Indian batter Jemimah Rodrigues admitted they were short of runs in the opening women’s T20I, in which India finished with 157-7, a total that SA chased down comfortably to seal a six-wicket win here on Friday.
“We were 15-20 runs short. Two wickets falling in two overs, but then Harmanpreet Kaur and I getting that partnership back. When we had built that momentum and time came to capitalise, we were not able to,” Rodrigues said.
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KOLKATA : Vaibhav Sooryavanshi isn’t a normal 15-year-old kid. He is quite different and the Rajasthan Royals sensation has the cricket world watching him with great excitement. However, Kumar Sangakkara, the Royals head coach, wants this batting prodigy to be just like any other 15-year-old.“I just want him to be this 15-year-old kid that goes out and bats the way he wants,” Sangakkara said here on Saturday. “He has got to enjoy everything, whether it’s 100 off 35 balls, a 50 off 15 or a first-ball duck.”
Sooryavanshi had his first taste of failure this season in the last game against Sunrisers Hyderabad, when he got out on the first ball he faced. The boy grimaced, perhaps a little angry at himself. “You’re allowed to score runs, you’re allowed to fail. It’s part and parcel of cricket,” was Sangakkara’s message to the youngster. “He must never lose the freedom he plays with.”
Actor Charlize Theron has established herself as one of the most vocal advocates of laws against domestic violence worldwide. In a recent interview, the Oscar winner revealed it was due to the instability and violence she saw in her own house growing up. Charlize revealed that things got to a point where her own father tried to kill her, leading her mother to intervene and fatally shoot him in self-defence.
In an interview with The New York Times, Charlize spoke about seeing violence around her growing up in South Africa. She described her father’s battles with alcoholism. “He was a full-blown functioning drunk, but he had moments where he would go missing; we wouldn’t know where he was, and he would usually return in a state that was pretty severe. It would get messy and loud, and my mom’s not a wallflower either. She wasn’t just sitting and taking it. She made it known that she wasn’t happy about his lifestyle. So it really caused a lot of verbal abuse. Personally, for me, the worst thing was they would ice each other. There would be a big fight, and then they wouldn’t talk for three weeks. I didn’t have siblings, and that house just went silent.”
Charlize revealed that when she was around 12-13, her mother contemplated divorce for the first time. Things eventually came to a head in 1991, when her father was almost violent towards her for a trivial thing, leading to her mother protecting her.
The actor recalled, “He shot through the steel doors to get in, making it very clear that he was going to kill us. His brother was with him as well. We knew it was serious, and so by the time he broke into the first gate, my mom ran to the safe to get her gun. She came into my bedroom. The two of us were holding the door with our bodies because there wasn’t a lock on it. And he just stepped back and started shooting through the door. And this is the crazy thing: Not one bullet hit us. It’s insane when you think about it that way. But the messaging was very clear. I’m going to kill you tonight. You think I can’t come in through this door? Watch me. I’m going to go to the safe. I’m going to get the shotgun. Encouragement from the brother. He walked to the safe, and my mom pulled the door open while the brother was still standing there. The brother ran down the hallway, and she shot one bullet down the hallway that ricocheted seven times and shot him in the hand. It’s stuff you can’t explain. And then she followed my father, who was by then opening the safe to get more weapons out, and she shot him.”
The shooting was legally adjudged to have been self-defence, and Charlize’s mother faced no charges. The actor moved out of South Africa the following year, first to begin a modelling career in Europe, before making her way to Hollywood in 1994. She got her breakthrough with the 1997 release, The Devil’s Advocate, which also starred Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves. For her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the 2003 release Monster, Charlize won the Oscar for Best Actress. She is currently awaiting the release of Christopher Nola’s The Odyssey.
President Macron blames the attack on Hezbollah. The Iran-backed armed group denies “any connection” to the incident.
Updated on: Apr 19, 2026 10:10:07 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said while good progress has been made in negotiations, there are many gaps and some fundamental points.
US Iran war updates LIVE: Iran is ‘firmly positioned on the battlefield’ and ready respond the moment the enemy makes any mistake, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said. “As long as we pursued matters on the battlefield and militarily, we stood firm, and today we stand firm as well,” he was quoted as saying by Iranian state media Press TV. “The moment the enemy makes a mistake, we are ready.”
The final agreement between Iran and the United States is still far, though progress had been made in negotiations to end the war, Ghalibaf said on Saturday night.
“We are still far from the final discussion,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who is also one of Iran’s negotiators, said in a national televised address, adding “we made progress in the negotiations, but there are many gaps and some fundamental points remain”. US President Donald Trump also cited “very good conversations” with Tehran despite warning against “blackmail” over the key shipping channel.
The war is now in its eighth week and a two-week pause to fighting ends on April 22. Thousands have been killed and attacks spread to Israeli attacks in Lebanon and sent oil prices surging because of the de facto closure of the strait, which before the war carried one-fifth of the world’s oil shipments.
Iran’s Hormuz u-turn
In a u-turn of its order to reopen Hormuz, Iran on Saturday again shut the energy choke point, adding fresh uncertainty to the war, which the US and Israel launched on February 28.
Iran said it was responding to a continued US blockade of Iranian ports, calling it a violation of the ceasefire, while Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said Iran’s navy was ready to inflict “new bitter defeats” on its enemies. Trump called the move “blackmail” even as he praised the talks.
On Friday, Iran had announced the temporary reopening of the Strait of Hormuz following a separate US-brokered 10-day ceasefire agreement on Thursday between Israel and Lebanon.
Israel-Lebanon ceasefire in tatters
However, uncertainty looms over the ceasefire as Israeli army has confirmed carrying out fresh strikes on what it described as threats south of the new “yellow line” in Lebanon, Al Jazeera reported.
Beirut-based correspondent reported that, along with ongoing artillery shelling and machinegun fire on several villages, Israel launched two air strikes on Sunday, as per a report by Al Jazeera.
One of the strikes targeted a group of Hezbollah fighters who, according to Israel, were approaching the yellow line but had not crossed it. “So that actually indicates that they were to the north of it and not inside it,” she noted, as per Al Jazeera.
The second strike was aimed at an individual approaching a tunnel entrance south of the yellow line, according to Al Jazeera.
Israel said it “carried out a strike on him and destroyed that tunnel entrance,” the correspondent added, noting that the Israeli military spokesperson maintained the action did not violate the ceasefire, Al Jazeera reported.
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The final agreement between Iran and the United States is still far, though progress had been made in negotiations to end the war, Ghalibaf said on Saturday night.
“We are still far from the final discussion,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who is also one of Iran’s negotiators, said in a national televised address, adding “we made progress in the negotiations, but there are many gaps and some fundamental points remain”. US President Donald Trump also cited “very good conversations” with Tehran despite warning against “blackmail” over the key shipping channel.
The war is now in its eighth week and a two-week pause to fighting ends on April 22. Thousands have been killed and attacks spread to Israeli attacks in Lebanon and sent oil prices surging because of the de facto closure of the strait, which before the war carried one-fifth of the world’s oil shipments.
Iran’s Hormuz u-turn
In a u-turn of its order to reopen Hormuz, Iran on Saturday again shut the energy choke point, adding fresh uncertainty to the war, which the US and Israel launched on February 28.
Iran said it was responding to a continued US blockade of Iranian ports, calling it a violation of the ceasefire, while Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said Iran’s navy was ready to inflict “new bitter defeats” on its enemies. Trump called the move “blackmail” even as he praised the talks.
On Friday, Iran had announced the temporary reopening of the Strait of Hormuz following a separate US-brokered 10-day ceasefire agreement on Thursday between Israel and Lebanon.
Israel-Lebanon ceasefire in tatters
However, uncertainty looms over the ceasefire as Israeli army has confirmed carrying out fresh strikes on what it described as threats south of the new “yellow line” in Lebanon, Al Jazeera reported.
Beirut-based correspondent reported that, along with ongoing artillery shelling and machinegun fire on several villages, Israel launched two air strikes on Sunday, as per a report by Al Jazeera.
One of the strikes targeted a group of Hezbollah fighters who, according to Israel, were approaching the yellow line but had not crossed it. “So that actually indicates that they were to the north of it and not inside it,” she noted, as per Al Jazeera.
The second strike was aimed at an individual approaching a tunnel entrance south of the yellow line, according to Al Jazeera.
Israel said it “carried out a strike on him and destroyed that tunnel entrance,” the correspondent added, noting that the Israeli military spokesperson maintained the action did not violate the ceasefire, Al Jazeera reported.
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Apr 19, 2026 10:08:15 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: Former US Vice President Kamala Harris has launched a scathing attack on US President Donald Trump, alleging that he was “pulled into” a military conflict with Iran by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and calling it a “feeble attempt” to distract from the “Epstein files.”
Speaking at an event hosted by the Michigan Democratic Women’s Caucus on Saturday, Harris characterised the hostilities as a war that “the American people do not want.”
During her address in Detroit, Harris further scrutinised the administration’s motives, accusing Trump of utilising “Operation Epic Fury” as a diversion from domestic controversies.
Apr 19, 2026 9:58:51 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: A day after tensions escalated in the Strait of Hormuz, more details have emerged about the two Indian-flagged vessels that came under fire, prompting a swift diplomatic response from New Delhi. This marks the first time that Iranian forces have fired upon Indian-flagged or owned merchant vessels in the war-torn waterway. The shipping ministry has identified the two vessels as the Sanmar Herald, a crude oil tanker, and the Jag Arnav, a bulk carrier. Read full report here
Apr 19, 2026 9:52:03 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: Confusion over the critical Strait of Hormuz threatened to deepen the energy crisis roiling the global economy and push the two countries toward renewed conflict, even as mediators expressed confidence a new deal was within reach.
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Apr 19, 2026 9:45:44 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: Iranian deputy foreign minister Saeed Khatibzadeh has said that no date has been set for a new round of face-to-face talks with the US as he slammed Washington for its refusal to abandon “maximalist” demands, Al Jazeera reported.
Apr 19, 2026 9:28:09 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: Iran’s joint military command on Saturday said control of the Strait of Hormuz has been restored to its earlier status, adding that the key waterway is now under the “strict management and control of the armed forces,” reported AP.
The statement comes a day after Tehran briefly reopened the strait to commercial shipping.
Saturday’s assertion also follows remarks by US President Donald Trump, who said the blockade “will remain in full force” until Iran agrees to a deal with Washington that addresses its nuclear programme.
Apr 19, 2026 9:07:13 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: Iran is ‘firmly positioned on the battlefield’ and ready respond the moment the enemy makes any mistake, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said. “As long as we pursued matters on the battlefield and militarily, we stood firm, and today we stand firm as well,” he was quoted as saying by Iranian state media Press TV. “The moment the enemy makes a mistake, we are ready.”
Apr 19, 2026 8:43:08 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: US President Donald Trump has praised Israel and said the country is ‘courageous, bold, loyal, and smart’. “Whether people like Israel or not, they have proven to be a GREAT Ally of the United States of America. They are Courageous, Bold, Loyal, and Smart and, unlike others that have shown their true colors in a moment of conflict and stress, Israel fights hard, and knows how to WIN!” Trump said on his Truth Social handle.
Apr 19, 2026 8:26:11 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: US President Donald Trump on Saturday took a dig at Iran after the country said that the Strait of Hormuz was being closed again, just one day after its opening was announced. Even as he lashed out at Iran for the move, Trump maintained that talks were still ongoing, and further added that Tehran was getting a “little cute”. Follow live updates on Iran-US war here.
“We’re talking to them. They wanted to close up the strait again — you know, as they’ve been doing for years — and they can’t blackmail us,” Trump said at a White House event, according to an AFP report. Trump said there would be “some information” about Iran later in the day, adding: “We’re taking a tough stand.”
Apr 19, 2026 8:14:16 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: Iran military used asymmetric warfare to push back the ‘enemy’, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said, Press TV reported. “The enemy had money and resources, but they did not act correctly in terms of design,” Ghalibaf was quoted as saying. “They make strategic errors. They miscalculate regarding our people, just as they miscalculate in their own military design.”
Apr 19, 2026 8:09:13 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: The representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader in India reacted on Saturday when asked about the attack on two Indian-flagged tankers near the Strait of Hormuz. While the envoy, Dr Abdul Majid Hakeem Ilahi, said that he was not aware of any such incident, he also said that the relationship between India and Iran is “very strong”. He also said that New Delhi benefitted from these ties, citing how its oil tankers passed the Strait of Hormuz.
“The relationship between Iran and India is very strong and I don’t know anything about this event which you mentioned and we hope that it will be okay and it will be solved,” Illahi said, further adding that Iran was not in favour of war, but of peace.
Apr 19, 2026 7:55:49 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard fired at two Indian-flagged merchant vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, prompting the external affairs ministry to call in the Iranian envoy to lodge a formal protest over the incident.
This was the first instance of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) firing at Indian-flagged or owned merchant shipping in the crucial waterway, which is used to transport 50% of India’s oil imports. In recent weeks, at least nine Indian-flagged vessels have safely transited the strait.
The shipping ministry in a status update said that an oil tanker, the MT Desh Garima, transited the strait at 1pm IST and is bound for Mumbai. Thirteen India-flagged ships remain in the Persian Gulf, west of the Strait of Hormuz. It also said that two India-flagged vessels were reportedly fired at by the IRGC boats during transit, identifying the vessels as the Sanmar Herald, a crude oil tanker and the Jag Arnav, a bulk carrier. The two turned back after the incident and no injuries were reported, the ministry said.
Apr 19, 2026 7:40:53 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: The US is reportedly planning to board and seize vessels linked to Iran in international waters in the coming days. The move, if implemented, would let the US navy expand its blockade beyond the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal said in a report on Saturday. Citing unnamed US officials, the publication said that the move aims to put economic pressure on Iran and to force open the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for oil transit, central to the ongoing negotiations.
The WSJ report further said that expanding the campaign against Iran would let the US “take control of Iran-linked vessels around the world”, including those outside the Persian Gulf.
Apr 19, 2026 7:20:26 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: The crucial Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until the United States lifts its naval blockade on Iranian ports, Tehran said Saturday, as a top official warned that a final peace deal remained “far” off.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the Iranian parliament, said in a televised address that there has been “progress” in talks with Washington “but there are many gaps and some fundamental points remain.”
“We are still far from the final discussion,” said Ghalibaf, one of Tehran’s negotiators in the talks aimed at ending the war launched by Israel and the United States against the Islamic Republic.
Apr 19, 2026 7:09:51 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: US President Donald Trump cited “very good conversations” with Tehran despite warning against “blackmail” over the the Strait of Hormuz after Iran reimposed the closure on Saturday. Iran said it was responding to a continued US blockade of Iranian ports, calling it a violation of the ceasefire, while Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said Iran’s navy was ready to inflict “new bitter defeats” on its enemies. Trump called the move “blackmail” even as he praised the talks.
Apr 19, 2026 7:04:40 AM IST
US Iran war updates LIVE: The final agreement between Iran and the United States is still far, though progress had been made in negotiations to end the war, Iran’s parliamentary speaker said on Saturday night.
“We are still far from the final discussion,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who is also one of Iran’s negotiators, said in a national televised address, adding “we made progress in the negotiations, but there are many gaps and some fundamental points remain”.
Famed actress Charlize Theron has been through a lot over the course of her life. In a recent interview, the star opened up about her childhood on rare occasions, and even recalled what happened that made her mother shoot her father.
While talking to The New York Times, the actor was quite open and candid, talking about everything that has happened over the past couple of years. In a rare and candid piece, while talking about her upbringing, she opened up about how, in 1992, her mother shot her father in order to save her life.Giving a detailed account of what had happened, the actress shared, “I think these things should be talked about because it makes other people not feel alone,” further adding, “I never knew about a story like that. When this happened to us, I thought we were the only people. I’m not haunted by this stuff anymore.”Theron then detailed the matter, citing that she and her mother, Gerda Jacoba Aletta Martiz, had gone out to spend some time together at the movies. Afterwards, they had visited an uncle’s home, and she revealed that when she rushed into the bathroom without announcing herself, Charles Theron was livid. “He took that as me being rude, because I didn’t stop and say hello to everybody,” the 50-year-old added.She had been barely 15 at the time, and had known that her father was extremely angry at her. When they had gone home, she had gone straight to her room and had asked her mother to tell him that she was already asleep. “I went into my room, I turned my lights off, and I was scared. My window faced the driveway, and I could tell the level of anger, frustration, or unhappiness by the way he drove in,” she added.The actress shared that her father broke into the house and had just started shooting around. Her mother got her gun, and the two of them hid in Charlize’s room, though he started shooting at them through the door itself. Her mother then used her weapon to defend themselves, and ended up fatally shooting her father before he could get his hands on more weapons.
The ‘Atomic Bomb’ actress revealed that her mother had moved on from the incident at the time, or was just pretending, until later, as per the actress, therapy was not a thing of their time. “We didn’t have therapists around, so in her head the best therapy was, ‘We’ve got to move on,’” she quipped.On the work front, Theron will next appear on ‘Apex’, an upcoming thriller film set to be released on Netflix worldwide on April 24. The project has been directed by Baltasar Kormákur and follows the story of a woman who navigates through the Australian terrain and forests, with a man named Taron Egerton stalking her and following her around. The OTT film also stars Eric Bana, Caitlin Stasey, Bessie Holland, and Zac Garred, amongst many other people.
Erling Haaland believes every game from now until the end of the season is a final for Manchester City, with their next English Premier League opponent none other than title rivals Arsenal.
Mikel Arteta’s side sit atop the EPL table (70 points in 32 games), six points clear of second-placed City. However, Pep Guardiola’s side have a game in hand, while the Gunners are also under pressure having only won one of their last five games across all competitions. Haaland senses the Gunners are ripe for the taking and urged his teammates to treat this as one of multiple do-or-die clashes as the league winds to a thrilling end.
Retired South African-batter Heinrich Klaasen has shut down his critics over his slow strike rate after Sunrisers Hyderabad secured a 10-run victory over Chennai Super Kings at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Uppal on Saturday.
The former South African batter, leading the charts with his bat, brought up his 10th fifty in the Indian Premier League, helping SRH post a respectable total to defend. With 283 runs under his belt in six games, Klaasen has come under consistent scrutiny for his strike rate. In IPL 2026, Klaasen has been scoring at a strike rate of 144.39, far lower than his previous season highs of over 170.
“I know there’s been a lot said about my strike rate this season, but I’ve been putting the team in good positions, and I’m just doing my job,” Klaasen told reporters after the game on Saturday.
Against CSK, Klaasen brought up his fifty in 31 balls before Anshul Khamboj got the better of him. His innings included six fours and two sixes at a strike rate of 151.28. “I’ve been in difficult situations, and you have to take responsibility and be mature about it. You can’t just deal with it like that—that’s not how the game works. We get paid to do the job, and I don’t care about strike rate. You just have to be mature about it and find different ways of scoring 10 runs an over and making sure that you still get a good score on the board,” he added.
The South African batter explained how going to an ‘eye gym’ back in Cape Town during the off-season had helped him sharpen his reflexes.
“It’s all a personal programme for yourself, and it’s just a big tool to make decisions under pressure. It’s about a 10-minute session a day, and you make about four to five hundred decisions in that time under pressure, within a certain timeframe and reaction work,” Klaasen explained. “I’m still keeping up with the pace of the game, and that’s kept me at ease—not to play more cricket because 150 doesn’t feel like 150 when you’re seeing the ball nicely. When you feel out of sync, 135 feels like 150, and that’s not happening.”
Klaasen’s knock against CSK helped the team post 194 runs on the board. This was SRH’s third consecutive win, helping the team enter the top four in the table. They next host Delhi Capitals on April 21, while CSK take on eternal rivals Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium on April 23.
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