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Earlier, reports in the media quoted Fleming as saying, “We lost seven games by a close margin under MS Dhoni’s captaincy in IPL 2016. Dhoni was not able to focus on finishing the games for the side. This is why the decision to remove him as captain was taken.” As per Fleming, the quote is fabricated and he said nothing of that sort about the former Indian skipper. In case you didn’t know… Hours before the 2017 IPL auctions, MS Dhoni was removed as the skipper of the Rising Pune Supergiant and replaced by Australian captain Steve Smith....

Watch David Warner’s incredible tennis forehand shot here It was as early as the second over. The runs were not easy to come by and the Knights had gotten off to a decent start. Mind you, this was not a traditional batting-friendly surface on offer at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. It was slightly sluggish which meant that hitting through the line was extremely difficult. Boult, who was bowling the second over, had by then allowed only two runs off five balls....

While there have been plenty of close contests and players have put forth many inspired performances, there have been few players who have just not turned up. Here in this article, we compile a list of 4 players who have flopped for their respective teams. One just hopes they come to the fore in the final month when the tournament nears its business end. #4 Brendon McCullum The former New Zealand captain was a prized pick for the Royal Challengers Bangalore and came into the tournament with a lot of expectations on his shoulders....

Tony Verna, 81, a television director and producer who invented instant replay for live sports 51 years ago, passed away Sunday at his Palm Desert, Calif., home after battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia, The Associated Press reported. MORE: Notable sports deaths | Photos of the week Verna’s method to cue the tape to pinpoint the play he wanted to immediately air again was first used by CBS in the Dec. 7, 1963, Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia....

“At Approx. 11:30 AM today @lacolifeguards visualized a large amount of medical supplies along the shoreline South of the #VeniceBeach Pier. The area has been cordoned off and notifications to @lapublichealth @LAPDHQ @USCG @lacdbh @LACOFD,” according to a post on the official Twitter account of the lifeguard division of the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD Lifeguards). The waste was reported to have included more than 100 hypodermic needles and lancets, devices used to prick the skin for collecting blood samples, ABC7 reports....

RELATED: DC Universe to Rebrand, Drop all Film and TV Content Though that may seem a bit confusing at first, Kirkman isn’t concerned about crossing wires. The creator cited the multiple versions of Spider-Man existing at the same time as proof that audiences can handle various adaptations of the same story being told at the same time. When asked about the Invincible film, the writer remarked, “that is still very much in development....

Tretyakov, Sochi bronze-medal winner Elena Nikitina, Maria Orlova and Olga Potylitsyna have been “found to have committed anti-doping rule violations,” the IOC said in a statement. “The four athletes are declared ineligible to be accredited in any capacity for all editions of the Games of the Olympiad and the Olympic Winter Games subsequent to the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014,” the IOC said. The IOC added it had disqualified the athletes from Sochi, effectively stripping Tretyakov and Nikitina of their Olympic medals....

NAIROBI (Reuters) - By forcing Kenyan athletes to undergo additional drugs tests before allowing them to compete in Rio, the International Olympic Committee is trying to intimidate his countrymen, a former running champion said on Wednesday. The IOC said on Tuesday that every competitor from Russia and Kenya will have to be evaluated individually for doping and be cleared by their sport’s international body, because of those countries’ poor anti-doping records....

The IOC’s statement comes amid growing international calls for proof of Peng’s safety, directed at both Beijing and the Olympics organizer, ahead of the 2022 Winter Games in the Chinese capital. She has made one public appearance in the past four weeks and has yet to release a credible statement about her sudden silence. Her peers in women’s tennis fear the government is attempting to suppress Peng’s allegations against former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli in the country’s most high-profile #MeToo case to date....

So you might have already looked at the best smartphones (opens in new tab) and are left more baffled than ever as Apple iOS powered iPhones line up against Android powered handsets from the likes of Samsung, OnePlus, Google, and more. The one thing you can be sure of, you can’t have both. While many people love Apple and iOS because of its clean and minimal design ethos, and myriad apps, others are all about Android....

The Bernie Sanders campaign released its own internal reporting numbers from what it said were 40 percent of precincts in Iowa as candidates await the official result—delayed because of technical difficulties in results reporting by local officials—on Tuesday. The Sanders numbers, which are not official or complete and should be taken with a pinch of salt, show the independent senator from Vermont in the lead, which echoes recent polling in Iowa showing him ahead of former vice president Joe Biden....

Apple iPad 5- Come October and we might get hands on the next installment of the iPad. Rumor mills say that it could come with IGZO display that could allow you to scroll over the screen with a pencil. When it comes to the power part of the story, iOS 7 is expected to make way into the iPad . iPad Mini 2- In a fit follow up to the success of iPad Mini, Apple plans a sequel this year....

The IPC said on Monday the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) must meet the norms in order to have its membership suspension lifted, reports Sputnik. “In order to assist the RPC in bringing about the significant changes needed, the IPC (in coordination with WADA and others) has now produced these reinstatement criteria, identifying the core, high-level requirements that the RPC must meet in order to be reinstated as a member of the IPC,” the statement said....

If the production delay affected the expected release date equally, it could mean that for the first time since 2012 that Apple’s announcement of its new phones hasn’t happened in September. While the iPhone SE has been announced in March in both 2016 and 2020, you have to go back to the iPhone 4s’ October 2011 launch to find the last time Apple didn’t hold its annual iPhone event in September....

So what can one expect in the new iPhone 6? For starters, it is going to be driven by an A8 octa-core processor as compared to the current iPhone 5S that runs on an A7 quadcore 64-bit processor. It is most likely to be powered by the iOS 7 operating system, with talks of it running on the next version operating system, the iOS 8. Apple has been consistently cold shouldering NFC (Near Field Communication) that many Android phones boast of....

According to reports by Macrumors, “ The maximum size an iPhone 6 could sport is 4.7 inch. Standard phablet size is 5.7 inch the iPhone 6 will not go that far. Also iPhone 6 will come packed in a much lighter frame and will have mouthwatering and killer features as compared to iPhone 5S.” The same report has also suggested that iPhone 6 thinner side view type LED that will make the device much sleeker and thinner as compared to iPhone 5S....

Over time, Apple shrunk the notch to consume less area. The obvious thought is that Apple has been working toward getting rid of that blemish altogether. Isn’t a front camera or security components taking away pixels from the user a bad thing? I assumed so, until Apple showed off its Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro. Now I’m convinced that either camera cutouts or some software-only version of its Dynamic Island will be around, at the top of the screen, for a very long time....

As the latest reports come from the venue, India is at 274/5, Rahul batting at 141 and Pant batting at 79. The duo has stitched a 153-run stand in the sixth wicket until now. India now needs 190 runs to win with five wickets in hand, and to avoid a draw they must chase the target within 39 more overs. Meanwhile, here we bring you the top cricketing stories from elsewhere in the world....

Chasing an imposing target of 196, RCB could not recover from a disastrous start and kept losing wickets at crucial intervals to end up at 165/5 to dash their hopes of entering the knock-out stage of the IPL. For the Royals, Yogesh Takawale top scored with 45 while Knight’s champion offie Sunil Narine finished with figures of 4/20. Up against the mammoth score, Royal Challengers started off disastrously when the big hitting Chris Gayle 6 (9b 1x4) was trapped in front by Umesh Yadav in the second over sending his teammates and a capacity Eden crowd into a tizzy....

Mumbai’s third win on the trot kept them in the hunt for a playoff spot – all be it the smallest of chances. Mumbai Indians have 12 points, the same as Sunrisers Hyderabad and the only chance of either team making it to the play-offs would be if Rajasthan Royals, who are in fourth with 14 points and a game in hand, lose both their final matches. The Daredevils’ dismal run since returning from the UAE continued....