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Glen Maxwell: “I’m just trying to watch this last ball. Yes!” - watching the match-winning final ball of the Melbourne Stars’ WBBL clash with cross-town rivals Melbourne Renegades, after breaking his leg. (more below)

🇦🇺 Aussie Sport

🏏 Glenn Maxwell’s summer cricket plans and his hopes for a Test recall in the new year are all but over, with the veteran allrounder breaking his leg in a freak injury suffered at a 50th birthday celebration.

The 34-year-old fractured his left fibula during a backyard party in Melbourne on Saturday and underwent surgery on Sunday.

He will be sidelined for an extended period, between eight and 12 weeks, and will likely be ruled out of the four-Test series in India in February and March.

AFL Retirements, Delistings, Trades - AFL.com.au — www.afl.com.au

The full list of all AFL Club retirements, delistings and trade for the current Toyota AFL Premiership Season.

🏉 Rugby League prodigy & Australian Schoolboys captain Karl Oloapu’s ugly contract dispute with the Brisbane Broncos has reached boiling point.

Contracted to the Broncos for the next three years and has been in their academy since he was 13, has declared he will never play for the club as long as he lives.

This is after he discovered he wasn't included in the top 30 squad for 2023 - He said he was promised.

🥊 Stevie Spark won the WBA inter-continental super lightweight title in extraordinary circumstances, after his opponent Montana Love was disqualified for throwing the Australian out of the ring in the sixth round.

🎾 Switzerland have beaten Australia in the Billie Jean King Cup Final, Glasgow. when Olympic champion Belinda Bencic clinched their victory over Australia in Glasgow.

Swiss number two Jil Teichmann beat Storm Sanders 6-3 4-6 6-3 to put them ahead in the best-of-three tie.

In-form Bencic secured the triumph with a 6-2 6-1 win over Ajla Tomljanovic.

Australia had beaten hosts Great Britain in Saturday's semi-finals and were bidding to win the competition - which used to be known as the Fed Cup before it was renamed in honour of American great King in 2020 - for the first time since 1974.

⚽️ 18-year-old breakout star Garang Kuol delivered his best game of the A-League season for the Central Coast Mariners, scoring twice in his final hitout before flying to Qatar for the World Cup. (They lost 3-2, however)

🌧 The AFLW semi-final between Adelaide and Collingwood was delayed multiple times due to lightning and heavy storms before the Crows won through to another preliminary final.

The Magpies tried their best, but the Crows were too good and ran out 3.5 (23) to 1.5 (11) winners to advance to a preliminary final against Brisbane

🌍 World Sport

⚽️ The final day of the Premier League before the World Cup

• FT: Fulham 1-2 Manchester United - Christian Eriksen's first United goal, Dan James levels, Alejandro Garnacho scores late on (90+3)

• FT: Brighton 1-2 Aston Villa - early Alexis Mac Allister goal, before Danny Ings double.

Arsenal top at Xmas for the first time since 2007: Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says everyone is shocked at the Gunners surging five points clear at the top of the Premier League but that he is determined his players should enjoy their present lofty status.

🏏 Ben Stokes led England to another World Cup victory with a match-winning half-century in a tense final against Pakistan.

After winning the toss and sending Pakistan in, England's bowling attack applied a vice grip to Pakistan's line-up in the second half of the innings, restricting it to just 8-137. Left-arm seamer Sam Curran was named the Player of the Match for his terrific figures of 3-12 off four overs.

In reply, England survived a major scare from Pakistan's bowling attack to emerge, five-wicket winners, with Stokes finishing unbeaten on 52 off 49 deliveries, his highest score in international T20 matches.

👊🏻 Alex Pereira knocked out Israel Adesanya to become middleweight champion at UFC 281 in New York.

🥊 Unified champion Natasha Jonas outclassed Marie-Eve Dicaire in Manchester to add the IBF title to her WBC and WBO light-middleweight belts.

⚽️Paris St-Germain could make a move for Tottenham forward Son Heung-min, with Real Madrid having doubts about signing the 30-year-old South Korea international. (El Nacional)

🏈 Odell Beckham Jr. would like to whittle down his current list of potential teams - which includes the Dallas Cowboys, Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers - as soon as possible and have a decision by the end of this month.

🏉 Scotland failed to end a 117-year wait for a first ever win against New Zealand as the beleaguered All Blacks fought back to win a (31-23) thriller at Murrayfield.

🏎 Michael Schumacher’s old Ferrari Formula One car has become the most valuable of the “modern era”.

The Ferrari F2003 was sold for an immense $AUD22.2 million, breaking the previous record, also held by an old Schumacher model.

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