This week’s roundup also features the worst Super Bowls, a points-fest of a Six Nations final day and golfers being good
1) England receiving a Test match cricket horsing will be familiar to those of a certain age, so at the risk of inspiring PTSD, here are some more. Their heaviest defeat in terms of runs to West Indies was in 1976 at Old Trafford, the Test remembered for Brian Close being peppered by the quick bowlers and for Gordon Greenidge scoring centuries in both innings as the tourists won by 425 runs. Brisbane hasn’t been a happy place for England: they haven’t won there since 1986, lost by 381 runs in 2013, by 277 runs when Ricky Ponting starred in 2006 and 384 runs when Matthew Hayden was the destroyer in 2002. Hi Nasser! 2015 at Lord’s was a weird game: despite England winning the series they were mullered by 405 runs. Likewise at Centurion in 2016: this was the series of Ben Stokes’s 258 and Stuart Broad’s 5-1, but also the series of losing by 280 runs.
2) What an absolute screamer this was by Konstantinos Mavropanos for the Arsenal Under-23s. Well, probably. Possibly. Actually we have no idea.
What a finish this was from Mavropanos. Might as well give him the Puskas right now. pic.twitter.com/1YAI8s6R7U
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