WOMEN’S CRICKET:

Fresh from beating Australia for the first time in a Test match, India begin a three match one-day series against the world number ones in Mumbai on Thursday.

Sneh Rana took 7-119 and Smriti Mandhana hit 74 and 38 not out as the Indians completed their comfortable eight wicket test win last weekend. India thrashed England by 347 runs a fortnight ago in a one-off test in Mumbai.

MEN’S BOXING:

Japan’s Naoya Inoue became the second boxer in history to hold all four world titles in two different weight divisions after he knocked out Marlon Tapales on Tuesday in their super-bantanweight championship bout.

Inoue improved his unbeaten record to 26 wins, with 23 by knockout, while Filipino Tapales slipped to 37 wins and 4 losses. Terence Crawford is the only other boxer to hold all four belts at two weights.

SPEEDWAY:

Celina Liebmann will be the first woman to race for a senior British speedway team after signing for the Workington Comets.

The 22-year-old German, who also rides for Stal Gorzow in Poland, is world speedway’s leading female rider and joins the Comets squad on its return to the Championship.

In 2022 Liebmann became the first woman to compete in an Under-21s World Championship event.

MEN’S BASKETBALL:

British Basketball League’s bottom club Plymouth will look to follow up their superb pre-Christmas 87-80 victory over Caledonia when they make the long trip to Newcastle on Thursday evening.

Tomorrow night’s other fixture sees misfiring Bristol at last year’s runners-up Leicester, who are also struggling in the bottom half of the table.

Runaway league leaders London are not in action until Friday, when they’re in East Kilbride to face Caledonia.