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Challenge Cup romance returns but has RFL’s revamp backfired?
New format was supposed to send Super League teams to lower-league grounds but things haven’t quite gone to plan
It is officially the start of the new Super League season this weekend, but not quite as you may remember it. The road to Old Trafford begins next Thursday when the reigning champions, Wigan, take on Leigh in a mouthwatering local derby. But before then, all 12 top-flight clubs enter a revamped and remodelled Challenge Cup much earlier than usual.
In recent years, Super League clubs have entered as late as round six. This year, they come into the competition at round three after the Rugby Football League decided to try to pump some magic into the cup’s earlier rounds by guaranteeing all Super League sides would be drawn away at lower-league opposition. However, it hasn’t quite gone to plan.
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Nathan Lyon and Mitchell Starc fire in second Test before Sri Lanka dig in
- Hosts reach 229-9 in Galle after surviving mini-collapse
- Paceman just misses hat-trick on see-sawing first day
Australia may have a fight on their hands to seal a rare subcontinent series win against Sri Lanka after a see-sawing first day of the second Test in Galle.
Nathan Lyon (three for 78) and Mitch Starc (three for 37) were Australia’s key men on a hot Thursday, the former orchestrating a Sri Lankan collapse before tea and the latter coming just short of a hat-trick after it. But the hosts showed improvement from their dismal series opener, finally able to piece together partnerships on a dusty wicket already offering plenty of turn. They finished the day at 229 for nine, with the deck likely to become very tricky for batters as the Test goes on. Kusal Mendis (59) and Lahiru Kumara (0) were unbeaten at the crease, the former batting with the kind of tenacity rarely seen from Sri Lanka in the first Test.
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After a day of swinging momentum, Sri Lanka has reached stumps in Galle on the first night of the Second Test of the Warne-Muralidaran Trophy still batting but having conceded the ascendancy to Australia after winning the toss.
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Boshoff says belief driving Wales U20s on
Aidan Boshoff says Wales U20 will go into Round 2 of the U20 Six Nations with the same level of confidence they took into their opening game in France and are ready to repeat last season’s victory over Italy. Having more than held their own against the French side in Vannes in the first half […]
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Wales name team for Italy match in Rome
Senior men’s head coach Warren Gatland has named the Wales team to play Italy in the second round of the 2025 Guinness Six Nations at Stadio Olimpico, Rome on Saturday 8 February (KO 14.15h GMT, live on ITV and S4C). Taulupe Faletau is named at No. 8 and will make his first appearance for Wales […]
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