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  • Hyderabad Sunrisers block David Warner on social media

    Hyderabad Sunrisers block David Warner on social media

    Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Hyderabad Sunrisers have blocked their former player David Warner on the social media platform ‘X’ (formerly Twitter).

    Australian opener David Warner has been a part of IPL franchise Hyderabad Sunrisers. On Tuesday, the Sunrisers picked Australian player Travis Head as opener for INR 6.80 crore in the players’ auction.

    Meanwhile, David Warner wanted to tag his former franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad while posting on ‘X’ but was unable to do so as the franchise had blocked him.

    He shared a screenshot of the franchise’s profile, writing, “I wanted to retweet Sunriser’s post about Travis Head but I was unable to do so because Sunrisers blocked me.”

    Warner parted ways with IPL franchise over differences, and their relationship has since soured. Warner was the captain of the Hyderabad team in the 2021 season, however, he was left out of the playing XI and later removed from the captaincy.

    When the new season of IPL resumed after the COVID-19 pandemic, Sunrisers Hyderabad did not call him back to their team.

    The Australian opener was subsequently repurchased by Delhi Capitals for the 2022 edition, the team Warner started his IPL journey with in 2009.

  • NODWIN Gaming partners with Pakistan’s Trans Group to elevate E-Sports

    NODWIN Gaming partners with Pakistan’s Trans Group to elevate E-Sports

    Pakistan’s Trans Group and NODWIN Gaming, one of India’s top E-Sports media businesses, have formed a strategic agreement to address the gaps in Pakistan’s E-Sports infrastructure and opportunities. Trans Group wants to elevate the overall E-Sports landscape in Pakistan via the NODWIN Gaming alliance.

    On December 18, 2023, Akshat Rathee, co-founder and managing director of NODWIN Gaming, and Rao Usman Hashim, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Trans Group finalized a collaboration agreement. Trans Group hopes to use the cooperation to fully utilize Pakistan’s potential in the E-Sports industry.

    Through their collaboration, Trans Group and NODWIN Gaming hope to support the growth of the E-Sports industry in Pakistan by bringing in new intellectual property and utilizing their specialized knowledge to give a platform to prospective professionals.

    Akshat Rathee expressed enthusiasm about the company’s collaboration with Trans Group:

    “We are thrilled to embark on this collaboration with Trans Group. This partnership symbolizes NODWIN Gaming’s commitment to advancing the E-Sports landscape in emerging markets across the world. Together with Trans Group, we aim to create an unparalleled fusion of expertise and innovation, elevating gaming experiences and introducing exciting new dimensions to the ever-growing gaming community in the subcontinent. This collaboration is a testament to our shared vision of not just shaping the future of E-Sports but also fostering a vibrant gaming culture that resonates with fans and brands alike across the region”.

    Trans Group’s COO, Rao Usman Hashim, discussed the goals both companies have set for the development of the Pakistani E-Sports industry, saying:

    “Trans Group is proud to be a pioneer in the E-Sports industry of Pakistan. TransGroup cherishes its sports partnerships across the globe and we are thrilled to start the E-Sports revolution in the region with NODWIN. We are determined to bring the best events, players, and IPs closer to the local fan base and will strive to establish and strongly promote a robust E-Sports landscape in Pakistan in the coming years”.

    NODWIN gaming is one of the biggest E-Sports organization in India. They have organized many Player Unknown Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile tournaments in India and South Asia.

  • BGMI: Blind E-Sports won the Battlegrounds Mobile India Pro Series 2023

    BGMI: Blind E-Sports won the Battlegrounds Mobile India Pro Series 2023

    BMPS 2023: The winner of the Battlegrounds Mobile India Pro Series (BMPS) 2023 has been announced. Along with the victory, Team Blind E-Sports took home a whopping 40 lac INR (Indian Rupees) in prize money. As the runners-up, Team Gladiators received a prize money of 20 lac INR.

    The three-day Battlegrounds Mobile India Pro Series (BMPS) 2023, which featured 16 finalist teams and took place at the EKA Arena in Ahmedabad, ended with an exciting battle. This event had a prize poll of 1 crore INR. As the event winners, Team Blind E-Sports took home a whopping 40 lac INR in prize money. Team Gladiator E-Sports finished second and took home 20 lakh. Third-place finisher Team Insane with 211 points won 10 lakh.

    The squad of Blind E-Sports was praised for its skill, planning, and togetherness after winning with a total of 244 points in the championship. On the day of the final, almost 15,000 people attended the LAN event hosted by Krafton.

    All About The Event: BMPS 2023

    One of Krafton’s largest E-Sports competitions, the BMPS got underway in November. A total of 96 teams competed in all, and 16 finalists were chosen based on their performance and ranking. 

    BMPS 2023 Final Standings:

    Blind E-Sports Winners- Award: 4000,000 Rupees

    Second place: Gladiator E-Sports – Award: 20 lacINR

    Second Runner-Up: Insane Team – Award: 10 lac INR

    Team Entity came in fourth place-Award: 5 lac INR.

    SPower (Blind E-Sports) is the BMPS MVP (Most Valuable Player)- Award: 300,000 INR.

    Best IGL (In-Game Leader): Aadi (Team Insane)-Award: 200,000 INR

    Prizes ranging from 300,000 INR to 100,000 INR were also given to the teams who placed fifth to sixteenth.

    Karan Pathak, Head of E-Sports at Krafton India said “BMPS signifies our commitment to the growth of E-Sports in India, We are ecstatic to witness the players’ and Ahmedabad audience’s passion and excitement. We’re excited to be able to introduce the excitement of E-Sports to more people in India after the city turned out in extraordinary numbers to support the more experienced teams. KRAFTON India is honored to give these extraordinary talents a stage and to support the ongoing prosperity of the E-Sports community.”

    Creator Studded BMPS 2023:

    Numerous YouTube celebrities like Jonathan, Payal Gaming, Soul Mortal, Scout, Thug, Mercy, Kaashvi, Mamba, and other BGMI creators were present at BMPS 2023.

  • Babar Azam owns property worth millions of dollars

    Babar Azam owns property worth millions of dollars

    Former Pakistan captain Babar Azam is one of the best batsmen in modern cricket. At a young age, Babar Azam has achieved many records in cricket. At the age of 29, Babar today owns property worth millions of dollars.

    According to the website cknowledge.com, Babar Azam’s assets are worth more than USD 20 million dollars, roughly PKR 145 crores. The former captain is one of the highest-paid players of the Pakistan team. Babar is included in Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) central contract in the A category, where he earns Rs60 lacs per month.

    Babar Azam also earns big money from advertisements. He has done commercials for major companies like HBL, Gary Nichols, Oppo, Bank Al Falah, Gatorade, Head and Shoulders, and MoneyGram.

    He has built a large farmhouse in Lahore which is called Azam Farm House. This farmhouse is quite luxurious and stylish, with a magnificent gate. Babar parks his vehicles at the farmhouse.

    The large compound is surrounded by greenery. After taking a break from cricket, Babar likes to spend most of his time at the farmhouse which has a large lawn where family cricket can be played.

    He has many expensive cars like the Audi E-Tron GT, Audi A5, and BAIC BJ40 plus Jeep, which he received as a prize for Pakistan’s tour of Australia in 2022.

    Here is the list of Babar Azam’s cars;

    Lamborghini Aventador:

    Price: 17-19 crore PKR

    Lamborghini Aventador:

    Audi E-Tron GT:

    Price: 8 crore PKR

    Audi E-Tron GT:

    White Audi A5:

    Price: 2 crore PKR

    White Audi A5:

    Black Hyundai Sonata:

    Price: 88 lac PKR

    Black Hyundai Sonata:

    Red BAIC BJ40 Plus Jeep:

    Price: 80-85 lac PKR

    Red BAIC BJ40 Plus Jeep:

    Babar Azam owns several heavy bikes, including the Yamaha R1 and the BMW RR 310 being the highlights.

    Yamaha R1:

    Price: 17-19 lac PKR

    Yamaha R1:

    BMW RR 310:

    Price: 7-8 lac PKR

    BMW RR 310

    Babar Azam earns approximately Rs1.5 crore per month. He plays for Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League. Babar was the highest-paid player during PSL season 8 with three crore Pakistani rupees.

  • YouTube’s first ever video ‘Me at the Zoo’s thumbnail changed after 18 years

    YouTube’s first ever video ‘Me at the Zoo’s thumbnail changed after 18 years

    The first ever posted on YouTube with the title ‘Me at the Zoo’s thumbnail has been changed after 18 years.

    This video was uploaded by the co-founder of YouTube Javed Karim on April 23, 2005 on Saturday. 18 years after it was uploaded its thumbnail has been updated.

    Old Thumbnail

    New Thumbnail

    Does this mean that Javed is coming back again on his YouTube Channel?

  • CSGO: Pakistan’s WahWah to face Indian True Rippers in Show-match today

    CSGO: Pakistan’s WahWah to face Indian True Rippers in Show-match today

    The much-anticipated day has come as India and Pakistan prepare for the BLAST World Final Show match. As previously announced by BLAST, these two countries will square off in a show match before the Grand Final, which is now taking place in Abu Dhabi as part of the ongoing World Final.

    Pakistan’s WahWah will take against the DreamHack Hyderabad winning team of True Rippers in this pivotal match. Two elite players will replace two players from each team to increase the excitement and intensity of the match.

    Here are the line-up for both teams:

    Pakistan’s WahWah:

    0Kay

    Insmutje

    s44d

    ExecutoRRRR

    BulleT

    India’s True Rippers:

    DEFAULTER

     Rossi

     Gh0sTTTT

     DiceDealer

     Mcg!LLzZz

    This show match will be live broadcasted on A Sports, ARY Zap, and the Tamasha TV app. Pakistan’s PUBG Mobile famous caster Aladdin (Muhammad Shahneel) and RZ Jawad will cast this show match in the Urdu language.

    This match will be played on December 17 on Sunday at 4:35 PM Pakistani time.

  • PUBG Mobile roadmap 2024: PMGO, PMSL and much more to know

    PUBG Mobile roadmap 2024: PMGO, PMSL and much more to know

    Player Unknown Battlegrounds (PUBG) mobile is all set to introduce a brand new roadmap for the PUBG mobile E-sports year 2024. PUBG mobile has introduce a new global event named Pubg Mobile Global Open (PMGO). The major changes in PUBG mobile E-sports year 2024 is the expansion of leagues in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), America, Central and South Asia.

    James Yang, the senior director of PUBG Mobile Global E-sports revealed three Global leagues in year 2024; the PUBG Mobile Global Championship, PUBG Mobile World Invitational (PMWI) and the new event PMGO.

    The PMGO will take place in Brazil in months of March and April in 2024 with prize-pool of 500,000 USD. This event includes teams from the host region qualifiers, regional PMSL qualifiers and PMSL partnership teams.

    Another major change is the addition of PUBG Mobile Super League (PMSL) which will replaces the PUBG Mobile Pro League (PMPL). The PMSL will bring the PUBG mobile competition to another level, and will have offline events for each PMSL league. The South East Asia (SEA) region will have three seasons of PMSL while EMEA, America, Central and South Asia (Now United) will also have two leagues seasons.

    James Yang explained, why the SEA region will have one extra PMSL league than other regions. He said, “This is due to the developed E-sports system in these regions, and we would see that three seasons will have better because the audience wants to see more competition”.

    Below the second tier there will be PMSL regional qualifiers to give a chance for Underdogs teams to compete against Professional players. The fourth tier will have smaller regional tournaments like PUBG Mobile Club Open (PMCO).

  • 2023; Year of gain and loss for Babar Azam

    2023; Year of gain and loss for Babar Azam

    Year 2023 is ready to say goodbye now with good and bad memories. The past year has been a mixed year for the Pakistan cricket team. Star batsman Babar Azam lost the captaincy of the team after a disastrous World Cup campaign but his personal performance remained outstanding, with many world records falling in his lap, proof of his being one of the great cricketers of the present era.

    The poor performance of the Pakistan cricket team in the recently held World Cup in India and earlier in the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka was blamed by many on Babar’s captaincy. He resigned from the three-format captaincy last month on his return home. After this, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) appointed Shan Masood as the Test captain and Shaheen Shah as the T20 captain.

    In 2023, Babar Azam was the number one One-Day Internationals (ODI) batsman in the International Cricket Council (ICC) rankings for almost the entire year and after holding the crown of the number one batsman for more than 900 days, but unfortunately he lost this honor during the World Cup 2023.

    Babar Azam’s abilities were recognized at the government level and for his superior performance, he was awarded the Star of Distinction by President Dr. Arif Alvi on the occasion of Pakistan Day.

    He achieved two world records in a single match of the ODI series against New Zealand. In the second match of the five-match series against the Kiwis, Babar Azam became the fastest batsman to score 5000 runs and the fastest 18 centuries, equaling South African batsman Hashim Amla’s record. Babar reached the milestone in 97 innings while the former Proteas batsman took 102 innings.

    The former captain also became the fastest batsman to score 9000 runs in T20 cricket, accomplishing the feat in 245 innings. This honor was previously held by West Indian batsman Chris Gayle who scored 9000 runs in 249 runs.

    Babar Azam notched up another world record by scoring a magnificent century in the T20 International in New Zealand, playing his 101st match as captain, became the player with the most centuries in T20 as captain. He broke the record of Indian captain Rohit Sharma who was the first with two centuries. Babar Azam has achieved the honor of scoring three centuries as a captain in T20.

    Azam was then awarded the Outstanding Performance Player of the Month award by the ICC in August. This was the third award overall after winning the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year and ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year last year.

    Under the leadership of Babar Azam, Pakistan became the number one ODI team in the ICC rankings this year. Pakistan won the ODI series against New Zealand after 12 years. Pakistan whitewashed Sri Lanka in the Test series and Afghanistan in the ODI series. The Test and T20 series against New Zealand remained a draw, but the Pakistan team’s performance in the last two assignments in the Asia Cup 2024 and the World Cup was disappointing due to unavailability of Naseem Shah in bowling attack.

    Babar Azam’s Overall Performance in International Cricket:

    Babar Azam has scored a total of 12986 runs in all three formats (Test, ODI & T20) of international cricket so far, 3772 runs in 49 Test matches, including nine centuries and 26 fifties.

    He has scored 5729 runs in 117 one-day matches, including 19 centuries and 32 fifties, while in 104 T20 matches, he has scored 3485 runs with the help of three centuries and 38 fifties.

  • Mongolia’s IHC won PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2023

    Mongolia’s IHC won PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2023

    IHC E-sports (formerly known as ZEUS E-Sports or Z3US E-Sports) from Mongolia won Player Unknown Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile Global Championship (PMGC) 2023 held in Malaysia.

    IHC played extraordinary in the three-day final by collecting 142 points in total including 110 kill points and 32 placement points. IHC E-sports was awarded with $300,000.

    Zyol from IHC E-sports awarded with MVP (Most Valuable Player) of the tournament, as he collect 37 eliminations with total 7,616 damage.

    This PMGC was a LAN (Local Area Network) event with a prize poll of three million USD and was organized by PUBG mobile officials.

    On the start of Day Three of the final, IHC was on third spot with 96 points while A7 E-sports from Brazil was on first spot with 115 points. But they played consistently, collecting one WWCD (Winner Winner Chicken Dinner) on day three, by collecting 46 points in the six matches.

    Stalwert E-sports from Mongolia took second spot, they were only 4 points away from first spot with 138 points. A7 E-sports from Brazil took third spot with 131 points. 4MV (4Mercial Vibes), another Mongolian team, played their first PMGC and took fourth spot with 127 points.

    Two teams (Agonxi8 and 7E) from Pakistan also participated in the event but unfortunately, they were eliminated in the group stage.

    Agonxi8, a very dominating team from Pakistan, faced many difficulties including visa problems during this event. Only three out of five players could get visas while the remaining two played from Pakistan.

  • PSL 9 trade: Shan Masood moves to Karachi kings, Faisal Akram joins Multan Sultans

    PSL 9 trade: Shan Masood moves to Karachi kings, Faisal Akram joins Multan Sultans

    Shan Masood, the top-order batsman from Multan Sultans has joined the Karachi Kings squad, and left-arm wrist spinner Faisal Akram is going to Multan Sultans as part of a trade deal between Kings and Sultans.

    Karachi Kings owner Salman Iqbal said, “Shan Masood is welcome to Karachi Kings, Shan Masood is undoubtedly a great addition to the Kings squad. Karachi Kings will take full advantage of Shan Masood’s experience and skills in PSL 9”.

    Multan Sultan’s Chief Executive Ali Khan Tareen said: “This has been one of the most exciting trade and retention windows in the history of the HBL Pakistan Super League and we are delighted with how our line-up is shaping. We had two agendas for this trade window: focus on building a strong domestic core and getting the best possible picks in the HBL PSL 9 Player Draft to get the best overseas players for our team combination”.

    “I am over the moon to have finally gotten Faisal Akram in our team. We have been working with him since he was 16. He has been a regular at our academy and camps. He is an extraordinary talent and we are yet to see his best. Now he is part of our team for the next many years, our goal will be to develop him into a national asset” Ali Tareen said.

    He further said “I want to thank Shan Masood who has been the longest-serving member of the Sultan’s family. He has been our captain and a huge part of our success. We will miss him and wish him the best in his new team”.