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The Indian Cricket team kick-started their preparation for the long and hectic tour of England, by defeating the Englishmen in the first game of the three-match T20 series by a comfortable margin of 8 wickets.runs yesterday at Manchester. Virat Kohli and his men would look to wrap up the series, as quickly as possible by winning the second game of the three-match T-20 series against England, in order to test their bench strength for the third T-20 game....

Here’s what they found out: Friday’s game will be the first one between England and Lithuania in history. Founded back in 1922, the Lithuanian Football Federation has never delegated a team to play against England. The current Lithuanian squad has two players representing clubs from Great Britain: defender Marius Zaliukas plays for Glasgow Rangers while youngster Simonas Stankevicius represents the Leicester City academy. In the entire Lithuanian football history, the country had only one man to play for a Premier League side....

On the back of his stunning match-winning century at Trent Bridge that gave Ben Stokes’ side an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series, Bairstow reached stumps on 130 not out before his adoring Yorkshire public. Debutant Jamie Overton (89 not out) will chase an unlikely Test hundred on Saturday morning after guiding England to 264/6 in response to New Zealand’s 329 all out — an astonishing recovery from 55/6 in the 12th over....

The man suffered a heart attack and was resuscitated by police, and was rushed to a hospital in that city in critical condition on Sunday, reports Efe. The attack came near the Vieux-Port district of downtown Marseille when fans clashed hours before the start of Saturday night’s match at the Stade Velodrome, which ended in a 1-1 draw. Authorities said the English man received several blows with a metal bar, some to the head....

But by then, Enron was sinking fast and a rescue operation probably looked fruitless. Paul Begala, a Texas native and a Democratic consultant, has another theory about why the Bushies sent “Kenny Boy” packing. “He was broke!” Begala says. “It’s like a hooker at the port of Houston. When the sailor ran out of money, she fell out of love.” To believe Enron got nothing is to believe that all there is to this debacle is what we know now....

Despite the store having over 160 million registered accounts and more than 56 million monthly active users, things aren’t going quite as well as some might expect. Although it has generated revenue of almost $1 billion over the past few years with more than a quarter of this coming from in-app purchases alone, the store itself is currently operating at a rather substantial loss. RELATED: Epic Games Giving Away 3 Free Games Next Week...

The Epic Games Store is continuing its weekly giveaway promotion throughout 2022, meaning that there will be at least one new title available to download each week. Since 2019, the digital storefront (owned by Fortnite developer Epic Games) has been offering these freebies to reel in additional customers and compete with its closest rivals like Steam or EA’s Origin platform. The releases that have been included in the giveaway scheme have ranged from small-scale indies, to cult classics and even AAA blockbusters such as GTA V and Remedy Entertainment’s Control....

RELATED: First Epic Games Store Free Game for October Revealed The reaction to the store coming to service has been rather mixed, based on the response to Sweeney’s announcement. Some fans were skeptical of this, with some expressing their opinions on this being a bad move, while others were more open and accepting of this. Some even brought up the court case between Apple and Epic Games from earlier this year, where this partnership wouldn’t need for cuts and allow for third-party payment options....

England bowled out India for 292 in their first innings to take a 40-run lead and now lead by 60 runs. Alastair Cook, playing his last Test innings was batting on 13 and giving him company was Keaton Jennings (7). Ravindra Jadeja top-scored for India with an unbeaten 86-run knock, while debutant Hanuma Vihari contributed 56 before being caught behind off Moeen Ali. Each of the six England bowlers dismissed at least one batsman....

England will step up their penalty-taking practice as they enter the Euro 2012 knockout rounds desperate to atone for repeated failures in shoot-outs, manager Roy Hodgson has revealed. Hodgson’s side face Italy in the quarter-finals in Kiev on Sunday haunted by the knowledge that England have won only one penalty shoot-out — against Spain in 1996 — while losing on five other occasions. The England manager said that while the unique pressures of a shoot-out can never be replicated in training, he plans to devote more attention to the issue ahead of Sunday’s meeting with the Azzurri at the Olympic Stadium....

A ruthless display in Seville saw the Three Lions claim a 3-2 victory, their first in the Nations League, and end Spain’s 15-year unbeaten run at home in competitive internationals. Two goals from Raheem Sterling and a Marcus Rashford strike put England 3-0 up at half-time, marking the first time 2010 world champions Spain have ever conceded three times at home outside of friendly games. Southgate’s side held firm under second-half pressure to secure the win, their first in a competitive match since the World Cup quarter-final defeat of Sweden, despite goals from Paco Alcacer and Sergio Ramos....

Chasing 269 for victory, the Men in Blue attacked the English bowlers right from the very beginning and smashed them all around the park to achieve an extremely comfortable victory, by eight wickets. Rohit Sharma was the star of the show as he scored an unbeaten century. He remained not out on 137 from just 114 deliveries with 15 fours and 4 sixes to his name. Virat Kohli chipped in with a 75 run knock as well and put on a 167 run partnership with Rohit for the second wicket....

#1 New ball woes for batsmen The discussions about the importance of scoring runs against the new ball in the seaming conditions in overseas countries is not a new thing. It’s not something that has been triggered in this series only but was seen earlier also during India’s tour of South Africa. The opening batsmen are failing continuously and they seem to be absolutely clueless against the new moving ball. One of India’s most reliable opener overseas Murali Vijay has only managed to score 219 runs in the last 10 innings (six in SA and four here in England)....

Gareth Southgate enters the World Cup on the heels of shock UEFA Nations League relegation, dumped into League B after slumping to defeats to Italy once and Hungary twice over the past few months. That leaves the Three Lions in poor form heading into the World Cup, but they’ll put that behind them and look to equal or best their 2018 result of reaching the semifinals. Iran, meanwhile, are hoping to spring an upset or two and earn qualification to the knockout stage, but they know it’s an uphill battle in such a difficult group....

Basic fears: Being controlled by others or being powerless[1] X Research source Basic desires: To be in control of their own life Strengths: Confident, persistence, decisive, resourceful, courageous[2] X Research source Weaknesses: Rebellious, impatient, outspoken, manipulative[3] X Research source Core values: Power, independence, and leadership Motivators: To be self-reliant and control their environment When it comes to sex, they’ll most likely take the lead, but they’ll make sure to do what makes their partner the most comfortable....

Entering Dates as Dates When you combine it with other Google Sheets functions, you can use DATE to produce a wide variety of date formulas. One important use for the function is to ensure that Sheets interprets dates correctly, especially if the entered data isn’t in the most useful format. The DATE function’s primary use is to display a date that combines elements such as year, month, or day from different locations in the worksheet, and to ensure that dates used in calculations are number data instead of text....

Enzo Amore to tour with WWE Cruiserweight Championship In a recent video that Enzo Amore has posted on Twitter, he has said that he will be touring the Independent wrestling scene. However, he will not be doing it empty-handed, and he plans to take the WWE Cruiserweight Championship on the road with him. It will be interesting to see if WWE do anything to stop Enzo Amore from going on tour with the WWE Cruiserweight title....

Last Thursday, Sony announced that it has made a $250 million investment into Epic Games, giving Sony a 1.4% minority stake in the video game and video game engine developer. Sony’s CEO and President, Kenichiro Yoshida, said that Sony made its investment because “Epic’s powerful technology in areas such as graphics places them at the forefront of game engine development with Unreal Engine and other innovations.” Yoshida also cited Fortnite’s major success as an example of Epic Games’ capabilities....

However, as it turns out, there is actually a UE 4 game currently on the market - one developed by an Epic Games staffer - it’s just not in the form you might expect. In fact, few could have predicted what this first playable UE 4 game would be, which makes it all the more odd. Epic Games has made a Flappy Bird clone using Unreal Engine 4. Titled Tappy Chicken, Epic’s Flappy Bird clone is available for free on both the iOS and Android marketplaces....

The result puts England in pole position to qualify for the World Cup in Qatar, while Poland now sit in fourth place in Group I and are in danger of missing out. England dominated the first half and opened the scoring midway through from a Harry Kane penalty after Raheem Sterling was brought down. At that stage, it looked like it’d be an easy win for Gareth Southgate’s side....