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Britain's Kyle Edmund and Cameron Norrie are through to the US Open second round but Heather Watson has been knocked out. Edmund, who reached the fourth round in New York last year, impressively defeated Dutch 32nd seed Robin Haase 6-3…

International cricket will return to Pakistan when a World XI visits for the Independence Cup in September. An attack on the Sri Lanka team in Lahore in 2009 caused international teams to stop touring the country. Read more:…

Six British teams await the draw for the Champions League group stage, which takes place on Thursday at 17:00 BST in Monaco. Premier League champions Chelsea, runners-up Tottenham and third-placed Manchester City are all in the draw.…

England's all-time leading goalscorer Wayne Rooney has retired from international football after turning down the chance to be part of the squad for next month's World Cup qualifiers. The Everton striker was asked by England boss Gareth…

Glamorgan batsman Colin Ingram has signed for Adelaide Strikers and will play in Australia's Big Bash competition for the first time. Ingram was Most Valuable Player in the domestic T20 Blast in 2016 and has hit two centuries in 2017.…

The Universe Boss marked his 50th CPL match with his 63rd T20 fifty as St Kitts & Nevis Patriots brushed past Jamaica Tallawahs by 37 runs to clinch a place in the playoffs for the first time in their three-year history. Read more…

Barcelona are suing former player Neymar for 8.5m euros over his world record move to Paris St-Germain. The Brazil international made the 222m euro move to the French clubin August after buying out his contract. Read more at:…

Cristiano Ronaldo has been suspended for five games after he was sent off in Real Madrid's 3-1 win against Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup first leg on Sunday. He was given a one-match ban for being shown two yellow cards and a…

Rafael Nadal will be the new world number one from next Monday after Roger Federer withdrew from the Cincinnati Masters with a back injury. The Swiss 19-time Grand Slam winner was the only player who could have denied Spain's Nadal…

England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley will miss the rest of Women's Euro 2017 after breaking her leg. Manchester City's Bardsley, 32, was injured in the second half of Sunday's quarter-final victory over France. READ MORE:…

Despite the grumbling at the criticism they received following the heavy defeat in the second Test against South Africa, England will have probably admitted in private that what happened at Trent Bridge wasn't good enough. Everybody…

Middlesex seamer Toby Roland-Jones will make his England Test debut in the third Test against South Africa at The Oval starting on Thursday. Durham fast bowler Mark Wood misses out because of a heel injury, with Steven Finn on standby.…

Bernard Tomic says he has never "really tried" throughout his tennis career, adding that he has probably been operating at "around 50%". The Australian claimed he was bored during his straight-set defeat by Mischa Zverev at Wimbledon on…

Essex batsman Tom Westley will make his England debut in the third Test against South Africa at The Oval starting on 27 July. The selectors confirmed the 28-year-old will bat at number three in place of Gary Ballance, who broke a finger…

Northants spinner Seekkuge Prasanna will miss the entire 2017 T20 Blast competition with a hamstring injury. The 32-year-old Sri Lanka leg-spinner had re-signed for the county after playing 11 times in T20 last season. Read more: …