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Friday, 23 August 2019
England boss Eddie Jones has named both Tom Curry and Sam Underhill in the XV to face Ireland in their World Cup warm-up at Twickenham.
Curry and Underhill have recovered from shoulder and ankle injuries...
Friday, 23 August 2019
Dimuth Karunaratne led Sri Lanka's slow but steady progress on a rain-hit first day at the P Sara Oval in Colombo. The Sri Lanka captain blunted the new ball and grew more fluent against the old one,...
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Full-back Stuart Hogg is the only player to be reselected in the starting Scotland side as several experienced campaigners return for this Saturday’s Test rematch against France at Murrayfield.
Scotland’s...
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Chaos has been a constant in Sri Lankan cricket in 2019. Captaincy change - check; coach sacking - check; interim committee - check; sports ministry interference - check; contract terminations - check.
Yet,...
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Wales have climbed to number one in the World Rugby Rankings for the first time since they were introduced in October 2003 after their win over England ended New Zealand’s 509 consecutive weeks on...
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
New Zealand captain Kane Williamson and senior pacer Trent Boult have been rested for the T20 leg of the ongoing Sri Lanka tour. In Williamson's absence, Tim Southee will...
Monday, 19 August 2019
France strolled to a comfortable 32-3 win over Scotland in their Rugby World Cup warm-up match at Allianz Riviera on Saturday.
Les Bleus scored five tries in total as Alivereti Raka, Maxime Medard (2),...
Monday, 19 August 2019
Dimuth Karunaratne played a big part in preserving his perfect record as Test captain as Sri Lanka brought up their third consecutive win since he took over, brushing New Zealand aside with a six-wicket...
Thursday, 15 August 2019
Crusaders wings George Bridge and Sevu Reece have been handed a chance to impress after being named in the All Blacks XV for their Bledisloe Cup encounter against Australia.
Bridge and Reece come in for...
Thursday, 15 August 2019
Ross Taylor's counter-punching innings kept New Zealand alive at the end of a strange day for the visitors, who seemed in control for the most part, except the periods immediately preceding the breaks....
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
Wales have announced that fly-half Gareth Anscombe will miss the upcoming World Cup with an anterior cruciate ligament injury suffered against England on Sunday.
The pivot sustained a knee injury late...
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
Some teams are chartable. They are open to analysis. The spreadsheets make sense. The planning leads somewhere. Gains are built upon. Weaknesses are minimised. They may retain the capacity to surprise,...
Monday, 12 August 2019
The Wallabies produced their best display, arguably since the last World Cup, to claim a rare Bledisloe Cup victory over the All Blacks following a 47-26 triumph in Perth on Saturday.
New Zealand did...
Monday, 12 August 2019
Six matches, five innings, two fifties. Average of 42.00, strike rate of 96.33. Not a bad start, you'd think, to life as an ODI batsman.
And yet, Shreyas Iyer didn't play another 50-over game...
Tuesday, 06 August 2019
All Blacks hooker Dane Coles is in no doubt the team’s focus will be fully applied to Saturday’s Bledisoe Cup Test with Australia in Perth.
Coles said looking at the first two games of the...
Tuesday, 06 August 2019
When the end came, it came painfully and quickly. God only knows the collateral damage. What we saw was the crumbling face of an England team that had the match in its hands after three...
Monday, 05 August 2019
Player background
John James Patrick Kirwan was born on 16 December 1964 in Auckland and is regarded as one of the great New Zealand wings. The back three player made his club debut in 1983 and played...
Monday, 05 August 2019
India sealed the T20I series in Lauderhill to throw open the possibility of experimenting when the two sides meet in the third and final match in Guyana on Tuesday. Unlike Saturday where both sides...
Friday, 02 August 2019
South Africa are Rugby World Cup contenders and their opening match against the All Blacks won’t matter when the tournament reaches its conclusion.
That’s the view of 2007 World Cup-winning...
Friday, 02 August 2019
In the afterglow of his stupendous 144 on the opening day of the Ashes series, Steven Smith has admitted there were times during his 12-month ban for the Newlands ball-tampering scandal where...
Friday, 23 August 2019 - 13:37
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Thursday, 15 August 2019 - 15:41
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Tuesday, 13 August 2019 - 15:52
Socks for Christmas? One should be so lucky. What was once the bugbear of its recipients is increasingly...
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