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The end comes quickly for India’s fading champions ahead of Test series finale | Geoff Lemon
Australian tours have a habit of making or breaking Test careers. VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid destroyed Australia’s world-record winning streak at Kolkata in 2001, overcoming one of the greatest teams and its champion bowlers Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath. By 2012, Australia’s home grounds ended Laxman and Dravid, four …
Thursday briefing: Why Kemi Badenoch’s rough start as Tory leader shouldn’t be a surprise
Good morning. I hope you had a restful Christmas and New Year, spent in a spirit of calm and conviviality. Kemi Badenoch, the already embattled new leader of the Conservative party, spent hers on the front pages after picking an extravagantly unnecessary fight with Nigel Farage over
the reliability …
The nameless dead: scientists hunt for identities of thousands who tried to reach Europe
Four years ago, the remains of a toddler encased in a lifejacket and a navy snowsuit washed up on a beach in southern Norway, having spent the previous two months being carried on North Sea currents. Though his face was barely recognisable, publicity about the sinking of the migrant boat …
A quarter of a century on: what we got right and wrong about sport’s future
Luke Littler dismantles Aspinall to make PDC world championship last four
Nathan Aspinall probably thinks he just took part in a game of darts. And look, his name was definitely on the scoreboard, and you may have glimpsed him on your television grinning away in the background, and in a few days’ time there will be a hefty bank transfer from …
Michael van Gerwen edges Callan Rydz in epic at PDC world championship
They call 1 January the greatest day in the darting calendar. Come back in another 364 days to see if there’s been a better match than this. Michael van Gerwen is a world championship semi-finalist again, beating Callan Rydz 5-3, and even if the bare facts of the transaction feel …
Tweaking the Olympics cycle is a champion idea | Letters
Sean Ingle’s suggestion of holding the Olympics every two years is an interesting one (
Paris Olympics were great, so why not hold summer Games every two years?, 30 December
). However, another option would be to take some or all of the indoor sports out of the summer …If smart AI is so scary, why even develop it? | Brief letters
It’s a washout: how Sydney’s Test cricket rain curse stops play and leaves Australian cities in its wake
Even if it doesn’t rain at the New Year’s Test this year, and the forecast a day before the first ball is promising, history suggests it would be safer to hold the match earlier in the cricket season. At least 26 full days of play have been rained out at …
Boulter’s win helps to see off Australia and fiance De Minaur in United Cup
As the Great Britain and Australian teams lined up ahead of their highly anticipated United Cup tussle, Alex de Minaur and Katie Boulter savoured the last moment of peace in their household for the day, greeting each other on-court with a friendly kiss on the cheek. Then they retreated to …