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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Root and Bairstow shone but England Test team will eventually be challenged

July 6, 2022

What unfolded in the sun at Edgbaston yesterday will go down in cricketing history as England completed a record run chase of 378 to topple India and scrape a five-match series draw. The result amounts to the pinnacle of a Ben Stokes-Brendon McCullum era in its infancy but sets out exactly how this Test side [...]
Land of hope and glory? England and what would count as success at Women’s Euro 2022

July 5, 2022

The 140ft projection of England captain Leah Williamson beamed onto Tower Bridge this week was a reminder that Women’s Euro 2022 is here and hopes, like the image itself, are high. Ticket sales have already broken records and the hosts, who open the tournament against Austria in Manchester on Wednesday night, are among the favourites [...]
Cameron Norrie Britain’s last hope as he aims for Wimbledon semi-final

July 5, 2022

Today’s play at the All England Club will feature British No1 Cameron Norrie as Wimbledon gets set to host a singles quarter-final involving a home player for the first time since 2017. Then it was the duo of Andy Murray and Johanna Konta, but today it is all about Norrie. Relegated to the outside courts [...]
England close in on incredible Test series draw against India

July 5, 2022

The target at Lord’s was 277, it was 299 at Trent Bridge and 296 at Headingley; but if England complete their chase of India on the final day of the fifth Test match against India today it will be a monumental chase of 378. On Saturday afternoon, as England began – badly – chasing down [...]
Premier League said to have asked clubs to back ban on gambling to avoid regulation

July 5, 2022

Premier League clubs have been asked to back a voluntary ban on shirt sponsorships relating to gambling companies as the English football’s top flight looks to avoid legislation that could be part of a gambling White Paper due in the coming weeks. According to Sky Sports, clubs were contacted yesterday by their governing body with [...]
Premier League business ramping up as Jesus becomes Gunner and Phillips heads to Man City

July 4, 2022

Two of last week’s most talked about potential Premier League transfers transpired today as Arsenal announced the singing of Gabriel Jesus while Man City confirmed they’d picked up Kalvin Phillips. Brazilian Jesus joins from Manchester City for a fee understood to be £45m and the forward is set wear the No9 shirt occupied by Alexandre [...]
LIV Golf: Branden Grace wins in Portland and banks $4m individual prize

July 4, 2022

“S***, this is fun! How good has this been? I’ve never experienced anything like this.” The words of Branden Grace after he banked the $4m prize pot for winning the second LIV Golf Invitational event in Portland, Oregon on Saturday. For the second time in two events, Grace shot a final round 65 – at [...]
Hollie Pearne-Webb: I am still learning how to lead as England hockey captain

July 4, 2022

It’s not often you get the chance to reinvent yourself as a captain three years into your tenure, but that’s exactly what England and Great Britain hockey captain Hollie Pearne-Webb is doing as her side begin a World Cup and then head to a home Commonwealth Games. The Pearne-Webb era has been dogged by the [...]
Jones and England on the back foot after Australia loss in Perth

July 3, 2022

As the sun set in the Western Australian metropolis of Perth on Saturday, hopes of Eddie Jones’ England team repeating their astonishing 3-0 whitewash of the Wallabies in 2016 faded into the night. Two late tries from Henry Arundell and Jack van Poortvielt ensured the 30-28 losing scoreline was slightly more palatable than it looked [...]
Tour de France remains ‘absolutely unimaginable act of suffering’

July 1, 2022

It may be over 3,000km of blood, sweat and tears but it grips us for one month of the year. When the Tour de France peloton embarks upon its Grand Depart in Copenhagen today, its twists and turns will no doubt draw us into cycling’s most prestigious event. Starting in Denmark before weaving down the [...]

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