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Sport in brief: February 20, 2024

MEN’S FOOTBALL: It’s fourth against third in the Highland League on Wednesday night when Buckie Thistle host Fraserburgh at Victoria Park. 

Buckie are nine points behind table-toppers Brechin City, who they beat on Saturday, but have four games in hand. 

Fraserburgh are two points ahead of Buckie but have played five games more. Elsewhere tomorrow evening Brora play Lossiemouth, Nairn are at form-team Formartine and Keith take on Forres Mechanics.

CYCLING: Last year’s winner Dylan van Baarle and 2022 champion Wout van Aert will lead a star-studded peloton out of Ghent and into the hills of the Flemish Ardennes at the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad one-day race, the first of this season’s cobbled classics, on Saturday. 

World champion Lotte Kopecky is back to defend the women’s title alongside last year’s runner-up Lorena Wiebes and Tour de France winner Demi Vollering. 

MEN’S CRICKET: Afghanistan head into Wednesday’s final leg of their three match Twenty20 series with Sri Lanka in Dambulla looking to avoid a tour whitewash. 

After losing their one-off test by 10 wickets, they suffered a 3-0 drubbing in the one-day matches and are two down in the Twenty20 series following Monday’s 72 run defeat. 

Chasing 187 the Afghanis collapsed to 115 all out with only four players reaching double figures.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: League Two Bradford meet Wycombe at Valley Parade on Wednesday night in the EFL Trophy’s second semi-final. 

Neither team has won the competition before and will meet either 2014’s champions Peterborough or two-time cup-holders Blackpool in April’s final at Wembley. 

This year’s winners will receive £84,000 in prize money. The semi-finals are played over one leg with no extra time and penalties.

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