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Mitch Starc and Josh Hazlewood also rested ahead of busy summer Mahli Beardman and Lachlan Shaw set to make their team debuts Test captain Pat Cummins and fellow quicks Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood will be rested during Australia’s upcoming one-day and T20 series against England. Australia will play three ODIs and five T20 internationals, but Cummins, Starc and Hazlewood were not named in ei…

Any of the three remaining teams will provide a test for the Kangaroos, who have failed to shake off the errors and disconnection of their first two games The rugby league World Cup has reached the knockout stage and, from afar, it is business as usual for the Kangaroos. Three wins from three matches. Pursuing the trophy for the fourth consecutive time. In front of home fans, the humdrum front-ru…

Manager rues two dismissed penalty claims by referee Iraola complains ‘if you don’t go down, you don’t call it’ Andoni Iraola said he will instruct Liverpool players to go down in the box in future after Alexander Isak was denied a penalty during Arsenal’s first win at Anfield for 14 years. Liverpool were beaten by Kai Havertz’s early strike after a poor clearance from the goalkeeper ­Alisson but…

Goals from Khadija Shaw and Lauren Hemp helped Manchester City to escape from Bromley with three points after a thrilling encounter with London City Lionesses. It was a statement performance from the home team, despite the defeat delivering a blow to any title ambitions they may have been quietly holding on to before kick-off. The gap between the hosts and the champions is now six points, after H…

Unusually, all clubs in the top flight have the same manager with whom they began the season – but the first sacking may not be far away No Premier League manager has yet lost his job this season. In only three of the past 10 campaigns was November reached without a club making a managerial change. The 2026-27 season commencing with 11 managers who were appointed at some point in 2026 has probabl…

Eight injured in shooting outside Legion Field Annual game draws huge crowds to Birmingham One person was killed and eight others were wounded in a mass shooting outside Legion Field after the annual Magic City Classic football game on Saturday night, police in Birmingham, Alabama, said. Michael Pickett, chief of the Birmingham Police Department, said most spectators and families had left the sta…

Michael Carrick is now a little more pre-doomed, pre-sacked, but is miles away from being the actual story On and on and on. And then on just a little bit more it would seem. Manchester United: always crashing in the same Carrick. The obvious question after this 2-0 defeat against Chelsea is how much longer United will continue to lose games under the current manager, as opposed to losing games u…

20-year-old clinches title with four races to go Verstappen wins race ahead of Hamilton Kimi Antonelli closed out with the cool command of the greats to win the Formula One world championship by taking third place in the Mexican Grand Prix, a race won after no little drama by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, from the Ferrari of Lewis Hamilton who was left fuming with his teammate Charles Leclerc, who f…

Gardner Minshew’s heroics inspire Arizona Jackson needs surgery on injured thumb Chad Ryland kicked a winning 42-yard field goal in overtime after missing a PAT that would have won the game with six seconds left in regulation, and the Arizona Cardinals rallied for a wild victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. The Cardinals beat Dallas for the fifth consecutive time and improved to 5-0 at AT+T…

The 20-year-old Italian becomes the youngest F1 champion. From Shanghai to Mexico City, we look at his record-breaking season Continue reading...

From Jonathan Penrose to Bodhana Sivanandan, young talents have specialised in defeating established stars Nearly half a century ago, at Brighton 1977, the 10-time British champion, Jonathan Penrose, faced a 12-year-old boy, Nigel Short, in round three of the national title contest. Short already had a fast-growing reputation after defeating the legendary Viktor Korchnoi in a simultaneous display…

Afternoon began with talk of a title bid, but Arsenal looked more and more comfortable as the second half wore on Andoni Iraola had swatted aside any question that veered in the direction of Liverpool’s title credentials his press conference on Friday with two simple words. “Too early,” he would respond. The Liverpool head coach was dismissive in terms of the stage of the season but, as Arsenal d…

Coventry fan, 14, had photo of Lowery at Coventry game Bradley died aged six in 2017 with rare form of cancer A 14-year-old boy has “handed himself in” to West Midlands police after a video posted on social media appeared to show a Coventry fan taunting Sunderland with a photo of Bradley Lowery during the Premier League match on Saturday . Sunderland fan Bradley captured the hearts of the footbal…

Kenya’s Sheila Chepkirui wins second women’s title USA’s Jessica Jessica McClain finishes in second Sweden’s Andreas Almgren wins men’s race on debut Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya won the women’s race of the New York City Marathon on Sunday for the second time, while Sweden’s Andreas Almgren claimed the men’s title in his first ever race over the distance. Almgren was making his debut at 26.2 miles a…

Bellingham and Diomandé complete 3-0 win over Racing Lazio top Serie A after fighting back to beat Cagliari Kylian Mbappé moved on from a tumultuous week by scoring a penalty to help Real Madrid win 3-0 at Racing Santander on Sunday. The French forward narrowly lost out on the Ballon d’Or to Bayern Munich’s Harry Kane on Monday and then had to apologise after a social media storm following a vide…