Sports News 12:30

BULLETIN SPORTS 6 December 12:30 pm

Good day, let’s look at the latest sports news and scores:

# We start off with cricket: The Proteas resumed on 269 for seven on the second day of the second Test against Sri Lanka in Gqeberha. Ryan Rickelton put on a brilliant batting performance yesterday, scoring his first Test century and sharing two main partnerships – 133 with captain Temba Bavuma and 77 with Kyle Verreynne. Lahiru Kumara claimed three wickets. The Proteas won the first Test by 233 runs in Durban last week.

# Rugby: The 2024/’25 Champions Cup season kicks off this weekend, starting with the match between Bath and La Rochelle in England this evening. Three South African teams are involved in the competition, described as the pinnacle for club rugby in the world. It consists of 24 teams competing in four groups. The Sharks host Exeter Chiefs in Durban tomorrow afternoon and the Stormers will welcome Toulon to Gqeberha. The Bulls are away to Saracens in London tomorrow night.

# Golf: Defending champion Max Homa of the US leads South Africa’s Ockie Strydom by one shot, after carding an opening round six-under 66 at the Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City. English pair Andy Sullivan and Matthew Jordan are three strokes back in tied third alongside Spain’s Pablo Larrazabal and the Netherlands’s Thorbjorn Olesen, while South Africa’s Christiaan Bezuidenhout is in a group a further shot back. Homa says overall he played well:

# Soccer: Mamelodi Sundowns has been drawn in Group F alongside Brazil’s Fluminense, German giants Borussia Dortmund, and South Korea’s Ulsan for the 2025 Fifa Club World Cup. Defending champions Manchester City will face Juventus, Morocco’s Wydad AC and Al Ain of the United Arab Emirates in Group G. Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami will kick off the tournament against Egyptian side Al Ahly. The competition, which has been expanded to 32 clubs, will take place from the 15th of June to the 13th of July in the US.

# And finally, roadrunning: Entries for next year’s 98th edition of the iconic Comrades Marathon in KwaZulu-Natal have been re-opened for a limited period. The previous entry process was closed when the entry cap of 23-thousand entries was reached. Comrades Marathon Association’s acting race manager, Alain Dalais, says only one-thousand entries are available on a first-come-first-served basis from today until midnight on Monday, or as soon as the entry cap is reached.

Stay tuned for more news………….