Eoin Morgan is relishing his elevation to England's ever-growing leadership group but has dismissed suggestions he could soon usurp the team's new limited-overs captains.
Following the World Cup - and Andrew Strauss's one-day retirement — Andy Flower, the team director, oversaw a radical change in policy, with Alastair Cook installed as one-day international captain and Stuart Broad taking the Twenty20 reins.
Morgan's new role, Broad's T20 understudy, is essentially the most junior one, but there have already been suggestions that he is destined for greater things.
Cook's tenure begins with today's clash against Sri Lanka at The Oval, but there have been questions over whether he will cement his place in the side, while Broad, who saw his side routed by the tourists in Bristol on Saturday, is seen by some as too combustible for captaincy.
All of which has led to speculation that it is Morgan who could emerge as England's limited-overs leader.
The man himself waved away those notions, despite receiving heavyweight backing in the form of Michael Atherton.
"Well, that's a great compliment I suppose but I really can't see it happening," Morgan said. "I think both Alastair and Stuart are in for long reigns. There's no reason to suggest that won't happen, certainly nothing that's happened with the three-captains thing so far. It's just a question of communication. I don't think there has been any confusion so far.
"It's all been clearly defined. Alastair will take over today from Stuart and will give us a talk on what he expects. Everybody is talking the same language."
Morgan edged out the more experienced Ian Bell — who was controversially dropped from the Twenty20 batting line-up against Sri Lanka in Saturday's nine-wicket defeat — for the Twenty20 vice-captaincy after impressing England's management with a Skype interview conducted while he was on Indian Premier League duty.
And although he is keen to support Cook and Broad, Morgan admits he is happy to be involved in the decision-making process. "I just gave them [the selectors] my views on leadership and if they saw something they liked then I'm very pleased about that," he said.
Meanwhile, Sanath Jayasuriya will depart for life as a member of parliament after today's game. Thilina Kandamby, the Sri Lanka captain, wished the 1996 World Cup winner well.
"He is one of the biggest legends we have ever produced, probably the best one-day player we have had in our country," he said.
Multitasking pays off for money goals
Tackling money goals one at a time cost financial literacy expert Barbara O'Neill at least $1 million.
That's how much Ms O'Neill, a distinguished professor at Rutgers University in the US, figures she lost by starting saving for retirement only after she had created an emergency fund, bought a car with cash and purchased a home.
"I tell students that eventually, 30 years later, I hit the million-dollar mark, but I could've had $2 million," Ms O'Neill says.
Too often, financial experts say, people want to attack their money goals one at a time: "As soon as I pay off my credit card debt, then I'll start saving for a home," or, "As soon as I pay off my student loan debt, then I'll start saving for retirement"."
People do not realise how costly the words "as soon as" can be. Paying off debt is a worthy goal, but it should not come at the expense of other goals, particularly saving for retirement. The sooner money is contributed, the longer it can benefit from compounded returns. Compounded returns are when your investment gains earn their own gains, which can dramatically increase your balances over time.
"By putting off saving for the future, you are really inhibiting yourself from benefiting from that wonderful magic," says Kimberly Zimmerman Rand , an accredited financial counsellor and principal at Dragonfly Financial Solutions in Boston. "If you can start saving today ... you are going to have a lot more five years from now than if you decide to pay off debt for three years and start saving in year four."
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Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
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