WOMEN’S CRICKET: The England and Wales Cricket Board have ignored an independent commission recommendation to equalise wages for men and women in the Hundred competitions.

Their new salary scale will actually widen the gender pay gap in 2025.

Despite an overall 25 per cent increase in salary funding, men in the lowest-earning category will now receive £31,000, up 3.3 per cent, while their female equivalent will be paid £10,000.

MEN’S RUGBY UNION: Last season’s runners-up Leinster face Clermont Auvergne in a Champions Cup group game on Saturday evening, with both teams having won their opening games of the campaign.

La Rochelle, who edged out Bath in the first round of games, host Bristol while Bordeaux Begles visit Ulster, Leicester take on the Durban-based Sharks and Northampton are in Pretoria to face the Bulls. Cup-holders Toulouse are at Exeter on Sunday evening.

WOMEN’S BOXING: Liverpool-born IBF welterweight champion Natasha Jonas fights Croatia’s WBC belt holder Ivana Habazin in a unification bout on Saturday night in her home-town.

Forty-year-old Jonas, who has claimed world titles at two weights, is Britain’s oldest ever boxing world champion.

On the undercard, Wales’s first female world champion Lauren Price defends her WBA welterweight title against Colombia’s unbeaten Bexcy Mateus.

MEN’S CRICKET: Amir Jangoo top-scored with an unbeaten 104 on his international debut to steer the West Indies to a four-wicket win over Bangladesh in the final leg of the three match one-day series.

Chasing 322 the Windies slumped to 31-3 before Keacy Carty’s 95, Jangoo and Gudakesh Motie’s rapid 44 not out steered them home to seal a three-nil series victory.

The teams next meet in a three-match Twenty20 series.