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The Lakers have had a miserable start to the season, losing five out of the eleven games they have played to occupy eighth place in the Western Conference at the moment. The Heat, on the other hand, have come out all guns blazing and sit on top of the Eastern Conference after winning seven out of the ten games they have played. Anthony Davis has been substandard for the Lakers compared to his usually high standards and has not put up the mind numbing numbers that we are used to seeing him put up....

However, Chahal not being targeted by the new franchises at the moment gives Bangalore another shot at getting their most dependable and long-time spinners back. The tweaker has been part of the RCB ranks since 2014 and has been an integral player in the side, picking up 139 wickets at an average of 22.28. Chahal was Virat Kohli’s go-to bowler and the leggie has always delivered. Ahead of the IPL 2022 auction, we take a look at three reasons why Chahal must be re-acquired by Bangalore....

After retaining the trio of Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler and Yashasvi Jaiswal, RR focused on acquiring Indian talent at the IPL 2022 auction. They were successful in that regard and signed a few key overseas players towards the end of the auction as well. RR’s squad for IPL 2022: Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Devdutt Padikkal, Shimron Hetmyer, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal, Riyan Parag, KC Cariappa, Navdeep Saini, Obed McCoy, Anunay Singh, Kuldeep Sen, Karun Nair, Dhruv Jurel, Tejas Baroka, Kuldip Yadav, Shubham Garhwal, James Neesham, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rassie van der Dussen, Daryl Mitchell...

In a video posted by RR on their Twitter handle, Kumar Sangakkara was seen receiving a grand welcome at the Royals Academy. A masked up Sangakkara was given a traditional welcome at the Academy before he checked into his room. Sangakkara also caught up with Zubin Bharucha, Head of Cricket at RR and Jake Lush McCrum, the CEO of the franchise. Take a look at the video posted by RR below:...

A brilliant last over from Cooper, where he conceded three runs and picked up two wickets, eventually sealed the game for Rajasthan Royals by 5 runs against Daredevils. Delhi Daredevils required 9 runs from the last over with 6 wickets in hand, but managed only three runs in the last over from Cooper. Daredevils’ chase was led by David Warner, who played an outstanding innings of 77, which helped Delhi inch closer towards Royals total of 165....

Kolkata Knight Riders raised a lot of eyebrows by releasing the trio of Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla and Chris Lynn. Besides, Royal Challengers Bangalore surprised as well by releasing 12 players from their previous season’s squad. Apart from that, there were also a few players whom the franchises released because they were not eligible to take part in IPL 2020. Some players have also opted out of the event because of personal reasons....

Many teams released a noticeable amount of players ahead of the auction, opting to go for a revamp. With many big names set to go under the hammer, a lot of big bids can be expected. In the past, bowlers have attracted higher bids than batsmen. In last season’s auction, Jaydev Unadkat and Varun Chakravarthy were the most expensive players, bought for ₹8.4 crore each. With bowling becoming increasingly important in T20 cricket, we can expect that trend to continue....

It’s a no brainer that with 692 runs from 12 games, SRH is certainly going to miss the services of Warner at the top of the innings. Not only SRH and their fans, but even the IPL will also miss out on seeing the Warner-Bairstow combination for the remainder of the tournament. But with the World Cup coming up, players have their priorities set and SRH would have to make do without them....

In fact, RCB and KKR played the first ever match in the history of the IPL at this stadium in 2008. Chris Gayle of RCB has won the most number of Player of the Match awards in matches between these two teams at this venue. On that note, let us now take a look at some of the key stats from RCB vs KKR matches in this stadium. Batting performances 222/3 scored by KKR in IPL 2008 is the highest team total in RCB vs KKR matches at the Chinnaswamy Stadium....

The result of the very first match between these two teams played at this ground in 2013 was decided by a Super Over, which SRH won. That remains the only match between these two teams at this venue to go to a Super Over till date. David Warner of SRH has won two Player of the Match awards, which is the most by any player in SRH vs RCB matches at this venue....

Ecstatic to see their home team take on the Punjab squad, fans of the Knights went wild to see the popular onscreen star-pair of the 2004 romantic drama “Veer-Zaara” cheer their respective teams on. Shahrukh took to the microblogging site earlier in the day and set the tone for the team. “The goal is set & our mission is true. The Knights will fight in sun or rain. Oh Kolkata we will always come for u....

The Indian Aces, led by former top-10 player Thomas Enqvist, took a convincing win today over the hosts, Japan Royals, with the Aces winning by a significant 30-17 margin. The results from their first faceoff: Women’s Singles: Former top-20 player Kirsten Flipkens took on young Japanese player Kurumi Nara in the first tie of the afternoon, beating her 6-2. Nara, who last year had a strong season, has seen flagging form since, and proved not to be enough of a match for her older Belgian rival....

The 11-day battle between the Israel Defense Forces and a Gaza-based coalition of forces led primarily by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad came to a cautious close on Thursday, as both sides accepted a truce mediated by Egypt. They have since hailed what they saw as victories throughout the brief but bloody war that marked the worst violence between the sides in years. As the international community watched on, one country in particular has cheered on the Palestinian campaign viewed as part of an “Axis of Resistance” spanning across the Middle East....

The reality, senior DOD officials assert, is that when Pentagon experts Harold Rhode and Larry Franklin met with a handful of Iranians in Italy more than a year ago–the Iranians had offered, through an American intermediary, to give the United States information on terrorism–the DOD pair were startled to find Ghorbanifar there and argued against his remaining. (The CIA once labeled Ghorbanifar “an intelligence fabricator and nuisance.”) Then, one of the DOD pair “ran into” Ghorbanifar again in Paris this summer....

Pompeo tweeted Tuesday that Iran would be able to buy Russian and Chinese military aircraft if the embargo expires in October. The secretary of state shared a graphic showing the ranges of the Russian Su-30 and Chinese J-10 fighters—which Pompeo described as “highly lethal”—claiming they could put Europe and Asia “in Iran’s crosshairs.” Pompeo’s graphic showed that a future Iranian J-10 could reach any nation in the Middle East and fly as far as the edge of Europe, while an Su-30 could reach as far as Germany, Italy and Sweden....

Iranian Information and Communications Technology Minister Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi told the country’s official parliamentary news service, the Islamic Consultative Assembly News Agency, that “the internet has not been disrupted, but service providers were instructed to cut it off by the National Security Council.” During the past three days, reports have emerged of an internet blackout in the Islamic Republic, which is currently experiencing large protests over the government’s fuel subsidies cuts that have hiked prices for consumers....

Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi said Thursday his forces were considering building a nuclear-powered submarine and that the Iranian Defense Ministry already had the capability to manufacture an underwater vessel larger than the cruise missile-armed, semi-heavy Fateh-class submarine unveiled last year. While Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has forbidden by Islamic law the production of nuclear bombs, Khanzadi said nuclear propulsion—a technology Iran had yet to demonstrate—would be necessary to defend and deter against potential adversaries like the United States....

Major General Hossein Salami, commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard, unveiled the system, which involves a complex, apparently underground series of rails to rapidly transport, fuel and fire off consecutive missiles. He issued a warning to foreign adversaries. “Our enemies are facing a decline in power, and with each passing day, the slope of this decline is accelerating,” Salami said, “but the enemy’s threats still remain.” As such, he argued, the Iranian armed forces “must be very careful and vigilant and increase our talent, capacity, defense and deterrence”—areas in which the latest missile system could help....

Reports emerged Tuesday of rocket fire and explosions near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, spreading speculation of yet another attack targeting U.S. and allied personnel tasked with battling the hardline Sunni Islamic State militant group (ISIS) and who are also facing a growing resistance campaign from Shiite Muslim militias. Coalition spokesperson Colonel Myles B. Caggins III said the “Iraqis are investigating the explosions in Baghdad,” but denied foreign personnel were targeted....

Iron Harvest features an evocative, post-Great War aesthetic that blends alternate-history mechs with agricultural Europe circa the 1920s. Early impressions of the title have been favorable, and if Iron Harvest delivers on the promise of its associated properties, it could provide a breath of fresh air to a genre that has suffered a long drought. Though it could see competition from the recently announced strategy title, Manor Lords, by developer Slavic Magic....