‘Chacha Chicago’, as he is known, is in England all set to watch the India-Pakistan match on June 16 in Manchester and hopes, that just like 2011, Dhoni will get him a match ticket this time too.
It was all going rather well for Asif Ali. After knocks of 51, 52, 17 and 22, at a strike rate of 131.48, against England in May, he earned a spot in the World Cup squad. Initially ignored, Ali was called up to fill the vacuum of the missing power hitter in Pakistan’s middle order. However, a cruel twist was in store.
On the rise of Indian fast bowling over the years, Kapil said if an Indian (Jasprit Bumrah) is the number one fast bowler in the world, it shows that "we have come a long, long way".
A confident Australia will look to take on a struggling Sri Lankan side in Match 20 of the 2019 ICC World Cup at the Kennington Oval, London on Saturday (June 15).
Know all about the venue for the ICC World Cup 2019 match between Sri Lanka and Australia.
London is finally expected to start getting brighter from this weekend after largely gloomy week as they get ready to host World Cup defending champions Australia take on Sri Lanka at the Oval on Saturday (June 15).
More than 8,00,000 people applied for tickets for it, for a stadium that has a capacity of 26,000. The tickets are going for at least 2500 pounds, approximately Rs. 2,20,000, on secondary ticketing sites. It's this game that has made fans from India and Pakistan search 'Manchester weather' more times than ever online in the last one week.
The Oval is ready to host its fifth game of the 2019 ICC World Cup on Saturday, 15 June as Australia and Sri Lanka get ready to lock horns. Sri Lanka arguably need the points more than Australia, as two of their games have already been washed out.
Here is how the cricket world cup points table currently stands.By now, I’m sure you’re well aware of how X-Men: Dark Phoenix was an unfortunate box office bomb. Though I’m certain being panned by critics didn’t help matters, the delays and reshoots undoubtedly didn’t instill consumer confidence. Hey, when something has nearly a year of negative press preceding it, failure is virtually inevitable.
Personally, I didn’t hate the flick and thought it was fine for the first hour or so, but it was pretty easy to tell that the third act had been reshot. As an individual product, it wasn’t entirely bad. But as a finale, Dark Phoenix simply didn’t work as a conclusion to a nineteen-year-old film franchise with its obviously rushed ending.
Similar to how Joel Schumacher accepted the blame for Batman & Robin not meeting expectations, Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg did likewise recently while speaking with KCRW’s Kim Masters:
“It clearly is a movie that didn’t connect with audiences that didn’t see it, it didn’t connect enough with audiences that did see it. So that’s on me. I loved making the movie, and I loved the people I made the movie with.”
To be completely honest, I don’t think all the blame is on Kinberg because this movie likely got caught up in the middle of Disney’s acquisition of Fox. Odds are the Mouse House didn’t want one film stepping on the toes of a character they’d already placed a lot of chips on, hence the aforementioned reshoots.
At the time of this writing, Dark Phoenix sits at 23% on Rotten Tomatoes and has amassed $146,505,971 worldwide. Those numbers aren’t entirely ugly, though the foreign market is more so taking the bait. The mutants’ latest adventure posted the franchise’s weakest debut in the United States this past weekend, so here’s hoping the eventual reboot can help them reattain their former glory.
