Esme Hamilton held off a challenge from fellow Englishwoman Cara Gainer to win her first European Tour title at the South African Open.

Hamilton started the day as joint leader with Slovenia’s Pia Babnik and stayed the course to finish two shots clear of Gainer.

The 26-year-old endured a difficult front nine, picking up a bogey on the third and a double bogey on the ninth, but settled on the home straight to end the day with a two-under-par 71.

It is the first time Hamilton has laid her hands on European Tour silverware, at the 22nd attempt.

Prior to this week’s event in Cape Town, Hamilton had only managed two top-10 finishes.

Gainer, 30, went into the final round in third place, and a shot adrift of the clubhouse leaders, but a one-under-par 72 meant she fell just short.

After Lucknow Super Giants walked with them toe-to-toe in regulation time, Kolkata Knight Riders found a familiar saviour in Sunil Narine to register a tight Super Over victory in their IPL match in Lucknow on Sunday. Both Super Giants and Knight Riders ended up at 155 when a total of 40 overs were bowled, but Narine made all the difference in the Super Over. Conjuring his years’ of experience, the spinner dismissed Nicholas Pooran and Aiden Markram to limit LSG to 1 for two, which was also the lowest score in a Super Over.

The Kolkatans did not fumble and notched up the required two runs with Rinku Singh, who also had wonderful day on the field taking four catches, fittingly fetching the winning runs.

It was Rinku’s well-paced 83 not out off 51 balls that worked as the catalyst for KKR total of 155 for seven earlier.

Once the Super Giants restricted KKR to that modest total, courtesy Mohsin Khan’s five-for, they had an excellent chance to register a rare home victory.

But the hosts slipped against a set of spot-on Kolkata bowlers on a slow black soil pitch.

The result pushed KKR to eighth on the table with five points, while LSG plummeted to the bottom of the pile with four points.

The Super Giants have some big names in their roster – skipper Rishabh Pant, Markram, Mitchell Marsh and Pooran.

But none of them could give direction and shape to LSG’s chase.

Pant (42) and Markram (31) looked to be in good touch and they added 57 runs for the second wicket after the early departure of Marsh.

But Markram fell to Cameron Green’s pace-off delivery, while Pant’s attempt to reverse scoop Narine, resulted in a catch to stumper Tim Seifert.

It left LSG’s fate in the hands of a clutch of young domestic players like Ayush Badoni, Himmat Singh and Mukul Choudhary to see off the chase.

They whittled down the equation 17 off the last over with luck and pluck. Two successive no-balls by Kartik Tyagi reduced the equation to 12 off 5 balls.

But the pacer was allowed to continue to bowl even after two waist-high no balls because the second illegal delivery was deemed non-dangerous by the officials.

He jettisoned Himmat Singh, leaving LSG to make 8 off 3 balls, but Mohammed Shami’s last-ball six pushed the match into the seasons’ first Super Over.

Earlier, LSG pacer Mohsin added another sordid chapter to KKR’s batting woes, taking five wickets to restrict them to 155 for seven.

Mohsin’s 5 for 23 tore apart an already struggling KKR batting unit, as he snaffled the cream wickets of Ajinkya Rahane, Seifert, Green, Rovman Powell and Anukul Roy.

Rinku punished Shami in the 19th over for 6, 4, 4 and then smoked four sixes in a row against spinner Digvesh Rathi as KKR made 43 runs in the last two overs to go past the 150-run mark.

But despite that late burst, Mohsin firmly stood in the limelight.

His bowling ethos were rooted in simple tactics – bang the ball into the black soil pitch to gain bounce or use cutters at various pace to keep the batters guessing.

Mohsin, who started the night with a wicket maiden, showed his variety across two dismissals.

He followed Rahane with a fuller ball as the batter tried to go over the covers, but the ball’s trajectory forced the KKR skipper to just slice the ball up for a simple catch for Markram.

The 27-year-old stayed calm when Green, who looked comfortable out there while smashing George Linde for two successive sixes, slammed him for a huge maximum.

Two balls later, Mohsin dug one short, challenging Green (34) to go for the pull and the Australian all-rounder took the bait.

The into-the-body angle worked again as Green could only sky the ball to wicketkeeper Pant.

Green’s dismissal also ended a fifth wicket alliance worth 42 with Rinku Singh.

Bizarre dismissal of Raghuvanshi

If the existing turmoil was not enough, KKR had to bear the dejection of seeing Angkrish Raghuvanshi getting dismissed obstructing the field.

On the final ball of the fifth over from Prince Yadav, Raghuvanshi nudged one towards mid-on and set off for a single, only to be rejected by Green.

Raghuvanshi put in a dive to save himself but he came in the line of the throw from Shami.

Subsequently, third umpire Rohit Pandit accepted LSG’s appeal and decided that the batter’s turning radius was more than required, eventually resulting in the batter’s dismissal in a rare manner.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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Following her commanding display in the Listed VRC St Leger at Flemington, Silvasista may head to the South Australian Derby.

Next Saturday’s Group 1 South Australian Derby (2500m) takes place at Morphettville, alongside the prospect of the Group 3 SA Fillies Classic (2500m) there the subsequent week.

Silvasista relished stretching out from her 2200m win at Donald on April 14, navigating the 2800m test on Saturday effortlessly.

Luke Currie piloted Silvasista ($3.70) to a 3-½ length margin over Finance Merchant ($16), with Chillies ($18) three-quarters-of-a-length further adrift in third.

The result gave Melbourne Cup training partners Tony and Calvin McEvoy a double, after Mr Blunt took the WGCDR Ian Bayles DFC (1800m).

“She’s a lovely filly but we weren’t sure whether she would stay on her pedigree being by Toronado,” Calvin McEvoy said.

“She put up a great run behind Salty Pearl over a mile and then went to Adelaide and disappointed us.

“We brought her back and brought her back in class and she won over 2200 metres at Donald and sort of looked near the end of it, but we wanted to test her here over the distance with a look to the 2500-metre fillies race in a couple of weeks.

“The way she won, it was a beautiful ride from Luke, and it could not have worked out any better.

“I’m thrilled for the team at Ballarat. They’ve sent two horses to the races today and they’ve both won at Flemington.”

Earlier, the filly had trailed Salty Pearl at Caulfield and then failed to fire in a stakes contest in Adelaide last month.

Her Donald win over 2200m left the team questioning her suitability for longer trips.

Success aside, the directive to Currie was clear: keep her settled early.

“The only thing we said to Luke was she was on trial at the distance, so get her to switch off as good as you can and be the last to challenge,” McEvoy said.

“He wasn’t the last to challenge as she was travelling so well and he couldn’t have executed it any better.

“She’s really continued to go through the grades and today was a big test.

“It’s a big race to win at Flemington and we’re very proud to win it.”

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Here, both sides decided to get down to it from the get-go. No feeling their way in, no shadow boxing. With Hearts going for the title and Hibs busting a gut to derail them, there was a school of thought that this was the biggest Edinburgh derby of them all in the league.

And it felt like it. Boy, did it fizz and crackle. Seven minutes in and Martin Boyle scored. His last derby and there he was, writing his own farewell script. Or so he would have hoped.

Jamie McGrath’s vicious free-kick, Beni Banigime dozing and in rushed Boyle – cool and calm, a sidefoot to the solar plexus of the visitors. Down the Hearts end, too. A perfect view of their nightmare start.

Easter Road basked not just in the sunshine but in the anxiety of their guests, the unspeakable horror of having their league dream buffeted by their greatest rivals.

What unfolded was pulsating, a red card for Sallinger only four minutes after Boyle scored, a daft act of handling the ball outside his own area and a call that was easier to make than the officials made it look.

Everybody knew that Sallinger was goosed on first, or second, viewing. The officials took five or six minutes. It was a calamity for Hibs.

The mood completely shifted and shifted some more when the news came through that Rangers had blinked first in the title race. Later, McInnes spoke of the importance of winning your first post-split game and he was right.

Hearts and Celtic are now on the front foot.

Kendal Grey and Kali Armstrong are two pro wrestlers who represent the future of WWE’s women’s division.

Each rising superstar was able to attain WWE Evolve Women’s Championships during their time at the developmental promotion and have made a major impact since being called up to the NXT brand. Grey won the Women’s Iron Survivor Challenge and Armstrong put Lola Vice on notice that she was coming for the NXT Women’s Championship.

WWE Hall of Famer Booker T analyzed Grey and Armstrong’s meteoric rise in the company so far in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.

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Kendal Grey, left, and Kali Armstrong have been tapped as WWE’s future. (Getty Images)

“She’s proved that she’s special man. She’s a special talent just in her infancy stages already. Then again, I wouldn’t want to push Kendal too quick because right now she’s being highly touted as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, women’s wrestler to come to the WWE system,” he said.

“I don’t want her to get a big head or anything like that because she is so young to the business and she’s picked it up so quickly. But then again, psychology. When she learns that, oh man, she’s gonna be hell to deal with. She’s going to be something very, very special. But she’s gotta really lean into learning that side of it.”

Booker T said that Armstrong has the ability to be great as well. However, there were still certain skills that she needed to hone before her greatness could be achieved.

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“She’s a very, very special talent. The first Evolve women’s champion. And then she lost that championship to Kendal Grey. I told her, ‘There’s a reason why you lost that championship. We gotta figure that out.’ You gotta put yourself into a position where, if you do lose it, it comes right back to you,” he said.

Kali Armstrong, the Evolve Women’s Champion, enters the ring during NXT at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Fla., on July 15, 2025. (Matt Pendleton/WWE)

Kendal performs during NXT at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Fla., on Jan. 6, 2026. (Craig Melvin/WWE)

“Again, there are those building blocks that we gotta work with Kali. Me, personally, I’m going to be working with Kali person-to-person, on a one-on-one perspective, to just hone that skill, to let her know those details. I always say what you do before and what you do after … She’s got it all. She checks off so many boxes but making her complete is something I’m so looking forward to.”

Grey was an amateur wrestling star in high school and was on Team USA’s national wrestling team at one point.

Armstrong was a track and field star in college before she signed with WWE.

“But as far as the ceiling, very, very high for both of those ladies,” Booker T added.

Booker T makes his entrance during NXT at the Ball Arena in Denver, Colo., on Sept. 1, 2024. (Eric Johnson/WWE)

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Both Grey and Armstrong will be among the talent appearing on Season 3 of “WWE Legends and Future Greats” on A+E. The new season begins Sunday night at 10 p.m. ET.

Jockey Tyler Schiller praised Rotagilla as a “progressive horse” after the gelding overcame a tactical alteration to deliver a resounding triumph in the Anzac Day Cup held at Randwick.

Schiller intended a proactive ride on the four-year-old, but a poor start led to a patient approach instead, with Rotagilla firing a devastating burst down the outside to win the 1800m race by a clear margin.

“It obviously wasn’t the plan to be so neutral and negative on him, but they jumped quick around us and I thought, on a turn if we’re pushing we’re going to be using a lot of energy,” Schiller said.

“He’s come through and won like a really nice horse late. The tempo helped him.

“He’s a progressive horse.”

Rotagilla boasts six wins from 17 career starts, and assistant trainer Charlie Duckworth to Chris Waller mentioned the Listed Gosford Gold Cup (2100m) on May 9 as a likely next port of call.

“He is tough and consistent,” Duckworth said.

“We thought he was more one-paced, but he seems to have that turn of foot and a willingness to win. We’ve just got to work out exactly where he measures up and what his distance range is, how far he can stay, and that will tell us the answers hopefully.”

At odds of $8, Rotagilla scored half a length clear of Sir Dinadan ($12) from the same stable, with consistent Polymnia ($4.40) just a short neck adrift in third.

Opting out of Friday’s Tamworth Cup (1400m)—successfully taken by their Formal Display—Annabel and Rob Archibald entered Hellsing in Saturday’s First Australian Imperial Force Handicap (1500m).

In an exciting three-horse photo finish, Hellsing outfinished Encap over the concluding 50m for his second local win, accompanied closely by stablemate Cristal Clear in third.

“I am delighted for Hellsing. He has been knocking on the door,” Annabel Archibald said.

“He’s had three seconds, two here and in the Muswellbrook Cup, and just the ground and maybe the class in the Doncaster (Mile) found him out.

“Back in grade, 1500 metres here I think is his sweet spot, and it was a nice ride by Tom Sherry as well.”

The Archibald stable had four participants, as Depth Of Character and Port Lockroy ended up fourth and fifth.

Annabel Archibald expects Hellsing and Cristal Clear to contest next month’s Scone Cup (1600m), with entry into the Big Dance on Melbourne Cup Day.

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