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Top 3 Indian goal-scorers in Indian Super League

The Indian Super League (ISL) started in 2014 with 8 teams. From the 2017-18 season, it became the top division league in India. Also, it was made a 10 team’s league. The excitement and competition of this league are still the same from the very first season, though the league has further been expanded to 11 teams from this season.

This is the 7th season of ISL. The league has gifted some immensely talented Indian footballers to grow under some highly experienced foreign managers.

Here is the list of the top 3 Indian goal-scorer in ISL’s history:

1. Sunil Chhetri [Bengaluru FC]

If you are talking about Indian strikers, one name always pops up. That is Sunil Chhetri. The Indian skipper is making his country proud on the international stage. His performance in domestic football is also astonishing.

Sunil has scored 40 goals in his 77 appearances in ISL. He has played two seasons with Mumbai City FC. This is his sixth season in ISL and fourth with Bengaluru FC. He is now 8 goals away to become the top scorer of ISL.

Jeje Lalpekhlua [SC East Bengal]

Another top Indian striker is on the list. Jeje Lalpekhlua joined SC East Bengal this season after playing the last 6 seasons for Chennaiyin FC. He has scored 23 goals in his 69 appearances in the league which makes him the second-highest Indian goal-scorer in ISL.

Jeje is yet to make a start in ISL this season for his new club.

Lallianzuala Chhangte [Chennaiyin FC]

A rising star of Indian football. The Chennaiyin FC striker has played for Delhi Dynamos in first two seasons. He joined Chennaiyin FC last season. The 23-year-old flourished there as well. He has 15 goals to his name in just 57 appearances in ISL.

Satya Nadella and many other top investors in line to invest in USA’s Major Cricket League

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, PayTM founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma and Adobe Systems CEO Shantu Narayen are among the top high profile entities and individual investors, who just joined throwing their weight on the American T20 league, namely Major League Cricket (MLC) just after a week later Shahrukh Khan’s KKR announced it’s long term partnership to improve and launch MCL and while it is also heard that KKR will be owning an important team, Los Angeles City in the league.

After Shah Rukh Khan, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella to invest in USA's T20  League | english.lokmat.com
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It seems that the investors tied up in the last quarter of 2019 by American Cricket Enterprise, the owners of MCL. It also seems that all three of the investors have invested their individual stakes at the MLC entity level and currently do not hold allegiances or interests in any of the city-based franchises.

Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella’s love and passion for cricket is not a secret anymore. He represented his alma mater Hyderabad Public School in the much competitive Hyderabad Schools cricket and have won many trophies and medals too. From the sources, it is also known that Shahrukh Khan will go for Los Angeles while Nadella has to settle for Seattle. Nadella and his wife also own a stake in the Seattle based MLS soccer club Seattle Sounders FC.

It is also learnt from the sources that the Dallas-based real estate tycoon and billionaire Ross Perot Jr. and his partner Anurag Jain have invested in the Dallas franchise of the said league. Perot Jr is also a minority stakeholder in the NBA team Dallas Mavericks.

From the sources, it is also found that PayTM founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, 42-year-old CEO of the fin-tech company who recently collaborated with BCCI as PayTM extended its contract with cricket board to remain the title sponsor for all domestic and international cricket in India until 2023, is also in the list of high profile investors in MCL.

The new league is operated by ACE, founded by Vineet Jain, Satyan Gajwani of Times Group and Vijay Srinivasan and Sameer Mehta of Willow TV.

USA cricket is also in the process of co-bidding for a major Global ICC event in 2023-2031 cycle with West Indies Cricket.

Wijnaldum admits that Diogo Jota has surprised all at Liverpool by his performances

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Liverpool’s transfer strategy has been brilliant in the last few years. Robertson, Mane, Salah were all somewhat unheard names bought for significant low transfer fees but they have gone on to become one of the best in their positions.

The Reds also haven’t hesitated to spend big on some relatively not-proven players, which includes the likes of Virgil Van Dijk and Alisson Becker who form an important part of their squad for the last few seasons.

At the start of the 2020-21 season, Liverpool wanted to have a backup for their regular front three and went for Wolves’ Diogo Jota. They spent £41m for a lesser-known name and many of the supporters had a doubt whether Jota can make any impact in the star-studded Liverpool team.

Since joining the Anfield side, the Portuguese international has made the most of his chances and impressed everyone at Liverpool. Georginio Wijnaldum told Liverpool’s official website before their match against Wolverhampton Wanderers: ‘I think he will be really happy to play against his old team.’

‘I’m always happy when I play against Newcastle because that’s my only other team [in the Premier League].’

‘For him I think it’s different because he played more seasons for Wolves than I played for Newcastle. For him I think it’s much bigger than what I have with Newcastle. It’s going to be a really, really big game for him and also a game he can enjoy.’

‘I’m really impressed because I already knew how good he was, but now I can see that he’s even better than what we thought of him.’

‘Now we train with him, we play games with him, so we can really see what kind of player he is, what kind of quality player he is. I think he’s showed it with the start he’s had at the club.’  

Diogo Jota would hope to keep his place in the starting lineup and prove his worth to the team.

Nokia 3.4 will arrive in India in mid-December

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Previously, HMD Global announced that they would launch Nokia 3.4 along with Nokia 2.4 in India, September. Nokia 2.4 arrived in India last week. The NokiaPowerUser reveals, that the company is going to launch Nokia 3.4 in mid-December in India.

The NokiaPowerUser also reveals that the base variants of Nokia 3.4 with 3GB RAM will be priced around INR 12,000 and will go on sale by the end of December.

Specifications of the Nokia 3.4

The Nokia 3.4 sports a 6.39-inches HD+ display panel having the typical brightness of 400nits and a punch-hole camera cut-out at the top left corner. This phone is the first in the series to have a punch-hole display.

Coming to the camera segment, the phone has a triple camera setup with a 13MP main camera of f/2.2 aperture, 2MP depth sensor, and 5MP ultrawide camera. All the camera sensors are aligned along with a LED flash in a cookie shaped module on the backside. The fingerprint sensor is placed just under the camera module just like on the Nokia 2.4. For selfie lovers, Nokia added an 8MP sensor at the front. Users will get a dedicated Google Assistant button additionally.

The Nokia 3.4 is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 460 processor and runs on Android 10 out of the box. The Nokia 3.4 coupled with three varieties of RAM and internal storage pairs. The options are 3GB/32GB, 3GB/64GB, and 4GB/64GB. The handset is carrying a 4,000mAh battery inside that can be charged with a 10W charger through a Type-C port. The phone also has an audio jack, an FM radio, and NFC.

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Premier League fans return to the stadium for the first time in nine months; the numbers could increase

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It has been nine months since football players last saw fans cheering for them in the stands. In England, that nine months long wait finally came to an end as the spectators made their way back to the stands, cheering the players on. 

As reported earlier, the tier system is being followed quite strictly in England, with no stadium allowed to hold more than 50% of its capacity. 

West Ham United were the first to have fans back in the stands for their fixture against Manchester United. Despite a loss to the visitors, the game was reminiscent of a true football match and not the haunting screams of players across the pitch. 

Elsewhere in London, about 2000 fans made their way to Stamford Bridge to support Chelsea against Leeds United. While there is reason to be happy, there is also a cause for concern. 

The fans have been spotted sitting too closely in stadia and in Reading’s Madejski Stadium, they were asked to keep a seat between each other while watching the game after only twelve minutes past kick-off. 

Temperature checks are being conducted for each and every person who enters the stadium. Moreover, keeping face masks on throughout the game has been made compulsory for everybody. 

Arsenal, Brighton, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton, Fulham, Liverpool, Southampton, Tottenham and West Ham are the clubs that have been allowed to have spectators in the stands. 

4000 fans are being allowed in the tier one stadia. However, Cornwall, the Isle of Wight and the Isles of Scilly are in the lowest tier and are not allowed to have any people in the stands yet. 

There are also provisions in place to increase the holding capacity of stadia to about 10,000 people in the future. However, that will be on the cards as long as the coronavirus cases are on the downside. 

Mi 10 Ultra scores only 88 points in selfie ranking 22nd in DXOMARK

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Xiaomi has launched its Mi 10 Ultra smartphone on its 10th-anniversary that was unveiled exclusively for China in August 2020. At the time of its announcement, this phone’s DXOMARK camera review results have been come out which says that it was the champion of that time. However, the Mi 10 Ultra has lost to Huawei Mate40 in October. Recently, the DXOMARK selfie result of this phone has been published and the fact is, this phone made us disappointed as it has managed to score only 88 points for its selfie camera. With this selfie review score, the Mi 10 Ultra ranked distant 22nd. So, in simple words, the front camera module of this phone is not really up to mark compared to its rear camera setup, or we can say it is very average.

The Mi 10 Ultra features a curved OLED single punch-hole display. The punch-hole is located at the top left side of the display that holds a selfie camera which includes a 20MP 1/3.4-inch fixed-focus sensor with an f/2.3 lens. You can record videos with this camera up to a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels (FHD) at 30 fps.

Now let’s breakdown the scoring of it into different sections. For photos, the selfie camera bagged 86 points and for videos, it has managed to grab 92 points. The images from the camera show accurate exposure (generally) on faces. But if you want to click an image or shoot a video having a higher dynamic range, highlights will be clipped. Also, in terms of low-light images, we can see noise, flare, color quantization, and more. The unnatural blur effect destroys your portrait selfie as well. In terms of videos, things got slightly better with effective stabilization, well-controlled noise, and accurate exposure (both outdoor and indoor). Some times, we face facial detail loss and unnatural skin tones in low-light conditions.

iPhone 11 users are facing touch-screen problems, Can Get Free Display Replacement from Apple

Last year Apple has launched its iPhone 11 series and after one year, the company is giving a free screen replacement offer to the iPhone 11 users. So, people who have iPhone 11s and are facing touchscreen related issues can now grab the offer to get a free screen replacement from Apple. Apple has also put up a support page on its website for its iPhone 11 users to find out if they are eligible for a replacement. But it is not for each and every model of iPhone 11. It is only for those iPhone 11 modules that were manufactured between November 2019 and May 2020. So, let’s check out what is the process to find out if you are eligible for the screen replacement or not.

To find out your eligibility, you have to find the serial number of your device. For this, you have to go to settings, then General, and then About (Settings > General > About). If your serial number lies between the valid manufactured date, you are eligible to replace your damaged screen. If you are eligible, either you have to find an Apple Authorized Service Provider, or you have to contact Apple for a mail-in service via the Apple Repair Center. After that, Apple will take care of your device.

Before sending your iPhone for repair, Apple suggests that you should back up your each and every date for safety purposes. As per the cracked displays, users have to get that repair first. After that, the touchscreen issue will get fixed. For information, this touchscreen repairing program will not extend the standard warranty coverage of the iPhone 11.

When and Where to watch the Premier Handball League, which starts on 24th December?

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After cricket, football, badminton and kabaddi, handball is the latest to join the commercialisation of sport in India. Premier Handball League (PHL) will be starting on Christmas eve in India. The tournament will take place from the 24th of December to the 10th of January. 

In the 18 day season set to be held from the end of the year to the beginning of the new one, 33 matches will be played. Over 80 players will feature in the inaugural handball tournament, and each team will consist of 14 players at the very least. 

The SIX franchises that will feature in the campaign are:

  • Telangana Tigers
  • UP Icons
  • Maharashtra Handball Hustlers
  • KingHawks Rajasthan
  • Bengal Blues
  • Punjab Pitbulls

The matches will be broadcasted on Sony Pictures Sports Network channels, such as Sony Ten1, Ten2, Ten3 and Sony Six. It is also stipulated that the matches will be streamed on their streaming platform, Sony LIV as well. 

The Handball Federation of India, under whom there are over 80,000 players officially registered, will be watching over the tournament. 

“This is going to be a significant moment in Indian handball history as the PHL will infuse fresh air to the sport which has immense potential at grassroot level,” HFI President Jagan Mohan Rao said at the launch of the PHL.

“The league will bring exciting competition among the players as well as help build handball as a brand.”

“We have close to 80000 registered players playing the game in India. India is looked at as the next big thing by the international federation in terms of talent and opportunities. I feel PHL has come at the right time,” said HFI Vice President Anandeshwar Pandey.

The matches will be played at the Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Due to the COVID situation, the matches will most likely be held without spectators and will be broadcasted only. 

DOOGEE announces S59 Pro with a 10,000mAh+ battery

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DOOGEE is a smartphone manufacturer that is mainly known for its smartphones having advanced durability and power. So, recently it has announced another rugged smartphone, known as the S59 Pro and the main thing is it is not something less than a power bank as it possesses a monstrous battery backup of more than 10,000mAH. The company claims that, with this battery, this phone offers up to 18 hours of non-stop gaming, 50 hours of audio playback, or up to 768 hours on standby.

The S59 Pro has IP68 and IP69K ratings for water & dust protection, and also glove modes are there for its touchscreens. This phone is powered by a MediaTek P22 SoC that is quite a power-efficient chipset too. The SoC of this phone is paired with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. The storage is further expandable up to 256GB via an external microSD card.

In terms of display, the S9 Pro features a 5.7-inch (of indeterminate panel type) waterdrop notch display. The top, down, and side bezels of this phone are thicker as well. Overall, this phone looks like a robust, rigid smartphone. As mentioned earlier, his phone is fueled up by a 10,000mAH+ battery whereas the company has not confirmed anything whether it will get charged via USB-C port or it will support faster charging. Coming to the multimedia, this phone is packed with a 2W (albeit apparently bottom-firing) speaker and it is said that the S9 Pro is the loudest available to smartphones (can produce up to 100 decibels of sound).

As per the pricing and availability, one can now pre-order this device on AliExpress at a price tag of US$200. But, it is not confirmed yet on which date it will be available for its buyers.

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All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell donates $12M to his former school

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Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell has decided to give back to his old community, by donating $12 million to the Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut for a new gym and scholarships for the school. Donovan and his sister Jordan Mitchell both went to the school and his mother, Nicole Mitchell, was a teacher there from 2007 to 2019. All three of them were involved in the donation.

Mitchell just signed a contract extension with the Jazz, worth up to $196 million. He called the extension ”life changing,” and while the money will alter his life, he also wanted to impact others with it.

Donovan Mitchell recently signed a max contract extension worth $195 million. Image Credits: Bleacher Report

The scholarships funded by the donation will help low-income students so they can attend. There will be a yearly “faculty support fund” given to select teachers as well, along with the new gym.

In his excitement of being able to help the school, Mitchell tweeted:

“Man this means so much to me! Not just building a brand new gym but giving scholarships to less fortunate kids who normally wouldn’t have the opportunity to attend private school!”

The gym is described as “state-of-the-art” and will feature an NCAA-regulation court and stands on each side. It will be named the D.O.N.! The Determination Over Negativity Mitchell Family Athletic Center.

This scholarship fund donated by the Mitchell family “will help GCDS remain a leader in providing need-based aid for students in Grades Nursery through 12.”

The Nicole Mitchell Faculty Support Fund “will be given to a teacher in each division (4) in the school who have been at GCDS for at least 3 years, and have demonstrated the ‘passion, enthusiasm, optimism, and love for children always shown by Nicole Mitchell.”

The school said that the gifts will help them reward the hard work of teachers and make their school more accessible to students. They also said that this donation is the largest single gift in school history.