RESULTS & FIXTURES

FOOTBALL

FIFA WORLD CUP Qualifying Play-Offs 1st Leg CROATIA (3) 4 GREECE (1) 1 Modric pen 13 Papastathopoulos 30 Kalinic 19 Perisic 34 Kramaric 49 N IRELAND (0) 0 SWITZERLAND (0) 1

Rodriguez pen 58 INTERNATIONALS ROMANIA (1) 2 TURKEY (0) 0 Grozav 41, 68 SCOTLAND (0) 0 HOLLAND (1) 1 Depay 41

CRICKET

TOUR MATCH, Adelaide England 293 (Malan 63, Stoneman 61, Root 58, Fallins 5-73) & 5-0 v Australia Invitational XI 233-9 dec (Paine 52, Milenko 50) WOMEN’S TOUR MATCH, Sydney

England 235-7 (Beaumont 70, Knight 62) v Australia

GOLF

NEDBANK GOLF CHALLENGE, Sun City, South Africa, 1st Round (Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 72) 67 B Wiesberger (Aut) 68 V Dubuisson (Fra), J Suri (USA), B Grace (Rsa), S Jamieson

69 A Noren (Swe), C Schwartzel (Rsa), H Tanihara (Jpn), G Storm

70 L Bjerregaard (Den), M Lorenzo-Vera (Fra), R Fisher, P Waring, C Shinkwin, L Slattery, H Li (Chn), P Uihlein (USA), F Zanotti (Par), N Elvira (Spa), M Fitzpatrick, L Westwood

71 S Kjeldsen (Den), J Luiten (Ned), A Bjork (Swe), R Fox (Nzl), J Campillo (Spa), L Oosthuizen (Rsa), D Fichardt (Rsa), M Warren, T Olesen (Den), T Hatton

SNOOKER

CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS, Ricoh Arena, Coventry Group 4: R O’Sullivan (Eng) bt N Robertson (Aus) 4-1, J Higgins (Sco) bt A McGill 4-0 Group Final: R O’Sullivan (Eng) bt J Higgins (Sco) 6-0

TODAY’S FIXTURES FOOTBALL

(7.45 unless stated) Sky Bet League Two Newport County v Port Vale

FIFA World Cup Qualifying Play-Offs 1st Leg

Sweden v Italy Honduras v Australia (10)

Internationals

Belgium v Mexico England v Germany (8) France v Wales (8) Japan v Brazil (12) Poland v Uruguay Portugal v Saudi Arabia (8.45) China PR v Serbia (11.35) South Korea v Colombia (11) European U21 Championship Qualifying (selected) Group Two Albania v N Ireland (5)

Group Four

Scotland v Latvia (7.30) Ukraine v England (4) Group Eight

Wales v Bosnia-Herz (6)

RUGBY LEAGUE

World Cup, Group D Fiji v Italy (8.40)

RUGBY UNION

Anglo-Welsh Cup Bath v Leicester Ospreys v Wasps (7.30) Sale v Saracens (8) Championship

Bedford v Nottingham Jersey v London Scottish Richmond v Doncaster