India, De Klerk and World Cup
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E ight years ago an Indian cricketer, Harmanpreet Kaur, played one of the best innings of all time. Ms Kaur scored an unbeaten 171 runs in the semi-final of the Cricket World Cup, helping India defeat Australia and reach the final for the second time. An estimated 126m people in India watched the final. Women’s cricket was suddenly mainstream.
An Indian court on Wednesday cleared journalist Priya Ramani of criminal defamation charges brought by former union minister M. J. Akbar after she publicly accused him of sexual assault in 2018.