Day: June 15, 2019

Australia are comfortably placed on the points table with wins in three out their World Cup games but skipper Aaron Finch feels his team has played nowhere near to its potential.

South Africa captain Faf du Plessis on Friday said there is no point in looking back at their disappointing World Cup campaign thus far as they remain determined to win their remaining five games to stay alive in the competition.

Viswanathan Anand defeated out-of-sort Alexander Grischuk while Magnus Carlsen sealed the title at the Altibox Norway chess tournament with a round to spare, here. Anand’s chances to be in top three had ended after he lost to American Fabiano Caruana in the previous round.

Former captain Muhammad Yousuf is furious with the Pakistan Cricket Board for allowing families of the players to stay with them ahead of the much-awaited match against India in the World Cup.

Australia has a five-day break before its next game against Bangladesh. “We’ve talked a bit about it, but we’ll just see how he pulls up over the next few days,” Langer said of Stoinis. “We know that it’s important to have an all-rounder in the side, if we can. And if we can’t, we’ve got to adapt.”

Shanmuga Pandian, son of ace Vijayakanth, will be playing a police officer in his next film. It will be directed by Bhoopalan, a former associate of Siva. The film is set in Kancheepuram and Ronica has been roped in to play Pandian’s pair.

Ramesh P Pillai, a prominent financier, has ventured into movie production now. His maiden production venture ‘Sivappu, Manjal, Pachai’ is ready for release.

Aishwarya Rajesh will play cinematographer-actor Natty’s ladylove in Sivakarthikeyan’s next directed by Pandiraj. Anu Emmanuel is SK’s pair in the film.

Actor Vikram’s son Dhruv makes his debt with Tamil remake of Telugu hit ‘Arjun Reddy’. The film was earlier shot by director Bala titled as ‘Varmaa’.

Vijay Sethupathi, who is making his debut in Telugu cinema with Megastar Chiranjeevi’s ‘Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy’, will play a pivotal role in newcomer Panja Vaisshnav Tej’s acting debut film ‘Uppena’.