WOMEN’S CRICKET: England play India at Cardiff tomorrow in their final warm-up match before getting the Twenty20 World Cup under way on Friday with a Group 2 game against Sri Lanka.

Currently ranked as the world’s second-best short-format team, the English slumped to a five-wicket defeat against world number ones Australia on Monday.

The Aussies reached their target of 158 with 10 balls to spare after Ellyse Perry hit a quick-fire 64.

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Victor Wembanyama top-scored with 32 points and six other players netted double figures as the San Antonio Spurs came from seven down at half-time to win 115-111 at the New York Knicks on Tuesday morning.

The Knicks, who had been on a 12-game unbeaten run, now lead the best of seven NBA finals 2-1 ahead of hosting Thursday’s fourth leg.

The away team has won each of the first three matches.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Former England player Kieron Dyer has resigned as first team coach at Chesterfield to take up his first managerial job with Southend United in the National League.

Dyer made more than 200 Premier League appearances and won 33 international caps.

Southend reached the play-offs in both of the last two seasons and won the FA Trophy in 2026, the club’s first ever domestic cup, before sacking manager Kevin Maher.

ATHLETICS: The world’s best pole vaulter, Sweden’s Armand Duplantis, suffered his first defeat in 40 meetings when he lost out to Australian Kurtis Marschall in the Diamond League meeting on his home track in Uppsala.

Duplantis fell to his first Diamond League loss for three years after he could only clear 5 metres 80 centimetres, over half a metre below the world record he set in March at the same venue.