Scotland's national rugby team will go on the road in November as Pittodrie is announced as the venue for the Test against Canada.

Leicester Tigers set a Guinness Premiership record with an average attendance of 17,206 for league games at Welford Road this season.

1-Dani Pedrosa 1:34.646, 2-Jorge Lorenzo 1:34.779, 3-Valentino Rossi 1:34.886, 4-Casey Stoner 1:34.967, 5-Colin Edwards 1:35.319, 6-Chris Vermeulen 1:35.502, 7-Andrea Dovizioso 1:35.574, 8-Shinya Nakano 1:35.672, 9-John Hopkins 1:35.743, 10-James Toseland 1:35.874

Misbah in a spot over the Royal Challengers logo, the Great Khali gets his cricket fix, and the vexed issue of coffee at Chelmsford .

The ICC is barking up the wrong tree with its decision to experiment with umpiring referrals. Technology experiments, if they must be made, need to be carried out in limited-overs cricket first.

With the IPL nearly a month old, we explore the stats for the batting and bowling performances of teams, and the singles and boundary numbers for batsmen.

Few weeks have shown cricket's divided consciousness about the promise of technology as clearly as the last. The MCC's proposal to limit the power of cricket bats has merit. The ICC's decision to trial the umpiring referral system doesn't.

"Crusoe", as Robertson-Glasgow was known to his friends, was a manic sort of chap, superficially happy-go-lucky, with a voice which could be piercing. He carried a deep, dark burden of thought, which is often the spur to humour. He worked hard at his essays. .

It is widely thought that the world's first limited-overs tournament was the Gillette Cup, launched on a chilly May day in Manchester. In fact, the one-day circus kicked off almost a year earlier, at an equally cold Grace Road in Leicester.

1-Sergio Gadea 1:44.618, 2-Bradley Smith 1:44.729, 3-Nicolas Terol 1:44.984, 4-Esteve Rabat 1:45.315, 5-Mike Di Meglio 1:45.396, 6-Andrea Iannone 1:45.442, 7-Stefan Bradl 1:45.492, 8-Simone Corsi 1:45.593, 13-Danny Webb 1:46.296, 18-Scott Redding 1:46.564.

Michael Clarke will miss the first test against the West Indies in Jamaica after staying in Sydney to attend the funeral of his fiancee's father. Cricket Australia said Clarke would not arrive in Jamaica until May 24, two days after the start of the first test.

The Asian Football Confederation will donate $250,000 (£125,000) to both China and Myanmar to rebuild football facilities after both countries were hit by devastating natural disasters.

Sir Ian Botham looks for England squad members to cement their places against New Zealand before moving on to Australia.

Sir Ian Botham last night urged England's selectors to leave Freddie Flintoff OUT of next week's Lord's Test.

This is what you've got to love about sport. A team can get knocked down one week, come back at you the next, before you head to the grand final to decide matters once and for all.

I'm Not very happy at the moment and you will all know why.

Once again England have had a huge wakeup call about how to play one-day cricket.

England's players should be ashamed of themselves for putting in a second woeful performance like that on the spin.