Author: Sports News UK
Until Stone’s final over, Yorkshire were heading top of the group after a superb run-chase at Headingley.Alex Lees blazed 73 from only 35 balls with six sixes to lead Durham to 205-9, with Ben McKinney also making 42 from 21 deliveries.Captain Jonny Bairstow got the chase off to the perfect start with 66 from 36 at the top of the order before Moeen Ali kept them alive by swinging seven sixes in his 60 from 32 balls.When Moeen fell, 38 were needed from 23 balls and it needed Matthew Revis to lift Kasey Aldridge down the ground for six to…
The WWE Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley has been out of action since Clash in Italy with prior reports suggesting a knee injury. As a result, she was not on the Night of Champions card. According to Fightful Select, she would have defended the WWE Women’s Title against either Jacy Jayne or Alexa Bliss at Night of Champions. Either Jacy Jayne or Alexa Bliss facing Rhea Ripley could have been at Night of Champions, if not for Rhea’s injury, @FightfulSelect has learned. We have a lot of news and notes in our DEBUNKATHON thread for subscribers. pic.twitter.com/Y88NMhPDC1— Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) July…
As Aryna Sabalenka marched towards a convincing victory over the ever-dangerous Jelena Ostapenko, she opted for a slight change of pace. Leading 6-4, 2-1 and 30-0, Sabalenka followed up a massive serve by immediately flitting to the net.She surely had visions of her serve and volley attempt ending in triumphant Tim Henman-esque fashion, but that is not quite how things played out. She instead misjudged the path of Ostapenko’s slow, lofty return, and her shanked smash landed harmlessly on the service line. Ostapenko calmly ended the point with a forehand passing shot winner.In her embarrassment, all the world No 1…
The future of Virgil van Dijk at Liverpool appears a little uncertain with the club prepared to listen to offers for their captain, Fulham keen on West Ham winger Crysencio Summerville while Inter Milan want Chelsea centre-back Trevoh Chalobah.Liverpool are willing to listen to offers for Dutch centre-back and club captain Virgil van Dijk this summer with the decision to renew the 34-year-old’s contract last year viewed with regret by some inside Anfield. (Teamtalk), external Fulham have joined the race to sign Crysencio Summerville, 24, from West Ham with Chelsea and Manchester United also interested in the Netherlands winger. (Guardian),…
In the dying embers of this pulsating match, Novak Djokovic morphed into a young Boris Becker, flying through the air to hit a diving backhand lob volley at match point. At this juncture his opponent, Arthur Rinderknech, was also on the floor after slipping at the net. And Centre Court? All 15,000 of them on their feet. And no wonder. Because this was a first-week mini-classic.There was little in Rinderknech’s grass court record of 15 wins and 18 defeats to suggest he could put the greatest player in history through the ringer, save for his victory over Alexander Zverev at…
The Tour de France starts while much of the sporting world’s focus is on the Fifa World Cup.Sixteen years have passed since Barcelona’s Andres Iniesta scored the goal that gave Spain their first World Cup title.Now he presides over the NSN Cycling team, who contest their first Tour de France and start their mission in the city where Iniesta has legendary status.Iniesta has one of the best riders in sprinter Girmay, but he also must deal with the headache of trying to run a cycling team which still has none of the free-market TV rights cashflow of the sport in…
Everything appeared to be going smoothly once again for Djokovic as he wrapped up his sixth and seventh successive sets at this year’s championships to assert himself against the big-hitting Rinderknech.Djokovic had delighted the audience with sumptuous shot-making up to that point, taking a bow and putting a finger to his ear after executing a volley at full stretch on his way to polishing off the opening set.That was a clear signal that he had found his rhythm following a start in which the players traded early breaks, but Rinderknech continued to ask questions as he forced an early break…
Chad Gable recently opened up about the wrestling legends who inspired him to pursue a career in professional wrestling. Gable revealed that several iconic names shaped his journey, with WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle playing a major role in his development. Gable is widely regarded as one of WWE’s best technical wrestlers. Many fans have compared him to Kurt Angle because of their Olympic backgrounds and elite in-ring abilities. Chad Gable names the WWE icons that made him want to wrestle Speaking on Good Karma Wrestling, Chad Gable was asked which matches or wrestlers first made him want to…
Naomi Osaka arrived on No 1 Court dressed for the occasion – as usual – in a flowing, flower-patterned robe but, 66 minutes later, her tennis was what had spectators on their feet after she dismantled Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-3 to reach the last 16 at Wimbledon for the first time.“I’m really happy,” Osaka said during her on-court interview. “I’ve actually never won on this court, so I’m just really glad to have made a really good memory here. It was a really big honour for me to play, so thank you.”The 14th seed has enjoyed the strongest grass-court swing…
Only St Mirren scored fewer goals than Aberdeen last season, with the Dons finding the net 40 times in 38 league matches. That rate was even poorer away from home.It is an issue they simply have to solve if they want to return to the top half of the table. So how might they go about it?No team played more long passes than St Mirren over Robinson’s four years in charge, while only Celtic and Rangers put more balls into the opposition’s box.They used three centre-backs with wing-backs consistently, sometimes with two strikers, but at other points with two advanced…