Monday, 1 February 2016
Lionel Messi is hoping to arrange a meeting with an Afghan boy
KABUL: Barcelona star Lionel Messi is hoping to arrange a meeting with an Afghan boy who shot to fame after pictures of him dressed in a striped plastic bag jersey went viral, Kabul's football federation said Monday.Five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi idolises the Argentine soccer star but a jersey of his favourite player is beyond the means of his poor family in the volatile province of Ghazni near Kabul.
His elder brother Homayoun, 15, made him the blue-and-white-striped plastic shirt with Messi's named scrawled in marker pen and posted the photos of Murtaza wearing it on Facebook in mid-January.
Jorge Messi, Lionel's father, told AFP on Saturday that the footballer was aware of the photos that made waves on social media and "wants to do something" for his young fan.
new squad for sri lanka t20
NEW delhi: The BCCI selection committee have rested Virat Kohli for the upcoming three-match Twenty20 international series with Sri Lanka. Karnataka batsman Manish Pandey, who scored a match-winning maiden ODI century in the final match in Sydney recently, has been included as Kohli's replacement.From the squad that toured Australia recently, those to be dropped are Rishi Dhawan, Gurkeerat Singh Mann and Umesh Yadav. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who had to fly back from Australia with a fractured left thumb, has been named in place of Umesh who did not feature in any of the three T20Is in Australia. Gurkeerat drops out with Ajinkya Rahane fit as well, with Delhi's Pawan Negi the chosen allrounder in place of Himachal Pradesh's Dhawan.
This is a first international call-up for Negi, 23, who is a left-arm spinner and hard-hitting left-hand batsman with 56 T20 matches to his credit, from which he averages 19.16 with the bat at a strike-rate of 134.92 and has to his credit 46 wickets at 26.28. In the recent Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy he took six wickets in nine matches at 33.66 (economy 8.71) and scored 173 runs at 86.50 with a strike-rate of 173. He has also played a few cameos for suspended IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings, apart from taking crucial wickets.
The rest of the squad is the same as that which toured Australia and won the series 3-0. The three T20I matches will be played in Pune on February 9, Ranchi on February 12 and Visakhapatnam on February 14.
India squad: MS Dhoni (capt/wk), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Pawan Negi
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