SPEEDWAY: Max Fricke top-scored with 15+1 points as Leicester led from the first tape to thump Premiership league leaders Ipswich 53-37 on Thursday night.

Sheffield Tigers climbed into second place after Jack Holder returned from injury and led them to a 58-31 stuffing of King’s Lynn, while both Rohan Tungate and Chris Harris bagged 12+1 points as the Oxford Spires claimed a convincing 53-37 victory over Belle Vue.

MEN’S RUGBY UNION: New Zealand move on from their 2-0 series win over England with a test match against Fiji tomorrow morning.