Commonwealth Games champions and hosts England will take on Scotland at next year's Netball World Cup in Liverpool after organisers conducted the draw for the tournament.

along with Barbados and Singapore.Group C features Commonwealth Games bronze medallists Jamaica, South

Africa, Trinidad and Tobago and Fiji."

Commonwealth Games champions England recorded their biggest win over hosts New Zealand as the Netball Quad Series began in Auckland.

Australia also triumphed in their opener as they beat South Africa ©Getty ImagesEngland will renew rivalries

Commonwealth Games final to England on home soil, also started with a win as they comfortably beat South

Africa 61-44.The world champions were not at their best in the first half but recovered in the second

to claim a convincing win.South Africa will hope to bounce back when they take on New Zealand on Wednesday

University Sports South Africa chairperson Riana Bezuidenhout has insisted her team have what it takes

None of the players who featured when South Africa beat Jamaica in the final of the 2016 tournament in

South Africa will be aiming to defend the title they claimed in 2016 ©FISUSouth Africa have been drawn

University.Group A features hosts Uganda, the United States, Singapore and Kenya.Bezuidenhout admitted South

Africa were under pressure to retain the crown they clinched two years ago."

Serbia and Croatia played out a thrilling draw as the group stage concluded at the Men's Water Polo World Cup in Berlin.

draw.In the group's other match, the United States recorded their first victory as they beat winless South

Africa 15-6.In Group A, Hungary made it two victories from three as they condemned Japan to a third

consecutive defeat, 19-14.The USA Men defeated South Africa 15-6 to pick up their first victory at the

plays who in the last eight.Serbia will play Japan in the quarter finals tomorrow with Germany meeting South

Top seeds Egypt breezed past Germany 3-0 as they continued their undefeated form at the World Squash Federation Women's World Team Championship in China.

seeing off India by the same margin to finish second.In Group D, fourth seeds Hong Kong defeated South

Africa 3-0 to earn top spot, as Malaysia whitewashed Switzerland by the same score to go through as

The newly-appointed Organising Committee Board for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games have met for the first time in the English city.

also on the agenda.Birmingham was only awarded the Commonwealth Games in December 2017 after Durban in South

Africa was stripped of the hosting rights for financial issues, so will have a shorter time to prepare.Board

Nine-time Olympic champions Hungary bounced back from their opening defeat to hosts Germany at the Men's Water Polo World Cup by defeating Australia in Berlin.

The USA Men are back in action tomorrow against South Africa at 11:30am et/8:30am pt.— USA Water Polo

three consecutive occasions.Reigning world champions Croatia also enjoyed a second victory, easing past South

Africa 25-2.All eight sides will progress to the quarter finals, regardless of where they finish in

The World University Squash Championships continued at the University of Birmingham as the team semi finals were played, with Great Britain and Malaysia set for tomorrow's final.

The day began with the last of the group stages.Hosts Britain faced South Africa, with their individual

off their opponents.A repeat of the women's individual final occurred between Lily Rhian Taylor and South

It is a measure of Mike Lee's stature in the small, rather esoteric world that we and many of you inhabit that his recent death at the woefully early age of 61 serves to underline with sombre finality what we have known for a year now: that the golden age of Olympic bidding is over. 

little by way of a campaign since February when the field was to all intents and purposes restricted to Africa

themselves.In a genuine three-cornered contest, the Argentinian capital, advised by Lee, edged out South

2012 final presentation and you notice they focus on young athletes in unspecified African, Asian and South

Games with Lee on board, though not I think in the manner they would have envisaged when taking the South

began their bid for a third consecutive Men's Water Polo World Cup title with a crushing victory over South

Africa in Berlin.

Egypt are on their way to defending their World Squash Federation (WSF) Women's World Team Championships with a 3-0 win against Australia as England and the United States also secured early victories on day one.

one.France beat China, Canada defeated Germany and New Zealand saw off Finland.In Pool D, Malaysia beat South

Africa and Hong Kong beat Switzerland.

Egypt will look to defend their title at the World Squash Federation (WSF) Women’s World Team Championships held in Dalian, China.

China in Pool C.Malaysia as the fourth seeds start in Pool D with fifth seeds Hong Kong, 12th seeds South

Africa and Switzerland.After a round-robin competition within the pools, the top two teams from each

Hungary have ended the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Canoe Marathon World Championships comfortably top of the medals table after picking up another gold and two silvers on the final day of action in Portugal. 

, where Zoltan Koleszar and Levente Balla finished second.Andrew Birkett, left centre, won gold for South

Africa today in the men's K2 race alongside Hank McGregor ©ICFThey were beaten only by Spain's Diego

Republic, who finished a further 23 seconds back.The final race of the day, the men's K2, was won by South

The rugby sevens teams have been confirmed for the Buenos Aires 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games.

Olympics debut in Chinese city Nanjing in 2014, will be joined in the men's event by France, Japan, Samoa, South

Africa and United States.The women's event will see Canada, Colombia, France, Kazakhstan, New Zealand

Alessandra Keller added to the home collection of gold medals at the International Cycling Union (UCI) Mountain Bike World Championships in Lenzerheide, Switzerland as she won the women’s cross-country Olympic (XCO) under-23 event.

South Africa took their first title of these Championships in the under-23 men's XCO through Alan Hatherly.Switzerland

in for the win, 27 seconds clear, with Nordemann third.Hatherly's win came nine years after fellow South

It's pretty unbelievable; these aren't the sort of conditions we get in South Africa, and at altitude