SPEEDWAY: Dan Bewley won his third successive British Title at the Belle Vue track in Manchester on Saturday evening.
After trailing Tom Brennan by a point in the qualifying rounds Bewley won the final heat from ex-World Champion Tai Woffinden, who was the last person to win three consecutive British titles, with Brennan finishing third to claim the British Grand Prix wild card and Chris Harris in fourth.
NETBALL: Manchester Thunder sealed top spot in this year’s Super League after they eased to a 72-53 victory at Strathclyde and London Pulse edged to a 61-59 win at last year’s champions Loughborough.
Manchester will have home advantage in the play-off semi-finals against the Severn Stars, who beat bottom of the table Team Bath 72-57 in the latest round of fixtures, while Loughborough will take on London again.
MEN’S CRICKET: The Twenty20 World Cup continues tomorrow afternoon with South Africa taking on Bangladesh in New York.
Bangladesh began their campaign with a narrow two-wicket success over Sri Lanka while the Proteas scraped out a four-wicket win against the Netherlands thanks to a patient 57 not out from David Miller.
South Africa are currently ranked as the world’s seventh-best short-format team, two places above the Bangladeshis.
MEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE: On a day when fans from both rugby codes united to remember Rob Burrow, Wigan beat Warrington 18-8 at Wembley to pick up the Challenge Cup for a record extending 21st time.
St Helens saw off Burrow’s old club Leeds 22-0 to win their fourth successive women’s Challenge Cup and the season’s finale was wrapped up by Wakefield Trinity thumping Sheffield 50-6 to take home the 1895 Cup.
