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England's white-ball reset, Adrian Newey's first day at Aston Martin, and a genuine super-fight at the Albert Hall |
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Jos Buttler counts the cost of muddled methods as England hit the reset button again |
By Harry Latham-Coyle And so ends as battering and bruising a two months as any that English cricket has experienced. Many similarly scarring winters of discontent have come before but since the start of 2025, the senior men's and women's sides have played 18 times and won just once. Credit, therefore, must go to Abi Norgrove's U19s restoring a semblance of respectability with a semi-final finish at the World Cup in Malaysia. Tournaments of torment are far from new but there was a singular sadness to the final outing of Jos Buttler's tenure as white-ball captain on Saturday. The damage already done, both on the day and beforehand, the captain poked and prodded at the debris of his sinking ship on his way to a boundary-less 21, part of a final English omnishambles to conclude their Champions Trophy. It was meant to be the tournament that got the England skipper smiling again; a grimace was about as close as Buttler came to a grin. Bowed and beaten by a post that has proved thankless for too much of his tenure, a relinquishing of duties after this tournament had come to feel likely in the India series that preceded it – England ill-prepared, ill-equipped and ill-disciplined, careering into precisely the sort of miserable tournament that followed. Read in full here |
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Adrian Newey starts £20m Aston Martin F1 deal today – but why did he snub Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari? |
By Kieran Jackson When Adrian Newey stunned the Formula One paddock by announcing his departure from the all-conquering Red Bull last May, there seemed only one appropriate destination for the legendary designer's swansong. Sky F1 broadcaster Martin Brundle hinted as much when he asked Newey in Miami: "Do you look good in red?!" But the Scuderia-aura wasn't enough. What will be Ferrari's loss, however, will be Aston Martin's gain. Executive chairman Lawrence Stroll has long made it clear his ambitions to elevate his team into world championship frontrunners and with September's signing of F1's most-revered design guru – as a company shareholder on a lucrative £20m-a-year deal, running over five years – the Canadian billionaire has made his biggest statement yet. Newey starts in his role as managing technical partner today. Ferrari were keen not to become embroiled in a bidding war for Newey and, given the 66-year-old will now be the fifth-highest paid man in the sport behind only Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris and Hamilton, that is understandable. But the designer's wealth of expertise and experience is somewhat invaluable. Read in full here |
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Jonas vs Price is everything that once looked impossible in women's boxing |
By Steve Bunce On Friday night at the Royal Albert Hall, there is a genuine super-fight between two British women when world champions Lauren Price and Natasha Jonas meet. They will split a record purse for British women in any fight; the money they receive for their triple-title welterweight championship fight will probably be the third-highest purse ever paid to women. It will be history in that beautiful ancient hall. Read in full here |
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