Virender Sehwag Backs Virat Kohli to Keep Captaincy in ODI And Test

India won their last three games against Afghanistan, Scotland and Namibia but it was not enough to progress to the next round.

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'His Role as Mr Fix-it is Spot on': Shane Warne Takes U-Turn And Backs Steve Smith

Shane Warne claims that if Australia lose early wickets then Smith can bat up the order to stabilize the innings

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Dwayne Johnson Isn’t Playing Santa Claus In Festive Blockbuster Red One

The mere existence of Amazon’s Red One is enough to generate plenty of quizzical looks, when the entire concept sounds so bizarrely bonkers that it’s become one of the most intriguing and potentially unique big budget blockbusters on the horizon.

Dwayne Johnson, the world’s biggest and highest-paid movie star, is headlining a festive action comedy that he described as “Miracle on 34th Street meets Hobbs & Shaw“, which is intended as the launchpad for an entire holiday universe that will deliver some “badass Christmas lore”, whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean.

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Star Wars Fans Have Mixed Emotions On Rogue Squadron’s Indefinite Delay

There was a lot of excitement when Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was first announced to be helming Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, with the filmmaker having crafted what remains the most critically acclaimed installment in DCEU history.

However, those expectations were tempered somewhat when the wildly polarizing 1984 hit theaters and streaming last year, with Jenkins’ assertions that she’d been handed a lot of creative freedom on her trip to a galaxy far, far away sounding more like an ominous warning to some fans.

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Leonardo DiCaprio Set To Star In Jonestown Massacre Movie

In news that’s probably got someone at the Academy Awards engraving his name on the Best Actor trophy already, Deadline reports that Leonardo DiCaprio is in final negotiations to produce and star in a movie about infamous cult leader Jim Jones.

MGM have already swooped in to secure the rights to the project in a multi-million dollar deal, with Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, The Next Level and Venom co-writer Scott Rosenberg having penned the script. For those unaware, Jones was behind the Jonestown mass suicide of November 1978, which saw over 900 people take their own lives.

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Fans Debate Authenticity Of New Spider-Man: No Way Home Leaks

As you’ll no doubt be aware, the internet lost its collective mind yesterday when the latest batch of rumored leaks from Spider-Man: No Way Home landed online, potentially giving away some major reveals and confirming things that most people were expecting anyway.

Even a couple of years ago, it would be impossible to view such images as anything other than 100% legit, but we live in the age of expert-level Photoshop and deepfakes, where anyone with enough technological wizardry can create anything they want and have it look like nothing less than the real deal.

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Constantine Director Helming New Philip K. Dick Adaptation

Ever since making his feature directorial debut on Keanu Reeves’ cult classic DC Comics adaptation Constantine back in 2005, director Francis Lawrence has almost exclusively worked in the realm of effects and action-driven studio movies.

Romantic drama Water for Elephants is the sole outlier in a filmography that includes three of the four Hunger Games blockbusters, as well as in-development prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, along with Will Smith’s I Am Legend, Jennifer Lawrence’s Red Sparrow and Jason Momoa’s upcoming Netflix fantasy Slumberland.

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Unfortunately India Doesn't Have Too Many All-Rounders in Top-Six: Ravi Shastri

Ravi Shastri said that going forward it would help Team India to have a couple of players in the top order who "can bowl as well".

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Players do Get Disturbed And Uncomfortable by Remaining Constantly in Bio-Bubble: Babar Azam Backs Ravi Shastri's Views

Babar Azam said Pakistan had tried to counter the situation by working as a group with senior players, even holding counselling sessions for players who were not feeling comfortable in the bubble.

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The Old Republic Trends After Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Gets Delayed

Shortly before Star Wars: Rogue Squadron was officially hit with an indefinite delay, rumors were making the rounds that not only was Patty Jenkins’ movie set to be pushed back, but an untitled mystery project would swoop in to get into production next year and claim the December 2023 release date for itself.

Subsequent scuttlebutt touted that it could end up being a film set during the Old Republic era, which made some degree of sense when you remember that Alita: Battle Angel and Terminator Genisys co-writer Laeta Kalgoridis was announced to be working on something set during that exact same time period a couple of years back, but we haven’t heard anything about it since.

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Dave Bautista Isn’t A Fan Of Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 Morning Shoots

Marvel Cinematic Universe fans are buzzing at the news Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is finally shooting, and it’s been a long and winding road to get to this point after the firing and rehiring of James Gunn, coupled with the effects of the pandemic.

At least the gang is back together and setting off an another irreverent adventure, with Chris Pratt already divulging details of his first day on the set, for real this time after he’d previously jumped the gun. However, co-star Dave Bautista isn’t anywhere near as enthusiastic, after he lamented the ridiculously early start times on his Instagram Stories.

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The Internet Is Roasting Sony’s Security After Spider-Man: No Way Home Leaks

Plenty of major movies and TV shows manage to make it all the way through development, shooting, post-production, marketing and promotion without any major spoilers or plot details leaking out ahead of time, but the same can’t be said of Spider-Man: No Way Home.

While the veracity is always up for debate until we get an official confirmation from either Sony or Marvel Studios, you’d imagine Kevin Feige will be losing his mind over the volume of purported images from the top-secret set that appear to have made their way online well before the web-slinging threequel’s release on December 17.

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Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 Stars React To First Day Of Shooting

By the time Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 comes to theaters on May 5, 2023, exactly seven years to the day will have passed since the release of the last installment, which is comfortably the longest gap ever between standalone Marvel Cinematic Universe sequels.

A lot has and will transpire across those 2555 days, including the firing of James Gunn by Disney over some unsavory tweets he’d made a decade previously, which led to him jumping ship and making The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker for DC Films and Warner Bros., but he’s back in the arms of Marvel Studios at long last.

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John Wick Fans Do Their Research After Chapter 4 Title Reportedly Leaks

The John Wick franchise could have very easily just kept naming its sequels as Chapter 1, Chapter 2 and so on in perpetuity, but the creative team appear to be making a concerted effort to settle on subtitles that force fans to either bust out a dictionary, or do some online research.

Should yesterday’s purported leak turn out to be right on the money, then it’s set to happen again, with Hagakure joining Parabellum as a word enthusiasts of action cinema will memorize the exact definition of in no time at all. The phrase is believed to be derived from the samurai warrior code bushido, which is perfectly in keeping with the theme of the saga.

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Rohit Sharma to Lead India in First Test Against New Zealand in Virat Kohli's Absence: Report

Rohit Sharma will be named the captain of the T20I team for the New Zealand series.

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​Dinesh Karthik Lauds Ravi Shastri's Achievements as Team India Head Coach

Head coach Ravi Shastri, bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar will not be a part of the Indian Cricket team setup anymore.

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T20 World Cup 2021 | Hasan Ali, Fakhar Zaman Big-Match Players, Will Fire in Semis: Babar Azam

Babar said he expects both Fakhar and Hasan to return to form in the semifinal against Australia on Thursday.

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'Not The Ideal World Cup Result For us, But we Learn And Grow': Virat Kohli, KL Rahul And Others Pen Down Heartfelt Notes For Fans

All-rounder Hardik Pandya assured the fans that the team will work twice hard to repay the faith and support of fans

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Rohit Sharma is Best Man to Take India to an ICC Trophy: Sunil Gavaskar

Virat Kohli has relinquished his captaincy in the shortest format in order to manage his workload.

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4 Overs, 2 Wickets, 0 Runs: Vidharbha Spinner Bowls 4 Maiden Overs in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy

Wrist spinner Akshay Karnewar has bagged six wickets so far in the tournament and has been a consistent performer for Vidarbha.

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T20 World Cup: Rishbah Pant Paying Respect to Bat After Accidently Stepping on it Wins Hearts on Internet - WATCH

Fans appreciated Rishabh Pant's gesture and came up messages on social media to acknowledge it.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home Fans Speculate On Sinister Six Lineup

With just a few weeks to go until the movie’s release on December 17, Sony and Marvel Studios finally debuted the first official poster from Spider-Man: No Way Home last night. As you’d expect, the internet isn’t talking about anything else, with every corner of the one-sheet being zoomed in and examined in great detail.

The design team knew exactly what they were doing when they decided to tuck Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin away in the background, and it raises an interesting question; has Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus been the focal point so far because he was the only member of the villainous roster to outright confirm their involvement months ago?

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Vin Diesel Pleads With Dwayne Johnson To Return To Fast & Furious

Even though fences appeared to have been mended in public, recent developments indicated that the feud between Fast & Furious stars Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel was far from over.

After Diesel claimed that the fallout was due to his desire to bring the best performance out of his hulking co-star regardless of the personal cost, Johnson laughed it off and made it clear he was done with The Fast Saga, but still actively developing a Hobbs & Shaw sequel.

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Tom Holland Reacts To Spider-Man: No Way Home Poster

As is to be expected from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the nuts and bolts of Spider-Man: No Way Home remain a tightly-guarded secret, but star Tom Holland is doing his best to keep the one-man hype campaign alive and well until the cast and crew can actually start diving into specifics.

On top of calling his third solo adventure the single most ambitious standalone superhero movie ever made, the actor also teased it’s got the biggest action sequence he’s ever been part of during his MCU tenure, and he was heavily featured in the third act of Avengers: Endgame.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home Fans Freaking Out Over Green Goblin First Look

Ever since Spider-Man: No Way Home was awarded an official title and multiversal synopsis, Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin was instantly named as one of the most likely returnees from the ghosts of franchises past.

The first trailer as good as confirmed it when the iconic villain’s signature cackle was heard just as a pumpkin bomb rolled onto our screens, so it’s not as though Marvel and Sony have been actively running a disinformation campaign. As you may have noticed, the first official poster recently dropped, and the first look at Norman Osborn’s alter ego has been revealed.

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'We Decided to Back Kohli, Rest is History': When Virender Sehwag, MS Dhoni Rescued Virat From Getting Dropped

It was during the India-England Test series in 2016, when Sehwag, who was in the commentary box shared the interesting story when he and Dhoni backed Kohli.

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What's More Important - World Cup or IPL, Questions Madan Lal

Madan Lal further said that the confusion over all-rounder Hardik Pandya's fitness was also one of the reasons.

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T20 World Cup | India Have Got So Much Talent But They Don't Play Fearless Brand of Cricket: Nasser Hussain

Nasser Hussain also pointed out some selection blunders which cost India in the campaign.

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BCP vs NFCC Dream11 Team Prediction: Check Captain, Vice-Captain And Probable XIs For ECS T10 Cyprus 2021 match, November 8, 4:00 PM IST

Check here BCP vs NFCC Dream11 Team Predictions and hints for the ECS T10 Cyprus 2021 match between Black Caps and Nicosia Fighters. Also, check the schedule of the Black Caps vs Nicosia Fighters match.

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James Gunn Clears Up Star-Lord’s Celestial Status After Eternals

It was James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy that brought the first mention of Celestials in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, tying the all-powerful beings directly to the creation of the Infinity Stones, but the deities didn’t play much of a part in the franchise after that. At least, until Eternals arrived in theaters on Friday.

As an expansive cosmic epic that spans thousands of years and introduces over a dozen characters audiences have never met before, Eternals invariably becomes bogged down in exposition at various points as the script explains who the titular team are and what their mission is, never mind how the Deviants, Arishem, Tiamut, the Emergence, Celestial Eggs and all the rest factor in.

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Marvel Studios Celebrates Eternals Topping The Box Office

You’ve got to take the good with the bad at the box office, especially with the pandemic still having a detrimental effect on business across the board, so the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Eternals shouldn’t be viewed as anything other than a massive success after its first weekend in theaters.

Sure, the 26th installment in the franchise may have delivered the lowest first frame numbers since Ant-Man back in the summer of 2015, but a $71 million haul in three days has only been bettered by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Black Widow and Venom: Let There Be Carnage since the end of 2019.

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Gal Gadot Teases Lynda Carter’s Role In Wonder Woman 3

While the movie didn’t have much of a presence at last month’s DC FanDome virtual event, Patty Jenkins and Lynda Carter did briefly show up to confirm that Wonder Woman 3 was moving forward, which wouldn’t have come as much of a surprise to anyone when it was initially fast-tracked into development just days after 1984 was released.

The mid-credits scene also set up Carter’s role in the threequel, with the original live-action version of the iconic superhero poised to return as Asteria, the owner of the Golden Eagle armor sported by Gal Gadot’s Diana Prince as she battled against the duel threats of Pedro Pascal’s scenery chewing and Kristen Wiig’s terrible CGI makeover in the third act showdown.

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Ridley Scott Says It Would Be Stupid If He Didn’t Direct Gladiator Sequel

While it would be very foolish to write any project off as unnecessary before we know anything about it, never mind getting the opportunity to actually clap our eyes on it firsthand, there’s an underlying feeling that a sequel to Gladiator doesn’t really need to exist.

Ridley Scott’s swords-and-sandals epic was a monster hit, box office juggernaut and cultural phenomenon when it first hit theaters over 20 years ago, earning $460 million before going on to win five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor.

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Seth Rogen Wants An Eternals/Spider-Man Crossover For 1 Reason

Based on a worldwide opening weekend of $162 million, the second-highest of the pandemic behind only No Time to Die, the poor critical response to the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Eternals clearly had no impact on how many people wanted to see the franchise’s 26th installment on the big screen as soon as possible.

The difference in opinion is right there for all to see on Rotten Tomatoes, where the intergalactic adventure has plummeted to a 48% score from critics, but audiences have rallied behind Eternals to deem it worthy of an 81% user rating. Longtime MCU supporters have been praising the movie at every turn, and now Seth Rogen is demanding a crossover with the Spider-Man series.

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Marvel’s Infamous Creative Committee Didn’t Understand Guardians Of The Galaxy

One of the best things that ever happened to the Marvel Cinematic Universe was the abolishment of the creative committee, who often ended up doing more harm than good.

Marvel Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis, former editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, publisher Dan Buckley and Marvel Entertainment president Alan Fine all stood between the filmmakers and studio chief Kevin Feige, who then had to report to Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter. Thankfully, the committee was disbanded in 2015, with Feige having to answer to nobody other than Disney boss Alan Horn, which made things a lot easier for the talent as well.

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Dave Bautista Reveals Marvel Didn’t Want Wrestlers Auditioning For Drax

The casting process for James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy cast a huge net, with all sorts of names being considered for every role. It perfectly suited the irreverent and rebellious tone of the film that the two biggest stars in the ensemble didn’t even appear onscreen, with Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper restricted to the recording booth.

Chris Pratt became an overnight A-lister after finally taking the plunge to audition for Peter Quill, while Dave Bautista landed his first major Hollywood role after quitting the professional wrestling industry to take a chance on launching an acting career.

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Tactical Imperfections Hit Team India on The Face in T20 World Cup 2021

The toss favoured Pakistan and New Zealand; while it was outplayed by Afridi and Pakistan, India fell short on the tactical count against New Zealand after being asked to bat.

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T20 World Cup 2021: Mark Wood Explains How Would He Steal Jasprit Bumrah's 'Superpowers'

The Eoin Morgan-led England Team has a potent bowling unit and pacer Mark Wood is also a part of it.

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'India Didn't Have Enough Runs': Sunil Gavaskar Disagrees With Bharat Arun's Toss Giving an 'Undue Advantage' Claim

They will next take on Namibia but this game has no value for the host though as India had already exited the tournament.

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Hope Rohit Sharma, Rahul Dravid Can Take Indian Cricket Forward & Probably Create a New Template: Gautam Gambhir

Gambhir is hopeful of Rahul Dravid, who is the new head coach of India, and Rohit to take the Indian team forward and win an ICC tournament.

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Unhappy BCCI To Ask For Report on Hardik Pandya's Fitness After T20 World Cup Exit-Report

India’s over reliance on an all-rounder who was clearly not in his peak form, cost Kohli and his men as they bow out of the tournament against Namibia.

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'When Players Prefer to Play in IPL Over Country...': India Legend on Team's Early Exit From T20 World Cup

India have failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021.

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T20 World Cup 2021: Rashid Khan Completes 400 T20 Wickets, Enters Elusive Club

Rashid Khan removed Martin Guptill and entered an elusive club of bowlers who have accounted for more than 400 T20 wickets.

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Pakistan vs Scotland Live Score, T20 World Cup 2021, Today’s Match at Sharjah: Can Pakistan Make Five in Five?

Pak vs Sco Live Cricket Score, T20 World Cup 2021 Live Updates: ICC T20 Cricket World Cup 2021, Today’s Match at Sharjah: Check out live cricket stream, ball by ball commentary of today’s Pakistan vs Scotland match being played at Sharjah.

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Eternals Star Seconds Angelina Jolie By Blasting LGBTQ+ Ban

It wouldn’t be unfair to suggest that Disney and Marvel’s attempts to portray LGBTQ+ characters in recent blockbusters have been flimsy at best, so credit has to go to the respective studios for refusing to censor or remove any scenes from Eternals featuring Brian Tyree Henry’s Phastos, his husband or their family.

However, it did lead to the comic book adaptation getting slapped with the equivalent of an R-rating in Russia, while it’s been banned outright in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar, with Angelina Jolie blasting the decision as ignorant, and the actress isn’t alone when it comes to that opinion.

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Eternals Director Would Love To See A Marvel Vs. DC Crossover

Rival franchises don’t tend to acknowledge each other’s existence all that often, but that didn’t stop the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Eternals from making a couple of overt nods towards DC Comics icons Batman and Superman, which came as a surprise to many audiences given the professional rivalry between the two brands.

Fans have daydreamed about a big screen crossover ever since the MCU and DCEU first started doing battle at the box office, with James Gunn admitting that he’d floated the idea to both parties having planted one foot in either camp via the Guardians of the Galaxy series and The Suicide Squad.

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Zack Snyder Trends Online For A Very Bizarre Reason

Zack Snyder trending on social media is nothing new, with supporters of his DCEU tenure still relentlessly campaigning to see the mythology that was cut short and effectively ended by HBO Max’s Justice League continued, but the filmmaker seems more than happy with the stack of projects he’s got in the work at Netflix.

In a recent interview, Eternals director Chloe Zhao praised the filmmaker’s Man of Steel for influencing her approach to the Marvel Cinematic Universe epic, and there are definitely similarities than can be drawn when you compare how the two big budget comic book adaptations treat superheroes as deified beings rooted deeper in classic mythology than standard superhero shenanigans.

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Home Alone And Harry Potter Director Slams Pointless Reboots Of His Movies

As a writer, director and producer, Chris Columbus has been pivotal in creating a string of hit movies that are held very close to the hearts of multiple generations, an impressive list that includes Gremlins, The Goonies, Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire, Jingle All the Way and the first two installments in the Harry Potter franchise.

At the peak of his powers, Columbus was among the biggest directors in the business, and at one stage his stock was so high that he turned down Spider-Man in favor of launching the Potter series, both of which went on to become one of the early 21st Century’s most successful, important and influential blockbusters.

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