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The Division One leaders were in dominant form again while Essex made a strong start to their delayed match against Hampshire
A classic CCLive dismissal! Mohammad Abbas, still slim as a pencil, fizzes one into Robin Das’s shinpads. Essex 12-1.
Lancashire have their first breakthrough as Dom Sibley opts not to play a shot at Will Williams. Surrey 86-1.
Continue reading...Five years on from his sensational sacking by Rugby Australia, Israel Folau still has no regrets about the social media post that led to his Wallabies downfall.
Surrey honoured Graham Thorpe before Rocky Flintoff, the 16-year-old son of Andrew, got off the mark for Lancashire
And after a six week wait, Tom Haines is the first Championship wicket to fall – lbw to Ben Coad up in Scarborough, where Jonny Bairstow is wearing the gloves.
Starts delayed at Edgbaston, Bristol, Southampton and Merchant Taylor’s. Dampness sniffing about. This is the Met office’s verdict: “Rain moving southeastwards throughout the day, with sunny spells and blustery showers following across the north and west. Very windy during the morning, but easing through the day. Rather cool for many.”
Continue reading...Australia centre Hunter Paisami has been ruled out of the Wallabies’ Argentina tour due to injury in another blow for Joe Schmidt’s side following back-to-back losses to South Africa in the Rugby Championship.
Paisami suffered an apparent knee injury and came off the field early in the Wallabies’ 30-12 loss to the Springboks in Perth at the weekend. He was omitted from the 35-man squad named on Tuesday for the two-Test series against the Pumas starting in La Plata on 31 August, joining a long injury list that includes winger Filipo Daugunu and loose forwards Fraser McReight and Liam Wright.
Continue reading...Francesco Bagnaia won the Austrian MotoGP on Sunday to complete a weekend double and go five points clear at the top of the world championship, taking the chequered flag ahead of his rival Jorge Martín.
The two-time world champion Bagnaia, who qualified second on the grid for Ducati Lenovo after dominating practice and winning the sprint on Saturday, overtook Prima Pramac Racing’s Martín on the second lap.
Continue reading...South Africa once again overpowered Australia in the Rugby Championship on Saturday with a 30-12 victory in wet and slippery conditions at Optus Stadium.
New Zealand rode a first-half try blitz to a 42-10 victory over Argentina in the Rugby Championship at Auckland’s Eden Park on Saturday to avenge last week’s shock loss to the Pumas in Wellington.
Damian McKenzie, skipper Ardie Savea, Caleb Clarke, Will Jordan and Beauden Barrett all crossed to give the All Blacks a 35-3 lead at halftime despite teeming rain and strong winds at the spiritual home of New Zealand rugby.
Continue reading...Experienced halfback Nic White has been recalled to the Wallabies side for Saturday night’s Rugby Championship clash with South Africa, while Max Jorgensen and Seru Uru are poised to make their Test debuts off the bench.
World champions South Africa scored five tries to one as they crushed Australia 33-7 in the opening match of the Rugby Championship in Brisbane on Saturday.
Marika Koroibete is a surprise absentee from the Wallabies team for Saturday’s Rugby Championship Test against South Africa at Suncorp Stadium.
Enea Bastianini of Ducati won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on Sunday to complete a weekend double, taking the chequered flag ahead of new world championship leader Jorge Martín and two-time MotoGP champion Francesco Bagnaia.
Having qualified second on the grid, Bagnaia had taken the lead over pole-sitter Aleix Espargaró on the opening lap but found himself in the battle for third in the second part of the race after Prima Pramac’s Martín overtook him with eight laps to go.
Continue reading...The British Horseracing Authority is currently trying to find both a new chair and new chief executive
The low-key but potentially significant squabble between Flutter Entertainment – the parent company of gambling brands including Paddy Power, Sky Bet and Betfair – and Arena Racing Company (Arc), which operates 16 British tracks, flared up again last week, when Sky Bet and Paddy Power took “a commercial decision” not to offer its customers early prices for the meeting at Lingfield on Wednesday afternoon.
The two firms’ decision to effectively boycott the card until a few minutes before the off-time of each racing was something of a delayed-drop payoff to a guest column by Ian Brown, Flutter’s CEO UK and Ireland, in the previous day’s Racing Post.
Continue reading...A new-look Wallabies side continued their rejuvenation under coach Joe Schmidt Saturday to overcome Georgia 40-29 in an entertaining one-off Test in Sydney.
England claimed a first under-20 world title since 2016 with a victory over France founded on their ruthlessly dominant scrum and a power-packed performance that will have Steve Borthwick licking his lips. Tries from the forwards Joe Bailey and Arthur Green sealed victory in Cape Town with England’s muscle up front proving too much for the defending champions.
England were unstoppable at scrum time, winning penalties at will less than a week after Borthwick had bemoaned the senior side’s set-piece problems. The props Asher Opoku-Fordjour and Afolabi Fasogbon may soon find themselves fast-tracked, such was their superiority in a pack that was missing its first-choice tighthead in Billy Sela. Others to burnish their reputations were the second-row Junior Kpoku and the flanker Henry Pollock in a performance that bodes well as Borthwick plots a course towards the 2027 World Cup.
Continue reading...The Wallabies will have a third captain in three games under new coach Joe Schmidt with Liam Wright failing to recover in time for Saturday’s clash with Georgia.