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Trent Boult set to miss second Test against South Africa

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Left-arm pacer Trent Boult will not be the part of New Zealand squad in the second Test match to be played against South Africa at the Hagley Oval this week. Boult missed the series opener, with him and his wife welcoming their third child. In his absence, Matt Henry capped off a memorable Test with figures of 9/55 against the Proteas.

The 32-year old pacer was expected to mark his return in the second Test. However, New Zealand head coach Gary Stead confirmed that the hosts won’t take a risk playing Boult, who hasn’t had sufficient training time to bear the workload of a Test match.

Boult isn’t in a position to be available for second Test Match: Coach Gary Stead

“Trent Boult isn’t in a position to be available for this Test match with his loads and where he’s at, at the moment,” Stead said on Monday (February 21). “Since [he was on paternity leave] as well he’s missed out on a lot of opportunities to play cricket and bowl. We just felt the risk of him playing was far too great at the moment to do that to him,” ESPNcricinfo quoted Stead as saying.

Boult’s absence in the first Test paved the way for Matt Henry’s inclusion in the XI, an opportunity he grabbed sensationally by taking a seven-fer in the first innings and thereby setting the tone for New Zealand’s dominant victory by an innings and 276 runs – only their fifth win against South Africa.

“He’s always been a good bowler and sometimes you need that opportunity to strike and make the most of it and he certainly made the most of the opportunity that was in front of him,” Stead said about Henry.

New Zealand has retained an unchanged 15-player squad for the second Test and the host will be looking to wrap up the series against a meek looking Proteas side. The Black Caps have never won a series against South Africa.

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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