Sports News 12:30

BULLETIN SPORTS NEWS 27 June 12:30 pm

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

# First up we have rugby: Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus has been forced to make a late change to his team to face the Barbarians in Cape Town tomorrow. Captain Siya Kolisi has been withdrawn due to a niggle, and Jesse Kriel will captain the side. Erasmus has drafted Marco van Staden straight into the starting lineup as a replacement for Kolisi, and he will partner Vincent Tshituka and Jean-Luc du Preez in the loose trio. The rest of the team stays the same.

# Cricket: Rassie van der Dussen will captain the Proteas in the T20 tri-series against hosts Zimbabwe and New Zealand next month. Regular captain Aiden Markram as well as Ryan Rickelton, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Marco Jansen, Kagiso Rabada and Keshav Majaraj are rested, while Anrich Nortjé is injured. Batter Lhuan-dré Pretorius could make his T20 debut for South Africa after impressing in the SA20. The series is the first white-ball experience for Shukri Conrad following his recent appointment as coach in all three formats.

Staying with cricket: A stop-clock rule has been introduced in Tests because of the long-standing problem of slow over-rates. The rule, already in use in white-ball cricket for the past year, forces the fielding side to start an over within a minute after ending the previous one. The International Cricket Council says an electronic clock will be displayed that counts up the seconds from zero to 60. A five-run penalty will be issued after two warnings, while warnings will be reset to zero after the completion of 80 overs.

# Tennis: Czech player Barbora Krejcikova’s defense of her Wimbledon title may hang in the balance after a thigh injury forced her out of the Eastbourne Open in England. She withdrew before her quarterfinal match against Varvara Gracheva of France. Krejcikova is supposed to play her first match at Wimbledon on Tuesday. The 29-year-old, who clinched her other Grand Slam title in the French Open in 2021, has played just six games this year because of a back injury. The former world number two is now 17th in the rankings.

# And finally, motorsport: McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri insist they are free to race each other despite their collision in the Canadian Grand Prix. Norris ran into the back of his teammate and championship leader’s car in Montreal and retired from the race. Team principal Andrea Stella says he wants better judgment from his drivers. Norris, who is 22 points behind Piastri coming into this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, says the debrief after Canada was good:

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