SPEEDWAY: Ipswich lost their first home game of the season and slipped from the top of the Premiership after they were mauled 54-36 by the Leicester Lions on Thursday night.

Chris Holder top-scored with 14 points from six rides as new league leaders Sheffield cruised past bottom club Birmingham 55-35 and Oxford maintained their slim play-off hopes after leading from the first tape to crush King’s Lynn 54-36.

CYCLING: Three-time champion Primoz Roglic is among the favourites for the red jersey as the Vuelta a Espana rolls out of Lisbon on Saturday afternoon.

Last year’s winner Sepp Kuss will be defending his title with support from team-mate Wout van Aert who is racing his first Vuelta.

2016 champion Nairo Quintana is on the startlist for the first time in five years along with Britain’s 2020 Giro D’Italia winner Tao Geoghagen-Hart.

MEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE: Super League’s Magic Weekend kicks off for the first time at Elland Road tomorrow with the bottom-of-the-table clash between Hull FC and London before Wigan take on St Helens and Warrington meet Leeds.

Sunday’s action sees Leigh face Salford, table-topping Hull KR play Catalans Dragons and is rounded off by Huddersfield and Castleford, the two most successful teams in Magic Weekend history, locking horns.

CRICKET: Birmingham Phoenix men face the Southern Brave on Saturday evening for a place in Sunday’s final of The Hundred against reigning champions the Oval Invincibles.

All three teams have lost only twice during the regular season.

In the women’s competition Welsh Fire await the winners of Saturday’s play-off decider between London Spirit and the Oval Invincibles. Both finals will take place at Lord’s.