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๐ Smudge all set for landmark
Sport Journal
July 04, 2023
G'day sports fans,
โI sort of reminded Jonny last week I walked out of my crease at the end of an over.โI quickly whipped my bat back and questioned Jonny on whether he would take the stumps and he said, โBloody oath I wouldโ, and ran off.โ - Travis Head.
๐ฆ๐บ Aussie Sport
๐ Bulldogs coach Cameron Ciraldo has made ๏ปฟa host of changes to his side in light of the team's 66-0 flogging, and all the other team news (NRL)
๐ฃ๏ธ Former Australian captain Ian Chappell has labelled the Lord's members "yahoos", saying he was not surprised by the treatment dished out to Usman Khawaja and his teammates. (nine)
๐ Australia have further endorsed the man at the centre of the Bairstow dismissal, with Alex Carey elevated to the role of team song-master. Standing in for an injured Nathan Lyon.
THIRD TEST - SAME GAME MULTI WITH DABBLE
Last time out we were just a single Pat Cummins wicket from going 2 for 2.
The third test starts on Thursday. Weโre backing Smith to salute in his 100th test, and two guys who are DUE a big one, to deliver for the nation.
๐ SMITH, LABUSCHAGNE & HEAD all to hit half centuries in the first innings $17.0 only on Dabble (here)
๐ฏ Set to become just the 15th Australian player to reach 100 Test matches, Steve Smith revealed the pride he feels in reaching the mark, and hoped to 'cash in' at Headingley in the third Ashes Test this week (watch)
๐ฆ๐บ Collingwood will be without key forward Brody Mihocek for Friday night's game against the Western Bulldogs at Marvel Stadium, sighting hamstring tightness.
If Carey missed the stumps and no one was backing up, do you think they would have run one or two?
โ Ian Higgins (@1an_Higgins)
10:21 AM โข Jul 4, 2023
๐ถ๐ป Australian tennis champion Ash Barty has announced the birth of her first child, a โbeautiful boyโ named Hayden.
Barty and her husband Garry Kissick revealed the exciting news in a joint Instagram post on Tuesday night.
๐ New South Wales coach Brad Fittler has confirmed Tom Trbojevic is back in hospital, with the injured Blues star suffering a complication in his recovery from a torn pectoral muscle.
โค๏ธ Adelaide premiership player Heather Anderson has become the first known professional female athlete to be diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after a landmark diagnosis at the Australian Sports Brain Bank.
Ms Anderson, who played eight games for the Adelaide Crows in 2017, had an injury-plagued career that included at least one confirmed diagnosed concussion.
The talented defender retired at the end of the 2017 season and returned to work as an army medic in Perth.
She took her own life in November 2022 at age 28.
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๐ World Sport
๐พ Spain's world number one Carlos Alcaraz gained a comfortable first-round win against Jeremy Chardy, who played the final singles match of his career.
Alcaraz, the reigning US Open champion, needed less than two hours to secure a 6-0 6-2 7-5 victory on Court One.
๐พAndy Murray maintained his record of never losing in the Wimbledon first round with an encouraging victory over fellow Briton Ryan Peniston.
๐ England batter Ollie Pope has been ruled out of the rest of the Ashes series with a dislocated shoulder.
Essex batter Dan Lawrence, 25, is the most likely replacement for the third Test.
โฝ๏ธ Liverpool's England midfielder Jordan Henderson, 33, and Chelsea's Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, 34, are two of the possible signings being lined up by Al-Ettifaq after the Saudi club appointed England & Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard as their new manager.
๐ด๐พโโ๏ธ Jasper Philipsen won for the second day in a row amid a chaotic finish to stage four of the Tour de France in Nogaro.
The Belgian was again led out perfectly by his team-mate Mathieu van der Poel and edged out Australia's Caleb Ewan with Germany's Phil Bauhaus third.
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