Ryan Sidebottom bowls during a practice session at The Brabourne Cricket Stadium in Mumbai. Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images
Ryan Sidebottom is unlikely to be recalled to the England side for the second match of their one-day series against India on Monday. The 30-year-old seamer missed Friday’s humiliating 158-run defeat in the opening encounter of the seven-match [...]

The Ajax striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar. Photograph: Bas Czerwinski/AP
The Mill is nothing if not patriotic, and after several dark decades wondering if it was in fact nothing, it was grateful to the Olympics to reawaken sentiments of graceless gloating in the face of victory and sanctimonious whinging in the face of def … brave moral victory.
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Roque Santa Cruz: it’s a tough life. Photograph: P Noble/Reuters
Who would want to be Roque Santa Cruz? One minute you’re being whisked away from the Allianz Arena by one of Blighty’s most esteemed managers and shunted into the Blackburn Rovers attack, where you reap maximum benefit from the wing wizardry of Morten Gamst Pedersen and [...]

“Have you seen Mark Hughes’ hair?”. Photograph: Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images)
Je m’appelle Le Mill, j’ai onze ans, j’habite a La Rochelle, j’ai deux soeurs et un chat, j’écoute les disques de Johnny Hallyday et j’aime le tennis, le foot et, bien sur, les rumours.
That, there, is some French for you. Pourquoi? Well, mes amis, it’s Bastille [...]