Eleven players in the 16-man squad featured in the home series against India last month, when Australia lost 1-2. The touring Indian team also won the Test series Down Under for the first time and drew the three-match T20 series 1-1. Starc suffered the injury, which causes strain in the shoulder, arm and chest, during the final day of the second Test between Sri Lanka in Canberra three days ago....
The itinerary consists of 4 Tests, 3 ODIs and 3 T20Is, with the tour kickstarting with the limited-overs leg. The 3 ODIs will be played on November 27, 29 and December 2 followed by the T20Is on December 4, 6 and 8. The action will then shift to the Border-Gavaskar Trophy as the 4-match series begins with the day-night Test at the Adelaide Oval on December 17 and the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground slated to take place between December 26-30....
The flamboyant left-hander came into the series on the back of some exceptional form in red ball cricket. Match defining knocks in Australia, coupled with his maiden home century, meant that expectations from Pant soared heading into England. However, he has not been at his best in the ongoing series, and has been particularly criticized for playing unnecessary rash shots outside of his body. His approach to standing outside the crease has not helped his case so far, with James Anderson and Ollie Robinson able to counter his threat anyway....
India and Pakistan are set to resume their on-field rivalry with the Asia Cup 2022 clash in Dubai on Sunday, August 28. This will be the first meeting between the arch-rivals since the T20 World Cup last year. While previewing the game, Harbhajan went down memory lane and recalled an incident when things got very ugly between him and former Pakistan batter Yousuf. Revealing the details, the ‘Turbanator’ told Sports Tak:...
The Indian team, under Kohli’s leadership, came up short in the recently concluded Test series against South Africa. A day after the loss, the Indian Test captain revealed through a social media post that he would no longer continue as skipper. In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra termed this a shocking development. He said: While observing that many people expected this development, the former India cricketer pointed out that it took him by surprise....
However, what emerged was a highly error-prone performance which, at one stage, even put the prospects of India winning this match in doubt. India struggle with Hardik Singh’s temporary absence in Hockey World Cup The big question going into this contest was how the Indian team was going to cope with the loss of their most important and dynamic player – Hardik Singh. It became clear in the first half itself that Hardik’s absence was impacting them greatly....
Ignoring them would be a mistake. The nuclear peace between India and Pakistan is far more fragile than it would seem. The trouble is not with the governments of the two rivals so much as the hard-line Islamist organizations in Pakistan who remain unalterably intransigent toward India. They have every interest in reversing the small, fitful steps along the long course toward reconciliation. It wouldn’t take much for them to succeed....
The MoU was signed by India’s Sports Minister Jitendra Singh and his Dutch counterpart Edith I. Schippers, who is currently on a visit heading a Netherlands delegation. The MoU provides for exchange of knowledge and experience in the fields of sports management, competition infrastructure set-up, coaching, training systems, training of referees for various sports disciplines and top-sport development through youth academies, the sports ministry said in a statement. The MoU also provides for cooperation and exchange programmes in the field of innovative sports infrastructure development and management including financial development, spatial area development, planning of sports infrastructure and facilities, designing of sports infrastructure and facilities, exploitation of resources, management training and safety and security....
The result witnessed a commendable performance from the Indian defensive forces including the likes of goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu and central defender Anas Edathodika. Speaking to Goal, the two Indian internationals shared views on the crucial triumph over The White Falcons . Firstly, the Stabaek goalkeeper had words of praise for his side. The 25-year-old stated that the Blue Tigers have evolved over the years and are now mentally ready for any battle thrown at them....
In a post shared on Tuesday, the mother, who goes by the username TheGreatBobinsky, explained that her in-laws keep insisting that get her 3-year-old daughter assessed for autism, saying “they won’t drop it” despite her many reasons against it. The in-laws insist that the girl is too shy, has a limited diet, and is obsessed with her hands, which her mother says is not even true. Among their concerns is also the fact that she doesn’t like some members of the family and refuses to speak to them....
The sudden rise of Tiger Woods–at 21, perhaps the second most popular athlete in the world–has illuminated some of the fault lines in the ways we think about race: old wounds we’d like to forget, new truths we’ve been too busy to recognize. Last week, as Tiger talked with Oprah Winfrey about being a child of mixed race, he was also graciously accepting the apology of golfer Fuzzy Zoeller, who’d admonished the “boy” not to order fried chicken and collard greens at next year’s Masters dinner....
The popular online booking platform has revolutionised vacations by offering access to some of the most interesting private places to stay in the U.S. And Airbnb Luxe also allows users to search for some of the most extravagant Airbnbs available anywhere in the world. So if you are feeling frivolous and price is no problem, take a look at these most exquisite of Airbnb listings. Villa Machiavelli: Florence, Italy This full-renovated 16th-century villa is situated only a short drive from Florence – but with its own private helipad, perhaps you should arrive by helicopter instead....
But Friday morning, Walker found himself in a situation he had never encountered during his seven years with the Hornets. The All-Star point guard has become available on the trade market with Charlotte looking at a potential teardown ahead of the Feb. 8 deadline, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. “I’ve seen [the rumors],” Walker said to a tight circle of media members after Friday’s practice. “This is the first time I’ve really been in this kind of situation....
But when he looks back at 2014, he puts more of his blame for not having a shot to win the Chase for the Sprint Cup in the season finale on his pit-road mistake at Martinsville than his crash with Brad Keselowski at Texas. MORE: Open season on Keselowski | For Harvick, dreams do come true | Most popular Junior times 12 Gordon, a four-time Cup champion, missed advancing to the one-race title round by one point and without a win in the three-race semifinal round....
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You know, the five years that began with trading to get Robert Griffin III and also grabbing that fourth-round steal in Kirk Cousins, then instigating a civil war over who should be the top dog at the position, then starting a separate war over who decides who stays, then yet another war over who decides how much to pay the survivor. Those five years? How does an NFL team draft two productive yet polarizing quarterbacks in the same draft in 2012, win two division titles and claim three winning records, go through three management teams and two head coaches, move heaven and earth to either make one of them happy or drive one of them off, and reach 2017 right back where you started?...
The ASUS TUF Gaming F17 laptop comes with an Intel Core i5-11400H processor, 8GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM, Windows 11, 512GB SSD to run games smoothly, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 graphic card, and an RGB backlit keyboard. Its 17.3” screen comes with Adaptive-Sync technology, synchronizing the display’s refresh rate with the GPU’s frame rate to reduce lag. This gaming laptop is also compatible with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 to offer a seamless experience in multiplayer games....
While the team stumbled in their last international T20 series against England, the performances of the players in the lead up to this much-anticipated series has been exceptional. With an eye on building a team for the T20 World Cup in 2021, the Aussies will try to utilise these matches to find the most effective playing XI. On that note, we take a detailed look at the squad for the upcoming T20 series....
Riding on Steve Smith’s belligerent 131, Australia put up 338 runs on the board, with India responding with 96/2 by stumps. Describing Steve Smith as a ‘champion player’, Hussey told foxsports.com.au: Hussey added that Steve Smith was positive right from the moment he stepped out to the middle, and that made a difference. The former player further elaborated in this regard: While Steve Smith was the star of the day with his 131, Marnus Labuschagne fell agonisingly short of three figures....
