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Pele to be discharged from hospital
Rio de Janeiro: Football legend Pele will be discharged from a Brazilian hospital Tuesday after making a full recovery from a urinary tract infection.
The 74-year-old has spent the past two weeks in Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein hospital, as per reports.
After originally being treated with antibiotics, he was transferred to intensive care and placed on dialysis to help support his only kidney.
“Pele has shown good clinical progress without signs of infection,” the hospital said in a statement Monday.
Regarded by many as the greatest footballer of all time, Pele played in Brazil’s 1958, 1962 and 1970 World Cup-winning teams.
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Sunil Gavaskar gives his opinion of GT allrounder Rahul Tewatia
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.