Nico Rosberg will start on pole for the inaugural European Grand Prix in Baku with his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton only 10th after a calamitous qualifying session on the tricky street circuit yesterday.

England produced a sustained and outstanding defensive effort to keep Australia at bay before a late Owen Farrell try clinched a 23-7 win to secure his team a first series win on Australian soil yesterday.

New Zealand produced a ruthless second-half display to defeat Wales 36-22 in the second Test in Wellington yesterday and maintain one of world rugby’s longest winning streaks.

Andy Murray moved a step closer to a record fifth Queen’s Club title as the defending champion battled into the final with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Marin Cilic yesterday.

Zimbabwe rose from the ashes of an embarrassing one-day series whitewash at the hands of India to shock the tourists by two runs in a thrilling Twenty20 international at Harare Sports Club yesterday.

Pakistan’s Mohamed Amir said match-fixers should be banned for life as he prepares to return to Test cricket at Lord’s, where an infamous 2010 spot-fixing scandal landed him a jail term and a five-year ban.

Striker Alvaro Morata scored twice to lead Spain to an emphatic 3-0 win over Turkey yesterday that sent the holders into the second round of the European Championship.

Russia’s track and field team is banned from the summer Olympic Games because the country has not given up its doping culture...

Two days after Galileo Gold, Qemah gave another prestigious win to Al Shaqab Racing by winning the Coronation Stakes (Gr1) at Royal Ascot yesterday.

Russian athletes’ hopes of competing in the Rio Olympics are now at the mercy of the IOC after world athletics’ governing body unanimously upheld its ban on the country for systematic doping yesterday, saying not enough progress had been made in reform.

Eder’s last-gasp stunner fires pale Azzurri into last 16

A 94th-minute penalty rescued a point for the Czech Republic in their dramatic 2-2 draw with Croatia as flares thrown onto the pitch marred yesterday’s Euro 2016 match.