Shafiq, who resumed on 135 not out, went on to compile an unbeaten 186 in a total of 428 at Northampton. Having passed 150 and with only the last man for company, he hit three legside sixes. Pakistan achieved a first-innings lead of 169 but it was a moot point whether, having had two days of their tour opener against Kent washed out, would have wanted to win this four-day fixture inside three....
He bowls to the right That Mitchell Johnson His bowling is s***e” These were the words sung in unison by the Barmy Army as Mitchell Johnson walked into bat at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) in the last Ashes series Down Under (2010/11). Johnson could have been easily fooled into believing that he was playing in the UK, such was the extent to which the fans got stuck into him....
Will an injured James Anderson feature again during the series? Should an out-of-form Moeen Ali retain his place? Is there any way to get Steve Smith out - and will the tourists change a winning XI? It is not just the players who are in the spotlight, however. The umpires’ performances are also closely scrutinised - and it was a tough outing for on-field duo Aleem Dar and Joel Wilson in Birmingham....
England slumped to a 251-run defeat at Edgbaston, with spinner Moeen proving expensive with the ball — taking three wickets for 172 runs — while scoring just four with the bat. Somerset’s Leach, who scored 92 as nightwatchman in a warm-up Test against Ireland, has been drafted into the 12-man squad as Moeen’s replacement. Meanwhile, paceman Archer, who proved he had recovered from a side strain with a superb performance in a Sussex second XI match this week, is set to make his Test debut having replaced James Anderson, who has been ruled out with a calf injury....
Smith has kept Australia alive against England at Edgbaston, where the Aussies hold a slim 34-run lead heading into day four of the opening Test. After marking his Test return with a stunning 144-run knock following a 12-month ban for his role in the ball-tampering scandal, Smith thwarted England again via an unbeaten 46 to lead Australia to 124-3 at stumps on Saturday. Smith teamed up with Travis Head (21 not out) after England reached 374 and a lead of 90 as Australia paceman Pattinson hailed the country’s former captain....
Chandimal’s participation was in doubt after he had injured his finger during the Sri Lanka Cricket T20 League in September while attempting a catch. A six-match ban had prevented him from playing the South Africa ODI series, but an assessment on the finger, which sustained a hairline fracture, was done last week, ruled him out of the Asia Cup, scheduled to begin on September 15. The keeper-batsman had been handed the six-match ban after being found guilty of changing the ball conditions during the second Test against West Indies in June this year....
According to a report in Mumbai Mirror, the Rohit Sharma-led India will be staying in Grand Hyatt in Dubai while Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Hong Kong will be housed at the InterContinental. While citing a BCCI source, the website reported that the decision has been made considering the fact that even though the tournament has been shifted to UAE, India still enjoy the host privileges and will need the exclusive accommodation to house its own staff and sponsors....
In a video uploaded to his Instagram account, the Delhi cricketer could be seen lifting weights to keep himself in the best shape possible. Here are the pictures: The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) star emerged as the joint top-scorer for India alongside Ravindra Jadeja with 34-ball 35 at the Dubai International Stadium against Pakistan as India won the match by five wickets. Kohli will next be seen against Hong Kong on Wednesday (August 31) and will be looking to boost his confidence with a big knock....
While we basked in the glory of Hima Das and Neeraj Chopra, have we ever wondered what happened to the sport that sent India’s second largest contingent to Jakarta? Canoeing, consisting of three events, had a total of 48 competitors from India. How many medals did they deliver? The answer is a shocking zero. The obvious questions swirling in anybody’s mind would be how did such a large group get the green signal to go to Indonesia?...
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Dr. Velarde: Smoking is a significant risk factor because it is so damaging, not only to the cardiovascular system, but to all organs. Despite smoking rates decreasing in the United States, it is still quite pervasive and more so in certain regions of the country. Quitting tobacco is critical because it doesn’t matter how well you eat or how much you exercise: if you smoke, you’re putting yourself at great risk of developing health conditions, including heart disease....
So they can reinforce and practice skills they’ve already learned, and so teachers can assess a student’s mastery of the information. That’s also why parents should not do the homework for their kid. Ask prodding questions, lead them to the answer, but don’t give it to them. It’s OK for a kindergartner to write an S backward; don’t fix it. Homework is a child’s independent study, and it should stay that way....
Shor trained his efforts on a calculation called “factoring,” which ordinarily nobody but a mathematician would care about, except it just happens to be an Achilles heel of the internet. If someone were to invent a computer that could perform this operation quickly, messages that are currently hidden from hackers, terrorists, military adversaries, governments and competitors would be as easy to read as a Stephen King novel. Shor, of course, didn’t have such a computer....
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said Thursday that he expected “a fair process that moves quickly” to confirm Biden’s yet-to-be-announced nominee “as soon as possible.” Collins, a moderate who was the only Republican to vote against quickly confirming Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett just before the 2020 election, signaled her desire to slow down the process of vetting Biden’s nominee. “I felt that the timetable for the last nominee was too compressed,” Collins told reporters on Thursday....
The meeting was announced last week, shortly after a second New York police officer died as the result of a fatal shooting after responding to a 911 call in Harlem. Gun crime in the Big Apple has been on the rise since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2022 has gotten off to a worryingly similar start. In January, The New York Daily News reported there had been a total of 1,562 recorded shootings in 2021, 30 more than in 2020....
Those surveillance tools were once viewed as a necessity by people in the U.S. in the prevention of more terror attacks, the AP reported. The decline in support for government surveillance comes as the end to the 20-year war in Afghanistan causes global threats to receive more attention. The poll found that 46 percent of Americans do not support the U.S. government reading emails between people outside the U.S. without a warrant, even though law allows the measure for foreign intelligence collection, compared to 30 percent who said they supported it....
Echoing recent sentiments expressed on Capitol Hill, Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the British Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said there had been an “awakening” in the U.K. to the many irreconcilable practices of the Chinese government. While much of the world’s attention was on the downturn in U.S.-China relations under former President Donald Trump, there has also been a notable hardening of British attitudes toward Beijing in the same period....
Asensio, 22, has struggled to hit top form for Madrid this season, although Santiago Solari – appointed on a permanent basis on Tuesday – has led a turnaround in fortunes. Madrid are sixth in the table but only four points behind rivals and leaders Barcelona. Asensio, who is into his third season at Madrid, believes some of his team-mates need to take more responsibility than he does. “For me, I don’t see Madrid in a crisis,” he told Vamos....
Johnson, who was never shy of letting the opposition know what was on his mind, has revealed that it was Stuart Broad who got under his skin the most, and it was his sledge that has stayed with him even to the present day. The heart of the matter Johnson recollected the incidents in his column for the Telegraph and said that Broad took a dig at him during the 2009 Ashes when he was not at the top of his game owing to which he was taken to cleaners by the Barmy Army....
