After earning a surprise call up to the Australian Test side to face Sri Lanka, 20-year old Will Pucovski has said that he “feels in a really place” after fighting through his battles with mental health issues.
With the series won, let’s look back at the moments that titled the tide in favour of the Indians over the four Test match series.
If it wasn’t the career of a man in the prime of his cricketing life being discussed, this would be funny. Instead, it is laughable.
The Indian wicketkeeper-batsman's picture on Twitter on Tuesday was met with a rather amusing reaction from his teammate Rohit Sharma.
Inside Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg’s annual tradition of setting a personal challenge has been viewed as one of the company’s best public-relations opportunities of the year. Long before Facebook was under rigorous scrutiny for the unintended consequences of its growth, the personal challenge afforded Facebook with a chance to spin up a positive news cycle around its young billionaire founder and his efforts to learn Mandarin, eat only meat from animals he slaughtered himself, and so on.
This strategy arguably peaked in 2016, when Zuckerberg announced his personal challenge for the year would be to build an artificial intelligence to control his smart home. The challenge, which came at a time when Facebook was aggressively promoting its AI...
Dean Elgar has been appointed stand-in captain for the third and final Test against Pakistan at Wanderers Stadium, Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced on Wednesday (January 9). Uncapped batsman Pieter Malan has also been drafted in for the Test as standby for Aiden Markram.
“There's an open line of communication. It’s their careers so if they’re unclear about anything, we’d like to think they can get some clarity if they want and take some ownership of their careers."
Virat Kohli and pace ace Jasprit Bumrah continued to top the individual charts, and India could reach within one point of leaders England in the ICC ODI team rankings, provided they win their next eight matches.
Indian cricketers Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul were on Wednesday (December 9) issued showcause notices by the BCCI for their disparaging comments about women on a TV talk show that triggered outrage on social media.Captain Marvel producer Jonathan Schwartz has revealed that not only will the upcoming MCU movie – the first to have a female lead – tell the origins of Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers, but it may also sow the seeds for a major storyline to come in the future of the franchise. Namely, an adaptation of seminal comic book arc Secret Invasion.
Marvel comics fans have had Secret Invasion on the brain ever since the Skrulls were first announced to be the main villains of CM. But could the introduction of the shapeshifters in this movie pave the way for another film in which it’s revealed they’ve assimilated into Earth’s culture, including replacing several big name superheroes? Well, yes, it seems. There’s a very real chance that this could happen.
While speaking to the press about Captain Marvel, the topic of Secret Invasion inevitably came up and Schwartz confirmed that the film itself wouldn’t really touch on the comic, but that the team definitely discussed planting the idea of the storyline for the future.
“Yes we talked about Secret Invasion. I wouldn’t go into this movie saying ‘Which one of these superheroes is a Skrull?’ because Carol’s is more or less the first superhero to show up on Earth. But are we planting seeds for future movies? Always.”
That’s a pretty exciting confirmation right there. A Secret Invasion movie somewhere in Phase Four or Five could have huge repercussions. Imagine finding out that one of the heroes we’ve been following and cheering on for years has actually been a Skrull all this time. That would be a massive event, perhaps on a par with the cliffhanger of Avengers: Infinity War, so you can bet that Kevin Feige sees the potential in that story to make an excellent movie.
It’s also easy to see how Captain Marvel could line up the opportunity for an adaptation of the arc. Presuming that Carol defeats the Skrulls’ planned invasion in the 1990s, what if – now knowing that Earth is defended – the aliens decided to take a different approach next time, with their agents infiltrating the superhero community itself?
By the sounds of it, Captain Marvel is going to be all-important to the future of the MCU. Be sure to catch it in cinemas from March 8th.
It’s been a big week for Captain Marvel reveals, which means a big week for Captain Marvel fan theories as well, and in a new piece from Mashable, we have the intriguing basis for further speculation.
The publication got the chance to visit the set of Carol Danvers’ solo debut, where they saw an excerpt from the film’s third act. The sequence, featuring Captain Marvel and Nick Fury, is described as follows:
As the pair prepare to fight their way off an alien spaceship (which Jackson cryptically described as belonging to ‘a doctor from Carol Danvers’ past’), Carol instructs him to ‘take the Tesseract, leave the lunchbox’ while she runs off to buy him some time.
The Godfather reference aside, there’s a fair amount to discuss from these few lines, but let’s just focus for now on Carol’s reference to the Tesseract. Given the film’s place in the MCU timeline, there’s definitely something rather fitting about the Space Stone showing up in Carol and Nick’s adventure.
If you’re in need of a recap, the Tesseract was found by one of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s founding members, Howard Stark, after the events of Captain America: The First Avenger. The relic would eventually become the focus of the organization’s P.E.G.A.S.U.S. project, which ended with Loki stealing the object in 2012’s The Avengers.
The question is therefore raised of whether S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Skrull infiltrators like the villainous Talos are aiming to take the Tesseract for themselves. What’s more, it’s worth remembering that the Infinity Stones will be of crucial importance to Carol’s second MCU outing, Avengers: Endgame, suggesting that the character’s early encounter with the Space Stone could ultimately prove significant in the Avengers: Infinity War sequel.
Then again, the object’s inclusion might amount to little more than a quick Easter egg. We’ll find out either way when Captain Marvel hits theaters on March 8th, 2019.
