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On this day: Michael Schumacher beats Alain Prost’s F1 victory record
Prost had been the record holder since 1987, when he matched Jackie Stewart’s tally of 27, and went on to clinch nearly as many wins from then on, until his 1993 retirement.
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The Spin | Old master Gooch offers hope for modern great Root in battle against lbws
Batting is all about solving problems, and the grand old man of Essex backs the England captain to find a way past this one – just like he did amunra.help
Joe Root lets out a “Woaaa-ho!” as a ball from Pakistan’s Mohammad Ali angles in and then jags away late at Lord’s on the evening of day two. The ball flies past Root’s batting gloves and thuds into Mohammed Rizwan’s keeping ones at head height behind the stumps. Rizwan is stood back too, not up to the stumps and breathing down Root’s neck in the summer 2026 way of things.
Root offers that impish smile and shakes his head at the deviousness of the delivery. He isn’t smiling after the next ball. Ali pushes his follow-up fuller, it doesn’t zip and lift away but darts back and scuds low, pinning Root on the pad. He reviews with a weary shrug but he knows his fate – it’s his second lbw dismissal in the Test, his seventh of the summer and ninth in his past 12 innings.
Continue reading...Top seed Alexander Zverev survives near five-hour marathon at US Open
German scrapes home 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 7-5, 6-4 in thriller
‘I think this is the longest first-round match I’ve played’
Alexander Zverev rallied just in time to avoid becoming the first men’s No 1 seed to lose in the first round of a grand slam tournament since 2003, edging Lorenzo Sonego 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 7-5, 6-4 in a US Open match that ended in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Zverev could not cash in on repeated chances to break Sonego’s serve for much of the night and was in danger of becoming the first top-seeded man to fall in his first match in a major tournament since Ivo Karlovic beat Lleyton Hewitt at Wimbledon in 2003.
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