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Earthquake hits north India; Gujarat Lions’ Aaron Finch, Dale Steyn, Andrew Tye feel the tremors
An earthquake hit North India on Sunday and Gujarat Lions (GL), who are at Mohali for their first game of the Indian Premier League (IPL), were evacuated from their hotel on Sunday.
Published: Apr 10, 2016, 10:55 PM (IST)
Edited: Apr 10, 2016, 10:55 PM (IST)
An earthquake hit North India on Sunday and Gujarat Lions (GL), who are at Mohali for their first game of the Indian Premier League (IPL), were evacuated from their hotel on Sunday. The evacuation was immediately done after few tremors of earthquake were felt at Mohali and other parts of North India. Suresh Raina led GL team are expected to play against Kings XI Punjab on Monday.
The epicentre of the earthquake lay in mountain region of Hindkush and parts of India’s neighbouring countries Afghanistan and Pakistan also suffered the same tremors around 3:58 pm according to Indian Standard Time and was measured 6.8 on the Richter Scale.
South African cricketer Dale Steyn and Australian opener Aaron Finch who are currently the part of GL team, tweeted about the earthquake.
Just felt the tremors of a earthquake in mohali
Evacuated out the hotel, boys are a little "shaken"— Dale Steyn (@DaleSteyn62) April 10, 2016
Just a quick earthquake evacuation in Mohali!!
— Aaron Finch (@AaronFinch5) April 10, 2016
Just a quick earthquake evacuation in Mohali!!
— Aaron Finch (@AaronFinch5) April 10, 2016
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Australian pacer Andrew Tye was fixing a cricket bat when the tremors hit Mohali and suddenly his bed started moving. Tye spoke to Cricket Australia website and revealed, “I was sitting on the end of my bed fixing a cricket bat and it felt like the bed started to move. I was like ‘what happened there’ and I looked around the room and certain things were shaking, so I thought ‘it must be an earthquake’. There was a bit of commotion in the hallway and we got rushed outside. I immediately thought back to Nepal last year around a similar sort of time. I know how devastating that was. I was more worried for other people rather than myself.”