Reflecting on past performances, he added, “Our previous two T20 series at home we were on the wrong end of the results but starting against Australia, we want to regain our form at home as we build momentum into next year’s World Cup with our exciting and dynamic group of players.”
West Indies Squad for Australia T20Is:
Shai Hope (C), Jewel Andrew, Jediah Blades, Roston Chase, Matthew Forde, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Brandon King, Evin Lewis, Gudakesh Motie, Rovman Powell, Andre Russell*, Sherfane Rutherford, and Romario Shepherd
Following the last increase in 2023, Google is raising the price of Nest Aware in the US next month. This is according to an email sent out to existing subscribers today.
The entry Nest Aware subscription now costs $10 per month or $100 annually ($20 savings). This gives you 30 days of event-based video history. It was previously $8/month and $80/year, and $6/month and $60/year at launch in 2020.
Meanwhile, Nest Aware Plus is now $20 per month or $200 annually ($40 savings), compared to $15/month and $150/year (originally $12/month and $120/year). This gets you up to 10 days of 24/7 video history and 60 days of event video history.
Both tiers provide intelligent alerts for Familiar Faces, smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, and glass breaking warnings, as well as e911 calling. At the moment, Nest Aware subscribers also have access to the Gemini-powered Google Assistant on the Nest Audio and Mini.
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Two years is no time at all to be the boss of a large FTSE 100 company, but the departure of Debra Crew from Diageo, the Guinness and Johnnie Walker group, has felt possible for at least half that period. Now she has gone “by mutual agreement”.
Crew’s first problem was that she followed a genuine corporate superstar in the form of the late Sir Ivan Menezes, whose strategy of “premiumisation” – encouraging punters to drink more expensive stuff – did wonders for profit margins year after year. Any successor would have found it hard to match his record.
Second, she started with a thumping profits warning in November 2023 – a proper shock to investors – and explained it badly. The cause was overstocking in Latin America in the post-Covid period, but it was never entirely clear how Diageo could have been so badly informed about the mismatch between stocks held by local distributors and how much tequila and whisky was actually being consumed on the ground. As the former chief operating officer, Crew could hardly blame others.
Third, she waited too long to ditch financial guidance, inherited from Menezes, that was plainly out of date. After Covid’s locked-up booze fest and the post-pandemic party period, the spirits market became harder to read when consumers turned more cautious. Clinging to “medium-term” sales growth of 5% to 7% while turning in numbers as low as 0.6% added to the sense of drift.
Fourth, even when Diageo came up with a cost-cutting plan in May, pledging $500m (£370m) of savings, it was the new finance director, Nik Jhangiani, who got the credit in the eyes of City. While Crew talked about “largely macroeconomic” factors at work, the incomer sounded more attuned to the reality that Diageo was living in a harsher operating climate. Only the ever-reliable Guinness brand has proved immune.
Fifth, a new chair, Sir John Manzoni, arrived in February, which was always going to be a moment of danger for a chief executive who had overseen a 40% fall in the share price. Thus Crew’s immediate exit lacks shock value. When you’re getting fixed pay of £1.7m out of total remuneration of £3m last year, you’re vulnerable. The removal process sometimes should be unsentimental, just as it was at Unilever, where the last boss lasted only 18 months.
That is not to dispute that the macroeconomic forces are genuine. The spirits market has weakened and Pernod Ricard’s share price looks as horrible as Diageo’s. Complicating factors include Gen Z’s lower appetite for alcohol than their parents’ generation, slimming drugs’ possible effect on drinking habits and Donald Trump’s ever-changing tariffs.
Yet it is still hard to shake the feeling that Diageo could do more to help itself. From an annual sales base of $20bn, is $500m of cost savings really all that can be found? A lot of corporate fat may have accumulated over 20-odd years of success – the definition of leanness may have to be sharpened. Should it take until 2028, as pitched in May, to get the debt ratios within the desired range? Disposals have been promised, but the timetable looks leisurely.
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Jhangiani will start as favourite to succeed Crew as he’s now the stand-in, is untarnished and is popular in the City. But, whoever it is, she or he needs to start with a clearer-eyed focus of what Diageo can do to shift its hangover. The company still has the potential to be great again. Under Crew, the long-term vision felt too blurry.
Here are the Fantasy Cricket Predictions and Betting Tips for the Pondicherry Premier League, Match 20 – Villianur Mohit Kings vs Yanam Royals and Match 21 – Mahe Megalo Strikers vs Ruby White Town Legends, which will be played on the 17th of July at the Cricket Association Puducherry Siechem Ground, Puducherry.
Points Table
Match 20 – Villianur Mohit Kings vs Yanam Royals (Cricket Association Puducherry Siechem Ground, Puducherry)
Current Form Villianur Mohit Kings:
Villianur Mohit Kings are currently placed at the 1st position on points table with 5 wins and 1 loss to their credit.
The top run scorer for Villianur Mohit Kings in the Pondicherry Premier League 2025 is Bhanu Anand with 331 runs to his name.
The top wicket taker for Villianur Mohit Kings in the Pondicherry Premier League 2025 is Himanshu Sharma with 12 scalps under his belt. Villianur Mohit Kings have lost their previous match against Mahe Megalo Strikers by 3 wickets.
Villianur Mohit Kings batted first and they posted a total of 183 for 6 in 20 overs. Mohit Kale got out without troubling the scorers much. After his dismissal, Bhanu Anand unleashed his fearless self and smashed the bowlers to all parts of the ground. He made 82 runs in just 46 balls, hitting 6 fours and 5 sixes. He kept losing partners in regular succession though and Villianur Mohit Kings failed to get past the 200 run mark which they looked like achieving in the early part of their innings. They had to settle for a total of 183 in 20 overs of play.
During the chase, A Kamaleeshwaran and Ajay got their team off to a flier. After these two got out, a couple of wickets fell in regular succession and Mahe Megalo Strikers looked in deep waters. However, Shrikaran A had their back. He smashed 66 runs in just 39 balls, stayed not out and won the game for Mahe Megalo Strikers on the last ball of the match with 3 wickets in hand.
Batting Stats T20
Current Form Yanam Royals:
Yanam Royals are currently placed at the 2nd position on points table with 4 wins and 2 losses to their credit.
The top run scorer for Yanam Royals in the Pondicherry Premier League 2025 is Vedant Bhardwaj with 341 runs to his name.
The top wicket taker for Yanam Royals in the Pondicherry Premier League 2025 is K Vignesh with 9 scalps under his belt.
Yanam Royals have won their previous match against Ossudu Accord Warriors by 6 runs.
Yanam Royals batted first and they posted a huge total of 198 for 2 in 20 overs. Vedant Bhardwaj got out without troubling the scorers much. After his dismissal, Aditya Garhwal and S Parameeswaran batted like champions and smashed 79 and 88 runs respectively to help Yanam Royals get to a massive total of 198.
During the chase, Ossudu Accord Warriors lost their premier batter Jashwanth Shreeram R quite early into the innings. After his dismissal, Ganga Sridhar Raju and Shailesh Vaithianathan batted to their potential. They made 67 and 49 runs respectively to ignite the hope for a successful chase. However, once these two got out, the middle order collapsed like a pack of cards and Ossudu Accord Warriors eventually fell short by 6 runs.
Let’s have a look at the squads:
Villianur Mohit Kings
Akash Pougajendy, Himanshu Sahani, Mohit Kale, Mohit Satpal, Siva Murugan M, Aman Khan, Indrajeet Kumar, Parth Sahani, Rajdeep Nayak, Rohit D, Bhanu Anand, Harsh Vaishnav, L Kiran Akash, Raghav Goyal, Rajaram S, Samad Khan
Most Sixes – S Parameeswaran (Yanam Royals), Akash Pougajendy (Villianur Mohit Kings)
Player of the Match– S Parameeswaran (Yanam Royals)
Team Scores Batting first – Yanam Royals 190+, Villianur Mohit Kings 185+
Match Handicap: Yanam Royals
Wicket Takers T20
Match 21 – Mahe Megalo Strikers vs Ruby White Town Legends (Cricket Association Puducherry Siechem Ground, Puducherry)
Current Form Ruby White Town Legends:
Ruby White Town Legends are currently placed at the 3rd position on the points table with 4 wins and 3 losses to their credit.
The top run scorer for Ruby White Town Legends in the Pondicherry Premier League 2025 is Anand Bais with 341 runs to his name.
The top wicket taker for Ruby White Town Legends in the Pondicherry Premier League 2025 is Anil Tunda with 13 scalps under his belt. Ruby White Town Legends have lost their previous match against Ossudu Accord Warriors by 2 wickets.
Ruby White Town Legends batted first and they posted a total of 169 for 5 in 20 overs. Neyan Kangayan batted well at the top of the order and scored 33 runs. Anand Bais in the middle order also contributed healthily by smashing 70 runs in just 32 balls. However, despite his efforts, the rest of the batters failed to keep up the momentum and Ruby White Town Legends had to settle for an under par total of 169 on a good surface to bat on.
During the chase, Ossudu Accord Warriors lost 5 early wickets and looked to be in trouble right from the outset. However, Krishna Dutt Pandey and Parandaman Thamaraikannan took the responsibility of taking Ossudu Accord Warriors over the line. Krishna Dutt Pandey made 66 quick runs while Thamaraikannan scored 34 runs as Ossudu Accord Warriors won the game in the last over with 2 wickets in hand.
Most 6’s T20
Current Form Mahe Megalo Strikers:
Mahe Megalo Strikers are currently placed at the bottom most position on points table with 2 win and 4 losses to their credit.
The top run scorer for Mahe Megalo Strikers in the Pondicherry Premier League 2025 is Ajay Rohera with 202 runs to his name.
The top wicket taker for Mahe Megalo Strikers in the Pondicherry Premier League 2025 is Thivagar Gopal with 6 scalps under his belt.
Mahe Megalo Strikers have won their previous match against Villianur Mohit Kings by 3 wickets.
Villianur Mohit Kings batted first and they posted a total of 183 for 6 in 20 overs. Mohit Kale got out without troubling the scorers much. After his dismissal, Bhanu Anand unleashed his fearless self and smashed the bowlers to all parts of the ground. He made 82 runs in just 46 balls, hitting 6 fours and 5 sixes. He kept losing partners in regular succession though and Villianur Mohit Kings failed to get past the 200 run mark which they looked like achieving in the early part of their innings. They had to settle for a total of 183 in 20 overs of play.
During the chase, A Kamaleeshwaran and Ajay got their team off to a flier. After these two got out, a couple of wickets fell in regular succession and Mahe Megalo Strikers looked in deep waters. However, Shrikaran A had their back. He smashed 66 runs in just 39 balls, stayed not out and won the game for Mahe Megalo Strikers on the last ball of the match with 3 wickets in hand.
Match Prediction – Ruby White Town Legends v Mahe Megalo Strikers
Cricket Betting Tips and Match Predictions* – PrePlay
Who will win the toss? – Mahe Megalo Strikers
Who will win?– Mahe Megalo Strikers
Top Batter (Runs Scored) – Vandit Joshi (Ruby White Town Legends), Ajay Rohera (Mahe Megalo Strikers)
Top Bowler (Wickets taken) – Ashwin Das (Ruby White Town Legends), Sagar Udeshi (Mahe Megalo Strikers)
Most Sixes – Vandit Joshi (Ruby White Town Legends), Ajay Rohera (Mahe Megalo Strikers)
Player of the Match– Ajay Rohera (Mahe Megalo Strikers)
Team Scores Batting first – Ruby White Town Legends 170+, Mahe Megalo Strikers 180+
Match Handicap: Mahe Megalo Strikers
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*NB these predictions may be changed nearer the start of the match once the final starting teams have been announced and we will be running ‘In-Play’ features, so stay tuned.
Artist’s illustration of a Jupiter-sized planet closely orbiting a faint red star. — NASA
A baby planet is shrinking from the size of Jupiter with a thick atmosphere to a small, barren world, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
This transformation is happening as the host star unleashes a barrage of X-rays that is tearing the young planet’s atmosphere away at an enormous rate.
The planet, named TOI 1227 b, is in an orbit around a red dwarf star about 330 light-years from Earth. TOI 1227 b orbits very close to its star – less than a fifth the distance that Mercury orbits the Sun. The new study shows this planet outside our solar system, or exoplanet, is a “baby” at a mere 8 million years old.
By comparison, the Earth is about 5 billion years old, or nearly a thousand times older. That makes it the second youngest planet ever to be observed passing in front of its host star (also called a transit). Previously the planet had been estimated by others to be about 11 million years old.
A research team found that X-rays from its star are blasting TOI 1227 b and tearing away its atmosphere at such a rate that the planet will entirely lose it in about a billion years. At that point the planet will have lost a total mass equal to about two Earth masses, down from about 17 times the mass of Earth now.
“It’s almost unfathomable to imagine what is happening to this planet,” said Attila Varga, a Ph.D. student at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York, who led the study. “The planet’s atmosphere simply cannot withstand the high X-ray dose it’s receiving from its star.”
It is probably impossible for life to exist on TOI 1227 b, either now or in the future. The planet is too close to its star to fit into any definition of a ‘habitable zone,’ a term astronomers use to determine if planets around other stars could sustain liquid water on their surface.
The star that hosts TOI 1227 b, which is called TOI 1227, is only about a tenth the mass of the Sun and is much cooler and fainter in optical light. In X-rays, however, TOI 1227 is brighter than the Sun and is subjecting this planet, in its very close orbit, to a withering assault. The mass of TOI 1227 b, while not well understood, is likely similar to that of Neptune, but its diameter is three times larger than Neptune’s (making it similar in size to Jupiter).
“A crucial part of understanding planets outside our solar system is to account for high-energy radiation like X-rays that they’re receiving,” said co-author Joel Kastner, also of RIT. “We think this planet is puffed up, or inflated, in large part as a result of the ongoing assault of X-rays from the star.”
The team used new Chandra data to measure the amount of X-rays from the star that are striking the planet. Using computer models of the effects of these X-rays, they concluded the X-rays will have a transformative effect, rapidly stripping away the planet’s atmosphere. They estimate that the planet is losing a mass equivalent to a full Earth’s atmosphere about every 200 years.
“The future for this baby planet doesn’t look great,” said co-author Alexander Binks of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in Germany. “From here, TOI 1227 b may shrink to about a tenth of its current size and will lose more than 10 percent of its weight.” The researchers used different sets of data to estimate the age of TOI 1227 b.
One method exploits measurements of how TOI 1227 b’s host star moves through space compared to nearby populations of stars with known ages. A second method compared the brightness and surface temperature of the star with theoretical models of evolving stars.
Of all the exoplanets astronomers have found with ages less than 50 million years, TOI 1227 b stands out for having the longest year and the host planet with the lowest mass.
A paper describing these results has been accepted publication in The Astrophysical Journal, and a preprint is available here.
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra progr
The Age and High Energy Environment of the Very Young Transiting Exoplanet TOI 1227b
