MEN’S FOOTBALL: Cymru Premier champions The New Saints should make it through to Friday’s draw for the Conference League group stages as they take a 3-0 advantage into Thurday night’s home game with Lithuania’s Panevezys.

Chelsea travel to Geneva’s Servette with a 2-0 advantage but Larne need to bounce back from their 2-1 defeat at Gibraltar’s Lincoln Red Imps and Kilmarnock are 2-0 down against FC Copenhagen.

MEN’S CRICKET: India’s domination of worldwide cricket management is set to increase after Jay Shah was elected unopposed as the next chair of the Dubai-based International Cricket Council (ICC).

At 35 years old, he becomes the youngest head of the game’s governing body. Shah is currently president of the Asian Cricket Council, Board of Control for Indian cricket secretary and heads the ICC’s finance and commercial affairs committee.

SPEEDWAY: Defending champions Sheffield Tigers need a win at King’s Lynn tomorrow evening to secure the Premiership title, two weeks before the Grand Final play-offs are due to begin.

Elsewhere on Thursday night, form-team Leicester can take a big step towards securing the runners-up spot with a victory at Oxford, while Birmingham will be looking for a first away win in their last match of the season when they visit injury-hit Ipswich.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Hearts are 1-0 down as they head into tomorrow night’s second leg of their Europa League play-off match with Czechia’s FC Viktoria Plzen at Tynecastle while Shamrock Rovers need  to overturn a 4-0 deficit against Thessaloniki-based PAOK in south Dublin.

Among the other ties, Sweden’s Elfsborg lead Molde 1-0, four-time European champions Ajax are beating Poland’s Jagiellonia Bialystok 4-1 and Anderlecht are 1-0 up on Dinamo Minsk.