Category: Sports

The Spin’s annual selection marks a history-making World Cup triumph for India, and work to do for England India’s mission to build a global women’s cricket dynasty advanced apace in 2025. Few will forget the sight of Harmanpreet Kaur’s team converging joyously on the field at the DY Patil Stadium...

Governing body is unlikely to commission any formal inquiries, having lost control of the sport’s governance and operations The England and Wales Cricket Board will have few shots to play in its review of the Ashes tour when it meets next month to sift through the wreckage of the series....

Five-time major champion looks poised to become a fascinating test case for golf’s future after exiting Saudi-funded breakaway tour It was portrayed as amicable when it felt so inevitable. News that Brooks Koepka will step away from LIV Golf in 2026 comes as no shock. This never felt a particularly...

Algeria win 3-0 as Adel sees red | Burkina Faso 2-1 E Guinea Côte d’Ivoire 1-0 Mozambique | Cameroon 1-0 Gabon Riyad Mahrez scored twice as Algeria launched their Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a comfortable 3-0 Group E win against 10-man Sudan in Rabat. The Desert Warriors were...

FA Cup-winning manager and former King of the Jungle has live hopes of landing the big Boxing Day prize at Kempton with Jukebox Man He has been a professional footballer, an FA Cup-winning manager and the King of the Jungle over the storied course of the past 60 years, but...

Opening salvos before a huge MCG crowd are often among the most memorable meetings between Australia and England – here are five crackers In the first session Australia set off at a lick, surging to 102 without loss with David Warner’s 83 the crux. Warner would go on to notch...

‘It’s impossible to replace Bruno … we need more leaders’ United host Newcastle in Premier League on Boxing Day Ruben Amorim has described Bruno Fernandes as “impossible to replace” but has told Manchester United’s players the captain’s injury is a chance for them to step up. Fernandes was forced off...

Egypt forward could change face of a league so far mostly reliant on ageing stars and alter perception of football in the Arab world Mohamed Salah has made an impact in Morocco with an injury-time winner to spare Egypt’s blushes in their Africa Cup of Nations opener against Zimbabwe but...

The England men’s cricket MD offered a postmortem that didn’t address the nuts and bolts of the system he manages “It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever.” David St Hubbins, lead vocalist, Spinal Tap. “There’s a real difference between aggressive and dumb.” Rob Key, managing director, England cricket....

Ownership of Frauen-Bundesliga is being taken over by the clubs, who want to keep pace with game in England “The reason we started this whole process was a fear of losing more and more the connection to the top,” says Katharina Kiel, the head of women’s football at Eintracht Frankfurt....