• Third ODI: South Africa 228; England 232-3
• Third-wicket stand of 154 with Heather Knight key to victory

Feasting once again on South Africa’s bowling attack, Tammy Beaumont steered England’s women to a series-winning victory on Friday, collecting the player of the match and series awards for her back-to-back centuries. Better still, it was all on her home ground at Canterbury.

She followed up her 101 from Tuesday with 105 here in the decider, bolstering her credentials as the world’s most consistent opener in the ODI format.

This weekend Cardiff is a good venue for the oldest rockers in town. Last night, the Rolling Stones gracing the Principality Stadium, the rugby ground, and on Saturday half a mile down the road at Sophia Gardens, the cricket ground, there will be a full house to watch Liam Plunkett strut his stuff.

In cricketing terms, Plunkett can be regarded as a wonderful relic from the past still going strong. He first played ODI cricket for England in December 2005, against Pakistan, way before any of his current colleagues.

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Bleier has registered a 3-0 record and a 1.93 ERA in 31 innings this season.

Brooks Kopeka climbed up the leaderboard Friday at the U.S. Open.

One of the network’s omnipresent on-course microphones at Shinnecock Hills gets the network in trouble; it eavesdrops on a private conversation that wasn’t suitable for even cable television.

Dustin Johnson is looking for his second U.S. Open win in the last three years this week.

After all the fall-out, the football. A classic, Portugal manager Fernando Santos had predicted, and he wasn’t far off. Twice Portugal led, twice Spain equalised, and then they took a lead that felt like a liberation, but with just one minute to go Cristiano Ronaldo curled in a wonderful free kick to complete a hat-trick and give a superb night an unexpected ending. For all that other stuff sometimes seems to eclipse the game, for all that it can feel like the garnish has eaten the steak, to use the words of one Spanish coach, the game fights back. Football tends to find a way.

Here, Spain found a way. Ronaldo certainly did. Portugal almost got a winner, too, right at the death – twice, in fact – but that would have been harsh on Spain. After the days they have had, it might have hurt them too. And yet here there was little sign of that. Perhaps it was simple: perhaps recovery was always most likely to come here, with the opportunity to get back to what they know: playing football very, very well. They might have lost their manager two days before the World Cup but Spain are still Spain.

For the second straight year, Irving will miss the first four games as the result of an NFL suspension.

Tommy Fleetwood cruised up the leaderboard Friday with a tournament-low score.