubt rue some dropped chances over the course of the innings, once Williams – and then Raza – started going, there was no stopping the Zimbabwe juggernaut.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Raza would end the game having struck six fours and eight sixes – three of which came in three consecutive deliveries in a brutal assault on Shariz Ahmad in the 39th over – and such was his authority at Harare Sports Club that you wondered if any score Netherlands would have put up would have been enough. If it was any consolation, then 315 was their joint-highest score in ODIs.Having been put into bat on a belter of a batting track, Netherlands weathered some early movement, and proceeded to motor along in their innings. A 120-run opening stand between Max O’Dowd and Vikramjit Singh was followed by a 96-run partnership between Vikramjit and captain Scott Edwards, who hit 83.But despite their best efforts, they were never allowed to get out of hand, as Raza – utilising his vast experience and array of variations – consistently struck with the ball. Having broken the first-wicket union with a quicker one outside off that was chopped on by O’Dowd, Raza struck in his next over too, cleaning Wesley Barresi up with another one that was quicker and full.And just as Edwards and Vikramjit would have been eyeing a big finish, Raza returned in the 39th over to have the latter miscue a sweep when on 88, and thus broke a threatening stand. That wicket, of the set batter, potentially took the momentum out of Netherlands’ innings; they did go on to score 81 off the final ten overs, which was a good effort, yet not good enough in terms of what the surface offered.And so it would prove, as Raza returned with the bat to land the finishing blow on an otherwise respectable Netherlands performance.

Opener fails to get prescribed minimum score on yo-yo test, PTI reports

PTI16-Mar-2022Mumbai captain and Delhi Capitals batter Prithvi Shaw, who was at a camp at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru, has failed a yo-yo test. The BCCI’s prescribed minimum score on the yo-yo test is supposedly 16.5 for men, and it is learnt that Shaw scored less than 15.”These are just fitness updates. Obviously, it doesn’t stop Prithvi from playing for Delhi Capitals in IPL,” a BCCI source told PTI. “It’s just a fitness parameter and not the be all and end all.Related

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“He has played three Ranji matches back-to-back. Once you play three first-class games on the bounce, the fatigue can also affect your yo-yo score.”Shaw was part of a group of players at a camp at the NCA between March 5 and March 14, ESPNcricinfo reported. The players had to undergo fitness tests at the end of the camp, before joining their IPL teams. The fitness tests at the end of the camp would be used to record a baseline mark for every player ahead of a busy season.Hardik Pandya bowls at NCA
India allrounder and Gujarat Titans captain Hardik Pandya, who was also at the NCA, had a bowl and passed the yo-yo test.”Let’s make it clear. Fitness test clearance is only for those who are coming back from injury. In the case of Hardik, it was about getting a general fitness assessment going into the gruelling IPL season,” the BCCI source said. “He is an asset and one needed to check his current fitness standards.”He didn’t need to bowl at NCA but he has bowled for considerable time and in the range of 135 kmph. On the second day, he crossed the yo-yo test with flying colours with a 17-plus score, which is much above the cut-off level.”Hardik is yet to return to a full bowling workload for India following back surgery in late 2019, and this has affected the team balance.

Chennai Super Kings captain though admits it is time to revamp the team’s core

Nagraj Gollapudi01-Nov-2020″Definitely not.”With those words MS Dhoni assured the Chennai Super Kings fans that he is not retiring from the IPL. Dhoni, who retired from international cricket on August 15, said that he would be back next IPL, but admitted that it was time to revamp the Super Kings’ core group at the next mega auction.Dhoni had challenged the Super Kings to stay “relevant” in the competition after the three-time champions had become the first team to be eliminated from the play-off race this IPL. Although the Super Kings finished last, they managed to somewhat erase that disappointment with victory in their last three matches in the league phase including their final contest on Sunday against Kings XI Punjab.Dhoni the batsman had his worst IPL as he managed just 200 runs in 12 innings at a strike rate of 116. Once the best finisher in the white-ball cricket, Dhoni was woeful and on several occasions this IPL as he failed to carry his team past the target.Speculation about his future was trending on social media each time players from rival IPL teams posed with his No. 7 jersey. On Sunday Dhoni ensured twice, initially at the toss and then at the post-match presentation that he was going nowhere.”May be they thought I’m retiring – you know retired from international cricket, may be I’ll retire form the shortest form also,”Dhoni jokingly told Harsha Bhogle after the Super Kings’ win. When Bhogle checked to confirm whether that was actually going to happen, with a smile and a nod, Dhoni said: “definitely not.”The Super Kings endured their worst IPL campaign on different fronts. First, the abrupt return to India of Suresh Raina, their vice-captain, who left the IPL bubble in the UAE in controversial circumstances, which led to the Super Kings’ owner N Srinivasan to claim that the player would regret his decisionJos Buttler receives a special gift after finishing the chase for the Rajasthan Royals•BCCI

The challenge for Dhoni and Super Kings’ coaching staff led by Stephen Fleming mounted after senior offspinner Harbhajan Singh opted out of the IPL due to personal reasons and never arrived in the UAE.Further misery unfolded as Deepak Chahar and Ruturaj Gaikwad were among a group of more than a dozen in the Super Kings contingent to test positive for Covid-19, which robbed the squad of valuable training time.Despite all that Super Kings got off to a winning start surprising defending champions Mumbai Indians in the tournament opener. However the losing run started soon and the slide was sudden and steep. Dhoni agreed that the “template” that his team found in the four wins at the back end of the tournament was missing in the first half.”It was a difficult campaign for us. I don’t think we played to the full potential. We did commit a lot of errors at different points in the tournament, but the last four games could be the template as to where we would have liked ourselves to be.”Still, very proud of the way the guys played because seven or eight games in the tournament and if you are lagging behind too much it becomes very difficult to push yourself and come out with performances. That is where each and everybody had to contribute, and really proud the way they played cricket. It is not an easy one: you wouldn’t want to be in a dressing room that is not really enjoying cricket. If the dressing room atmosphere is not happy then it becomes very tough.”Dhoni, though, said that the Super Kings will bounce back next IPL. “We will come back strong. That’s what we are known for. Yes, this has been a tough year. Yes, we are eighth on the table. This is one of the seasons where most of the teams played well or you can say, okay, one team played brilliantly, which is Mumbai Indians, and the rest all played badly to be in a big cluster.”MS Dhoni speaks in the team huddle•BCCI

‘Need to change core group’
According to Dhoni it was time for the Super Kings management to plan for the next decade and not focus on the next IPL. Part of that process, Dhoni pointed out, would mean an overhaul of the squad including building a new core group of players, who would be bought at the next mega auction.The BCCI has not yet disclosed to the franchises when it plans to have that mega auction. Originally it was schedule to take place before the 2021 IPL. However with the next IPL scheduled for next April, it is more than likely the BCCI would conduct a mini auction.”A lot depends on what the BCCI will decide about the auction,”Dhoni said on the Super Kings’ future plans. “We need to slightly change our core group and look at the next 10 years. Because at the start of the IPL we made a team it served well for us for the next 10 years. There comes a time where you have to shift a bit, change a bit, and hand it over to the next generation.”That’s what will be the policy: try to form a strong core group and if there is a small or big auction, then each year complement players getting into the core group. That’s where we lacked this season, we missed quite a few players, but that’s something we will do in the next auction.”

Charlie Hemphrey vigil in vain as Glamorgan suffer first defeat of Championship season

ECB Reporters Network16-Jul-2019It took Middlesex 90 minutes on the final morning to take the last four Glamorgan wickets and inflict on them their first Championship defeat of the season and also the heaviest defeat the Welsh county have suffered in terms of runs.The seventh-wicket pair of Charlie Hemphrey and Graham Wagg resisted for 50 minutes to share a partnership of 62 before Hemphrey’s vigil, lasing more than five hours, ended. He had faced 254 balls which included a six and eight fours before he became the second Glamorgan opener in the innings to feather an innocuous delivery down the leg-side to the wicketkeeper.It was a disappointing end to a chanceless innings, but Hemphrey showed that he has all the attributes to develop into a successful opener as he comes to terms with his first season in county cricket.Wagg went shortly afterwards for 40, guiding a delivery from Toby Roland-Jones to second slip, and the Middlesex seamer, armed with the new ball, removed Lukas Carey’s off stump to claim his fifth wicket to end with 5 for 68 for the innings and his ninth wicket for the match Former England bowler Roland-Jones has been a revelation since returning from injury and indifferent form, claiming 19 wickets in the last two games.”It’s been great to be back and contributing,” Roland-Jones said. “And after such along time out with injury it’s taken some time to find my rhythm again. I’m over that now and hopefully we can carry this success on for the remainder of the season.”Facing defeat, Marchant De Lange decided it was time for some lusty blows, and when Tim Murtagh was recalled, also with the new ball, De Lange struck him for 24, with two sixes and three fours, in the only over he bowled before being replaced.After De Lange and Michael Hogan had enjoyed themselves with a rapid partnership of 35, the fun ended when Nathan Sowter had Hogan caught on the long-off boundary for 22, with De lange undefeated on 45.Hemphrey, who top scored with 72 for the home team said: “After some missed chances in their first innings and tumbling to 25 for 5 at the end of the day, we were always playing catch up, and from then on Middlesex had the momentum and came at us hard. We fought back in the second innings to get near 300, and it was nice to contribute but Middlesex thoroughly deserved their win.”

Pitch orientation forced tournament organisers to admit defeat when World Cup fixtures were confirmed

Andrew Miller26-Apr-2018The ICC was forced to abandon the notion of staging World Cup matches at London’s Olympic Stadium next year, due to concerns that the setting sun would render one end of the pitch unusable from a playing and television perspective.Despite a clear desire to incorporate East London’s iconic stadium into plans for what has been billed as the “World’s Greatest Cricket Celebration”, the tournament organisers were forced to admit defeat when the World Cup fixtures were confirmed by the ICC this morning.The omission was “very disappointing”, said Steve Elworthy, the tournament director, who had envisaged turning the entire Olympic Park into a focal point for fans across London, with a particular emphasis on the Asian and Caribbean populations of the host borough, Newham.This decision came after an exhaustive feasibility study, which even included Andrew Strauss and Eoin Morgan shadow-batting along the three orientations – North-South, East-West and 55-degree – that had been considered for the laying of the drop-in wickets that have been prepared at Lord’s and Loughborough in the lead-up to the event.Of these, the North-South option would have been the operational preference, in keeping with the majority of the other 11 selected venues, including Old Trafford – the host of the marquee India-Pakistan match – which rotated its own pitch by 90 degrees as part of a major redevelopment in 2010.However, the studies concluded that a North-South pitch would have caused too much upheaval to the architecture of the stadium, which includes permanent replay screens at both ends of the ground, both of which would be rendered unusable due to their impacting on the batsman’s line of sight.That would have necessitated the erection of temporary replacement scoreboards and TV gantries, while the press facilities, currently situated on the west side of the ground, would have had to have been moved behind the bowler’s arm at the southern end. The overall impact, not to mention the exorbitant costs of such a refit, would have been the loss of approximately 28,000 seats – or the equivalent of a full house at Lord’s.The notion of angling the wicket at 55 degrees across the venue was ruled out for similar logistical reasons – oblique sight-screens and overflow press facilities would have had to be erected, while the spectator experience of watching from seats not directly aligned to the action would have been unsatisfactory.The only option would have been to face the setting sun, but for a left-hander such as Morgan in particular, this would have necessitated staring directly into the light for the latter part of a day-game.”The sun was a big challenge,” said Morgan. “What they have at the moment is a Perspex roof, which allowed the sun to come directly over the bowler’s arm, and to have it in the opposite direction would have meant a bit of a shorter boundary. There were a lot more challenges, but we did go out and have a look at it. It’s a beautiful stadium.”Further challenges included the repositioning of the floodlights, which have been folded in from their previous high position during the 2012 Olympics and are now just 20 metres from the ground – good for West Ham’s purposes as a football club but far from ideal for high catches in cricket.And West Ham’s residency caused more complications for the ICC – with a six-week turnaround required at either end of the football season creating an extremely limited window for test events.Despite from interest from Essex in particular since the stadium’s inception, the venue has never yet hosted a cricket match of any length, and the likelihood of that ever now happening seems remote, at least while West Ham remain the venue’s principal tenants.Despite suggestions that West Ham’s under-soil heating would have been an issue for the laying of the drop-in wickets, the bigger concern for the ICC was the fear of serious injury – akin to that of Simon Jones at Brisbane in the 2002-03 Ashes – on what would have had to be a raised sand-based outfield.

A round-up of the Group D games in the 2016-17 Vijay Hazare Trophy, which took place on February 25, 2017

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Feb-2017Hyderabad seamer Ravi Kiran and left-arm spinner Mehdi Hasan took three wickets each to help their side bowl out Jammu & Kashmir for 228 and set up a 29-run win. A 70-run partnership for the fourth wicket between Parvez Rasool and Ahmed Bandy, which came at more than eight runs an over, had put J&K’s chase of 258 back on track after quick wickets. However, once both batsmen were out, the lower order slumped quickly – J&K lost their five wickets for 22 runs to fold in the 43rd over.Earlier, fifties from openers Tanmay Agarwal and Akshath Reddy carried Hyderabad to 257. Their 127-run opening partnership gave Hyderabad a platform strong enough to survive a brief slide where they lost four wickets within five overs, before S Badrinath and Hasan nudged the score past 200. Hasan remained unbeaten on 28 off 26 balls, having seen the side through to 257.MS Dhoni’s 50-ball 43 and Saurabh Tiwary’s 68 were not enough to help Jharkhand chase down a target of 267 against Karnataka, who won by five runs with only one ball to spare. The pair came together with Jharkhand at 79 for 4 in the 20th over and added 81 runs to put the chase back on track. After Dhoni fell, Tiwary kept the chase alive with a rapid 39 runs for the seventh wicket with Shabaz Nadeem off 26 deliveries. However, Tiwary’s dismissal in the 42nd over left Jharkhand with another 63 to get and although the lower order strung up partnerships, the side was eventually dismissed off the penultimate ball of the game. Rahul Shukla was the last man to fall, run out for 23 off 20 balls, having driven the lower-order partnerships. K Gowtham had returns of 4 for 58.Shukla had earlier taken 4 for 45 in his nine overs as Karnataka were bowled out for 266. Ravikumar Samarth (71) and Manish Pandey (77) struck fifties and shared a 116-run partnership for the third wicket. Pavan Deshpande, too, chipped in with 36 off 34 balls.Seamer Suraj Yadav and wicketkeeper-batsman Nakul Verma played stellar hands in Services‘ 48-run victory over Saurashtra.Yadav struck three times in his first two overs – including two wickets off two balls in the first over – to leave Saurashtra’s chase of 263 in trouble. Their score of 6 for 3 soon became 44 for 5 and they only managed to limp to 215 due to half-centuries from Prerak Mankad (58) and Jaydev Unadkat (57). Yadav returned to pick up one more wicket for figures of 4 for 47.Earlier, Verma’s second List-A century, 124 off 132 balls at the top of the order, set the base for Services’ total of 263 for 9. The remaining Services batsmen got starts but only Soumya Swain made a substantial contribution among them, with 32 off 36 deliveries. Seamer Shaurya Sanandia took 4 for 67 for Saurashtra

The BCCI working committee has decided to set in motion the process for hiring a CEO and CFO for the board

Arun Venugopal19-Feb-20163:57

Venugopal: Confusion around BCCI’s combined affidavit

The BCCI working committee has decided to set in motion the process for hiring a chief executive officer (CEO) and chief financial officer (CFO) for the board. The decision was taken at the working committee in Mumbai on Friday, which was followed by a special general meeting (SGM) of the board. The big domestic news to come out of the SGM was the decision to grant full-member status to Chhattisgarh State Cricket Sangh – meaning they will now play BCCI tournaments including the Ranji Trophy, taking the number of Ranji teams up to 28.On the international front, it was decided to rework the BCCI’s future tours programme (FTP) for the period 2016 to 2023, to “ensure equitable distribution of the matches”. Following the ICC revamp in 2014, when the main FTP-setting powers passed from the ICC to the individual boards, the BCCI signed bilateral agreements that confirmed India would play the most Tests (20) against England from 2015 to 2023, followed by Australia (16) and South Africa (12), with teams see as less attractive opposition seemingly losing out.The creation of the post of a CEO was a change recommended by the Lodha panel, which had looked into the governance of the board, and submitted a report with the Supreme Court of India, which was then passed on to the BCCI. One of the big recommendations dealt with the board separating its governance and management duties, with the CEO taking charge of the management side of things. The board was supposed to let the court know by March 3 about the implementation of all the recommendations. “If you have any difficulty in implementing it, we will have the Lodha Committee implement it for you,” Justice Thakur had told the BCCI counsel.IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla, though, said the board’s decision to create the posts had nothing to do with the Lodha recommendation. “This is based on the ‘Project Transformation’ report,” Shukla said. In October, auditing giant M/S Deloitte was hired for “Project Transformation”, the board’s initiative aimed at improving governance, and operational and financial processes, according to a statement explaining the project on the BCCI’s website.With regards to the Lodha recommendations, the BCCI decided to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court to point out the “anomalies” in the Lodha report, and the “difficulties” encountered in the implementation of all its recommendations. While BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur said the affidavit will be filed on March 3 – the deadline given by the Supreme Court – IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla said it would be done earlier. “We will file our affidavit before the deadline. KK Venugopal is appearing for us [in this case],” Shukla said.