Sports News 12:30

BULLETIN SPORTS NEWS 7 June 12:30 pm

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

# We start with rugby: Bulls wing Canan Moodie has been ruled out of tomorrow’s United Rugby Championship quarterfinal clash against Benetton at Loftus Versfeld due to injury. The Springbok World Cup winner was injured in the Bulls’ 26-14 win over the Sharks last weekend. Sebastian de Klerk is Moodie’s likely replacement. Moodie has scored ten tries in 14 appearances for the Bulls in all competitions this season. Flank Marco van Staden is also likely to miss the encounter with an injury.

Meanwhile, former Stormers player Oli Kebble hopes for victory over his old team in tomorrow’s URC quarterfinal before his stint at Glasgow Warriors comes to an end. The prop played 101 matches for the Scottish team since joining them in 2017, and also played 11 Tests for his adopted country. Thirty-one-year-old Kebble hasn’t revealed yet where he plans to go next season, just saying he’s got to make a decision soon. He hopes to leave the Warriors with some silverware.

# Cricket: Co-hosts USA stunned Pakistan with a super-over victory in their second match of the T20 World Cup in Dallas, Texas. The game went to the extra over after both sides made 159 in their 20 overs. Batting first in the super over, the USA made 18 for one and in reply, Pakistan were restricted to 13 for one. Meanwhile, in Bridgetown, Barbados, Richie Berrington scored an unbeaten 47, as Scotland chased down the target of 156 to beat Namibia by five wickets.

# Tennis: World number one Iga Swiatek looks firmly on course for her fifth Grand Slam title after demolishing American Coco Gauff in the semifinal of the French Open. The Polish player beat third-seeded Gauff 6-2, 6-4 in just over 90 minutes in a match that didn’t live up to the expectations. The defending champion will face 12th-seeded Italian Jasmine Paolini (Jazz-mine Powlini) in tomorrow’s final after she defeated Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva, 6-3, 6-1, in the second semifinal.

# And finally, soccer: English Premier League clubs have voted in favour of continuing to use the Video Assistant Referee or VAR system next season. The BBC reports 19 of the division’s 20 clubs had voted to retain the controversial technology. Only Wolves, who last month called the vote to scrap the system, had backed the abolition of VAR. The Midlands club had accused VAR of undermining the value of the Premier League brand after another season of several debatable decisions.

Stay tuned for more news………….