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Xbox Series X Gameplay Reveal: Trailers of All 13 Titles 'Optimised for Series X'

While the Xbox Series X gameplay reveal did have crowdpullers in the likes of Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Madden NFL 21 and Scorn, many clearly expected more.




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Samsung Patent Reveals a Smartphone That Has a 'Status Indicator' On the Selfie Camera

According to reports, the status indicator around the camera is in various shapes like square, ovaloid, and even circular.




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Hackers Are Targetting Online Educational Portals More Than Ever

Hackers are taking advantage of the current situation when people are locked down in their homes and are heavily reliant on digital resources.




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WeChat Allegedly Surveilled Foreign Users To Refine Censorship At Home: Report

WeChat developer Tencent, however, downplayed the report saying all content shared among international users is private and not used surveillance purposes.




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Cricket Australia Looking for Temporary Jobs for Stood-down Staff at Supermarket

Cricket Australias staff, which has been stood down amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, could find new jobs stacking supermarket shelves in the coming days




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Josh Hazlewood Picks Adelaide Oval as Venue if Entire India Series is Held at One Stadium

A financially-weakened CA is desperate to host India to save the broadcast revenue from the contest.




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Shakib Al Hasan Auctions 'Favourite' Bat Used in World Cup 2019 to Help Fight against Coronavirus

The 33-year-old all-rounder had a hugely successful World Cup in England last year, scoring 606 runs in eight matches at an average of 86.57, which included two centuries and five fifties.




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Playing James Anderson in England Has Been 'Really Challenging': Ajinkya Rahane

Rahane, who has amassed over 4000 runs in Test cricket and has a century in England, the West Indies apart from India, emphasised on the need to be mentally fit during the coronavirus-forced lockdown period.




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England Players Were Jealous of Pietersen's 'Massive' IPL Deal: Vaughan

Michael Vaughan has revealed that many former England players were jealous of Kevin Pietersen after the latter bagged a huge contract with the Indian Premier League (IPL).




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Ball Shining with Spit, Celebrations During Games Set to Change Post Coronavirus: Sachin Tendulkar

But with increased focus on social distancing and personal hygiene to contain the spread of the virus, the sport stares at a changing landscape.




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After Coronavirus, Legalisation of Ball-tampering Could be Considered - Report

Following the chief executives meeting of the ICC on Thursday, its medical committee, headed by Peter Harcourt, had issued an update.




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Umpires' Group Starts Distributing Food to Help Local Scorers, Groundsmen hit by Lockdown

The COVID-19 pandemic has so far claimed over 700 lives and infected more than 23,000 people in the country.




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Pakistan Cricket Legend Sana Mir Calls it a Day

Sana Mir on Saturday called it a day, bringing to an end a glittering 15-year cricketing career during which she played 226 internationals, including 137 as captain from 2009 to 2017.




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Too Early to Talk About Playing Five Tests in Australia: BCCI Official

The outbreak of the coronavirus has seen the Australian government seal the international boundaries till September 30. But Cricket Australia is not only keen to conduct the T20 World Cup in October, but also have India travel Down Under for the bilateral series at the end of the year.




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Jofra Archer Reveals He's Lost his World Cup Medal

England fast bowler Jofra Archer said Saturday he'd "gone mad" looking for his World Cup winner's medal after losing the prized piece of silverware while moving house.




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Legalising Ball Tampering: Saliva is Must and Vaseline is no Replacement, Feel Nehra, Harbhajan

Nehra then gave the example of Englishman Lever who created a furore during his team's 1976 tour of India by applying vaseline during a Test match.




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Cheteshwar Pujara is Just Ultra Concentration All Day, Every Day: Pat Cummins

Hazlewood even said that he might consider Mankading Pujara the next time the two sides face each other in a Test series.




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Yuvraj Singh Recalls When He Almost Finished Stuart Broad's Career

He revealed Broad senior asked him for a signed jersey for 'almost' finishing his son's career.




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Youngsters Today Try to be What They are Not on Social Media: Yuvraj

He was a fearless batsman during his time. Now after calling time on his illustrious career, Yuvraj Singh has remained the same, calling a spade a spade.




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Ashwin Remembers IPL 2010's Harsh Reality Check, Says It Was Like a 'Hard Slap'

Ashwin recalled the 2010 IPL when he was dropped from the CSK squad after two bad games, which was like a "hard slap", more so because he felt that coach Stephen Fleming "didn't talk to him" and he was not backed enough.




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Australia Players Won't be Greedy if Asked to take Pay Cut: Tim Paine

Cricket Australia might lose a staggering AUD 300 million dollars if the Indian team fails to turn up for the bilateral series due to the global health crisis.




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Salim Malik Ready to Work with ICC, PCB for their Clean Chit

Though Malik had his life ban lifted in 2008 by a lower district and sessions court, the PCB has not allowed him back into its fold.




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Pakistan's Umar Akmal Banned for Three Years After Failing to Report Spot-fixing Approaches

Umar, who turns 30 next month, pleaded guilty to not reporting the fixing offers which led to his provisional suspension on February 20 this year.




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Ian Smith Honoured with Bert Sutcliffe Medal by NZC

Former New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman and commentator Ian Smith has been presented with the Bert Sutcliffe medal by New Zealand Cricket for "outstanding services to cricket".




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Ashwin, Maharaj & Pooran Mutually Cancel Yorkshire Contracts

The Yorkshire County Cricket Club in a statement on their official website said on Monday that the contracts of R. Ashwin, Keshav Maharaj and Nicholas Pooran have been cancelled by mutual consent.




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Not Just IPL, Coronavirus has Adverse Implications on Grassroots and Informal Sectors of Cricket too

The impact of COVID-19 on the cricket ecosystem - structured and unstructured - at the grassroots has slipped under the radar




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So, Umar Akmal Officially Makes it to the List of Idiots: Ramiz Raja

Former Pakistan cricketer Ramiz Raja has welcomed PCBs decision to ban Umar Akmal on corruption charges, saying the batsman has officially made it to the "list of idiots" and that people like him should be put in jail.




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Chris Lynn Says T20 World Cup a "Logistical Nightmare" Amid Pandemic

Players are expected to be hit with pay cuts when CA releases their annual list of national contracts this week, having already postponed them by a month.




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Saeed Ajmal 'Even Today' Thinks Sachin Tendulkar Got Lucky in 2011 World Cup Semi-final

Ajmal said Gould was upset after his decision was overturned by the third umpire.




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Umar Akmal Will Definitely Challenge 'Harsh' Three-year Ban, Says Brother Kamran

Akmal was referring to Mohammad Irfan and Mohammad Nawaz who were banned for short periods after not reporting approaches made to them.




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Mike Hesson Returns to New Zealand After Being Stranded in India Due to Coronavirus

He also thanked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the New Zealand Embassy in India, New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.




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Chris Gayle Calls Former Teammate Ramnaresh Sarwan 'Worse Than Coronavirus'

The opener claimed that Sarwan wanted to take control of the franchise and that is why he engineered Gayle's ouster from the team.




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Have Been Sledged for Looking Like Ellen DeGeneres, Reveals Joe Root

England Test captain Joe Root has revealed that he has faced a variety of sledges in his cricketing career, including comparison with American comedian and chat show host Ellen DeGeneres for his looks.




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Imran Nazir More Talented Than Sehwag But Didn't Have Brain Like Him: Akhtar

Former Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar has claimed that Imran Nazir was a more talented batsman in comparison to Virender Sehwag but he didn't have the brain which the explosive Indian opener had.




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David Warner Casts Fresh Doubts over Australia's UK Tour in July

Australia are scheduled to take on Scotland in a T20 on 29 June before playing three T20s and three ODIs against world champions England from 3 July.




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Cricket South Africa Want AB de Villiers to Captain National Side Once Again

De Villiers, an explosive batsman, announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket in May 2018 but of late there have been talks of an imminent return in the national team.




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VVS Laxman Recalls Incident When Sachin Tendulkar Locked Himself in Physio's Room

Laxman recollected the memories of the famous 1998 Test match between India and Australia played at the MA Chidambaram Stadium.




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BCCI Yet to Take Call on Contract Extension of Ombudsman DK Jain

Justice Jain was appointed as Ombudsman cum Ethics Officer in February, 2019 and now it is up to the BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah to offer him an extension.




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No Indian Cricketer in Dale Steyn's Best XI, School Bowling Partner Included

Australia's Lee, former South African spinner Paul Harris and Proteas fast bowling great Allan Donald made up the bowling department.




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Moeen Ali Wants The Hundred to be Postponed Due to Coronavirus

The flagship tournament, which the ECB expects can match the global popularity of that of the Indian Premier League and the Big Bash League, could add to the long list of events being put on hold due to the pandemic.




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PCB Legal Advisor Initiates Defamation, Criminal Proceedings Against Shoaib Akhtar

Pakistan Cricket Board legal advisor Tafazzul Rizvi has filed a criminal and defamation suit against former fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar for his alleged inappropriate comments on his Youtube channel.




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Scotland Willing to Host Australia, New Zealand Series Behind Closed Doors

Cricket Scotland said that it is willing to host their scheduled matches against New Zealand and Australia behind closed doors. Both teams are scheduled to visit the associate nation for a brief series in June and the matches are yet to be postponed.




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Marnus Labuschagne Earns CA Central Contract, Khawaja Misses Out

Cricket Australia (CA) on Thursday announced the list of 20 male players to be awarded national contracts for 2020-21, in which the name of left-handed batsman Usman Khawaja was missing. It is for the first time in five years that Khawaja has missed out on a central contract.




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Kane Williamson Named ODI Player of the Year at New Zealand Cricket's Awards

Williamson had a hugely successful year, both individually and with the New Zealand team, which he led to the World Cup final.




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Part of Umar Akmal's Three-year Ban Could be Suspended, According to PCB

Umar has the right to appeal against the panel decision 14 days after he gets a copy of the detailed judgement. His appeal will be heard by an independent adjudicator to be appointed by the board.




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Australia's David Warner Against Legalisation of Ball-tampering

Earlier, West Indies great Michael Holding had also questioned the suggestions of legalising ball-tampering as a precautionary measure in the wake of coronavirus pandemic.




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Jamaica Tallawahs 'Weirdest' T20 Franchise I Have Ever Played With: Andre Russell

Earlier, Gayle had alleged that Sarwan created differences between him and the franchise and that is why he wasn't retained by the CPL side




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Rajasthan Royals Launches Fundraiser for Coronavirus Pandemic Relief

Royals have already contributed funds to supply 100,000 meals to underprivileged women in Rajasthan.




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Cheteshwar Pujara and Ashwin Discuss Where Australia Lost 2017 Test Series

In the first Test, India had to face a humiliating 333-run defeat in Pune and were already on the backfoot.




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Ross Taylor Wins New Zealand Cricket's Player of the Year Award for Third Time

The presentation was made by Hadlee on Friday, on the final day of New Zealand Cricket’s virtual awards ceremony.