MEN’S CYCLING: The dominance of the Tadej Pogacar-led UAE team during 2024 was underlined by them finishing over 16,000 ranking points ahead of second-placed Visma/Lease-a-Bike.

Twenty different Team UAE riders won a total of 81 races and claimed 183 podium finishes.

Apart from Pogacar’s 25 wins, Brandon McNulty bagged 10 victories, Marc Hirschi nine and Britain’s Adam Yates six, including overall wins at the Tours of Oman and Switzerland.

MEN’S CRICKET: South African paceman Kagiso Rabada became the fastest player to take 300 test wickets when he bowled Mushfiqur Rahim and picked up 3-26 against Bangladesh on Monday.

Rabada has taken under 2,000 overs to reach this milestone, smashing Waqar Younis’ previous record by 785 balls.

Rabada has a superb test average of just under 22 and is also the only bowler to have played over 50 tests with a strike rate lower than 40.

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Four-time tournament winners Valencia face Turk Telekom Ankara as EuroCup action resumes tomorrow evening.

The Spaniards are unbeaten in their four Group B games this season while The Turks have lost just once.

Tonight’s other Group B fixtures see Jerusalem up against Romania’s Cluj-Napoca and Thessaloniki playing Ljubljana while Podgorica face Istanbul’s Bahcesehir College and Tel Aviv visit Italy’s Trento in Group A.

SPEEDWAY: Britain claimed a first ever medal in the European Pairs championships after the squad of Rob Brennan, Leon Flint and Dan Thompson picked up bronze at Lonigo in northern Italy.

Denmark’s Rasmus Jensen and Frederik Jacobsen took gold, four points ahead of Poland and Britain with Bartlomiej Kowalski beating Rob Brennan in the race-off for silver.

Finland finished fourth with hosts Italy fifth, followed by Latvia and Germany.