Latest - The Central Pulse have appointed former Silver Fern Gail Parata as the netball team's new head coach.
New Central Pulse coach Gail Parata. Photo: Central Pulse
Parata, who has coached the Scotland national team, replaces Yvette McCausland-Durie, who stepped down last month after leading the Pulse to back to back ANZ Premiership titles.
Parata has most recently been working as Netball Queensland Games Development Advisor and as head coach of the Northern Rays Hart Sapphire team.
She has previously been an assistant coach at the Pulse, the Northern Mystics and the Silver Ferns.
Another Phoenix player off to Denmark.
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The Wellington Phoenix forward Callum McCowatt has signed with first division Danish football side Helsingør.
McCowatt, 21, signed with the Phoenix in 2019 and made 25 appearances including 13 starts during the 2019/20 A League.
McCowatt is the second Phoenix player to head to Denmark with 19 year old defender Liberato Cacace having signed with Sint-Truiden last month.
Australia stumble to series defeat
England beat Australia by six wickets in the second T20 in Southampton to clinch the three-match series with a game to spare.
Set a target of 158 to win, batsman Jos Buttler remained unbeaten on 77 off 54 balls, which included eight boundaries and two sixes, as England reached the target with seven balls to spare to take an unassailable 2-0 series lead.
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England lost opener Jonny Bairstow early when he hit his own stumps trying to pull Mitchell Starc but Buttler and Dawid Malan (42) kept the scoreboard ticking with an 87-run stand before spinner Ashton Agar had Malan caught in the deep.
Tom Banton and Eoin Morgan fell cheaply but all-rounder Moeen Ali came in and relieved the pressure with a six and a four in the penultimate over to change the equation before Buttler smashed the winning runs with a six down the ground.
Australia were held to 157-7 after Jofra Archer and Mark Wood struck in their first overs to remove David Warner for a duck and Alex Carey (2) respectively while Steve Smith was run out for 10 with a direct hit from Morgan.
Aaron Finch (40) and Marcus Stoinis (35) stitched together a 49-run partnership while Glenn Maxwell scored a quick-fire 26 off 18 balls to give Australia a respectable total to defend.
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Warriors fight hard but come up just short after sin bin
The Warriors were beaten 24-18 by the Parramatta Eels last night in Gosford to all but end the New Zealand side's hopes of making the NRL finals.
The win cemented the Eels' place in the top four with three games left before the playoffs.
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The Warriors fought until the final minute, producing a top effort considering the depleted team could name 20 fit players this week.
The Warriors lock Jazz Tevaga was controversially sent to the sin bin in the first half for striking out at Parramatta's Nathan Brown in a tackle.
The decision left Warriors coach Todd Payten fuming.
"In the context of the game it was huge and it was the wrong call, in my opinion," he said.
If anything, the way Nathan Brown reacted, they both should have been sent to the bin."
The Eels are third and the Warriors are ninth.
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Brady tames 2016 champion Kerber to reach first Grand Slam quarter-final
Jennifer Brady produced a fearless brand of tennis to topple 2016 champion Angelique Kerber 6-1 6-4 and reach the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time at the U.S. Open.
Brady appeared firmly in control from the start, opening the campaign with an ace and utilising her monster forehand to break down Kerber's defence.
A double fault followed by two errors from Kerber handed Brady a break for a 2-1 lead, with the American eventually closing out the set in 22 minutes.
A medical timeout to get her left thigh taped midway through the second set failed to distract Brady as she fended off two break points to hold her serve for a 5-3 lead.
She sealed the win with a powerful serve that Kerber returned long.
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Tanak wins at home in Estonia as WRC re-starts
Ott Tanak won his home race for Hyundai as Estonia made its world rally championship debut in a season stalled by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The reigning champion finished 22.2 seconds clear of team mate Craig Breen with Toyota's French driver Sebastien Ogier third.
Six times champion Ogier retained the overall lead with three rounds remaining.
Estonia marked the return of the series after a six-month pause and the rally was the 600th since the start of the championship in 1973.
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