Australian eves complete hat-trick of World T20 titles 6th April

1.    Australian eves complete hat-trick of World T20 titles

i. Australian eves once again proved their supremacy in women’s cricket as they completed a hat-trick of ICC World T20 titles with a comprehensive six-wicket win over England in the final in Mirpur on Sunday.

ii. Australian captain Meg Lanning smashed her way to 44 off 30 balls, helping her team surpass a paltry target of 106 with as many as 29 balls to spare.

iii. Lanning’s innings had four boundaries and two sixes. The first six -- a lofted shot over long-off ropes off seamer Anya Shrubsole -- was a treat to watch. It was a copybook backlift and one can’t take away anything from that shot although the boundary ropes have been brought in by at least 10 yards for the women’s final.

Brief Scores

England Women 105/8 in 20 overs (Heather Knight 29, Sarah Coyte 3/11, Elysse Perry 2/13).

Australian Women 106/4 in 15.1 overs (Meg Lanning 44, Elysse Perry 31 no).

Australian women’s team won by 6 wickets.

2.    Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Anja Niedringhaus shot dead in Afghanistan

i. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Anja Niedringhaus on 4 April 2014 shot dead by a policeman in Afghanistan. She was 48. She was killed while covering the 2014 presidential election in Afghanistan.

ii. Anja Niedringhaus was a German photojournalist working for the Associated Press. She was the only woman on a team of 11 AP photographers that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for coverage of the Iraq War. That same year she was awarded the International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism prize.

3.    President Obama nominated PIO Sunil Sabharwal as US Alternate Executive Director of IMF

i. President Barack Obama on 4 April 2014 nominated Sunil Sabharwal as the next US Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He is currently working as independent investor in the payments sector.

About Sunil Sabharwal

i. His earliest known job was at European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where he worked from 1992-1996, eventually becoming its Principal Banker before leaving. 

ii.   In 1997, Sabharwal joined GE Capital, leaving in 2003 while he was the company’s Managing Director.

iii.  From 2003-2006, he was Senior Vice-President of Strategic Investments at First Data Corporation, Western Union.