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The name of a cricketer before his time now adorns a contest of yesterday. The men’s domestic 50-over competition was renamed the Dean Jones Trophy on Friday following a fan vote and recommendation from the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame committee.

The Victorian –

who died of …

Rachael “Raygun” Gunn

The Australian Olympic breaker said on Thursday “we’ve come to an agreement” after a “wild ride” meaning the show could proceed with a different name and poster.

Prosecutors in

Peru

The investigation began after hired killers fired more than 40 rounds into a taxi carrying Andrea Vidal, a 27-year-old lawyer who worked in Congress, earlier …

Post Office executives have spent more than £130m of taxpayers’ money defending the company at the long-running inquiry into the wrongful prosecution of more than 900 workers, figures show.

The company’s annual report reveals that the company’s legal and running costs from the start of the inquiry in September 2020 …

Peter Mandelson is set to become Britain’s next ambassador to the US, the first time a politician has been appointed to the role for almost half a century.

It is understood that Keir Starmer is about to announce that Lord Mandelson, a former Labour minister and European commissioner for trade, …

Fast bowlers are the Formula One engines of a cricket team: purringly powerful when they want to be, painfully vulnerable when bits fall off. When a partnership works, and sticks – Lillee and Thompson, Ambrose and Walsh, Wasim and Waqar – they carry the team on their shoulders. When that …

Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury gazed at each other with menacing intensity for nearly a dozen unbroken minutes as Thursday’s evening press conference in Riyadh culminated in a face-off that tested the nerve and audacity of both men. It was an eye-watering ordeal for the fighters, who meet in the …

One person, at least, was clearly delighted by the political upheaval triggered in

Canada

Chrystia Freeland, who stood down on Monday, had clashed with

Justin Trudeau

Using the power of the social media platform he owns and the threat of spending millions against Republicans in primaries,

Elon Musk

The world’s richest man again flexed the muscle he gained during the …

Sir Bill Beaumont could be parachuted into the Rugby Football Union as interim chair in the event Tom Ilube falls on his sword amid the botched handling of the executive pay scandal engulfing the game.

The current RFU chair Ilube and Bill Sweeney, the chief executive, were due to be …