Category: Sport

Tymal Mills has been ruled out of the remainder of the T20 World Cup after scans confirmed a significant thigh strain and has been replaced in the England squad by Surrey’s Reece Topley. The news represents a significant blow for England, with Mills bringing express pace, knowledge of local conditions and a skill set uniquely […]

Desperately needed and preferably before the visit of Manchester City on Saturday: the vital percentage that could yet transform Manchester United’s expensively assembled footballers into the forces they are billed as and give the besieged Ole Gunnar Solskjær what he craves – stability and control. As Bonfire Night nears this is a dominant strand in […]

Hugo Lloris has called for unity and commitment in the Tottenham dressing room as he urged his teammates to seize the opportunity of working under Antonio Conte. The captain wanted to look ahead and there is little doubt that the arrival of Conte as the manager has energised the club after the damp squib that […]

Cameron Norrie kept himself in contention to win a spot at the ATP Finals as he coolly navigated a second round match at the Rolex Paris Masters, beating Reilly Opelka of the US 6-3, 6-4. Norrie’s victory takes him into the last 16 in Paris and brings him another milestone in what has been a […]

Scottie Pippen has reiterated his dissatisfaction with Michael Jordan’s outsized influence on The Last Dance, the wildly popular ESPN/Netflix docuseries on the Chicago Bulls’ glory years of the 1990s. Pippen, the Hall of Fame small forward and Jordan’s most important teammate during their run of six NBA championships in eight years, describes in a forthcoming […]

Raphaël Varane has been ruled out for a month with a hamstring injury in a serious blow to Manchester United. Ole Gunnar Solskjær is set to be without the World Cup-winning defender for up to five matches, starting with Saturday’s visit of Manchester City. Varane suffered the injury in the first half of Tuesday’s 2-2 […]

India barely got going in their first two matches of the T20 World Cup, but when they finally did in this, their third, it was with a brand of cricket few teams would have been able to resist. Afghanistan were subjected here, succumbing to a crushing 66-run defeat. Virat Kohli lost the toss once more […]