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With both teams set to face each at the Rose Bowl, West Indies enter the game as the slight favourites given South Africa’s woes on and off the field. With Dale Steyn ruled out of the tournament, South Africa look to overturn the rut through their famed batting unit led by Faf du Plessis and Quinton de Kock. They are sure to be tested with a short ball barrage led by the mercurial Andre Russell and Oshane Thomas, who has come off his own this World Cup....

While cheers for those in the playing eleven is a normal scene, Mumbai Indians icon Tendulkar’s name was constantly chanted by the spectators as the team played their first home match of the ongoing Indian Premier League against Kings XI Punjab. There were shouts of ‘Sachiiiin Sachiiiiin’, showing the the love and affection that the little master enjoys in his home city. A Tendulkar fan turned up with a poster written, “Sachin was the only reason for me to watch, learn and play cricket....

Loyal fans of Sachin Tendulkar have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a part of his upcoming movie - Sachin: A Billion Dreams. After the phenomenal response to the teaser, 200 Not Out, Carnival Motion Pictures and DBS Bank India have launched an online contest #LiveMoreWithSachin inviting fans to share memorable videos of the cricket legend to be featured in the film. Fans can upload their favourite videos of Sachin shot on or off the field on www....

Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar has said that the bowler he did not enjoy facing during his illustrious career was former South African captain the late Hansie Cronje. Speaking at a promotional event on Tuesday, the 44-yar-old said when he was up against the Protean bowling attack at the time, he would tell the non-striker to face him and he would take on the likes of Shaun Pollock and Allan Donald....

Properties spread across a wide area are now under threat after a brush fire which broke out in a restricted one acre area in Sylmar, north of downtown L.A., around 9 p.m. on Thursday night, quickly spread. It then gathered momentum as it made its way west toward Granada Hills and is now spread out over 1,600 acres, according to the Los Angeles Times. The 60 mile per hour gusts have pushed burning debris over the 201 and 5 freeways, shutting them down and igniting more dry brush....

NEWSWEEK: Is the Roadmap dead? EREKAT: No, it’s not dead. But if we keep failing to implement it, it will join [previous peace initiatives like] the Mitchell report and the Tenet plan in the archives. That shouldn’t happen. I don’t understand why we haven’t seen the U.S. imposing the mechanism for implementation, a time line and so on. This is Powell’s third trip here. Why can’t he say: “You guys stay in your corner and you in your corner, you begin with a ceasefire by the following date and you withdraw on this date”?...

Innovation cuts both ways, of course. Atari was an early innovator with its video-game technology. Today its machines are yard-sale material, victims of superior innovations from gamemakers like Nintendo and Sony. VisiCalc touched off a business revolution with its spreadsheet software in the late 1970s, but that market now belongs to the Microsoft juggernaut with Excel. It’s not enough to innovate once. You have to keep it up. Apple Computer turned the PC industry around when it rolled out the Macintosh in 1984, and then gave in to complacency....

Following over 25 minutes of equal exchanges, the first chance of the match fell to Bangladesh when Zahid smashed a header against the upright after latching on to a beautiful pass from Waly Faisal. Just minutes later, the Bengal Tigers spurned another chance to go in front when Hemanta’s limp effort failed to beat the Maldives ‘keeper after going one-on-one. The Red Snappers then broke the deadlock moments before half-time when skipper Ashfaq cooly slotted home the penalty that resulted after Faisal appeared to have handled the ball in the box during a corner....

The 35-year-old has opted to leave Benevento after just five months with the Italian club, with whom he suffered relegation from Serie A at the end of 2017-18. Sagna was without a club after leaving Manchester City in June 2017 following a three-season spell in which he helped club to a League Cup win in 2015-16. Montreal have the option of signing Sagna for a further year and the right-sided defender, who earned 65 caps with France between 2007 and 2016, joins a team currently fifth in the Eastern Conference....

Second seed and defending women’s singles champion Saina Nehwal faced some resistance from the 29th ranked Nitchaon Jindapol in the first game but she managed to eke it out 21-19. The Indian was in control of the second game and closed out the 21-19, 21-14 win in 42 minutes. She next meets the fifth-seeded Korean Sung Ji Hyun for a place in the semi-finals. World No. 11 PV Sindhu had a tougher day at the office as she came back from a game down to edge past World No....

But as a whole, India was not among the top badminton nations of the World. The main reason for this was the lack of infrastructure and exposure. Many a time, these great players failed to perform to the best of their potential because of lack of proper preparation. However, in the 21st century, things changed. With better facilities and exposure, Indian badminton players started winning consistently in World events. With players like Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu, K Srikanth, HS Pranoy, P Kashyap, Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa coming up, and consistently winning international events, Indian badminton reached its peak in the recent years....

An official statement paid tribute to the former apprentice, who joined the club at the age of 15, describing him as “solid and elusive”. “AS Saint-Etienne had the immense sadness to learn of the tragic death of William Gomis, which occurred last night,” read the statement, released on Monday. “Appreciated by his former team-mates and educators for his human qualities, the young player, who would have turned 20 in December, did all his training at the club where he had arrived at the age of 15....

Saints general manager Mickey Loomis “would be open” to trading Payton to the Rams, The Times-Picayune reported, adding that the coach and GM met for about an hour after Sunday’s season-ending loss to the Falcons. It’s unclear what the Saints might need in return from the Rams to make a deal. But the opportunity to be out from under Payton’s new contract, which pays him an average of $9 million a year, would seem likely to keep the price reasonable for the Rams....

A reboot of the Saints Row franchise, Saints Row was made by the Volition development studio, with Deep Silver as its publisher. In the fictional, gang-riddled, city of Santo Ileso, four friends decide to take things into their own hands by forming a gang and engaging in a variety of Criminal Enterprises for fun and profit. RELATED: Saints Row: How To Defeat All Members of the Idol Collective How To Get the Criminal Customs DLC The Criminal Customs DLC is included in the Gold Edition, Platinum Edition, Criminal Customs Edition, and Notorious Edition of the game as a pre-order bonus....

RELATED: Saints Row Reboot: Characters Who Need To Be In The Game Unfortunately, the residents of Steelport aren’t as keen on a gang running rampage in their city, so they will do everything in their power to stop the Saints in their tracks. Thankfully, weapons are in ample supply, and most of them are as powerful as they are whacky. Tanks wish they had this much firepower. 10 Bling Shotgun - Earn Respect With Murder Getting up close & personal with enemies is rarely a good idea in a firefight, but the protagonist of Saints Row is surprisingly resilient....

After his interview began to circulate on Ukrainian Telegram channels, independent Russian news outlet Nestka identified the individual as Vladislav Izmailov, a 26-year-old former convict from the city of Samara in Russia’s southwest. Izmailov claimed to have been recruited by the notorious mercenary unit, the Wagner Group, on September 27, when its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, visited his prison. He said he was offered offered a contract for six months in exchange for freedom and exemption from criminal punishment, and that some 300 people from his colony agreed to fight in Ukraine....

The security service shared an audio clip on its official Twitter account, which it said was an extract from intercepted “telephone conversations of the invaders.” It did not specify who the voices belonged to or when and where the phone call was intercepted. Newsweek could not independently verify the veracity of the audio recording. Russian authorities gave no immediate response. In the audio, two men can be heard talking in Russian about the war in Ukraine, in a conversation that starts in a calm tone and escalates within a minute when one of the men starts yelling....

The host of Evening with Vladimir Solovyov on Russia 1 struck a somber tone when he started Wednesday’s show by saying he had intended to discuss the U.S. midterm elections before Russia’s retreat from the southern Ukrainian city had overtaken events. He then introduced a clip of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announcing the withdrawal of Russia’s forces from the west bank of the Dnieper River. In another setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Shoigu said the decision was made with the recommendation of Russian forces commander, General Sergei Surovikin, because it would “save the lives of our military personnel and the combat capability of our forces....