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351,000… and counting: bumper Boxing Day Test breaks record for cricket crowd in Australia
Not even the great Don Bradman drew such a crowd. At the MCG on Monday, more than 50,000 fans had walked through the turnstiles by lunchtime, making the total attendance of the Boxing Day Test between Australia and India more than 351,000.
The five-day attendance tally, which was still growing …
Ukraine war briefing: Russia vows to retaliate after state media reportedly blocked on Telegram in EU
Russia has vowed to retaliate after the channels of its state media were apparently blocked on the popular Telegram social media platform in the EU.
On Sunday the channels of Ria Novosti news agency, Rossiya 1, Pervyi Kanal and NTV television, and Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspapers were …
Peter Wright dethrones PDC world champion Luke Humphries
Luke Humphries left this arena stunned and staggered, left it the victim of one of the greatest ambushes ever plotted on this stage, left it a former world champion. For an ailing and aging Peter Wright, the only conceivable reality in which he could win this match existed in his …
Brighterdaysahead’s emphatic win sends out warning for Cheltenham
A significant potential rival for Constitution Hill in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham emerged on the final day of Leopardstown’s Christmas meeting on Sunday, as Brighterdaysahead, a five-year-old mare trained by Gordon Elliott, came home 30 lengths clear of her rivals in the Grade One Neville Hotels Hurdle, with State …
Iosefa-Scott ensures Exeter hold off Gloucester to end 232-day wait for win
Everything is relative and Exeter are still languishing near the bottom of this season’s Gallagher Premiership table. The wave of ecstatic relief generated by this first league win for 232 days, though, was tangible. If they can reproduce the attitude and energy that delivered this long-awaited outcome, there could finally …
Rik Van Looy, who has died aged 90, was the most dominant one-day cycle racer of the 1950s and 60s, nicknamed “the Emperor of Herentals” (after the Belgian city in which he lived) or “the Wheel Breaker”. He ended his 18-year career with a tally of 371 professional road race …
His cricket was fierce but 156 summers later, has Australia done justice to Johnny Mullagh?
Sam Konstas lit up the MCG with his audacious ‘ramp’ shots in the fourth Test against India. But Johnny ‘Unaarrim’ Mullagh, Australia’s first Indigenous sporting hero was ramping 150 summers ago.
“Dropping on one knee to a fast rising ball, he would hold his bat over his shoulder and parallel …
Georgia’s pro-west president says she remains ‘only legitimate president’ as new leader sworn in
Georgia’s pro-western president, Salome Zourabichvili, has said she will leave the palace but remain the country’s legitimate officeholder, after refusing to hand over the keys to her successor in the wake of a controversial general election.
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Australia’s tail defies India after Bumrah fireworks to set up thrilling MCG finish
It’s not as though this series wasn’t already about Jasprit Bumrah. Since the very first evening of the first Test, when he tore up Australia’s top order in the fading light of Perth, he has been both the threat and the act of making good on it. Eight wickets there, …
Now Paris party is over, what does new year hold for GB’s Olympians?
Toby Roberts (gold, men’s boulder & lead
sport climbing)
Toby Roberts’ last New Year’s Eve is all a bit of a blur. It’s not that he was drinking – anything but – just that he was in the thick of such a hellish stretch of specialist winter training that the …