In an exclusive extract from Ben Dirs' new book, we head back to 1990, the build-up to the fight and the televised signing of the contract that left the show's host in a sweat and Nigel Benn ready to ...

Close of play: Day 1: Day 2: West Indies 1st innings NS Asgarali b Jepson 4 GS Sobers not out 219 CL Walcott c Clay b Smales 115 EdeC Weekes lbw b Dooland 68 OG Smith not out 67 Extras (b 3, lb 13) 16 ...

Close of play: Day 1: Day 2: West Indies 1st innings NS Asgarali c Murray b Moss 12 BH Pairaudeau b Moss 11 CL Walcott c Sheppard b Tyson 117 EdeC Weekes c Cowdrey b Moss 30 FMM Worrell c Insole b ...

Close of play: Day 1: Day 2: West Indies 1st innings AG Ganteaume lbw b Wardle 29 BH Pairaudeau b Platt 2 GS Sobers b Wardle 56 EdeC Weekes c Wilson b Illingworth 1 RB Kanhai lbw b Close 39 OG Smith b ...

Jackie Stewart won the season-opening Monaco Grand Prix, driving a two-litre V-8 BRM, with three quarters of a minute to spare over the Ferrari of Lorenzo Bandini. It was an attritional afternoon with ...

Welsh racing driver John Parry-Thomas became the first man to be killed in pursuit of a land speed record he had held until weeks before when a drive chain broke at 170mph on his remarkable 27-litre ...

1981 At last, a few years and a few hundred punches too late, Muhammad Ali fought his last fight. At the age of 39, he lost a 10-round decision to Jamaica's Trevor Berbick, who hadn't trained hard for ...

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Close of play: Day 1: Day 2: Cambridge University 1st innings JT Davies b Ramadhin 23 GW Cook b Hall 13 DJ Green c Walcott b Smith 46 IM McLachlan b Ramadhin 0 ER Dexter lbw b Ramadhin 46 RM James lbw ...

Close of play: Day 1: Day 2: Glamorgan 1st innings WGA Parkhouse c Weekes b Worrell 2 B Hedges c Ganteaume b Hall 0 LN Devereux b Ramadhin 58 WE Jones b Hall 4 DJ Ward lbw b Ramadhin 1 PM Walker c ...

Close of play: Day 1: Day 2: West Indies 1st innings AG Ganteaume b Smith 47 NS Asgarali b Cook 25 BH Pairaudeau b Smith 8 EdeC Weekes c Knightley-Smith b Wells 56 GS Sobers b Smith 0 OG Smith c Meyer ...