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The opening match of the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2019 between home team England and South Africa recorded a reach of 114 million viewers on the Star network, making it the highest opening world cup game. Reach is the number of people who watched the match for at least one minute during its telecast. Star India said the reach of the opening world cup game is 2.2 times of the opening game of the most recently played ICC tournament — the ICC Champions Trophy 2017, between England and Bangladesh. The viewership for the ICC CWC 2019 opening match is 101 million impressions. Impressions is the unit of viewership measurement that tells the number of people who tuned in to the match at any given point of its telecast. The ten-team tournament being played in a single-round robin format from May 30 to July 14 is broadcast across various channels on the Star India network, and on Hotstar, the broadcaster’s video streaming platform. Commenting on the opening numbers, a Star Sports sp...

Loneliness , as a leading cause of depression and obesity, is believed to cost £6,000 per person in health and social care services. Loneliness is especially prevalent during the winter holidays, perhaps intensified by the short days, bad weather and the impression that everyone else is enjoying the festive season with family and friends. While loneliness is experienced by all ages, it is especially pronounced in older people. In the UK, 51% of all people aged 75 and over live alone and approximately 6% of older adults leave their house once a week or less. An increasing proportion of these older adults live in rural areas. In an age when services and information are increasingly available online, might technology play a role in addressing loneliness and social isolation ? Our research was conducted in South Lakeland – a rural community of Cumbria in Northern England. Residents aged 65 years and older account for 24.2% of the population here, against a national average...

In the India vs England 3rd ODI in Leeds, Virat Kohli's men will look to plug the middle-order and death-over woes. Catch live action here Sports News : In the third One Day International (ODI) of the 3-match series, Virat Kohli-led India will look to plug their loopholes in the field when they take on Eoin Morgan’s England at the Headingley Cricket Ground in Leeds on Tuesday. If India win today’s match, it will be the team's 10th successive ODI series victory. The 3-match series evenly poised England levelled the three-match series with a convincing 86-run victory at Lord's, after being comprehensively beaten in the opening match at Trent Bridge. India vs England head to head in ODIs Total Matches: 98 India: 53 England: 40 Tie: 2 No-result: 3 In England Total Matches: 40 India: 16 England: 20 Tie: 1 No result: 3 List of Indian players who scored 10,000-runs in ODIs Player Name            ...

India will start the English Summer with T20I series, followed by 50-over cricket and Test series in August. Catch live updates here of the first T20Is between India and England Sports News : After a crushing 2-0 victory over minnows Ireland, India led by Virat Kohli will be up against a formidable England in the first of the three-match Twenty20 International series (T20Is) at the Old Trafford in Manchester. Indian cricket team's supremacy in shorter formats is redoubtable but India will have their task cut out against a vastly improved England in the opening T20 International in what will be a defining summer for Virat Kohli and his team. While India has been a consistent limited-overs side over the past 6-7 years, England has of late lifted their game in coloured clothes by miles, thanks to a group of fantastic limited overs players like Jos Buttler, Jason Roy, and Ben Stokes. Going into today’s series opener, India is expected to play around with set combinati...