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England need to reset after Pakistan’s dynamic spin duo offer reality check | Andy Bull

Ben Stokes’s side may need to go back to basics after spinners Noman Ali and Sajid Khan exposed a lack of focus

The sun was only just coming up in England when the last wicket went down in Pakistan. Jack Leach was deftly stumped by Mohammad Rizwan as he came galumphing down the pitch to swing and miss at a wide, of all things. Noman Ali had bowled the ball out there deliberately, fast and flat after he saw Leach coming.

It was a simple trick, like an uncle bewitching his nephew by pretending to tug off his thumb. England had a pyrrhic lead of 35 at the time, and on television Ramiz Raja lost the run of himself and prematurely called a famous victory for Pakistan.

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Irresistible Mitchell Santner spins New Zealand to historic victory in India

  • New Zealand win Test series in India for the first time
  • Santner takes 13 wickets in career-defining performance

India collapsed to a humiliating series defeat at home, their first for 12 years, when New Zealand beat them by 113 runs in Pune to take an unassailable 2-0 lead.

Mitchell Santner took six for 104, finishing with 13 wickets in the match, to set up an historic win that was sealed when his senior spin partner Ajaz Patel claimed the last two Indian wickets.

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Mitchell Santner blitzes India to give New Zealand sniff of historic series win

  • New Zealand in front by 301 after Santner takes 7-53
  • Tom Latham hits 86 to extend tourists’ lead

A spectacular seven-wicket haul by Mitchell Santner helped New Zealand dismiss India for 156 before the tourists reached 198 for five at stumps on day two of the second test in Pune on Friday to tighten their grip on the three-match series.

Tom Blundell was unbeaten on 30 and Glenn Phillips on nine as the Black Caps, who won the series opener by eight wickets, extended their lead to 301 runs at the close after scoring 259 in the first innings.

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Fenerbahce 1-1 Manchester United: Europa League – live

Former United manager José Mourinho was sent to the stands during a topsy-turvy game that ended fairly with honours even

1 min: There is some proper bedlam going on at the Şükrü Saracoğlu. What a noise! Good luck thinking.

The hosts get the ball rolling. It’s exactly one year to the day since United’s last win in European competition, that 1-0 Champions League victory over Copenhagen at Old Trafford.

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Europa League roundup: Rangers rout FCSB, Roma get up and running

  • Rangers win 4-0 at Ibrox; Roma beat Dynamo Kyiv 1-0
  • Lazio go top of table; Ajax beat Qarabag 3-0

Philippe Clement insists Rangers’ desire and hunger in their convincing 4-0 Europa League win over FCSB at Ibrox was fuelled by being “sick of losing”. The manager came under enormous pressure after the 1-0 defeat at Kilmarnock on Sunday left the club six points off the top of the Scottish Premiership and the previous European game at Ibrox ended in a 4-1 win for Lyon.

There was an early reprieve when the Romanian side – formerly known as Steaua Bucharest – had the ball in the net only for a foul to be called. But Tom Lawrence opened the scoring in the 10th minute and the winger Vaclav Cerny fired in a double, one either side of half-time, before the second-half substitute Hamza Igamane scored his first goal for the club to wrap the game up.

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Tottenham 1-0 AZ: Europa League – as it happened

Richarlison scored the only goal of the game as Tottenham earned a deserved third win of the competition

6 mins: Werner whips the ball towards the back post from the left. Moore makes a clever run but he does not make sufficient contact and the ball flashes wide.

Maddison chases a ball over the top … he almost gets there but he is beaten by the pace on the pass and the goalkeeper collects.

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Lionel Messi’s Miami compensation is more than entire payroll of 22 MLS teams

  • Argentinian was paid $12m in base salary
  • Inter Miami had highest payroll in league

Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi earned more than the entire payrolls of 22 other Major League Soccer teams, and Olivier Giroud has $3,675,000 in annualized total compensation under the contract he signed to join Los Angeles FC in July.

The Major League Soccer Players Association released its salary update on Thursday and Messi’s $12m base salary and $20.4m in total compensation from Inter Miami remained the same as in the initial listing in May.

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‘Say it to his face’: Luton call out racist abuse of Elijah Adebayo

  • Striker was sent racist comment on social media
  • Abuse took place during Wednesday’s loss to Sunderland

Luton have reported a racist comment sent to forward Elijah Adebayo on social media during Wednesday night’s Championship match against Sunderland.

The Hatters player had been subjected to racist abuse online last season while playing in the Premier League, which at the time left Adebayo “tired” and contemplating not reporting the matter over his disillusionment.

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Geoff Capes obituary

Britain’s greatest shot putter who twice won the World’s Strongest Man competition

Standing close to 6ft 6in and weighing more than 26st in his athletic prime, Geoff Capes was a mighty figure who commanded international respect as a record-breaking shot putter, and later achieved even greater renown as a sporting personality through appearances in televised strongman competitions. Twice he won the accolade of being World’s Strongest Man, as well as achieving serial successes in Highland Games events.

Although Capes, who has died aged 75, never fulfilled his ambition of winning an Olympic medal, despite competing in three Games, with a best finish of fifth in 1980, he had an illustrious career, winning a Commonwealth gold medal in 1974 and 1978, and twice claiming the European indoor title, in 1974 and 1976. He would represent his country on a record 67 occasions between 1969 and his retirement from athletics 11 years later, when he chose to concentrate on paid competition. He achieved a lifetime best shot put distance of 21.68m in his final competition, in 1980, for a national record that still stands.

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Championship roundup: Sunderland move clear at top and Boro sink Blades

  • Régis Le Bris’ team win 2-1 at Kenilworth Road
  • Burnley scrape 1-1 draw with Hull as Sheffield United lose

Sunderland moved three points clear at the top of the Championship with a 2-1 win at Luton.

Carlton Morris’s first-half strike was controversially ruled out for offside and the home side were left to rue other missed chances when the visitors took the lead early in the second half.

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Super League expansion to 14 teams nears as Wakefield replace Broncos

  • Grading system means nine clubs are safe from relegation
  • Expansion talks may start ‘sooner than expected’

Super League expanding to 14 teams as early as 2026 appears to be ­looming after the publication of IMG’s ­gradings on Wednesday led to Wakefield being readmitted into the competition for 2025 in place of London Broncos, who have been demoted to the Championship.

Rugby league clubs agreed last year to replace conventional promotion and relegation with a gradings system that measured clubs in a ­variety of on- and off-field metrics. The 12 clubs with the highest ranking would be admitted to Super League, with the gradings reviewed every year.

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Championship roundup: Leeds beat Watford to join Sunderland at summit

  • Bachmann errors help Farke’s side to 2-1 win
  • Cardiff beat Portsmouth to climb out of bottom three

Leeds moved up to second in the Championship as two goalkeeping blunders by Watford’s Daniel Bachmann helped them to a 2-1 win at Elland Road. The Austria goalkeeper was at fault for both Leeds’ goals as they raced into a 2-0 lead inside the opening seven minutes through Largie Ramazani and Brenden Aaronson.

Kwadwo Baah pulled one back for Watford, who were much improved in the second half, but Leeds held on for back-to-back home wins in the space of five days. Daniel Farke’s side extended their unbeaten league run to six matches and have now lost one of their first 11, while Watford slipped to a fifth straight league defeat on the road.

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