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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Former Surrey county cricket coach joins Middlesex

January 17, 2023

Former England cricketer and Surrey cricket coach Ian Salisbury has joined Middlesex in a consultant role. Salisbury was coaching Sussex until the end of last season and joins the Lord’s-based outfit immediately. Salisbury, 52, will work alongside fellow consultant coach Mark Ramprakash under the first team coach Richrd Johnson, club coach Rory Coutts and director [...]
Formula 1 confirms China BOOTED from 2023 calendar

January 17, 2023

Formula 1 today confirmed that its calendar will remain at 23 races, meaning China’s hopes of returning to the F1 landscape has been put off for at least a year. Despite the Shanghai Grand Prix being named in the initial calendar for the 2023 Formula 1 season, it was removed over the country’s severe Covid-19 [...]
Scotland and Wales name their Six Nations squads

January 17, 2023

Scotland and Wales have today confirmed their squads ahead of the Six Nations Championships, which begin next month. Scotland’s 40-man training squad includes four uncapped players, one of whom – Ruaridh McConnochie – has previously played for England. Jamie Ritchie will captain the Scots in the Six Nations, whose first match will see them travel [...]
Borthwick on his England Six Nations squad of new faces and veterans

January 17, 2023

Steve Borthwick’s first squad announcement as England coach has seen him take a chance on potential debutants in some areas while reverting to once again trusted veterans of the game in others. The announcement – made yesterday at Twickenham Stadium, the location for Borthwick’s first match as head coach on 4 February – saw the [...]
Premiership and English rugby chiefs accused by MP of ‘inert leadership’

January 17, 2023

The acting chair of a government committee this morning accused the Rugby Football Union and Premiership Rugby of “inert leadership”. Damian Green MP made the comment in response to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s ‘Current issues in rugby union’ report, which said that the fall of Premiership clubs Wasps and Worcester [...]
Steve Borthwick vows to find England’s lost clarity in Six Nations

January 16, 2023

England rugby coach Steve Borthwick says the team lacked “clarity” towards the end of predecessor Eddie Jones’s tenure but has vowed to revive them at the Six Nations. Speaking after his first squad announcement since taking the England job in December, Borthwick drew a line under a dire autumn campaign and said the next 18 [...]
Cole, 35, back as Borthwick names England’s Six Nations squad

January 16, 2023

Dan Cole has been named in the England Rugby squad as new head coach Steve Borthwick revealed his 36-man squad this morning ahead of the Six Nations, which begin next month. Borthwick, on appearance, has picked a squad with form at the forefront with the training squad including the likes of the 35-year-old prop and [...]
Nick Kyrgios can impact tennis like Serena Williams and other greats did

January 15, 2023

I literally grew up seeing Serena Williams succeed on the Grand Slam circuit – and now I’m desperate to see Nick Kyrgios, too, become a true star of tennis. I was a newborn when Williams won her first singles title in 1999 and I was just months away from legally being able to drink in [...]
The Six Nations selection dilemmas England boss Steve Borthwick must ponder

January 15, 2023

Tomorrow morning the new England rugby head coach Steve Borthwick will name his inaugural national squad ahead of next month’s Six Nations. There are nine months until the World Cup and the former Leicester Tigers head honcho is expected to pick a group dictated by Premiership form. And with such a short time to get [...]
Formula E: Under the bonnet of the electric series’ new car

January 14, 2023

Formula E is the all-electric and unrelated sibling to Formula 1, a racing series which is growing annually. One of its founders, Alejandro Agag, also runs Extreme E and a new E1 powerboating series but Formula E is the most advanced of his ideas. This season, the newest generation of car – the Spark Gen3 [...]

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