Australia recorded their highest-ever score against the All Blacks as they beat the world champions 47-26 in the Rugby Championship in Perth.

It was the Wallabies' first win over New Zealand since 2017.

The All Blacks were reduced to 14 men when Scott Barrett was dismissed for a dangerous tackle just before half-time.

Defeat means they have provisionally lost the top spot in the world rankings for the first time in 10 years, with Wales set to occupy first place.

Winger Reece Hodge scored two of Australia's six tries to help them record their highest points tally in 165 Tests against the All Blacks.

Lock Lukhan Salakaia-Loto, scrum-half Nic White, winger Marika Koroibete and full-back Kurtley Beale also crossed in front of a packed house of 61,241.

The win also gave Australia their first back-to-back victories in the Rugby Championship since 2016.

Australia produced a superb first 10 minutes to establish a 10-0 lead before two All Blacks tries gave the visitors the lead.

Two Christian Lealiifano penalties gave the Wallabies a 16-12 half-time advantage, by which point they also had an extra man, following Barrett's departure for a a no-arms tackle on Michael Hooper.

Another blistering start to a half saw the Australians extend that lead by a further 10 points in nine second-half minutes before a converted Beauden Barrett try got the All Blacks back within seven.

But three more home tries, despite one further reply from New Zealand's Ngani Laumape, saw Australia give themselves a chance of regaining the Bledisloe Cup they last won in 2002. The second Bledisloe Test takes place in Auckland next week.

LIMA, Ohio – Limaland Motorsports Park closed out the season on Friday night with the awards celebration and King of the Quarter Mile event.

Shawn Dancer won the 25 lap invitational race and the 10 lap King of the Quarter Mile race for the K&L Ready Mix NRA Sprint Invaders.

Tony Anderson won the Northwest Physical Therapy UMP Modified Invitational race, while Todd Sherman won the King of the Quarter Mile Modified race.

Casey Barr picked up his first feature win in the Bud Thunderstock Invitational, while Jordan Conover snagged the King of the Quarter Mile race for the Thunderstocks.

GAS CITY, Ind. — Tyler Hewitt showed everyone he was the boss Friday night at Gas City I-69 Speedway.

Hewitt used the low groove to win the 25-lap Buckeye Outlaw Sprint Series non-winged 410 sprint car feature by .313 of a second over a high-groove-flying Thomas Meseraull. The victory is Hewitt’s first in a sprint car.

Matt Westfall used the low groove like Hewitt did and was .026 behind Meseraull at the checkered.

Meseraull started on the pole and led the first six laps before Hewitt slipped under him in turn two for the lead. Despite a yellow on lap 11 and a red on lap 14, Hewitt continued to lead with Meseraull in hot pursuit a few yards higher up the track.

Westfall passed Cole Ketcham on a restart with 14 laps down to move into third, and then got under Meseraull for second coming out of turn four working lap 16. The trio duked it out the rest of the way, and on lap 22 they were three abreast with Hewitt leading, Westfall second and Meseraull third.

The following lap Meserall passed both Hewitt and Westfall in turn four to lead lap 23, but Hewitt passed him back in turn two on the white-flag lap. The two low- groove yellow cars of Hewitt and Westfall took the checkered with Meserall between them in the high lane. Ketcham finished fourth and Garrett Abrams placed fifth in the 20-car field.

Defending champion Matt Hederick started second and led all 20 laps of the United Midget Racing Ass’n  three-quarter midget feature despite five caution flags that tightened up the field. Tate Martz placed second. Matt Lux passed Johnny Kringas in turn two on the last lap to nail down third. Kringas was fourth and Brandon Gray finished fifth.

Another new winner at the quarter-mile clay oval was Clayton Bryant, who won the 20-lap UMP modified feature in the Kingsland Motor Company No. 114. He started on the pole and led the whole way despite five yellows that let his rivals draw near. Zeke McKenzie started sixth but passed Dillon Nusbaum on lap 12 to nail down the runner-up honors. Nusbaum, the defending track champion, finished third followed by Jim Mallery. Last week’s winner, Scott Orr, started 16th in the 20-car field but finished fifth.

The bounty on the Headley family in the hornet division remained unclaimed, as James Headley was victorious in that 15-lap feature. He led the first eight laps until his son, James Headley Jr., passed him on the outside in turn four working lap nine. Headley Jr. slowed on the frontstretch on lap 13 with mechanical difficulties, however, and Gage Allen ended up taking the runner-up honors. Jacob Beard finished third, Alyssa Clark placed fourth and Joey Eastes finished fifth.

Andy Bishop powered by polesitter J.J. Nordman on the outside in turn tow working lap three and then dominated the rest of the 12-lap street stock feature with the Thompson Trucking No. 14 for his sixth victory of the year. Nordman finished second followed by Mike Fincher. The winner’s son, Dalton Bishop, competed in his first stock car race and placed fourth. Larry Persinger was fifth.

Manchester United have ended the summer transfer window short in midfield, according to the club's record appearance-maker Ryan Giggs.

United failed to add any midfielders, despite Marouane Fellaini having left in January and Ander Herrera joining Paris Saint-Germain on a free transfer.

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The Old Trafford club have so far kept hold of Paul Pogba, despite the France international having said publicly that he wants a "new challenge," and sources have told ESPN FC he is unlikely leave before the European deadline on Sept. 2.

"I think we need a couple more midfielders," Giggs told ESPN FC.

"If Paul Pogba goes -- we talk about culture change -- but obviously you need quality. You might not like it but come Sunday if Paul Pogba isn't in that midfield or the week after, and we've got the midfielders that we've got at our club, then we're short. That's the problem."

Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has cracked down on discipline since taking over from Jose Mourinho in December while the Norwegian has made a point of only signing players who are committed to coming to Old Trafford -- prompting the club to cool interest in Paulo Dybala and Christian Eriksen.

Both Pogba and Romelu Lukaku made it clear they wanted to leave United this summer but while the Belgium international got his move to Inter Milan, Pogba stayed put.

And Giggs' former United teammate and fellow Class of 92 member Gary Neville told ESPN FC he believes not signing a midfielder was behind the reason Solskjaer did not sanction Pogba's sale to Real Madrid

"I think there are three or four players at Old Trafford who have higher levels of quality that in a perfect world, Ole would probably like them all out at once," Neville said.

"But actually, if they left it would weaken the team that badly it'd mean that they wouldn't challenge for the Champions League. I think what Ole has to do is to get rid of one at a time. I think it's a clever transition out of what has been a poor transfer strategy for the last four or five years.

"You can't get out of it in one year, it's going to take two or three years of good culture and tone, in terms of what they're doing, to get out of what they've done. You can't lose Lukaku, Pogba, [Anthony] Martial all in one -- you'd be absolutely decimated.

"The dressing room would be shot to pieces. You could maybe lose them over a period of two or three years if they wanted to leave."

Ex-United midfielder Paul Scholes has seen players try to leave United before and said he believes Pogba can win back the fans as long as he proves his commitment to the cause.

"It happened with Cristiano [Ronaldo] and Wayne [Rooney] so I think it'll be accepted," Scholes told ESPN FC.

"Paul is not a bad lad so as long as he is committed to the rest of the team and playing every week then there won't be a problem."

United open their Premier League campaign with a home clash against Chelsea on Sunday and Pogba has recovered from a back spasm to put himself in contention to start.

Manchester City forward Gabriel Jesus became the first player in Premier League history to have a goal ruled by the video assistant referee (VAR) during his side's 5-0 victory over West Ham, which included a hat trick for Raheem Sterling.

The Brazil international gave the reigning champions the lead in the first half before Sterling tapped home Kevin De Bruyne's pass on 51 minutes.

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City thought they had third after a well-worked move involving Sterling and David Silva, which was finished off by Jesus -- only for referee Mike Dean to disallow the goal for offside following a consultation with VAR in the first season where the technology is present in the Premier League.

However, the third did eventually arrive on 75 minutes after Sterling was played in before delicately looping the ball over West Ham goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski -- yet only after another check with VAR.

City were given a penalty on 83 minutes after Diop's foul on Riyad Mahrez and, despite Sterling being on course for a hat-trick, Sergio Aguero stepped up and saw his tame effort saved.

But, following encroachment by Declan Rice, Dean ordered a retake and the Argentina international made no mistake with his second effort. Sterling did get his hat-trick in stoppage time as he tapped home past Fabianksi.

City boss Pep Guardiola handed a debut to record signing Rodri, but Joao Cancelo was left on the bench, while new West Ham signing Sebastien Haller started in attack for the hosts.

And Manuel Pellegrini's men started the game well, causing the visitors problems on the counterattack.

But they were behind on 25 minutes when Jesus squeezed the ball home from an acute angle following good work by Kyle Walker down the right flank.

City doubled their lead through Sterling and, after Jesus had seen his potential second chalked off by VAR, technology ensured the England international's second did count before adding a third late on, following Aguero's penalty.

The margin of victory sent City top above Liverpool, who had beaten Norwich 4-1 on Friday. West Ham travel to Brighton on Saturday in their next match before City host Tottenham later that same day.

Tamim Iqbal has requested for a break from cricket. The 30-year old opener had gone to the Bangladesh Cricket Board, seeking some time off in early August and ESPNcricinfo understands that it has now been approved. As a result, he will miss next month's one-off Test against Afghanistan and the T20I tri-series which follows, making it the first time he will not be available for Bangladesh barring injuries.

It follows the BCB's decision to give Shakib Al Hasan a break during last month's ODI series against Sri Lanka. They had also allowed Shakib time off during the 2017 Test series against South Africa. On both occasions, the allrounder had made the request which was then granted.

Tamim, who will leave the country for a physical fitness camp, will be available for Bangladesh's next assignment, a tour of India in November when they play three T20Is and two Tests.

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In his letter to the BCB, Tamim asked for a "mental break" after he had gone through a tough time in the last three months. Apart from an ordinary World Cup campaign in which he scored only one fifty, and a disastrous ODI series against Sri Lanka, in which he also led Bangladesh, Tamim was subject to vilification on social media.

During the 2019 World Cup, Tamim spoke about the demons of the 2015 tournament, in which he made only 154 runs in six innings, and was then subject to abuse on social media. Tamim said those memories affected his preparation for this year's event in England, leading to a pattern where he was bowled in six consecutive ODI innings.

After his match-winning 141 in the BPL final in February, Tamim had a rough time in the ODIs in New Zealand before bouncing back superbly in the Tests. He then continued his good form during the tri-series in Ireland, scoring crucial runs before slowly going off the boil in the World Cup, culminating in a woeful Sri Lanka series.

The formation of a governing board and an overhaul of the domestic structure are two of the major changes in the PCB's freshly amended constitution. It has become a somewhat familiar sight; this is the fifth time since 1995 and the fourth in the last 12 years that the PCB constitution has been amended. The new legislation curtailed the almost dictatorial powers the chairman of the PCB had, passing most of them on to the newly appointed managing director to share power more effectively and reduce conflicts of interest, making it consistent with best governance practices.

Chairman Ehsan Mani initiated the changes after identifying anomalies in previous constitutions written in 2014 under his predecessor Najam Sethi. Until now, chairmen had the authority to act as executives of the board who tried to implement policy they had proposed themselves, which according to Mani was a conflict of interest. The new constitution, a copy of which ESPNcricinfo has obtained, has tackled every pertaining governance loophole related to the administration of cricket and the functioning of its governing body.

It not only restructured the PCB governing body, making it more independent, but also aimed to increase transparency and overhauled the domestic cricket structure, officially putting an end to the departmental cricket.

How is the domestic structure different from any previous ones?

In total, only six provinces - Balochistan, Central Punjab, South Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Northern - will be eligible to play first class cricket. Otherwise, domestic cricket in Pakistan has been played among departments and regions for nearly 50 years, starting in the early 1970s, when Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistan's first Test captain and then PCB chairman, encouraged organisations like Habib Bank Limited, Sui Southern Gas Corporation, Water and Power Development Authority and others to provide employment opportunities for players.

However, the country's Prime Minister Imran Khan - who is also patron-in-chief of the PCB - was always in favour of a system which exclusively consisted of regional teams with the broader points of the revamp championed by him.

The new constitution, however, still allows departments to maintain a foothold in the domestic game. They have the opportunity to act as sponsors of domestic teams, though they lose the ability to play any national tournaments in Pakistan. The territorial region of each of six cricket associations is based on the bifurcation of each province in the country, and the PCB will fund them with the help of a principal sponsor approved for an initial period of up to five years. The departments who had up to now maintained cricket teams - like, for instance, HBL or SNGPL - will, according to the constitution, "be allowed first right of refusal to be the principle sponsor of the Cricket Association and the City cricket Association".

All cricket associations will be constituted as registered societies under the Societies Act and will be given a model constitution by the PCB. To start with, cricket associations will be organised by the PCB board of governors for a tenure of one year. Subsequently, the tenure will be overseen by the associations' own constitutions, which must be framed in line with the prescribed model constitution.

New formation of Board of Governors

The most significant amendment concerns revamping the formation of the Board of Governors (BoG) membership. The new constitution reduces the numerical strength of the cricket playing associations from eight to three to offset their influence - this has been done by bringing in four independent directors in keeping with best corporate governance practices.

Earlier, the composition of the BoG included four regional representatives (top four regional teams from the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy) and four representatives of services organisations (top four departmental teams). But in April this year, when several members attempted to have the managing director Wasim Khan removed from his post led to concerns the current system left the PCB vulnerable to such future angles of attack, with such a change always in the offing.

But now a 12-member board will have two direct nominees by the patron, a move that sees power consolidated at the top and stripped from the teams that play domestic competitions. Three members from the amongst the Cricket Associations, being the elected Presidents (on rotation basis after every three years), four independent directors (at least one of whom shall be female and named by the nomination committee of the Board), one federal secretary (non-voting member), the CEO and the Chairman.

PCB - one-man show no more

The PCB had often been criticised in the past because its constitution allowed the chairman near-dictatorial powers. Since 2007, the chairman held executive power and could control and oversee income and expenditure, form the selection committee, make appointments including the heads of such committees, the captains, vice-captains of the national cricket teams (men and women) and hold authority for final approval and finalise cricket teams picked by the selection committees. These were roles that in best management practices have been left to Chief Executive Officers instead of chairmen, because the executive authority effectively undermined the day-to-day management of the board.

The chairman, however, still holds sizeable power, but it has more to do with overarching policy decisions. The chairman no more holds a final say in selection of national teams for any series or event, or the power of naming a captain and vice captain, with the CEO overseeing that responsibility, and the chairman only allowed the final say, for which the chairman will be briefed by the CEO. In the new legislation, the CEO will be in charge of day to day management and shall exercise administrative control over the personnel of the Board.

Transition from old to new Board

The new constitution draft has been approved by the Federal government cabinet and will be notified in due course. The present BoGs will continue till the four new members are appointed. Once those four are appointed, all members of the existing BoG (except the chairman and nominees of the patron) shall cease to be so. The quorum for a meeting in this time of transition will be any of the five members.

When the changes go through, the current managing director Wasim Khan will assume the post of CEO, while the two nominees of the patron to the PCB - Ehsan Mani and Asadullah - will remain on the board of governors. All other position holders at the PCB will remain unaffected by the new constitution.

The Afghanistan Cricket Board has suspended Mohammad Shahzad's contract for an indefinite period due to a breach of the board's code of conduct.

According to an ACB release, Shahzad did not adhere to a policy that requires players to seek the board's permission before travelling out of the country.

In addition, the ACB said Shahzad had been summoned to meet the board's disciplinary committee on July 20 and 25, "in relation to a disciplinary matter during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019", and had failed to show up. The disciplinary committee, the release stated, would meet after the Eid holiday to decide on further sanctions.

ESPNcricinfo understands Shahzad is based in Peshawar, Pakistan, and was recently seen practising there. Last year, the ACB had fined Shahzad and asked him to relocate to Afghanistan permanently or risk having his contract terminated.

Shahzad spent his early years in a refugee camp in Peshawar, but his parents are originally from Nangrahar, Afghanistan. Like many of his Afghanistan team-mates, Shahzad grew up near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border; he was also married in Peshawar. A significant number of Afghans, once refugees, now reside in Pakistan, mainly in Peshawar, registered in the country as temporary residents.

The suspension is the latest development in a testing phase in Shahzad's career. In June, he was sent home early from the World Cup in England, ostensibly with a knee injury, but the wicketkeeper-batsman insisted he was fit and claimed he had been unfairly left out.