WHAT’S HOT WHAT’S NOT

HOT TYRRELL HATTON

HIS record in 2019 saw his missed cuts outnumber his top-fives by six to zero. How lovely, then, to see such a fascinating and occasionally combustible character keep his cool in the six-man play-off at the Turkish Airlines Open. The prize for holding it all together was £1.56m.

SOPHIE HAHN

THE World Para-Athletics Championships has played out to appallingly low crowds in Dubai. But Hahn has been putting on an exceptional show with gold medals in the T38 100m and the T38 200m, breaking world records in each.

PAKISTAN CRICKET

PAKISTAN will host Test cricket for the first time in more than a decade next month when Sri Lanka visit. They have played all their Tests on the road since Sri Lanka’s bus was attacked by terrorists in Lahore and, assuming that safety can be assured, it can only be good for the sport to go back to a country that truly loves it.

NOT RAHEEM STERLING

THEY say it happens at every club, and it does. They say it was a storm in a teacup, and it possibly was. But none of that really explains why a grown man was able to sleep on a gripe and still woke up angry enough to have a tussle in a canteen. A spell on the naughty step might work.

BOXING

YOUTUBERS got together for a freak show dressed as a boxing match last weekend. It was the kind of pant-dropping indignity with which the sport is painfully well acquainted. The fact it is said to have drawn more pay-per-view buys than Anthony Joshua’s defeat against Andy Ruiz should be seen as a regret, not a justification.

MYKOLA BALAKINWAS

BALAKINWAS, the referee of Shakhtar Donetsk’s match with Dynamo Kiev last Sunday, watched the scene play out where Taison of Shakhtar booted the ball at Kiev fans because of their racist abuse. He will have seen Taison cry. And then he sent him off. Go figure.