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సర్ఫరాజ్ కెప్టెన్సీ తొలగిస్తే.. క్రికెటర్ల డ్యాన్స్!
పాకిస్థాన్ క్రికెట్ బోర్డు ట్విట్టర్లో పోస్ట్ చేసిన ఓ వీడియో నెటిజన్లను అయోమయానికి గురిచేసింది. తర్వాత తప్పు తెలుసుకున్న పీసీబీ.. దానిని తొలగించింది.
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Published : Oct 19, 2019, 11:40 AM IST
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పాకిస్థాన్ క్రికెట్ బోర్డుకు వింత అనుభవం ఎదురైంది. కెప్టెన్సీ బాధ్యతల నుంచి సర్ఫరాజ్ను శుక్రవారం తప్పించిన పీసీబీ.. అదే సమయంలో ట్రైనింగ్ సెషన్లో క్రికెటర్లు డ్యాన్స్ చేస్తున్న ఓ వీడియోను పంచుకుంది. సర్ఫరాజ్ను తప్పించినందుకే ఇలా చేశారా అంటూ ఆ దేశానికి చెందిన ఓ జర్నలిస్టు ట్వీట్ చేశాడు.
ఈ విషయంపై స్పందించిన పాక్ బోర్డు.. వెంటనే ఆ వీడియోను తొలగించి, క్షమాపణ చెబుతూ ఓ ట్వీట్ చేసింది. ఈ సమయంలో పంచుకుని ఉండాల్సింది కాదంటూ చెప్పింది. ఈ సంబాషణ అంతా ఇప్పుడు వైరల్ అవుతోంది.
పాక్ క్రికెట్ బోర్డు ట్వీట్ శుక్రవారం.. సర్ఫరాజ్ అహ్మద్ను కెప్టెన్సీ నుంచి తొలగించింది పీసీబీ. అతడి స్థానంలో టెస్టులకు అజహర్ అలీ, టీ20 జట్టుకు బాబర్ అజమ్ సారథ్యం వహించనున్నారు. ఇటీవలే స్వదేశంలో జరిగిన శ్రీలంక సిరీస్ను కోల్పోవడమే ఈ మార్పులకు కారణం.
త్వరలో ఆస్ట్రేలియా పర్యటనకు వెళ్లనుంది పాకిస్థాన్. ఈ సిరీస్లో భాగంగా రెండు టెస్టులు, మూడు టీ20ల్లో ఇరుజట్లు తలపడనున్నాయి. వచ్చే నెల 3న తొలి టీ20 జరగనుంది.
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పాకిస్థాన్ క్రికెట్ బోర్డుకు వింత అనుభవం ఎదురైంది. కెప్టెన్సీ బాధ్యతల నుంచి సర్ఫరాజ్ను శుక్రవారం తప్పించిన పీసీబీ.. అదే సమయంలో ట్రైనింగ్ సెషన్లో క్రికెటర్లు డ్యాన్స్ చేస్తున్న ఓ వీడియోను పంచుకుంది. సర్ఫరాజ్ను తప్పించినందుకే ఇలా చేశారా అంటూ ఆ దేశానికి చెందిన ఓ జర్నలిస్టు ట్వీట్ చేశాడు.
ఈ విషయంపై స్పందించిన పాక్ బోర్డు.. వెంటనే ఆ వీడియోను తొలగించి, క్షమాపణ చెబుతూ ఓ ట్వీట్ చేసింది. ఈ సమయంలో పంచుకుని ఉండాల్సింది కాదంటూ చెప్పింది. ఈ సంబాషణ అంతా ఇప్పుడు వైరల్ అవుతోంది.
పాక్ క్రికెట్ బోర్డు ట్వీట్ శుక్రవారం.. సర్ఫరాజ్ అహ్మద్ను కెప్టెన్సీ నుంచి తొలగించింది పీసీబీ. అతడి స్థానంలో టెస్టులకు అజహర్ అలీ, టీ20 జట్టుకు బాబర్ అజమ్ సారథ్యం వహించనున్నారు. ఇటీవలే స్వదేశంలో జరిగిన శ్రీలంక సిరీస్ను కోల్పోవడమే ఈ మార్పులకు కారణం.
త్వరలో ఆస్ట్రేలియా పర్యటనకు వెళ్లనుంది పాకిస్థాన్. ఈ సిరీస్లో భాగంగా రెండు టెస్టులు, మూడు టీ20ల్లో ఇరుజట్లు తలపడనున్నాయి. వచ్చే నెల 3న తొలి టీ20 జరగనుంది.
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Bardarash camp, Duhok governorate, Iraq - 17 October 2019
1. Various of Abdulrahman Ali, his wife Salwa Hanna and their children walking towards their tent
2. Pan of tents with writings reading (English) "Kobani"
3. Mid of Bardarash camp
4. Various of Ali, Hanna and family entering their tent
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salwa Hanna, 28-year-old Syrian refugee:
"I left my home. I had just started a new home and I left it all behind."
6. Close of Hanna kissing her four-year-old son
7. Hanna and Ali's family sitting outside of their tent
8. Close of Ali's face
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salwa Hanna, 28-year-old Syrian refugee:
"How do we feel? What can I say, do we even still have emotions? All we do is flee from one place to the other, from a place to another."
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdulrahman Ali, 30-year-old Syrian refugee:
"The Free Syrian Army attacked Afrin, they stole furniture, they stole cars, they stole whatever they wanted. They stole even sandals. They stole everything. All in the name of revolution or whatever. They entered Afrin and stole everything, they beat people up. They did whatever they wanted to do. So after that we left Afrin, we went to Kobani. We worked, we tried to set up a house, and after one year, the same thing happened and from Afrin here we are again. What do they want from us? Where is everyone? Where are the foreigners? Where are the Americans? The Americans were here for nine years, why did they suddenly leave in the blink of an eye? Why?"
11. Various of Ali and Hanna setting up tent
12. Close of Ali and Hanna's son
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salwa Hanna, 28-year-old Syrian refugee:
++INTERRUPTED BY CHILD SCREAMING AND ALI'S VOICE++
"For a whole year, the Turks threatened us. I kept saying we should escape, because with the Turks, there is no security. But my husband always said there are Americans, British, French, and they won't abandon us. And then in less than a minute, the Turks attacked us with missiles, with I don't know what, and we fled."
UPSOUND (Arabic) Abdulrahman Ali: "Where can we go, where?"
14. Various of tents and refugees in the camp
15. Pan right of newly installed tents at Bardarash camp
++DUSK SHOTS++
16. Sky at dusk
17. Tents at dusk
STORYLINE:
For months, every time Turkey threatened to invade northern Syria, Salwa Hanna told her husband they should take their children and flee from the border town of Kobani.
And every time, he told her not to worry, because the Americans were there.
Now the Christian family is among an estimated 160,000 Syrians who have fled Turkey's offensive, which began last week after President Donald Trump announced he would move US forces out of the way, abandoning their Kurdish allies.
The invasion transformed one of the safest parts of Syria into a war zone, leaving displaced residents with a deep sense of betrayal.
Hanna and her husband arrived Thursday at a newly reopened camp in Iraq with their children and two small bags of clothes.
They said they borrowed $200 to pay a smuggler to lead them across the border and have nothing left.
They were shown to an empty tent with a bare concrete floor.
"I left my home, and I had just started a new home, and I left it all behind," Hanna said.
They are originally from Afrin, a Kurdish enclave in northwestern Syria that fell to Turkish troops and allied Syrian fighters in early 2018.
There were no Americans in Afrin, and after the Kurds retreated there was no one to prevent the Syrian fighters - a motley crew of former rebels, Islamists, guns for hire and outright bandits - from looting and pillaging.
"They stole cars, they stole whatever they wanted. They even stole sandals," Hanna's husband, Abdulrahman Ali, said as he waved a flip-flop in the air.
"They stole everything. All in the name of revolution or whatever," he added.
So the couple fled with their 10-year-old and their two-year-old, who suffers from asthma.
The harrowing journey brought them to Kobani.
A US-led international coalition had partnered with Syrian Kurdish fighters to defeat the Islamic State group, a campaign that began in Kobani after the Kurds were nearly annihilated there in 2014.
Northeastern Syria, where armoured vehicles mounted with American flags could be seen patrolling on the outskirts of some towns, was a rare refuge from the civil war.
Hanna and her husband found work and started setting up a new home.
But a shadow clouded their newfound sense of security.
Turkey views the Kurdish fighters in Afrin and northeastern Syria as terrorists because of their links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has waged a bloody insurgency inside Turkey since the 1980s.
After Afrin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeatedly threatened to expand the offensive into eastern Syria, vowing to carve out a "safe zone" extending 30 kilometres (20 miles) deep along the border.
For months, the US worked to hold it off, agreeing to joint patrols and other measures aimed at easing tensions between NATO ally Turkey and America's Kurdish partners.
The presence of small numbers of American troops in places like Kobani served as a trip-wire to deter an invasion.
Then, earlier this month, after a phone call with Erdogan, Trump announced that US forces would pull back.
The operation began on October 9.
"For a whole year the Turks threatened us," Hanna said. "I kept saying we should escape, because with the Turks there is no security. But my husband always said there are Americans, British, French, and they won't abandon us."
And then, just like that, the Americans left, and her family's fearful flight resumed.
The Trump administration has defended its decision against withering criticism, even from fellow Republicans, saying it was opposed to the invasion but powerless to stop it.
After a senior US delegation negotiated a halt to the offensive that locks in Turkey's gains while largely removing the threat of sanctions, Trump called it a "great day for civilization."
But nothing in the agreement will allow the family to return to either of their homes.
Abandoned by America, they are trusting in an even higher and more inscrutable power.
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