రాహుల్తో ఆరోగ్యకరమైన పోటీ: ధావన్

పుణె వేదికగా శ్రీలంకతో మూడో టీ20 విజయానంతరం టీమిండియా ఓపెనర్ శిఖర్ ధావన్ మాట్లాడాడు. కేఎల్ రాహుల్తో తనకు ఆరోగ్యకరమైన పోటీ ఉందని తెలిపాడు.

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శిఖర్ ధావన్

Published : Jan 11, 2020, 10:03 AM IST

Updated : Jan 11, 2020, 10:34 AM IST

గాయంతో జట్టుకు దూరంగా ఉండటం.. నిలకడలేమితో ప్రదర్శన చేయలేకపోవడం లాంటి కారణాలతో టీమిండియా ఓపెనర్ శిఖర్ ధావన్ స్థానంపై అనుమానం రేకెత్తింది. ఇదే సమయంలో కేఎల్ రాహుల్ సత్తాచాటుతుండటం వల్ల ధావన్ పని అయిపోయినట్లే అనుకుంటున్నారు క్రీడా ప్రేక్షకులు. అయితే ఈ అంశంపై స్పందించిన గబ్బర్.. తమ మధ్య ఆరోగ్యకరమైన పోటీ ఉందని, క్రికెట్లో ఇది చాలా అవసరమని అన్నాడు.

"రాహుల్తో కలిసి ఇన్నింగ్స్ ప్రారంభించడం చాలా ఆనందంగా ఉంది. ఇద్దరం జట్టుకు మంచి ఆరంభాన్నిచ్చాం. గత మ్యాచ్లోనూ 30 పరుగులతో రాణించా. నా దృష్టిలో అవి కూడా విలువైనవే. ఒక్కసారి క్రీజులో కుదురుకుంటే.. ఎక్కువ పరుగులు చేయొచ్చు. ఈ మ్యాచ్లో వెంట వెంటనే వికెట్లు కోల్పోయినప్పటికీ 200 పైచిలుకు పరుగులు సాధించాం. మా ఇద్దరి(రాహుల్తో) మధ్య ఆరోగ్యకరమైన పోటీ ఉంది. మేము మంచి స్నేహితులం." -శిఖర్ ధావన్, టీమిండియా ఓపెనర్

పుణె వేదికగా శ్రీలంకతో జరిగిన మూడో టీ20లో భారత్ ఘన విజయం సాధించింది. టీమిండియా ఇచ్చిన 202 పరుగుల లక్ష్యాన్ని ఛేదించలేక 123 రన్స్కే చేతులెత్తేశారు లంకేయులు. ఫలితంగా 78 పరుగుల తేడాతో గెలుపొందింది కోహ్లీ సేన. ఈ మ్యాచ్లో ధావన్ 36 బంతుల్లో 52 పరుగులు చేసి పాత గబ్బర్ను గుర్తు చేశాడు. రాహుల్ 54 పరుగులతో మరోసారి అదరగొట్టాడు.

ఇదీ చదవండి: వడాపావ్, పూరీపై భారత క్రికెటర్ల ముచ్చట్లు

"రాహుల్తో కలిసి ఇన్నింగ్స్ ప్రారంభించడం చాలా ఆనందంగా ఉంది. ఇద్దరం జట్టుకు మంచి ఆరంభాన్నిచ్చాం. గత మ్యాచ్లోనూ 30 పరుగులతో రాణించా. నా దృష్టిలో అవి కూడా విలువైనవే. ఒక్కసారి క్రీజులో కుదురుకుంటే.. ఎక్కువ పరుగులు చేయొచ్చు. ఈ మ్యాచ్లో వెంట వెంటనే వికెట్లు కోల్పోయినప్పటికీ 200 పైచిలుకు పరుగులు సాధించాం. మా ఇద్దరి(రాహుల్తో) మధ్య ఆరోగ్యకరమైన పోటీ ఉంది. మేము మంచి స్నేహితులం." -శిఖర్ ధావన్, టీమిండియా ఓపెనర్

ఇదీ చదవండి: వడాపావ్, పూరీపై భారత క్రికెటర్ల ముచ్చట్లు

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Burragate, New South Wales – 10 January 2020
1. Wide of the mud brick home of local resident Evan Harris
2. Wide of wind whipping through trees in orange sky
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Evan Harris, local resident:
"My plan is to stay for as long as possible and then I'll seek refuge down at the fire shed."
4. Wide tracking of Harris, Harris talking UPSOUND (English): "Well, as you can see all the windows had sheets of iron put over them that then had insulation put behind the sheets of iron. Lots of clearing going on here, trees being cut down there and there."
5. Wide of Harris' home
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Evan Harris, local resident:
"The police came and suggested that I leave. The RFS (Rural Fire Service) just said it was time to leave and I said 'Well, I'm not leaving.'
(Reporter (asking off-screen): "And why is that?")
Harris: "Because I'm trying to defend something that I think is sustainable. I think if this house survives, I think it'll be, particularly in the conditions you see around you with this bush and things here, if this house survives it'll be a bit of a wake up call for people that maybe people should start building like this instead of over exorbitant houses that are too close to the trees and things like that."
7. Pan left of Harris showing his backyard ++CONTAINS CAMERA FLASHES++
8. Harris turning on light in his living room
9. Various interiors of house
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Evan Harris, local resident:
"This is a result of the human species demanding too much of the environment and you put too much pressure on the environment… Australia's only been inhabited for 200 years, that's a very, very short period of time. If you think you know what this country has to offer, you have no idea. There were people living here for 60,000 years and we came here and didn't listen to them."
11. Wide of house exterior
12. Tracking of Harris walking, reporter asking UPSOUND (English) "This is where you cleared?"
13. Mid of Harris looking out off the hill into the orange sky, pointing
14. Harris speaking UPSOUND (English) "I'm not necessarily angry, I'm just disappointed."
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Evan Harris, local resident:
"We dominated them (Aboriginal Australians) and we told them they were just heathens, or whatever way you want to describe it, and we walked all over them and they had a good philosophy and a good logic that sustained them in this environment and you should be going back to those people and asking them. Probably too late now."
16. Tracking of Harris walking ++CONTAINS CAMERA FLASHES++
17. Various of Harris walking away
STORYLINE:
Evan Harris said police and fire crews told him he should leave his cottage because of the threat posed by Australia’s wildfires, but he told them he wasn’t going anywhere.
While most people in the path of the raging fires have complied with the recommendations of authorities, some are choosing to ignore them and remain to try to defend their homes.
Because the advice generally isn’t mandatory, there’s not much authorities can do, other than wish those who elect to stay good luck.
The fires have devastated the country since September, killing at least 26 people and destroying more than 2,000 homes.
Harris lives in the small rural village of Burragate, which for several hours on Friday was choked with smoke and was directly in the fire’s path.
A fire strike team and several members of the Australian Army arrived in the town to try to save properties, and the assembled team was prepared to hunker down in the town’s fire station if the flames overran them.
In the end, the winds died down and so did the fire.
The crisis was averted, for now.
But fire crews worry the flames will flare up again during a fire season that could continue for months.
Harris said he likes to live off the grid in his remote home, which is made from mud bricks.
He has no electricity, and instead uses batteries to power the lights and a small wood burner to heat water.
The cottage itself has a warm and cozy feel. And Harris feels like he has a point to make.
“If this house survives I think it will be a bit of a wake-up call for people,” he said.
“That maybe people should start building like this, instead of over-exorbitant houses.”
Harris prepared for the fires expected on Friday night by tacking sheets of iron over his windows and clearing the area around the house of grass and shrubbery that might have caught alight.
He dug a hole away from the cottage to house his gas canisters.
Harris said his plan was to stay as long as possible to defend his home and then retreat to the fire station in the village if needed.
But he may have found it difficult to get to the station if the fire had ended up surrounding the house.
Harris said he was disappointed in the environmental destruction that Europeans had visited upon Australia in just over 200 years since they’d first arrived, and that people should be paying attention to the more sustainable way that indigenous Australians had lived for the prior 60,000 years.
“This is a result of the human species demanding too much of the environment,” he said of the wildfires.
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Last Updated : Jan 11, 2020, 10:34 AM IST

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