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Southgate has taken a relatively inexperienced group of players to Russia compared to previous tournaments, with Joe Hart and Jack Wilshere among the big names left out. England face Tunisia in their opening game on Monday, with Panama and star-studded Belgium their other opponents in Group G. But Mourinho, whose Manchester United players Jesse Lingard, Ashley Young, Phil Jones and Marcus Rashford are all in the squad, feels England have the talent to go all the way....

Michael Carberry and Tim Bresnan, who featured in England’s previous ODI squads, miss out, too, but Steven Finn earns a well-deserved recall after some impressive performances for Middlesex this county season. Hales in the best form of his career Hales’ inclusion in the ODI squad comes as no surprise after his domineering performances for club and country in recent months. He scored the first T20 international hundred by an England batsman during the 2014 World T20 in March-April and has now followed it up with three List A hundreds for Nottinghamshire in the last three weeks....

Eoin Morgan and Co have been unstoppable in limited overs lately, but Joe Root has struggled to lead the Englishmen in the longest format of the game. Stuck in the middle of the ICC World Test Championship points table, England will try their best to improve their record and seal their place in the final which will take place at Lord’s. Also Read - England ICC World Test Championship schedule: Complete time table and details...

A three-time Ashes winner and the only man to captain England to a global trophy after leading them to glory in the 2010 World Twenty20, Collingwood played 68 Tests, 197 one-day internationals and 36 T20 matches. The 42-year-old has been described by his county side Durham as their “greatest-ever run scorer and most illustrious player”. “After much thought and deliberation I have decided to announce my retirement from cricket at the end of the current season,” Collingwood said....

In reply, India never got going from the word go as the hosts’ bowlers applied the brakes on the scoring rate, piling up the pressure on the Indians, who kept losing wickets in pursuit of the score at regular intervals and were eventually bowled out for 236 runs. Here are the ratings from the game: India Shikhar Dhawan: 2.5/10 The left-hander got off to a start but could not convert it into a big one, falling for 36....

India: Defeat in the second match of this series was India’s first in eight T20I matches. They had previously won seven in a row, including a victory in the Nidahas Trophy, a 2-0 series win against Ireland and then the eight-wicket defeat of England at Old Trafford. With the bat, Lokesh Rahul fell for six at Cardiff, having hit a 36-ball 70 at Malahide against Ireland and a 54-ball unbeaten century against England in his two previous matches....

INDIA #1 Shikhar Dhawan (6.5/10) Making his comeback into the side in place of struggling Murli Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan had a lot of pressure to deliver. Albeit, he didn’t score big, he managed to give India a solid start and seeing off the new ball having scored 35 runs off 65 balls. In the second innings as well, Dhawan gave India just the kind of start that was required to consolidate the lead over the hosts and Dhawan did just that scoring 44 off 63 balls....

British men will look to restore some pride in their preferred limited-overs format when the ODI series starts at Trent Bridge on Thursday, July 12. India won their most recent ODI series against the touring English team in January 2017 by 2-1. The first game saw England post 350/7, but India reached the target with 11 balls to spare. in the second fixture, India batted first and scored 381/6 and England fell just short as they reached 366/8....

Before making waves in the world of sumo wrestling, the Richmond, Va., native was was a standout wrestler and football player at Morgan State, and was a two-time All-American in the heavyweight division. MORE: January’s best fights | Meet the champs After college, Yarborough began judo training under the guidance of Yoshisada Yonezuka, and at 6-8 and tipping the scales at over 800 pounds, became a popular sumo wrestler, and won the 1995 World Amateur Sumo Championships....

The Dallas receiver’s 50-yard touchdown Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers was a tribute to his late father. The third-quarter score gave the Cowboys the lead and they eventually pulled out a 35-30 Cowboys victory at Heinz Field. Bryant learned Saturday night that his estranged father, MacArthur Hatton, had died. Despite not having much of a relationship with his father, Bryant was emotional Sunday. He was surrounded by teammates as he knelt in the back of the end zone following his touchdown....

Neymar was ruled out for 10 weeks after hobbling off in a 2-0 Coupe de France victory over Strasbourg on January 23, meaning he will miss both legs of the Champions League last-16 tie with Manchester United. The injury was sustained on the fifth metatarsal of his right foot, which he also damaged in February 2018 when he was sidelined for the remainder of that domestic season. Neymar sported red crutches at an event to mark his birthday and was tearful when he addressed those in attendance....

Newsweek reached out to Big Cat Rescue for further details regarding the incident. As per their email, on Thursday morning during feeding, Candy Couser, “who has been a volunteer at Big Cat Rescue for five years, and a Green Level Keeper (lions, tigers, etc.) for almost three years” was feeding Kimba, a tiger. “She saw that he was locked in a section that was away from where he was usually fed and radioed the coordinator to find out why....

The Under-19 sides of both the nations haven’t played competitive cricket in a long while and this series could prove to be a pretty competitive affair. With the U19 World Cup set to be held next year, players from both camps would want to impress selectors and this series is a golden opportunity for them to make their mark. EN-U19 vs WI-U19 Probable Playing 11 Today EN-U19 XI Tom Prest, James Sales, Rehan Ahmed, George Thomas, Jacob Bethell, Tom Aspinwall, Alex Horton, James Coles, Archie Lenham, Rehan Ahmed, Josh Boyden...

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But at 31, excruciating pain from a hip injury is drawing the curtain on a professional career that spanned 14 years and ended a decades-long drought for British tennis. The Scot would prefer to go out in a blaze of glory on home territory at Wimbledon, but may not get that far with next week’s Australian Open shaping as potentially his last event. His has been a glittering career, but it may have been very different....

This idea will undoubtedly offend some readers, and I think I know why: they will see it as tampering with nature. But what in this world is natural? The number of whales, and the abundance of their foodstuffs, are largely under human control; the noise environment they live in is down to us, too, and their chemical environment is under our influence. The whales don’t live in a natural world: they live in a world we have unwittingly made for them, just as we have made it for ourselves....

Twitter’s stock crashed by more than 12 percent in heavy trading the following Monday. What the internet gives, the internet takes away. Consider George Floyd. In May of 2020, a video of Floyd’s death began trending on Twitter about 12 hours after it took place. About a day later, Floyd began trending on CNN.com. He became CNN’s top story only after trending on Twitter for nearly three days straight....

Late on a sultry summer morning, Dianne Caballero settles onto her porch in the New York suburb of Roosevelt, bemused by the scene playing out across the street. Behind electric clippers, a muscular black man is trimming hedges with the intensity of a barber sculpting a fade; nearby, his wife empties groceries from the car. In most quarters, they might elicit barely a nod. But in this largely black, working-class community, the couple is one of the few intact families on the block....

The hosts will be oozing with confidence after thrashing India at Headingley by an innings and 76 runs to level terms in the series. England will be eyeing nothing short of a win. Speaking on the same lines, Michael Vaughan believes the current squad which saw the return of all-rounder Chris Woakes is stronger than the team at Headingley. Taking to Twitter, Michael Vaughan wrote: With the series tied at 1-1, both teams will be fancying their chance to take an unassailable lead in the five-match series....