Do you think any of them were intent on crafting the perfect swing? Yet if we look at things from a different perspective maybe they do have perfect swings. Why? Because they work! Golf ain”t a beauty contest.

Harbhajan Singh led an Indian revival at the end of the third day of the first
Test in Bangalore after a four-wicket haul from Mitchell Johnson had left
the hosts with their backs to the wall.

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton has claimed pole position for the Japanese Formula
One Grand Prix.

Better late than never. England ultimately ended up with more than an adequate margin of victory against Kazakhstan to maintain a 100 per cent record in World Cup qualifying Group Six.

Today is the day that Fabio Capello puts Steven Gerrard in his place in more ways, it would seem, than one. The England manager revealed yesterday that the role in which Gerrard will play against Kazakhstan is the role in which he believes the player is best-suited for in the long term, but Capello was also insistent that it will be the manager – and not Gerrard – who dictates what that role is.

Match report to follow.

Peter Kirsten quits his role as Jersey cricket coach, despite earlier saying he would like to stay on.

Match report to follow from Saturday’s Heineken Cup Pool Two clash at Murrayfield.

Sydney aims to bid for rights to host the Australia Open from 2016.

Team news ahead of Sunday’s Blue Square Premier match.

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Lewis Hamilton secures pole position for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix in Fuji with title rival Felipe Massa back in fifth.

Pictures from day three of the first Test at Bangalore

The ambition of England’s opponents belies their status as minnows

Lewis Hamilton takes pole in Fuji as he aims to extend his lead in the drivers’ world championship.

India resume after lunch on 133-4 as they reply to Australia’s 430 in Bangalore.

Stuart Pearce warns his England youngsters they have not qualified for the Uefa European Championships.

Welshman Nathan Cleverly wins the Commonwealth light-heavyweight belt with a points win over Tony Oakey.

Dagenham move up to second in League Two after a comfortable victory over struggling Barnet.

Pakistan beat Canada by 35 runs on the opening day of the King City Twenty20 event in Toronto.

A late Danny Hone equaliser salvages a point for Lincoln at home to Rochdale.

Derry City lose away to Bray Wanderers for the second time this season.

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Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard appear set to be paired together in central midfield for England in tomorrow’s World Cup qualifier against Kazakhstan, with Fabio Capello deciding that, after watching the players in training this week, there is no reason why the two cannot form an effective partnership especially against such opposition at home.

England’s cricketers can start eyeing up fast cars and designer clothing again
after learning that Sir Allen Stanford’s multimillion-dollar Twenty20 match
will go ahead as planned. A High Court commercial rights ruling on Tuesday
had jeopardised the richest game in the history of cricket but the two
parties, Digicel (the telecommunications company) and Stanford, yesterday
reached agreement on the branding that will be present at the match.

If 75,000 people yell your name as one every Saturday afternoon, you could be forgiven for thinking your talents were limitless. Lord knows Rio Ferdinand has made a few fantastic tackles in his time, but his latest attempt to diversify is unlikely to earn him as many fans as his football does. This week, the Manchester United player’s own record label, White Chalk, released Black Ice, the debut album by young singer Nia Jai, on which Ferdinand himself makes an appearance – rapping.

The sun may have blazed down from a cloudless azure dome in most parts yesterday, but only after dispersing an early-morning chill that presages a seasonal crossroads. Certainly, horses are beginning to respond to nature’s imperatives, as John Gosden has discovered. Britain’s Breeders’ Cup challenge, already fairly thin numerically, has definitely been reduced by one.

Even now, with the credit crunch biting and the banks imploding and the shadows of 1929 lengthening across every financial district in the developed world, there are English rugby clubs out there demanding a freeing up of the market. Of course, it will not matter a fat lot to the Treasury or the investment houses or the short-selling community if Leicester or Northampton win the argument and succeed in abolishing the salary cap currently imposed on Premiership teams, for in the great scheme of things, we are talking peanuts. It is, however, another example of prudence being sacrificed on the altar of raging ambition.

James Forrester, the new-age loose forward from Gloucester who won a couple of England caps in 2005 and would have won plenty more but for chronic injury problems, yesterday announced his retirement from the game at the distressingly young age of 27. His decision comes as a profound blow to the West Country club, for whom he clinched the European Challenge Cup three seasons ago with a characteristically inventive extra-time try in the final against London Irish, and certainly puts Danny Cipriani’s fat lip into proper perspective.

With just three races left of the Formula One season, Robert Kubica of BMW-Sauber sits in third place, with the Ferrari of the defending champion, Kimi Raikkonen, firmly in his slipstream, seven points back. If Kubica can stay on that notional podium it will count as an outstanding season – not quite the equivalent of Hull City keeping third place in the Premier League, but not so far behind. It will also cement Kubica’s place not merely in the pantheon of great Polish sporting figures, but of great Poles, full stop. The first Polish driver to compete in Formula One, he is already a superstar in his homeland, easily as popular there as Lewis Hamilton, exactly a month his junior, is here.

Lewis Hamilton believes he is a more mature driver than he was at this stage last season as he looks to move another step closer to securing the world drivers’ championship at the Japanese Grand Prix this weekend.

Gerry Francis has revealed he would be honoured to coach at Newcastle, but
insists a deal to join Joe Kinnear’s backroom staff is still a long way off.

Sir David Murray has urged Rangers supporters to pull together in their fight
against sectarianism.

William Gallas has emerged as Arsene Wenger’s latest injury concern after the
Arsenal skipper picked up a thigh injury and pulled out of France’s squad to
face Romania.

Sampdoria have ruled out reports of Antonio Cassano moving to Manchester City
this winter.

Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed bin Hammam feels Uefa chief
Michel Platini has "some ground" for concern over the influx of foreign
owners into the Barclays Premier League.

Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed bin Hammam has called on the
Premier League to "share the secrets of their success" as dialogue over the
controversial 39th game proposal continues.

Wayne Rooney has admitted some of the criticism of his early-season
performances has been fair.

Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton said missing out on winning the 2007 title
has made him a stronger competitor for the climax of this season.

A final resolution to the sponsorship row that had threatened the
multi-million pound Stanford Twenty20 match looks to be only hours away.

John Terry looks certain to miss England’s World Cup clash with Kazakhstan at
Wembley on Saturday.

A century from captain Ricky Ponting, his first in India, helped Australia
assume command on the first day of the first Test in Bangalore.

England boss Martin Johnson has described Jonny Wilkinson’s latest cruel
injury setback as "very upsetting".

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Keeping a foot in both camps, the BMW Oracle America’s Cup challenge team yesterday
announced it was shipping two boats from Valencia to Auckland for the Louis
Vuitton Pacific Series next February, but, more importantly, progress is
still being made towards resolving its legal dispute with the cup holder,
Switzerland’s Ernesto Bertarelli.

John Terry is out of Fabio Capello’s team for the World Cup qualifier against
Kazakhstan on Saturday. The England captain was forced to withdraw from a
practice match staged for the England squad behind closed doors yesterday
with a back problem that is not responding to treatment.

Danny Cipriani and Josh Lewsey are two of England’s biggest rugby stars and play for the same club, London Wasps. The similarities end there.

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Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez has dismissed rumours linking him with a move to Juventus as he waits on a new deal at Anfield.

FA chairman Lord Triesman has warned a salary cap may need to be enforced in English football.

Peter Crouch has attributed his England recall to Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp.

Rafa Benitez has reiterated the need for Liverpool to keep their feet on the ground.

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Fewer icebergs but more pirates will keep hazard levels as high as ever as the
eight-boat Volvo fleet leaves Alicante on Saturday for its first, 6,500-mile
ocean leg of a round the world race that covers 37,000 miles and ends over
eight months later in glittering St Petersburg.

England’s $20m (£11.4m) cricket match was in disarray last night after a High Court ruling that the West Indies Cricket Board was wrong to sanction it. The so-called Twenty20 for Twenty game – guaranteeing the most lucrative prize in the history of team sport, with $1m to each player on the winning side – is due to be played in Antigua on 1 November between England and a Stanford Superstars XI, effectively the West Indies team.

The leading striker at your club – or for your country – has just banged in a hat-trick. He must be in “form”, mustn’t he? And thus more likely than average to score in his next game as well? No, actually.

Instead of his gavel, the Tattersalls auctioneer might have been waving a baton at the orchestra of the Titanic. In the world outside, every other market was either listing queasily, or lurching into the depths. During the first session of the October Yearling Sale, however, the one in unproven, fragile young thoroughbreds was making heroic claims of immunity for the sport’s plutocrats.

Cricket fans could witness the end of an era during the course of the next month as Australia take on India in their own backyard.

If the branding and commercial rights row between the West Indies Cricket Board and Digicel, the WICB’s principal sponsor, results in Sir Allen Stanford’s Twenty20 for $20m match being cancelled, England’s cricketers will be deprived of the chance of earning $1m for an evening’s work.

Two Wigan rejects will spearhead England’s World Cup campaign, but there is no place for their team-mate, Stuart Fielden. The England coach, Tony Smith, yesterday named both Mark Calderwood and Mickey Higham in his 24-man squad for the tournament – a tribute to their form since the club told them they were not wanted for next season.

The dreaded M-word appeared in connection with David Strettle for a third time yesterday, and the England wing must be heartily sick of hearing and reading about it. Harlequins, for whom he has been in eye-catching form in recent matches, confirmed he had suffered yet another injury to the fifth metatarsal in his left foot – the Beckham bone, as it is popularly known – and he will be lucky to play again before Christmas.

West Ham United’s owner, Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson, yesterday acted to reassure executives at the club that the financial meltdown in the Icelandic banking industry will not force him to sell up.

Darren Fletcher will captain Scotland in Saturday’s World Cup qualifier against Norway. The Scotland manager George Burley yesterday named the Manchester United midfielder as his latest captain in the absence of Barry Ferguson and Stephen McManus. The 24-year-old will wear the armband at Hampden on Saturday on his 40th international appearance.

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Football Association chairman Lord Triesman today waged war on English
football’s mounting debt, revealing that the game was a staggering £3bn in
the red and needed a radical review to stop it spiralling out of control.

The South African businessman hoping to lead a takeover at Newcastle has
revealed he is looking for new investors.

England midfielder Frank Lampard has brushed aside the age-old question about
whether he and Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard can operate effectively in the
same team.

Football Association chairman Lord Triesman has called on Tottenham to issue
life bans to the fans who verbally abused Sol Campbell at Portsmouth.

Prospective bidders for Newcastle have been given until 17 October to register
a firm interest.

A deal could be done at some stage today to end the sponsorship row which had
threatened to force the abandonment of the lucrative match between the
Stanford Super Stars XI and England next month.

Wigan prop Stuart Fielden is the big omission from England coach Tony Smith’s
24-man squad for the World Cup in Australia.

Portsmouth have been drawn against AC Milan in the most eye-catching fixture
of the Uefa Cup draw.

Former Tottenham manager Martin Jol believes the club has lost its "English
identity" since he was replaced by Juande Ramos a year ago.

Culture secretary Andy Burnham has backed Sepp Blatter’s call for tighter
rules on club ownership and insists it is vital to restore "confidence"
among supporters.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has called for tighter regulations on club
ownership to deal with "out of control" investment in the Premier
League.

Gardener Lars Rehder stands next to a fresh grave in a cemetery and wonders
which flowers best match the blue and white of Hamburg SV.

Fishbourne is a small village between Wootton and Ryde and includes the Wightlink car ferry terminal to and from Portsmouth.

Jose Mourinho has admitted that he was tempted to take charge of England.

Michael Owen has been told that Fabio Capello has not closed the door on his England career.

Sam Allardyce claims Mike Ashley’s Newcastle takeover was driven by desire for a quick profit.

England all-rounder Luke Wright has insisted that the mega-money Stanford clash is “just another game”.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has expressed his concern over the influx of foreign owners in English football.

Neil Best has failed in his appeal against an 18-week suspension for eye-gouging after the RFU upheld the decision.

Liverpool have confirmed defender Martin Skrtel damaged his posterior cruciate ligament against Man City.

Poole Pirates have one hand on the Elite League crown after beating the Lakeside Hammers 48-42 in the first leg of the grand final.