Gill would have been forgiven for leaving Edgbaston on Tuesday with his head in a spin. In his pre-match news conference he fended question after question about his team selection this week – mostly about whether his star bowler Jasprit Bumrah would play. The travelling India press pack is large and unrelenting. Gill struggled to...
Sibley, on 169 overnight, eventually added 334 in 53 overs with Lawrence, a fourth wicket record for Surrey against Durham. Lawrence cruised from 58 at the start of the day to 178 – his first-class career best – before slicing Daniel Hogg to point. Lawrence struck four sixes and 19 fours in an eye-catching 149-ball...
LeBron James is set to play in a record 23rd NBA season after his agent said the 40-year-old has exercised an option to extend his contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. Rich Paul said James, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, was targeting a fifth Championship after activating a $53m (£41m) player option for the 2025-26...
It was that record performance in Monaco which made Kipyegon believe sub-four – once considered physiologically impossible for a woman – was within reach. But the three-time Olympic 1500m champion still had a chasm to bridge, being required to run two seconds per lap faster than she had before. Kipyegon was kitted out in an...
Teenager Gout Gout set a new personal best and an Australian record with victory in the men’s 200m on his senior international debut at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava. The 17-year-old clocked 20.02 seconds in a highly anticipated first European meeting in the Czech Republic. The sprinter powered past Portuguese-based Cuban Reynier Mena, who...
Chocolate prices in the UK rose at the fastest pace on record in May as the overall cost of food continued to climb, official figures suggest. The main rate of inflation remained at 3.4% in the year to May. However, food prices grew for the third month in a row, as some economists speculated that...
Let’s start with the most impressive of all Gill stats: he has the second-best one-day international batting average of all time (59), sandwiched between the Netherlands’ Ryan ten Doeschate (67), who is on the India coaching staff for this tour, and Kohli (58) himself. Maybe it’s unfair to draw comparisons in Test cricket just yet,...
Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Hunter-Bell was last with 200m to go but overhauled all of her competitors, including world champion Mary Moraa, with a sensational sprint finish. Britain’s world indoor champion Amber Anning was third in the women’s 400m in a season’s best of 50.17 seconds, while Dina Asher-Smith ran 10.93 seconds to finish second...
Watch as Sweden’s Armand Duplantis sets a new world record of 6.28m in the men’s pole vault at the Diamond League in front of his home crowd in Stockholm. Read full article at source...
Alongside the impressive raw statistics, Coetzer – who captained Scotland for nine years – praised Sharif’s character and his desire to step up in high-pressure scenarios. “It was a pleasure to captain Saffy,” Coetzer said. “He would be willing to bowl the hard overs and those are the characters you want in your team. I...
Kate McGough Education producer, BBC News Getty Images There’s been a 44% increase in pupils in England needing support for special educational needs since 2016 Nearly one in five pupils in England are receiving support for special educational needs (SEN) in the classroom, according to government statistics. It comes as separate stats shows a sharp...
Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith was third in the women’s 100m, behind Olympic champion Julien Alfred and veteran Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith. Asher-Smith failed to make the 100m final at last year’s Olympics but is hopeful of better at this year’s World Championships in Tokyo in September. She said after running a season’s best 11.08 seconds: “I feel...
He surpassed the previous best of 175 scored by Calum MacLeod in 2014 and now has more than 5,000 runs for Scotland in all formats. The 32-year-old left-hander looked all set to carry his bat for a double century but was bowled by Vivian Kingma in the 49th over from the 150th ball he faced....
Spain record goalscorer Jenni Hermoso has been left out of their squad for the upcoming European Championships in Switzerland. Hermoso, 35, has scored 57 goals in 123 appearances for her national side and played a key role as Spain lifted the World Cup in Australia in 2023. The Tigres striker featured in all six qualifiers,...
Born in Newcastle and qualifying for Northern Ireland through her mother and grandfather, Furness made her senior international debut as a teenager in 2005 – shortly after the team had been reformed. Furness was integral to Northern Ireland’s historic qualification for Euro 2022, scoring five goals, and her dedication to her country was showcased in...