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Pakistan's Test cricketers are expected to get a pay hike soon with the PCB aiming to stem the growing loss of interest among the young players for the red-ball format.
The new fitness test that are being implemented by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has already seen a few players' fitness levels come under the scanner.
India clash with England in the all-important second Test in Chennai from tomorrow, Saturday the 13th of February. Having lost the series opener expect the home team to come out all guns blazing with a much improved performance at the same venue. What will make it into an intriguing contest is the number of superstars on both the sides. We look at 5 players who can potentially change the match on their own and take their team to victory.
After being dominated by England in the first Test of the four-match series at Chennai, Indian vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane reckons that the pitch for the second Test, to be played at the same venue, but on a different strip, will bear a completely different complexion and could start turning from the first day of the Test itself.
Rajasthan Royals (RR) made the big and bold decision of not retaining the great Steven Smith releasing him before the auctions. Among other prominent players released by them were Tom Curran and Oshane Thomas. RR have always punched above their weight but after starting IPL 2020 with a bang they fizzled out and did not have a great tournament. While RR have a strong base of overseas players, mainly from England - Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler and Jofra Archer, the Sanu-Samson led side need to build on their Indian contingent and that is where their focus should be in the auctions.
IPL Auction 2021 List of Players With Price: Between Rs 30 and 75 lakh, Cheteshwar Pujara continues to feature in the auction pool as he has entered with a base price of Rs 50 lakh among batsmen that also includes Karun Nair in the mid-range price category.
England skipper Joe Root confirmed that the visitors will be resting James Anderson as part of the rotation policy for the 2nd Test at Chennai starting Saturday, and also revealed that spinner Dom Bess will make way for most likely Moeen Ali.
S Sreesanth, who returned to competitive cricket after serving out a seven-year ban for involvement in spot-fixing in IPL, has said that he will remain positive and look to work harder after he failed to make the cut for the IPL 2021 player auction to be held on February 18.
IPL Auction 2021 List of Players With Price | The auction list also features 12 players with a base price of INR 1.5 crore. Indian talents such as Hanuma Vihari and Umesh Yadav are in the list of 23 cricketers with a base price of INR 1 crore and above, here’s a breakdown
India and England will most likely be playing on a fairly different pitch at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai when the second Test of the four-match series gets underway on Saturday.
Joshua Da Silva used the platform set by Nkrumah Bonner as West Indies reached 3256 at lunch on the second day of the second cricket test against Bangladesh on Friday.
Gundappa Viswanath was one of India's greatest and most talented batsmen in their Test cricket history. A stylish, wristy right-hander, Viswanath was an aggressive and attractive stroke-maker who tormented some top quality bowling attacks all over the world playing some memorable knocks for India. He played 91 Tests for the country in which he aggregated 6080 runs at an average of 41.93 including 14 hundreds and 35 fifties. On his 72nd birthday, we look back at three of his finest batting performances in Test cricket.
IPL Auction 2021 List of Players With Price: The BCCI on Thursday announced a shortlist of players under Rs 2 crore bracket, here’s a breakdown:
Ahead of the IPL 2021 auction, we look at five players who the Delhi Capitals could target in order to strengthen their squad.
Sreessanth, who returned to competitive cricket after serving out a seven-year ban for involvement in spot-fixing in IPL, was hopeful of getting picked at the auction and play in the IPL once again.
India's bid to level its fourtest series against England received a boost after spin allrounder Axar Patel was declared fit for the second match which begins in Chennai on Saturday.
Debate around whether India should stick with Virat Kohli as Test captain will continue because the team has lost its last four Tests, says Kevin Pietersen.
England wicketkeeper Ben Foakes feels the fresh Chepauk track will keep low and might start turning earlier compared to the series opener at the same venue.
He is not fit enough for Test cricket. He is not a good keeper. What if he drops Steven Smith? What if he misses the stumping of Joe Root? Suddenly all the criticism about Rishabh Pant's inadequate skills behind the wickets evaporated.
On the face of it the Test figures of Dom Sibley, the England opener are pretty ordinary - 851 runs in his first 15 Tests at an average of 37. Nothing to write home about in international Test cricket.
The first Test against England turned into a double whammy for India. Not only is the home team one down in the four-Test series but also stumbled three places from No. 1 to No. 4 in the World Test Championship (WTC) table.As we near the spring and movie theaters are still facing widespread closures, Marvel fans have been wondering if Black Widow could skip its big-screen release and go straight to streaming, like Soul, or at least drop simultaneously in cinemas and on Disney Plus, like Mulan. As things stand, however, the Scarlett Johansson vehicle remains on course to hit theaters in May, as confirmed by Disney CEO Bob Chapek.
As per Deadline, Chapek gave the update during the studio’s FYQ1 earnings call this Thursday. He revealed that Black Widow is still aiming for a purely theatrical release, although “we’ll be watching to see the reopening of theaters and consumer sentiment in terms of going back to theater”. Should the pandemic cool by the fifth month of the year, and cinemas in key places like New York and Los Angeles reopen, then the first film in the MCU’s Phase 4 will finally arrive.
If that does happen, then the pressure will be on Black Widow to reignite the public’s thirst for seeing movies on the silver screen again instead of staying safe at watching them at home. And if any movie could take that pressure it would be a Marvel Studios production. But, of course, that all depends on how the situation improves over the next three months.
When asked about how they decide which films stick with a theatrical window and which go up on Disney Plus, Chapek confirmed that Disney is taking it on a case-by-case basis and is not employing a blanket strategy like Warner Bros. is with HBO Max. He revealed that it “depends on our slate of titles and whether we need to put something on the service.”
Chapek also refused to come clean about specific figures for how Soul performed on the streaming service over Christmas, only saying “it was successful to the extent that we’re also using that strategy on Raya and the Last Dragon.” The Mouse House’s next animated flick is due out on March 5th. It’s possible that two months after that, almost to the day, we could be sitting down to watch Black Widow in cinemas.
Over a decade after their last outing on the big screen, and seven years following spinoff Bad Grandpa, the gang is finally back together again, with shooting on Jackass 4 now well underway. Of course, the film was originally set to release in March of last year before the COVID-19 pandemic got in the way, and Johnny Knoxville and the rest of his group of loveable daredevils are now set to return to cinemas in September 2021.
We still don’t know too much about the movie, but the franchise has certainly been a profitable one for the folks at Paramount, bringing in close to half a billion dollars at the box office. That may not be enough to get someone like Kevin Feige or Kathleen Kennedy excited, but let’s not forget that the combined budgetary costs of the series is just over $50 million.
So, hopes are high for Jackass 4 then, but it seems that there’s some trouble brewing behind the scenes. MovieWeb reports star star Bam Margera shared a now-deleted video on social media where he revealed that he’s not going to be in the film and urged fans to boycott it.
“I’m not in ‘Jackass 4,’ and if anybody cares about me don’t go see their movie because I will make mine way f – – king radder if you just Venmo me a dollar,” he says. “I wrote them so many ideas, and if I’m not in the movie, and they use my ideas, how do you think that that’ll make me feel? ‘F*ck you Knoxville. F*ck you Spike. F*ck you Jeff. You f*ckers never cared about me, man.’

Paramount has yet to respond to the video and none of the cast or crew have commented either, so it’s unclear at the moment what may’ve happened behind the scenes and what led to this. But with the news quickly spreading, and fans getting pretty concerned about the stunt performer, we imagine it’ll only be a matter of time before an official statement is issued.
In any case, by the time Jackass 4 gets here in September, audiences will be craving the sort of irreverent escapism that the pic will provide, and we can only hope that Bam Margera is able to sort everything out with the team and find his way back into the gang’s good graces.