This week in Sports History:
1872 – 1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton
1877 – Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets’ 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 v Eng
1951 – Pat O’Sullivan wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1892 – 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket Eng v SA (Cape Town)
What happened this weekend:
| Formula 1 | |
| Australian GP: Lewis Hamilton wins opening F1 race | The Australian Grand Prix began on a farcical note with only 14 cars left in the race after the opening lap. Just 15 were able to line up on the grid due to a rash of technical failures and Pastor Maldonado then crashed his Lotus into the barriers on the first lap, bringing out the safety car before Lewis Hamilton strolled to victory |
| Nico Rosberg invites Sebastian Vettel to Mercedes F1 garage after verbal spat | Nico Rosberg has offered Sebastian Vettel an invite to the Mercedes garage at the next race in Malaysia after a verbal exchange between the duo turned tetchy.Rosberg finished runner-up to his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton in the season-opening grand prix in Australia on Sunday, with Vettel a distant third – over 30 seconds back – on his debut for Ferrari. |
| Football | |
| Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend action | 1. United shine brightest without their Ángel.
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| Match Reports: | Manchester United 3-0 TottenhamChelsea 1-1 SouthamptonArsenal 3-0 West Ham
Burnley 1-0 Manchester City Everton 3-0 Newcastle Sunderland 0-4 Aston Villa Leicester 0-0 Hull Crystal Palace 3-1 QPR West Brom 1-0 Stoke City Leicester City 0-0 Hull City |
| Cricket | |
| AB de Villiers destroys UAE as South Africa make World Cup quarter-finals | The only serious hiccup for AB de Villiers as he guided South Africa to a 146-run win over the United Arab Emirates to confirm a World Cup quarter-final place was being dismissed one run short of his 21st one-day international century. |
| Haq’d off | The Scotland off-spinner Majid Haq was sent home in disgrace after taking to Twitter to vent his frustration at his axing from the side to face Sri Lanka, writing: ”Always tougher when your [sic] in the minority #colour #race.” |
| Sanga clanger | Sangakkara’s 124 against Scotland saw him become the first man to score four consecutive hundreds in one-day cricket and the first to notch up four at a World Cup, before he followed up in the field by becoming the first wicketkeeper past 500 dismissals, 54 of which have been in World Cups – another record. |
| Tennis | |
| Roger Federer cruises at Indian Wells but Stanislas Wawrinka bows out | Roger Federer wasted little time in easing into the third round of the BNP Paribas Open on Sunday but his fellow Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka became the first big name to be eliminated at Indian Wells. |
| Nick Kyrgios injured on way to defeat to Grigor Dimitrov at Indian Wells | Australia’s Nick Kyrgios will await scan results on an ankle injury suffered in his second round loss to Grigor Dimitrov at the Indian Wells Masters in California. |
| Golf | |
| Alligator hazard is par for the course at Florida golf club | Florida is infamous for its weird news stories. But according to natives, a 12ft-long American alligator’s cameo during a leisurely golf game isn’t one of them.Photos of a massive gator lounging near the 7th hole at Myakka Pines Golf Club in Englewood, Florida, quickly went viral after they were posted on the club’s Facebook page this week, sparking debates over whether the photos were yet another viral hoax or actual proof of giant dinosaurs coming to take over the world. |
| Tiger Woods confirms he will miss Arnold Palmer Invitational next week | Tiger Woods will not be at Bay Hill next week for the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the second tournament he has missed since stating a month ago that he would not return to golf until his game was ready. |
Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth
– Lou Gehrig
July 4, 1939
