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Opener played through pain to establish himself as a Test cricketer ‘I didn’t want anyone to use it against me,’ he says Usman Khawaja has opened up on why he kept the rheumatoid arthritis that threatened his playing future a secret for his entire Test career. The former Test star releases his autobiography, Sabr, on 10 November, which he said he wrote “for people who do love cricket and for thos…

Guard stretchered off court after apparent serious injury Team will learn more about status on Monday Shai-Gilgeous Alexander scored 34 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder stayed undefeated but they lost All-Star guard Jalen Williams to what appeared to be a serious leg injury during their 108-101 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday night. Oklahoma City won their third straight game …

Sale centre returns after ending his two-year spell in France Gloucester’s Will Joseph also in Steve Borthwick’s 36-man squad Sale’s Joe Marchant and Gloucester’s Will Joseph are two notable inclusions among Steve Borthwick’s 36-man England squad, announced on Sunday, for the conclusion of the Nations Championship in November, with both boosting the head coach’s midfield options. The 30-year-old …

The wait goes on for David Moyes. The 63-year-old Scot must have been hoping that on his 14th visit to this stadium as Everton’s manager, his luck would change. Yet from the moment Ezri Konsa slammed home his first goal for Arsenal as the Premier League champions rediscovered their knack of scoring from set pieces, the writing was on the wall. While it took until midway through the second half fo…

25-year-old sets new global mark for race walk marathon Rising star slices 19 seconds off previous record despite rain Rebecca Henderson walked her way into the history books in Japan by becoming the first Australian track and field athlete in a generation to set a senior world record in a championship event. The rising 25-year-old from Dandenong set a new global mark for the race walk marathon –…

Championship leader wins from Leclerc and Verstappen 20yo should become youngest F1 champion next week Kimi Antonelli took a dominant victory at the US Grand Prix, with a controlled and composed drive to beat the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc into second place, but it was not quite enough for the Italian to seal his first Formula One world championship at the Circuit of the Americas. The coronation …

Thirteen years later, José Mourinho led Real Madrid into the Camp Nou, and he led them out again with a late, late victory that opens up a whole new world. With three minutes remaining and the energy with which they had played dropping, a wonderful piece of skill from Jude Bellingham found Eduardo Camavinga and set them on one last run on a night in which there were so many of them. Camavinga spr…

At long last, a weakness has been spotted. Finally, the 100% winning start ends for Manchester City, much to the pleasure of Manchester United, who struck late through Elisabeth Terland to claim a point in a well-contested and at times breathless Manchester derby. Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw’s second-half strike appeared to have settled the game and kept the defending champions top of the table, and it …

Bucs rout Panthers in Baker Mayfield’s return Browns move to 5-2 with late win over Titans Jets hand Dolphins their first win of the season Michael Penix Jr threw three touchdown passes, Atlanta scored 13 points off four turnovers and the Falcons handed the San Francisco 49ers their first loss, 29-20. San Francisco were already thin at wide receiver before its offense faced additional limitations…

Job in balance after 3-0 home defeat by Bournemouth Howe is director of football Jason Wilcox’s top candidate Manchester United’s hierarchy are in crisis talks over whether or not to sack Michael Carrick as manager after he oversaw another torrid defeat , to Bournemouth at Old Trafford on Sunday, that appeared to leave his job in the balance. Carrick was defiant after the 3-0 humbling, insisting …

Leaving out his captain was doomed to fail but so are the club under its current leadership, and the fans at Old Trafford know that all too well Dropping your captain, the man that has held the team together for most of the past five years, is a bold move from a man whose job is on the line. It was very much a make-or-break decision from Michael Carrick to leave out Bruno Fernandes against Bourne…

Harlequins 33-15 Saracens England fly-half marks 200th appearance in style Marcus Smith celebrated his 200th Harlequins match in magnificent style. Perhaps there is a danger, at times, of taking his immense talent for granted, but the 27-year-old was simply unstoppable here. A powerful visiting Saracens side barely got a look-in, with Smith giving a reminder of his prodigious ability on the day S…

England blow victory chance after hosts were 154 for nine Shadab makes unbeaten 113 as he and Haris Rauf win thriller Shadab Khan whipped the rug from under England’s boots with an eye-popping blitz of boundary-peppering when hope was lost, turning an English sure-thing into defeat and guaranteeing Pakistan a place in the tri-series final. With Pakistan 154 for nine in their run-chase, 88 away fr…

Brighton’s emphatic run was blown off course at Anfield as Liverpool moved up to fourth with an appetite and urgency at both ends of the pitch that showed Andoni Iraola’s methods taking root. It is Liverpool, convincing winners on home soil for the first time this season in the Premier League, who looked upwardly mobile. Florian Wirtz was instrumental in an opening goal officially credited to Bri…

The first half was one of the worst 45 minutes of football in Premier League history. The pass completion rate was a meagre 72.8%, although it felt lower. There were only two shots on target. The sun kept popping out from behind the clouds to take a look, and then going back in again, appalled. And the really bad news for Crystal Palace is that, for them, that was the good bit. Newcastle were muc…