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England off-spinner spent the Ashes carrying drinks but is determined to win back place with help of Mickey Arthur A new season dawns and for Shoaib Bashir it represents a new beginning. Overlooked by England for the entire Ashes despite two years of investment, and having had a nomadic career up to this point, the […]

Hooker Dewi Lake is a doubt for Wales’ Nations Championship campaign in July and will not play again for Ospreys before his move to Gloucester for the 2026-27 season.

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! The Championship – a league so chaotic it makes a piano falling down some stairs resemble a Zen garden – resumes with an old-fashioned Easter weekend double header. Automatic promotion, playoff places and the drop into the abyss all remain up for grabs,

Gabriele Gravina resigns as head of Italy’s football federation after they fail to qualify for a third World Cup in a row, while ex-goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon quits his role with the national team.

Anthony Belleau starts at fly-half as Northampton Saints make six changes for their Champions Cup last-16 tie against Castres at Franklin’s Gardens on Friday.

The pressure is on Football Australia to sustain interest in the national sides but luring elite opposition to play friendlies at home is ‘bloody difficult’ The memories flow freely: John Aloisi’s penalty, James Troisi’s Asian Cup winning-goal. There was Mile Jedinak’s hat-trick against Honduras, the wiggling Andrew Redmayne against Peru. Cortnee Vine from the spot,

‘Football infrastructure is among the worst in Europe’ Italy’s FA president resigns after World Cup failure The Uefa president, Aleksander Ceferin, has warned Italy it risks not being able to co-host Euro 2032 due to the condition of the country’s stadiums, which he called “some of the worst in Europe”. “Euro 2032 is scheduled and

The Lions of Mesopotamia have waited 40 years to return to the World Cup and they have had to do it the hard way If anyone deserves the chance to celebrate Iraq’s return to the World Cup it is Aymen Hussein and not just because the striker scored the winning goal in the final intercontinental

Visiting teams have won two of 24 last-16 ties, so it is no surprise players needing post-Six Nations rest skip trips The odds on multiple away wins in this weekend’s Champions Cup last 16 are not terribly good. Since the single-leg concept was born three years ago there have been 24 matches, with the hosts losing only two.

Colapinto abused over Bearman’s high-speed crash in Japan Former Alpine driver Ocon clashed with Colapinto in China The Alpine Formula One team have condemned on Thursday online abuse of their Argentinian driver Franco Colapinto for an incident in the Japanese Grand Prix as well as death threats directed at the team’s former racer Esteban Ocon