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England ran out 135-run winners at the Oval on Sunday to earn a stalemate, yet their hopes of claiming the urn had been ended a week earlier in defeat at Old Trafford. The triumph in the last Test was the first time England had got the better of a full-strength Australia, with the outstanding Steve Smith limited to just 23 in his second innings. But Stokes did not want to reflect on how the series might have panned out had they produced the same level of performance earlier in the series....

Babbitt, 35, was part of the mob of Donald Trump supporters that stormed the building while Congress was preparing to certify Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election. Footage of the moment when Babbitt was shot was widely shared online. It showed rioters trying to break through a glass door separating a hallway from the Speaker’s Lobby and Chamber. As the crowd were attempting to smash through the door, Babbitt began climbing through a broken window....

Five players including three fast bowlers - Siddharth Kaul, Avesh Khan, M Prasidh Krishna and two spinners- Mayank Markande and Shahbaz Nadeem will be with the team until the 17th and return back to their respective states before the Vijay Hazare Trophy begins on September 19. “Not everywhere do you get quality net bowlers and it becomes a problem for the senior team during practice sessions. With back to back games, you don’t expect a Bhuvneshwar Kumar or a Jasprit Bumrah to bowl flat out at the nets....

Pakistan in their first group match of 2018 Asia Cup defeated Hong Kong by 8 wickets. As India is a very different and much stronger team compared to Hong Kong, Pakistan will put their best 11 on the field on September 19. Pakistan’s Squad for Asia Cup: Shoaib Malik, Sarfraz Ahmed (c & wk), Mohammad Amir, Babar Azam, Imam-ul-Haq, Asif Ali, Usman Khan, Fakhar Zaman, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Ali, Junaid Khan, Haris Sohail, Mohammad Nawaz, Shan Masood, Shaheen Afridi...

With two consecutive medals in London & Rio Olympics and consistent medal-winning performances in World Championships, All England and other Superseries events, India is now a force to be reckoned with, in any badminton event. In the upcoming Asian Games in Jakarta also, India is sending a strong contingent with the likes of PV Sindhu, K Srikant and Saina Nehwal in the team. Indian Badminton at the Asian Games: Unlike other major tournaments, in Asian Games, the Indian badminton team’s performance has been lacklustre....

In the midst of all of this, however, there was one huge shock or upset, if you may call it. The Indian Men’s Kabaddi team, having never ever lost a single game in the history of the Asian Games, fell short to a resurgent Korean setup by an agonizing margin of 23-24. The loss sent the Indian Kabaddi fans into a tizzy. Questions floated around on social media while the players themselves, distraught by the sudden loss dragged themselves off the court, some teary-eyed and some with their faces turned towards the crowd as the Koreans beamed with pride on their achievement and held their arms aloft, sending a big message to the rest of the kabaddi fraternity....

Japan leads the overall medal table having won 27 Golds, 18 Silvers, and 38 Bronze medals. South Korea takes the second spot with 16 Golds, 20 Silvers, and 16 Bronze medals. Indonesia occupies the third spot with 15 Golds, 5 Silvers, and 21 Bronze medals. India is currently ranked 5th capturing 9 Golds, 6 Silvers, and 17 Bronze medals. Report Card: India’s Performance in Tennis - Rating 5/10. Men’s Singles...

Incheon (South Korea), Sep 18 (IANS) A lot will be at stake for India’s 516 athletes in the next 16 days as they get ready to make the country proud with a top-five finish in the 17th Asian Games, starting here Friday. India will compete in 28 events in Incheon with an eye to repeat the 2010 Asiad glory when they finished sixth after collecting 65 medals - 14 gold, 17 silver and 34 bronze....

What Asmongold doesn’t want to happen is for his Twitch stream and his community to be overtaken by aggressive Final Fantasy 14 fans again. The issue came up when Asmongold visited his Twitch channel’s official subreddit, only for a significant amount of Final Fantasy 14 content to overtake it. Asmongold then explains that this is just one example of how Final Fantasy 14 fans take over, also mentioning that they’ll often get angry in his community if he isn’t playing....

Popular Twitch Streamer Asmongold definitively falls into the latter category. During a recent stream, he discussed the possibility of playing Lost Ark as a female character, saying that him playing a woman would be “weird.” RELATED: Lost Ark is Adding Whole New Region of Servers The topic came up while Asmongold was browsing the Lost Ark subreddit on stream. At around the 1:32:06 mark, he comes across a post titled “It’s not a complaint…” and a meme consisting of two images....

A document signed by Putin and published to Russia’s official online portal for legal information called for the “the abolition of some special economic measures against the Turkish Republic” and partial renewal of an unrestricted travel agreement suspended after a deadly 2015 incident. Relations between Moscow and Ankara were rocked that November when a Turkish F-16 shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber flying over the border region between Syria and Turkey....

Just when it seemed it couldn’t get any worse in Zimbabwe, it has. Officially, the inflation rate is more than 6,000 percent, but realistically the figure is probably closer to three times that. The U.S dollar is trading for 600,000 to one on the black market, virtually the only place left to do business in the country these days. Last week, the country’s biggest food distributor, National Foods, offered retrenchment packages to 5,000 employees....

“THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART TO ALL OF MY FANS, FRIENDS AND ANYONE ACROSS THE GLOBE WHO SUPPORTED ME DURING THESE LAST FEW WEEKS,” he wrote on his Instagram feed after he was released from detention pending the outcome of the verdict in his prosecution, which is expected to be delivered on August 14. “I CANT BEGIN TO DESCRIBE HOW GRATEFUL I AM FOR ALL OF YOU....

The Australians were 30-1 at stumps on an intriguing day two that helped to make up for the washout on the opening day of the test. With England stuttering at 138-6 after being put in to bat, Bairstow put on 72 for the seventh wicket with Chris Woakes (32) before overseeing more valuable runs from the tail which nudged the team to a respectable total. Bairstow was eventually dismissed for 52, giving Nathan Lyon a third wicket of the innings to move the spinner to 355 in tests — tying paceman Dennis Lillee in third place on Australia’s all-time list....

England put themselves in a strong position on Friday as Burns produced his maiden century in the longest format, moving the hosts to within 17 runs of Australia’s first-innings total with six wickets in hand. Burns rode his luck at times but ultimately turned the match in his side’s favour. Waugh was impressed by how the England opener handled himself and stated the Australia batsmen should take note. “That’s Test match cricket....

Below is the complete list of medal winners for India. Gold Medal Winners Silver medal winners Bronze medal winners 0 votes

Both men were adept at wielding the hockey stick at the highest level in the past, but it was the girls they mentored who were battling it out on the pitch. Hockeyroos coach Paul Gaudoin must have felt the shivers for sure as Rani Rampal and her girls kept his strikers at bay for a good 36 minutes before Grace Stewart’s aerial shot whistled past Savita Punia in goal, and the referee pointed both arms horizontally towards the center of the field....