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Perry undergoes hamstring surgery, to be out for six months
Melbourne, March 26 (IANS) Australia's Ellyse Perry has undergone a successful surgery on her torn hamstring that ended her T20 World Cup campaign earlier this month.
Perry had injured her right hamstring while attempting a run out during Australia's final group match against New Zealand in teh T20 World Cup and was subsequently ruled out of the competition where Australia defeated India in the final at the MCG on March 8.
Australia coach Matthew Mott provided on update on Perry. "Ellyse did have surgery on her hamstring, it's going well," Mott was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au while speaking to journalists via teleconferencing
"Her first phase of that is pure rest. She's in Sydney at the moment recuperating and that's part of her plan.
"The recovery is looking good, all our medical staff are happy with how the surgery went," he added.
Her recovery is expected to take six months, and she might to be able to play when Australia take on New Zealand in October.
The 29-year-old would have missed Australia's tour of South Africa, which was scheduled to be taking place at the moment but was postponed because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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Textile body seeks customs duty hike on man-made yarns in Budget
New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) The Northern India Textile Mills' Association (NITMA) has urged the government to raise customs duty on man-made yarns to 10 per cent in the upcoming Union Budget.
The customs duty on man-made yarn is currently at 5 per cent.
According to the industry body, monthly average imports of Virgin Polyester Spun Yarn have increased manifold from 2015 to 2020. Imports from Vietnam alone have increased over 100 times, as per NITMA.
Sanjay Garg, President of NITMA said that representations regarding the import concerns have been sent to the ministries of finance and textiles.
He noted that the man-made yarn sector is one of the largest employment-generating segments within the textile industry and is highly capital and labour-intensive industry as well.
Garg was of the view that the unreasonably low-priced imports of man-made yarn into India have been causing considerable amount of injury to domestic manufacturers for around the last five years.
In a statement, NITMA said that the surge in imports may damage the domestic man-made fibre (MMF) industry and may lead to non-performing assets and closure of units along with huge employment loss.
"As a recapitulation, he (Garg) humbly appealed to the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Textiles to consider increasing the customs duty on man-made yarn from its present level of 5 per cent to 10 per cent immediately in the ensuing Union Budget for the growth and expansion of domestic MMF industry and to prevent mass level loss of employment," the statement said.
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