British Rowing has announced the appointment of Mark Davies as its new chair, taking over from Annamarie Phelps on April 1.

supporting the home nations' athletes and staff at next month’s Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Australia

Gold Coast 2018 chairman Peter Beattie has claimed the Commonwealth Games will restore the tarnished reputation of Australian sport following the cricket team's ball-tampering scandal as he pledged the event here would be a "cheat-free zone".

Beattie made the pledge as Cricket Australia sent home captain Steve Smith, vice-captain David Warner

Bancroft for their role in the incident during the third test with South Africa in Cape Town.Cricket Australia

the ball in an attempt to change its behaviour.Head coach Darren Lehmann has been cleared by Cricket Australia

Indian shooter Jaspal Rana has called on the country's Government to boycott the 2022 Commonwealth Games in protest at the decision not to include the sport on the programme as the row over its omission continues.

of countries hoping to persuade the CGF to include shooting on the programme.Isle of Man, Jersey and Australia

England have named their 12-member team for the first women's rugby sevens tournament to be held at a Commonwealth Games.

captain England at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games ©Getty ImagesEngland are due to take on Fiji, Australia

Olympic double gold medallist Caster Semenya has been named South Africa's flagbearer for next week's Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games here.

at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London ©Getty ImagesSemenya is due to leave for Australia

"Can't we just stop cheating at sport," wrote International Olympic Committee (IOC) member James Tomkins in a despairing Twitter post yesterday. 

involvement of, if not the whole team, then at least a good chunk of it, has become a huge story well beyond Australia

focused on human failing has never seemed more hollow.The bad tempered and hostile nature of the whole Australia

Samoa Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (SASNOC) President Patrick Fepulea’i has targeted winning a medal in every sport the country will compete in at next month's Commonwealth Games after announcing a 38-strong team for the event here.

drawn in a tough group for the men's rugby sevens tournament, however, as they will take on England, Australia

Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski has confirmed they shot down an unauthorised drone flying close to a Commonwealth Games exclusion zone.

for the event an early test after Gold Coast 2018 chairman Peter Beattie claimed the "safest place in Australia

Puerto Rico and hosts Dominican Republic booked their places at this year's Women's Baseball World Cup on the final day of the Pan American qualifier in Santo Domingo.

States, Canada, Cuba, Venezuela, Japan, South Korea, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, The Netherlands and Australia

The 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast will coincide with the 150th anniversary of the first great landmark in Australian sport.

scorebook from 1868.The Aboriginal cricketers had first demonstrated their skills in matches played in Australia

 Yet Gilbert was never chosen for Australia.

The team played club sides and were taken to the final England versus Australia Test match.

were welcomed by the Test team and met Jason Gillespie, a fast bowler who played 71 Tests for Australia

the hockey team at Atlanta 1996, was selected as the first bearer when the Torch begun its journey in Australia

The sporting world has long been overshadowed by cheating as players try their hardest to gain an unfair advantage over their opponents, so what are sport's most inventive incidents of cheating?

Let’s stick to cricket and Australia for the first one.During a One Day International series in 2010

in Perth, Australia, Pakistan were accused of ball tampering after stand-in captain Shahid Afridi was

when panic sets in, the "solution" failed to work as the ball was replaced with five overs to go with Australia

Australian Chris Harper won the men's elite race as the Oceania Road Cycling Championships concluded in Tasmania today.

better than the elite race as he claimed the silver medal, while Jason secured bronze.Sarah Gigante of Australia

Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has welcomed the actions of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in allowing the country’s flag to be raised at yesterday World Half Marathon Championships in Valencia, defying a ruling from the Spanish Government.

We will have no such issue in Australia @GC2018."

The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) has called for Test cricket captain Steve Smith and other members of the leadership team to stand down from their roles following the ball-tampering scandal which has plunged the sport into crisis.

) rules, in an effort to give his bowlers an advantage.He has since been charged by the ICC.Cricket Australia

The example they set matters a great deal to Australia and to the thousands of young Australians playing

I have spoken with David Peever, the chairman of Cricket Australia, and I have expressed to him very

 "He has said to me that Cricket Australia will be responding decisively, as they should."

nation, who hold those who wear the baggy green up on a pedestal - about as high as you can get in Australia

Britain's Sophie Thornhill and Helen Scott set a blistering world record as they claimed the women's tandem time trial gold medal at the Para Cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro.

her world record as the American stormed to victory in the gold medal race in 3:56.576.Meg Lemon of Australia