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There were individual battles aplenty as the captaincy acumen of Virat Kohli and Aaron Finch faced off while the battle of the left-handed openers was clinched by an imperious Shikhar Dhawan over the off-color David Warner. Jasprit Bumrah outclassed Australia’s star speedster Mitchell Starc while Yuzvendra Chahal’s dream run in this World Cup continued as Adam Zampa finished wicketless. Amidst all the individual highs, India’s collective dexterity stood out in this high-pressure encounter and three aspects of this complete showing tell us why India might be the team to beat in this World Cup....

They reached the semifinals by defeating their arch-rivals England in Match 32 of the tournament held at Lord’s on Tuesday. Australia comprehensively won the match by 64 runs, thanks to a century by the skipper Aaron Finch and a five-wicket haul from Jason Behrendorff. Australia have been impressive right from the beginning of the tournament, defying the low expectations in the wake of sandpaper-gate. They started their campaign against Afghanistan at Bristol and won the match easily by 7 wickets....

Ben Stokes’ unbelievable catch, Andre Russell’s menacing bouncers, Mohammad Amir’s return to wicket-taking form, Dale Steyn being ruled out due to injury and Jasprit Bumrah’s lethal new-ball spell have been some of the major individual highlights from the first week. As we near the end of the first week, we look at 5 major talking points from the tournament. #5 Bangladesh are here to win Bangladesh surprised everyone when they reached the quarter-finals of the 2015 World Cup by beating England....

However, as brilliant as their on-field performances have been, India have been tackling a major internal problem that threatens to derail their charge towards the title. Haunting injuries That issue is a persistent tide of injuries that seems to show no signs of abatement. First to fall by the wayside was Shikhar Dhawan with a hairline fracture in one of his fingers that was a major setback for India’s plans....

“There is Root, Morgan, Stokes… but I think it has to be Roy,” said almost every England fan out at Edgbaston before the start of the match. Roy was all over the newspapers. At the World Cup, England have a star-studded side comprising the likes of Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler and Jofra Archer, but why Roy? What is so special about him? The answer is simple: He can reverse sweep Yuzvendra Chahal and spot Kuldeep Yadav’s googlies and smash it over his head; he can hit a tossed up leg-spinning delivery from outside the off stump over mid-wicket; he can charge the pacers with disdain and deposit them over long-off even while respecting a champion bowler like Bumrah....

Accuscore correctly predicted six of the eight teams to make it through to the quarterfinals. That’s a fair result considering Russia’s massive upset of Spain, one of the biggest favorites, in a penalty-kick shootout. Another missed prediction was Sweden overcoming Switzerland, but that match was pretty much a coin toss. WORLD CUP: Schedule, results, how to watch | Sign up for a fubo.TV free trial There are some extremely interesting matchups among the final eight, and Accuscore will once again provide simulations the knockout stage....

The 19-year-old opened Sweden’s 2020 IIHF World Junior Championship journey Thursday with an outstanding version of ’the Svech’ goal against Finland. The 2010s: Crosby named NHL Athlete of the Decade | NHL All-Decade Team Höglander took advantage of a wraparound opportunity when Finland’s defensemen failed to track him behind the net. Rather than slide the puck past Finnish netminder Justus Annunen on the ice, Hoglander lifted it onto his own stick and put it in the net’s top right corner before his opponents had time to react....

After two close games Saturday, one of them being a tie, the first match also proved to be a humdinger with United Singhs emerging winners. United Singhs showed themselves to be quick learners, as they began controlling their speed on the slippery surface after trailing in the first quarter. As the match progressed, the difference between the teams was United Singhs skipper Sandeep Singh Sandhu who was not only the best stopper but also the Wave Man of the Match with eight stops....

Wargaming Minsk’s World of Tanks has found a lot of success since launching over 10 years ago in 2010. The game continues to be supported as well, as last fall World of Tanks worked with Silent Hill on a Halloween update. Now, the team has collaborated with G.I. Joe on content for the game. In taking their battles to World of Tanks, Cobra Commander and Duke have new tank styles (skins/camos) that will be available in the game on March 18, 2021....

The next WoW expansion features two pre-patches and the first one will bring a massive level squish that reduces the game’s max level to 50 (it will jump up to 60 when Shadowlands launches next month). Up until now, players have been making a lot of predictions about how each level would scale down when the squish happened. A lot of the predictions were pretty close to accurate and Blizzard has now officially confirmed a level by level comparison for World of Warcraft players....

After a player noticed Vengeance Demon Hunters were taking much less magic damage thanks to a bug with their passive Demonic Wards, its cause was identified and scheduled to be fixed with the upcoming reset on Tuesday. Although this normally wouldn’t be enough to cause a shift in the current kiting meta, there is an additional set of buffs that will hopefully encourage more diversity. RELATED: Valheim Modder Recreates Northrend In-Game...

RELATED: 10 Ways World Of Warcraft Could Improve Its Free-To-Play Experience Warcraft has always focused on the conflict between the Horde and the Alliance, but each faction has seen its fair share of heroes and villains. The Horde may have begun as an orc faction, but it has since evolved-which is the reason why it is now home to several different races. Every Horde warrior and mage is strong, but there are certain characters who stand above the rest....

The Zombie Plague, also called the Scourge Infestation, is a notorious event from the Wrath of the Lich King Pre-Patch. During the event, players can be infected with a plague which turns them into a ghoul capable of attacking other players and NPCs, spreading the infection further and transforming Azeroth into a zombie-filled wasteland The event came to World of Warcraft Classic on September 6, and was set to run through September 13....

There have been two pretty massive pre-patches leading up to WoW Dragonflight that introduced the new talent revamp, the new race/class combo, and the pre-expansion Primal Storms event. The main Dragonflight update takes place with a weekly reset next week and once servers are back online there will be a ton of new content to dive into and explore as players begin working their way towards the new level cap and Dragonflight endgame content....

In many ways, the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur represented the ultimate status symbol in the game, but its existence alongside the controversial World of Warcraft subscription token raised more than a few eyebrows at the time. To purchase it, players needed to have five million gold at their disposal – and no matter how bad the gold inflation got over the years, this was not a sum the vast majority of people possessed....

It didn’t take long for Raszageth to be cleared on Normal difficulty, and World of Warcraft players got to see the ramifications of her defeat in a pre-rendered cinematic. As guilds moved through Heroic at a steady pace, Blizzard implemented several buffs to Vault of the Incarnates bosses on Mythic, and these changes will present a major obstacle in beating the enrage timer on healing-intensive bosses such as Terros....

Covenants are one of the major features of Shadowlands and players will interact with them throughout the entire expansion. Early on in the main narrative players will have a chance to interact with each of the four covenants and learn a bit about their values, aesthetics, politics, and particular skill set. Eventually each player will select one Covenant to align with throughout the rest of the expansion (though there will be a way to switch Covenants)....

RELATED: WoW Classic: The First Year in Retrospect Blizzcon 2021 confirmed that The Burning Crusade will be the next major content release for Classic, arriving later in the year for all players with a basic subscription. While some fans are excited to explore Outland, some are concerned that Blizzard won’t do enough to preserve the original experience. 10 Keep: Vanilla Servers World of Warcraft Classic was a welcome surprise on launch – for many players, the 2004 version of the game is the ultimate way to experience World of Warcraft....

While the Houston-Los Angeles matchup won’t add to a historic postseason rivalry the way a Yankees-Dodgers World Series would have, the two teams do have their own long history after playing in the same division for several decades and facing off nearly 1,000 times. Names like Nolan Ryan, Steve Garvey, Glenn Davis and Pedro Guerrero filled the box scores, and they definitely produced some classics — both in the regular season and in the postseason....

KC got here by sweeping the Orioles in the ALCS. San Francisco advanced by beating the Cardinals in five games in the NLCS. MORE: World Series photos | ALCS photos | NLCS photos Just as in ‘85, the Royals have home-field advantage in the Series. This time, it’s by virtue of the American League winning the All-Star Game in July. Royals closer Greg Holland pitched a perfect seventh inning in that game....