Savita

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

The evening of Jan 20th, 1991. Steve Waugh was dismissed for 60 on the 2nd day of a Sheffield Shield match against South Australia. It was, he felt, the final straw. That evening, he was at his fiancee, Lynette's place when the Australian coach Bobby Simpson called. He had been dropped for the next test against England.
Steve immediately drove over to his parent's place at Panania. When his mother Beverly opened the door, she immediately sensed something was wrong. She asked him what the matter was & he said he had been dropped.
She was in tears when Steve said it was all right, he wasn't too concerned. When his ma asked about his replacement, he said, 'he's right here' & pointed to his twin Mark, chatting with their dad Rodger.
Mark got 138 on debut & they went on to play 108 tests together.
Happy B'day Steve & Mark Waugh!

[Savita @savitabala]

@rajasthanroyals Fixed

[Gaurav Kapur @gauravkapur]

Maybe Raghuvanshi should have moonwalked into the crease?

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: The UAE has begun canceling residency visas for all Iranian nationals currently outside the country, including golden visa holders who own property and companies. Iranian schools closed. The Iranian hospital in Dubai shuttered. The consulate ordered to reduce to minimum staff. Repatriation running through Afghanistan via Herat. Iran International confirmed March 28. The IranianUAE portal verified the scope expanded March 27 to include property owners and company registrants with ten-year golden visas.

Here is the insight nobody has written.

For thirty years, Dubai was Iran’s back door to the global financial system. When sanctions locked Tehran out of SWIFT, Iranian money flowed through Dubai’s free zones, currency exchanges, and shadow companies to access dollars Washington denied. The WSJ reported March 5 that the UAE is exploring freezing billions in Iranian-held assets in these structures. Not the $530 billion Tehran Times claimed in propaganda inflation. Billions. Targeted. The arteries of a parallel financial system that kept the Islamic Republic liquid for decades.

The UAE is now cauterising those arteries with visa cancellations and asset freezes.

Iran built two financial operating systems. The first was the Dubai back door: dollar-denominated, SWIFT-adjacent, running through free zones and golden visa holders who served as nodes in a sanctions-evasion network. The second is the Hormuz front door: yuan-denominated, CIPS-routed, running through the Larak toll regime being codified into law. The war is destroying the first and accelerating the second simultaneously.

The dollar back door is closing. Schools shut. Hospital shuttered. Consulate downsized. Visas canceled. Assets frozen. Every currency exchange that processed dollar transactions for sanctioned entities is a target. Every golden visa holder who served as beneficial owner for a shell company is stateless outside the country.

The yuan front door is opening. The Larak toll booth collects in yuan via CIPS. The legislation advances. The IRGC escorts approved vessels. The system does not require Dubai. The system does not require dollars. The system requires only Iranian control of 21 miles of water.

Iran’s financial centre of gravity is migrating from Dubai to Hormuz. From free zones to a chokepoint. From SWIFT-adjacent dollar flows to CIPS-routed yuan flows. From an architecture requiring Emirati hospitality to one requiring only territorial control over water.

The UAE did not intend to accelerate de-dollarisation. It intended to punish Iran. But the punishment eliminates the dollar back door while the war builds the yuan front door. Iran’s financial system is being forcibly migrated from one currency to another by the combined actions of its enemies.

Read this against the intercept count. The UAE has engaged 398 ballistic missiles and 1,872 drones since February 28. The nation absorbing those strikes is dismantling the financial infrastructure its attacker used to survive sanctions for thirty years. The flag of the Islamic Republic has been physically removed from the Iranian hospital building in Dubai.

This is not a visa policy. This is the severing of a financial umbilical cord. And the severing happens at the exact moment Iran is building a replacement cord that runs on yuan through a chokepoint instead of dollars through a free zone.

The financial geography of the Middle East is being redrawn. The kinetic war destroys military targets. The financial war destroys the infrastructure that kept Iran connected to dollars. The replacement, built from necessity at Larak, runs on a different currency entirely.

Dubai was the dollar door. Hormuz is the yuan door. The war closed one and opened the other. Neither side planned it that way.

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[Nishant Mehta @endofdarktime]

@IncomeTaxIndia @nsitharamanoffc @officeofPCM @FinMinIndia @PIB_India @MIB_India Income tax website is not working since 1pm today. Many people who I know are facing the same issue. I request you to extend the deadline by another 5 days.

[Ashtag Ashish 🇮🇳 @ashishbooms]

#extendduedateimmediately
Income tax website not responding..

[Monica Arora @MonicaA87436720]

🚨 URGENT 🚨
Tree cutting right now in the botanical garden next to One Hiranandani Park, Patlipada, Thane
This is a biodiversity-rich green space — please stop this destruction!

@TMCaTweetAway @ThaneCityPolice @MahaForest @MangrovesMumbai

#SaveTrees #Thane #Environment

[वि j य | വിജയ് ☮️ @vijayrnair]

@ThaneTraffic #thane #ghodbunder road
Complete jam, nothing is moving
at Brahmand naka

[Irfan Pathan @IrfanPathan]

Brilliant start to the campaign for Indian team & Shubman gill is just tooooo brilliant in this format 👏

[Savita @savitabala]

@StarcKKR Ya right he would have been out long time back if the catch was taken! Then where's the saviour. Looks like you didn't watch the match

[Savita @savitabala]

@DisneyPlusHS

[Jayesh joshi @jayz_joshi]

Hey, @DisneyPlusHS can't change language feed so as quality while watching India vs England cricket match. I think it's some kind of glitch please fix it fast. #INDvENG #hotstar

[Savita @savitabala]

@beinggtweetyy 3 dropped catches or how many ?

[Savita @savitabala]

@beinggtweetyy Everyone believes that all pitches are like the ones we had in ipl . This pitch is not that easy to score 200+ easily . Well played #shubmangill

[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

Smart batting from Skipper Shubman 🤌✨

[ICC @ICC]

India captain Shubman Gill’s composed innings of 66 powered India to a comprehensive total in Harare.

#ZIMvIND 📝: https://t.co/ySuVs9CX9F

[Vikram Mahendra @ElRealesVikram]

Dear Shashi Tharoor,

Are you okay with arrogant Indian team scoring 234 runs in a T20 game? Was one loss enough to bring down the arrogant World Champions?

Sincerely,
Indian Cricket Fan

[Sameer @BesuraTaansane]

Stop this rubbish politicking for a change please !

A bunch of youngsters, many of whom have travelled overseas for the 1st time are playing their first international game & they lost a match by 13 runs ... cut them some slack & don't bring your party's animosity with @JayShah to abuse the team & BCCI

I can see your gradual fall in your quality of posts ranging from absurd WA posts to such knee jerk thoughtless rants ! Looks like staying in the CONg is seriously affecting your ability to think rationally

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