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A 12-person jury found Stokes and co-defendant Ryan Ali not guilty by unanimous verdict at Bristol Crown Court on Tuesday. Both men argued they had acted in self-defence during a fracas that occurred in the early morning of September 25 in Bristol, several hours after England’s one-day international against West Indies in the city. Stokes, who missed the second Test against India due to his trial, could now make an immediate international return after the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed he had been added to Joe Root’s squad for the third Test, starting at Trent Bridge on Saturday....

Such is the shift in the rules of the sport that cricket is often considered as a batsman’s game but on quite a few occasions, teams have won matches based on top performances from the bowling unit. There are several games in the World Cup where a bowler has sealed the game for his team. In the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, the bowlers are playing a crucial role in their team’s campaign towards the knockout stages....

In 295 ODIs, Boucher is fourth with 424 dismissals, behind Kumar Sangakkara, Gilchrist and Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Add 19 T20I dismissals, and it totals a mind-boggling 998 dismissals in international cricket, far ahead of the others. If a flying bail had not hit his eye and ended his career, Boucher would certainly have completed 1,000 international dismissals. To go with his heroics behind the sticks, Boucher scored well over 10,000 international runs in front of them....

Disgraced former captain Smith and his deputy Warner were suspended from international and domestic cricket for 12 months and Bancroft for nine months over a plot to alter the ball during the third Test against South Africa in Cape Town. All three players have apologised and accepted responsibility in emotional press conferences after being kicked off the tour and returning home last week. Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) president Greg Dyer said “justice which is rushed can sometimes be very flawed”, referring to Cricket Australia (CA) handing out its punishment so soon after the incident....

The Red Devils ran out 2-0 winners at Old Trafford against Spurs, Fred and Bruno Fernandes scoring the goals in a dominant performance that was easily among the best they have produced under manager Erik ten Hag. The Dutchman dropped Ronaldo from his starting lineup for the visit of Antonio Conte’s side, and the veteran forward was not among the United players who celebrated the result in front of jubilant supporters at full-time....

The Portuguese star is followed by Harry Kane, Sergio Aguero, Kylian Mbappe and Antoine Griezmann in the top 5 while Barcelona’s Luis Suarez holds the 7th spot in the rankings. In case you didn’t know…. Ronaldo shocked the world when he decided to leave Real Madrid after winning three consecutive Champions League with Los Blancos. The Portuguese talisman remains the greatest goalscorer of Real Madrid with 450 goals in 438 games....

In case you didn’t know… Ronaldo himself is a legend in his own right, with league titles in three countries and over 600 club goals in his career so far. The Portuguese forward is the first-ever player to win three of Europe’s top five leagues. He lifted three Premier League titles during his time at Manchester United, two La Liga titles with Real Madrid and one Serie A title with Juventus....

In case you didn’t know Ronaldo spent nine successful years at Real Madrid during which he won two LaLiga titles and four Champions League trophies, apart from several other cups and competitions. The 34-year-old left the Santiago Bernabeu last summer and joined Serie A giants Juventus, for whom he has scored 21 league goals so far this season. While Ronaldo has helped the Old Lady to their eighth successive league title, he failed to inspire the team beyond the Champions League quarter-final stage....

In case you didn’t know… Sampdoria established a 2-1 win over SPAL on Sunday night, courtesy of two early goals from veteran forward Quagliarella. Juventus, on the other hand, increased their lead at the top of the Serie A table to sixteen points after a 1-2 victory over rivals Napoli. Despite not being on the scoresheet, Ronaldo made the headlines for what many have deemed to be a dive that got Napoli goalkeeper Alex Meret sent off in the 25th minute of the game....

The development of Crash Team Rumble is helmed by Toys for Bob, a former Crystal Dynamics subsidiary that was acquired by Activision in 2005. This is the same studio that handled the Switch port of the well-received Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy before independently developing Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, the latest mainline game in the 26-year-old franchise which hit PC and consoles in 2020. RELATED: Crash Bandicoot Fan Makes Incredible Uka Uka Mask...

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Federal law explicitly prohibits the creation of a federal firearm registry, and it requires that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System erase background check information within 24 hours of completion and that it not keep a database. Yet in 2016, the Government Accountability Office called out the Obama administration for holding on to the data, and the Biden administration continues to compile digital records. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has collected nearly one billion firearm purchase records from gun dealers who have gone out of business....

The TikTok video, uploaded by user madmorph, shows off some Ravenous Devils gameplay while explaining the basic premise. In the game, players control Percival and Hildred. Percival runs a tailor shop, while Hildred runs a pub. The two work together to kill people, with Percival selling the victims’ clothes back to the public and Hildred using the corpses to make meals that she then feeds to her customers. RELATED: Psychedelic Horror Game The Chant Receives New Teaser Trailer...

But the fact that the school is planning Lumberjack Night on Feb. 7 vs. DePaul in honor of its bearded wonder (74 of his 76 made shots this season have been from distance) is just a delightful coincidence, says Creighton sports information director Rob Anderson. Fans are being asked to wear flannel and beards to that game. The promotional video leads with a clip from Monte Python’s “The Lumberjack Song,” and a fan thought of putting more Jays-centric lyrics with it that appear on Creighton’s Facebook page....

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Losing the Indian Premier League broadcast rights to Star India was disappointing but Sony Pictures Networks believes it has enough cricket in its portfolio to challenge their main rivals after striking a new deal with Cricket Australia last week. SPN, owned by Sony Corp, have acquired the rights to broadcast Australian cricket in the Indian subcontinent, including Pakistan and Sri Lanka, for the next six years for an undisclosed amount....

Michael Vaughan believes all those who criticise England batsman Jonathan Trott for slow scoring are talking “nonsense”. Trott top-scored for England with 109 not out off 104 balls but could not prevent an 86-run defeat against New Zealand at Southampton on Sunday that saw the tourists take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in a three-match one-day series. South Africa-born Trott, 32, has often been accused of slow-scoring. But former England captain Vaughan said the real batting issue for England’s one-day side was the form of the rest of the top order, not Trott’s method....

And that would have been it for Fakhar Zaman, had it not been for the extra-long strides of Bumrah. Zaman would have been accused of playing an irresponsible shot in the final of 2017 Champions Trophy, letting his team down and we might not have heard of this name at all. As it turned out, Zaman made the full use of the lifeline; brutalised the Indian bowlers and went on to make a century that will be remembered for years to come....

Meanwhile, Marnus Labuschagne, who has set the world ablaze with his recent run-scoring spree has expressed his excitement to play against Virat Kohli and Co. The Australians are set to lock horns with India in a three-match ODI series starting from January 14. Many eminent personalities, including Indian skipper Virat Kohli, have expressed their disapproval regarding ICC’s proposal of four-day Tests. However, Cricket South Africa, a board which is currently going through a rebuilding phase has come in support of ICC’s controversial proposal as a bright prospect in the near future....

Forthright and courageous, upright and tenacious, is how one would describe South African-born, Allan Lamb. There was nothing pretty or tentative about his play. He forced his way into the England team by dint of sheer performance on the county circuit. While he was on the international scene he invariably delivered for his team, often in the face of adversity and against the most fearsome attacks. He had made his England debut only a year before the 1983 World Cup but by then he was already a key member of the batting line-up....

He does have a point. As he said, there have been 90,000 murders in the United States during the past four years, up more than 10 percent from the prior four-year period. In one week alone last month in Washington, there were 24. Cynics everywhere like to juxtapose the fortress that is the White House with the violence and mayhem that occur just up the block, let alone in the Congress Except for stiffer sentences and new prison construction, little criminal-justice reform has made it through Washington over the past decade....