MEN’S BASKETBALL: With just over a month until the new British Basketball League season starts Surrey Scorchers have withdrawn from the competition after the University of Surrey withdrew its financial backing.

They are the fourth club in a decade that has exited professional basketball after partnering with a university.

A new club, the Surrey 89ers, has already been created by ex-Scorchers general manager Dan Clark to take their League place.

MEN’S CRICKET: Group A’s two unbeaten teams clash in the One Day Cup tomorrow as table-toppers Derbyshire host Worcester.

Derby crushed Lancashire by nine wickets on Wednesday with Andrew Flintoff’s 16-year-old son Rocky top-scoring for Lancashire with 13.

In Group B league leaders Glamorgan take on winless Sussex at Neath and Warwickshire put their 100 per cent record on the line against bottom club Surrey.

BOXING: Lewis Richardson beat Serbia’s Vakhid Abbasov by split decision on Wednesday evening to become the only British boxer to win at the Olympics.

He will face Zeyad Eashash from Jordan for a place in the 71kg category semi-finals.

Bolton-based Cindy Ngamba, who was born in Cameroon but represents the Refugee Team, also earned a split decision win over Canada’s world middleweight champion Tammara Thibeault.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Cliftonville continued the procession of Irish Premiership clubs crashing out of Europe after slumping to a 4-1 aggregate defeat at Latvia’s FK Auda in the Uefa Conference League second qualifying round.

Linfield had already gone out in the first qualifying round when Crusaders also lost on penalties to Caernarfon Town. Larne will drop into the Conference League after losing to Rigas FS in the Champions League.