My Instagram followers want to know whether I like veggie chips and how many push-ups I can do in a row. The answer is no and one. On this week’s Why’d You Push That Button, Vox.com’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and I discuss anonymous question-and-answer apps — why do people use them, both to ask and receive questions?
First, I chat with my pal Vanessa about how they use Instagram’s question and answer feature to build community. Then, Kaitlyn chats with a minor Tumblr celebrity, Klaudia, about how she handles questions she’s asked and how she guides the youth of today through their lives. And finally, I interview Janis Grivins, the COO of Ask.fm, about why people ask anonymous questions and what purpose a masked identity can serve.
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Dronacharya awardee cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar, who is credited with shaping the early career of Sachin Tendulkar, died on Wednesday.
South African captain Faf du Plessis said on Wednesday that fast bowler Duanne Olivier would be used in an "enforcer" role as part of a pace barrage in the second Test against Pakistan starting at Newlands on Thursday.
The penultimate and eighth round of the Ranji Trophy 2018-19 season came to an end on Wednesday with Karnataka inching closer to the quarterfinals while Delhi now out of the race following Mumbai. Here are the major takeaways after Day Four:
11 Lucky winners, whose choice matches that of Anil Kumble’s, now have the chance to fly to New Zealand to watch India play New Zealand in the third T20I at Hamilton on March 10. So, the Moment is here! Have a look at Anil Kumble’s choices for his Army!
The upcoming Sydney Test between India and Australia holds a lot of significance, not only from the point-of-view of the series, but also because it will be 11th ‘Pink Test’.
The India vs Australia Live Streaming will start at 5AM on December 26 (Wednesday). The match can be seen live on the Sony Network and will be available on SonyLiv. You can also follow our live blog for detailed updates and analysis on CricketNext.
With the World Cup just four months down the line, teams all over will now start getting into the One-Day mode in a bid to finalise their lineup for the quadrennial event. Sri Lanka and New Zealand are the first two teams to kickstart the new year with a three-match ODI series, the first of which will be played at Mount Maunganui on Thursday.
Disgraced former captain Salman Butt has claimed that Shahid Afridi blocked his return to the Pakistan team for the 2016 World T20 despite him serving the five-year ban following the 2010 spot-fixing scandal.
The latest round of uncertainty emerged in Sydney on the eve of the final Test against Australia with India’s media spokesperson opening Virat Kohli’s press conference by stating that R Ashwin had not recovered fully from his abdominal strain before providing an update two hours later that he was in the thirteen,
Test skipper Tim Paine urged Australia's public to give Steve Smith and David Warner a second chance, saying he hoped "they're welcomed back" into the national team.
India’s pace bowling attack has been very good for some time now. Before this year their four-man arsenal of Ishant Sharma, Mohammad Shami, Umesh Yadav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar—playing far more than a supporting role to Ravi Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja—had been instrumental in India’s rise to the top of the Test rankings. Between 2016 and the end of 2017, despite India playing all of their 23 Tests in Asia and the Caribbean—the least hospitable conditions for fast bowling—only South Africa’s quicks had a lower bowling average than India’s 29.18 in that period.
Former India opener Sunil Gavaskar is set to miss handing over the Border-Gavaskar Trophy to skipper Virat Kohli at the end of the fourth Test at the SCG
New Zealand have put a line under their Test series win over Sri Lanka and switched to World Cup mode with the first of three One-Day Internationals in Tauranga
South Africa and Pakistan must resolve selection headaches ahead of the second Test starting at Newlands on Thursday.
Amla just managed to score 510 runs in 2018 at a meagre average of 26.84. Amongst the 55 batsmen who at least scored 300 Test runs in the year, Amla’s average places him at Number 40 – that is how bad it has been for the South African batsman this year.
India's ace spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on Wednesday was ruled out of the final Test against Australia on what is expected to be turning wicket at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Forty four days after the record-breaking effort at Karachi, Gavaskar was at it again.
