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There has been quite a lot of speculation about what the Ashes will have in store for us this time, ranging from team strategies and tactics to interesting player vs player duels to the names that will be in focus in this particular series. Here are 5 names that will most probably leave their mark on the series. Mitchell Johnson He is currently Australia’s best bowling option considering that James Pattinson and Mitchell Starc are not fully fit....

The summer four years ago was about Mitchell Johnson instilling fear in batsmen with nasty spells, Stuart Broad being booed, plenty of on-field banters and sledging, and some great performances that kept every cricket lover on their toes. Ahead of the Ashes 2017-18, which is about to begin at the Gabba, Brisbane on November 23, we shall take a look at five memorable moments that made headlines during the last series in Australia....

Was it intimidating taking on a role that’s so well known? By every metric, it should have been. For some reason, it wasn’t. Perhaps for two reasons. One is that the show uses the third book as a jumping-off point. It’s very much a prequel. We get to explore what made him the person everyone knows. So we lean on the love everyone already has for the material, but we tried to take it back a few steps....

The first match between the two teams, which is the confirmed fixture, will be played at the Dubai international stadium on September 19 and both the teams will look to give their 110% and win the match against their arch-rivals. India will be handicapped by the fact that they will be playing Hong Kong a day before the clash against Pakistan and the players could be burnt out for the all-important clash....

Captain Anshuman Rath was the first to be dismissed as Kuldeep Yadav got the breakthrough with the score at 174. That is now the highest partnership for Hong Kong in ODIs. Despite the loss of the skipper, Hong Kong are still in a great position after 35 overs at 174/1. Nizakat Khan is closing in on his maiden ODI century and is batting alongside the country’s all-time leading ODI run-getter, Babar Hayat....

“We are aware that we go into this tournament as the highest ranked team and we aim to keep up the No.1 status. However, every team will come with the intention to win the title so we can’t take any team lightly thinking they are ranked lower than us,” said the 25-year-old Manpreet to Hockey India’s official website. India will lock horns against Japan and Bangladesh along with Pakistan in Pool A....

The Indian strikers created numerous chances and lodged themselves in the Malaysian circle for a significant period of time, but some gritty defending from Malaysia ensured that the Indians could score only thrice. The Indian girls in Donghae are doing just what the Australian men’s team often do by launching a barrage of attacks even before the opposition has settled in. Such a strategy can be adopted with confidence only if a team is backed up with a world-class defence as the initial attacks give the opposition ample opportunities to launch quick counters....

India, currently ranked 97th in FIFA charts, held their own against the 82nd ranked Oman by creating a few chances while both goalkeepers Gurpreet Singh Sandhu and Amrinder Singh pulled off a few good saves to keep the scoresheet clean. Coach Stephen Constantine gave chance to most of his players during the warm-up game which was played closed doors in order to keep cards close to his chest. India’s first attempt at Oman citadel was in the 17th minute when Sunil Chhetri tried a long ranger from the top of the box but it sailed over....

In the first big shock of the 2019 tournament, Jordan — the world’s 109th-ranked team — pulled off one of the biggest wins in its history by beating Australia 1-0 on Sunday. Anas Bani Yaseen was the match-winner, finding space following a short-corner routine by Jordan to guide in a near-post header in the 26th minute. Jordan had just 24 percent possession in the match and rode its luck under severe pressure in the second half, with Awer Mabil hitting the post for Australia and Jamie Maclaren having a goal disallowed for a narrow offside....

Meanwhile the women’s team was drawn in the same group as hosts South Korea, Thailand and Maldives. In the men’s tournament all countries will be playing their U-23 sides and India will be up against two countries that are ranked higher in the FIFA Rankings. 29 nations were divided into eight groups in the men’s event with five groups of four and three groups of three teams. The women’s event has 11 teams with two groups of four and one group of three countries and unlike the men, every nation would be fielding their senior national team....

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) had decided against sending the men’s and women’s football teams to Indonesia this time after they failed to meet the qualifying criteria set by the Olympic body. The IOA chose not to clear Indian men’s and women’s football teams after deeming them “incompetent” to win any medals. The Indian men’s football team was hoping to use the Asian Games as a build up for next year’s AFC Asian Cup....

WRESTLING: BAJRANG PUNIA: The 24-year-old grappler from Haryana, a silver medallist at the Incheon edition, is in tremendous form and will be a firm favourite in 65kg freestyle event. He has already won three tournaments this year. He began with a gold in Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and followed it up with titles at Tbilisi Grand Prix (Georgia) and Yasar Dogu International (Istanbul). SUSHIL KUMAR: One of India’s most successful Olympians, Sushil is under pressure to perform after a flop show at Tbilisi Grand Prix....

But Twitch’s lack of transparency with its community didn’t stop at not taking a side on the hot tub meta. Recently, hot tub streamer Amouranth announced that Twitch had pulled her ad revenue without warning. According to Amouranth, Twitch did this after deeming her content as not “advertiser-friendly.” Amouranth had a fairly nuanced take on the situation; she wasn’t as upset about the fact that she’ll no longer make ad revenue on Twitch as much as she would have liked a warning prior to it happening....

As of July 9, the TikTok campaign has garnered over 200,000 negative reviews for the app on the Apple App Store and over 40,000 negative reviews on Android’s Play Store, leaving it with an overall ranking of just 1.2 stars out of five on Apple’s App Store and 1.1 stars out of five on Android’s Play Store. One of the Apple reviews states, “This app made my phone literally start on fire....

With that in mind, the team made certain concessions — he would sit the second half of back-to-back games, he would miss practices and he would forego shoot-arounds. Regardless of these preparations, Miami’s worst fear with Wade became a reality. His age and bad knees caughtup to him, and the Wade we’ve come to know was reduced to little more than a complementary player — even if he was complementing the best player in the world....

“Will US be the next Venezuela with Congress borrowing over $6 trillion in one year?” Paul wrote on Twitter Sunday. The senator’s tweet referenced a Bloomberg report about hyperinflation in Venezuela, which caused the nation’s central bank to begin issuing bills worth 200,000, 500,000 and 1 million bolivars on Monday, in order to meet present economic “requirements.” Venezuela’s 1 million bolivar note is currently worth about $0.53, according to the latest exchange rates published by the central bank....

After a simple install, the Windows software hides itself away in a thin bar at the edge of the screen – at the top, by default, but configurable. Mouse over the bar and it expands to show the major capture modes, which include the active window, active menu, any rectangular area, a freehand area or, new to this version, all the windows on screen. See Best Android Apps Advisor....