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CNN — Lando Norris held off multiple challenges from his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri to win a thrilling Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday afternoon. Having started in pole position, the Briton led for all but a few gripping seconds in lap 11. With the McLaren team giving permission for its drivers to fight it out, Piastri darted in front of Norris at turn three, only for Norris to snatch the lead back at turn four. The Australian was undeterred, trying again in lap 20 but he locked up and nearly went into the back of his teammate’s car. Later warned…
CNN — Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca hit out at the Club World Cup organizers and suggested the United States is not a suitable host for the competition after his team’s last-16 win over Benfica was disrupted by a two-hour weather delay. “For me personally, it’s not football. It’s already seven, eight, nine games that they suspended here. I think it’s a joke,” he told reporters after Chelsea’s dramatic, extra time 4-1 win on Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina. “I can understand that for security reasons, you have to suspend the game. But if you suspend seven or eight games, that…
CONCUSSION REPLACEMENT Brian Bennett was hit on the head when he was on 19 © Getty Brian Bennett, the Zimbabwe opener, has been ruled out of the remainder of the first Test against South Africa in Bulawayo after being diagnosed with a mild concussion following a blow to his helmet on Sunday (June 29). Prince Masvaure has been named Bennett’s replacement for the rest of the game. Bennett was struck on his helmet by a bouncer from Kwena Maphaka in the sixth over of Zimbabwe’s innings – he tried to play a pull shot but missed the ball. He was…
INDIA WOMEN TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 Smriti Mandhana scored her maiden T20I hundred in the first game against England © Getty Smriti Mandhana has revealed how a conversation with her teammate Radha Yadav spurred her to score her maiden T20I hundred. “Three days back, me and Radha Yadav, we were having a conversation,” Mandhana said. “These girls are really hard on me sometimes. She was telling me, ‘It’s high time you get a century in T20Is, you keep getting out in the 70s, 80s and you are not doing justice to your talent and all of that stuff.’ “I was…
Pakistan thrashed hosts South Korea 91-6 at the Asian Youth Netball Championship on Sunday to mark their third consecutive win of the tournament. The green shirts had a strong first quarter to lead 23-2 and extended their lead to 45-3 by halftime. The score was 70-4 in the third quarter, and the women managed to end the game 91-6 to sit at the top of the rankings of Pool B. According to details, Leya Raza Shah, Alisha Naveed, Haleema, Sarina Hussain, Jasmine Farooq, Farah Rasheed , Amani, Parisa , Sumayya Ahmed and Alina were recognised as outstanding players in the…
CNN — Just over a year ago, Matthew Schaefer lost his mother, Jennifer, to breast cancer. Now, he’s achieved the ultimate milestone – becoming an NHL player. The 17-year-old was selected by the New York Islanders with the first overall pick in the 2025 NHL draft on Friday in Los Angeles. An emotional Schaefer, a defenseman from the Ontario Hockey League’s Erie Otters, was greeted by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on the stage at the Peacock Theater, and was presented with an Islanders sweater that included a breast cancer ribbon stitched onto the jersey. Schaefer kissed the ribbon before breaking…
MLC 2025 Shimron Hetmyer smashed 26-ball 64 in his team’s win © Sportzpics Seattle Orcas made it two wins in two days, chasing down 203 against Los Angeles Knight Riders to move up to fourth on the table. Shimron Hetmyer was once again the stand-out player, finishing unbeaten on 64 off 26 and hitting the winning six off the penultimate ball. The run chase began poorly though, with Josh Brown falling for a two-ball duck in the first over. But Aaron Jones, promoted to No.3, and Shayan Jahangir steadied things with a 119-run stand for the second wicket as Jones…
CNN — Spanish soccer star Aitana Bonmatí has been hospitalized with viral meningitis just days before the start of the Women’s Euros on Wednesday, her manager Montse Tomé said. The 27-year-old had a fever on Thursday evening and was taken to the hospital on Friday when her condition did not improve, according to Tomé. “She is the first to authorize me to say this and the first who wants it to be said: she has viral meningitis,” Tomé said in a press conference Friday following Spain’s 3-1 friendly victory over Japan, which Bonmatí missed. “The word is definitely scary, but…
Familiar foe awaits in Guyana Rohit once again led the way in the cut-throat semi-final with his third half-century of the tournament, but 171/7 seemed a gettable score for England with their strong batting line-up. It was England openers Jos Buttler and Phil Salt that were causing much concern for Rohit and it was Bumrah that once again delivered on the biggest stage to remove the dangerman and put his side on the path to victory and a place in the final. “If you take early wickets in the Powerplay, half the job is already done as those early breakthroughs…
MLC 2024 A win will guarantee the Super Kings a place in the playoffs, while also putting them in a three-way tussle for a top-two spot © MLC Nicholas Pooran was left exasperated and frustrated on the field in MI New York’s failed defence of 237/4 just two nights ago in Dallas. He and Tajinder Dhillon had done all the heavy-lifting in the first half of the game, only for the bowlers to squander an opportunity to kick on after a lethargic start to the season. At the end, Pooran doffed his hat to Shimron Hetmyer for his scintillating 95…