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Steve Smith admits Australia have no margin for error as they look to kick start their Champions Trophy campaign against Bangladesh today (Monday). Australia’s bid to open the Champions Trophy group stage with a win were thwarted by heavy rain against New Zealand on Friday. Smith’s side needed a revised target of 235 to win in 33 overs after Kane Williamson hit a century in New Zealand’s 291 all out. Australia were 53 for three off nine when the players...
Spectators have long been advised to get to sporting events early and they could miss the key part of Thursday’s...
British Airways said it was resuming normal service on Tuesday but many customers are still without their luggage after three days of global flight disruption.Some 75,000 passengers were affected by the computer system outage that caused chaotic scenes over a holiday weekend at London Gatwick and Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport.“We are continuing to make good progress in reuniting bags with customers around the world who were affected by the major IT systems failure on Saturday,” the airline said in a...
South Africa’s Kyle Abbott again showed what his compatriots will miss while they are in England by taking five wickets for Hampshire on Saturday.The Proteas arrived in England this week for a three-month tour that includes next month’s Champions Trophy and a subsequent Test series with their hosts.But 29-year-old fast bowler Abbott is set to play no part for South Africa after cutting short a stop-start international career for the financial security of a deal with south coast side Hampshire.Abbott,...
British mobile phone giant Vodafone logged Tuesday an annual net loss of 6.3 billion euros ($6.9 billion) after slashing the value of its troubled Indian division.The performance in the 12 months to March compared with a net loss of 5.4 billion euros in the previous financial year, it said in a statement. Revenues declined 4.4 percent to 47.6 billion euros.At the same time, however, operating profit excluding exceptional items almost tripled to 3.7 billion euros on the back of a...
Steve Smith insists Australia’s batsmen will be ready for their do or die Champions Trophy showdown with England despite their lack of action in the tournament. Smith’s side endured the frustration of having Monday’s clash with Bangladesh abandoned due to rain, just days after their opening fixture against New Zealand was also washed out. On both occasions, it has been Australia who were batting in the early stages of their innings when bad weather ended play. Against Bangladesh, they had...
Manchester United have been rated as Europe’s most valuable club by a new report into the financial muscle of the continent’s top teams. The report by professional services firm KPMG looked at the finances of 39 clubs based on their popularity on social media channels, revenues for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons, and success in European competitions. The clubs were then ranked by enterprise value, an accounting measure used to assess how much it would cost to buy any given...
Andrew Strauss believes letting England stars such as Ben Stokes play in the Indian Premier League is worth any potential injury risk. All-rounder Stokes, paid a record $2.16 million to take part in this year’s IPL, was named the tournament’s most valuable player after helping Rising Pune Supergiant reach the knockout phase in the cash-rich Twenty20 competition. He returned to hit a match-winning hundred as England clinched a one-day international series victory over South Africa at Southampton on Saturday. But...
Although Britain’s economic growth is ticking along in the run-up to the general election, flat wages and the government’s austerity programme continue to bite and cause anger among those left behind.A world away from the glistening skyscrapers of London’s City finance district, normal life for some resembles that depicted in last year’s Cannes winner “I, Daniel Blake”.The British film’s protagonists, in the northeastern English city of Newcastle, battle with the impact of cuts to social services in place since 2010,...
Britain welcomed a record number of foreign visitors last year as the Brexit-hit pound boosted their purchasing power, official data showed Thursday.Some 37.6 million travellers flocked to the country in 2016, up four percent from the previous year, the Office for National Statistics said in a report.Last year’s figures mark the sixth successive annual increase in visitor numbers.Holidaymakers and other foreign visitors are also spending their money more freely in Britain, parting with œ22.5 billion ($29.1 billion, 26.2 billion euros)...
British inflation hit a 3.5-year high of 2.7 percent in April, official data showed Tuesday, owing mainly to higher airfares, but also as a weak pound raises import costs.The Consumer Price Index rallied from a rate of 2.3 percent in March, which had been also the highest level since September 2013.“Air fares were the main contributors to the increase in the rate in April 2017, although this balanced out a downward effect of similar magnitude in March 2017 and is...
