President Murmu To Leave On First-Ever Visit By Indian Head To State to Algeria, Mauritania, Malawi Tomorrow

It is also India’s highest team total in T20Is and the most runs ever posted by a full-member nation in this format, going past Afghanistan (278/3), England (267/3) and Australia (263/3).

India's previous highest score in men’s T20Is was 260/5 scored against Sri Lanka in 2017. Incidentally, this was the game that saw Rohit Sharma smash a 35-ball century, the fastest by an Indian male player in the shortest format of the game.

Last year, Nepal recorded a total of 314/3 against Mongolia, the highest-ever total in men's T20Is, during the Asian Games in Hangzhou.

On Saturday, Wicketkeeper-batter Sanju Samson was the star of the show through his 111 off 47 balls - also his maiden T20I hundred in 40 balls, -- becoming the second-fastest India men’s batter behind Rohit Sharma to score a ton in the shortest format.

Samson, who smashed 11 fours and eight sixes in his knock, also becomes the first Indian wicketkeeper-batter to hit a hundred in men's T20Is. Samson and captain Suryakumar Yadav, who hit 75 off just 35 balls, also ensured India got its joint-highest Power-play score in T20Is (83).

Their partnership of 173 runs is also the second-highest second-wicket partnership for India in T20Is. The duo fell just short of breaking the record stand of 176 runs shared by Samson and Deepak Hooda against Ireland in Malahide in 2022.

In this innings at Hyderabad, India hit 47 boundaries - 22 sixes, 25 fours – which is the highest boundary count in a men’s T20I innings. Samson's 30 runs – coming off five straight sixes off leg-spinner Rishad Hossain -- is the fourth-most runs scored by an Indian batter in an over in T20Is.

The lower-order maintained the momentum of Samson and Suryakumar, whose 75 came off 35 balls – laced with eight fours and five sixes - feasting on Bangladesh bowlers to help India reach a mammoth total with a run rate of 14.85 in an extraordinary batting performance.

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The deceased identified as Kumari Shrishti Sharma (22), a resident of Maihar in the Satna district, was pursuing MBBS and died in a road accident on Friday.

The girl’s family had appealed state government to bring the body back for last rites. Subsequently, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav assured that the state government would provide all the possible help to bring the body back.

An official said that the Chief Minister has directed the State Home Department to request the Centre to help the aggrieved family and bring the body.

They said that the department has written to the Ministry of External Affairs, seeking necessary assistance.

“Madhya Pradesh government started efforts to bring back the body of Kumari Shrishti Sharma, who was studying in Russia, to India,” the Chief Minister wrote on X.

The family members said that the tragic incident occurred after the tyre of the car suddenly detached from the car causing the window to open abruptly and dashing Sharma on the ground.

She was dragged for several meters and received severe injuries, including on the head, which led to her death during treatment at a hospital.

Reports suggested that the victim had not put on the seatbelt. The driver and other medical students in the car escaped unhurt in the accident.

Shrishti was pursuing an MBBS from Bashkir University in Ufa, Russia.

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New Delhi, Oct 12: President Droupadi Murmu will on Sunday begin a state visit to Algeria, Mauritania, and Malawi, in the first-ever visit by an Indian Indian head of state to the three African nations. 

President Murmu will visit Algeria on October 13-15, at the invitation of her counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune, the Ministry of External Affairs said.

With both countries sharing cordial relations with cooperation in several fields including strategic areas like oil and gas, defence, and space cooperation, the visit is expected to further enhance bilateral ties between the two countries, it said.

During the visit, the two Presidents will hold bilateral talks, while several Algerian dignitaries including the Presidents of the Council of Nation (the upper house of the Algerian Parliament) and the National People’s Assembly (the lower house) are expected to call on her.

The President will address the India-Algeria Economic Forum and the Sidi Abdellah Science and Technology Pole University. She will also inaugurate the India Corner at Hamma Garden at Jardin d’essai.

From the North African country, the Indian President will travel to neighbouring Mauritania, which holds the Presidency of the African Union, on October 16.

During the visit, President Murmu will hold talks with her Mauritanian counterpart, Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani. Prime Minister Mokhtar Ould Djay and Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Marzouk are expected to call on her.

President Murmu will interact with the members of the Indian community.

The visit will provide further impetus to India-Mauritania bilateral relations, the MEA said.

From Mauritania, at the invitation of the President of Malawi, Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, President Murmu will visit the East African country from October 17-19.

During the visit, President Murmu will hold meetings with Malawi’s leadership, interact with key trade and industry leaders and the Indian diaspora, and visit places of cultural and historical significance.

The visit reaffirms India's strong commitment to further strengthen its existing friendly and cordial relations with Malawi, the MEA said, adding the President's three-nation trip "is reflective of India’s deep desire to strengthen its partnership with countries in Africa".

--IANS

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