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What’s the story? The Pakistan Cricket team, who are currently ranked 8th in the latest ICC rankings will have their task cut out over the next year or so as they might be in danger of not qualifying for the ICC World Cup which is to be held in England in 2019. Extra Cover: Warner reaches top spot, Pandya-Jadhav take massive leaps in latest ICC ODI rankings Coming off a 4-1 defeat to the Australian cricket team, the Pakistanis are currently at 8th on the table with 89 points, which is two behind Bangladesh and 3 ahead of West Indies....

Akmal was initially drafted into Pakistan’s squad for the ICC Champions Trophy that was hosted by England last month, but recurrent failures in the pre-tournament fitness tests forced him out of the team. He missed the West Indies tour earlier this year for the same reason. The PCB not filing a central contract for him is a clear message to the 27-year-old. He has not only had fitness problems, but disciplinary issues as well....

He debuted at the age of 26, and went on to play 22 Tests, 31 ODIs and 8 T20Is between 2006 and 2014. He first shot to fame back in 1999, with eye-catching performances for the U-19 side. “It’s a very difficult decision to retire from international cricket and I take it with a heavy heart,” Rehman announced. His breakthrough moment came against England when he snapped as many as 19 wickets during Pakistan’s 3-0 sweep in 2012, in the UAE....

The first contest was quite close with Pakistan winning it by just 2 runs. With 149 to chase, Colin Munro made a brilliant 58 while Ross Taylor played a handy inning of 42* but their efforts went in vain as New Zealand fell short by 2 runs. The win in the second match was more convincing than the previous one for Pakistan. New Zealand made 153/7 in 20 overs batting first....

Lady Susan Hussey, a lady in waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth II and godmother to Prince William, met with Ngozi Fulani, a co-founder of the women’s domestic abuse charity Sistah Space, in a private meeting at Buckingham Palace on Friday. On November 29, Fulani took to social media to recount how, at a palace event to raise awareness for violence against women, Hussey instigated a racist exchange during which she asked “which part of Africa” she was from....

The Duchess of Sussex was accused of bullying two PAs out of the royal household in an October 2018 email that was leaked to the media days before her March 2021 Oprah Winfrey interview. She has consistently denied the allegations. Buckingham Palace launched a review of how the accusations were handled, conducted by an outside law firm, but more than a year later has announced that nothing will be published....

The 34-year-old quarterback agreed to a three-year, $50 million contract extension with Arizona on Friday, according to CBSSports’ Jason La Canfora. Official terms are not yet disclosed. Palmer, midway through his third season in Arizona after an eight-year stint in Cincinnati and a sandwiched, two-year stay in Oakland, is averaging a career-high 277 passing yards per game in 2014. The 2003 first overall draft pick missed three games this season with a bad nerve in his shoulder but picked up right where he left off, and the Cardinals sit at an NFL-best 7-1....

NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport reported that the Panthers believe Darnold suffered a high ankle sprain and that he’ll undergo an MRI Saturday to determine if there is further damage. Darnold was recently named the backup to Baker Mayfield in Carolina, which means the Panthers’ No. 2 quarterback in Week 1 could be P.J. Walker. Rookie Matt Corral (foot) is out for the season. QB depth could soon become a serious issue....

Unfortunately for Gano, the Bethune-Cookman band was performing its halftime routine, and the kicker’s practice was impeded to the point where Gano tried to move one of the trombonists out of the way. MORE: Week 1 photos | Brown’s karate kick | Bucs’ ugly interception On Monday afternoon, Gano took to Twitter to let everyone know that there were no hard feeling between him and Marquel Ballard, the trombonist he attempted to move out of his path....

Full credit goes to the Panthers, of course, for taking care of business and rebounding from blowing a four-touchdown lead to win on Graham Gano’s 43-yard field goal at the buzzer. But the Giants’ failure to complete the comeback really was the difference between a team that is two wins from the second 16-0 season in NFL history and one on the brink of elimination from the playoffs at 6-8....

And that’s perfectly OK. The Panthers quarterback said during Monday’s Super Bowl 50 Opening Night that anyone who doesn’t like his exuberant celebrations on the football field will just have to get used to it. MORE: Best photos from Super Bowl Opening Night | The hypocrisy of Cam’s critics “I don’t plan on changing,” Newton said at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. “I’m not hurting their feelings. I’m not doing anything to break their bones....

Benjamin, who left the Panthers for the Buffalo Bills, criticised star quarterback Newton following his departure from Carolina. After telling The Athletic he was a “bad fit” in Carolina, Benjamin said he would have been better if he played with a quarterback who knew “how to place a ball and give you a better chance to catch the ball”. Olsen addressed Benjamin’s comments when he met with reporters on Sunday....

This week has already borne witness to a 20 year old Super Mario 64 secret, so we have to imagine the plumber must be hiding a few secrets in many of his other titles, too. We have little doubt the upcoming open world Mario title (rumored) would provide ample space for such things, but for now let’s take a gander at the 16-year-old messages below: [HTML1] Stryder7x explained that he found the secret Paper Mario messages by going out of bounds using the game’s infamous ’log skip’ glitch, which also requires that players perform another glitch called the ‘Rowf clip’....

It combines both futuristic and retro technology with the nature that seems to inspire Slavic myth. After the death of his mother, Szymon is on the lookout for the man pictured next to his mother in a photo, hoping the bunker will hold some of the answers he seeks. Instead, the young boy stumbles upon something otherworldly and an even bigger mystery than that of the man in the photo....

While Victoria 3 is without a doubt a grand strategy game, Paradox prefers to refer to it as a society simulator. Its currencies are the needs and desires of national populations, dealing with diplomatic, economic, military, political, and technological aspects of a historical state. Balancing everything at once while striving toward the future is the player’s goal in Victoria 3, but as history shows that’s no simple matter – even if it’s just a simulation of the real thing....

The Best Windows-on-Mac Experience Parallels Desktop 16.5 boasts native support for new Apple Silicon Macs, alongside their Intel predecessors. It makes it possible to run Windows 10 ARM Insider Preview and applications on a Mac with impressively fast performance. It can also be used to deliver M1 support for ARM-based Linux distributions. The software upgrade boasts 30% superior overall virtual machine performance running the ARM-based version of Windows 10 on an M1 Mac, compared to a Windows 10 VM on an Intel-based MacBook Pro....

The IPC announced the decision to suspend the Russian Paralympic Committee in Rio, saying that Russia’s Paralympians were part of a broken system that stems from the Russian government. (Reporting by Jack Stubbs; Editing by Mitch Phillips) 0 votes

The cost of its annual plans have been cut in half. In the UK, this brings the price down to £34.95 per year rather than the standard price of £69.90. In the US, you’ll pay just $24.95 for the ad-supported tier, or $49.95 for the ad-free one. These usually cost $49.99 per year and $99.99 per year respectively. With this subscription at 50% off, you’ll have affordable and first streaming access to the biggest film of this year – Top Gun: Maverick – which hits Paramount+ on 22 December in the UK – and is expected to land on the US site around a similar time....

In order to start hyping up the change and get people talking about Paramount Plus, the service’s Twitter account made a long Tweet thread going into some detail about upcoming shows and films that viewers can look forward to watching on the platform. Some of the announcements were already known, such as the Spongebob Squarepants prequel series, but the service also had some interesting acquisitions for those who don’t care about original content....