🗞 Too many eggs

G'day sports fans,

📺 Throwback: (1981) During a one-day international between Australia and New Zealand – Greg Chappell ordered his brother Trevor to roll the final delivery along the ground to make it impossible for New Zealand to hit the six it needed to tie the match.

🇦🇺 Aussie Sport

🏏 Defending champions Australia are through to a seventh successive Women's T20 World Cup final after edging India by five runs in a Cape Town thriller.

The Southern Stars will be aiming for a third straight title and sixth overall when they face either 2009 champions England or host nation South Africa in Sunday's final at Newlands.

🏏 Former Test opener Cameron Bancroft has sent a timely message to national selectors ahead of the Ashes series in England, peeling off another century in the Sheffield Shield on Thursday afternoon. He won his last cap 2019, hit his 23rd first-class century.

Western Australia declared at 3-372, setting Tasmania a 504-run target for victory.

🏏 Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Marsh and Jhye Richardson will return from injury setbacks for Australia’s highly-anticipated ODI tour of India as preparation ramps up ahead of the World Cup.

On Thursday, Cricket Australia unveiled a 16-player squad for the three-match series, which gets underway next month after the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. (cricket.com.au)

🏎 Australian rookie Oscar Piastri made a slow but steady start to F1 testing in Bahrain as the new McLaren driver took part in the first of six sessions ahead of next week’s season opener.

The 2021 Formula 2 champion was the slowest of 10 drivers on Thursday night (AEDT) after it took nearly two hours for him to record a full lap time.

🏃🏻 A 16-year-old schoolboy from Canberra, Cameron Myers, has become the second youngest person in the world, to break the four-minute mile. It’s the fastest time ever for a 16-yr old. An astonishing 3:55.44.

Myers ran upstaged the authoritative but slightly predictable victory of Commonwealth Games gold medallist Ollie Hoare who led throughout and won comfortably in 3:52.54.

🇦🇺 Geelong thumped Hawthorn in their match simulation, storming to a 21.12 (138) to 7.11 (53) lead after four of eight periods at GMHBA Stadium, but it was not without injury concern.

🇦🇺 Essendon ran over the top of Gold Coast in a tight five-point win at Austworld Centre Oval that was abandoned early on the opening day of the AFL’s match simulations.

After battling to find a regular small forward set-up last season, new Essendon coach Brad Scott now has an array of options, with Jye Menzie franking a terrific pre-season with a three-goal outing.

Essendon won 11.14 (80) to 11.9 (75) in a match that included five periods of play.

🏉 The father of Sydney Roosters forward Angus Crichton has revealed the representative star has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Earlier this month, Crichton was granted personal leave from the Roosters pre-season trip to Queenstown, New Zealand in order to deal with personal issues.

🚴🏼‍♀️ AusCycling begins its road to the Paris 2024 boards this week at Indonesia’s Jakarta International Velodrome for the first Tissot UCI Track Nations Cup round of 2023.

14 Australians will race in Jakarta from February 23-26.

Among the Australian team in Jakarta is Matthew Richardson, who is looking to jump straight back to where he left off at the end of 2022 when he won the UCI Track Champions League sprint title.

🌎 World Sport

🎙 Legendary football commentator John Motson has died aged 77.

The BBC pundit celebrated 50 years in the job in 2018 before hanging up his mic in May that year.

🏄🏻‍♂️ Surfing’s GOAT Kelly Slater is set to finish his career chasing the only accolade he’s yet to achieve, revealing he will retire after the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

📺 Netflix has announced its first project with the NFL - "Quarterback."

The series will feature unprecedented access to different QBs, this year with Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins, and Marcus Mariota. It premieres Summer 2023.

⛳️ The PGA and LPGA Tours have formed a new 32-player mixed-team event with a $4m prize fund.

The inaugural Grant Thornton Invitational will include 16 players from each tour and take place from 8-10 December in Florida.

⚽️ FIFA's annual Puskás Award for best goal will be given out on Monday, and the three finalists. Amputee - Marcin Oleksy’s goal is up against Richarlison’s goal for Brazil in the World Cup, and former hammer Dimitri Payet.

🏏 England's leading wicket-taker Jimmy Anderson has returned to the top of the International Cricket Council's Test bowling rankings.

At 40 years 207 days, Anderson is the oldest bowler to hold top spot since Australian Clarrie Grimmett in 1936. He is now 26 wickets behind S.K. Warne.

🥊 Conor Benn (son of former World Champion, Nigel) is back in the World Boxing Council rankings after it ruled his failed drugs test was not intentional and could have been caused by a 'highly-elevated consumption' of eggs.

Benn failed two voluntary drug tests for the female fertility drug clomifene before his cancelled October bout with Chris Eubank Jr.

📏 Growth Spurt alert: Victor Wembanyama,19, the presumed No. 1 pick in the 2023 NBA draft, is reportedly now 7'5" (with shoes), up from 7' 2" last summer.

📺 Live Sports TV Guide

TODAY

⛳️ 06:00 - PGA TOUR - The Honda Classic, Round 1 (Fox Sports)

⚽️ 07:00 - Europa League - FC Union Berlin v Ajax Amsterdam (Stan Sport)

⚽️ 07:00 - Europa League - Manchester United v Barcelona (Stan Sport)

🏉 07:00 - Super League - Salford Red Devils v Hull Kingston Rovers (Fox League)

🏏 09:00 - Test Match - New Zealand v England (Fox Cricket)

🏀 11:30 - NBA - Philadelphia 76ers v Memphis Grizzlies (ESPN)

🏒 14:00 - NHL - Seattle Kraken v Boston Bruins (ESPN 2)

🏀 14:00 - NBA - Los Angeles Lakers v Golden State Warriors (ESPN)

🏉 17:05 - Super Rugby Pacific - Crusaders v Chiefs (Stan Sport)

🏉 19:35 - Super Rugby Pacific - NSW Waratahs v Brumbies (Stan Sport)

⚽️ 19:45 - A-League Men - Central Coast Mariners v Wellington Phoenix (Paramount+)

SATURDAY

⛳️ 06:00 - PGA TOUR - The Honda Classic, Round 2 (Fox Sports)

⚽️ 06:30 - German Bundesliga - Mainz 05 v Borussia Monchengladbach (beIN SPORTS 3)

🏉 06:45 - Premiership Rugby - Bath Rugby v Bristol Bears (Stan Sport)

🏀 06:45 - EuroLeague - Barcelona Basketball v AS Monaco Basket (Fox Sports)

⚽️ 07:00 - Premier League - Fulham v Wolverhampton Wanderers (Optus Sport 1)

🏉 07:00 - Super League - Leeds Rhinos v Hull FC (Fox League)

🏏 09:00 - Test Match - New Zealand v England (Fox Cricket)

🏀 11:30 - NBA - Milwaukee Bucks v Miami Heat (ESPN)

🏒 11:30 - NHL - New York Islanders v Los Angeles Kings (ESPN 2)

🏀 13:00 - NBA - Phoenix Suns v Oklahoma City Thunder (ESPN)

🏉 14:35 - Super Rugby Pacific - Moana Pasifika v Fijian Drua (Stan Sport)

🏍 16:00 - WorldSBK Australia Race 1, Round 1 (Fox Sports)

🐴 16:00 - Group 1 - Surround Stakes, 1,400m (7, Sky1)

🐴 16:40 - Group 1 - Chipping Norton Stakes, 1,600m (7, Sky1)

⚽️ 17:00 - A-League Men - Melbourne City v Sydney FC (Paramount+)

🏉 17:05 - Super Rugby Pacific - Highlanders v Blues (Stan Sport)

⚽️ 18:00 - J1 League - Kashima Antlers v Kawasaki Frontale (Optus Sport 2)

🏉 19:35 - Super Rugby Pacific - Queensland Reds v Hurricanes (GEM or Stan Sport)

⚽️ 19:45 - A-League Men - Western Sydney Wanderers v Macarthur FC Bulls (10 Bold or Paramount+)

🏉 22:00 - Super Rugby Pacific - Western Force v Rebels (Stan Sport)

SUNDAY

🏉 01:15 - Six Nations - Italy v Ireland (Stan Sport)

⚽️ 02:00 - Premier League - West Ham United v Nottingham Forest (Optus Sport 5)

⚽️ 02:00 - Premier League - Leicester City v Arsenal (Optus Sport 3)

⚽️ 02:00 - Premier League - Everton v Aston Villa (Optus Sport 4)

🏉 03:45 - Six Nations - Wales v England (Stan Sport)

⚽️ 04:00 - Italian Serie A - Empoli v Napoli (beIN SPORTS 3)

🏉 04:00 - Men's Los Angeles Sevens (beIN SPORTS 2)

⚽️ 04:30 - Premier League - Bournemouth v Manchester City (Optus Sport 1)

⚽️ 04:30 - Spanish La Liga - Real Madrid v Atletico Madrid (Optus Sport)

⛳️ 05:00 - PGA TOUR - The Honda Classic, Round 3 (Fox Sports)

🏒 05:00 - NHL - Washington Capitals v New York Rangers (ESPN)

🏉 06:30 - Premiership Rugby - London Irish v Leicester Tigers (Stan Sport)

⚽️ 06:45 - Premier League - Crystal Palace v Liverpool (Optus Sport 1)

🏒 07:30 - NHL Regular Season - St. Louis Blues v Pittsburgh Penguins (ESPN)

🏏 09:00 - Test Match - New Zealand v England (Fox Cricket)

🏀 12:30 - NBA - Philadelphia 76ers v Boston Celtics (ESPN)

🏏 14:05 - Marsh One-Day Cup - Queensland Bulls v New South Wales Blues (Fox Sports)

⚽️ 15:00 - A-League Men - Melbourne Victory v Adelaide United (10 Bold or Paramount+)

🏀 15:00 - FIBA Men's World Cup Qualifying - Australia v Kazakhstan (ESPN 2)

🏍 16:00 - WorldSBK Australia - WorldSBK Australia Race 2, Round 1 (Fox Sports)

🏏 16:30 - Marsh One-Day Cup - Queensland Bulls v New South Wales Blues (Fox Cricket)

🏏 20:00 - Pakistan Super League - Karachi Kings v Multan Sultans (Fox Sports More)

⚽️ 22:30 - Italian Serie A - Bologna v Inter Milan (beIN SPORTS 2)