G'day sports fans,

Classic quote: “I don’t know if it can happen, but apparently I might get divorced before I get married.” - Melbourne Storm prop Brett White after he had to call off his wedding to take part in the Four Nations with Australia.

In today's edition of Sport Journal:

🏟 Origin to return to iconic venue

🚨 Police raid FC Barcelona's headquarters

🏟 The Round One fixture is locked in

🏏 Cricket

Fifth T20I brought forward to allow team to fly back

Cricket Australia will bring their T20 side home from New Zealand on a charter flight to avoid players quarantining for a second time in a month. (ABC)

Key points:

• Auckland has been declared a COVID-19 "red zone" by Australia, which would mean the tourists would have to quarantine at home if they set foot in the city.

• To "allow the Australia squad to catch a charter flight home immediately after the game". The order of Sunday’s T20I double-header in Wellington has been reversed, with the Black Caps now playing Australia in the early game, and the White Ferns and England squaring off later in the afternoon.

🏏 Redbacks lose Marsh Cup run fest after four run outs: South Australia were seemingly cruising to victory before losing 9-76 in a high-scoring game that included four individual centuries.

An epic South Australia batting collapse ensured Cameron Green's maiden Marsh One-Day Cup century was enough to clinch victory for Western Australia in an entertaining WACA Ground run-fest on Tuesday. (match report)

Match report: WA 5-369 - SA 356 all out - Western Australia won by 13 runs.

🏏 WNCL: Queensland pair make history in record run fest: Beth Mooney's 163 and Georgia Redmayne's 121 guide Queensland to a record total in the domestic 50-over competition (368). (match report)

Match report: Queensland Fire won by 160 runs.

⚽️ Football

A-League

Western City Wanderers 0-2 Melbourne City: Goals to Jamie Maclaren on either side of half-time helped him go equal-top in the Golden Boot race. (match report)

Perth Glory 1-2 Central Coast Mariners: Central Coast Mariners are back on the winners list after scoring twice in the first half to survive a fightback from Perth Glory. (match report) - now 4 points clear.

✍🏼 Australian midfielder Marc Tokich has joined Swedish club Mjällby. (@MjallbyAIFs)

🦘 The Socceroos’ long wait between matches is set to stretch for a few months longer, with their scheduled World Cup qualifier against Nepal in Kathmandu to be postponed due to travel difficulties. (TheAge)

🚨 Police raided FC Barcelona's headquarters on Monday, seizing evidence about the club's social media scandal and arresting four people.

Josep Maria Bartomeu (former president), Oscar Grau (CEO)Roman and two others. 

It's been a year since Barça was alleged to have hired an external marketing company to smear former and current players, including Lionel Messi, on social media.

🐴 Racing

Golden Slipper field to take shape with key races at Randwick, Flemington and Canberra — www.racenet.com.au

Juvenile racing on Saturday and Sunday takes on extra significance with the make up of the Golden Slipper field taking shape.

🏔 The world's joint top-rated sprinter looks to be back firing again: Classique Legend - Everest winner - trialled well on Monday and is on target for a race day return in April. Watch on Twitter.

🏉 NRL

🏟 Origin returning to iconic venue: Adelaide Oval hosting game in 2023 In conjunction with the South Australian Government, the NRL on Tuesday announced that Adelaide Oval would host a match in the 2023 series after the success of the first Origin at the stadium last year. (NRL)

✍🏼 The Newcastle Knights have locked in star teenage centre Bradman Best on a new deal, keeping him at the club through to the end of the 2024 season. Best, who signed with the Knights as a 15-year-old, scored eight tries in 11 games last season. (NRL)

🏃🏼‍♀️ Athletics

Linden Hall has smashed the Australian women 1000m record by almost two seconds at the Box Hill Burn. Clocking 2:35.90, overtaking the previous Australian record of 2:37.80 and the Oceania record of 2:37.28.

🇦🇺 AFL

🏟 The Round One fixture is locked in, with AFL boss Gillon McLachlan confirming the Essendon-Hawthorn match would remain at Marvel Stadium and not be moved to the MCG.

Following last week's announcement crowd capacity in Melbourne would begin the season at 50 per cent, speculation arose about a possible venue switch to maximise numbers.

🏃🏽‍♂️💨 Saad can exploit polarising rule change: Adam Saad is one of the quickest players in the AFL and gives Carlton a lethal weapon to exploit players on the mark.

The new rule has been on show early in a number of scratch matches, and has been polarising due to any movement from the player on the mark resulting in a 50m penalty. (nine)

🤕 Injury update: Who's in your club's medical room

🏎 F1

Lewis Hamilton's sweet new ride (Twitter)

🏉 Rugby

🙁 Former Captain Michael Hooper says it's tough to see 'Tahs struggle: "It's very tough. I love the club, love the Waratahs, love a lot of the guys in there, so I know they'll be doing it tough," Hooper said. 

"But here are some really good eggs in there who will be doing everything they can to swing that around."

The Waratahs have lost more than 1800 caps of Super experience over the past two years following a mass player exodus. (Rugby)

🏉 Todd Payten wishes Roger Tuivasa-Sheck was staying in the NRL but knows the Warriors fullback well enough to be certain he'll be an immediate option for the All Blacks.

The former Dally M player of the year inked a two-year deal to head back over the Tasman and join the Auckland Blues beginning in 2022. (Rugby)

🇺🇸 USA

The FDA authorized a device called the "Q-Collar" that may help reduce the risk of traumatic brain injuries "associated with repetitive sub-concussive head impacts" sustained during sports.

The C-shaped device, called the Q-Collar, fits around the back and side of the neck. It works by clamping down on blood vessels in the neck, which increases blood volume in the skull.

This limits the movement of the brain inside the skull, which researchers believe generally causes traumatic brain injury. 

📺 The Q-Collar story on YouTube.

NBA WRAP

James Harden scored 30 points, produced 15 assists and added 14 rebounds as the Brooklyn Nets earned a 124-113 overtime win against the San Antonio Spurs.

The Nets move second behind Eastern Conference leaders Philadelphia 76ers, who beat the Indiana Pacers 130-114.

Houston fell to their 12th consecutive defeat, their worst run since the 2001-02 season, as Collin Sexton poured in 39 points for the Cleveland Cavaliers in a 101-90 win.

Elsewhere, Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram scored 26 points each for New Orleans Pelicansas they earned a 129-124 win over Western Conference leaders the Utah Jazz.

Luka Doncic continued his superb form for the Dallas Mavericks with 33 points, nine assists and 10 rebounds in a 130-124 win over the Orlando Magic.

Denver Nuggets' Nikola Jokic also went close to a triple-double by notching 39 points, 14 rebounds and nine assists as they beat the Chicago Bulls 118-112. 

The Portland Trail Blazers ended a four-game losing streak with a 123-111 win over the Charlotte Hornets.

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