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Afridi, who has been re-appointed the Twenty20 captain, said he was 12 when Pakistan were last crowned World Champions in 1992. “I can vividly remember that it was the holy month of Ramazan and the entire nation was behind the team. People were praying for Pakistan’s success while offering their daily prayers,” Afridi was quoted as saying by The Dawn. Afridi was speaking on the sidelines of a World Cup Trophy tour ceremony at Karachi’s National Stadium on Wednesday....

The English opener finished the BBL campaign as the top scorer with 543 runs, scored at an average of 38.7 and an impressive strike rate of 161.6. Alex Hales’s performance helped Sydney Thunder make the playoffs, but they faltered in the knockout encounter against Brisbane Heat. Nevertheless, the Englishman had a terrific season, and he is expected to be one of the hot properties when the IPL mini-auction takes place on 18th February....

Shane Warne was immortalised in bronze Thursday with a new statue of the legendary Australian cricketer being unveiled outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Almost five years to the day after Warne claimed his 700th Test wicket, the legendary spinner was there to see the marvellous creative work of sculptor Louis Lauman. The 2.5-metre statue recreates his classic action in his heydays. Warne’s fiance Elizabeth Hurley, his children Brooke, Summer and Jackson, her son Damian and his former captain Mark Taylor were among the hundred-odd people present at the unveiling....

Kingsley, who made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut back in 2013’s Iron Man 3 as the notorious Trevor Slattery, was among the stars who came out to celebrate Shang-Chi’s premiere. Initially, it seemed like he was present at the Shang-Chi premiere to show his support towards the project, but as studio executives introduced the actors, Kingsley was officially announced as part of the cast. It seems like Slattery has returned to the MCU....

They’re among the celebrity judges on “America’s Greatest Makers,” a reality TV competition in which inventors pitch what they make with a shot to take $1 million as first prize. The show is airing on TBS, a partner of TNT, where O’Neal and Smith host “Inside the NBA” on Thursday nights. MORE: NBA trade deadline winners and losers “We are looking to come up with the next big thing in wearable tech and smart connected devices,” said producer Mark Burnett, whose many credits include “The Voice,” “Survivor” and “Shark Tank....

Thus, he more than earned his spot as a starter from the Eastern Conference. Shaquille O’Neal, among the most dominant big man the game has ever seen, is usually a tough critic to please especially for the league’s current big men but even he gave the Cameroonian center his due. NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) However, as he heaped praise on Embiid for his All-Star selection, he also gave his opinion on Ben Simmons....

The Yodhas targeted Kamal, a strong contender for gold in next month’s CWG in Gold Coast, Australia, in round 3 of the player draft after first picking their foreign male and female players - world No. 18 Chuang Chih-Yuan of Chinese Taipei and Sofia Polcanova of Austria, the women’s world no. 21. The teams had the option of retaining one Indian player before the draft pick, and defending champions Falcons and Dabang Smashers chose to hold on to Sanil Shetty and Gnanasekaran Sathiyan, India’s top-ranked player at No....

Asian Games bronze medallists A Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra will take on the top-seeded pair of Manav Thakkar and Archana Girish Kamath in an exciting mixed doubles final of the 80th National Table Tennis Championship in Cuttack on Tuesday, 8th January . In the semifinals, second seeded pair of Sharath and Manika defeated third-seeded duo of Sourav Saha and Suthirtha Mukherjee of Haryana 3-1 to set up a clash with Manav and Archana....

The team’s home since September 1993, the venue is officially SAP Center. The new accord runs through at least 2025 and can be extended 15 years. MORE: Sharks’ offseason needs | NHL coaching changes In the meantime, San Jose and the Sharks can dicker over a future home. That issue has been floated, so a 10-year extension allows city and team time to consider options. Now owner Hasso Plattner and GM Doug Wilson can turn to pressing offseason issues....

So thank goodness for Dr. Boris Worm, whose latest study puts the old pro-verb right again, at least in part. Last year Worm wentlooking for “serengetis”– areas of the ocean where large predators might congregate, as they do on the African savannah. And he found them in our own subtropical backyard. According to a report released last week, “hot spots” off the coasts of Florida, Hawaii and Australia are still teeming with turtles, sharks and large open-ocean fish like tuna–almost all of them endangered....

Once upon a time that statement could have been used to describe the relationship between veteran TV producer Darren Star and Candace Bushnell, the author whose book “Sex and the City” lent Star’s hit series its concept. Instead, the statement is the tag line for “Cashmere Mafia,” a new Star-produced series that bowed last month on ABC. “Mafia” is about a quartet of stylish, successful Manhattan girls fighting to prevent their professional lives from encroaching further into their personal lives....

When does Shameless Season 11 start? The premiere of Shameless Season 11, titled, “This Is Chicago!” will air on Showtime on Sunday, December 6 at 9 p.m., after an all-day marathon of the previous season. The official synopsis for the first episode reads, “The Gallaghers adjust to life during the pandemic: Frank fears the loss of the South Side to gentrification, while bar closures force Kev and V to get creative at the Alibi....

One of the game’s biggest personalities, brimming with ego but boasting the quality to back it up, Ramos will end an era in white on Thursday. Whatever explanation Ramos gives at his goodbye press conference, however twisted and taut the relationship between the defender and president Florentino Perez became at times, it does not sour his legend at the club. Neither does the 35-year-old’s last year on the sidelines, even though this quiet farewell is not a fitting end to a blockbuster career in the Spanish capital....

Speaking to the reporters after Real’s 10-2 thrashing of relegation-threatened Rayo Vallecano on Sunday, Ramos said, “If that’s what the president says then he has his reasons. We’re just the pawns here, he’s the king.” “We all support the manager. He tries to bring his own ideas and we try to execute them, every player tries to do it in his own way. It doesn’t always come off, but the least you have to do is give it your all and leave everything on the pitch,” Ramos added....

With more than 17 million views, the video of Nathan Warner, 24, and his dog, Benjamin, captures them walking to the location in London, Ontario, where Warner had been previously attacked. In the video, Benjamin slows down and stops continuing down a path where Warner says they were “traumatized” by the attacker. He rushes to his owner’s side and keeps him from walking further. Watching as his owner struggled with flashbacks and started to cry, Benjamin stayed close by throughout....

Peacock, NBC’s streaming service, has ordered Ted as a live-action comedy series from MacFarlane and his production company, Fuzzy Door Productions. The original Ted film was so popular that it became the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy of all time that was not a sequel or based on other intellectual property. Together, Ted and Ted 2 grossed over $750 million. MacFarlane will executive produce the show alongside Erica Huggins, president of Fuzzy Door....

As I describe in my book, Warp Speed: Inside the Operation That Beat Covid, the Critics, and the Odds, the Biden transition team never showed up for a single in-person briefing between the formal initiation of the presidential transition on November 23, 2020, and Inauguration Day on January 20, 2021. I am perplexed as to how its members would even know whether there was a plan or not. We were told the Biden team members were fearful of potential COVID-19 transmission....

Police say 18- and 19-year-olds were attending a party next door when they entered throughout the front door of the unlocked Coral Gables home last week. Shannon Allen said she woke up and heard male voices with large flashlights loudly discussing their personal property. The terrified mother screamed, the intruders ran and she called police, according to a statement from the couple. The group told police they thought the Allens had moved and wanted to see how a professional basketball player lives....

Symptoms Symptoms of congenital neutropenia generally start shortly after birth. Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell that fight bacterial infections. The severely low neutrophil count that characterizes this condition increases risk of bacterial infections. Fever is also a common symptom, but this is due to the infection, not neutropenia. Birth defects are generally not seen. Symptoms may include: Recurrent feverSore throat (pharyngitis)Inflammation of the gums (gingivitis) Inflamed and sore mouth (stomatitis)Infections in the skin and in other areas of the body...

All right, I overstate. But there was a time when people generally understood that all 6-year-olds are sexual harassers, not to mention opposite-gender bashers, taunts, teases, unpredictable huggers and kissers, sexual chauvinists, softies, thugs, incorrigible lawbreakers, the nicest people in the world and–oh, did I forget?–little kids. The count against young Johnathan Prevette for kissing a little girl on the cheek told you where we have come to in the culture of counterintuitive and bloodless, not to say pointless, rulemaking in our civic life today....