On 2 June Africa Rugby cancelled all its competitions. It hoped to be able to resume in the last quarter of the year but outlined all the obstacles that make it less than likely – not only the health risks, but the cost of travel and quarantine limitations. The next day Asia Rugby made a
Now rugby has come to a complete halt, we have the chance to look forward – with guarded optimism. The great unknown is of course the progress of coronavirus. How soon will it leave us? Will it disappear at roughly the same time right across the world? Every prospective test player has had her eye
The Tokyo Olympics have at last been postponed. It took a while for the IOC and the Japanese Olympic Committee to decide which of them would make the call, but now we know. What we don’t know is precisely when they will be staged in 2021. The most likely call will be exactly twelve months
Captain Heather Knight scored an unbeaten hundred as England Women beat Thailand to return to winning ways in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. Knight’s 108 saw her become the first English cricketer – male or female – to score hundreds in Test, ODI and IT20 cricket. The 169 she put on with Nat Sciver
Here are the fixtures and results for the ICC T20 Women’s World Cup. February 2020 Fri 21 February 08:00 (GMT) 10.00 (Local) Sydney Showground, Sydney Australia v India – India win by 17 runs Comments from our correspondent Julian Thompson: *As seen on SKY Sports TV, India beat Australia (115 all out, 19.4 overs) by
England Women’s final preparations for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup were dealt a surprising blow in Adelaide with a 10-wicket defeat to Sri Lanka. Heather Knight won the toss and batted first but her team – with a slightly rejigged order – never got going, losing regular wickets to Sri Lanka’s spinners and reaching just
World Rugby has announced the venues and schedule for the Rugby World Cup next year. Now we have the details, we can see the adjustments WR has made since the Irish World Cup three years ago. Despite its overall success it was sharply criticised on certain counts. First, the gaps between pool matches: these have
Typhoon Hagibis has hit the 2019 World Cup hard and caused a massive reaction from disappointed players, officials and spectators. It has its bearing too on the course of the next World Cup, to be fought out in New Zealand in two years time. As two greats of the Italian game, Leonardo Ghiraldini and Sergio
South Africa secured their return to the Women’s Rugby World Cup stage after lifting the inaugural Rugby Africa Women’s Cup title in Johannesburg on Saturday, defeating Kenya 39-0. The Springbok Women ran in seven tries at Bosman Stadium and ended the four-team tournament with three wins out of three. Victory means that South Africa have
Team Bath Netball co-captains Serena Guthrie and Eboni Usoro-Brown won a third successive bronze medal with England as the 2019 Netball World Cup came to an emotional conclusion in Liverpool. After a heartbreaking 47-45 defeat to eventual champions New Zealand denied them a first-ever World Cup Final place, the Vitality Roses dug deep to finish
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