Nissan’s Adel Hussein Abdulla is aiming to round off his successful FIA T2 campaign in the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies by winning at this weekend’s 30th Baja Portalegre 500 in eastern Portugal.

The Losail International Circuit of Qatar is the final battleground of the 2016 Motul FIM Superbike World Championship and everything is at stake as the ultimate battle for the title resumes this weekend.

As the horses round the last bend, the crowd starts shouting, their cries crescendoing into deafening cheers as the jockeys bear down on the finish line.

Ice cool skipper Alastair Cook insisted he never doubted England would hold their nerve after just preventing Bangladesh from pulling off an historic victory in a nail-biting first Test in Chittagong yesterday.

Pakistan pressed West Indies hard for a series-clinching win in the second Test after setting a daunting 456-run target on the fourth day in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

Nico Rosberg will be aiming for nothing less than an outright victory against his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton when they take their world title duel to Mexico next weekend.

A Russian deputy sports minister accused of overseeing state-run doping has resigned, the government said yesterday, days after the sports minister was promoted to deputy prime minister.

Kenya’s world javelin champion and Olympic medallist Julius Yego said he was “lucky to be alive” after a car crash.

Svetlana Kuznetsova dug deep into her reserves to overcome Agnieszka Radwanska 7-5, 1-6, 7-5 in their WTA Finals round robin opener yesterday, the late-arriving Russian upsetting the defending champion in a thrilling encounter.

The road to US LPGA Tour riches is one well travelled by South Korean golfers but the domestic KLPGA circuit is looking to stem the annual exodus by boosting prize money and world ranking points on its increasingly lucrative schedule.

There was nothing ‘Classique’ about it as Paris Saint-Germain and bitter rivals Marseille conjured up an uninspiring 0-0 draw in relentless rain in the French capital on Sunday.

Any suggestion that tomorrow’s EFL Cup showdown between Manchester United and City would lack the usual derby intensity has been removed by the gathering pressure on both managers.