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Telegraph
5 days ago
- Sport
- Telegraph
England vs India, fourth Test, day three: live scores and latest updates
Hello and welcome to Telegraph Sport's live, over-by-over coverage of day three at Old Trafford. This could be the day that a seriously hard-fought series turns decisively England's way. If they are still batting at the close, it will take a Herculean effort from India – or a repeat of the 2023 downpour that saved Australia – to stop England taking an unassailable 3-1 lead. England were brilliant yesterday, pummelling India all round Old Trafford with ball and bat. They will resume on 225 for 2, a deficit of 133, after scoring their runs at almost five an over. India bowled poorly, particularly with the new ball, but Zak Crawley and especially Ben Duckett played with a skill and chutzpah that we have rarely, if ever, seen from England openers. 'He's an unbelievable player,' said Crawley of his opening partner. 'We talk a lot in the middle about how we're going to play and some of the stuff he comes up with … he's a phenomenal thinker about the game and he hits the ball in areas that made it hard to contain him. I just tried to stay with him. He's the leader of that partnership.' One word of caution. India's bowling improved as the day progressed and they will come hard at England this morning. And there are some uncomfortable parallels with last year's Rajkot Test. On that occasion England started day three on 207 for 2 in reply to India's 445, having scored their runs at almost six an over. Then Joe Root tried to reverse ramp Jasprit Bumrah and the match went in a different direction. England were destroyed by 434 runs and lost the series 4-1. Not that the England dressing-room will be thinking of Rajkot. The past, the worst-case scenarios, are for people like us. They'll be accentuating a sizeable positive: if they dominate today's play, they will be on the cusp of lifting the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.
Telegraph
5 days ago
- Automotive
- Telegraph
David Coulthard: ‘Mika squeezed his scrotum and I don't think Senna saw funny side'
'I wish I had to wait for him when we were racing together. The f----r was always in front of me,' David Coulthard jokes about former team-mate Mika Hakkinen. The once 'Flying Finn' had just returned to his car for the start of Telegraph Sport's video call with the pair, and the Scot had to wait at the other end. Hakkinen laughs: 'Come on David, it's not true!'. He is right. Hakkinen has the championships (1998 and 1999), yes, but Coulthard was a crucial part of McLaren's success in the late 1990s and early 2000s and could compete with and beat the best on his day. The two were together at McLaren for 99 races between 1996 and 2001 and will be making a seven-date speaking tour around the UK in September. 'It's fun reminiscing about how quick we think we used to be,' Coulthard jokes. The timing is apt. This year McLaren are on course to complete their first double championship since 1998, a season in which Coulthard and Hakkinen took nine wins, 12 pole positions, 20 podiums and five one-two finishes for the team. There are a few parallels with the current season and a few lessons too. In 1998 McLaren moved from occasional victors and podium contenders to championship winners, thanks to the MP4/13, designed by Adrian Newey, who had just arrived from Williams. The team has enjoyed a similarly sharp upwards trajectory in the last couple of years. Yet with that comes tension – we are speaking four days after Lando Norris rear-ended Oscar Piastri on the pit straight in the Canadian Grand Prix and a week before they tussled again in Austria. Like the current McLaren partnership, you would be hard pressed to describe the Hakkinen-Coulthard relationship as combustible. Although there was little like the frequent explosions between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna the decade before, there were several flashpoints in intense seasons. When two quick drivers have a fast car, even an harmonious relationship can become stressed to the limit. 'He took me out in Estoril 1996, although he still denies it! I took him out in Austria 1999, and I have to own up to it,' Coulthard tells Telegraph Sport. That collision in Spielberg helped Ferrari's Eddie Irvine – Hakkinen's main rival that season – take victory after McLaren started the race on the front row. There was another brush at the start of the 1999 Belgian Grand Prix, when the pair touched at the first corner. Coulthard took the lead from Hakkinen and won the race, despite the Finn being the championship leader over Irvine. Did Ron Dennis, McLaren chief from 1981 to 2009, ever have to lock them in a room to strongly underline the rules of combat, as with the team's current 'Papaya rules'? 'In Estoril I remember going into the Marlboro motorhome and [Dennis] sitting us down having us both explain what happened. I don't remember in Austria when I took Mika out but I am sure I was certainly in a room explaining myself!' Coulthard recalls. 'I think Ron managed it. He had so much experience with guys who had won championships before, but I don't remember us getting a big b-----ing, Mika? Or am I just erasing that from my memory?' 'It's already history, it's already past,' Hakkinen says of any such incident. 'Of course, you talk with your team-mate and there is an emotional reaction – a very powerful emotional reaction about what has happened. But then OK, when you wake up the next morning you start to continue and focus for the future. 'When the team owners are responsible for a huge group of people in the team, they have a different way of seeing this problem when two drivers crash together. When we were racing for McLaren the management was very good about it – but very strong about these kinds of [things]. 'I don't think that the crash between the drivers is a big problem, it's just what the drivers are going to say afterwards. If they are not mature enough, they start whinging and moaning a long time and that can hurt the team and it doesn't look good. 'David, I don't ever think we got a big b------ing from the management but it's a long time ago!' Coulthard says he has some 'fatherly' sympathy for Norris after the Montreal shunt. 'I sent Lando a message [after Canada] just going 'buddy, you're not the first McLaren driver to take his team-mate out'. Just learn from it and move on.' The more you look back to the late 1990s and early 2000s, the more similarities you see with today. Back then there was the looming presence of Michael Schumacher, McLaren's biggest rival. He was able to, and often had to, wring every last millisecond from his car to put himself in championship contention. He was also unafraid to cross the line when racing in close quarters, often at high stakes, at reputational cost. That is precisely what Max Verstappen has done in 2025. He was sublime in victories at Suzuka and Imola, and indefensible when his rage boiled over in Spain and he crashed into the Mercedes of George Russell. Although Hakkinen and Schumacher never collided in F1 (they did in F3 at the 1990 Macau Grand Prix) they came very close at high speed at the 2000 Belgian Grand Prix, when Schumacher forced the Finn on to the grass at 210mph. That near-miss came shortly before Hakkinen executed his most famous racing move, using the BAR backmarker of Ricardo Zonta as a buffer to overtake Schumacher at the end of the Kemmel Straight. Hakkinen and Schumacher colliding in Macau, 1990 Hakkinen and Schumacher's near-miss in Belgium, 2000 2000 Belgian Gp | 2 efsanevi pilot Michael Schumacher ve Mika Hakkinen'in Spa'daki mücadelesini izliyoruz. — F1 Onboard Türkiye (@f1onboardtr_) January 1, 2022 In a memorable image taken after the race, Hakkinen (who won) was photographed not explaining his stunning move – as is often mistakenly thought – but telling his rival to 'use common sense' in what he called 'a life and death situation'. When asked if Verstappen is made from Schumacher's mould, Hakkinen equivocates but eventually concedes that Schumacher's style was 'sometimes a bit too much'. 'He really took a risk, with a possibility to crash and definitely crash into the other driver too. It was not my style of driving,' Hakkinen says. 'I think Max is also absolutely on the limit all the time. 'I always tried to see where this long journey of a season was going to go. I didn't think that one particular race, doing some crazy overtaking manoeuvre, I thought this is not going to bring me a world championship – it's going to bring me more enemies than friends.' Coulthard also had run-ins with Schumacher. At the 2000 French Grand Prix he gave Schumacher the middle finger after a typically robust move from the German at the hairpin. The most memorable, though, was when Schumacher stormed down the pit-lane at a crash-strewn 1998 Belgian Grand Prix, accusing Coulthard of trying to kill him after smashing into the back of his McLaren from a commanding lead in torrential rain. Despite those tempestuous encounters, Coulthard respects Schumacher's consistency. 'With Michael you knew you couldn't just stick your nose in and hope for the best, you had to be fully alongside otherwise he'd chop your nose off,' he says. 'It's very difficult to be angry with consistent behaviour. Those guys that say good morning to you one day and then ignore you the next, they are the difficult and annoying f-----s because you don't know who you are dealing with. 'Michael was hard and Max, Ayrton [Senna] are two great champions that fell into that category but boy were they revered, were they respected, even if sometimes their initial assessment of the event might have been clouded by their passion and anger.' Senna is another driver who Hakkinen and Coulthard experienced at close quarters. Hakkinen was Senna's team-mate at McLaren for the final three races of 1993. Coulthard was Williams' test driver at the start of 1994, the season the Brazilian was killed at the San Marino Grand Prix driving for the team. Coulthard's initial memory of Senna's personality is, ironically, about how the Brazilian reacted to Hakkinen when the Finn out-qualified him at Estoril on McLaren debut. 'When Ayrton asked him how he did the lap and Mika squeezed his scrotum to suggest that he had big cojones. I don't think Ayrton saw the funny side of it, he was looking for a more intellectual response to the question,' Coulthard recalls. 'Ayrton's way of working was…' Hakkinen hesitates. 'He was of course very selfish, of course. Outside of racing, absolutely fantastic – great character, very funny guy, but when it came down to the race track his attitude changed completely. 'Definitely I was an enemy for him basically and a trap for his career. So he did everything – anything – to kick my butt. Out of the racing car a great personality but you don't want to be his team-mate!'
USA Today
5 days ago
- Business
- USA Today
LIV Golf to stop paying DP World Tour fines for players, per report
A major change could soon be coming to LIV Golf, and it has nothing to do with the on-course product. Telegraph Sport reported Thursday that LIV Golf has informed its players it will stop paying DP World Tour fines for its players to remain members on the circuit. That change will take effect next season. It's pivotal for a couple reasons, but it has large ramifications for the Ryder Cup. Members of the European squad must be DP World Tour members. Players on LIV Golf, like Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton, Adrian Meronk and Tom McKibbin, have maintained their DP World Tour membership due to LIV Golf paying the fines. Former DP World Tour golfers competing for LIV Golf are in violation of the DP World Tour's conflicting events policy, which requires a release to play elsewhere. In April 2023, the Tour won a U.K. arbitration case that allows it to enforce the penalties. That means if players want to compete on the DP World Tour, they'll have to pay a fine, among other penalties. Rahm and Hatton are currently appealing that decision. Telegraph Sport reports the league has dished out 15 million euros, with another 8 to 10 million euros due in outstanding fines. The hearing on the appeal will take place after the Ryder Cup in September, making them eligible to play. Rahm's manager, in a letter to Tour chief executive Guy Kinnings, said Rahm 'has no intention of paying any fines," per the report. A source also told Telegraph Sport, "There would be outrage if the Tour caved in. The point is that the Tour fully expected the peace negotiations between the PGA Tour and the Saudis to have been settled by now, so they kicked this can down the road, happy in the belief it wouldn't matter. But with no deal in the pipeline – anything but, in fact – there is a huge problem looming. 'And at this point, unless the impasse between the two parties is broken, or the Tour changes its rules or even quits the strategic alliance with the PGA Tour and rows in with the Saudis, it is inevitable that the Europe Ryder Cup will be weakened for the match in Ireland in 2027. These are uncertain times and there is a lot of angst about what happens next.' LIV Golf is playing its 11th event of 14 in 2025 this week at LIV Golf UK at JCB Golf & Country Club.
Telegraph
22-07-2025
- Sport
- Telegraph
Lions player ratings v First Nations & Pasifika XV: Blair Kinghorn and Henry Pollock struggle
The British and Irish Lions just about maintained their 100 per cent record in Australia as they hung on to beat the First Nations and Pasifika XV 24-19 at the Marvel Stadium in Melbourne on Tuesday. Andy Farrell's team were unimpressive in the final midweek fixture of the tour as they prepare for the second Test on Saturday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Here is Telegraph Sport 's analysis of who put their hand up for a Test start and who took a step back. Give your opinion with our thumbs up/thumbs down voting tool.
New Straits Times
22-07-2025
- Sport
- New Straits Times
Report: European captain Luke Donald agrees to Ryder Cup rules change
LONDON: The 2025 Ryder Cup is getting off to a congenial start. According to a report by Telegraph Sport yesterday, Team Europe captain Luke Donald has agreed to extricate his counterpart Keegan Bradley from a potentially sticky situation. It was assumed that when Bradley was named Team USA captain, he would serve in the traditional manner. However, the 39-year-old has all but assured himself a spot inside the ropes -- complete with clubs and caddie -- given his brilliant play in 2025. However, the Ryder Cup rules state that only the captain is permitted to provide advice to players during the competition. Should Bradley be competing in a session, he would not be able to communicate with the squad. But Donald agreed to change the rule to allow one of the American vice-captains to assume Bradley's advisory duties. "Keegan can only change the overarching contract with Luke and Ryder Cup Europe's approval," a source told Telegraph Sport. "The contract between the teams includes things like how many vice-captains a team can have, etc. That is used year on year and captains rarely change that. But Keegan went to Luke with this clause and Luke generously agreed." The USA vice-captains are Jim Furyk, Kevin Kisner, Webb Simpson, Brandt Snedeker and Gary Woodland. Furyk, the team captain in the 2018 European win in Paris, could be equipped to assume the role. Bradley was the 2011 PGA Champion, then won only twice on the PGA Tour over the next 10-plus years. But he captured the BMW Championship during the 2024 FedEx Cup playoffs, then won his second Travelers Championship title in three years one month ago. He stands 10th in the U.S. Ryder Cup standings (the top six automatically qualify), but his World ranking has risen to No. 7. With other prominent American players like Patrick Cantlay and Jordan Speith slumping and the selections coming in four weeks, Bradley seems preparing to put himself on the team. The last playing captain for Team USA in a Ryder Cup was Arnold Palmer in 1963. The 2026 Ryder Cup takes place at Bethpage Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y. from Sept. 26-28. Team Europe is attempting to become the first away side to win (or retain) the cup in 13 years. They rallied for a 14.5-13.5 win at Medinah (Ill.) in 2012. — REUTERS
