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“The other bloke, he’s a forgettable cricketer. A fast bowler that is bowling 124km/h nuts, and he’s got a mouth from the south.” Someone like him, you can just go: ‘Brother, I’m coming at ya.’ ‘You’re bowling 120.’” - Matthew Hayden weighs in on Ollie Robinson.

🇦🇺 Aussie Sport

🇦🇺 Gary Rohan helped reignite Geelong’s AFL premiership defence with three goals in a gritty 15-point win over Melbourne after accidentally knocking out teammate Jeremy Cameron, who was stretchered off. Final: 11.12 (78) to 8.15 (63).

It took almost 10 minutes to treat Cameron and prepare him to be carted off the ground with Geelong later reporting that Cameron was responsive, in good spirits and taken to hospital for further assessment.

🏉 New South Wales beat Queensland 18-14 in State of Origin II but the Maroons claimed the inaugural women's series on aggregate. (First game ended 18-10 Maroons).

🏏 Women’s Ashes: After winning the toss, Australia were in control at 226-3 before losing three wickets for 12 runs in the space of 24 balls, including all-rounder Ellyse Perry for 99. Australia finished on 328-7, after Gardner fell to Lauren Bell late in the day.

🏉 Manly has confirmed Tom Trbojevic suffered a torn pectoral after he was forced from the field just minutes into Origin II. Turbo will now see a specialist to determine the timeframe of recovery.

Shared without comment: Tom Trbojevic last 5 seasons = 56 games played 9 serious injuries (hammy, hammy, pec, hammy, shoulder, hammy, shoulder, hammy, pec) including 3 preseason injuries (19, 21, 23). Averages a serious injury (8+ weeks) every 6.22 games played. Currently being paid $1.1m per season - @SeaEagleSpur

🏉 The World Rugby U20 Championship 2023 in South Africa kicks off on Saturday night.

The Junior Wallabies (4th Favourites) open their campaign on Sunday morning at 12.30am AEST against Fiji. Their other pool B matches will be against Ireland on Thursday June 29 at 7pm AEST and England on Tuesday July 4 at 10pm AEST. Key games, including all matches featuring the Junior Wallabies will be streamed on Stan Sport.

⚽️ Australia are through to the knockout phase of the AFC U17 Asian Cup after a 2-0 win over Tajikistan at Rajamangala National Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand on Thursday night.

🎾 Alex de Minaur improved to 10-2 at ATP 500 events this season when he dispatched Argentine Diego Schwartzman 6-2, 6-2 at the Cinch Championships on Thursday.

The Australian defeated Andy Murray in the first round in London and backed that up with a dominant display against Schwartzman, limiting errors off both wings to outlast the 30-year-old in baseline exchanges.

🌎 World Sport

🏏 Coach Brendon McCullum says England will go "harder" at Australia after their agonising two-wicket defeat in the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston.

🏏 Star Sports, reported 124 million viewers tuned in to witness the live broadcast of the ICC WTC Final 2023, the most ever for any Test match and 32% more than the previous ICC WTC Final 2021 between India and New Zealand.

🏀 Number One draft pick Victor Wembanyama (19) is the hottest prospect the NBA has seen since a kid named LeBron James burst onto the scene in the early 2000s. Seeing him hold a baseball is simply absurd.

⚽️ Manchester United have joined Arsenal in wanting to sign 24-year-old England midfielder Declan Rice from West Ham, with the Red Devils considering a player-plus-cash deal involving England defender Harry Maguire, 30, or Scotland midfielder Scott McTominay, 26. Apparently Man City have now entered the race.

🏎 Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is selling its stake in McLaren in a deal that will reinforce Bahrain's status as the company's biggest shareholder.

🎱 Five players have received increased bans (up to 5 years) from Chinese authorities for their involvement in snooker match-fixing.

A total of 10 Chinese players were given suspensions this month for their parts in match-fixing.

🚴🏻 Tadej Pogacar remains confident about his fitness before next month's Tour de France following a wrist injury that has kept him out of competition for almost two months as he returns to action.

Pogacar, 24, earned an impressive run of victories at the Tour of Flanders, Amstel Gold Race and La Fleche Wallonne and was the overwhelming favourite to win Liege-Bastogne-Liege in April but crashed out of that race and fractured his wrist.

🥊 The International Boxing Association's (IBA) recognition as the global body for the sport was stripped on Thursday by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which ratified an executive board recommendation.

The IOC had previously suspended the IBA in 2019 over governance, finance, refereeing and ethical issues and did not involve it in running the boxing events at the Tokyo Olympics.

⚽️ Tottenham's England striker Harry Kane, 29, is still hopeful of securing a move to Manchester United this summer.

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