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Head coach Richard Whiffin has confirmed his Wales U20 men’s matchday squad to face Ireland in round three of the 2025 U20 Six Nations at Rodney Parade, this Friday. (KO 7.45pm, S4C). Whiffin has made four changes, including a positional switch for Dan Gemine, in a side which is aiming to win back-to-back matches in …
After winning gold twice and silver twice at BC Place in Vancouver in earlier versions of the Canadian leg of HSBC SVNS, the Springbok Sevens squad are well aware of their underwhelming performances in recent seasons. According to co-captain Impi Visser, the Blitzboks are adamant to change their fortunes this year and to improve on …
Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus has invited a group of 26 players consisting mainly of overseas-based players, as well as some talented youngsters and injured players, to the first virtual Springbok alignment camps of the year on Wednesday 27 March, following the first in-person camp in Cape Town from Monday 10 to Wednesday 12 March. Erasmus …
Scotland Women Head Coach, Bryan Easson, has announced an extended training squad of 34 players ahead of the 2025 Guinness Women’s Six Nations. Leicester Tigers’ Evie Wills, who has three caps, has earned her first call up since recovering from an ACL injury which had ruled her out of action for the 2023/24 season. In …
Excitement in Pakistan is reaching fever pitch as the nation prepares to host its first ICC major event for 29 years when the Champions Trophy returns. Lahore, Rawalpindi and Karachi will stage matches in the competition, with the hosts taking on New Zealand in the tournament opener in Karachi on Wednesday. As a cricketer forged …
India batter Shubman Gill goes into the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025 as the top-ranked ODI batter after overtaking Pakistan’s Babar Azam in the latest weekly rankings update carried out on Wednesday. Gill’s 112 off 102 balls opening the batting against England in the third ODI in Ahmedabad last Wednesday put him 23 rating points …
The Welsh Rugby Union is delighted to announce the 2025 Autumn Nations Series which will see Wales take on Argentina, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa in matches across four consecutive weekends at Principality Stadium this November. Wales will kick off its autumn campaign at 3.10pm on Sunday 9 November against Rugby World Cup 2023 quarter-final …
USA, New Zealand, Argentina and Tonga will take on Scotland in the 2025 Autumn Nations Series, at Scottish Gas Murrayfield, throughout November later this year. The series will open on Saturday 1 November, kick-off 5:40pm, where Scotland will take on USA on home soil for the first time since 2000, when Scotland ram out 53-6 …
It is almost a case of second chances for Springbok Sevens wing Sebastiaan Jobb, and he is determined to make the second stint in his HSBC SVNS career more memorable than the first, all of two years ago. The 25-year-old former Junior Springbok suffered a range of injuries over the last 24 months after making …
Babar Azam was a precocious and promising 22-year-old when he helped Pakistan win the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy in 2017. Almost eight years on, he has developed into one of the world’s best batters across all formats and has his sights set on helping his country repeat the feat. The 2017 competition helped Babar announce …
Former Proteas hockey player Kayla Swarts and DHL Western Province scrumhalf Alicia Willemse are in line to make their international rugby sevens debuts after being named in the Springbok Women’s Sevens squad for the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2025. The series of two tournaments will be played at Athlone Stadium in Cape Town on …
The Event Technical Committee of the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025 has approved Kyle Jamieson as a replacement for Lockie Ferguson in the New Zealand squad. Thirty-year-old Jamieson, who has played 13 ODIs, was named as a replacement after Ferguson was ruled out due to an injury to his right foot. The replacement of a …
It is a great feeling to have the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy back. I remember when I played in it for the first time in 2013, and I loved it, and there is already a buzz around this tournament. There is so much speculation and a lot of predictions, which is fun, and I can’t …
Ross McCann, Ali Price and Cameron Redpath have been called up to the Scotland squad ahead of the match against England this weekend. They replace the injured Matt Currie while Alexander Masibaka has returned to his club. George Horne sustained a facial injury during Glasgow’s victory against the Dragons on Sunday afternoon and he is …
Mohammad Nabi is the only player left who was part of the first-ever Afghanistan One-Day International side, but he still has big international dreams left to achieve. Now 40 years old, Nabi remains an elite all-rounder and has just helped Fortune Barishal win the Bangladesh Premier League. He is now back on Afghanistan duty, 16 …
Former Wales international T. Rhys Thomas will join head coach Matt Sherratt’s back-room team as a skills coach for the remainder of the 2025 Guinness Six Nations. Thomas, who made 27 appearances for Wales and represented Cardiff, Wasps and Dragons during his playing career, joins the Wales senior men’s coaching team on secondment from Gallagher …
SA Rugby and AfriSam, a leading provider of cement and concrete solutions, have renewed their partnership, which includes sponsorship of the Springboks and an expanded collaboration with South Africa’s other national rugby teams. As the official cement and concrete sponsor, AfriSam will now support not only the world-champion Springboks but the Springbok Women, Springbok Sevens …
A crowd of 23,307 watched the Sharks pull off a remarkable bonus point victory against all the odds at Pretoria’s Loftus Versfeld. League leaders Leinster pushed all the way Relieved Leinster Rugby boss Leo Cullen paid tribute to an “unbelievably dogged” display from the Ospreys following his team’s hard-fought 22-19 victory in Swansea. The league …
SA Rugby and Monster Energy, the global energy drink icon, have entered into a new partnership which will incorporate a sponsorship of the Springboks as well as other national teams. This exciting partnership will see Monster Energy become the official energy drink partner of the Boks, supporting the team as they compete internationally in a …
Springbok Women utility forwards Catha Jacobs and Lerato Makua will join their national teammates in Stellenbosch on Sunday for a week-long training camp at the Stellenbosch Academy of Sport, the fourth such assembly in 2025 as the team build towards the Rugby World Cup in England later this year. Jacobs is the first England-based player …
The Bulls Daisies and Sanlam Boland Dames have moved clear of the chasing pack in the Women’s Premier Division on Saturday, courtesy of big victories in the fourth round, while DHL Western Province and the Free State Women also secured first away wins as the competition moved past the halfway stage. The Bulls Daises remain …
Saturday’s thrilling South African derby round in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship delivered victories for the lower ranked teams on the log with the Emirates Lions holding out the DHL Stormers in Johannesburg before the Hollywoodbets Sharks shocked the Vodacom Bulls in Pretoria. These victories saw the teams from Johannesburg and Durban make up valuable …
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Pakistan players Shaheen Shah Afridi, Saud Shakeel and Kamran Ghulam have been fined for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct during their tri-nation series match against South Africa in Karachi on Wednesday. Shaheen was fined 25 per cent of his match fee after he was found to have breached Article 2.12 of …