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07/12/2023

07/12/2023

Google Updates Bard Chatbot With ‘Gemini’ A.I. as It Chases ChatGPT

For more than a year, Google has raced to build technology that could match ChatGPT, the eye-opening chatbot offered by the San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up OpenAI.

25/11/2023

Ex-Binance CEO asks judge to allow him to leave US ahead of sentencing

Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, has asked the judge to allow him to leave the United States.

23/11/2023

Israel agrees to hostage deal with Hamas

Return of hostages is a "complicated process yet to be finalized," Israeli military spokesperson says.

20/11/2023

Hearing on Trump gag order in federal 2020 election subversion case

Top takeaway from today's hearing: Judges skeptical of Trump but may loosen restrictions.
After 2 hours and 20 minutes of oral arguments, the three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals appears inclined to restore the limited gag order in former President Donald Trump’s federal election subversion case, but may loosen some restrictions so he can more directly criticize special counsel Jack Smith.

18/11/2023

American women are living nearly 6 years longer than men, new study finds. But why?

The life expectancy gap between women and men in the United States expanded to 5.8 years between 2010 and 2021, the biggest difference in longevity between the sexes in decades, according to a new report.

15/11/2023

Blast from the past: gamma-ray burst strikes Earth from distant exploding star

An enormous burst of gamma rays, detected by ESA’s Integral space telescope, has struck Earth. The blast caused a significant disturbance in our planet’s ionosphere. Such disturbances are usually associated with energetic particle events on the Sun but this one was the result of an exploding star almost two billion light-years away. Analysing the effects of the blast could provide information about the mass extinctions in Earth’s history.
At 14:21 BST / 15:21 CEST on 9 October 2022, an extremely bright and long-lasting gamma-ray burst (GRB) was detected by many of the high-energy satellites in orbit close to the Earth, including ESA’s Integral mission.

13/11/2023

Texas A&M coaching candidates: Mike Elko, Dan Lanning, Lane Kiffin among options to replace Jimbo Fisher

Texas A&M is used to getting what it wants. That doesn't mean the Aggies succeed with what they wants. Prime example: Jimbo Fisher.
&m

09/11/2023

Rumors of Marvel’s demise have been greatly exaggerated

Comic books are art in hundreds of ways, but perhaps the most undervalued of those ways – particularly in superhero comics – is their ability to make you belly laugh while wildly tragic events are unfolding. Sure, there are sad comic books and serious comic books and somber comic books, and the same can be said for comic book films. But if you love that first kind I mentioned in the same way that I do, I suspect you are going to have a grand time with The Marvels.

07/11/2023

App Store for AI: OpenAI’s GPT Store lets you build (and monetize) your own GPT

OpenAI took the leash (and the “Chat”) off ChatGPT today with the announcement of GPTs, a way for anyone to build their own version of the popular conversational AI system. Not only can you make your own GPT for fun or productivity, but you’ll soon be able to publish it on a marketplace they call the GPT Store — and maybe even make a little cash in the process.

05/11/2023

Six Flags and Cedar Fair are merging

Amusement parks Six Flags and Cedar Fair are merging in an $8 billion deal that creates a theme park powerhouse across North America.

05/10/2023

Newsom picks Laphonza Butler as Feinstein replacement

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint EMILY’s List President Laphonza Butler to fill the seat of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, elevating the head of a fundraising juggernaut that works to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights, according to a person familiar with the decision.

12/07/2023

The world’s hottest day on record was Tuesday, scientists calculate

08/07/2023

A Harvard Professor Thinks He May Have Found Fragments of An Alien Spacecraft

A Harvard Professor Thinks He May Have Found Fragments of An Alien Spacecraft

After spending years studying the night skies for signs of extraterrestrial life, Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb believes he has found proof of their existence at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Professor Loeb has just completed a $1.5m expedition searching for signs of a mysterious meteor dubbed IM1 that crashed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014 and is believed to have come from interstellar space.

The 61-year-old told The Independent he oversaw a team of deep-sea explorers who found 50 tiny spherules, or molten droplets, using a magnetic sled that was dropped from the expedition vessel the Silver Star 2km underneath the surface of the ocean.

He believes the tiny objects, about half a millimetre in size, are most likely made from a steel-titanium alloy that is much stronger than the iron found in regular meteors.

Further testing was now required, but Prof Loeb believes they either have interstellar origins, or have been made by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization.

Prof Loeb chaired Harvard’s astronomy department from 2011 to 2020 and now leads the university’s Galileo Project, which is establishing open-sourced observatories across the world to search for signs of UFOs and interstellar objects.

He has long courted controversy for his trenchant belief that aliens have visited Earth.

In his bestselling 2021 book Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, Prof Loeb argued that ‘Oumuamua — a pancake-shaped space rock about the size of a football field which was visible to scientists for 11 days in 2017 — could only have been an interstellar technology built by aliens.

His ideas have set him at odds with much of the scientific community. But the unapologetic scientist dubbed the “alien hunter of Harvard” tells The Independent that his naysayers are “arrogant” to dismiss his findings.

The objects will now be taken back to Harvard for testing to confirm their make-up. But for Prof Loeb, the “miracle” discovery is further vindication that his unorthodox methods are bearing fruit.

‘An outlier’
His quest began in 2019, when IM1 caught the attention of his research team as they combed NASA’s open-source catalogue of meteors for irregular space rock detected around the Earth.

IM1 stood out for its high velocity — it travelled faster than 95 per cent of nearby stars — and the fact it had exploded much lower in the Earth’s atmosphere than most meteors.

“The object was tougher than all (272) other space rocks recorded in the same NASA catalogue, it was an outlier of material strength,” Prof Loeb told The Independent.

He and his Harvard colleague Amir Siraj calculated with 99.999 per cent confidence that IM1 had travelled to Earth from another star.

The pair initially had their paper rejected for publication in an academic journal, and were stymied from gaining access to key classified US Government data about IM1.

Then in April last year, the US Space Force wrote to NASA to say that the chief scientist of the US Space Operations Command had confirmed IM1’s velocity was “sufficiently accurate” to indicate it had come from interstellar space.

Using a combination of Department of Defense data and seismology readings, Prof Loeb was able to calculate a rough area where debris from IM1 had fallen.

From there, he was able to pinpoint the meteor’s most likely path as it exploded and shed its payload.

With $1.5m in funding from US entrepreneur Charles Hoskinson, the founder of blockchain company Cardano, Prof Loeb assembled what he describes as the best team of ocean explorers in the world.

This included Rob McCallum, the founder of EYOS Expeditions and a former OceanGate Expeditions consultant who had tried to raise the alarm about the doomed Titan submersible with its CEO Stockton Rush in 2018.

In mid-June, Prof Loeb set out from his home in Connecticut bound for Papua New Guinea.

Days earlier, former US Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch went public with claims that a Department of Defense UFO Task Force was withholding information about a secretive UFO retrieval program and is in possession of “non-human” spacecraft.

“It’s easier to seek extraterrestrial facts on the Pacific Ocean floor than get them from the government,” Prof Loeb wrote in an expedition journal on Medium at the time.

He noted that opinion among the general public towards the possibility of alien life was shifting.

An ‘interstellar expedition’
On 14 June, the Silver Star expedition vessel set out for the meteor’s estimated landing zone in the Pacific Ocean about 84km north of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.

“There are about 850 spoken languages in Papua, the most linguistically diverse place on Earth,” Prof Loeb wrote on Medium. “Yet, if the expedition recovers a gadget with an extraterrestrial inscription, we will add a new language to this site.”

After reaching the site, the crew dropped a one-metre wide magnetic sled into the ocean that was towed behind the ship with a long cable.

The crew began by collecting control samples of volcanic ash from the ocean floor outside of IM1’s estimated path.

About one week into the expedition, a breakthrough came when the sled picked up the first “spherical metallic marbles”.

The spherules are formed as meteors and asteroids explode, and have been found at impact sites across the globe. The “tiny metallic pearls” were so small they were difficult to pick up with tweezers, Prof Loeb said.

Writing on Medium, Prof Loeb said at first the material looked like shards of corroded iron.

But when examined under fluorescent X-Ray, the research team determined they were most likely a steel and titanium alloy, also known as S5 or shock-resisting steel. The strength of S5 steel is well above that of iron meteorites, Prof Loeb wrote.

Under a microscope, they looked “beautiful”, Prof Loeb told The Independent. “One of them looked like Earth, many of them look like gold,” he said.

“My daughter asked if she can have one for a necklace. And I said that they were too small to thread through,” he said.

The objects will be taken to the Harvard College Observatory, where a team of researchers will analyse them for comparisons to other meteorite debris.

Rather than finding a needle in a haystack, Prof Loeb is convinced his “interstellar expedition” found tiny specks of an alien life form in the middle of the ocean.

On their final day at sea, having collected 50 spherules from the first recognised interstellar meteor, Prof Loeb and the team cracked open bottles of champagne on the deck of the Silver Star.

“There is this new opportunity of looking for interstellar debris at the bottom of the ocean,” Prof Loeb told The Independent.

“And the ocean is sort of like a museum. If it fell in the Sahara Desert, it would have been covered with sand by now. Those tiny droplets fell on the ocean floor, waited for nine and a half years, until our magnet attracted them. This entire story is just amazing.”

For a researcher who has has written more than 1,000 theoretical research papers, finding tiny objects at the bottom of the ocean had been an exhilarating experience.

“The past two weeks were the most exciting weeks in my scientific career,” he told The Independent.

Prof Loeb’s next book, Interstellar, is scheduled for publication in August 2023.
The MUPA News

08/07/2023

A Harvard Professor Thinks He May Have Found Fragments of An Alien Spacecraft

After spending years studying the night skies for signs of extraterrestrial life, Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb believes he has found proof of their existence at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Professor Loeb has just completed a $1.5m expedition searching for signs of a mysterious meteor dubbed IM1 that crashed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014 and is believed to have come from interstellar space.

The 61-year-old told The Independent he oversaw a team of deep-sea explorers who found 50 tiny spherules, or molten droplets, using a magnetic sled that was dropped from the expedition vessel the Silver Star 2km underneath the surface of the ocean.

He believes the tiny objects, about half a millimetre in size, are most likely made from a steel-titanium alloy that is much stronger than the iron found in regular meteors.

Further testing was now required, but Prof Loeb believes they either have interstellar origins, or have been made by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization.

Prof Loeb chaired Harvard’s astronomy department from 2011 to 2020 and now leads the university’s Galileo Project, which is establishing open-sourced observatories across the world to search for signs of UFOs and interstellar objects.

He has long courted controversy for his trenchant belief that aliens have visited Earth.

In his bestselling 2021 book Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, Prof Loeb argued that ‘Oumuamua — a pancake-shaped space rock about the size of a football field which was visible to scientists for 11 days in 2017 — could only have been an interstellar technology built by aliens.

His ideas have set him at odds with much of the scientific community. But the unapologetic scientist dubbed the “alien hunter of Harvard” tells The Independent that his naysayers are “arrogant” to dismiss his findings.

The objects will now be taken back to Harvard for testing to confirm their make-up. But for Prof Loeb, the “miracle” discovery is further vindication that his unorthodox methods are bearing fruit.

‘An outlier’
His quest began in 2019, when IM1 caught the attention of his research team as they combed NASA’s open-source catalogue of meteors for irregular space rock detected around the Earth.

IM1 stood out for its high velocity — it travelled faster than 95 per cent of nearby stars — and the fact it had exploded much lower in the Earth’s atmosphere than most meteors.

“The object was tougher than all (272) other space rocks recorded in the same NASA catalogue, it was an outlier of material strength,” Prof Loeb told The Independent.

He and his Harvard colleague Amir Siraj calculated with 99.999 per cent confidence that IM1 had travelled to Earth from another star.

The pair initially had their paper rejected for publication in an academic journal, and were stymied from gaining access to key classified US Government data about IM1.

Then in April last year, the US Space Force wrote to NASA to say that the chief scientist of the US Space Operations Command had confirmed IM1’s velocity was “sufficiently accurate” to indicate it had come from interstellar space.

Using a combination of Department of Defense data and seismology readings, Prof Loeb was able to calculate a rough area where debris from IM1 had fallen.

From there, he was able to pinpoint the meteor’s most likely path as it exploded and shed its payload.

With $1.5m in funding from US entrepreneur Charles Hoskinson, the founder of blockchain company Cardano, Prof Loeb assembled what he describes as the best team of ocean explorers in the world.

This included Rob McCallum, the founder of EYOS Expeditions and a former OceanGate Expeditions consultant who had tried to raise the alarm about the doomed Titan submersible with its CEO Stockton Rush in 2018.

In mid-June, Prof Loeb set out from his home in Connecticut bound for Papua New Guinea.

Days earlier, former US Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch went public with claims that a Department of Defense UFO Task Force was withholding information about a secretive UFO retrieval program and is in possession of “non-human” spacecraft.

“It’s easier to seek extraterrestrial facts on the Pacific Ocean floor than get them from the government,” Prof Loeb wrote in an expedition journal on Medium at the time.

He noted that opinion among the general public towards the possibility of alien life was shifting.

An ‘interstellar expedition’
On 14 June, the Silver Star expedition vessel set out for the meteor’s estimated landing zone in the Pacific Ocean about 84km north of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.

“There are about 850 spoken languages in Papua, the most linguistically diverse place on Earth,” Prof Loeb wrote on Medium. “Yet, if the expedition recovers a gadget with an extraterrestrial inscription, we will add a new language to this site.”

After reaching the site, the crew dropped a one-metre wide magnetic sled into the ocean that was towed behind the ship with a long cable.

The crew began by collecting control samples of volcanic ash from the ocean floor outside of IM1’s estimated path.

About one week into the expedition, a breakthrough came when the sled picked up the first “spherical metallic marbles”.

The spherules are formed as meteors and asteroids explode, and have been found at impact sites across the globe. The “tiny metallic pearls” were so small they were difficult to pick up with tweezers, Prof Loeb said.

Writing on Medium, Prof Loeb said at first the material looked like shards of corroded iron.

But when examined under fluorescent X-Ray, the research team determined they were most likely a steel and titanium alloy, also known as S5 or shock-resisting steel. The strength of S5 steel is well above that of iron meteorites, Prof Loeb wrote.

Under a microscope, they looked “beautiful”, Prof Loeb told The Independent. “One of them looked like Earth, many of them look like gold,” he said.

“My daughter asked if she can have one for a necklace. And I said that they were too small to thread through,” he said.

The objects will be taken to the Harvard College Observatory, where a team of researchers will analyse them for comparisons to other meteorite debris.

Rather than finding a needle in a haystack, Prof Loeb is convinced his “interstellar expedition” found tiny specks of an alien life form in the middle of the ocean.

On their final day at sea, having collected 50 spherules from the first recognised interstellar meteor, Prof Loeb and the team cracked open bottles of champagne on the deck of the Silver Star.

“There is this new opportunity of looking for interstellar debris at the bottom of the ocean,” Prof Loeb told The Independent.

“And the ocean is sort of like a museum. If it fell in the Sahara Desert, it would have been covered with sand by now. Those tiny droplets fell on the ocean floor, waited for nine and a half years, until our magnet attracted them. This entire story is just amazing.”

For a researcher who has has written more than 1,000 theoretical research papers, finding tiny objects at the bottom of the ocean had been an exhilarating experience.

“The past two weeks were the most exciting weeks in my scientific career,” he told The Independent.

Prof Loeb’s next book, Interstellar, is scheduled for publication in August 2023.
The MUPA News

06/07/2023

Cricket National Team of The Netherlands

Cricket National Team of The Netherlands

From Adelaide to Amsterdam and from Hong Kong to the Netherlands, a group of Australians is playing a key role in the acceleration of the Netherlands.

A group of 15 stood on the unimaginatively named touchline at Dubai’s ICC Academy Oval 1, moments after one of the most important victories in their country’s century-old history.

But this is not the time to celebrate. Minutes after Holland’s victory at the neighboring Oval 2, it is what lies ahead of them now that could define a career and reshape the Dutch’s future.

T20 World Cup: How South African Born Dutch Players Combined To Humble Proteas
Among the group are four Australians who have all taken very different paths to this point, now united as key players in their journey to a country miles away.

There is tension in the atmosphere, as it has been for the last eight hours. Jandu, for two and a half years, the mood is very disturbed.

“They’re like Russian Roulette, they’re talented,” said head coach Ryan Campbell, a former Australian representative and WA stalwart who has made an unlikely move to head the Dutch.

As the winter sunshine fades on that historic Wednesday night, Dutch watch Papua New Guinea leave their latest triumph, beating the Pacific nation to Hong Kong and securing the Netherlands’ 2015-2017 World League title.

Interview With Heather Siegers
But it wasn’t just the title of WCL champion that those players in orange were chasing. What matters is what it represents.

It means they have regained their ODI status, which they embarrassingly slipped away from almost four years ago, when they were relegated to what is essentially a third of the world game.

This means they will play 24 ODIs against the world’s best teams over two years, more than the total number of matches played in the last two decades.

This means the ability to sell these matches to broadcasters and advertisers, generating much-needed revenue for a group of players who are not fully professional on the international stage.

Netherlands Vs USA, World Cup 2022 Result: Dutch Silence Critics To Reach Quarter Finals
“People often tell me that coaching an associate team should be easy,” Campbell says. “I’m like, ‘Dude, are you kidding me?’

“(Melbourne) Renegades have won 7 out of 28 Big Bash matches in the last two years. They are terrible. But what happened to them? Nothing. They lost a coach, maybe some players.

Guys, if I win 7 out of 28 matches, I won’t be in the World Cup, I’ll lose all my funding, I’ll lose my whole program, the players can’t play and we don’t have a coach. A missed catch can win or lose your ODI status.

“Now you go into bat knowing you have to score 10 more runs next year to make it a career.

Family Fled Punjab In The ’80s, 19 Yr Old At T20 World Cup For Netherlands
At 21, after moving from his hometown of Lismore on the NSW north coast to clubs in Darwin, Hobart and Adelaide, Cooper followed his older brother Tom, a former Australia A and South Australia player, to Holland for the winter. 2013, when the brothers have Dutch passports thanks to their mother’s inheritance.

Originally wanting a European adventure, perhaps somewhat selfishly, Ben Cooper instead found himself playing internationally at the end of that northern summer.

While brother Tom eventually refocused on the Australian system in hopes of playing for the country of his birth, Ben has established himself as one of Holland’s most reliable players in a team with a distinct Australian flavour.

In addition to coaches Campbell and Cooper, Holland’s squad for this year’s T20 World Cup is expected to include former NSW and Tasmania fast bowler Tim van der Gigton, who also plays for Glamorgan San County, and Melbourne. J first grader Scott Edwards.

Scotland And Netherlands Record First Wins In ICC Women’s Qualifier Europe
They are among a group of players with a rapidly growing reputation. Veterans Ryan Ten Dascht and Roelof van der Merwe have established themselves on the international scene for some time, while all-rounders Colin Ackerman (who captains England’s Leicestershire) and fast bowlers Freddie Clausen (Kate), Brendan Glover ( Northamptonshire) and Shane Snatter. . (Essex) all play in a regular UK county.

The tall, left-handed top-order batsman is the country’s highest run-scorer in T20 internationals and his unbeaten century in a record partnership of 236 after 50 games helped seal their WCL victory in that memorable Dubai. About four years ago in the evening.

With the future of the Dutch on the line, Cooper’s innings that day was a masterclass in handling pressure, a skill he and his teammates had to develop in the unpredictable world of the Associates.

Of Cooper’s 133 appearances for the Netherlands at international level, 94 have been direct results off the pitch, where a win or loss at a crucial moment could be the difference between qualifying for the World Cup and not taking part.

Odi World Cup 2023: Netherlands Announce 15 Member Squad For World Cup Qualifiers In Zimbabwe
It is a soccer drop fight option and a unique loadout for the associate game. Cooper doesn’t suggest it’s more demanding than the expectations of full members like Australia, who often play bilaterally, but he says it’s a mental pressure that can take its toll.

“It’s very different, and obviously everyone’s going to have a different take on it,” he says. “You just have to focus on your job when you go out on the pitch.

“As long as you’re winning, that pressure can come off a little bit. But in qualifying, if you don’t win, it can all start to add pressure.

Pressure on the likes of Cooper also increased the field. While seven of the famous Dutch players have the luxury of a professional county contract to fuel their passion to play for their country, Cooper relies on hard-earned wages from playing in Holland, which he juggles with a laborer’s job in Adelaide. fulfills Most summer back home.

Netherlands Women’s Cricket Team History
The gap between being and not being in the international game has only been exacerbated by the pandemic, which has seen the Dutch national team miss 530 days, the shortest in their history. Last October, when the world’s top players were heavily involved in the IPL, fast bowler Paul Van McKern had said that he would have worked the day of the T20 World Cup if the pandemic had not intervened. Yes. Instead of an Uber. The driver ate.

But despite the harsh financial realities of playing associate, even though most of the Dutch national team’s players have strong roots in countries outside of the Netherlands, their passion for representing Orange is strong. So much so that Cooper admits that if he had the opportunity to play in Australia, where he was born and spent most of his life, he should think twice.

“It’s always a tough question, and I don’t know if I can answer it right now,” he says.

“Playing for Australia has always been a childhood dream. But as it is, playing in Australia now means waiting three or four years before I can play in Holland again. So I’m not sure who it is. Honestly, how am I going to go?

Netherlands Win A Final Over Thriller Against The Uae
“I (have a passion for Holland). It might sound weird to some, but at the end of the day, it’s still part of my heritage and my family. Whether it’s an Australian shirt or a Dutch shirt, I still I will play with passion and pride when I represent my country.

Cooper’s enthusiasm is matched only by the infectious enthusiasm of Campbell, who has no Dutch roots and admits that in his forties he had hardly thought about the Netherlands and their place in the royal landscape.

Having retired at the age of 34 in 2002 after a brilliant 12-year career highlighted by two one-day matches, Campbell found himself busier than ever, but a little worried. Running a management company and making media commitments on both television and radio, he has effectively retired from the sport and is now taking steps to see if he has lost his way. But in 2008, after being forced out of retirement by former WA teammate Damien Martin, he was ordered into the ill-fated Indian League, rekindling the fire for his game.

When then Hong Kong head coach Charlie Burke and another friend from Perth suggested Campbell apply for a player-coach vacancy at the famous Kowloon club, he saw it as an opportunity to break away from Australia for six months. . .

International Cricket Council
His exposure to the game in Hong Kong opened his eyes to the world of the Associates, where nations aspiring to the second round of the world game must eliminate every scrap of financial or on-field motivation the International Council can throw their way. be .
The MUPA News

06/07/2023

Cricket National Team of The Netherlands

From Adelaide to Amsterdam and from Hong Kong to the Netherlands, a group of Australians is playing a key role in the acceleration of the Netherlands.

A group of 15 stood on the unimaginatively named touchline at Dubai’s ICC Academy Oval 1, moments after one of the most important victories in their country’s century-old history.

But this is not the time to celebrate. Minutes after Holland’s victory at the neighboring Oval 2, it is what lies ahead of them now that could define a career and reshape the Dutch’s future.

T20 World Cup: How South African Born Dutch Players Combined To Humble Proteas
Among the group are four Australians who have all taken very different paths to this point, now united as key players in their journey to a country miles away.

There is tension in the atmosphere, as it has been for the last eight hours. Jandu, for two and a half years, the mood is very disturbed.

“They’re like Russian Roulette, they’re talented,” said head coach Ryan Campbell, a former Australian representative and WA stalwart who has made an unlikely move to head the Dutch.

As the winter sunshine fades on that historic Wednesday night, Dutch watch Papua New Guinea leave their latest triumph, beating the Pacific nation to Hong Kong and securing the Netherlands’ 2015-2017 World League title.

Interview With Heather Siegers
But it wasn’t just the title of WCL champion that those players in orange were chasing. What matters is what it represents.

It means they have regained their ODI status, which they embarrassingly slipped away from almost four years ago, when they were relegated to what is essentially a third of the world game.

This means they will play 24 ODIs against the world’s best teams over two years, more than the total number of matches played in the last two decades.

This means the ability to sell these matches to broadcasters and advertisers, generating much-needed revenue for a group of players who are not fully professional on the international stage.

Netherlands Vs USA, World Cup 2022 Result: Dutch Silence Critics To Reach Quarter Finals
“People often tell me that coaching an associate team should be easy,” Campbell says. “I’m like, ‘Dude, are you kidding me?’

“(Melbourne) Renegades have won 7 out of 28 Big Bash matches in the last two years. They are terrible. But what happened to them? Nothing. They lost a coach, maybe some players.

Guys, if I win 7 out of 28 matches, I won’t be in the World Cup, I’ll lose all my funding, I’ll lose my whole program, the players can’t play and we don’t have a coach. A missed catch can win or lose your ODI status.

“Now you go into bat knowing you have to score 10 more runs next year to make it a career.

Family Fled Punjab In The ’80s, 19 Yr Old At T20 World Cup For Netherlands
At 21, after moving from his hometown of Lismore on the NSW north coast to clubs in Darwin, Hobart and Adelaide, Cooper followed his older brother Tom, a former Australia A and South Australia player, to Holland for the winter. 2013, when the brothers have Dutch passports thanks to their mother’s inheritance.

Originally wanting a European adventure, perhaps somewhat selfishly, Ben Cooper instead found himself playing internationally at the end of that northern summer.

While brother Tom eventually refocused on the Australian system in hopes of playing for the country of his birth, Ben has established himself as one of Holland’s most reliable players in a team with a distinct Australian flavour.

In addition to coaches Campbell and Cooper, Holland’s squad for this year’s T20 World Cup is expected to include former NSW and Tasmania fast bowler Tim van der Gigton, who also plays for Glamorgan San County, and Melbourne. J first grader Scott Edwards.

Scotland And Netherlands Record First Wins In ICC Women’s Qualifier Europe
They are among a group of players with a rapidly growing reputation. Veterans Ryan Ten Dascht and Roelof van der Merwe have established themselves on the international scene for some time, while all-rounders Colin Ackerman (who captains England’s Leicestershire) and fast bowlers Freddie Clausen (Kate), Brendan Glover ( Northamptonshire) and Shane Snatter. . (Essex) all play in a regular UK county.

The tall, left-handed top-order batsman is the country’s highest run-scorer in T20 internationals and his unbeaten century in a record partnership of 236 after 50 games helped seal their WCL victory in that memorable Dubai. About four years ago in the evening.

With the future of the Dutch on the line, Cooper’s innings that day was a masterclass in handling pressure, a skill he and his teammates had to develop in the unpredictable world of the Associates.

Of Cooper’s 133 appearances for the Netherlands at international level, 94 have been direct results off the pitch, where a win or loss at a crucial moment could be the difference between qualifying for the World Cup and not taking part.

Odi World Cup 2023: Netherlands Announce 15 Member Squad For World Cup Qualifiers In Zimbabwe
It is a soccer drop fight option and a unique loadout for the associate game. Cooper doesn’t suggest it’s more demanding than the expectations of full members like Australia, who often play bilaterally, but he says it’s a mental pressure that can take its toll.

“It’s very different, and obviously everyone’s going to have a different take on it,” he says. “You just have to focus on your job when you go out on the pitch.

“As long as you’re winning, that pressure can come off a little bit. But in qualifying, if you don’t win, it can all start to add pressure.

Pressure on the likes of Cooper also increased the field. While seven of the famous Dutch players have the luxury of a professional county contract to fuel their passion to play for their country, Cooper relies on hard-earned wages from playing in Holland, which he juggles with a laborer’s job in Adelaide. fulfills Most summer back home.

Netherlands Women’s Cricket Team History
The gap between being and not being in the international game has only been exacerbated by the pandemic, which has seen the Dutch national team miss 530 days, the shortest in their history. Last October, when the world’s top players were heavily involved in the IPL, fast bowler Paul Van McKern had said that he would have worked the day of the T20 World Cup if the pandemic had not intervened. Yes. Instead of an Uber. The driver ate.

But despite the harsh financial realities of playing associate, even though most of the Dutch national team’s players have strong roots in countries outside of the Netherlands, their passion for representing Orange is strong. So much so that Cooper admits that if he had the opportunity to play in Australia, where he was born and spent most of his life, he should think twice.

“It’s always a tough question, and I don’t know if I can answer it right now,” he says.

“Playing for Australia has always been a childhood dream. But as it is, playing in Australia now means waiting three or four years before I can play in Holland again. So I’m not sure who it is. Honestly, how am I going to go?

Netherlands Win A Final Over Thriller Against The Uae
“I (have a passion for Holland). It might sound weird to some, but at the end of the day, it’s still part of my heritage and my family. Whether it’s an Australian shirt or a Dutch shirt, I still I will play with passion and pride when I represent my country.

Cooper’s enthusiasm is matched only by the infectious enthusiasm of Campbell, who has no Dutch roots and admits that in his forties he had hardly thought about the Netherlands and their place in the royal landscape.

Having retired at the age of 34 in 2002 after a brilliant 12-year career highlighted by two one-day matches, Campbell found himself busier than ever, but a little worried. Running a management company and making media commitments on both television and radio, he has effectively retired from the sport and is now taking steps to see if he has lost his way. But in 2008, after being forced out of retirement by former WA teammate Damien Martin, he was ordered into the ill-fated Indian League, rekindling the fire for his game.

When then Hong Kong head coach Charlie Burke and another friend from Perth suggested Campbell apply for a player-coach vacancy at the famous Kowloon club, he saw it as an opportunity to break away from Australia for six months. . .

International Cricket Council
His exposure to the game in Hong Kong opened his eyes to the world of the Associates, where nations aspiring to the second round of the world game must eliminate every scrap of financial or on-field motivation the International Council can throw their way. be .
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