SPEEDWAY: World Champion Bartosz Zmarzlik won the Swedish leg of this year’s Speedway GP series to extend his lead in the competition to 17 points ahead of Britain’s Robert Lambert in second with Australian Jack Holder third. Zmarzlik has been world champion in four of the last six years, finishing as runner-up on the other two occasions, and is the first rider to ever win 24 grand prix events.
MEN’S CRICKET: As the Twenty20 World Cup continues in St Lucia tomorrow with a Group C match between the already qualified West Indies and Afghanistan, Italy are celebrating success in the first round of European qualifiers for the 2026 finals. Steered home by 108 not out from ex-Australian test player Joe Burns the Italians thumped Romania by 160 runs in the final. The Isle of Man finished 6th after losing to Portugal.
MEN’S FOOTBALL: 2016’s European champions Portugal begin their campaign at this year’s tournament in Leipzig tonight against 1976’s winners Czechia. The Portuguese qualified without dropping a point, conceding only two goals, and sit sixth in the world rankings, above both Spain and Italy while Czechia are down at 36th. Tomorrow’s other group F game sees Turkey take on Georgia in Dortmund. The Georgians are the lowest ranked team in the competition.
MEN’S BASKETBALL: Dallas Mavericks are back in Boston tomorrow needing to follow up their 122-84 home win at the weekend to remain in the seven match National Basketball Association (NBA) grand final. Despite inflicting that record play-off defeat on Boston history is against Dallas as they’re still 3-1 down and no team ever come back from 3-0 in NBA finals history to lift the Larry O’Brien trophy.
