Yanina Wickmayer beats Aleksandra Krunic 6-1 6-0 to claim a 2-1 win for Belgium in their Fed Cup first round tie in Charleroi.

Splitlath Redmond Racing have named John Laverty and Florian Marino as their riders for the 2012 British Superbike season.

Austria's Romed Baumann wins the men's Alpine ski World Cup super-combined in Chamonix. France's Alexis Pinturault is second and Swiss Beat Feuz is third.

Genoa 3-2 Lazio.

England at last saw the back of Azhar Ali, but still need to pull off the second-highest run chase in their Test history to avoid a 3-0 whitewash against Pakistan.

Two-time Olympic gold medallist Andrea Henkel takes maiden IBU Biathlon World Cup win of the season in 12.5km mass start in Holmenkollen.

England face an arduous task to win the third Test in Dubai as the tourists require a further 288 runs to claim a consolation victory after Pakistan set them 324 runs to win.

Azhar Ali's painstaking tour de force extended through its fourth session and into its ninth hour to pile on the misery for England at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

Marjorie Yue gigs out her old school sketchbook for a painting holiday in Tuscany.

Chelsea have confirmed their Barclays Premier League fixture against champions Manchester United will go ahead despite the cold snap.

Teenager North eyeing first stage of a Triple Crown

Wales ready to take on Ireland in their first Six Nations game of the year

The former Sri Lanka captain remembers his team's early years in international cricket, playing the first two World Cups, and facing Jeff Thomson without a helmet

What do a team of middle-aged corporate execs have in common with a team of young men from Kashmir? Cricket, that's what

The national side will shortly be playing in the World Twenty20 Qualifiers but if you go by the controversies and drama off the field, it's a miracle there is a team left to compete

Those who claim cricket in the old days was dull need not look further back than the opening Test between India and England in 1963-64 for evidence

Vineet Saxena, who was instrumental in his side's second Ranji Trophy win in two years, is one of those archetypal journeymen who toils far from the limelight, keeping the faith alive

Lord Woolf's vision of a new ICC executive has one fatal flaw: it starts at the very top