By: Matt Hardy

Deputy Sports Editor - City AM Matt Hardy is the City AM Deputy Sports Editor with a specialism in the business of sport. He covers the likes of rugby, cricket, sporting investment and venture capital funds; while also being across golf, cricket, and the politics of sport.

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Thank you Jimmy Anderson. Watching you bowl has been iconic

July 14, 2024

Sitting in the Mound Stand at Lord’s as a punter and hearing “bowling from the Pavilion End, James Anderson” was genuinely goosebump-worthy. Mere minutes before the 41-year-old, who had been handed a forced retirement by the England and Wales Cricket Board, finished his career just four wickets shy of Shane Warne’s total, he walked out [...]
Extreme E in Scotland will be at centre of changing landscape

July 12, 2024

Change seems to be in the air up in Dumfries and Galloway this weekend. Last week’s General Election may not have seen a switch in party in the Scottish constituency but at the Glenmuckloch opencast coal mine will be the backdrop for a key shift in motorsport, through Extreme E, and how it’s powered this [...]
LOOK: New Northampton Saints badge unveiled on trademark website

July 11, 2024

Northampton Saints are today set to unveil their new logo with the government trademark website potentially giving the big surprise away early this morning. The Premiership champions announced earlier this year that they would be changing the branding of the club’s logo to remain in keeping with the developing times sport is currently going through. [...]
Atkinson steals show in Anderson’s farewell England Test

July 10, 2024

Debutant Gus Atkinson stole the show in James Anderson’s final Test match, taking seven wickets on an opening day where England dominated. The 26-year-old Surrey cricketer ripped through the West Indies batting order with captain Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes and the departing James Anderson taking the other three scalps. Mikyle Louis added the bulk of [...]
Clinical Rybakina shines at Wimbledon as Krejcikova progresses

July 10, 2024

Former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina stormed into the semi-finals at the All England Club on Wednesday with a domineering 6-3 6-2 victory over Elina Svitolina. In one of just three quarter-finals to be played in SW19 on Wednesday, due to Alex de Minaur’s withdrawal from his last-eight tie against Novak Djokovic, Kazakhstan’s Rybakina stormed past [...]
McIlroy: I can bounce back from US Open disappointment

July 10, 2024

Rory McIlroy has insisted he can bounce back from his US Open disappointment ahead of the Open this month. The Northern Irishman was leading on the final day at the notoriously difficult Pinehurst but missed key putts before losing the lead to eventual winner Bryson DeChambeau. “I look back on that day [at the US [...]
Wimbledon Wednesday order of play after Sinner dumped out

July 9, 2024

World No1 and top seed Jannik Sinner crashed out of Wimbledon on Tuesday, beaten in five sets by Daniil Medvedev. The two Europeans traded sets early on before Sinner needed medical treatment for an apparent illness. The duo again traded the third and fourth sets but Medvedev, fifth seed, claimed the decider and a 6-7 [...]
Kane: Past experience can take England to successive Euros finals

July 9, 2024

England captain Harry Kane has insisted that past semi-final experience can help the Three Lions reach a second successive Euros final. England take on the Netherlands on Wednesday in Dortmund with a place in Sunday’s final on the line. But Kane, who has been a key cog throughout Gareth Southgate’s tenure, says their 2018 World [...]
Jimmy Anderson in numbers: Lord’s wickets, scalps per country and how batters were dismissed

July 9, 2024

This week, after a match at Lord’s against the West Indies, England pacer James Anderson will retire from Test cricket. He holds the record for the most international wickets for a seamer and will step away from the international game over two decades after he made his debut against Zimbabwe at the Home of cricket [...]
Arise Sir Jimmy? Sir Andrew Strauss backs Anderson for knighthood

July 9, 2024

Lord’s is a stadium synonymous with memories and emotions; it is the Home of Cricket and a place of pilgrimage for fans, players and bystanders alike, including Sir Andrew Strauss. But this week in north London there’s a double dosage of feeling ahead of England’s Test match against the West Indies. For we will see [...]

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