Stokes’ dismissal came in the final delivery bowled by Mitchell Starc in the 25th over of the England innings. Playing a short delivery from Starc, Stokes rocked back to punch the delivery off the back foot. The shot deserved four runs but it could only go as far as Lyon at point as the veteran off-spinner dived to his left to complete a stunning catch. Watch Nathan Lyon’s catch here:...
The Men in Blue kept themselves afloat in the series, beating the Proteas by 48 runs in the third game on Tuesday, 14 June. The bowlers produced a well-rounded effort to defend 179 runs and bounce back after two consecutive defeats in the five-match T20I series. After a confident victory, the hosts left for their next destination. Shreyas shared a couple of photos on his Instagram stories from the journey alongside Ishan Kishan and Hardik Pandya....
The makers of the Netflix series made contact with Ellis in mid-2017, two years after he had been released on bail after questions were raised by the Boston Globe about potential corruption in the police force who had helped get Ellis convicted. The title Trial 4 comes from the upcoming fourth trial that Ellis was preparing for when the series started filming him. However, that trial never came. Suffolk County prosecutors had initially scheduled the retrial for October 2018, then it was rescheduled for September 2019....
With the Gauchos down 3-0 to Louisville in the bottom of the ninth inning, Sam Cohen came to the plate and did this: Cohen’s dinger gave UCSB a 4-3 win over the Cardinals in Game 2 of their super-regional series. Louisville, a sizable favorite over UCSB coming into the series, sported “Ali” patches on their hats this weekend to honor their city’s late boxing legend. We’re all in Ali’s corner, but a dramatic moment like this will win over a lot of fans for the Gauchos....
“UEFA needs some reforms as FIFA. UEFA is a good organisation, we cannot say that UEFA is not a good organisation and that it needs a complete change,” Ceferin said on Wednesday, reports Tass. “But it needs many changes and I will tell more in the future. I have prepared some things but I think I have to speak to all the shareholders and adjust everything.” He said he is planning to work closely with FIFA president Gianni Infantino....
Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson said in a report by the Associated Press on Saturday that in some cases, the observers were objecting to almost every ballot pulled for the count. Christenson continued to note that the complaints were putting the recount behind schedule, and multiple observers were breaking rules by interrupting vote counters with questions and objections. He called the behavior “unacceptable.” “It’s not our job to train their observers on what they’re observing,” Christenson said during a media briefing on Saturday, as reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel....
Though Vita hardware sales may have slowed, the past few months have been filled to the brim with great titles. It’s the future that gamers are still unsure about. Aside from a handful of already confirmed games, next year’s Vita software release slate is shrouded in mystery - perhaps not the best move considering Sony’s position in the handheld market. Though we may still be in the dark regarding future releases, more games are indeed coming; including yet another unannounced title from Bend Studio....
Uncharted 3 had some tough competition, as the other nominees included Batman: Arkham City and Assassin’s Creed Revelations. Rounding off the nominees were… Brink and Mortal Kombat, hardly the most story driven of games. If you’re wondering why Brink and Mortal Kombat are up there, it’s because in order to actually be nominated for a WGA, one must be a member of the organization. That pretty much explains why Brink - a multiplayer centric shooter - is nominated, and not say L....
In a Wall Street Journal profile of her earlier this month, she said she’d been fired from a previous role—as a prosector for the Weld County District Attorney’s office in Colorado—after “she refused to bring a case to trial that she believed was an unethical prosecution.” A new report by the Colorado Sun, however, casts doubt on that version of events. According to records obtained by the Sun from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, in 2013 Ellis was fired from her position as the deputy district attorney due to “unsatisfactory performance....
In fact, the answer is (c) both of the above. When Clinton and Yeltsin hold their summit after the VE Day ceremonies in Moscow, they will be playing as much to their political rivals at home as to each other. Yeltsin is under persistent attack from communists and ultranationalists like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who say he’s trying tO resolve Russia’s economic problems by selling out to the West. In America, Republican front runner Bob Dole is hammering away at what he calls Clinton’s “Russia first” and “Yeltsin first” policies....
This week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Mr. McMahon had set plans for a return to the Stamford-based promotion. The former WWE Chairman informed top brass in the company that through his majority voting rights, he was electing himself and two former executives, Michelle Wilson and George Barrios, to the board. In an exclusive interview, Sportskeeda Wrestling’s Senior Editor Bill Apter felt that McMahon’s return had more to do with the financial aspects since WWE will be renegotiating their media rights deal for both RAW and SmackDown....
In the new season, Bjorn (Alexander Ludwig) is king of Kattegat, while Ivar (Alex Høgh Andersen) finds himself in the hands of a fellow brutal dictator. This is somewhat of a reversal from the events of Season 5, where Ivar himself was the violent dictator of Kattegat. This comes after the midseason finale of Vikings Season 5, which saw Ivar conquer the region, and then the Season 5 finale, which saw Bjorn manage to conquer Kattegat, while Ivar went into hiding after his people refused to support him....
According to Reedie, the agency has nothing to do with politics as it is seeking to protect “clean” athletes, reports Tass. WADA’s independent commission, chaired by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren, released a report on July 18 on the results of its probe into accusations of doping and manipulation of tests by Russian athletes and officials at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games. The commission found evidence that Russia’s sports ministry and the centre for training of Russian national teams and the Federal Security Service supported the doping program in sports....
Rana smashed a 34-ball 63, hitting seven sixes and two fours to help KKR post a mammoth 218/4 against Kings XI Punjab on Wednesday. The home team won by 28 runs as Punjab were never in the chase. This was Rana’s second successive fifty after slamming 68 in the first game against Sunrisers Hyderabad. “In the last couple of seasons I started well but my form fizzled out towards the later half of the tournament....
By mid-morning, the hashtag was No. 3 in the United States trend list with more than 3,000 mentions. During his rally in Sunrise, Florida, Trump accused the “radical left Democrats” of “trying to rip our nation apart.” He claimed there are people trying to change the name of Thanksgiving. “As we gather together for Thanksgiving, you know some people want to change the name Thanksgiving, they don’t want to use the term Thanksgiving, and that was true also with Christmas, but now everybody’s using Christmas again,” Trump said during his rally....
It comes shortly after Senator Amy Klobuchar and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced their decision to end their presidential bids. Both candidates are expected to back former Vice President Joe Biden, who now appears to be the candidate that most moderates will coalesce around for the 2020 Democratic nomination. Warren, who on Saturday suffered a loss in South Carolina, is experiencing a low point in her candidacy after failing to secure high results in any of the first four contests ahead of Super Tuesday....
It should be clearly understood that the option of going all the way to Baghdad was never considered. Despite all of the so-called experts who, with twenty-twenty hindsight, are now criticizing that “decision,” at the time the war ended there was not a single head of state, diplomat Middle East expert, or military leader who, as far as I am aware, advocated continuing the war and seizing Baghdad. The United Nations resolutions that provided the legal basis for our military operations in the gulf were clear in their intent: kick the Iraqi military force out of Kuwait....
The incident happened in the 18th over. Ravichandran Ashwin bowled a full delivery on the stumps Markram, probably anxious to get some runs, set off for a quick single after just dabbing it to mid-off. Iyer charged at it and hit a searing throw at the non-striker’s end, disturbing the stumps and catching the batter short by at least a foot. Here’s a video of the same: This was not the first time Venkatesh Iyer had nailed a direct hit in the match....
Game Rant’s Steve Pendlebury reviews Twisted Metal In every other game that features it, vehicular combat is merely an add-on, a gaming side-dish used to spice-up existing gameplay and add a little variety. It’s nothing more than a gaming trope designed to distract players from the tedium of their main quest-lines. In many examples these driving sections are poorly implemented; in others, criminally under-used. In either case, though, they are almost always instantly forgettable....
