Fifteen-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi struck his second fifty in three innings as India sealed a 3-0 T20I sweep of Zimbabwe to knock England off top spot in the rankings.
Sooryavanshi's 81 from 49 balls in Harare featured four sixes and eight fours and followed his maiden half-century for his country - a 19-ball 50 - in Thursday's series opener at the same venue.
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The left-hander - who lit up the 2026 IPL with 776 runs in 16 matches for Rajasthan Royals at a remarkable strike-rate of 237.30 - first played senior cricket for India during the recent 4-0 T20 thrashing in England, registering scores of 14, 13 and 15.
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India 192-5 from 20 overs (elected to bat): Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (81 off 49 balls), Ishan Kishan (29 off 26), Shreyas Iyer (27 off 18), Rinku Singh (25no off 14); Brad Evans (2-41)
Zimbabwe 157-7 from 20 overs (target 193): Ryan Burl (54no off 43), Wesley Madhevere (28 off 25); Mayank Yadav (3-29), Shardul Thakur (2-45)
India sweep three-match series 3-0.
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Sooryavanshi was twice dismissed by Jofra during India's 4-0 T20 drubbing in England, including for 15 in the penultimate match in Bristol
India's heavy defeat in the UK had seen Harry Brook's men overtake them as the No 1 T20I team before they returned to the summit after seizing a 2-0 lead against Zimbabwe.
They would have slipped back to second had they lost the finale but ran out 35-run winners despite some sloppy fielding.
Sooryavanhsi's innings - which ended when he was superbly caught by a diving Brad Evans - propelled Shreyas Iyer's side to 192-5 and Zimbabwe could only make 157-7 in reply, with Ryan Burl (54no off 43) top-scoring.
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Sooryavanshi (left) shared half-century stands with Ishan Kishan (right) and India captain Shreyas Iyer on Sunday
India are next in action in August as they visit Sri Lanka for a two-match Test series, before returning to white-ball cricket across September and October when they host West Indies for three one-day internationals and five T20 internationals.
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England will look to move back top of the T20I standings when they welcome Sri Lanka for three fixtures from September 15.
The series opener is at the Utilita Bowl in Southampton before further games at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff (September 17) and Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester (September 19) ahead of a three-match ODI series between the sides.
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Andoni Iraola kicked off his Liverpool reign with a 4-2 win against Sunderland in Nashville on Saturday - so what did we learn in the new Reds head coach's first outing in charge?
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Defensive reinforcements are needed with Gomez unlikely to stay fit
It already seemed a risk going into the new season having Jeremy Jacquet, Joe Gomez and Giovanni Leoni as contenders to be captain Virgil van Dijk's centre-back partner given the fitness doubts over the trio.
For a start, Leoni is still "months" away from recovering from the season-ending ACL he suffered on his Reds debut last September having only joined the club from Parma last summer.
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Joe Gomez was subbed early on with an injury
Jacquet has also recently returned from a shoulder injury that he sustained just days after agreeing to join Liverpool in February. He then missed the win over Sunderland due to a minor knock.
All of which meant the injury-prone Gomez started and captained the team in Tennessee, with the long-serving defender lasting all of 10 minutes before being forced off in what Iraola called "the worst news" of the day.
And while it looked to be no more than a muscle problem for the 29-year-old, it was also a reminder that Liverpool cannot rely on Gomez to stay fit for an extended period of time and so need to go into the market to sign another defender before the summer window shuts on September 1.
Reds fans should enjoy Iraola-ball more than Slot-ball
It was the chorus of boos that rang out around Anfield at the end of his side's tepid draw with Chelsea in May that signalled Arne Slot's time was up as Liverpool head coach.
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Take a look at the best bits from Andoni Iraola's first Liverpool press conference.
It came just 12 months after the Dutchman had held the Premier League trophy aloft in front of an ecstatic Kop. But the slow, possession-heavy style of football, with the ball endlessly shuffled from one flank to the other, combined with a downturn in results, had turned the home fans against him.
His successor favours a different type of football, however, explaining his vision in his first press conference as Liverpool head coach as this: "I want my team to be energetic. I want to be dynamic, to play in the opposition half as much as we can, sometimes on the ball, sometimes without the ball, and try to suffocate the opposition."
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Andoni Iraola wants Liverpool to play differently to last season under Arne Slot, saying that after reviewing last year's campaign, he is focused on building strong relationships with his players.
And while it is impossible to make any firm conclusions after one 90-minute runout using 22 players, there were certainly glimpses of this in Nashville, especially for the Reds' first and last goals.
In fact, Kieran Morrison's 13th-minute opener came after a free-flowing move involving some impressive build-up play from the likes of James McConnell, Rio Ngumoha and Harvey Elliott, while Lewis Koumas's late strike came about after some excellent counter-pressing.
Szoboszlai still Liverpool's most dynamic and important midfielder
There is a reason Liverpool sporting director Richard Hughes and the club were so keen to tie Dominik Szoboszlai down to a new five-year contract, and the midfielder's all-action second-half display at the Nashville SC Stadium just emphasised once again what a vital cog he is in the Reds machine.
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Liverpool midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai, celebrates after scoring his side's second goal against Sunderland
It is not just the 25-year-old's ability to score from range, which he did again with an unstoppable volley to bring his side level, but also the example he sets in the middle of the park with his incredible pressing game that his new boss favours.
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As mentioned, Iraola has "always loved gegenpressing and the German coaches," as he told The Times, so expect the versatile Szoboszlai - who also created a goal for Koumas on Saturday - to be a key component of his three-man midfield.
Iraola won't be afraid to give young guns a chance
One criticism of Slot was he appeared not to trust Liverpool's young players during his time on Merseyside, especially exciting England forward Rio Ngumoha, a charge that is unlikely to be levelled against his replacement.
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Young Liverpool midfielder Kieran Morrison celebrates his opener against Sunderland
Iraola, maybe through necessity at times, was never afraid to give youngsters a go at Bournemouth, so do not be surprised if we see the likes of Trey Nyoni, Koumas, Morrison and James McConnell in first-team action next season.
That quartet all impressed against Sunderland, especially England U20 international Nyoni and his Wales counterpart Koumas, who both caught the eye in the second half, the former with a calm and composed display in midfield and the latter with an energetic performance in attack.
'First outing a good starting point - but still lots to improve'
For a first pre-season runout, Iraola could not really - Gomez's untimely injury apart - have asked for much more.
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The Basque got off to a winning start as Reds boss, which always helps breed confidence and trust in the new man, although ultimately the result was immaterial and more important were miles in the players' legs and the squad beginning to understand the 44-year-old's ideas.
"It's the first day," said Iraola after the game. "You could feel the heavy legs, the players have been training. So, we lacked some freshness. But it will give us a good starting point to improve things."
And, of course, the Reds were without their World Cup contingent, who apart from finalists Alexis Mac Allister and Victor Munoz, will now join up with the rest of the Reds' travelling party on Sunday.
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Victor Muñoz has developed into an international star during his time in LALIGA. The 22-year-old made two appearances for Real Madrid before impressing with Osasuna. He made his Spain debut in March and is in the World Cup squad.
"They are already there in Chicago," he added. "They are waiting for us. Alex [Isak], Flo [Wirtz] and Ryan [Gravenberch]. They will start training from tomorrow [Sunday] with us and we still have two more games [in the USA].
"I hope we use them properly and we go [forward] improving slowly, slowly the things that today didn't work."
Virtually every phone in the country will blare an emergency siren at 2pm AEST on Monday 27 July as part of the first Australia-wide test of a new national warning system called AusAlert.
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Most phones, and some smartwatches and tablets, will receive a pop-up notification and an alert sound that cannot be silenced – even if your device is on “do not disturb” or silent mode.
What is AusAlert?
AusAlert is Australia’s new national warning system, which will send emergency messages to mobile devices during local and widespread disasters.
Authorities currently use SMS texts to alert people about safety information. The new system will instead send a mass broadcast via mobile phone towers, with an alert popping up on devices, similar to a phone notification.
It will launch nationally in October, months after the national alert test.
What will happen during the national test?
“On Monday 27 July 2026, a test alert will be sent to all mobile devices in Australia. This includes most phones, and some smart watches and tablets,” the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) advises.
Users will hear a siren and see a pop-up notification on their phone, which will look different depending on the device, but with text including “TEST MESSAGE” and “NO ACTION IS REQUIRED”.
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“What people should expect to hear is a siren that will last for about 10 seconds,” said Pat Hetherington, the interim coordinator general at Nema.
He said it would be “loud enough to get people’s attention” but quieter than a fire alarm.
“It will be noticeable, but it won’t won’t be too over the top.”
What time is the AusAlert test around Australia?
There have been local tests, but Monday will be the first nationwide test, occurring at 2pm AEST, which is:
2pm for New South Wales, Victoria, the ACT, Queensland and Tasmania.
1.30pm in the Northern Territory and South Australia.
12pm in Western Australia.
Why is the AusAlert emergency warning system test needed?
Hetherington said AusAlert came from a recommendation of the royal commission into the 2019-20 black summer bushfires, which called for a nationally consistent warning system.
“The existing system is based on standard SMS capability, and throughout a series of emergencies and disasters, that system has had real latency in terms of people receiving the messages,” he said.
“You [could] get network congestion, text messages may not come through in a timely way … or come through at all, dependent upon who your provider is.”
Kristy McBain, the federal emergency management minister whose electorate of Eden-Monaro was hit by the black summer bushfires, said some people in her area didn’t receive emergency text alerts during that disaster because their phone provider was unavailable.
The new system allows nationwide alerts as well as localised “geofenced” alerts such as for floods or even warnings to boil water in emergency situations.
The emergency services minister, Kristy McBain, says the AusAlert is ‘far superior’ to current warning systems. Photograph: James Ross/AAP
McBain said AusAlert was a “far superior” system and would reach “more people in a more timely manner” than current warning systems used by state governments. Existing systems will still be used in future, with McBain describing AusAlert as “another tool in the toolkit”.
Will every phone ring or make a sound during the alert test at 2pm AEST?
Essentially, yes. Hetherington said phones made after 2019 should receive the alert, but some older phones may not.
The alert will come through on all compatible devices even if you are on a call, or if the phone is on silent. Nema has advice that about 80% of Apple iPhones will ring, and some 16m Android devices.
“The only way to not receive a critical alert is to turn your mobile device off or switch it to ‘airplane mode’,” Nema advised.
The agency said the alert will go to:
iPhone models 11 and up running iOS 26.4 or later.
Apple Watch models SE2, SE3, Series 6 and up running watchOS 26.4 or later.
Android devices running Android 12 or later.
Older Androids, or those not using iOS or Android “might still receive AusAlerts”, Nema said, but Apple iPads will not.
Hetherington and Nema’s deputy coordinator general, Katarina Carroll, said the agency had engaged with “thousands” of groups including schools, businesses and even funeral associations to warn of the alert test.
They said it was important to run the test during an “ordinary” time of day so people knew what to expect in future.
But noting some people may find it inconvenient to have a loud siren ring alert, such as during an important meeting or a funeral, Hetherington and Carroll said “if you have your phone off an hour before and an hour after [2pm AEST], we’re confident you won’t receive that message”.
Other countries around the world have had problems in testing or using such systems, with alerts delayed or not arriving at all. Nema said it had “learned a lot” from tests around the world and it was well prepared for Monday.
What about ‘safe phones’ for those experiencing domestic and family violence?
Domestic and family violence advocates have raised concerns about the risk of the alert exposing “safe phones”, or devices kept hidden for safety reasons by those experiencing violence.
Nema said the agency had engaged with family violence experts about the test, including assisting advocates to disseminate safety information, and posting a safety guide on its website.
Hetherington said phones switched off or on airplane mode would not receive the alert, and said: “The message for safe phones and hidden phones is very much [to switch off for] a 24-hour period.”
Carroll added: “The advice is if there’s anything that’s happening [during the test], have it off for an hour or so. But certainly for domestic and family violence, there’s that broader advice for that extension of time [24 hours].”
Groups such as the Women’s Safety Commissioner, DV Connect and the Council of Single Mothers and their Children have issued safety advisories to this effect.
What do I have to do when I receive the AusAlert?
Nothing at all. The test requires no action.
However, Hetherington encouraged Australians to answer a survey or give feedback after the test to help Nema assess the success of the trial and any changes that may be needed.
“People should read the message. But it is a test that doesn’t require people to do anything,” he said.
“We’re obviously interested in hearing if people haven’t received the message.”
When will AusAlert be used for real?
Nema suggests the warnings could be used for legitimate hazards such as bushfires, floods, cyclones and earthquakes; serious public safety issues or terrorism; biosecurity incidents; and major public health incidents.
States and territories will be able to send alerts.
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The families of those killed in an RAF Chinook crash in 1994 have urged Andy Burnham to end Britain’s “cover-up culture” and order an independent review into the disaster.
Twenty-nine serving military personnel died when the Chinook HC2 helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in south-west Scotland during a flight from Northern Ireland.
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The two pilots were initially blamed for the crash but exonerated after an inquiry in 2011, which did not determine its cause.
Liam Fox, the former Conservative defence secretary who ordered that official review, said last month there were now “deep concerns” that “vital information” could have been withheld.
Fox, who is backing the calls for a fresh independent review, said there was now a “strong enough belief” that a deliberate cover-up had taken place. There were concerns, he said, that details provided by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on the airworthiness of the Chinook that crashed were “not correct”.
All 29 personnel on the Chinook HC2 were killed when it crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, south-west Scotland, in June 1994. Photograph: Chris Bacon/PA
A high court judge ruled this month that the families of several victims of the crash could not bring a legal claim against the MoD over the incident because it had been brought too late.
The Chinook Justice Campaign (CJC), which is made up of more than 55 family members of 25 of the victims, said it would take the case to the European court of human rights.
However, Matt Tobias, whose father, Lt Col John Tobias, was killed in the crash, said the families “do not want years of further litigation” and urged the prime minister to help by ordering a fresh independent review.
He said: “We would urge Mr Burnham to meet us within his first 100 days in office so we can present the evidence that has emerged over recent years and explain why we believe a fresh review, independent of the Ministry of Defence, is now essential.
“Mr Burnham’s speech in the House of Commons, in which he spoke about ending Britain’s cover-up culture and strengthening the duty of candour, gave our families real hope.”
In a letter delivered to Burnham, the Chinook families said it could be a “test case” for the new Hillsborough law, which was unanimously backed by MPs this month and creates a legally enforceable duty of candour compelling public officials and authorities to act transparently during investigations.
Tobias said: “We ask that he and his ministers give the Chinook families more respect than we received from his predecessor, who denied us a meeting and an inquiry – believing MoD lies instead. After 32 years, we are not asking for special treatment. We are simply asking for the truth.”
The CJC group said it wanted Burnham to establish a fresh review, independent of the Ministry of Defence, with full access to all relevant documents relating to the airworthiness of the Chinook helicopter and the circumstances leading up to the crash.
An MoD spokesperson said: “Our thoughts and sympathies remain with the families, friends, and colleagues of all those who died in the Mull of Kintyre crash.
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The Pentagon updated its official war casualty database over the weekend, adding more than 140 wounded service members. The Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) also introduced a new casualty category labeled “Overseas Operations” for personnel killed and wounded “starting July 7”.
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According to the updated database, the official toll for the earlier phase of the US-Iran war, known as Operation Epic Fury, now stands at 14 service members killed and more than 400 wounded in action.
These figures have been the point of contention after the Pentagon previously reduced the totals from 18 deaths and 482 wounded that had been recorded just days earlier.
The dispute comes after the collapse of the ceasefire with Iran and the resumption of near-daily airstrikes beginning on 6 July. Analysts and officials have questioned whether casualties from the renewed fighting should be counted separately from Operation Epic Fury, a move that would be unprecedented.
The Trump administration is seeking to classify the renewed military campaign as separate from Operation Epic Fury, the US military’s official name for the Iran conflict.
The change is tied to the War Powers Act of 1973, which requires the president to end military operations within 60 days unless Congress authorizes an extension. The Trump administration has argued that the April ceasefire with Iran paused the clock on 1 May for the conflict’s initial period. The separate casualty count beginning on 7 July follows that interpretation.
The shift became apparent earlier this week when the Pentagon’s official online list of service members killed in the ongoing Iran war did not include the four soldiers who died during renewed fighting over the weekend. Their names, however, were included in a Pentagon press release announcing the formal transfer of their remains back to the US on Wednesday.
Reporters raise their hands to ask questions during a briefing on the Iran war with Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon in Washington DC on 16 April. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters
Combined with the updated Operation Epic Fury totals, the new Pentagon figures show that 18 US troops have been killed and 624 wounded since the US launched its war against Iran on 28 February.
Lawmakers from both parties have challenged the administration’s interpretation of the War Powers Act timeline.
Thomas Massie, a Republican House member from Kentucky, responded to the updated numbers in an X post, writing: “Let me explain this absurd ruse: The Pentagon is pretending there have been two Iran wars separated by a brief cease-fire.
“The reality: By going more than 90 days without congressional authorization,” the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, “IS BREAKING THE LAW and must be held accountable”. %!s()
