Cricket: Pakistan's Wasim Akram (36), became the first player in history to take 500 one-day international wickets when he bowled Dutch opener Nick Statham in the World Cup Group A match in Paarl, South Africa, yesterday.
Statham was out for a duck after playing a typically venomous inswinging delivery back onto his stumps.
Wasim moved on to 499 victims on Saturday when he had England opener Marcus Trescothick caught by wicketkeeper Rashid Latif and took his tally to 502 by dismissing Dutchmen Klaas Jan van Noortwijk and Jeroen Smits in yesterday's 97-run victory.
He made his Pakistan one-day debut against New Zealand in 1984 and has now played 354 limited-overs internationals, more than any other player in history.
Yachting: After waiting a week for a breeze to pick up enough to hold race four of the America's Cup, officials cancelled the contest for a fifth time yesterday due to high winds and choppy seas on the course.
With controversy stirring over repeated postponments of the best-of-nine regatta in which Swiss challenger Alinghi has a commanding 3-0 lead over defender Team New Zealand, officers decided at 8.0 a.m. that weather over the Hauraki Gulf was too poor for racing.
Weathermen had forecast winds gusting up to 40 knots later in the day on Hauraki Gulf - well above the normal limit for the high-tech America's Cup class racing yachts. The same weather was forecast for today and tomorrow.
Cycling: First year senior Páidí O'Brien showed he is adapting well to racing abroad when he placed a fine eighth in the Grand Prix de la Ville d'Antibes, near Nice, writes Shane Stokes.
O'Brien sprinted home behind winner Guillaume Lejenue at the end of the Cote d'Azur event, continuing a good run of fine placings by VC La Pomme's Irish riders this season.
Motor Sport: FIA president Max Mosley has fired a broadside at Formula One team bosses Ron Dennis and Frank Williams in a letter pouring scorn on their accusations that he was "dumbing down" the sport.
In a strongly-worded six-page rebuttal copied to the other team bosses, the head of motor racing's governing body likened McLaren's Dennis and Williams to "the old guard in a failing company".
Mosley rejected safety concerns as "obvious nonsense", derided the bosses' "threadbare argument" and asked why the principals, whose teams are two of Formula One's most successful, had not met the FIA face to face.
Dennis and Williams issued a joint letter last week criticising the sweeping rule changes introduced by Mosley and announcing that both teams were taking the FIA to arbitration in Switzerland.
