Cricket: Sri Lanka’s captain Mahela Jayawardene admitted his team choked in the World Twenty20 final against the West Indies, denying themselves a long-awaited title. “When we were put under pressure, we did not react well,” Jayawardene said after the hosts crashed to a 36-run defeat in Sunday’s final. Having restricted the West Indies to a modest 137-6, Sri Lanka fell woefully short with the bat and were out for 101 in 18.4 overs in a match they were favoured to win. It was Sri Lanka’s fourth successive loss in a major final.

Rugby Union: Wembley and the Olympic Stadium were named among the potential venues for the 2015 Rugby World Cup as organisers revealed their long list of stadia yesterday. Gloucester’s Kingsholm is the only Premiership rugby ground on a list that includes Wembley, the Olympic Stadium, rugby union’s headquarters at Twickenham, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and some of the biggest club football arenas in England.

Horse Racing: Yasutoshi Ikee vowed to return and win Europe’s most prestigious race the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe after suffering a heartbreaking defeat in this year’s renewal on Sunday at Long-champ. The 37-year-old Japanese trainer had just seen his 2011 Japanese horse of the year Orfevre denied by a neck by 40/1 outsider Solemia. “I don’t know whether Orfevre will be back as he could well go to stud,” he told AFP. “However, I am keen to return and to win the Arc as it is a magical race and it is hard to come so far and leave with victory having been so close to hand.”

Golf: Europe’s Ryder Cup hero Sergio Garcia of Spain will lead the field at the Iskandar Johor Open golf tournament in Malaysia this December in the Asian Tour’s season-finale. World number 19 Garcia, who secured a crucial singles victory in Europe’s victory over the United States in the recent Ryder Cup, will make his first ever appearance in Malaysia from December 13 to 16.

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