Sport
Pakistan v England: Ben Stokes set to be fit, same Multan pitch in line to be used
Sanctions would only be administered retrospectively if a pitch or outfield subsequently are deemed to have played in an unsatisfactory or unfit manner.
The theory for playing on the same surface is that a fresh pitch would simply produce a repeat of last week. By playing on the old pitch, which is cracked and started to show signs of uneven bounce towards the back end of the first Test, Pakistan may feel their bowlers have a better chance against England’s powerful batting.
“Going off the last game, we did see it go up and down, mainly down, towards the back end,” said Anderson, England’s all-time leading wicket-taker.
“The cracks started opening up. I’m no groundsman, but I don’t think you can make cracks go back together that easily, certainly in three days. You’d expect it to do something off the cracks and with it being dry and hot again, you’d expect the spinners to play more of a part.”
If the same pitch is employed – and there is still the chance one of the strips either side is settled on – it may also help Stokes’ reintroduction into the England side.
The 33-year-old has missed four consecutive Tests and the main concern over his return would be the amount of overs he is able to bowl.
On a used pitch, England spinners Jack Leach, Shoaib Bashir and part-timer Joe Root can be expected to do the bulk of the bowling, taking the load off Stokes and England’s other seamers.
“When we’re talking about Ben’s workloads and his bowling, it might play into our hands with that, with the spinners potentially playing more of a part,” said Anderson.
“He looks great. He has worked really hard on his fitness and looking as strong as I’ve ever seen him. He’s had a good bowl in the nets and looks good to go.”
It seems most likely Stokes would come into the England side for Chris Woakes. England may also check on the condition of pacemen Gus Atkinson and Brydon Carse following their workload in the heat of the first Test, with Matthew Potts on stand-by.
Stokes and Potts were two of only five England players that took part in optional training on Sunday, alongside Bashir, Rehan Ahmed and Jordan Cox.
Motorsports
FIA would need ‘to cross a barrier’ to support 25 F1 races
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has insisted the federation is currently unable to support a 25-race Formula 1 calendar.
The current Concorde Agreement allows for 25 races per season. But although there is a massive demand for a slot on the F1 calendar – with Argentina being the latest to express interest in hosting a Grand Prix – F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali last year stated that he would like to stick to 24 races for the time being.
“I think 24 is the right number”, he said on F1’s Beyond the Grid podcast. “I would say this is the number which we should target to be stable for a long time.”
According to Ben Sulayem ‘everything’ is on the limit at the moment for the FIA, with 24 events on this year’s schedule.
“You cross a barrier where you need two teams, we can’t have [more]”, Ben Sulayem told Motorsport.com when asked if adding one extra race would already pose a problem. Logistically, then I have to have two teams.
“Can the drivers take it? I just want to know. Let’s just be sensible and logical about it. Can the drivers take it physically and mentally? This is a question I will ask the drivers. And what about the teams?”
“As for the FIA, we cannot do it with this one team. We have to have a rotation of two teams, when it comes to the staff on the ground.”
Stefano Domenicali, CEO, Formula One Group, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, President, FIA
Photo by: Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Images
But stating that Formula One Management is “sensible”, Ben Sulayem acknowledged: “They never came back and said: ‘Oh, we need more.’ No way they did. What they are after is quality and that’s why we have this good relationship with them.”
“I mean, I will not stop [them] to go to 25, because it is their right, OK? [In the end] it’s up to them.
“But they are the ones who don’t want to add [more races at the moment]. Because they know that it becomes [a matter] of fatigue then. So they have their own reasons [for keeping the amount of races on 24].”
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MMA
Max Holloway trolls Ilia Topuria before UFC 308 main event showdown
Max Holloway sent a message to Ilia Topuria ahead of their blockbuster fight later this month.
Holloway challenges Topuria for the UFC featherweight title in the main event of UFC 308 Oct. 26 in Abu Dhabi. Holloway, the current BMF champ after his incredible knockout of Justin Gaethje at UFC 300, let Topuria know who the real “BMF” titleholder is in a recent Instagram post.
Holloway and Topuria recently had a heated combo interview with Brendan Fitzgerald, where Topuria put a BMF title on his shoulder. In the post, Holloway says his belt was “earned not bought.”
Topuria captured the UFC featherweight title with a brutal knockout of Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 298 in February. “El Matador” improved his overall record to 15-0, including a 7-0 start to his surging UFC career.
Holloway lost the featherweight title to Volkanovski, and came up short in two other rematches. Since a lopsided decision loss to Volkanovski in their third meeting at UFC 276 in July 2022, “Blessed” is 3-0 with wins over Gaethje, Arnold Allen, and Chan Sung Jung.
Football
Max Brosmer connects with Darius Taylor on a 4-yard TD to seal Minnesota's victory over UCLA
Max Brosmer connected with Darius Taylor on a 4-yard TD to seal the Minnesota Golden Gophers’ victory over UCLA
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How F1’s spending rules left Red Bull’s hands tied over top staff departures
Red Bull has revealed how Formula 1’s financial realities played their part in it losing key staff members like Jonathan Wheatley and Will Courtenay this year.
The Milton Keynes-based squad is undergoing a period of organisational restructuring, with a number of its senior figures having accepted jobs elsewhere and set to move on.
Its chief technical officer Adrian Newey is departing for Aston Martin, sporting director Wheatley is becoming team boss at Sauber/Audi while head of strategy Courtenay is also taking a step up to join McLaren as sporting director.
The three high-profile departures have grabbed headlines off the back of a season where the squad has faced challenges both on and off track.
And while some have pointed to these key departures as being a sign of a team in trouble, moves like this are nothing out of the ordinary with it pretty common for rivals to come along and offer big money deals to poach experienced staff.
Formula 1’s cost cap rules take into account the wages of all relevant operational personnel at a team, excluding the top three earners.
While the identity of these three individuals at each squad is not made public, it is thought that neither Wheatley nor Courtenay formed part of the top three at Red Bull.
Red Bull says that what has changed though is that being able to make counter-offers has long gone because, in a cost-cap era, spending is so limited.
Jonathan Wheatley, Team Manager, Red Bull Racing
Photo by: Mark Sutton / Motorsport Images
Speaking about the challenges of keeping hold of top personnel in current F1, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said: “You can’t have a Galactus because you can’t afford it. You’ve got to look at bang for buck and it forces you to make some really tough decisions.
“It’s tough. Jonathan was a very good sporting director, but he was an expensive asset. So you have to weigh things up.
“When he got the opportunity to move to Audi, it was: ‘Do you know what? I think you should go for that because of the way that regulations are. We’re limited in scope and what we can do for you here.
“‘So, if you have an opportunity to further yourself and go and earn significantly more money, go for it.’”
Horner says that he fully understands the motivations for senior staff members wanting to move on – especially if circumstances allowed them to take a position that was not available at Red Bull, plus a boost to their wages.
Their departures are not all negative, though, because they allow others within the current organisation to move up to more senior roles – giving them career progression that stops them feeling trapped and feeling that they need to look elsewhere.
Red Bull pitwall
Photo by: Erik Junius
“Jonathan has been here a long time, and he had an opportunity to become a team principal,” added Horner. “He didn’t have that here, and his role was becoming ever more one dimensional in that he was never here. He was always at a racetrack.
“He’s moved on and it’s allowed others to naturally step up. You’ve got to have that evolution.
“It is the same with Will Courtenay and strategy. He has been here for 20 years. We talked about other roles within the group. He was offered a bigger role on a very high salary from McLaren, and at that point you have got to say: ‘Good luck. Go for it.’
“But at the same time, it gives an opportunity for Hannah Schmitz to move up, which, if she hadn’t had that opportunity, she’d have been a prime target for somebody.
“In any organisation, you’re going to have evolution. We had less than 5% turnover here, so we have tremendous loyalty within the team.”
While the spotlight that comes on senior staff movements is inevitably greater than it is for lesser-known personnel, Horner says that natural turnover in F1 means organisations are constantly evolving and changing.
“When I came here in 2005 we assembled a fantastic team,” he said. “If I look around the engineering office, particularly trackside compared to when we were winning with Sebastian Vettel and Mark Weber, during that 2010 to 2013 period, I think there’s only three people in the engineering office that were there at that point, out of probably the 25 that are trackside.
“There is Paul Monaghan, who’s still with us. Michael Manning, who is still with us and does all the starts, and it’s probably only Jonathan and Will that were also there.
“Hannah was a graduate from Cambridge University at the time, but the rest of the team: the race engineers, control engineers, everything evolves, and you have to have that within any organization.”
Newey didn’t want to leave F1
The highest profile departure Red Bull has experienced though is Newey, who has signed a big money deal for Aston Martin. He will start work for the Silverstone-based squad next March.
Adrian Newey, Aston Martin Formula One Team
Photo by: Aston Martin Racing
And while the design genius has made a huge contribution to Red Bull’s success over the years, Horner thinks their partnership was coming to a natural conclusion anyway.
Asked if the early season turmoil at Red Bull triggered the change, Horner said: “I think you’ve got a perfect storm that’s very easy to say, well, this caused that, and that caused this. But the reality is that all the things are totally unrelated.
“Adrian leaving the team was something that already, at the back end of 2023, he was growing somewhat, I think, conflicted in his own mind.
“The agreement that we had was at the end of ’25 he was going to step back from F1 and really just be a mentor. Otherwise, I was going to lose the other [technical] guys to some rival teams.
“But I think he felt that his time in F1 wasn’t done, and so he made decisions for his own reasons which are understandable.
“The deal he’s got from Aston with equity and so on, is something that quite simply wasn’t on the table here.
“I can understand, Adrian wants another run around the block in F1, and as a shareholder and partner in a team, I certainly don’t blame him for that.
“But we live in a cost cap world now, where F1 is very different to what it was even five years ago, where 90% of our time is spent focused on: what can you afford to do within the cap?
“With the $140 million that you’ve got to spend, every penny has got to be spent very wisely. And of course, over the years, the bigger teams, sometimes they carry a bit of fat in them. What the cost cap has driven is efficiency.”
Sport
Wuhan Open: Aryna Sabalenka beats Zheng Qinwen to win third consecutive title
Aryna Sabalenka became the first player to win the Wuhan Open three times with a hard-fought win over Zheng Qinwen in Sunday’s final.
The 26-year-old Belarusian was taken to three sets by China’s Zheng in a thrilling rematch of this year’s Australian Open final, in which she also claimed victory.
Sabalenka clinched her fourth women’s singles title of the year 6-3 5-7 6-3 and remains undefeated in Wuhan.
“That sounds crazy,” she said. “This place definitely feels like home.
“I am pretty sure we are going to play many more finals against one another.”
Top seed Sabalenka took the opening set in just 38 minutes, but Zheng mounted her comeback in a gripping second to force a decider.
There, Zheng found herself 3-0 down, and while she pulled two games back, lost her serve again as Sabalenka broke for a 5-2 lead.
The world number two failed to serve out the match as Zheng broke back to love, but finally wrapped up her 17th career title on her third championship point.
Reigning Olympic gold medallist Zheng, who became the first Chinese player to reach a WTA 1000 final, has now lost all four of her meetings against the three-time Grand Slam champion.
“Next time I will be better,” she said.
Sabalenka is now unbeaten in 17 consecutive matches in Wuhan, breaking Petra Kvitova’s record for the most at the tournament.
The win adds to a successful year in which she won both the Australian Open and US Open and appeared in seven singles finals.
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