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Yet if England are to contest equally against a Switzerland side inspired by the mercurial powers of Munich’s Xherdan Shaqiri in Basel on Monday, the urgent need for a drastic improvement in performances is indisputable. England were largely conservative, failing to put the speed and direct style of Raheem Sterling and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain into efficient effect. Positives for Hodgson Yet Hodgson emerged with a plethora of positives ahead of England’s most arduous fixture on their road to Paris....

LENS, France (Reuters) - England coach Roy Hodgson, basking in a 2-1 victory over Wales on Thursday clinched by goals from two substitutes, said fringe players would be a major factor at Euro 2016. Gareth Bale put Wales in front before Jamie Vardy and Daniel Sturridge replied, the latter in stoppage time, after both came on in the second half. Hodgson said it was hard to remember if he had made a better double substitution in his 40-year career....

Anderson and Broad had respective second-innings figures of 4-23 and 4-44, while Chris Woakes, who made a century with the bat, claimed the other two dismissals as India were dismissed for 130 in their second innings to fall to a heavy loss. Anderson went past 100 Test wickets at Lord’s and Broad’s figures moved him into the top 10 leading wicket-takers in Test cricket, and England can now wrap up the series with a victory in the third Test when it begins next Saturday....

Four years ago in Canada the Lionesses were one of the competition’s surprise packages, beating Norway and the hosts in the knockout phase before being eliminated when Laura Bassett scored a stoppage-time own goal against Japan in the last four. Phil Neville’s class of 2019 have returned to that stage in France and meet the United States, the defending champions and tournament favourites, in Lyon on Tuesday. Here we crunch the Opta numbers on Mark Sampson’s 2015 team and Neville’s squad to show how England have been considerably better at both ends of the pitch in 2019....

Alastair Cook and Haseeb Hameed’s approach on the fourth day was not eye-catching, but more like Michael Atherton’s defiant resistance in the fourth innings at Johannesburg against the likes of Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock in 1995 on a testing track. Such a ploy never ensures entertainment, but guarantees saving Test matches. Cook and Hameed concentrated on leaving and blocking the ball to weather the storm, but their brief resistance was cut short at the last moment of the fourth day....

Sans Virat Kohli, the Indian team seems to be too weak to counter the English bowling line-up. If India wants to make a comeback in the series, batsmen would have to take the responsibility and bat around Kohli which will provide him the much-needed support out there in the middle. With Pujara being left out in the first Test, India lacked a batsman who could counter the swing and play as per the merit with minimal risks taken....

The instance exactly took place during the 29th over of the Indian innings, when Anderson made an LBW appeal against the Indian skipper, Virat Kohli. After the on-field umpire, Kumar Dharmasena gave his decision as not out, Anderson reviewed his decision but there was no change made to it. Subsequently, at the end of that over, Anderson spoke to Dharmasena in an aggressive manner after snatching his cap and jumper....

The hosts led 24-6 at half-time and piled on the points in the second, with the Brave Blossoms having simply no answer to England’s electric attack as the hosts crossed four more times, once via a penalty try, either side of Naoto Saito’s consolation. England flew straight out of the blocks in the first half, with two early penalties followed up by the opening try, which Freddie Steward glided his hulking frame through the defensive line to score....

So, without further ado, let’s get started applying a few tweaks & changes to breathe life into your Android device. 10 Tricks & Hacks To Get Fastest Android Performance We have listed some amazing tips that improve overall phone performance. Though there’s an app for almost every task, Smart Phone Cleaner features a fantastic set of modules to speed up phone & boost RAM. But you can always go for the manual methods to deal with the lagging issues....

Enter the Gungeon launched in April 2016 as a console exclusive on PlayStation 4, but also became available on PC. Its exclusivity deal must have been for a year, as it then came to Xbox One in April 2017. Bringing the game to the Nintendo Switch seems to be more of a development challenge than an exclusivity issue, though, so there’s also a chance that the problem relates to Nintendo’s licensing and approval process....

Global warming is Exxon’s fault? The Stop Esso campaign, a coproduction of Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, doesn’t go that far. But it assigns Exxon part of the blame for the decision by U.S. President George W. Bush not to sign the 1997 Kyoto agreement on global warming, which called on industrialized nations to reduce their carbon-dioxide emissions to 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. Exxon has run advertisements criticizing the Kyoto accord, and the Stop Esso campaign says people connected to the company contributed more than $1 million to Bush’s Republicans during American elections last year....

Antonio Arredondo and his brother Diego shared an epic round in the “Keep-up Balloon League” that has been viewed more than 6 million times on TikTok as of Friday. Antonio, 21, Diego, 18, and their sister Isabel, 15, have been playing the game, a spin on the traditional game “Keep it Up,” since January 2019, when Antonio shared the first highlight clip on Twitter. The goal is to keep the balloon off the ground while making it harder for his/her opponent to do so without any spikes, double touches or light taps....

Every day since December 15, Epic Games Store users have been able to log in and claim a new game for their collection. These games have ranged in genre and scope quite significantly. For example, the first Epic Games Store free mystery game given away as part of this year’s promotion was tower defense game Bloons TD 6, which is pretty obscure. However, Epic Games Store users have also been treated to bigger games, like Metro: Last Light and three old-school Fallout games....

After all, until June 30, fans can claim two game-mechanic heavy games–A Game of Thrones: The Board Game Digital Edition and Car Mechanic Simulator 2018. They’ll be replaced on June 30 at 10 am CT with two games, while those for July 7 will also be announced. The Epic Games Store free games for June 30 are Geneforge 1: Mutagen and Iratus: Lord of the Dead. RELATED: Epic Games Store Update Adds New Feature...

By Nikhil Bapat Mumbai, Mar 30 (PTI) Entering the final on the back of some dominating performances, Australia will fancy their chances when they take on England in the title clash of the women’s T20 tri-series here tomorrow. The task gets even more difficult for England as they are coming off back-to-back reverses. England had started their campaign with two successive wins, which also included the highest chase in T20 internationals against India, but their batters have miserably failed in the previous two matches....

The Nikolskaya street near the Kremlin, elaborately decorated with hanging lights, has been the main gathering point for fans in the Russian capital. A few dozen England fans were there on Tuesday afternoon, with those singing team songs heavily outnumbered by passers-by filming them on phones. Kevin Miles of the Football Supporters Federation expects between 5,000 and 7,000 fans for Wednesday’s semifinal between England and Croatia, but admits “a lot of people are doing it last minute, so it’s very difficult to put numbers on it....

England, under pressure to reach the semi-finals following a stunning defeat to Sri Lanka, won the toss and elected to field, sensing the pitch would produce seam movement amid hot but overcast conditions. That suspicion proved correct as Chris Woakes in particular generated consistent swing but England struggled to find reward, and Finch survived an lbw review that ball tracking ruled umpire’s call. It was a reprieve that proved key as Finch and Warner warmed to their task and put on 123 for the first wicket - the latter having been booed by the home fans upon reaching his 50....

England’s record wicket-taker in Test cricket was barely involved with the ball after lunch on day five of the second Test against South Africa in Cape Town. The tourists won by 189 runs, with Ben Stokes stepping up to take the last three wickets in dramatic fashion. Also see – India vs Australia schedule Concern over an apparent side strain for 37-year-old Anderson was expressed once the match was over, and Giles said on Wednesday morning: “Jimmy will have to have a scan today which we’ve got all fingers crossed for....

An unchanged 13-member squad indicates that Stuart Broad, who suffered a nasty blow to his nose on the third day of the last Test will be fit to take the field for the decider. The Nottingham-born was at the reveiving end of a telling blow from Varun Aaron. A short pitch delivery at a good pace climbed up to sneak past between the batsman’s grille and the peak of his helmet to hit him on his nose....