Skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt hits an unbeaten 55 as England easily chase down an 82-run target inside ten overs to beat West Indies by nine wickets and take a 2-0 lead in the three match T20 series. MATCH REPORT: England Women v West Indies Women – second T20 Available to UK users only. Read full article...
England took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the T20 series with a dominant nine-wicket thrashing of West Indies at Hove. Chasing just 82 to win, England reached their target off 9.2 overs with new captain Nat Sciver-Brunt unbeaten on 55 from 31 balls and Sophia Dunkley scoring 24 not out. Danni Wyatt-Hodge fell to the...
The Golden Shoe, also known as the European Golden Boot, is presented each season to the leading goalscorer in league matches from the top division of a European national league. The trophy is a sculpture of a golden football boot. The award, originally called Soulier d’Or – French for Golden Shoe – was launched in...
“The season really hinges on what happens next week in the Scottish Cup final,” said Sportscene pundit and former Scotland player Michael Stewart when reviewing Aberdeen’s final league game of the season at Dundee United and their campaign in general. A few days prior, former Pittodrie and Celtic Park defender Charlie Mulgrew, commenting after Aberdeen’s...
No wonder, given how special it was for him and his club. The goal was Johnson’s 20th of the season for club and country – his best return in a single campaign – and gave Spurs their first piece of silverware since 2008. “I’m so happy right now,” he said. “This season has not been...
Speak to those behind the scenes and they will explain injuries have been the most pertinent factor behind Tottenham’s predicament. Son Heung-min, Dominic Solanke, Dejan Kulusevski, Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven, Richarlison and Guglielmo Vicario among many others have spent extended spells on the sidelines this season – many of them with muscular issues....
Neither side were brilliant or particularly adventurous in a dull first half, but it was Tottenham who got the breakthrough when Brennan Johnson bundled in from close range. After that it was all about defending what they had. In the second half they had just one touch inside the opposition box, did not have a...
Matches: 49. Wins: 22. Draws: 12. Losses: 15. Goals scored: 86. Goals conceded: 58. During his playing career, Postecoglou was a defender and represented Australia four times and in 2013 he got the chance to become his country’s national manager. At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Australia finished bottom of a tough group that...
Sophia Dunkley’s superb unbeaten 81 propels England to a comfortable eight- wicket victory in the first T20 of the summer against West Indies at Canterbury. Read full article at source...
England’s new era under captain Nat Sciver-Brunt and coach Charlotte Edwards started with a comfortable eight-wicket win in the first T20 against West Indies in Canterbury. The tourists posted 146-7 after captain Hayley Matthews’ superb unbeaten century, but England made light work of the chase by reaching the target in 16.3 overs thanks to Sophia...
Paul Stirling became the first Irish player to reach 10,000 international runs as Ireland comfortably beat West Indies in the opening one-day international at Clontarf. A 109-run partnership between Andrew Balbirnie (112) and record-breaking captain Stirling (54) set Ireland on course for victory as they reached 303-6. Stirling has scored 5,979 runs in ODIs, 3,656...
Indian writer-lawyer-activist Banu Mushtaq has scripted history by winning the International Booker prize for the short story anthology, Heart Lamp. It is the first book written in the Kannada language, which is spoken in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, to win the prestigious prize. The stories in Heart Lamp were translated into English by...
It was Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes who stepped in to tell Ruben Amorim he was under pressure heading into the Europa League final. The reality is different – even if Amorim can’t explain why. But he does feel his team may be looked at “in a different way” if they can beat Tottenham in...
Fourteen-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi impressed again with 57 in Rajasthan Royals’ six-wicket victory over Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League. Suryavanshi, who became the youngest player to hit a professional men’s T20 century earlier in the tournament, showed maturity beyond his years in accelerating after a careful start in pursuit of 188. He scored...
President Trump signed a bill against revenge porn into law today at a White House ceremony. It’s called the “Take It Down Act” because in addition to criminalizing revenge porn it also requires social media companies to remove images posted without consent within 48 hours. The Take It Down Act makes publishing such content illegal,...