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I’M TEACHER WHO EXPOSED CLASS HELL

April 24, 2004 by www.mirror.co.uk Leave a Comment

THIS is the teacher whose shocking secret diary in The People last week exposed the chaos in our schools.

Stuart Williams, 42, gave up his anonymity to say in an exclusive interview: “I have no regrets.

“My diary was something that needed to be done.

“I don’t pretend to know what the answer is – but the more people recognise what’s really going on in our classrooms, the more chance we have of doing something about it.”

Maths teacher Stuart described last week how he struggled with unruly and foul-mouthed boys and girls aged 11 to 16 in a “bog standard” comprehensive. We changed the names of the children to protect their identities.

Stuart, from Telford, Shrops, believes his experiences are typical of a nationwide education system that is failing both teachers and pupils.

He says: “I published the diary to show other teachers they were not alone.”I wanted to explain it wasn’t the teachers who were failing the children – it was the system that was failing us all.”

The diary was also his way of “letting off steam” after hours of frustration in the classroom.

He adds: “I threw myself into it. I’d rush home and write every night.

“There was nothing clever about it. I just wrote down my feelings, things like ‘Everyone’s sat at their desks now and I don’t care…’

“That’s actually how I was feeling at the end of my day.

“I felt I should be able to expect 12 year olds to sit down and be quiet when they’re told.

“But the sort of trouble I encountered is what’s going on in classrooms across the country.

“It’s not all knives being pulled on teachers and physical threats, as many people seem to think.

“It’s more a constant draining battle with a few children who are set on disrupting the class.”

He adds: “I would be trying to start a lesson and over half the class wouldn’t have a pen. And most never bothered to do their homework.”

He feels especially frustrated by the lack of support he got from some parents.

Stuart says: “I’d ring them with a problem but either they wouldn’t answer the phone or they’d put it straight down.

“Parents don’t seem to realise their child is their responsibility.

“They didn’t care about their education, their behaviour or their future. And it showed in class.”

Stuart, unmarried with no children of his own, taught at the school for three years.

But he quit in the belief he was fighting a losing battle. He adds: “Gradually I became more and more frustrated with the constant disobedience and disrespect.

“I couldn’t believe it – there I was, a grown man unable to control a boy of 12.

“That really affects you – your confidence, everything.”

He now teaches in a secure unit for difficult children where there is more discipline. “I don’t feel I’m wasting my time any more,” he says.

But despite everything, he still misses his old school where he received the full support of colleagues and senior staff.

He says: “I miss the majority of the children I taught. I miss the banter we could have.” The school refused to comment.

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Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy strike deal on US debt ceiling

May 28, 2023 by www.telegraph.co.uk Leave a Comment

US President Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy, the top congressional Republican, have reached a tentative deal to avert a possible catastrophic debt default.

While the agreement reached overnight ended a bitter political stalemate, it has not yet put a stop to the financial woes that Janet Yellen, the Treasury secretary, has warned threaten to trigger a global economic downturn.

The pressure is on to get the deal passed through Congress before June 5, the date the US runs out of money to pay its debts.

Mr Biden called the deal “an important step forward” and “good news for the American people, because it prevents what could have been a catastrophic default and would have led to an economic recession, retirement accounts devastated, and millions of jobs lost”.

But, he added, the agreement required compromise. “Not everyone gets what they want,” Mr Biden said. “That’s the responsibility of governing.”

Mr McCarthy announced on Twitter: “I just got off the phone with the president a bit ago. After he wasted time and refused to negotiate for months, we’ve come to an agreement in principle that is worthy of the American people.”

He said the plan would result in “historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms that will lift people out of poverty into the workforce, rein in government overreach”.

“There are no new taxes, no new government programs,” Mr McCarthy said.

American lawmakers have been arguing over whether to raise or suspend the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, which determines how much money the US government can legally borrow. Government debt hit its limit in January, which means the US cannot legally borrow any more money.

After months of back-and-forth, the tentative agreement came together in a flurry of calls on Saturday night.

“We still have more work to do tonight to finish the writing of it,” Mr McCarthy told reporters on Capitol Hill. He said he expected to finish writing the bill on Sunday before a vote on Wednesday.

Among the terms was a pact to cap non-defence discretionary spending at 2023 levels for one year and increase it by 1 per cent in 2025, a source familiar with the deal told Reuters.

The deal would suspend the debt limit through to January of 2025, while capping spending in the next two budgets, claw back unused COVID funds, speed up the permitting process for some energy projects and includes some extra work requirements for food aid programs for poor Americans.

“It has historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms that will lift people out of poverty into the workforce, rein in government overreach – there are no new taxes, no new government programs,” Mr McCarthy said.

Republicans who control the House of Representatives have pushed for steep cuts to spending and other conditions, and were sharply critical of the deal as early details were reported.

Mr Biden had previously refused to negotiate with Mr McCarthy over future spending cuts, demanding that lawmakers first pass a “clean” debt-ceiling increase free of other conditions.

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Barry series finale: The Mask Collector

May 29, 2023 by www.avclub.com Leave a Comment

Barry has Breaking Bad speedball. Ostensibly, a half-hour comedy about a disgraced Afghanistan veteran who becomes a hitman when he realizes his murderous set of skills has no real use in modern life. Well, outside of killing people for money. Still, Barry learns that maybe he could express some of his rage, PTSD, and the wide array of emotional problems that neither he nor the country that set him to war seems capable of solving through theater. Imagine what this country could be with an arts program as robust as its military-industrial complex. But it’s not. In the country where this recap is being written, Barry yells “Gun!” at a Walmart clerk, and neither she nor anyone in this bustling store of shoppers, clerks, security guards, and likely fellow veterans does a thing about it. Barry straps on two military-grade assault rifles, holsters his pistols, and walks purposefully through the automatic doors to his car unbothered by the heavy artillery attached to his person. Like the gangster who rides leisurely to NoHo Hank’s crime utopia earlier in the season , violence seemingly doesn’t register with people in the world of Barry .

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Part of that, as the episode unravels, is the absolute hunger we as a society have for a clean narrative. This happened because of that. It’s been Barry ’s guiding light for the last four seasons as one bad decision begets another, and so on, until NoHo Hank clutches the bronze hand of the love of his life, his last breath heard only by the few barely living soldiers bleeding out around him. Sure, now, Livewire sees the value of human life as he pleads with Groove Tube to wake up. But it’s the narrative that compels us, right? Why did Barry do all this? Why did Fuches? Hank? The answer to why men do the things that they do is innocuous, an everyday evil, a banal response from Fuches: “I was a man with no heart.” It’s a charge that fits the bill for basically every man on this show.

Barry has long been a show about a bunch of Hollywood assholes who refuse to accept accountability for their actions. That it came out in the middle of the first wave of #MeToo allegations makes its satire a little overblown and on the nose. In a world where no one cares that a wanted, armed killer is walking through a department store with a face like Barry’s and the means to do it, the blind eye we all turn to these mundane evils is as much a part of the show’s narrative as anything. Of course, Barry wants us to have fun with this idea too. It is funny, says the critic who has been enjoying the show’s descent into darkness while still finding the bright spots of humor the show’s best attribute. How fun are we supposed to have with this stuff? What’s so funny about all this killing anyway? Through Barry’s perspective, we always had a detached view of the subject, allowing moments of horror to happen casually.

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In Barry ’s final half hour, nothing’s really that funny until the narrative takes over. That narrative isn’t the one the show has been telling this whole time, the one with detours in the middle of nowhere or Hank’s NoHo hourglass. It’s the one that the people inside the world of Barry concocted to make sense of it. What do they do to the “Barry Berkman Story,” the tale of a lost veteran trying to understand himself through art and murder? They turn it into a Jack Reacher movie, an actioneer that could be charitably called “Paul Schrader lite.” After all, the only narrative left is the one where Barry is a hero, buried at Arlington Cemetery with full accommodations. I mused earlier this week about how I couldn’t see this show having its Taxi Driver ending, where he ends up the hero. And, aside from the whole getting shot in the forehead thing, that’s what happens. By the end of Barry , Barry’s a hero to the world and his son. That was God’s plan for Mr. Berkman.

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And God answers Barry’s wishes. When the episode starts, we hear the same discordant sound cue we left off on last week. Hoping to draw that same line of intensity from the previous installment, we cut to The Raven, sitting pretty in his palatial tub when Hank calls with a deal. He’s got Sally and John, but Fuches is only interested in the latter. He’s barely interested in Barry.

While “The Mask Collector” has a very specific and stupid meaning come the episode’s end, it could very well apply to Fuches here. When Raven arrives at NoHobal to face off with Hank’s spectrum of goons that create a color profile that would make Roy G. Biv proud, he tells Hank that he had a come to Jesus moment in prison. After daily beatings, he realized exactly who he was: the aforementioned man with no heart. He sees the same in Hank. And while he calls Hank for what he is, a snake, he also demands that he drop the act, the denial that fuels Hank’s continued success as a businessman. And it crushes Hank.

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Mostly told through a series of close-ups, the episode really gets a look at these characters’ faces, the lines, and the weariness. For years, Barry has presented masks of its characters as they pretend and insist they’re good people. Sometimes that mask is obscured through performance—this is a show about acting, after all. This is an episode about unmasking and what it takes to do that. Unsurprisingly, it’s Sally who gives the straight story first. In a tight profile with the back of John’s head hanging in the frame, Sally comes clean, telling John that she and Barry are fugitives and that she is a killer. She murdered a man, and it’s the first time she admitted it on the show, and God bless Sarah Goldberg, who looks as though 600 pounds had been slowly lifted from her chest, as she finally takes off the Emily mask and shows him Sally. He hugs her for the first time, and the two, in her honesty, share the second loving moment between child and mother on the show. It’s a moment of redemption for Sally and one that sets the course for her behavior in the rest of the episode as she becomes a more decisive and confident person. All it took was living through a firefight.

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Hank isn’t so forthcoming. The close-ups between Fuches and Hank in their showdown were the moment when I missed Barry the most. How many shows are giving Stephen Root and Anthony Carrigan these lingering long takes to stare at each other, manipulating, crying, laughing, and saying everything without saying it? As with Sally’s mournful admission, Hader really lets the actor work while he simply captures their stunning performances with the camera. And they are stunning performances. Consider how far Carrigan has gone from season one, when he was mostly known for sending Bitmoji that undersell the danger they’re constantly in. Here, he’s a quivering mess, clearly and utterly devastated by Cristabol’s murder, with Fuches forcing him to take accountability, and he can’t. What follows is a quick firefight and one hilariously deadpan grenade that ends the conversation before it can happen.

As the scene comes to a close, with Hank’s last breath escaping his body, as dramatic as ever this one, Barry arrives with his arsenal just in time to catch Fuches and John on the way out the door. In the end, Fuches saved John and delivered him to Barry. Again, another pair of close-ups seemingly tells the audience that there’s an understanding between them now. In exchange for John’s safety, Fuches is no longer on the list. No words were exchanged. Fuches disappears into the night.

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So Barry, Sally, and John escape the clutches of NoHo Hank, more or less, unscathed. Of course, John is fucked psychologically anyway because of who his parents are, but at least the better angles of Barry ’s writers’ room won out. John, after all, is alive. Still, now with her admission to John on the table, Sally shows off her inner Fuches and pushes Barry to turn himself in.

Barry’s religion has really become the last level of evading accountability. Who is he to judge himself? Only the Lord can do that. What’s more, he was ready to exchange his life for John’s safety, and considering God spared Barry, maybe they should just continue on their awful way, regroup and find a new place to hide out for the rest of their lives. However, the new and improved assertive Sally has been reading about Cousineau’s situation, how the cops have pinned all of Barry’s crimes on him, and how unfair all that is. She pushes Barry to turn himself in, and when he refuses, she turns her back to him. The next morning, she absconds with John, leaving Barry to fend for himself.

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Like many series finales, Barry ’s has distinct sections, a few scenes for audiences to say goodbye to specific characters and versions of them. First, we said goodbye to Fuches and Hank, Barry’s crime world. The next one, though, is more personal, and like another season finale, it has a very abrupt finish. Barry arrives at Cousineau’s ready to do the right thing. Catching Tom as he sneaks out the door, Barry walks into Cousineau’s as his old teacher takes out Rip Torn’s pistol, a Chekov’s gun many times over, that has been the subject of one of Barry’s greatest sound gags and the source of one of its greatest cliffhangers. The latter was brilliantly memorialized by a Los Angeles Times headline in the episode. As Barry sits on the couch, he tells Tom to call the cops and begins to cry. It will be our last close-up of Bill Hader before Cousineau shoots him in the chest and head. It’s a stunning shot from the acting teacher, who must’ve done some target practice in Israel. But it seals the deal on Barry’s legacy.

The episode cuts to black, á la The Sopranos , immediately after the shot to the head. It’s so abrupt that for half a second, it felt like the real thing. Would Hader be so overt to court comparisons to television’s most prestigious prestige show? No, we’d fade back in and see Cousineau sit on his couch, seemingly serene. His nightmare is both over and just beginning because he’s going to jail, and to the rest of the world, he’s the masterful kingpin behind all these murders.

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But that’s not all. In a move that can only be described as for the Our Town heads in the audience, the show does another time jump, taking us several years down the line to an older, wiser, and yes, slightly more confident Sally Reed. Now a theater teacher lapping applause for a well-received adaptation of Our Town , she beams with pride as she accepts her flowers. Outside, she quickly shoots down a date and lets John go sleep over at a friend’s house. She doesn’t overthink it. All the bad men are gone. She’s no longer seeing Shane’s bleeding eye in the cold light of day. Sally seems content without Barry in her life. Though, the way she looks at the flowers on her ride home does have a reminder of the flowers that Barry used to bring—er, the ones she asked him to bring her on the set of “Joplin.” There’s a sadness to her as she stares at the empty passenger seat, but it’s probably better than her life with Barry.

It’s at this point in a very short episode of television (relatively speaking) that it starts to feel a little like Hader is spinning his wheels. How is this all going to wrap up? It’s starting to feel a little anti-climactic, as if there’s even supposed to be some grand unified Barry theory that makes sense of everything we’ve seen over the last four years.

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In the end, there is. It’s all about narrative. It’s all about how we consume, venerate, and celebrate violence and the violent people in society. John (now played by Hader’s fellow It alumni Jaeden Martell ) and his friend sit down to watch “The Mask Collector,” a sub-Lifetime adaptation of the Barry TV show. To pull another comparison to the Sopranos , its fidelity to show is very “ Cleaver ,” a bloody, cheap, and sensationalized account of the reality we’ve seen on TV. Moreover, it turns Barry into the hero of the story, the story that John’s heard before. It’s the story that, as Clark, Barry told John on the steps of their home . Poor Barry was manipulated by Cousineau and forced to do unspeakable things before saving his family and dying in a final confrontation. After years of telling people he’s a good person, Barry is the hero, a lost vet trying to understand himself and being taken advantage of by a capable older man.

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Through that story, Barry escapes accountability forever. Print the legend of Barry, and that’s all everyone will ever know. It doesn’t matter that he was a man with no heart. It doesn’t matter about the truth. It doesn’t matter that Barry was a cruel, despicable human being who often killed because he didn’t have the skills for anything else. It’s a narrative that we can understand. That’s really what Barry was about. Violence is chaos, and in the process of making sense of it, we assign good guys and bad guys—a good guy with a gun takes out a bad guy with a gun.

Forgiveness needs to be earned, Hank reminds us in season three. Fuches seemingly earned it when he delivered John. Sally earned it when she told John the truth. Barry came ever so close to starting a path to redemption—well, sort of, Barry can’t really be redeemed—but it was too late. His crimes have already spawned another violent killer because that’s what violence does; it starts a cycle of violence, one we’ve seen play out numerous times on the show, particularly last season when the families of Barry’s victims disastrously tried and failed to get revenge.

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Who knows what the secret knowledge of having seen “The Mask Collector” will mean for John. Maybe he’ll follow in his father’s footsteps. Or maybe he’ll be an actor like his mom. In its final frame, Barry asks us to consider what effect watching violence has on us as viewers. With John’s slight smile of relief, the mayhem that Barry presented is now fodder for mindless entertainment that belittle the real victims. At least Ryan Maddison’s father, who killed himself after driving Barry to the hospital, isn’t alive to see what Hollywood has made of his son and his son’s killer.

For all the darkness this season, it feels fair to ask one last time: Was Barry a comedy? Ultimately, it’s hard to laugh at the show because it started to look a lot like real life. The crimes on Barry aren’t so dissimilar from what we in the U.S. see on the news every day. In a country where multiple mass shootings happen daily, and domestic gunfire is a leading cause of death, what on this show is exaggerated? It takes Hank combing the ACME catalog and going full Looney Tunes to get a laugh out of this stuff. Over its short run, Barry became a show about the ways we perceive, mythologize, and try to shed ourselves of the responsibility of the violence around us. The ways we turn our heads from it and try to process it. Barry treated its characters as bad guys in a society that celebrates them. Barry was a bad guy with no heart, a product of a violent culture that gave him nothing but a gun and told him to kill. Now, he’s a hero. Tricky legacies.

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Stray observations

  • “I figured out my dad bought my house with drug money… So he shot me.”
  • I’m starting a campaign to have the national anthem changed to a Bill Hader yelling “Guns!”
  • Fred Melamed creeping out of Cousineau’s house was one of the few laughs tonight, but it was a hardy one.
  • CeCe Peniston’s “Finally” gets a hell of a needle drop when Barry marches to the gun counter.
  • I can’t say how happy I am that Hader gave us so much Fuches and Hank business last week. As great as it has been to watch Carrigan really stretch out, there’s nothing quite like watching Hank figure out or escape a murder.
  • Alas, no more Larry Chowder from this show. I was really hoping that we’d get a taste of Chowder in a trailer when John started watching “The Mask Collector.”
  • It would’ve been easy for “The Mask Collector” to go overboard with the Cousineau character, but I thought Michael Cumpsty found a real solid balance. It must’ve been hard not to go even harder with it. His restraint is appreciated.
  • Thank you so much for reading our Barry recaps this season, and thank you for the great discussion in the comments, which always challenged my thinking on the show. It was a weird and difficult season, but more than other shows, I think Barry committed to its characters by not redeeming them, ultimately dragging the show down where it needed to be. It’s honest, in a way, about the type of show it is because none of this should really be all that funny anyway. That Barry could be so many things and do it in a half hour is an incredible achievement and a rewarding watch, even if it made us queasy sometimes.

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Nole finds the soul to make his dream come true

January 28, 2008 by www.express.co.uk Leave a Comment

ECSTACY Djokovic celebrates after thrilling win ECSTACY: Djokovic celebrates after thrilling win

The romance of sport, the sheer thrill of unbridled competition from two men who defied the odds to be locked together for one of the great prizes, enthralled anyone with a wisp of sentiment in their soul.

If there was a sense of disappointment in the 15,000 crowd at the end when Jo-Wilfried Tsonga put his final shot out and Novak Djokovic, at 20, was guaranteed his first grand slam win, it was because the sheer exuberance of the Frenchman had been quenched.

Djokovic’s 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 victory was a triumph for his brilliant tennis – but it had to be to wrest control from Tsonga, 22, whose world ranking will jump from 38 to 18 after doubling his career earnings with a cheque for £305,000.

But this had nothing to do with money. It was all about pride and savage ambition to achieve, about expressing talents which were honed through tough times.

Djokovic has been talking about being a top player since he was a small boy in war-torn Serbia. And if there were moments when he seemed overwrought as he turned to his guest box in the Rod Laver Arena, eyes wild, thumping his chest, he could be excused. Usually it was at the end of one of a score of magnificent rallies containing a manual full of shots.

There were his mother, father and two younger brothers clad in white T-shirts, standing, roaring their support, and spelling out his nickname ‘Nole’.

For his part, Tsonga was filled with emotion as he looked at his parents, who had flown from their home in Le Mans, arriving 12 hours before the final so unexpected was their son’s progress.

His father, a Congolese teacher married to a French teacher, had been at the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle when George Foreman lost to Muhammad Ali.

Now he has a son who in build, movement and face looks like the boxing legend, even if he has yet to find his winning style. A succession of injuries have made his transition from the second-best junior in the world to Australian finalist a pain-wracked journey.

Now he has arrived and it is difficult to imagine such an owner of firework shots not being in at the kill at many tournaments from now on.

His talent is mercurial and although his serve was not as blazing as it had been on other nights, he still managed to power down 15 aces which made him the best in the tournament with 100. The problem he found was that Djokovic, while a touch less flashy, is a superb all-round player and was able to return many of the big serves and turn defence to attack.

He is the first Serb to win a grand slam and as a youngster in a troubled  country, he somehow held on to a dream of this day. “This hunger for success and the times and things we went through made us stronger,” said Djokovic, who refuses to discuss the war.

“I always had a big support, especially from my parents. My father always believed more in me than I did in myself. Serbia doesn’t have such a big tennis tradition. Considering all the bad times while I was growing up and practising there it seemed an impossible dream, but I always believed.”

That belief kept going when Djokovic, who had not dropped a set on his way to the final, including his destruction of Roger Federer, stuttered.

He knew it would be very dangerous against Tsonga, and that was emphasised when the big man danced on court to take the first set.

Djokovic then dug in, found his rhythm and took control of the second set and ultimately the match. To do it involved some magnificent duels, one of which brought Sting from his seat to applaud a brilliant volley by Djokovic in the fourth set which saved break point.

It went to a tiebreak and the steadier and more experienced Serb, who has been in one grand slam final and three other semis, eased to his first title to confirm himself as a real rival to Federer’s four-year dominance.

“I don’t know whether to be sad or happy about the final but I feel great,” said Tsonga, who clearly had the crowd support, although rival groups of French and Serbian supporters painted up and bedecked in flags helped crank up the atmosphere through the open roof into the warm Melbourne night.

The night before, at the cricket ground next door, The Police had played Walking On The Moon, a feeling tennis officials now know after the new wave hit Melbourne.

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Sunil Gavaskar Wishes To Get “Another Autograph From MS Dhoni” After IPL 2023 Final | Cricket News

May 29, 2023 by sports.ndtv.com Leave a Comment

Legendary Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar said that Chennai Super Kings (CSK) skipper MS Dhoni has proved his greatness year after year and he hopes to get another autograph from MSD after the Indian Premier League (IPL) final between CSK and Gujarat Titans (GT). Rain played spoilsport in Ahmedabad on Sunday as the highly-anticipated IPL 2023 Final was moved to the Reserve Day on Monday. Inclement weather came as a setback to the fans but it has not dampened their morale.

A large number of spectators are expected to grace the Narendra Modi Stadium to watch defending champions Gujarat Titans take on Chennai Super Kings in the grand finale. The high-stakes contest between two strong and deserving teams in TATA IPL 2023 is expected to live up to the billings and fans are hoping the sky will be clear in the evening.

The sea of yellow will once again descend in the stadium in large number for one last time in this season and millions will be glued to their television screens to watch their beloved ‘Thala’ MS Dhoni in action in IPL 2023.

Not just cricket fans, cricket legend like Sunil Gavaskar will also be waiting for the CSK captain to walk in the middle and lead the Yellow Army from the front. Gavaskar wishes to take another autograph from MSD on his shirt after the IPL 2023 Final. Notably, Dhoni signed Gavaskar’s shirt after CSK’s final home match against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) this season.

Speaking on Star Sports’ Cricket Live, Gavaskar said, “I have been a fan of MS Dhoni for all that he has done for Indian Cricket. He has proven his greatness year after year and I will be his fan forever. Hopefully, I will get another autograph from him after the IPL Final.”

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Former India cricketer Harbhajan Singh has hailed MS Dhoni and CSK for keeping things simple and credited this approach is behind their success.

Harbhajan said, “Once his team is set, MS Dhoni and the team management does not tamper with the Playing 11 no matter who is available on the bench. A player like Ben Stokes – their most expensive player at auction – had to sit on the bench even after regaining his fitness because the team combination was doing well. Belief in players takes a big team forward and CSK is testimony to the same.”

MS Dhoni has been in fine form this season. Though fans have not witnessed long innings from Dhoni this season, he has provided CSK with some valuable runs with his entertaining cameos in the end, largely powered by his towering sixes.

Dhoni has scored 104 runs in this IPL in 11 innings at an average of 34.67 and a strike rate of 185.71. He has the best score of 32*. He has struck three fours and 10 sixes in this season.

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Attention will once again be on proficient Gujarat Titans’ opening batter Shubman Gill, who is the Orange Cap holder of the season. The young India batter, who has slammed three centuries in the last four innings, will be aiming to become the second batter after Virat Kohli to score 900-plus runs in a single season.

Former India cricketer Mohammed Kaif lauded Gill for his ability to mould himself according to the situation of the game and that makes him such an exciting batter.

Kaif said, “Shubman Gill has this unique ability to adapt to the demand of the situation. He can play explosive shots at the start of the innings and even in the middle overs, he is capable of hitting those big shots. He generally looks to set his eyes first and then go ballistic in the middle overs which is a great sign for any big batter. He knows how to convert the starts into big knocks consistently.”

Gill currently holds the Orange Cap in IPL 2023. He has scored 851 runs in 16 matches at an average of 60.78, with three centuries and four fifties. His best score is 129. His runs have come at a strike rate of 156.43.

Defending champions Gujarat Titans (GT) and four-time champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) will lock horns in the final of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday, making this GT’s second successive final and CSK’s 10th, the most by any time in league’s history.

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Gujarat Titans Squad: Wriddhiman Saha(w), Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Hardik Pandya(c), Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Mohit Sharma, Noor Ahmad, Mohammed Shami, Joshua Little, Srikar Bharat, Shivam Mavi, Odean Smith, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Pradeep Sangwan, Matthew Wade, Jayant Yadav, Dasun Shanaka, Abhinav Manohar, Alzarri Joseph, Darshan Nalkande, Urvil Patel, Yash Dayal

Chennai Super Kings Squad: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devon Conway, Shivam Dube, Ajinkya Rahane, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Moeen Ali, Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Maheesh Theekshana, Matheesha Pathirana, Mitchell Santner, Subhranshu Senapati, Shaik Rasheed, Akash Singh, Ben Stokes, Dwaine Pretorius, Sisanda Magala, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Prashant Solanki, Simarjeet Singh, RS Hangargekar, Bhagath Varma, Nishant Sindhu.

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