RCB in last four after Karthik’s super six

Sreenath Aravind, the latest pace-bowling call-up to the Indian team, had bowled a nightmarish spell, conceding 69 in his four overs. But in the dying moments of his team’s chase of a steep 215, he had walked across the stumps and scooped Daniel Christian for a boundary over short fine leg’s head. There were three balls left in the innings now. A short while later the equation read: seven from two balls.

Aravind swung, and missed. KB Arun Karthik, the non-striker, was already halfway down the pitch. As the two batsmen scampered the bye, keeper Tim Ludeman collected the ball and kept it firm in his gloves, not throwing for fear of conceding overthrows.

Maybe he should have had a shy. Arun Karthik, who bats at number three for Tamil Nadu, had never really had a significant opportunity to display his wares in the IPL. Even here, he had worn an unfamiliar pair of keeping gloves and walked in at the fall of the seventh wicket. Now, he was batting with six needed from one ball

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A new survey suggested that teaching children how to garden helps them to become responsible, realise where food comes from and calms their behaviour.

The poll by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) revealed that more than half parents said it gave their children a sense of responsibility, while almost 20 per cent said it calmed their behaviour.

A full 60 per cent agreed that it helped youngsters know the origin of food, and another 20 per cent said gardening was an activity grandparents could be involved in.

“When children learn to garden it is a skill that stays with them for life, something they will use and fall back on as they grow up,” the Mirror quoted Sue Biggs, director-general of the RHS as saying.

However, it also showed that today’s children have more awareness about gardening than their parents actually did when they were in school, and so did the grandparents

Now, a super broccoli that protects heart, prevents cancers

British scientists have developed what they claim is a “super broccoli” which can protect people against heart disease and cancers.

A team at the Institute of Food Research and John Innes Centre in Norwich says the new strain called Beneforte looks like normal broccoli, but it contains three times as much of a health-boosting nutrient called glucoraphanin.

Research has shown that glucoraphanin can help protect against heart disease and cancers which include those of the bowel and prostate. The nutrient is converted in the gut into a compound, sulphoraphane.

That apparently reduces inflammation which can cause heart attacks, stops uncontrolled cell division associated with early stage cancer and boosts disease-fighting anti-oxidants, say the scientists.

The super broccoli raises sulphoraphane levels to two to four times that of normal broccoli, say the scientists who developed it by breeding -- and not by genetic engineering

NSW put Chennai out of CL T20 with 46-run win

David Warner smashed a blistering unbeaten century as New South Wales dumped defending champions Chennai Super Kings out of the Champions League Twenty20 with a 46-run thrashing here today.

Electing to bat, New South Wales posted an imposing 201 for two, riding on Warner's 69-ball 135 not out, and Chennai needed to chase down the target in 17 overs if they were to qualify for the semifinals from Pool A. Chennai, however, managed to score 155 all out in their last league match.

After today's match, NSW and the Mumbai Indians qualified for the semifinals after having collected six and five points respectively at the end of their league engagements.

Chennai could only win one out of their four matches and finished at the bottom of the five-team Pool A. Trinidad and Togabo, who defeated Cape Cobras in another Pool A match today, failed to qualify for the last-four stage as they ended their league engagements on four points.