MEN’S ICE HOCKEY: Guildford Flames lead the Elite League by eight points after coming from behind to win 3-2 at bottom club Glasgow and then thumping Fife 6-2. Second-placed Coventry battered Manchester 9-0, while Sheffield enjoyed two comfortable wins, 7-1 in Glasgow and 5-1 at Fife.

Belfast lost 4-2 in Cardiff but hit back to see off Dundee 4-3, Cardiff went on to lose 5-2 at Nottingham who had been thumped 7-1 in Manchester.

WOMEN’S CRICKET: It took a super-over to do it but Australia’s run of 21 victories in all forms of cricket came to an end as India squeezed home by four runs after both sides had scored 187 in their second Twenty20 match.

Watched by almost 40,000 spectators Beth Mooney top-scored with 82 not out for the Aussies before Smiriti Mandhana bagged a rapid 79 for India. The five-match series continues in Mumbai on Wednesday.

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Bottom club Surrey lost twice on the road in the British Basketball League over the weekend succumbing to a 78-60 loss at second-placed Bristol before pushing Plymouth close in their 90-83 defeat.

Table-toppers London saw off Cheshire 89-74 and Patrick Whelan top-scored with 25 points as champions Leicester stuffed Caledonia 100-67 but the Scots bounced back to beat struggling Newcastle 81-77 on Sunday night.

WOMEN’S CRICKET: England followed up their 3-0 one-day international series win over the West Indies with a comfortable eight wicket win in their first of five Twenty20 matches in Barbados.

West Indies struggled to 105-7 after some accurate bowling, with Sophie Ecclestone (0-6) being especially miserly, before Danni Wyatt smashed 59 not out from 34 balls to steer England home with 7.2 overs to spare.