Martin Andersson gave his former team-mates a reminder of his qualities with a career-best century to put Derbyshire firmly in control of the County Championship Division Two match against Middlesex at Derby. The ex-Middlesex all-rounder scored 107 and shared a county record sixth-wicket stand of 148 with Luis Reece, who made 60, to lift Derbyshire...
Durham beat Worcestershire by six wickets inside two days in a bowler-dominated County Championship match at New Road. After 16 wickets fell on the first day, 14 fell in the first two sessions of the second on a pitch which the seamers would like to carry round in their kit bag. Durham trailed by 26...
Americans Lindy Duncan and Sarah Schmelzel, Japan’s Mao Saigo and South Korea’s Hyo Joo Kim are a shot behind Liu. South Korea’s Haeran Ryu shared the overnight lead with Liu but made a 74 to slip back joint-sixth on five under for the tournament. China’s Weiwei Zhang was also on five under after 15 holes...
Surrey finally broke through in the third over after lunch. Atkinson produced a fine delivery which nipped away at decent pace and Vaughan (36) was held at second slip. Worrall got a deserved success with a ball which shaped away that Tom Abell edged low to second slip for a duck, but Lammonby and Tom...
Ben Green notched his maiden five-wicket haul in first-class cricket as Leicestershire bowled out Gloucestershire for 252 on the opening day of their County Championship match at the Seat Unique Stadium in Bristol. The 27-year-old all-rounder, on loan from Somerset, exploited overcast conditions to claim 5-63 from 17 overs with his medium-paced seamers. Ian Holland...
In the first 10 overs of the afternoon session, there were only seven scoring shots and three of those were edges to the vacant third man boundary. The pair faced 73 dot balls in the first hour until Lloyd relieved some of the tension by cutting and pulling Ryan Higgins for two fours. Former Glamorgan...
England’s Josh Tongue picked up a second consecutive five-wicket haul at Trent Bridge as Nottinghamshire dismissed Sussex for 169 on the opening day of their County Championship clash. The two counties began the day sharing the early Division One lead but the home side have the upper hand so far after Tongue, in only his...
Somerset loanee Jake Ball took five wickets on his Durham debut to help his new team take the early honours in their County Championship match at New Road. But Worcestershire struck back before the close on a day when 14 wickets fell in the Division One clash. Ball took 5-47 as the Pears were dismissed...
The three-day, 54-hole event features players with handicaps ranging from one to +5 and runs until Sunday. It was first played at Fulford, York,, external in 2018, introduced as part of The R&A’s drive to boost the girls’ game in Great Britain and Ireland and provide a pathway to the elite amateur level for leading...
Northern Ireland’s Mark Allen compiled an incredible 147 maximum break during his World Championship last-16 match against Chris Wakelin. Allen was trailing 10-2 at the time after losing all four previous frames in the morning session on Friday. He went straight to the practice table in the mid-session interval and then produced snooker’s moment of...
England’s Georgia Hall is four shots off the lead at the first women’s golf major of the season, with world number one Nelly Korda slumping to a 77 at the Chevron Championship. Hall scored a round of 69 on day one in Texas, while defending champion Korda sits 12 shots back from leaders Haeran Ryu...
Players from eight countries have won snooker’s most prestigious title and become world champion – but China is still waiting for its first success. Could 2025 be the year that changes? This season’s World Championship last 16 includes six Chinese players – Ding Junhui, Lei Peifan, Pang Junxu, Si Jiahui, Xiao Guodong and Zhao Xintong...
The World Championship had lived a nomadic existence before promoter Mike Watterson took it to the Crucible almost half a century ago, heeding the advice of his wife, Carole, who had watched a play in the theatre and felt it had just the right attributes to stage a snooker event. It is where the sport’s...
Former world champion Luca Brecel fought back from 5-1 down to beat Ryan Day 10-7 and move into the last 16 of the 2025 World Championship at the Crucible in Sheffield. Belgium’s Brecel had won the last three frames of Wednesday’s first session to trail 5-4, only for Welshman Day, ranked 36th in the world,...
In Tuesday’s first session against two-time Crucible finalist Carter, neither player was at their best, with it seemingly finely balanced at 5-4 to O’Sullivan. But on Wednesday, ‘The Rocket’ was in sensational form, winning all five frames and not letting Carter score a point in four of them. O’Sullivan made breaks of 59, 117, 74,...