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Deputy Sports Editor - City AM Matt is the Deputy Sports Editor covering sport, the business of sport and the politics of sport. He covers the likes of football, rugby, cricket, Formula 1, golf and tennis.

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Stokes’ retirement highlights dilemma for English cricket’s bigwigs

July 19, 2022

“Three formats are just unsustainable for me now.” The words of England Test captain Ben Stokes as he announced that today’s one-day international against South Africa would be his last. If that is what the 31-year-old World Cup winner stresses as he bows out of one of cricket’s three main formats, then domestic administrators must [...]
India deserved series winners as Buttler’s ODI tenure begins in defeat

July 18, 2022

England one-day captain Jos Buttler’s tenure in charge of the current World Cup champions has not started in the way the previous era finished. Then, under Eoin Morgan, it was a 3-0 whitewash of the Netherlands – which included a record 50-over score of 498. Now, though, it’s a 2-1 loss against India on home [...]
Rugby round-up: England win Down Under, history for Ireland and Chile on fire

July 17, 2022

A Emiliano Boffelli crossed the whitewash in Santiago del Estero on Saturday night to earn his Argentina side a Test series victory against a sorry looking Scotland, it marked the end of the European rugby season; one that began in September. But in Ireland’s historic series in New Zealand, England’s continued success on the shores [...]
British Athletics on mission to buck trend of mediocre Championships

July 14, 2022

Just once has the Great Britain and Northern Ireland athletics team left a World Championships with medals tallying into double figures – at Stuttgart in 1993 – and there’s little hope of a repeat at this year’s edition, which gets underway in Eugene, Oregon, tomorrow evening. Of course there is medal hope – notably in [...]
Fan spending FOUR days on bus to watch World Athletics Championships

July 13, 2022

Dedicated fan bases are what sports are built upon; the desire to be there for your team or player and witness any history they make. But would you spend four days on a bus going coast-to-coast for a few days of sporting action? Because that’s just what Jan Figueroa is doing. The 24-year-old Puerto Rico-born [...]
777 Partners vice president: ‘We want BBL to be next best rival to NBA’

July 13, 2022

Investment firm 777 Partners is determined to make the British Basketball League (BBL) the second biggest domestic league in the sport, behind the NBA. Since the US company’s acquisition of 45 per cent in the BBL last year, the league has seen record crowds and will have its first team – the London Lions, who [...]
BBL ready to slam dunk its rival basketball competitions

July 13, 2022

British basketball has only ever featured at the Olympics when the team has participated as the host nation and has never qualified for the Fiba World Cup. A Sport England survey estimates the number of those participating in the sport in England has dropped by 100,000 since 2016. In spite of this, however, the British [...]
Competitive rugby and global calendar shouldn’t come at cost of player welfare

July 12, 2022

If you were to assess the hopes of the Home Nations as they crossed the equator to play their annual summer rugby series, you’d have been forgiven for suggesting they weren’t too high. But two thirds of the way through each of the tours – Ireland in New Zealand, England in Australia, Wales in South [...]
Djokovic wins at Wimbledon but Kyrgios’ story of fight a deserved consolation

July 10, 2022

It represents an interesting state of affairs when Novak Djokovic wins his fourth consecutive Wimbledon title – his 21st Grand Slam triumph – and yet there’s a sense of his losing opponent Nick Kyrgios being the real story to come out of the All England Club this year. Despite ultimately going down 4-6 6-3 6-4 [...]
Semi-final against Djokovic is Cameron Norrie’s biggest ever match

July 8, 2022

When British No1 Cameron Norrie ventures through the double doors, on to Wimbledon’s Centre Court and into a cathedral of raucous noise today, it will be the biggest moment of his five-year professional career. He may have won Indian Wells last year, arguably the biggest non-Grand Slam event on the circuit, but reaching the latter [...]

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