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టెస్టు సిరీస్ కోసం భారత్కు వచ్చేందుకు సిద్ధమైన క్రికెటర్ డుప్లెసిస్.. విమానం ఆలస్యం కావడం వల్ల గమ్యానికి చేరుకునేందుకు ఇబ్బంది పడ్డాడు. సంబంధిత ఎయిర్లైన్స్పై ట్విట్టర్ వేదికగా ఆగ్రహం వ్యక్తం చేశాడు.
డుప్లెసిస్
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Published : Sep 21, 2019, 3:33 PM IST
| Updated : Oct 1, 2019, 11:31 AM IST
దక్షిణాఫ్రికా టెస్టు జట్టు సారథి డుప్లెసిస్కు కోపమొచ్చింది. భారత్తో టెస్టు సిరీస్ కోసం వస్తుండగా బ్రిటీష్ ఎయిర్లైన్స్ విమానం ఆలస్యమైంది. గమ్యాన్ని సకాలంలో చేరుకోలేకపోయాడు. అసహనానికి గురైన ఈ క్రికెటర్.. ట్విట్టర్ వేదికగా ఆ సంస్థపై ఆగ్రహం వ్యక్తం చేశాడు.
"నేను దుబాయ్‌ రావడానికి నాలుగు గంటలు ఆలస్యమైంది. బ్రిటీష్ ఎయిర్వేస్ విమానం ఆలస్యంగా వచ్చింది. ఫలితంగా నేను భారత్కు వెళ్లే విమానాన్ని దుబాయ్‌లో అందుకోలేకపోతున్నాను. తదుపరి విమానం 10 గంటల తర్వాత ఉంది." -డుప్లెసిస్, దక్షిణాఫ్రికా ఆటగాడు
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దక్షిణాఫ్రికా టెస్టు జట్టు సారథి డుప్లెసిస్కు కోపమొచ్చింది. భారత్తో టెస్టు సిరీస్ కోసం వస్తుండగా బ్రిటీష్ ఎయిర్లైన్స్ విమానం ఆలస్యమైంది. గమ్యాన్ని సకాలంలో చేరుకోలేకపోయాడు. అసహనానికి గురైన ఈ క్రికెటర్.. ట్విట్టర్ వేదికగా ఆ సంస్థపై ఆగ్రహం వ్యక్తం చేశాడు.
"నేను దుబాయ్‌ రావడానికి నాలుగు గంటలు ఆలస్యమైంది. బ్రిటీష్ ఎయిర్వేస్ విమానం ఆలస్యంగా వచ్చింది. ఫలితంగా నేను భారత్కు వెళ్లే విమానాన్ని దుబాయ్‌లో అందుకోలేకపోతున్నాను. తదుపరి విమానం 10 గంటల తర్వాత ఉంది." -డుప్లెసిస్, దక్షిణాఫ్రికా ఆటగాడు
" class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data=" "> మరో ట్వీట్లో బ్రిటీష్ ఎయిర్వేస్పై విమర్శలు చేశాడీ క్రికెటర్.
"బ్రిటీష్ ఎయిర్వేస్ నిర్వాకం వల్ల ఇప్పటికీ నా క్రికెట్ కిట్ నా దగ్గరికి రాలేదు. ఇదొక చెత్త ప్రయాణ అనుభవం. త్వరలోనే నా బ్యాట్స్ నా చెంతకు వస్తాయని అనుకుంటున్నా."
-డుప్లెసిస్, దక్షిణాఫ్రికా ఆటగాడు
" class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data=" "> టెస్టు సిరీస్‌లో భాగంగా టీమిండియా-దక్షిణాఫ్రికా మధ్య వచ్చే నెల 2న తొలి మ్యాచ్ జరగనుంది. విశాఖపట్నం వేదిక కానుంది. ఇప్పటికే భారత్తో టీ20 సిరీస్‌లో 1-0తో వెనుకబడ్డ సఫారీలు.. మూడో మ్యాచ్ గెలిచి సిరీస్‌ను సమం చేయాలని చూస్తున్నారు.
ఇవీ చూడండి.. జిమ్లో టీమిండియా క్రికెటర్ల కసరత్తులు
IRELAND MATCHMAKING FESTIVAL
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Lisdoonvarna, County Clare, Ireland - 5 September 2019
1. Mid of Willie Daly, Matchmaker, walking
2. Mid of Daly standing at fence feeding donkeys
3. Close of sign, reading (English): "Welcome to Donkey Farm. Matchmaker and author Willie Daly."
4. Mid of Daly standing in kitchen holding tattered book and papers
5. Close of book and papers in Daly's hand
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Willie Daly, Matchmaker:
"A computer can be very cold (laughs). And you can't go telling the computer you love them in a quick space anyway as well as with the person in your arms. What would be wrong about telling her five minutes after meeting her or asking her to marry you in the first five minutes or telling her you love her? That's how it is really in life, you know, instant love."
7. Close of framed black and white photo among other framed photos
8. Tilt up of framed old newspaper article
9. Wide of Daly sitting in kitchen looking at book
10. Mid of Daly reading pages of book
11. Close of hands turning pages with writing and photos
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Willie Daly, Matchmaker:
"They actually come with a very good idea of finding happiness, finding love. And they might come with a huge amount, with their pockets full of love, you know, to give someone, to share someone, a heart full of love. So, they want to find someone to give that love to. And, of course, the big other side of that is that they want to be loved back as well."
13. Aerial shot of Lisdoonvarna ++MUTE++
14. Wide of matchmaking festival poster and roadside, car drives by
15. Wide of cars driving down village main street
16. Wide of Matchmaker Bar exterior
17. Pan of couples dancing to live band while Daly stands on dance floor
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Carmel Whelan, Visitor to Lisdoonvarna from Doolin, County Clare:
"Every business does well, like the shops are open late. There (are) hotels, bed and breakfasts outside the town. Everybody gets…pubs, there's music going on till three o'clock in the morning, taxis, everything, everybody does great business. So then that goes on for just four weeks, so come October, then it's a dead town. So, you should come back in October and just have another glance around in October when there's nothing happening (laughs)."
19. Wide of The Hydro Hotel exterior
20. Wide of couples dancing on dance floor
21. Mid of couples dancing on dance floor
22. Wide of Cecily and Albert Lawor, Regular Visitors to Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival, sat in hotel lobby
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Cecily Lawlor and Albert Lawlor, Regular Visitors to Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival:
Albert: "It's absolutely.... you meet some wonderful people here... fabulous..."
Cecily: "It's unique really, very unique... the atmosphere here, when the place is buzzing with people. And they all want to talk, they all want to sit down and talk to you and find out something about people, or the place, or the bands…there's something going the whole time."
24. Close of wedding photo
25. Close of old photos on smartphone
UPSOUND (English) "That was the All Ireland Championship. We were 13 years married that night."
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Cecily Lawlor and Albert Lawlor, Regular Visitors to Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival:
Albert: "There's a lot of people we have met here, I mean, over the years and we thought they were husband and wife."
Cecily: "They weren't (laughs)."
Albert: "They wouldn't be. One would be a widower and the other would be a man who never got married, but they were just partners, and they were dance partners. And they come down here and they'd even, you know, whether they'd sleep in a separate room or not, we don't know…"
Cecily: "We don't know, we never asked, no…"
Albert: "It's none of our business, but we always took them as husband and wife and then some night you'd be talking to them and they'd be; "Oh no, we're not married at all, we're just friends' (laughs)."
27. Wide of couples dancing
28. Low shot of dancing feet
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Willie Daly, Matchmaker:
"It's a matchmaking festival, it's a festival about love. So you don't…it's unnecessary to have a lot of small talk, you know, which is kind of time consuming and wasteful of time, time is so precious (laughs). You can't be going around saying; 'Are you enjoying the music? Isn't the atmosphere nice?' You just get down to kind of…that is nice because you don't muddle words too much. Most people can kind of come up with the expression 'will you marry me?'"
30. Wide of people dancing
31. Close of pint of beer, people dancing in background
32. Mid of Daly playing guitar in kitchen
33. Close of hand strumming guitar
34. Close of hand fretting guitar
35. Mid of Daly playing guitar
36. Close up of Daly's face
37. Mid of Daly playing guitar
LEADIN:
Finding a husband or wife has long been a challenge in rural Ireland, thanks to land inheritance traditions and mass migration.
In an effort to give hope to the loveless, a traditional matchmaking festival takes place in one town on the west coast every September.
And the matchmaker at the centre of it all - a veteran of the craft - claims to have helped 6,000 people find their perfect match.
STORYLINE:
In County Clare, southwest Ireland, the services provided by this man are the stuff of local legend.
Willie Daly is one of Ireland's last traditional matchmakers. And, over a career spanning 50 years, he says he's helped more than 3,000 couples - that's 6,000 people - find love.
The matchmaking tradition stems from the fact that in rural Ireland properties are traditionally left to a son, which has forced many daughters to move to Dublin or further afield to the UK, US, Canada or Australia.
With fewer women around, matchmaking became essential.
And while in the age of smartphones and dating apps there are more opportunities to hook up than ever before, they do have their limitations, Daly insists.
"A computer can be very cold," he says.
"And you can't go telling the computer you love them in a quick space anyway as well as with the person in your arms.
"What would be wrong about telling her five minutes after meeting her or asking her to marry you in the first five minutes or telling her you love her? That's how it is really in life, you know, instant love."
Daly inherited the matchmaking role from his farther, who in turn inherited it from his father before him.
Also handed down through generations was this "lucky love book".
It is over 160 years old and, according to Daly, possesses magic powers - the book promises love to listed people within six months.
While timing and location are important in finding love, Daly says making physical contact with your prospective partner is essential.
He puts together people he thinks are well suited based on certain criteria and encourages them to meet and have fun together to see if they have chemistry.
He says people come to him from every corner of Ireland, and from around the world, in particular from France, Germany, the UK and the US.
"They actually come with a very good idea of finding happiness, finding love," he says.
"And they might come with a huge amount, with their pockets full of love, you know, to give someone, to share someone, a heart full of love. So, they want to find someone to give that love to. And, of course, the big other side of that is that they want to be loved back as well."
Today, the matchmaking tradition has evolved, and many matches are made at an annual festival in nearby Lisdoonvarna.
Running annually throughout September, once the harvest is complete, the festival attracts thousands every year.
"Every business does well, like the shops are open late," says local resident Carmel Whelan.
"There (are) hotels, bed and breakfasts outside the town. Everybody gets…pubs, there's music going on till three o'clock in the morning, taxis, everything, everybody does great business. So then that goes on for just four weeks, so come October, then it's a dead town. So, you should come back in October and just have another glance around in October when there's nothing happening (laughs)."
Live music takes place from eleven in the morning till 3am in venues all over the village, offering visitors the opportunity to meet and get close on the dance floor.
Many return year after year without fail, the festival is the highlight of the year for many.
Cecily and Albert Lawlor from Limerick met at the matchmaking festival 52 years ago and got married soon after.
They've returned every year since.
"You meet some wonderful people here... fabulous..." says Albert.
"It's unique really, very unique... the atmosphere here, when the place is buzzing with people," says Cecily.
A love of dancing brought the couple together, and dancing remains at the heart of the festival today.
"There's a lot of people we have met here, I mean, over the years and we thought they were husband and wife," says Albert.
"And then some night you'd be talking to them and they'd be; "Oh no, we're not married at all, we're just friends.'"
Many attending Lisdoonvarna just come to dance.
Locals estimate only about one-in-three are seriously looking for love.
But for Daly, finding a new partner is the festival's main purpose.
"It's a matchmaking festival, it's a festival about love," he says.
In the modern world, it often feels like much as changed - but for Daly, life's essentials are eternal.
The key to happiness, he maintains, is to find someone to share a life with - and he says his track record at setting up couples proves it.
He also thinks a song every now and then doesn't hurt either.
The Lisdoonvarna matchmaking festival ends on 6 October.
Organisers expect about 40,000 people to attend this year - that's a big crowd of potential partners in a village of just 1,600.
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Last Updated : Oct 1, 2019, 11:31 AM IST
