Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon has signed for Worcestershire for the duration of the Champions Trophy, the English county side confirmed on Tuesday. Lyon — who has taken 247 wickets in 67 Tests — replaces pace bowling compatriot John Hastings who will compete in the 50-over tournament from June 1-18. “Nathan has been mainly playing Test cricket for Australia and is available for Worcestershire as he has not been picked for the Champions Trophy, Australia having selected a couple of batting...
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Ashley Young has challenged Manchester United to storm to the finish line in the race to make the Premier League’s top four, while Liverpool aim to take another step towards the Champions League. With leaders Chelsea and second placed Tottenham clashing in the FA Cup semi-finals, the fight for Premier League supremacy is on hold until next week, but there is still plenty at stake in this weekend’s fixtures. Significantly, the other FA Cup semi-final features Arsenal and Manchester City...
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho must rally a fatigued and foundering team this weekend as he rekindles an increasingly thorny rivalry with his former club Chelsea, the Premier League leaders.United have drawn five of their last six home games and go into Sunday’s Old Trafford showdown on the back of a leggy 1-1 draw at Anderlecht in the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final.They are far from ideal conditions in which to be preparing an ambush of the champions-elect,...
West Ham winger Michail Antonio will miss the rest of the season after suffering a serious hamstring injury. Antonio was forced off during the first half of West Ham’s 1-0 win over fellow strugglers Swansea last weekend.Hammers boss Slaven Bilic confirmed on Friday that the 26-year-old’s injury is significant enough to rule him out for the remainder of the campaign. Antonio, who had just returned to the side following a similar injury, pulled up moments before half-time and was unable...
Only in England, perhaps, could a competition that’s still at least three years away provoke so much passionate debate.Yet that is the situation the English game finds itself in on the eve of the 2017 County Championship, its domestic first-class tournament, that starts on Friday.Rather than talking about whether Middlesex can retain the title they won in dramatic fashion last season, when a hat-trick from paceman Toby Roland-Jones completed a victory over defending champions Yorkshire at Lord’s on the final...
British Prime Minister Theresa May will make a major statement to parliament on Tuesday, just hours after MPs enabled her to start the withdrawal process from the European Union.After weeks of wrangling, lawmakers on Monday finally granted May the right to trigger Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, which would start the two-year divorce process with the bloc.The bill still requires the formality of royal assent from Queen Elizabeth II to become law, which could come as early as...
Britain’s Anthony Joshua says he is prepared to play the waiting game in his world heavyweight super-fight against veteran Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko at London’s Wembley Stadium on Saturday. Joshua, 14 years Klitschko’s junior, is expected to attack the 41-year-old with the same explosiveness that has seen him win all 18 of his professional contests to date. But while many observers believe the longer the fight goes on, the more it will play into Klitschko’s hands, Joshua says he is prepared...
West Indies great Shivnarine Chanderpaul proved age is no barrier to batting success as the 42-year-old made a painstaking 182 for Lancashire on Saturday’s second day of their County Championship clash with Surrey.Already 85 not out overnight, the veteran left hander demonstrated the application that saw him score over 11,000 Test runs in a West Indies career spanning more than two decades as he anchored Lancashire’s first innings at The Oval.Chanderpaul completed the 74th first-class century of his career before,...
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he feared for his former Borussia Dortmund players’ safety after the bomb attack on their team bus. Three explosions went off as the Dortmund team made their way to their Signal Iduna Park stadium for the Champions League quarter-final first leg against Monaco on Tuesday. Klopp spent seven years as the German club’s manager, signing many of Dortmund’s current players, and as soon as he heard news of the attack he feared the worst. The...
Arsene Wenger faces renewed calls to resign after Arsenal’s miserable season spiralled out of control with furious fans turning on his flops during their humiliating 3-0 defeat at Crystal Palace.Wenger’s side hit a new low on a chastening evening in south London as struggling Palace condemned the shambolic Gunners to their heaviest Premier League defeat of the season.Wenger’s side have lost four successive away league games for the first time in his 21-year reign as manager.Goals from Andros Townsend, Yohan...
India captain Virat Kohli has been named as the Leading Cricketer in the World in the 2017 edition of the respected Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, — ‘cricket’s bible’ — published this week.Meanwhile Pakistan’s Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan were named as two of Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Year.According to editor Lawrence Booth, Kohli had “the year of his dreams” in 2016, “averaging more with the bat in each of the three formats than anyone: 75 in Tests, 92 in one-day internationals...
Britain and Ireland said Sunday they would dispatch envoys to help resolve a stalemate in Northern Ireland after elections in...
