Cricket: England piled up a world record one-day international total of 444 for three against Pakistan after Alex Hales and Jos Buttler ran riot at a sun-kissed Trent Bridge yesterday. Buttler struck the last ball of the innings for four to take Eoin Morgan’s men past Sri Lanka’s 443 for nine against Netherlands in July 2006. Hales plundered 171, the highest individual limited-overs score by an England batsman, before Buttler reached his fifty off 22 deliveries.

Paralympics: Russia, already suspended from the Rio Paralympics, have also been banned for the winter edition in Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2018 because of a state-sponsored sports doping programme. The Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) announced the latest punishment handed out by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) yesterday. The decision to exclude Russia’s team from Rio means at least 260 competitors from the country are now set to miss the September 7-18 Paralympics.

Olympics: Simon Hollingsworth, the head of Australia’s main sports funding body, has stepped down following the Rio Olympics, where the country posted its worst finish on the medals table since 1992 and won half the number of golds they had targeted. Hollingsworth is to leave the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) at the end of September for a job with the Victorian state Treasury. He had been with the ASC for five years.

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