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Sport in brief: 27/06/2014

FOOTBALL: Leyton Orient owner Barry Hearn is in talks about offloading his shares in the club, the O’s confirmed yesterday.

Hearn, who saw his side stay in League One courtesy of a penalty shoot-out loss in the play-off final last season, is in talks with Italian businessman Francesco Becchetti, the club said.

“The sale is subject to due diligence and Football League approval and the club will not be making any further comment at this stage,” said the east London side.

 

FOOTBALL: Manchester United signed Basque midfielder Ander Herrera yesterday from Athletic Bilbao.

The English club had a £28.9 million bid for the 24-year-old Bilbao native turned down earlier in the day, but an undisclosed improved offer was enough to bring him to Manchester.

“I can’t wait for my first game in United’s famous red shirt,” said Herrera.

 

SWIMMING: England’s Siobhan-Marie O’Connor continued her impressive Commonwealth Games preparation yesterday by completing a hat-trick of victories at a Manchester international meet.

The 18-year-old added to her 100 metres freestyle and 200m individual medley golds on Wednesday by winning the women’s 200m freestyle in a time of one minute 57.28 seconds.

 

CRICKET: Narayanaswami Srinivasan was unanimously voted as chairman of the International Cricket Council yesterday.

He used the moment to protest his innocence in an ongoing corruption case in India.

India’s supreme court ordered him to step down as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India amid a match-fixing investigation.

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