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His football diplomacy has also risked colliding with his domestic priority of a massive crackdown on immigration. Donald Trump still seems unsure whether to call it soccer or football. But the US president’s aim is truer when using the world’s favorite sport to score diplomatic goals. Trump will try to do so again Friday when he meets the leaders of 2026 World Cup co-hosts Canada and Mexico at the tournament’s draw in Washington. As the first World Cup hosted by three countries simultaneously, it should be a golden opportunity to show North American unity, with the three leaders reportedly set…
Melbourne Stars have surged back up the WBBL table this season and spinner Sophie Day is playing a leading role in their success Sophie Day has credited the faith placed in her by the Melbourne Stars’ coaching staff for her outstanding Weber WBBL|11, as the Stars target second spot on the table. The left-arm spinner currently sits second on the wickets table after nine matches, with 16 wickets at 9.31, and an economy rate of 6.67, to her name.It’s her second most prolific season with the ball since she broke into the Big Bash in 2020, second only to the 27…
The Hobart Hurricanes will host the WBBL|11 final, after the Renegades kept themselves alive with a six-wicket victory over the Sydney Sixers. Melbourne Renegades v Sydney Sixers | WBBL|11 Melbourne Renegades duo Georgia Wareham and Courtney Webb have produced a match-winning partnership to sink the Sydney Sixers and keep their faint finals hopes for WBBL|11 alive. The result means the Hobart Hurricanes cannot be knocked out of top spot and will host the Final on Saturday, December 13. Chasing 131 for victory at the CitiPower Centre, Wareham (49 not out) and Webb (33no) took the Renegades to 4-134 from 16.2…
England opener content facing the five-pronged Aussie pace attack at the Gabba as debate continues over the role of spin in pink-ball cricket Australia v England | Second Ashes Test | Day One Australia’s controversial decision to drop Nathan Lyon may have played into England’s hands, Zak Crawley has admitted, with the opener explaining he found it easier to find his rhythm facing an all-pace attack. Lyon told Channel 7 he was “absolutely filthy” to have been axed for the second Ashes Test after also missing the last day-night Test on tour of West Indies in July. It is just…
History awaits the Hurricanes as they approach their last game of the regular Weber WBBL|11 season against the Strikers on their home deck Hobart Hurricanes are one win away from their first Weber WBBL|11 Final, as they prepare to take on a Laura Wolvaardt-less Adelaide Strikers outfit on Friday night. The Hurricanes are three points clear in top spot with a game to play, and only third-ranked Sydney Sixers, who have a game in hand, are capable of getting between them and a home final at Ninja Stadium on December 13.Victory over the Strikers will put it beyond doubt, and…
Australia spinner Nathan Lyon made no secret of his disappointment at being dropped for the second Ashes Test in Brisbane, saying he felt “filthy” and was “gutted” at the decision.Lyon has 562 Test wickets, putting him seventh all-time in the format, while he’s third among Australians, trailing only the legendary Shane Warne (708) and Glenn McGrath (563), who he is only one wicket behind. Yet, the off-spinner was dropped for his first home Test since 2012, with Michael Neser picked ahead of him in an all-pace attack for the day-night contest at The Gabba. “Absolutely filthy,” Lyon said in an…
Joe Root not only notched a first Test hundred in Australia but delivered “the innings of his life” on day one of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane, according to Sky Sports’ Michael Atherton. Still wearing the wounds of their two-day defeat to Australia in the series-opener in Perth, Ben Stokes’ side looked in huge trouble again at 5-2 when Root walked out to the middle. But England’s all-time leading run-scorer hit a sublime hundred, his 40th in Test cricket, and ended the day 135 not out as the tourists closed on 325-9 at The Gabba. “It’s been a long time…
Kazi Salahuddin, the long-serving president of the South Asian Football Federation, has for long envisaged a club championship for the region. His long-cherished dream of his is on the cusp of reality but perhaps even he wouldn’t have thought that women footballers from the region would beat their male counterparts to it. However, with the strides the women’s game has made in South Asia, it is instead the SAFF Women’s Club Championship, which kicks off in Nepal from Friday, that will herald the start of a tournament for clubs in the region. “I believe this was the right time to…
There were two telling contributions to the Gabba’s opening day by batters with Yorkshire roots. It remains to be seen which one could yet prove match-defining Australia v England | Second Ashes Test | Day One In the scheme of things, Joe Root’s drought-breaking Australian century may end up being rivalled as this Test’s most telling contribution by a batter with Yorkshire roots. This was surely not how Josh Inglis envisaged making his first impact on the rivalry between his country of birth and the one he now represents with pride. Alex Carey told the ABC it was “one of…
Australia v England | Second Ashes Test | Day One Twelve years, 13 days and exactly 1,000 runs on from his first Test outing in Australia, the seemingly ageless Joe Root at last conquered his final run-scoring frontier. Throughout an opening day where Australia seemed to make the right inroads at the right times until a disastrous final 40 minutes, Root stood tall for England, carving out a superb unbeaten 135 that will cement his legacy as one of the finest batters his country has produced. It was fitting that it happened at the Gabba, where Root played his maiden…