MEN’S DARTS: Nathan Aspinall beat Luke Humphries 6-4 on Thursday night in Manchester to win his first Premier League event of the season.

Luke Littler still tops the table by five points from Humphries, with Gerwyn Price third and Aspinall leap-frogging Michael van Gerwen into fourth.

At the other end of the table basement-dweller Stephen Bunting went down 6-1 to Humphries in his opener and second-bottom Rob Cross lost 6-2 to Aspinall.

CRICKET: Cricket will return to the Olympics after a 128-year absence with both a men’s and women’s six team Twenty20 tournament at the Los Angeles Games.

It will be one of the six new or returning sports in 2028, along with baseball, softball, lacrosse, squash and flag football, a non-contact variant of American football.

Britain are the current Olympic cricket champions after beating France at the 1900 Paris Olympics.

MEN’S CYCLING: The 122^nd Paris-Roubaix one day race for men rolls out of Compiegne, north-east of Paris, on Sunday morning with two-time winner Mathieu van der Poel defending his title.

Paris-Roubaix is the third of cycling’s five monument races and includes nearly 55km of cobbled terrain.

This year’s start list also includes world champion Tadej Pogacar, who is yet to win the event, and last year’s runner-up Jasper Philipsen.

SPEEDWAY: Ipswich Witches top the Premiership after Danny King top-scored with 14+1 points in their 65-25 thumping of Oxford, which also sealed an extra point for the aggregate win.

Elsewhere on Thursday evening defending champions Belle Vue were edged out 46-44 at Leicester despite winning 10 of the 15 heats and Josh Pickering scored 15 points from his five rides as Sheffield eased past King’s Lynn 57-33.