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Sport in brief: August 14, 2024

SPEEDWAY: King’s Lynn will be without Benjamin Basso for Thursday night’s match at Oxford after he was given a 28-day suspension for failing to ride in their 53-37 loss at Belle Vue on Monday.

The former Danish under-21 champion claimed to be injured but had raced in Poland the day before.

Elsewhere, tomorrow night Premiership league leaders Ipswich face in-form Leicester and bottom of the table Birmingham visit Sheffield.

MEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE: The top two clash in Australia’s National Rugby League tomorrow morning as table-topping Melbourne Storm visit three-time reigning champions Penrith Panthers.

The Storm are two points clear of the Panthers with four games of the regular season remaining. Penrith will be without back-rower Liam Martin who has received a one match ban for dangerous contact in last week’s 36-34 win at Parramatta.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Shamrock Rovers are 1-0 down heading into their Europa League third qualifying-round second-leg game with Slovenia’s Celje on Thursday evening.

Dublin neighbours St Patrick’s take a 1-0 lead into tomorrow night’s Conference League tie at Azerbaijan’s Sabah FC while St Mirren are level at 1-1 before they visit Bergen-based Brann, Larne lead Kosovo’s Ballkani 1-0 and Kilmarnock take a 2-2 draw into northern Norway for their game at Tromso.

MEN’S CRICKET: The West Indies take on South Africa in the second leg of their two match test series at the Providence Stadium in Guyana on Thursday.

The rain affected first test was drawn, with the Windies needing 97 more to win with five wickets remaining.

South Africa are currently rated as the world’s fourth-best test team, four places above their hosts. The test series will be followed by three Twenty20 matches.

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