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England, 1-0 down in the five-test series, added 15 runs to their overnight score before being all out at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium. After Gareth Batty played out the first over from left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja, Shami struck with the first ball of the day’s second over when Adil Rashid edged to wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel while on his overnight score of four. James Anderson came into the match fresh off his ‘king pair’ in the previous test at Visakhapatnam but survived a lbw appeal and remained unbeaten on 13....

‘UCL football will keep Ibra at Man Utd’ Gareth Southgate has never been seen as a commanding manager, a general and a leader of men. His appointment was largely greeted with apathy, too, with no headline-grabbing decisions likely to be made. Already, the trend has been bucked. Southgate has taken the necessary step of dropping Rooney, and is the first manager to do so since his breakthrough at Euro 2004....

The gutsy young cricketer has flown back to England to get a plate inserted in his left-hand where he broke his little finger in two. The 19-year-old will have the operation on Friday and after resting for the next two days he will be boarding a plane to Mumbai to cheer for his team as they try to work their way into a series deficit of 0-2 reports The Mirror....

Approximately 66,000 fans packed Wembley Stadium in London on Wednesday hoping to watch England beat Denmark and reach the final of a major tournament for the first time since it defeated West Germany to win the 1966 World Cup. Among them was Nina Farooqi, a 37-year-old digital content producer invited to the game by a lucky friend who had secured tickets in a last-minute ballot. Knowing she wouldn’t be granted a day off as her employer was short-staffed, Farooqi resorted to the oldest trick in the book and told her boss she was unwell....

Test captain Joe Root, stand-in captain for the first Test Ben Stokes and all other members of the England team have also supported the Black Lives Matter movement. The hosts will wear the same logo as the visitors. The Black Lives Matter logo has been designed by Alisha Hosannah, wife of professional footballer and captain of Premier League side Watford Football Club. As per the ICC regulations, the logo will be displayed only on the collar of the shirt....

Raina’s quickfire 75-ball 100 took India to a challenging 304 for six in 50 overs here at Sophia Gardens. The first ODI was washed out without a ball being bowled due to rain. Putting behind the 1-3 humiliating loss in the Test series, Indian batsmen put on an inspiring show as they came out all guns blazing. Opening batsman Rohit Sharma and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni also contributed with 52 each....

The hosts came into the tournament as favourites, but they are in danger of missing out on a semi-final spot following successive defeats to Sri Lanka and Australia. Wins against India and New Zealand in their final group games will guarantee England a last-four berth, but anything less will leave them vulnerable to results elsewhere. Virat Kohli’s men, meanwhile, are the only unbeaten side in the competition and need just one point from three matches to be sure of progressing....

Croatia, on the other hand were not the fan favourites, but a team that was composed, ruthless and uncompromising. They had shown their steel in the round of 16 and the Quarter Finals, edging out first Denmark and then Russia with impressive ruthlessness. They knew they had it in them to make it to the finals to face France. In a pulsating end to end affair, Croatia had 22 attempts on goal, with 7 of them on target....

Kane blazed a penalty over the crossbar six minutes from time to ensure England would not level for a second time, after the Tottenham striker had matched Wayne Rooney’s record of 53 goals for England to draw his side level in the second half. Aurelien Tchouameni gave France the lead with a 25-yard strike that dipped beyond Jordan Pickford’s dive in the 17th minute. France had the better of the opening stages but were indebted to goalkeeper Hugo Lloris — earning a record 143rd cap for his country’s senior men’s team — when he clawed a powerful long-range drive from Kane around a post to keep his side in front....

India trail England by one game to three, with a dead rubber still to go. One might argue that this Indian team did run England close like no other Indian team ever has. But being the best and still going down the way we did is even more of a bitter truth to swallow. Does that mean that even with the likes of a batsman who is batting as beautifully as anyone ever has and a bowling attack that is the best India has ever produced, we simply aren’t good enough to win a test series in England?...

They were humiliated when they lost to England by an innings and 259 runs at Lords and they gave it back in their own style here at Nottingham. First of all, congrats to this stupendous performance that Indian team displayed in this match. While Hardik Pandya’s fifer, Rishabh’s 5 catches, and captain Kohli’s 23rd Test ton are some standout things we noticed, here’s a list of 5 things you didn’t notice:...

The 32-year-old is currently plying his trade with London outfit Crystal Palace. He started his Premier League journey with the Gunners after joining them in 2006. Three years later, he left the Emirates and moved to Manchester City, who were taken over by the Abu Dhabi United group a year before. Adebayor scored against Arsenal at the Etihad the same season. Following his goal, he ran the length of the pitch and celebrated in front of the travelling Gunners fans, who were seated at the other end of the pitch....

After years of television and movies, the two-time Emmy Award winner, Oscar and Tony nominee, and accomplished singer/songwriter/actor has found her sweet spot in the theater. A Man of No Importance, which opens on October 11 at Classic Stage Company in New York, is a show that Winningham says she will look back on for a long time. “It’s such a gorgeous piece of writing from the great late Terrence McNally and his partners Lynn Ahrens and Steve Flaherty doing the lyrics and the music,” Winningham told Newsweek....

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An emotional Roger Federer wiped away tears and urged Rafa Nadal to stay with him on the tour for years to come after felling his great rival to win his fifth Australian Open on Sunday. Completing a brilliant comeback after six months out of the game, the nerve-shredding 6-4 3-6 6-1 3-6 6-3 win gave Federer a long-awaited 18th grand slam title that many thought beyond the 35-year-old Swiss....

Jerome Bettis was the last to give his induction speech Saturday night, capping an emotional night. While remembering his own father, Bettis had a special message for the children of the late Junior Seau , who was also inducted into the Hall of Fame Saturday night. MORE: Hall of Fame class in images | Sydney Seau’s moving speech | Raucous crowd welcomes Bettis Tim Brown was a household name before he ever played in an NFL game....

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio Olympics organisers are struggling to fill up venues, with large chunks of seating left empty across many sports as host Brazil looks for its elusive first gold medal. Spectators at morning sessions of less popular events have been particularly sparse, even though organisers said 82 percent of all tickets have been sold. Sunday’s evening session at weightlifting attracted only a half-full stadium, while women’s rugby sevens on Monday morning had only a crowd of a few thousand with the vast majority of seats at the Deodoro stadium empty....

But there’s probably only one really effective way left, short of war, to put pressure on a government that has threatened a new Holocaust. And that is to adopt a strategy that Americans pursued a decade ago against the perpetrators and collaborators of the last Holocaust—the Germans and the Swiss. Stuart Levey knows this well. Levey, the undersecretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, has been leading the U....

Beau Howell is an autistic student at Trinity Classical Academy in Santa Clarita, Cali. He's also a member of the school's basketball team. With the team leading Desert Chapel Cristian School by 23 points in the fourth quarter of the final game of the season, Trinity's head coach signaled for Howell to enter the game. Howell had never scored a point, and the team spent the final few minutes trying to get him his first career points....