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Saturday
Football
10am-6pm (BST)World Cup news liveblog
Friday’s action will beryllium reviewed and Saturday’s previewed successful our regular World Cup news liveblog helmed connected Saturday by Rob Smyth and Will Unwin. There’s nary amended gateway to nan weekend’s World Cup action, bringing you each nan breaking news and colour from tournament’s first information of group games. Before Scotland get their run gets rolling arsenic they look Haiti adjacent Boston successful nan early hours of Sunday greeting and Australia meet Turkey successful Vancouver, Qatar face Switzerland adjacent San Francisco and, successful nan day’s large game, Brazil and Morocco collide successful New York/New Jersey. Keeping gait pinch nan day’s events couldn’t beryllium easier pinch our World Cup regular guide. Click here for specifications connected really to travel nan action, time by day. Or why not people our fantabulous wallchart, here?
Cricket
10.30amWomen’s T20 World Cup live
Cricket is staging its ain World Cup successful England and earlier nan day’s shot we’ll person over-by-over sum of Scotland v Ireland successful nan 2nd crippled of nan Women’s T20 World Cup (10.30am) followed by a crunch conflict betwixt Australia, the defending champions, and South Africa (2.30pm). Tim de Lisle and Daniel Gallan are our blog hosts. We won’t beryllium forgetting nan home action and Tanya Aldred will beryllium bringing County Championship updates connected time 2 of nan latest games from 11am.
Formula One
3pmBarcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix qualifying unrecorded
Philip Cornwall is astatine nan instrumentality for our rolling study from qualifying astatine nan Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli again claimed nan glory pinch a 5th consecutive triumph of nan play successful Monaco and Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton was backmost connected nan podium erstwhile again successful second, pinch nan remainder of nan placings affected by a punishment controversy. Hamilton, F1’s all-time starring title winner, appears to person turned a area aft a frustrating first play pinch Ferrari past twelvemonth vanished without a top-three finish. Hamilton enters information 7 2nd successful nan points standings down nan teenage sensation. Britain’s erstwhile world champion hasn’t savored triumph since winning nan Belgium GP successful July 2024 – could this beryllium his return to nan apical step? Luke McLaughlin reports.
World Cup
8pm (12pm ET)Qatar v Switzerland live
Qatar return connected Switzerland successful their World Cup opener eager to shingle disconnected nan unit of expectation, coming successful arsenic back-to-back Asian champions pinch an urgent request to make amends for a dismal debut arsenic hosts of nan 2022 tournament. Qatar’s 2022 unravelling was unprecedented, losing each 3 matches and scoring once, but, aft rebounding to take sides their Asian Cup title and qualifying easy for this World Cup, they person unfinished business and request a beardown showing to gain immoderate credibility connected nan world stage. They mightiness person hoped for a much gentle introduction, pinch nan resurgent Swiss unbeaten successful competitory matches since precocious 2024 pursuing an awesome Euros run, and keen to make a people successful their sixth successive World Cup. John Brewin helms nan unrecorded blog.
World Cup
11pm (6pm ET) Brazil v Morocco live
Brazil statesman their latest hunt for a long-awaited sixth World Cup prima connected their shirts pinch small room for a gentle landing, facing awesome Morocco successful a Group C opener that will trial their expertise to header pinch a lengthy wounded list. The grounds five-time winners get successful North America nether Carlo Ancelotti, whose World Cup debut arsenic a coach comes a small complete a twelvemonth aft he near Real Madrid pursuing a sparkling haul of European titles to return connected 1 of football’s astir demanding rescue missions. Brazil person endured 3 turbulent years, 4 managers and a bid of disappointments, while Neymar’s agelong diminution from untouchable talisman to fittingness bet has added uncertainty. Follow nan crippled unrecorded pinch Jeff Rueter, Pablo Iglesias Maurer and Alexander Abnos. Ed Aarons and Leander Schaerlaeckens report from nan MetLife Stadium.
Sunday
World Cup
2am (9pm ET)Haiti v Scotland live
It is Scotland’s first World Cup finals lucifer for 28 years and they cannot spend to commencement their run mildly against Haiti, pinch with some teams successful request of a speedy triumph successful their opener earlier colliding pinch tougher guidance successful nan adjacent 2 games. Brazil and Morocco – who defeated Spain and Portugal en way to nan semi-finals successful 2022 – are besides successful Group C, putting unit connected Les Grenadiers nether their French coach, Sébastien Migné, and Steve Clarke’s Scotland to return each 3 points. Tom Bassam helms our minute-by-minute blog pinch Ewan Murray and Paul MacInnes reporting from nan Boston Stadium.
World Cup
5am (12am ET, 2pm AEST)Australia v Turkey live
Arda Guler will lead a quiet Turkey broadside arsenic they make their return to nan World Cup finals for nan first clip successful much than 2 decades against an Australia squad brimming pinch youthful vigour successful their Group D opener. Despite beardown showings successful nan Euros of late, Turkey person not played astatine a World Cup finals since making nan past 4 successful 2002, and, though nan 21-year-old Guler was not moreover calved backmost then, he will carnivore his side’s attacking hopes connected his young shoulders. The Socceroos person rung nan changes and could person 17 World Cup debutants astatine this tournament, including 2 uncapped players successful Tete Yengi, 25, and nan 22-year-old striker Cristian Volpato, who switched allegiance from Italy conscionable earlier nan tournament. Jonathan Howcroft brings each nan action minute-by-minute pinch Jack Snape reporting from Vancouver’s BC Place.
World Cup
8am-4pmWorld Cup news liveblog
Emillia Hawkins, Billy Munday and Yara El-Shaboury are our Sunday liveblog crew, and they’ll beryllium unpicking nan threads from each Saturday and Sunday morning’s early games arsenic good arsenic looking guardant to nan remainder of nan day’s fixtures. Our first World Cup MBM study of nan time is Curaçao’s tourney debut, against Germany successful Houston, astatine 6pm BST/1pm EST, earlier unrecorded sum of nan tantalising Netherlands v Japan Group F fixture (9pm BST/4pm EST). A hectic week concludes pinch our MBM reports of Côte d’Ivoire v Ecuador astatine midnight BST/7pm EST and Sweden v Tunisia (3am BST, 10pm EST). And if that’s not enough, a reminder that Football Weekly goes daily – tune successful passim nan tourney – and there’s superb and broad guides to each nan players: click here.
Cricket
11am and 2.30pmCounty liveblog and India v Pakistan Women’s T20 World Cup live
Our attraction erstwhile much switches to cricket and time 3 of nan latest County Championship games from 11am, pinch Tanya Aldred steering nan blog. There’s past a blockbuster Women’s World T20 conflict astatine 2.30pm pinch James Wallace’s over-by-over sum of India v Pakistan. India launched nan Women’s Premier League successful 2023 on nan lines of nan men’s IPL. That has encouraged fearless strokeplay by players specified arsenic Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh and Harmanpreet Kaur, who will skipper India for nan 5th clip astatine her 10th T20 World Cup. The closest Kaur came to winning was successful nan 2020 final. Taha Hashim reports from Edgbaston.
Formula One
2pmBarcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix unrecorded
It’s lights retired and distant we spell pinch Billy Munday’s lap-by-lap study of nan Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. George Russell’s title run is successful tatters aft failing to people successful nan erstwhile 2 rounds. The British driver’s motor expired successful Montreal erstwhile battling his Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli for nan title lead earlier a botched five-second punishment that was caused by an charismatic timing correction resulted successful a drive-through successful Monaco that near him to decorativeness extracurricular nan points. That put him a whopping 68 points adrift of Antonelli, pinch nan teen claiming 5 wins successful a statement to return a patient grip connected nan title race.
World Cup
6pm (1pm ET)Germany v Curaçao live
Only a convincing triumph will do against Curaçao, pinch Germany eager to commencement nan tourney powerfully aft daze first-round exits successful 2018 and 2022. Curaçao is simply a self-governing portion of nan Netherlands, pinch a organization of conscionable complete 150,000 and a onshore area of 171 quadrate miles (443 quadrate km). All their players are Dutch nationals, arsenic is their coach, Dick Advocaat, and they are nan smallest federation to suffice for nan World Cup. The four-times champions opportunity they are not emotion immoderate unit but they must contend pinch performing successful precocious temperatures successful Houston. Daniel Harris hosts nan unrecorded blog pinch Nick Ames reporting.
World Cup
9pm (4pm ET)Netherlands v Japan live
Japan recreation to their eighth successive finals connected nan backmost of respective high-profile victories and pinch their coach, Hajime Moriyasu, understandably bullish astir their chances of reaching nan tournament’s second stages. The four-time Asian champions secured friends wins complete Brazil and England during nan past 8 months but successful 4 appearances successful nan World Cup knockout rounds they person grounded to registry a azygous win, crashing retired successful nan past 16 each time. The Dutch see themselves World Cup contenders but caput for nan 2026 finals pinch a squad that contains fewer of nan outstanding individual stars and small of nan wide value that has marked their erstwhile appearances astatine nan tournament. The Netherlands person been runners-up 3 times, astir precocious successful 2010, and astatine nan past finals successful Qatar successful 2022 were eliminated successful nan quarter-finals connected penalties by nan eventual winners, Argentina. This clip they person group themselves nan minimum extremity of a semi-final place. Rob Smyth hosts nan blog pinch Barney Ronay reporting from what is definite to beryllium an entertaining clash.
