It was a night of uncanny symmetry. After being put into bat, Nurse took things in his own control and blasted a scintillating 103* off 43 balls to propel the Capitals to 179 for 7. But Giants’ O’Brien matched him stroke-for-stroke as his 107 off 61 deliveries helped them chase down the target with eight balls to spare. What is more, both centurions were dropped – Nurse on 34 and O’Brien on 1 & 93. And both of them reached their milestone with a six.
India Capitals’ batting didn’t look promising on paper, and their start did nothing to defy it. Captain Virender handing the second over to left-arm spinner KP was a sign of things to come. And the former RCB bowler lived up to the expectations. Extracting considerable turn from the onset, the 33-year-old removed opener Hamilton Masakadza and skipper Jacques in a sensational fourth over.
Pacer and England’s legendary off-spinner too joined the party, as the Capitals were reduced to 34 for 4 in the seventh over. well, and they also put up a disciplined performance by hardly offering anything full and bowling to their field.
However, the West Indian duo of Ramdin and Ashley Nurse breathed some life into the innings. In a counter-attacking partnership, they took the aerial route to string together 40 runs off 33 balls. But the tide again turned as Sri Lankan all-rounder (2 for 16) struck twice in as many deliveries to send back (31 off 27) and ex-KKR player Bhatia.
Making the most of the let-off, continued in the same flow and brought up a hundred for the ages, off 41 balls. The 33-year-old sent the fuller-length deliveries into the V, while the back-of-length stuff was pummeled in front of square on the leg side. Even (2 for 36) was plundered for two sixes and a boundary in his final over.
As he started the onslaught with four overs remaining, the prospect of a century started whispering around. By the time Mitchell McClenaghan (0 for 45) was standing at the top of his mark to bowl the last over, the sparse Eden crowd was almost doing chair squats in anticipation.
When the moment finally arrived, it lived up to its hype. A waist-high full toss, though wasn’t given, was helped on its way behind square before the Barbadian unlocked his helmet and let out. Even though he conceded a dot off the last ball of the innings, Ashley Nurse walked off to a standing ovation. 74 runs came in the final five overs as the India Capitals amassed a competitive 179 for 7.
A total of 17 public healthcare institutions, including community hospitals, specialist outpatient clinics, and all polyclinics were impacted.
For the second incident on Sep 5, another fault occurred in the IT infrastructure at 10am. Partial functionality was restored from 1pm that day, while full functionality by 6pm the next day. The disruption affected eight public healthcare institutions and two out of three polyclinic groups, according
Due to the outages, patients had longer waiting times of up to an hour at affected institutions and others had appointments rescheduled. There were also delays in dispensing medication.
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