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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Two slips for Anderson Phillip, Jones and Jennings, vigorous with early morning optimism. And it is justified! The ball after Zaib has fizzed one to the boundary, he slashes at a wide one with iron feet and is caught behind for … Read more

West Ham can defend and attack but not at the same time. They are paying the price for the errors made in the transfer market by their former technical director Tim Steidten. They have an ageing, unbalanced squad and it is not going to be easy for Kyle Macaulay, who has been in charge of … Read more

Heidi Long and Claire Collins have competed against each other at world championships and Olympic Games, so it is testament to the continued allure of the University Boat Race that both describe it as a “bucket-list event”. Having last met in the final of the Women’s Eight in Paris last summer, with Long winning bronze … Read more

Nikola Jokić will average a triple-double for the season, making the Denver star the third player in NBA history to pull off such a feat. It became statistically certain Friday night when Jokić got his fourth assist of Denver’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies. That assist was his 700th of the season – so, even … Read more

Isabella Nichols always expected this weekend to be a highlight of the year, she just thought it would be spent at her twin sister’s wedding rather than in waves off El Salvador. Lay days are the bane of every surfer’s existence. But that has proven particularly true for Nichols at Punta Roca, where the Queenslander … Read more

The defining image of the season that will never be forgotten at Newcastle may be Dan Burn powering that header into the Liverpool goal, or Eddie Howe drenched in detritus of lager discards as the team celebrated the club’s first domestic trophy since 1955. Equally, it could be the 300,000 fans who greeted the squad … Read more

The International Cricket Council is set to delay controversial plans to divide Test cricket into two divisions, with the next edition of the World Test Championship starting this summer to continue in a single-league format. The issue of two-tier Test cricket will be discussed at a series of ICC meetings in Zimbabwe this weekend but … Read more

English sport’s governing bodies are braced for central government funding cuts after the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, made her spring statement. In a joint conference call last month hosted by Sport England, the non-departmental public body responsible for allocating grassroots funding, representatives of the major sports formed the impression they were unlikely to be spared the … Read more

Rory’s revenge. Rory McIlroy had opted to keep his thoughts to himself after the wounding end to his first round at the 89th Masters. An inspired follow up by the Northern Irishman made it easy to assume he had taken things personally. Did you think the two double bogeys in four closing holes ended his … Read more

Jimmy Anderson is to be awarded a knighthood for “services to cricket” a year on from the final Test of his record-breaking England career. Anderson was widely tipped to have his previous OBE upgraded after retiring from international cricket last summer and on Friday was the only sportsperson to feature in the resignation honours list … Read more