SPEEDWAY: Premiership new boys Birmingham have made Australian Zach Cook their third signing from the now defunct Wolverhampton club.

Cook follows Steve Worrall and Leon Flint in making the short journey from Monmore Green to the Brummies Perry Barr track.

Wolverhampton finished as runners-up in the Premiership last year but were then evicted from their home track after its owners decided to concentrate on greyhound racing.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: The top two clash in the Scottish Championship on Saturday afternoon as table-toppers Raith, two points clear but having played a game more, travel to Dundee United, the only unbeaten team in the league.

Third-placed Partick are at fourth-placed Dunfermline, Ayr United host Airdrieonians,  Greenock Morton take on struggling Queens Park and Inverness Caley face bottom of the pile Arbroath.

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Evan Walshe top-scored with 22 points as the Manchester Giants netted an impressive 103-80 win over Bristol on Thursday evening that moved them out of the British Basketball League’s bottom two.

Next stop for the Giants is at runaway league leaders London on Sunday night. Before that the Londoners host second-placed Cheshire Phoenix on Saturday evening. Leicester are up against Caledonia in Saturday’s other fixture.

MEN’S CRICKET: England are 2-0 down as they head into Saturday’s third Twenty20 match against the West Indies after they lost by 10 runs in Thursday’s game.

Chasing 176 Sam Curran top-scored for England with a rapid 50 but he had earlier conceded 30 in his final over of the Windies innings when Rovman Powell hit 4 sixes en route to a 28 ball half century. Adil Rashid was again the best English bowler with 2-11.