Ben Stokes’ 102 not out off 109 balls saw England knock out rivals Australia of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy.

40 ahead of the Duckworth-Lewis par score and therefore awarded the victory.Tomorrow sees India play South

Africa at the Oval in London.

The FIFA Confederations Cup, the 10th version of which will start in St Petersburg on Saturday (June 17), became a quadrennial event in 2005. Since then, it has been held in countries due to host the FIFA World Cup finals the following year.

He then referenced similar concerns that had dogged the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa, adding

: "We are not going to be in a situation, as is the case of one, two or even three stadiums in South

Africa, where it is a problem of what you do with these stadiums."

connected with the 2018 World Cup finals for each of the five global regions: Europe, North America, South

America, the Middle East and Africa as well as Asia.

Rachel Atherton is still hoping to complete a miraculous recovery from a dislocated shoulder to participate at the International Cycling Union (UCI) Mountain Bike Downhill World Cup starting tomorrow in Leogang.

World Cup lead at the Bike Park Leogang in the Saalfelden Leogang region of Austria.Greg Minnaar from South

Africa will be seeking to continue his dominant men's form ©Getty ImagesFrance’s Myriam Nicole is now

her closest rival in the World Cup stakes.Greg Minnaar of South Africa will be favoured to continue

Sri Lanka pulled off the highest-run chase in the history of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy to stun rivals India at The Oval in London.

teams in Group B have won one match with just one set of games remaining.The last fixtures - India v South

Africa and Sri Lanka v Pakistan - are now effective knock-out matches with the winners both going through

South Africa moved into the last four of the World Rugby Under-20 Championship after scoring 11 tries

The Springboks decimated their South American opponents as they scored five tries in the first half at

and a further six in the second to record an emphatic 72-14 win.There were nine different scorers for South

Africa with Johan Grobbelaar and Gianni Lombard scoring two each.Manie Libbok, Embrose Papier, Juarno

Damian Willemse and Francois de Villiers also crossed the whitewash.A second consecutive victory for the South

Africa on the same day.

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has announced the draw and official tournament schedule for the 2017 Men's Softball World Championships in Whitehorse, with hosts and defending champions Canada placed in Pool A.

participating nations in the WBSC Men's Softball Championships represent a global reach that spans across Africa

round.Canada are joined in Pool A by Argentina, Australia, the Dominican Republic, Hong Kong, India, South

Africa and the United States.Pool B includes New Zealand and Venezuela, the respective second and third-place

taking on Botswana in the tournament's curtain raiser.Canada are due to begin their campaign against South

Africa in the evening, immediately following the Opening Ceremony on the main competition field.The

A commanding all-around performance from Pakistan helped them stun South Africa with a surprise win in

premature close.The well-disciplined Pakistan bowling unit produced a clinical display to restrict South

Africa to 219-8 from their 50 overs.It could have been much worse for the South Africans, however, as

one-day international golden duck.Hasan Ali produced a superb spell with the ball to help restrict South

Africa ©Getty ImagesIn reply, Pakistan had made good progress towards the total as Fakhar Zaman 

platform with 31 off 23 balls before an inspired spell from Morne Morkel threatened to turn the contest in South

Mastercard has renewed as a worldwide partner of the Rugby World Cup for the 2019 edition in Japan.

recorded one of the biggest upsets in the sport's history when they earned a famous 34-32 victory over South

Africa in Brighton.The East Asian nation also competed at the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, where

England secured their place in the semi-finals of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy as they beat New Zealand by 87 runs at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff.

he took 4-55 in a commanding triumph for his side.The tournament continues tomorrow as Pakistan play South

Africa in Group B at Edgbaston.

Defending champion Lizzie Deignan is among the favourites for victory at the 2017 Women’s Tour, which is scheduled to begin in the English county of Northamptonshire tomorrow.

nbsp;Cervélo Bigla Pro Cycling will be represented by last year's runner-up Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio of South

Africa and Denmark's Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, the current leading youth rider in the UCI Women's WorldTour.Eight

Poland have become the latest country to express their support for Parkour UK's position on the "encroachment and misappropriation" of parkour/freerunning by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).

have also been made by other parkour national governing bodies in France, Australia, New Zealand and South

Fédération de Parkour (FPK), Australian Parkour Association, New Zealand Parkour Association, Parkour South

Africa, and representatives of the parkour community in Germany and Switzerland."

Richard Pound has criticised International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach for the way he is continuing to respond to doping problems involving Russia and has expressed concerns over the aims of investigations currently underway.

athletes banned from competing in Rio under their own flag were supporters of the regime, and not all South

African athletes were supporters of Apartheid, but the greater good called for South Africa to be expelled

suspended from the IOC after the Gulf country was barred for Government interference in October 2015.South

Africa were banned from every Olympic Games between Rome 1960 and Barcelona 1992 due to the country's

I was told off last week, as happens from time to time, by somebody from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

than table tennis and the only players who really looked like coming close were those from Japan and South

Africa, Oceania and the Americas are even further back.Some of the Chinese athletes are huge stars in

Ireland's miserable start to their World Rugby Under-20 Championship campaign continued as they were beaten by Scotland at the AIA Stadium in Kutaisi.

a win over Wales in an entertaining encounter, prevailing by virtue of a 34-22 scoreline.In Pool C, South

Africa kept their unbeaten record in tact, following up from their draw with France, by beating the

Switzerland enjoyed a dominant outing at the International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Cup as they won both the men's and women's races in Cagliari.

to Briffod, who won in 54min 49sec.The Swiss racer ousted Olympic bronze medallist Henri Schoeman of South

Africa, one of the pre-event favourites who was forced to settle for second place.It was a fascinating